this is prompted by a convo me and @stellaride-chihard were having last night but i truly feel like a lot of season 14’s problems could’ve been solved if there was a decent ship on the show besides stellaride
like i don’t know, seasons 4-6 had both stellaride and dawsey, seasons 7-12 had stellaride and brettsey, and seasons 11-13 had stellaride and mikarver. dawsey were still together when stellaride were being set up. and ever since they’ve been solid, there has been a side ship to take the heat off of them. that is, until this season where all there was besides them was a lame, annoying love triangle that no one cares about. it doesn’t feel like a coincidence that the one season where there is no decent side ship for stellaride is the worst season of the show because stellaride are being forced to take on drama that, as the solid married couple, they shouldn’t have to be. that’s not to say they can’t carry the show by themselves because they totally can (and have for years). but they shouldn’t HAVE TO. and it’s lazy writing to put all of the drama and pain onto one couple because no one else is important or interesting enough
and mind you, i’m saying this as someone who despises brettsey. but at least with brettsey you could tell there was some effort into setting them up and a lot of fans loved them. and again, they took some heat off of stellaride. those things can’t be said for any current ship
