all this bitchin’ and moaning

Anyway. My ideal roykeeley endgame setup for s4 would've been starting them off as firmly just friends with both of them being very much in agreement about it. That has been their position for years now and it's been working very well for them. Roy has been dating other people, not very successfully but not for lack of trying. Keeley has had her hookups but has finally grown comfortable being by herself, and has ultimately been enjoying her single life. They still care about each other a lot, obviously and maybe there's always that lingering question of "maybe...one day," because that kind of bond doesn't just go away, but it hasn't been at the forefront of either of their minds for a very long time. There hasn't been constant mutual pining. They've moved on. And then something happens towards the middle (or even end, if they're planning on continuing this for more seasons) of the season to suddenly raise the question of them again, and we watch them slowly realize they're in love again.

constantly torn between whether the most irritating part of the "we're just close friends" "...does Roy know that?" exchange is A) The implication that Roy has continued helplessly pining (for actual YEARS) after a woman who has maintained her position of just wanting to be friends that entire time. Instead of, you know. Moving on. Finding other pursuits in his life. or B) the implication that despite telling everyone and Roy that she just wants to be friends, Keeley is nevertheless still interested in getting back together with him at some vague eventual point, yet unable to commit (even at her big age), and so has weirdly continued to lead Roy on while also rejecting him. Again for literal years.

Keeley also looks so cute in that trailer I’m so glad they’re letting her (& hopefully Rebecca too?) wear Richmond gear to matches again :)

I just know Jamie is calling Roy and Keeley twice a day from Spain to report the dumbest shit. He texts Keeley like “URGENT 🚨🚨 call me when you get out of your meetings!!!” and when she does he’s all, “So I think the barista finally understood what I was saying this morning!! I actually got a coffee this time 😊!!” And Roy’s in the background like “what the fuck were you ordering before?”

Starting a rumor that episode 8 is the Jamie guest star episode because Brett wrote it

Hi Keeley! 👋 I’m looking for your PRICK boyfriend 😡

“Actually! He responds well to positive reinforcement!” Oh I’m sure

10,000 words into chapter 2 and I still have soooooo many transitions and filler scenes and introspective scenes to write and only ONE exciting fun scene left that I am eager to get to, but that I am carefully dangling out of my own reach until I have written more of all that other stuff. SIGH.