Honestly, new fans need to know this shit...
You see, I’ve been here a while. However, even if you were just here from season 5 onward… you know a lot of shit went down.
We already knew going into season 5 that Ian was going to cheat on Mickey, so many of us were upset. Nancy Pimental took credit for one of the scenes where Ian did cheat on Mickey, stating:
“I take credit for all of that [Ian cheating on Mickey with another dad, while the strollers sit a few feet away from them.] I just had that image of these two guys…and having the babies, because it was so, “it’s so icky.” (x)
I’ve highlighted other issues with the article here as well, because she also wrote some messed up stuff about their relationship. That’s another thing, they made #Gallavich out to be a regularly violent couple leading up to 5x10 so they could turn around and be like, they were always violent! What are you upset about?
Needless to say, fans were pissed to find out about the infidelity so soon after the two got together. They gave away #Gallavich gear to fans on tumblr, though. Yes. They did that, in order to hype up veteran fans and bait new people into watching.
It looked pretty much like this:
They hyped up #Gallavich a lot. They tweeted about it. They remarked how much Ian and Mickey were like a “married couple,” and so on. They made #Gallavich posts all over their instagram (like so: x)
They shot a special of the whole cast discussing what they like about the pairing. Which, funny enough it seems the original video has been made ‘private.’ It’s no longer working on Out magazine.
All the other Shameless season 5 clips seem to be up. (x) (x) Guess it’s harder to retcon stuff when you have strong evidence that the cast was actually really invested in this pairing. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
They used Mickey for promos leading up to season 5 (x) (x) (x). They showed a lot of BTS stuff with Noel Fisher. He hung out with the cast a lot (a lot of those videos / photos have been deleted.) This might not seem like a big deal, but at the time it was. Mickey had rarely appeared in promos before, and if he did it was group photos. Yet, this was the season that mistreated him pretty badly even though they promo’d him the most.
Despite the poor ending for Mickey, Noel expressed that he was hopeful for his character suggesting he may not have been aware of how things would end for Mickey. (x) (x) (x) (x) Also, Noel appeared in a BTS video for season 6 (don’t have the link atm.) They put a scene from season 5 in a season 6 promo before season 6 aired, and it confused people into thinking he would be in season 6 (he was in only one episode.)
The baiting … oh god, the baiting…
They were nominated for a GLAAD award, even though they baited fans, deleted intimate scenes between Ian and Mickey, and overall misled people into believing there’d be more representation. It’s pretty ironic that the image they used to celebrate their nomination was this (x):
…because when we saw this? We thought there would be some kind of affection between them to ya know… remind us that these two were actually together? I mean, this picture was circulated well before the episode aired. What actually happened though? Oh yeah, Ian slapped Mickey’s neck for like two seconds and that was it.
Sheila Callaghan hyped up her own episode (5x10), and fans were eager to see it considering that they were revisiting the baseball field. No one expected it to turn out violent. Sheila had a blast over it, apparently:
It was the only scene that aired that season of Ian and Mickey kissing. The sex scene between Ian and Mickey was deleted, which was the only non-violent instance of sexual and romantic intimacy between the pair.
Sheila also wrote the sex scene for 5x03. A lot of fans said it was baiting. She expressed she was bummed out too, but explained it away to fans essentially as a ‘oh well things get edited out’ kind of thing. (x)
They kept promo-ing #Gallavich even after we were upset with them (x). Even when marriage equality was legalized across the country, they used that to promote their show?
The irony in using the “love wins” tag for a couple they broke up in a horrible and homophobic manner (x)
You need to understand that these things happened, if you’re going to look at the situation moving forward. You need to understand why it is that older fans do not trust this show, nor do they trust that Mickey is in good hands. This show has baited before. They have deleted important scenes before, and glorified the worst parts in their relationship in favor of erasing the best parts. We’re not bitter for no reason. It’s built up to this, and all the above were things that just happened in season 5.
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