Hey, so I'm super worried that since they're giving us all this amazing Neric stuff right in a row it means they'll hit us with angst really soon and I don't think I can handle that
iâm gonna ramble here but Honestly i have no clue at all where theyâre going to go but??? i think thereâs a reasonable dissection of the new ep to say that actually kind of Was a neric conflict ep???Â
I mean, theoretically they may have seen a bunch of ppl freaking out over neric when they gave it to us and decided that itâd be a good direction to go in to get good viewership, in which case this may be entirely benign and ok but, todayâs ep wasnât entirely conflict free, Nell and Eric donât often butt heads and Nell ends up apologizing to Eric even less than that, in which case, we could theoretically see the new ep, in neric scales anyway, kinda not flufff??? which last week Absolutely was 100% tooth rotting fluff.Â
Neric drama is way less dramatic than densi drama because nell and eric have less massive personal issues AND arenât /often/ involved in life or death drama, theirs is a more regular kind of couple angst, but hey âmy significant other kinda didnât tell me this mutual acquaintance that we implied this ep we saw socially (like.. we didnât see neric interact w/ joelle that i remember??? But Joelle says she remembers Nell so it had to have been social interaction out of work if we didnât see the case) is actually alive and well and not dead is... kinda murky?
Iâm on the fence about the whole situation because honestly this is a Work thing not a couple thing and itâs perfectly reasonable that in their line of work Nell would work on stuff he wouldnât so she wouldnât really need to be telling him, but also she admitted she /could/ have told him and just didnât but iâm still not entirely sure if i think she should have, considering the situation, so yeah. My point is thereâs a reasonable argument to say 10x03 actually was kinda drama for them b/c when was the last time u saw Eric call her on something and her sincerely apologise??? Itâs normally him overstepping a boundry as a chivalrous idiot (whom i love but heâs still a gryffindor idiot) and recognising a line (a line sheâs relaxed as theyâve gotten together... She was okay with him springing to her defence against joelle and against Sydney, too), not Nell doing something he considered unfair to him.Â
I mean, itâs this show, if we go 4 eps without an explosion we start to, as a fandom, wonder where all our explosions have gone and theyâre all utterly ridiculous people, so u canât entirely rule out them throwing an absurdly dramatic and probably ridiculous angst plot at us, but i donât think theyâve written the background for it. Densi have established couple interaction literally going back /years/ that made their recent bout into angstiness realistic, Neric just donât have that. I feel like small bouts into stuff like we got in the new ep, or like some of their other previous issues are more likely /and/ realistic and for how much iâve moaned about them giving us very little, what they have given us has in general been incredibly structurally sound in a storytelling way and itâs been impressively organic, so iâm not.. Properly worried, personally.Â
basically iâm gonna worry about it if it happens but i really doubt theyâll ever do densi level oh god no angst for neric bc theyâre never gonna do densi level depth and plot extrapolation, so the angst would be unrealistic and disproportionate to the fluff.Â
*shrug emoji* iâm gonna worry but itâs more animal brain worry than actual evidence something could go wrongÂ