@abi_violet on tiktok (sydcarmy & the bear edits)

The same music plays when Richie feels at peace and makes contact with Jessie. The same way Carmy holds Sydney in his arms and feels at peace. This time they're no longer under the table!

There was a vibe going on in episodes 5-7, people who said, "This isn't that kind of show," "it's a work show." All kinds of love and vibes's happening there.

Riche confirms there is magic in that place, but not just magic; there's love, and it is metaphysical. There were always things happening beneath the surface. And he tells Sydney that love won't let them fail, and right then, Carmy's voice cuts in to bring Sydney back to the present!

There's love here, and lots of it, and Donna helped the viewers see this is not a platonic or brother-sister relationship. This is new, this is the bear, and it rained, so there could be a cleansing and renewal for what is, and Carmy is not leaving to break patterns because there are already patterns breaking!

Carmy realizes why he loved cooking, and it has to do with the colors and vibrancy of the food. Just like he sees Sydney vibrant and in color, and a different shade of green.

Remember, since the beginning, he used the word green as a disappointing adjective or dismissive to Sydney. But he realizes green, a different shade of green, reminds him how this time it can be different.

The panic attack, Carmy explains to him the reason for his anxiety, or Richie's is because he feels dread leaving a safe zone for an unsafe zone. It's not exactly unsafe; it's not familiar, and it's scary to do anything different. At the end, Richie, even with anxiety, leaves the safe zone and enters something unfamiliar, and that includes Jess.

Like for Carmy and Sydney, Claire is familiar with an old shade of green, and Sydney is new and feels unfamiliar but as peaceful as when Jessie and Richie held hands.

I get why the show ended this way, it's a 24-hour timespan after Carmy decides he is leaving, but they gave us enough time to see that Carmy has a realization that breaking patterns can be as simple as changing his to ask Richie about his day, being there for Sydney, and everyone.

Remember how Sydney told him, simply don't be shitty? He can make it as simple as that, different shades of something new, but in that building where a lot of love and magic already exists.