That's why Hulu is finally pushing the Sydcarmy ultimate pairing agenda.

And that's also why Jess has more protagonism this season. She's the finish line girl.

This is ofc ABSOLUTELY related to MY CARAMEL SEX THEORY that you can check out here, but here's a preview of its most important part:

As I mentioned there and have been saying since last year, Syd is Green coded, but she wears Red when Sydcarmy is out of time.

If you followed my comments in July last year regarding this color coding eastern egg Storer planted for us WAY BEFORE THAN IN S4, you might recall that I never subscribed to someone else's theory that assigned C the red color and Syd the green one, not only bc obvs Syd and C have both worn that color, so they were both bad choices according to that theory, and bc I knew that it all started before, not in S4, but mostly bc as Jess clearly explained to Tina, in 4x1, that the red color just meant they were behind schedule, only green represented good timing. IMO that affects everyone, even Carmy.

Syd started off right on time in S1 but then other choices she made deviated the course of this love story.

It wasn't just Carmy the one who made worng choices, his were just more apparent, that's all. Hers were more subtle.

But free will is key for timing in all things destiny, because we are not prisoners of our destiny, we can alter it with the choices we make.

Syd chose not to let Carmy in atp, and Carmy chose not to give his number to C. That was what the first exit they missed represented for them. Then it was his own turn to turn it all around again. And he didn't. He chose C.

Syd was behind when (or too early depending on how you're looking at it), she was wearing a red sweater when Carmy stood her up in Kasama, in 2x3, and went to help C move boxes.

That red sweater was the direct result of her Pasta choices.

In 2x2 she had missed her exit with Carmy.

So by that night she was already behind schedule in his life because she chose not to invite him to her momma's birthday dinner, and introduced him to her dad, which Carmy would have been delighted to do.

At that point of their journey together he was inquiring about her personal life and her family and she shut him down. He was all in but she was more cautious, so she missed her exit. I think this is related to the heart tatoo in her back, but I digress.

And she went from wearing green that night bc had her choice been different that day she would have greenlit Sydcarmy right there and then with a bonus of Meet the parents and all, and Emmanuel could have gotten to know the man behind the new project his daughter was jumping head first to, and because she was so secretive about it, Emmanuel suspected she was being kinda reckless and pushed back, which Syd hated. Had she chosen not to redlit Carmy's access to her personal life and start working on their friendship outside work, she would have continued wearing green and C would have never happened.

Clairmy was starting SIMULTANEOUSLY at the grocery store, while Syd & Emanuel were celebrating.

Which is why in 2x3 Syd was already BEHIND SCHEDULE.

And C was wearing green scrubs.

But then, that same night, Syd wore green again bc Carmy quickly ditched C and went back to the restaurant, where he belonged. He chose C again, probably out of guilt, but still. He didn't let C distract him even further, when Fak told him they needed to knock down the walls and got back to work, and Syd also came back to the restaurant that evening, so they run into each other:

And had he not been a total ass who completely disregarded her, she would have continued wearing green, maybe they could have talked about her solo food tour and re-schedule theirs. But he had bypassed her in a desicion making process and she was not having it. So: RED.

All this to say that BOTH, Syd and Carmy have been Red at different points, and also C, ofc, bc she was too late in Carmy's life.

C was supposed to be his HS sweetheart, but that train had passed by the time she completely bulldozed her way back into his life, or even when they met again at the wedding, it was too late to get back together, because Carmy had apologized too late and that same night, when she accepted his apology but not him, in 4x3, Carmy emotionally moved on, he got UNSTUCK from her mud trap.

As a result of his emotial unstuckness he made the decision to step out of the restaurant not to fuck up yet another woman/relationship in his life (the MAIN one), like he had fucked up his relationship with C. He felt guilty and like a failure. Like he was never gonna be normal or have a normal life, he was just not a well adjusted human being and was a basically a hazard. So his safest best to stay outta everyone's way to not cause any further damage.

Thus, all that guilt he carried for that was what triggered his decision to retire to protect Syd and the restaurant. He felt guilty, responsible and not good enough after that encounter with C.

Next time they met at the wedding she was wearing red, which confirms this theory.

And let's not forget that C never got ther greensweatshirt back (so far and maybeb never will... LOL!). Even if she gets her shitty sweatshirt back in S5, it's gonna be too late, because since 4x8 Syd has entered her GREEN ERA in Carmy's life, when she chose him.

Yellow light 🚦

At the wedding, when Syd was still pondering her options, she wore green AND YELLOW, because her decision wasn't final at that point.

But it was almost final...

Anyway... by the next ep she was full on surfing the green wave again, and that was the name of that ep. which means Storer is leaving the symboligy behind and daring into a more EXPLICIT territory with this whole color coding BS.

That's bc he knew by 4x8 that we are approaching SYDCARMY ENDGAME zone fast.

S5 is when EXPLICIT SYDCARMY has been given the green light by this sadist.