Victorian Port Victory is grungy in a blazing sun seedy beach town/desert oasis sunburnt broad daylight wild animal the shifty people have to perform as a cover kind of way

- Jack has kind of proven to belles family that hes up to snuff, so i think belle should spend time with the gang (jacks family) showing them that she doesnt view/act with the idea that shes above them due to her station (like a spite to fagin after their convo in 2x02 (or whenever) when shes getting into the coffin)

- Instead of directly addressing how sneed and boxer survive and/or fagin gets out of the coffin alive, they just jump into the next season and add increasingly bizarre (think "the llama incident" from milo Murphy's law) bits and pieces about that resolution throughout the show (more often in like episode 2 maybe, then sprinkled throughout) and then maybe they do like a reenactment as a distraction (fanny is holding like a tea party thing so they can rob more rich people and fagin already promised a brand new play/story OR their new get rich quick scheme is like a theater cus someone rich is really into that and fagin oversold as usual)

- Jack/the gang teaches belle how to play poker and she absolutely cleans them all out and either spends the next day or two trying to trick them into accepting her money (but they/fagin wont accept out of principle (fagin doesnt like her lol)), give them various "jobs" as an excuse to pay them back, and/or resorts to learning how to pickpocket/SHE ALREADY KNOWS CUS SHE LIFTED THE RUBIES OFF JACK to sneak the winnings back into their pockets (only jack notices and hes just silently amused)

- Fanny convinces belle to help them steal something cus jack is incapacitated or (unbeknownst to belle) fanny/fagin are trying to win a bet. Belle is successful but learns and tells the mark, the mark (obviously) reacts badly then violently and then belle/fanny/fagin swindles them into a card game (or something?) where they get away or it snowballs into another plot

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Because like as someone who watched Lockwood and Co and Shadow and Bone and My Lady Jane I just can’t believe how much this fandom beat the odds. If I’d had to choose which shows of these would get renewed The Artful Dodger would’ve been my last pick (though the one I would’ve wanted the most). Like it just felt SO unlikely that this little Australian heist medical drama historical romance Oliver Twist fanfic of a show would get renewed somehow.

Like this was a LIMITED SERIES originally and now it’s been renewed TWICE. And I feel like all the shows I mentioned above went so much more viral and had much larger fan bases and still got cancelled and yet here we are. We also had literally NO marketing especially compared to a show like shadow and bone. This cast isn’t out here getting to do interviews together, they didn’t have proper press junkets, etc. I’m SO glad for the shows success despite that but also like still in disbelief.

breathe. you’ve made it so far this year. you’ve gotten through so many things that you thought you wouldn’t, and you’ll continue to get though this, whatever it is. i know you can. i believe in you, and i’m so, so proud of you. i know it probably seems impossible, but it’s going to be ok. it’s going to be ok.