#this is us final chapter

[coffeeandsleeplessnights]

feels like there's been a lot of discourse about Kate and Toby after the recent Kate centric episode on This Is Us. People are quick to jump to conclusions to blame either Kate or Toby for the breakdown of their marriage but tbh I feel like it's the situation that they're both in and them just outgrowing each other.

Toby and Kate met at a time when they were both essentially going through similar struggles with their weight, they bonded through shared trauma. Toby was depressed, using self-depreciating humour as a coping mechanism, meanwhile Kate was also struggling with her purpose in life, alongwith the grief of Jack passing away. Things are very different now. Toby is happy with his life, he is valued at his workplace, is a much healthier version of his past self. As he said, Kate fell in love with a "coping mechanism", which he no longer uses because he's on a healing journey, which is great for him. Yes, he did make misteps, like turning down that job offer in LA, applying for a loan for the house without Kate's input. That was wrong of him. Marriage is a partnership, even if his intentions were to think about his family, he went about it the wrong way. It's okay for Kate to be angry about that. She's not a bitch for that who doesn't appreciate Toby. Stop saying that.

At the same time, it is equally wrong of him to expect Kate to uproot Jack's life, move away from her mother who has Alzheimer's, to leave her job which she is very happy at, a purpose that she's been looking for all her adult life. She's happy with her life in LA, even if she still struggles with her weight. She misses the old Toby because they had a shared trauma bonding, Toby is now in a better place in his life but she feels left behind. Which is normal. It's not that she isn't happy for Toby right now, and doesn't feel like he deserves to happy and healthy. It's just not the same person she fell in love with. They're both different now. Kate has found her purpose. Toby is a happier, healthier version of his past self. They're both vastly different from the people they were when they fell in love. It's natural, it happens. I love that they're showing this, because not everything can be a fairy tale love story.

If anything all it does is drive home the fact that you need to work on your trauma before you get into serious relationships.

[allaboutjmo]

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[welove-thedirection]

Not gonna lie.

I came into season 6 CONVINCED af. Convinced that this final season would be their love story. Convinced that we’d get to see Kevin realize his love for Madison on his own. Convinced that we’d finally get to see the pair of them for real. And after tonight’s ep… I was left very discouraged.

But then I went back to THIS

I studied this scene for what felt like the 48th time. Two things struck me:

1 - Kevin says, “I am a 45 year old man…” Forty-five. Now I don’t know what exact age the Big Three are at the start of s6, but I’m pretty sure 45 is at LEAST 2 years away. Ok that’s a lot of time. So much can happen in 2 years. This season has only been about 6 months. Sooooo it’s not like whatever is happening now is permanent.

2 -“I told you twelve times this morning…”.

I told you twelve times this morning.

✨I told you twelve times this morning ✨ With all the female clothes and makeup products in Kevin’s room… how could Madison communicate that often without waking up in the same room as him?? Ok, it’s her. I don’t buy it any other way, it just doesn’t make sense for her to say that if they’d just been texting. No, she told him herself in person. Cuz they shared a room. Cuz they’re sleeping together. Cuz they’re married.

I love the This Is Us writers. I do. But I don’t like the mental games they’re playing. They really got me tonight. They really got me worried about Elijah. I’m exhausted. I cant wait any longerrrrr.

How are you holding up? Have you lost hope? Are you an unwavering firm Kevinson believer? I’d love to know.

[betweensunflowersanddaffodils]

So, This Is Us will come to an end tonight and I am sad. I am sad because instead of feeling this way because a show I loved for years is ending, I am actually feeling incredibly relieved.

I didn't enjoy this last season at all. While I imagine that, Kevin's """love life""" aside, the show is wrapping up in an emotional way, I can't believe that in a show who had the story planned all along, for 11 episodes of its FINAL SEASON almost nothing happened and the plot barley moved on, while the rest of the final episodes were full of rushed storylines.

They developed Kevin and Madison for 11 episodes only to end their story with a montage and destroy everything they built for them until that moment. They pretended that it wasn't like Kevin was about to realise his feelings for Madison just one episode before and then they magically put Kevin and his ex wife together (a basic character we know nothing about, with zero depth and not enough screen time throughout the years) completely out of the blue, even if it didn't make sense anymore for where the characters were at that moment of their life/growth.

Like, if someone had told me that, after all the hype, I should have waited for SIX SEASONS just to see Kevin end up with the same woman he had a relationship with when he was young (and it didn't work) and then AGAIN when he was 36 years old (and it didn't work 2.0), I'd would have laughed at them!

Oh, and a reminder: this is a show that it was supposed to be realistic and the writers have always been proud of that! Like, if you indeed read the interviews post ep 6x02, you'll even read that they didn't make Nicky end up with Sally because..... It would have been unrealistic!!!

And what about Kevin's character development? What about his journey in the previous seasons and him letting go of the idea of a Hollywood type of story? What about the love of my life will be my child(ren) when the twins have been basically an accessory to his storyline? What about his career? Justin was so excited talking about his S6 storyline and nothing of what he said happened because they changed everything.

Kevin's centric episode ended with him finally finding the foundation, deciding to live a fearless life and then, a couple of episodes later, we see him going back to his S1 era and dating women after women because he lost Madison (let's be honest) and only in the end he ends up with the woman (after Cassidy declined his proposal) that was conveniently available.

I won't talk about how and the stupid reasons why they ended up together because other people already discussed this enough.

Even reading the interviews after 6x14 where they were saying that their story has already been told and that there's no time to show more of that is a real joke if you think that they had 3 YEARS in advance to think about Kevin's endgame (no but seriously, imagine to not have enough time to show your main character's love story after SIX SEASONS OF HYPE!!!), but well, it's what they deserve and I really wouldn't care about it anyway.

Isn't it funny though, that despite the show is trying to imply that "it has always been Sophie", Justin actually said that he doesn't think that it had always been her and that it would have been interesting to see Kevin end up with Madison or Cassidy? Yeah Justin, we know that!

There are many more things about our beloved Pearsons that they could have shown us (slowly and more) and yet they didn't because they wasted precious time, but this is a blog about Kevin and Madison, so I will stop here.

Anyway, @ this is us writers, thanks for making the goodbye much easier.

[thedefinitionofendgame]

He Loved Her

Kevin + Sophie one-shot | Rated T | Canon-compliant

*spoilers for s6 of this is us*

"it took us 40 years, but we got it right in the end"

-> read on ao3 or ff.net

Written & cover by @thedefinitionofendgame (aka me)

[morgluthor]

ok so…

- from what Adelaide said (that she shouldn't have gone to amsterdam, that it went wrong there) she and M really seem broke up

- she is filming a movie in toronto. in the movie her character speaks french, but not very well

- she was supposed to appear on another episode of this is us but she couldn't come back to USA when she was in NL because of her visa

- there is a possibility of her appearing at the end of this is us, but she doesn't know yet

- she wants to travel to south africa, visit rachel, spend the weekends in california, go back to japan, go see her family in australia, come back to NL and spend time in europe (going with the flow)

she said more on twitch but i don't remember very well

[t-spotlessmind]

“If something makes you sad when it ends, it must have been pretty wonderful when it was happening.”

This is us - 6x17 (The Train) | Illustration by @illustradri

[jmostyles]

Jennifer Morrison fashion style as Cassidy Sharp for #ThisisUs 6x14 ‘The Night Before The Wedding’

Jen is wearing:

-Tuxedo Dress in Black by @victoriabeckham