#fauxron

If the show wanted us to forget Robron and shut up about Robert (he's in prison for MURDER you know, Aaron has to be allowed to move onnn!!) they wouldn't have made Aaron's new love interest Robert's BROTHER, name dropped him several times a week and gone to town with 'recreating' their greatest hits, would they?

And why would they want to remind us? There are only two reasons.

1) He's coming back

or

2) They want the hype and the buzz they know his name still garners, five years after he left. So they can sell the new love interest with headlines like this one instead of writing a decent, original story ⬇️

1.You fake a car breakdown to engineer kiss with your crush vs your van actually breaks down and you coincidentally run into your planned hook up

2. You have a dramatic first kiss in the lay by vs well you were supposed to hook up so you guess you'll hook up next to the lay by

3. Your current partner in crime steals your future soulmate's car so you end up meeting for the first time vs your random hook up steals your wallet and keys to a car you "borrowed" just so you can be mad at him and force his long lost sister to drive the guy whose car the keys were for to a funeral that happens to be his mom's

4. You slam your arrogant future soulmate against a wall because he's annoying you and he's super into it and stares after you with a little smile vs you shove your random hook up turned long lost gay half brother of your ex husband because for some reason you think he knew about this connection and is...out to get you? Then he sucker punches you in the stomach and you stares at you for a second with his face close to yours. Supposedly this is sexual tension??

5. You make it seem like you're into him only to back off when he gets the courage to ask an engaged straight man out for a drink and then you regret it immediately vs you randomly lead him on for two seconds and get close to his face so he thinks maybe you want to kiss him and then you back off for...reasons unknown and seem not to care about it one way or the other

6. You're mad at your crush for teasing you and your jealousy plan not working so you smash up his car vs you and your current bestie and partner in crime steal your random hook up turned long lost gay half brother of your ex husband's van (home) and roll it into a lake because...you don't like him

7. You watch your crush playing darts with his best mate and wonder if he's replacing you vs you watch your hook up turned long lost gay half brother of your ex husband who you don't like play darts with your current bestie and then possibly get jealous of the internet hook up he leaves for

8. You parade a date in front of your secret crush so he'll get jealous vs You parade your latest internet date in front of the guy you don't even like and he somehow gets jealous even though he says he doesn't want anything to do with you either.

9. You flirt over meetings and investments and hook up in a barn vs you confront your ex husband's secret gay half brother in a barn because he was accused of setting a bull on your current bestie and instead of defending said bestie you're somehow overcome with simmering (nonexistent) passion and hook up in said barn

10. You finally confess your love in the woods to your soulmate and tell him you never stopped and that he's amazing after he bares his soul with a deep meaningful revelation about his past vs you are forced into saying you sort of kind of love your boyfriend in the woods on a camping trip you didn't want to take so he he could confess a fake story about his dead (but not dead) ex and make an empty symbolic gesture to manipulate you into escalating your relationship.

everyone is sooooo grateful, vic loves him even more, her and chas push aaron onto him because he's SUCH a nice guy

ryan is such a charismatic actor i just Know that if they’d picked anyone else to play robert not even half of us would be here tbh. having him back is just sooo special, every single scene he’s in is just electric. also he must be so hyped about being back he’s probably jumping up and down and doing the shimmy between every set up and you know that energy is bound to infect everyone on set and end up on screen.

as for the fauxron chemistry, because i have an insane amount of respect and trust in danny miller’s abilities i’m inclined to believe that it has to be a conscious choice to play it like that. even the way their conversations are written… it just feels off. they talk to each other like they’re coworkers… roommates at best. i was just rewatching 2019 scenes yesterday and robert and aaron were never like that. it HAS to be intentional.

the way that i’ve decided to explain this to myself is that aaron is so thoroughly beaten down by what he’s been through that he just physically can’t put in the effort to forge a profound emotional connection with anyone. and then john is a narcissist and somewhat of a sociopath so he doesn’t really know how to be emotionally open with someone but his inflated sense of self-importance makes him more than happy to do the lion’s share of the work in the relationship as long as aaron follows the script he has in his head, which hasn’t really been a problem so far bc aaron does not have the strength to do anything right about now.