So, one of the bases of creating an efficient character arc is to give the character something they want, and something they need. In the pursuit of getting what they want, the theme of the show and obstacles will show them what they need. Most of the time, they need healing from an emotional wound that prevents them from growing into the ultimate version of themselves, capable of winning the challenges of the story. I will try to explore Carmy's wound and, more importantly, the lie that created that wound.
In 'The negative trait thesaurus" by Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi, it reads:
"Wounds are often kept secret from others because embedded within them is the lie-an untruth that the character believes about himself."
When I started therapy (disclaimer: this is not professional advice; I am just talking from how I interpreted all of this), I was introduced to the concept of "limiting beliefs:" lies we have told ourselves about our own nature or the nature of the world. The most difficult beliefs to leave behind are those established in our early childhoods, and we told ourselves those lies to make sense of the world, to make peace with realities we were not equipped to comprehend yet.Â
Some examples of lies people belive:
"I am too stupid to learn anything; my teacher said so"
"It was my fault that I was molested."
"I am a bad person for wanting a different life."
When people believe these lies, they will act accordingly, maybe attracting situations that hurt them but keeping the lie active in their lives. They may self-sabotage or create bonds with people who also believe the lie, even if it doesn't seem this way.Â
In some cases, people may develop complete personalities or behaviors to prove the lie wrong, but deep down, they still believe in the lie. Carmy falls into this last category. This is where we find the most contradictory parts of his personality, how he can act shy and insecure in some instances and appear confident and even aggressive in others.Â
Long post underneath.
THE RESENT OF A MOTHER:
We can only assume here because I think Storer is gonna let us know more about this soon, but I think I got an idea of this wound when I saw the only moment Carmy was alone with Donna on "Fishes."
I have a lot of things to say about Donna herself, but let's begin with the obvious: the conversation in this scene had little to do with the dinner itself. This was a woman stating that she felt alone and not valued, probably due to being abandoned by her husband and having to overwork herself at the beef to support her 3 kids, all while being a single mother. We don't know if this feeling of abandonment is something she has carried since childhood, but in the state of current womanhood, it wouldn't be uncommon. The work of women (especially mothers), particularly the emotional labor, is rather invisible and not valued at all.
But again, this is something she has used as fuel to resent her kids, who, at the end of the day, didn't ask to be here. Her anger has to go somewhere since she cannot direct it toward the people that ctually caused it. To get to the point:
THE BEARZATTO SYBLING DYNAMIC
Carmy said, "You are not alone; I am here with you." (This kind of comes back to telling Syd she was not alone at the end of the season.) This scene is about a kid trying to communicate to his mother that he loves her and trying desperately to connect with her, to get her to express her affection for him as well.
It tells me that growing up, he felt like he had to "earn" her affection. Donna likes to make her kids feel guilty about her unhappiness, so the kids feel that they are constantly walking on shells because they think their mother hates them, or at least that she resents them and that it is their responsibility to fix it.
In the scene, Carmy asked,
"What is so hard, Mom?"
I think what he was actually asking is, "What is so hard about being with us, to love us? What did we do to you that made you resent us this way?" He is asking because he wants to know, to finally understand. Why do you drink, Mom? Why do you yell? Why do you say such hurtful things?
When she answers, "Nobody makes things beautiful for me," you can see in his face the disconnection. He knows he can't do anything about that.
Then, a crucial part in the scene occurs when Donna calls him "Michael, " which indicates that the only one of her children who could make her feel happy was Michael, or at least that is how the other two kids felt. You can see the hurt in Carmy's eyes in the scene because this answer dismisses his effort to connect to his mother in his own right. She asks him to just leave. He offers to wait to connect with her. Then, it comes to the most chilling moment on the scene, the "we have a problem" using his full name, with resentment in every word. She hugs him while crying, kisses him, and then slaps him.
This is rejection. There is a book called "The Five Wounds of the Soul": wich are Rejection, Abandonment, Humiliation, Betrayal, and Injustice. I think Carmy's wound is rejection, for never earning his mother's love, particularly comparing himself to Michael.
Michael took responsibility for the Beef, finally giving their mom a break. It was Michael's job to make sure everyone was having a good time, to compensate for the discomfort that caused being in Donna's presence, to make sure all of them stayed as a family, which was Donna's intention, so Michael thought he had to make that happen for her. Therefore, Michael is the only one of her kids who succeeds and makes her happy. We know Donna rejects Natalie and Carmy. About Natalie, we can write another whole essay.
THE LIE THAT CARMY BELIVES
According to this scene, I think Carmy thinks that her mother didn't love him because he is not Michael; in fact, he is the most "not like Michael" someone could be. He was shy and stuttered and didn't have friends or girlfriends, comparable to Michael's ability to control every room he was in. Carmy was sensible and no macho alfa as Michael presented himself to be. Carmy left home and the family business, and both Michael and Donna expressed that they feel like he thinks he is better than them. Michael admitted later to admiring Carmy's work in Copenhagen, but Donna never did. carmy grew up having to live with the crumbles of Donna's attention that Michael left behind, wondering every day what was so wrong with him that made her reject him, and wondering what he could do to change that.
The lie that Carmy belives, could be sumarize this way:
I need to earn people's love. I need to always go the extra mile, doing the most possible at all times to earn people's love.
This all goes back to his trauma with Michael. It goes back to his career as a chef and how he became the best. He didn't need to succeed on a larger scale in the culinary industry to earn Michael's respect and love; he needed to be the best in the world, so he did that. He judges his own social abilities, comparing them to Miachae's. He left that promising career only because of Michae's death. He got the girlfriend Michael wanted for him (not saying it was the only reason, but it was there).
PART 2: WHAT DOES ALL OF THIS HAD TO DO WITH SYDNEY?
Well, what does a person who feels they always need to do the most? They do the most. I want to bring you back to the moments Carmy had to develop menu ideas with Syd on s1 and s2.
When Syd suggested items for the menu in s1, he gave her an inconclusive, not enthusiastic "maybe."
When she had to actually cook the thing for him to approve, he tried to make her feel small about it. He felt the need to remind her that she was "impatient and green," according to her previous bosses. He commented about her possibly ruining the flow by using time to cook her recipe. Yikes all around, but the core here is that he was treating her like an enemy, like competition, while she was trying to save the restaurant with what they had on hand to use the most efficient solution.
Then, when Carmy tries the dish and feels stunned by it, he has to make an ambiguous excuse on the fly and just finishes every chance of them using the recipe by saying, "is not ready yet"
And what does he do next? He goes to show the crew a recipe that is extremely complicated for the level they are operating at currentlyâthey said so themselves. I think the recipe is a variation of Donna's butter chicken recipe. To put a nail on that coffin of his intentions to earn her love and approval at the end of it all.
But why does he do all this? Because he needs to be the hero, subconsciously, he is still that small kid begging for acceptance and love; he must go the extra mile. He cannot accept Sydney's help and partnership, because that will take away from him earning what he wants on his own merit.
In S2, he seems unenthusiastic about starting the menu in the first place. Then Claire comes along, and he tries to make it work with Syd and the menu, but I think he subconsciously thanks the universe for not having to go to his core wound. That is what self-sabotage is. That is why he bailed on the food tour with Syd, using such a stupid excuse as helping somebody else move out and never mentioning it again. He never asked her what she liked or what ideas she thought of. For most of the creative process, Syd is alone, working on her own creative crisis. The menu ends up being like two recipes they made in collaboration and then all of his family's traditional recipes. It is two of Syd's recipes and the rest of Carmy's. Then, desserts Marcus did on his own. The collaboration was superficial at best.
All of this creates the core theme of the show. The Bear was once a chaotic place (like their childhood home) that needs to evolve into an efficient, peaceful place built on love, support, and mutual collaboration like a functional family should be. Sydney is the member of this found family that forces Carmy to confront his core wound and learn he can actually be good enough while still accepting help. Therapy probably will play an important part in this theme, alongside with Carmy learning there was nothing wrong with him in the first place, that earning your parent's love is not something a kid can do.
Thankyou for reading. Gif and images are not mine.
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OOPS does season 5 taking place over the course of 1 day mean we donât have space for emmanuel?
lorddddd have mercy
maybe. maybe theyâll pull something off thatâs so profound or whatever but. chris. to wrap up 4 seasons of a show in a plot line thatâs less than 24 hours
I think that Emmanuel is gonna show up for the last service
Which, crazy that Carmen gets to meet him like that; dragging the last run of the place Syd has been keeping together despite her own heartbreak. The place that was supposed to be her last trye, and now has no fucking future.
I imagine Syd us gonna decide to continue her journey and either Carmen or chef Terry get her a good job this time. That's literally the only thing that could save Carmen from Emmanuelâs âhummmâ of disapproval as they meet.
Neil wanted to go on the roof. He tried to pressure Carmen to let him go into the roof. Syd said âno roofâ. Carmy said âmy wife said no roof don't go in the roof.â Neil goes into the roof anyway and almost dies. He almost kills Sydney too. Are we not supposed to conclude that Neil is indeed the representation of idiocy and lack of accountability? Why would we listen to anything this man thinks is a good idea, like who Carmen should date?
I ABHOR when people who only watched 'The Bear' through YouTube or Instagram clips support the abuse Carmy went through at the hands (or the voice) of Chef David Fields because they somehow thinkâtake Fields' words at face valueâthat he made Carmy the best CDC in the world.
The same people who think The Punisher is pro-cop, Homelander isn't an insecure little bitch that died the right way, and Whiplash supports hustle culture.
The truth is that there is no one chef that can make another chef the greatest in the world. We learn things from all the people in our lives that contribute to our success.
Episodes 3x01 and 4x08 of 'The Bear'.
Before Carmy went to Eleven Madison Park to work under that dickhead, he trained at the French Laundry, NOMA, Restaurant Daniel, and the fictional restaurant "Ever." All these places have 3 Michelin stars; And at all of these places, Carmyâas he saidâ"smoked motherfuckers."
Episode 3x01 of 'The Bear'.
Fields told Carmy that him being totally encapsulated by work and being under constant insurmountable stress was "the point" and that everything else was a "distraction." But chefs are artists. One cannot create art on a plate if they have no inspiration from the outside world. This was the undercurrent of seasons 2 and 3.
Episode 2x04 of 'The Bear'.
Episode 3x10 of 'The Bear.'
David Fields was too busy trying to torment Carmy that he didn't care about the kitchen actually putting out good food. In episode 3x01, we see David Fields change Carmy's paupiette of Hamachi with blood orange sauce and zucchini to have a fennel soubise. When we see Carmy taste it afterwards, he has a fleeting expression of disgust. Like he repeatedly tells Sydney when he tastes the recipes she created on her own, it needs acid.
When Carmy found out Michael died and decided to quit, he actually practiced creativity by adding blood orange and hibiscus powder to the dish. Carmy put his bleeding heart on a plate, and it was the best dish Sydney ever had.
I can acknowledge that while David Fields did teach Carmen some technical lessonsâlike cutting the tape on both sides and not to put too many components in a dishâ, Carmen could've left Field's hateful rhetoric at the door (I know it's easier said than done).
Whenever Carmen lets the spirits of Donna and Fields inhabit him, he causes the business to lose money and everyone else to lose their cool. He spends an unnecessary amount of money on Dystopian butter. He wastes perfectly good food. He causes the restaurant to spend more money on vendors because of the daily menu changes. He doesn't even remember what he made for the Chicago Tribune reviewer. Servers are constantly quitting because his and Richie's fighting. Orders frequently get messed up.
Episodes 2x10 and 3x03 of 'The Bear.'
Episode 3x03 of 'The Bear.'
Carmen "Carmy" Berzatto became the best IN SPITE of the abuse he went through, not because of it.
Oh, I love this meta, yes, you put it very succinctly, every bad habit and behavior Carmen later displays was a result of imitating the behaviors that are accepted into the industry, such as crazy expending, yelling, wasting food, fear mongering, and humiliation. But it is also because he accepted the abuse that came for him in that environment, he is abusing himself first and foremost, despite Fields not being there anymore to actually torment him. And becuase he doesn't know how to "be good" besides continuing to abuse himself, he doesn't know how to approach his career in a constructive way anymore.
Moreover, people like Fields are quite common among the arts; the book "The Artist Way" by Julia Cameron describes these people as vampires, people who feed on chaos and suffering and have little creativity themselves (because creativity can only come after introspection and sensibility, which is the same reason conservaties don't make good art). Shapiro is actually a gutless, if not just a more deceptive version of Fields.
Carmen entered the culinary industry to find his own ground, and he did. He heard this voice that had been in his heart the whole time, and he felt guided by it. That's one of the reasons he became the best in the world, he had to show more than anybody else because he didn't have anything else, but also cause it gave him a sense of secutity on himslef he could have never found in his own home, cause Donna, like Fields, were vampires that only lived when the people around them dimmed themselves to make them comfortable. Cooking literally saved Carmy's life, and the reason he feels so empty anymore is cause he believes the abuse he suffered doesn't allow him to access that voice anymore.
As you said
Carmy put his bleeding heart on a plate, and it was the best dish Sydney ever had.
Because it was the real him. Syd fell in love with the real him. the good, the bad, his voice, his person, and the fact that it happens in that moment means that Fields could never take that away from him.
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Carm: exe. Has stopped processing. There is only one she what does he mean?is that a question ? There is only person i think about 24/7 thatâs her like Richie doesnât know . I told him Iâm scared about a good thing happening. Why doesnât he get it!? THERE IS ONLY ONE SHEEEE. Wdym who !??? What? Glitch sound effect.
Syd: small voice- me oh i am she .
Carm: âya oh thank god babe u were here i thought i had lost my voiceâ nods. Itâs all good she is here.
Coincidentally I am watching this scene for an edit with a sing. But I really wonder if Richie was poking at Carmy. Had to have known who carmy meant by she! He looked at Syd, glitch, even kinda pointed to her and said she-
You see Richie kept his eyes on him.
When Carmy doesn't answer and Sydney cuts in Richie says oh okay! Like that's what I thought.
And carmy is close to tears because he hasn't finished his conversation with Sydney who is the she he's been talking about since season 2.
This is sydney she's gonna be helping us out today.
It's interesting becuase my first thought was that he expected Carmen to be holding on to Donna's words, or even Claire's words, becuase what other woman would Carmen (or should) make an effort to change for? What other woman, Carmen, would bend over this whole existence after just one word?
The answer is Sydney, always has been, and he knows it by now. It's only her.
@non-negotiable12 I know we said this for a ship, but this shit can really define Carmy's life, or his desire to stay in his life. I know for certain that Claire's facade is gonna fall trought at some point, and I know Carmen won't be able to lie to himself forever on how and why he ended up in a relationship with her. There are definitely people like him that stay in toxic relationships for years, hoping one day it would get better, but at some point, he is going to see it, even if he were to decide to unsee it, he would know that he betrayed himslef first and foremost and he let other factos (like his family and his trauma) decide over who he should be with.
The show has told us already what happens to a person who only allows themselves to exist inside their family's desires and expectations: death. Michael stayed in the family business, in the family house, and he used the family's gun.
Both Carmen and Michael lived for others' approval, expecting their wounds to be tended to. Michael even stayed like that long enough for him to become perpetually violent and cruel toward the ones who loved him the most (Carmen and Richie). He committed the biggest act of violence against himself.
I'm not a violent person. Can the Faks get killed by lightning? Or they hoven pursue a career in stand-up comedy and sell t-shirts, and we never see them again. Maybe a mafia hit.
I genuinely never have laugh at something they did, they are not the comic relief the show wants to pretend they are
Also, the Faks do antagonize Syd innvert subtle ways. Why is Fak getting mad when Carmen chose Sydney's opinion over him? As if he was known for good ideas? đ
Sydney Adamu has been a gift and Iâll always be grateful to Ayo Edebiri, Chris Storer, Joanna Calo and the other writers and crew on this show that gave her to us and gave me the language as a grown woman to describe my own experience.
I was introduced to the terms âweatheringâ and âhigh-functioning survival modeâ in looking more closely at the S5 trailer and - of all places - Matty Mathesonâs GMA interview đ.
I compiled this vid and Iâm not saying that the writers of The Bear have read about these terms and delivered what looks like a final season constructed around Sydneyâs psyche and her own struggle to let go and accept community. But Iâm not not saying that either. AnywayâŠI canât wait to find out.
For more info about weathering and high-functioning survival mode see resources below:
Guardian article: Weathering by Arline Geronimus review â how discrimination makes you sick
@whenmemorydies thank you for the shoutout. This an amazing compilation and analysis!
Ngl this was difficult to watch.
I think I was already sensible cause I saw @freedelusionshere post on some racist haters. I think I have decided not to pay attention to those idiots anymore, if you carry enough darkness in your heart to hate this character, may you free will guide you straight to hell.
Back to Syd, my queen and angel, and someone who I would carry in my heart forever. This post connected a lot with her stating that if she was able to fix the place and make it worth, only then she wouldnât think of herself as a âwaste of time and spaceâ it seems she was conditioned from a young age to think this way. Is similar to Carmen, is just that Carmen doesnât just value herself in the quality of his work but in his capacity to take constant punishment.
Is all more scary when we remember that Syd already has health complications and her mother died of an illness. She might carry that as a âI must survive thisâ cause her mother surely suffered from the same experiences as her.
She really doesn't have anybody to open up to, and even worse, she refuses to let herself rely on others and show any weakness. Like, in the list of things I want from the show now, this is my top 1.
the house of miracles, Carmy, Syd and the final goodbye
I'm working on a meta-analysis of the bear as a haunted house, the mental health crisis, and the toxic family that created it, being the origins of a curse. But when you look at it, the show tells us the Bear is also a house of miracles. When Carmen gave his speech in Legacy about how people would come from all places, make something beautiful, and then continue to bring more to somewhere else.
It implies that, not only the people who are working in the Bear are meant to change and grow, but also that whatever could happen in the Bear could only happen inside the bear, and the version of these people we know is also meant to change as they leave the Bear, and whatever they could create only in each other's company, could never exist somewhere else. All the miracles that this place would facilitate, the defeating of the curse itself, all of that can only happen here. Thatâs why he have a photo of Jesus as the shepherd amongst the bear crew photos. Only this crew, and Sydney, the one that allowed the good to come in, was the one to facilitate Carmen his access to this miracle.
Yes, this is about Syd and Carmen. And in the final battle against time, Carmen has to make a choice to accept this miracle.
They're both the bear, of course, whatever they'll go, they'll carry that piece of each other inside of themselves. But there is an implicit dramatic question: what would happen to them once The Bear (restaurant) officially closes?
All of these other people would likely make good use of their gifts in the culinary and hospitality fields. Syd will probably continue in the industry (this season will serve to show her that she indeed has a future beyond this place, something she previously doubted trought seasons 2 and 3). Tina and Sweeps will work with her, maybe Richei and Jess too. Luca and Marcus will go to Copenhagen, and we will get a wedding invitation in less than a year. All of the other characters will stick to the franchise. Carmen will quit, at least for a while.
They said to each other, "I won't do this without you," and the universe said, "bet" with all the implications of it. becuase that was never just about cooking; it was about love. They won't want to do this with someone else. Nobody can give them what they get from each other, not really, no matter how much they lie to themselves.
I think thas the reason the sydcarmy (jayomi) picture keeps being shown in multiple teasers, one of the most important dramatic questions of letting this place go, is to put a restrain of time for them to fugure out what they are gonna do with this feelings, cause there are things that cannot be delayed forever, things that are so monumental the universe is not gonna allow you to keep them unless you are willing to recieve them.
And at the point they are right now, both of them have chosen to be apart; implicitly, they both have decided to put aside their feelings for one another. Carmen has decided to try again with Claire, and he is either willfully denying his feelings for Syd or fully aware but feels unworthy of her, believing Claire is a safer choice. Syd, on the other hand, had already made a whole dish about letting go of Carmen, about letting him be happy with someone else.
They, of course, still wanted each other, whatever they could get, and they wanted to be close to each other. They'll both use excuses for this purpose. Carmy would try to fabricate a friendship, but Syd only had the restaurant. And, as the sensible and emotionally intelligent person that she is, won't she actually approach this as a final goodbye? Wouldn't she prefer to count the hours till this is over, be gratefull for every minute, but hope for the moment she can actually say goodbye to Carmen and give her own heart a rest?
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Iâm not cycling though all the stages of grief (lol) bc I donât think Sydcarmy is going to happen in S5. That is going to happen bc it would make absolutely no narrative sense given the trajectory of this show if it didnât.
Iâm cycling through all the feelings bc Iâm only getting one more day (albeit over a season) with Syd and I wanted more; I wanted to see her with her father, with Mary and Chantal, with TJ. I wanted the backstory on all her tattoos. I wanted to see her survive and thrive after The Beef/The Berf too. Maybe some of this can occur through flashbacks and bottle episodes. Maybe itâll all be fine.
But maybe Iâm also just sad that this show is ending. Because itâs meant so very much.
There are so many things I wanted to see in real time and not be injected into them via a flashback or exposition. I donât want a newspaper photo to tell me Sydney is now a famous chef, I donât want a flash forward to show me the happiness she found for herself after all her space in the narrative has been about her picking up after Carmyâs mess and dealing with disappointment and pain. Iâll appreciate if we have them, but Iâm still gonna be mad the narrative never actually has space to center her struggles and guide her into something good for herself.
Also, I do believe Sydcarmy will happen at the very end of s5, we might have a feature that serves as an epilogue. In my mind, the final service will happen, then Richieâs accident and then the real ending will happen. Possibly involving a world shattering revelation about Michael, Donna and Claire and the cycle of abuse they keep trapping Carmy under. Carmy goes into therapy and retirement and Syd gets her career and theyâll meet one day in Copenhagen, Carmy would be looking for her. Theyâll look at each other that way after Carmen enters Sydâs restaurant. And thatâll be it.
The C person gets the very generic and non-specific âwonderfulâ and Syd gets a whole list of descriptive adjectives that are about how Syd makes Carmy feel.
Heavy on âSydney makes Carmen feel thingsâ cause thatâs the whole point, he makes him feel so safe that his feelings poor outside (kinda like the water)
Sydney is very smart, so smart she could figure out in 5 minutes something that it took a more experienced chef working for Carmen a whole month to figure out. She carries random knowledge about a lot of science and also knows math and economics. Carmen seeing Syd figuring out the chemistry of that recipe made him go đČđ. Syd is excellent and dedicated to her chosen field and keeps accumulating knowledge to be able to do more things in it, or just for love and curiosity of her field.
In contrast, the show wrote Claire as a bad doctor, not only because she is reckless, but because she (apparently) lacks the knowledge, self reflection and curiosity to be good at her job or get better. Claire was completely wrong about Emmanuelâs diagnosis, @sonoranbumblebee mentioned this too, there is not such thing as a first degree heart block. There could be something sinister going on with her, part of me thought that she may have been lying to Syd on purpose though I donât see the logic on that. Is very likely that she is not very smart or just lacks the commitment to learn things beyond what she needs to just get by (honestly that theory that she is not even a doctor would make the most sense to me right now cause I donât have an explanation of how she can be at the end of her residency in an ER not knowing the basic heart conditions). Maybe she is struggling with addiction and that makes her bad at her job, maybe she is truly dumb or just doesnât make the effort to learn more.
Either way, Carmen is attracted to Sydâs intelligence, competence and responsibility, all things that Claire lacks but pretends to have. Syd grows to the measure of her job and Claire persistently falls unworthy of her position to the point of harming somebody. And I really, really canât unsee it. Claire genuinely gives me Elizabeth Homes vibes.
I just saw an interviewer of Ayo (at the s5 dinner) saying âI love a script that I finish and I have questionsâ and I really donât know what to think. I also donât know what the question was about. Could it be about Storer tendency to have a lot of underlying meaning in his scenarios. But it also could be about the show having an opening ending.
First of all, yes, this is literally my worst nightmare. Two, feels like a gimmick, like they saw "the pitt is the bear of medical drama" and thought it was a sign to pump up the anxiety. Yipeee
Three: some good news, this confirms my theory that Richie's accident will take place after the last service, cause there is no way he had the accident and went to work that same day without at least a couple scars. Plus, he is wearing his suit under the jacket in the accident, as @whenmemorydies told me recently. I think the last service would happen around episode 5-6, then the last two episodes would be the true climax. After the last service, everyone went home, and then the accident happened.
Four: On that note, this also gives me hope that some things I was expecting would be addressed. I think all of this last service promo is to distract from the actual ending. If it is one day, and it is likely also the last day after Carmy decided to leave, it means the green sweater confrontation still has to take place. Also, Donna and Carmen are on good terms at the beginning of the season. The accident is gonna bring all these people together to address some stuff, Richie is the sand after all!
Five, though I definitely worry about Richie, I think they have been foreshadowing that Claire would commit malpractice due to her recklessness. We know she is a bad doctor. @sonoranbumblebee, @fairestbeard, @freedelusionsherethat, @whenmemorydies have made metas about it. It would be the most clear incident to reveal who she really is. So maybe they go to the emergency room and witness Claire fuck up. Maybe in Richie (hoping is not something very bad) or in someone else, and the facade drops.
Six: there could be hope for us in that feature they could release. As much as I would like to se Carmen in therapy processing all of this. It make sense to end the show the day the lying ends and the emotions can finally be released. The feature will have the time skip that showcases Carmyâs life in the aftermath of the groundhog period that was the bear, his life after he ended the cycle. Who knows how many years in the future.
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None of it is making sense to me now the most annoying of it is RITCHIEâs ACCIDENT timeline(my guess now is it happens at the end of season- since he is present in the show- so whatâs the point of telling us about his accident in Gary); JAW saying itâs around that time and skirting around timeline questions; sydâs cleaver being missing for so long!? ( like why is that a plot point besides Carmy getting her that) ; sheridan is the episode in which the flooding -toilet problem first happens (thatâs fucked up storer- huge side eye now that we know season 5âs context) ; all of tomorrowâs pieces have fallen in place except the hamachi.
Re- contextualising season 3 with Camryâs guilt towards not showing up for syd a few hours after he promised her(omelette) at friends & family vs C. ( itâs pretty much mirrored to goodbye and now season-5 hopefully he will just make better choices) (basically what i am saying is whenever Carmy fucks up with syd within hours he will do everything in his power to make it better - like cooking the new dishes in tomorrow ) but now the biggest elephant in the room is what are they to each partners /friends or the secret third thing. The only reason the single day season makes sense to me because they are literally one conversation away from dropping their defences completely so I guess he has to create a literal obstacle (the storm - que weathering the storm metaphors) and all his pieces have to fall into same place, the dishes, the desserts all obstacles in between their relationship. We know the timeline has been short and taxing since the second season-( timeline is getting shorter and shorter with each season- we see moments from singular days more)
June 2022(System)
2023
February end(braciole)
March 10(Sundae)
May26th(Omlette)(The Bear)
May27/28th(Tomorrow) (Syd Eats at Empire post sheridan (which is why the boxes are unopened)fail imo for the glove theory to be true)
August(could be 6th) (Apologies)
August-7th(forever)
August (Groundhogs - starts on August 8th )(Soubise)
August/September(scallop)
September-17(Worms)
September(Sophie)
October1-2(Bears)
October-3(Green) (Tonnato)
October3-4th(Goodbye)
October 4th/5th?? (Season -5)
season 1 :9 months/season 2:3 months/ season 3:3 months/ season 4 -season 5-if one day theory is correct 3:months (Aug-October)
itâs only been 15 -16 months since they met. And 9 months since braciole. Which is entirely bonkers.
Great catch on the toilet exploding in Sheridan! Iâll definitely make a meta revising what could possibly mean
But also, my theory right now is that the Richieâs accident is gonna be the real catalyst of the season. If the flooding happens the next day after Carmy leaves, and we saw Richie still wearing his suit, then why he had the accident in his old street clothes? Is also unlikely for me that he had the accident before the last service, since there is no scars or any damage on his body. For what they been framing it to be so far, I donât think that could make sense.
This last service promo is soooo on our faces, JLC posted about it, is all the trailers talk about
So I think they are misleading us, the ultimate sleight of hand. The last service would happen, they are gonna say goodbye to the Bear/Berf and everyone is gonna go home, but the rain wouldnât stop, and Richie has the accident. The accident is gonna allow the real conclusion of the show to happen. Thatâs why they showed it early, so people would notice something is missing
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Iâm using this to be sure that there would be a Carmen and Donna confrontation. Even the clothes he is wearing are a clue I think. Carmen had supposedly already served food to Donna as a way to âcompensateâ to her, which was him basically apologizing to his abuser, so what would be the point of Carmen doing it again? I think this scene (if not for Carmen going in full expression of the repressed anger and sadness that also is in coherence with the flooding theme) would be about him finally asking her to be out of his life, at least for a while. I donât see how could we as the audience believe he has truly heal if he cannot acknowledge to himself what he needs, specially if what he needs is not what Donna wants.
