It’s always the white man yearing for his badass girlfriend of color. 🫶🏽

Making genuine ship wars for shows that are clear-cut and give Disney-fied light-watch vibes will never be not be astonishing for me to witness. It's like trying to play Battlefield when it's Connect 4 and the game pieces are AO3 Love Interest #1, AO3 LI #2 (and so on), and they tell you in the first episode who the endgame is

The way Jackie acts in the love triangle makes sense to me. She was already someone who valued having an orderly, put-together life, and then she lost her whole family, so finding any way to gain control in her life would be hugely important for her going forward. Loving someone deeply would be absolutely terrifying because she'd be so afraid of losing them and how much that would hurt, and she needs to feel like she can maintain control. Being with Alex, who's sweet and she likes being around but doesn't necessarily love like that, is the easier option. And this season, she didn't want to fall back into the triangle, she's clear about that with both brothers, but after her and Alex make up, it goes from "Oh we still have chemistry and like making out" to "Well we still have these feelings from before" to "Why not date?" Except Jackie, even though she's not ready to admit it to herself, has feelings for Cole, so she's like "We need to keep it private" but won't confront within herself why she feels that way, beyond some concern for Cole's feelings. I don't think she worked out just how much she was feeling for Cole and her reasons for keeping him at a distance until their conversation at the end of the season. Also, the love triangle drama last season made her feel like she had to leave, and she wouldn't want to lose this family again, so she'd do anything to avoid that. IDK I just get her and I feel for her.