And just like that ... Schmico sailed once again.
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And just like that ... Schmico sailed once again.
It’s been ~a month since the announcement ...
... and I still don’t know whether to side eye Krista for hiring Niko Terho after she botched what was once Schmico’s epic potential so badly or wink at her for possibly going for a sure thing as the chemistry and fanbase have already been established. We don’t know yet for sure (to my knowledge/correct me if I’m wrong) if Lucas, Niko’s character, will be Levi’s new love interest, but it would be a Choice™ move, and for all we know Levi’s new love interest could be Daniel A.K.A. Blue, Harry Shum Jr.’s character, as Harry also has a strong pre-established queer shipper fanbase. It easily could be neither.🤷🏻 All that I’m saying is that interesting casting choices have been made.
Why try to turn the obvious in to a question?
I’ve seen a few people confused by the current standing of Levi and Nico’s relationship. Allow me to juxtapose (not directly compare) - by way of comparison (🙄, I know, I know) - it to how Gallavich got engaged for the last time to explain my take on it. Ian believed that Mickey couldn’t know that they were it for each other because Ian was all Mickey knew about being in a relationship despite the fact that things always felt right between them (even through the different forms of denial and multiple fights), that there were so many other kinds of men for Mickey to experience being with, and he should have felt free to do so, but, when Ian saw that other men would never see Mickey the way that he does, he swiftly beat Byron (Mickey’s date) up and proposed to Mickey for the final time that led to their actual marriage, which is why, during this time, Mickey punched Cole (Ian’s date) in to unconsciousness and accepted Ian’s proposal before he let Ian finish it (because that’s normal ... for them). Ian had to figure out what Mickey had known all along deep down: when it’s right, it’s right, and you don’t always have to look further. On the flip side, Nico sees that Levi can’t explore men right now who can give Levi what Nico believes he can’t because of the pandemic, so maybe Nico is realizing that trying to find that elusive “more” is a luxury the world doesn’t have any more. What if he’s starting to see what came so naturally to him (being attracted to Levi and simply being with him) is enough for them and that knowing precisely how to be what Levi needs in other ways is just some thing that he’ll have to grow in to and vise versa like Ian and Mickey continue to do so. Maybe I’m crazy, but I made the connection (as it were) because I’ve lived through witnessing the emotional growing pains of both Ian and Mickey for the last decade, and I know that Krista learned from John from inside of the “Shameless (US)” writers room and maybe she picked up on how to prompt a happy ending when the fans demand it due to the fact that the writers have messed up so horribly (I said what I said). I’m not saying that there definitely won’t be a rocky road ahead. I’m just pointing to possible rationales for solutions to underappreciated problems.
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Like/reblog if this made any sense whatsoever.
... Am I really the only one who knows Krista from her “Shameless (US)” days and saw the COVID-19 sex partners thing from a mile away?
Side note: I suddenly am a little afraid to play poker with my mother because her face was stone when I told her that’s what I’ve been calling for as to what the writers are doing with Schmico at the start of the season during the interval time between her having seen the premiere already and my having hadn’t yet seen it.
I’m not too worried about their future either. They now have more time for feelings to get twisted in and honest conversations to be had (we already got some honesty from Nico in his proposal, Levi’s always honest, and who else cackled while Nico shook his head ‘no’ the whole time that he said “I’m fine”?), and, yes, a lot of actors are doing multiple shows at once lately, so I’m not bothered by Alex doing “Walker” (didn’t he do the second season of “Insatiable” and Jake do The Thing About Harry while “Grey’s Anatomy” was still filming?).
That being said, I don’t trust most writers as far as I can throw them, like I said above, I’m from the “Shameless (US)” fandom, so I hope, for her sake, that Krista learned how to not treat queer couples from her former boss and what resulted in all of the negative press and blow back he faced for his treatment of its fan-favourite queer couple, because I can still write articles ...
To the Anon who just tried to troll me with “Nah Schmico are better off without each other,” ...
... I had originally deleted it with out too much thought, but I went back to it (which is how I can see it, but not actually reply to it, because Tumblr has weird publishing rules) because why not? It’s Saturday.
1. I want to know how people have so much time. Like, ... okay, why are you calling them Schmico if you don't want them to be Schmico? What a strange way to troll.
Which leads me to 2. While, yes, I am still pro-Schmico (for now), where in that post did I make that truly clear? I merely gave a suggestion for why certain writing decisions might have been made. I mean ... yeah, I did approach it from an affirmative standpoint, but from the presumptive writers stand-in position (not necessarily my own). I’d say “Go troll a more hardcore Schmico shipper with your vague disdain,” but that would be worse (for you or the shipper would be up the shipper), so, ... I don’t know, ... maybe don’t ...?
I really want ...
... to be more enthusiastically grateful that “Grey’s Anatomy” has been heavy-handedly (an Ani DiFranco classic in the background of a 2001 flashback ≠ suble) making almost all of their female leads fall on the queer scale lately for some reason. It’d just be a lot easier if it didn’t seem like they want us to believe that they got our hopes up with the handling of the only two queer male lead-and-reoccurring characters’ relationship that they ever had in their 16 seasons.
Bless them. (x) ... Alex also ‘restoried’ it.
The rapid progression of how smoothly Levi braces himself while kissing Nico is a thing of beauty. #QuickLearner