Okay Sia

Cash and Darren's arc: s2 left us with two main issues to overcome in their relationship: sexual incompatibility and Cash refusing to speak about his past. I'm really interested in how both of these will be handled, especially bc I've never seen such a well written, nuanced allo-ace couple in media (don't think I've ever seen an allo-ace couple in media but moving on-)

Cash's backstory: s2e6 was a SHOCKER to most fans, with not a lot but just enough revealed about Cash's backstory - including the saddening origin of his name. What makes his backstory more interesting is his refusal to discuss it, and I'm interested to see how this is gonna turn out but also if we're gonna see perhaps a journey towards him healing (not expecting him to be fully healed and untraumatised by the end of s3, that's unrealistic, but just an arc please? Let him be happy)

The School Situation: with the school burning down, I'm really curious where the new main location of the series is going to be centred around. Maybe not the most interesting aspect of s3, but I'm interested.

Quinni's unmasking journey: halfway through s2, we saw a change in Quinni's personality, with her unmasking and not catering to those around her, putting her own needs first (and good on her!). In the final episode of s2, Quinni sadly revealed she doesn't really know who she is bc of how long she's spent her life masking. I kinda can't wait to see more of Quinni's authentic self when she focuses on herself and less on what others want her to be.

Malakai and Amerie, and the Letter: this one really kinda speaks for itself, i think most fans are really anticipating this specific plotline in s3.

Season 2 in the other hand...

The Darren-Cash sex debacle could have ended in the river scene. Maybe the one back in the apartment + 1 conversation. Dusty needed to call Cash selfish for bringing Darren into the Chook business or for not telling them about their past (let's give the "Darren is worried they don't know Cash" arc an actual end please and thank you) and not because he is ace. Let's not mix both arcs just because you wanted to have an almost-cheating as an equivalent mistake or something.

Why, in all mighty hell, Malakai calls Rowan "Amerie" when he is high? 1. If the point was to break them up because Malakai was uncertain about what he wanted, you could just make him treat both relationships (Amerie and Rowan) like casual/open things. 2. If the point was to break them up in a way that made Rowan more mad about Amerie, why not *the baby*? Malakai tells Rowan Amerie is pregnant with his baby, Rowan breaks things up because "You are still figuring stuff out, which is fine, I just don't want to be collateral while you do that". I am sure we can adjust the timeline to put the pregnancy earlier (maybe in the fund-raising event thingy) and let Amerie be there in the school captain debate. Or give her some other emergency, if the point is for her to tell Quinni that she was actually having a problem that Quinni wasn't there to help because of the unmasking, there are a million other ways to do that.

Since we are talking about the unmasking: Can we do a better job at it? Just add a few scenes where they leave Quinni out or move faster than she would like after episode 1 and *not make them be assholes with her during the zoo trip to prove a point*. They bringing her to the zoo without asking her what she wanted is enough, they don't need to ignore her when they literally never ignored her before, they just lived their lives without telling her about it and tried to protect her from what was going on in the school after she literally died. We can make the discussion between Quinni and Darren feel fair and valid from both sides, without them being bad friends in such a clear way. It can be a lot of little ways of them not understanding what Quinni needed.

What exactly Harper was doing in the second half of this season, beyond being Amerie's emotional support, Ant's love interest and Cash's personal adviser? Because I fear we dropped the "She is mad and angry with the world" storyline way too fast and without a conclusion. She was dealing with the fallout of the last season for 3 episodes, and then she was fine for the rest of it, I think. That or I am remembering things wildly wrong. I don't even know what I would change about her arc, but I would do something. Probably make her figure out that Chook is still calling Cash and have a reaction to it. Damn, tie it back to her anger issues, make her see that Cash ride home with Chook and beat the shit out of him. No questions asked, just "I trusted you and you gave that man my adress??" and beat Cash up. Then she hears him telling someone else that it was a last job, and about the conversation he and Chook had. She thinks about how many times her dad treated her and did bad shit and she forgave him because he was her dad, relate it to the Chook-and-Cash situation and them calling each other family in the past, and she understands him better and realize that even when her anger looks justified it might not be and decided to get concealing for it. Ant (aka the other man she beat up) helps her along the line. Great, now she have more to do after episode 3.

Hot take: They should let Spider drop out of the campaign without trying to get brownie points from Sasha and Missy beforehand. So Missy could ask him if he did it for her, he could say yes, and the ruin of their relationship could be about him changing just for her without Sasha's interference. Cutting the bad speech, he stays a better person/character without being unrealistic good. He still has a reason to be with Voss outside (and mad enough to half-start a food fight), Missy has more reason for forgiving him for changing-but-not-actually, specially if he does something about Voss situation where she can see, but not knowing she was there, so it shows actual change that is not tied to her.

I don't really see why you think Amerie shouldn't forgive Harper and rekindle their friendship after all the horror she went through. The thing about Amerie is that she's a VERY forgiving person. She even forgave and risked her life for Rowan, who did MUCH worse things to her than Harper did. That's just the kind of person Amerie is. She's flawed and messy but ultimately driven by compassion.

The hate for Sasha isn't just because she hurt Quinni (though that is definitely a factor), it's because she's a massive hypocrite. She pretends to be a good and socially conscious, empathetic person, but she really isn't at all. She's even insensitive to Harper, a victim of attempted rape, for not performing victimhood optics in a way she approves of. She is a worse person than Spider, because he at least doesn't think he's better than anyone. He knows he's a shitty person. We can also laugh at what a loser he is whereas Sasha's cruelty in season one was just hard to watch. It wasn't really until season two that she was given funny things to say.

Also, saying "she just so happened to hurt the most sunshine character" decontextualizes the repeated belittling and infantalization of an autistic person by a neurotypical partner. She contributed to the systemic oppression her girlfriend experiences as an autistic person which is not only awful, but blatantly contradictory to the socially conscious views she performs. Every autistic person in the audience has encountered ostensibly progressive neurotypicals who treat neurodivergent people like shit, so it hits very close to home for us.

And that raises the very important factor that these are fictional characters, and therefore how much we like or dislike them is less determined by how much we'd like or dislike them in real life and more by how annoying they are. For example, Chook is objectively the worst person on the show, but he's not going to garner the level of hatred Sasha does because he isn't annoying. He's just a Bad Guy. Even when he's doing something truly heinous like attempted rape, he's not going to inspire the visceral rage in me that Sasha does with her callous ableism toward Quinni. I just don't expect any better from him. He's a Bad Guy doing Bad Guy things.

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