Taking a break from the show you still love but feel like it doesn't love you back: Week Two

[unsatisfactory_person]

I feel like I miss the fandom and the characters more than I miss the show. When the season's over and I'm back, I probably won't even watch the episodes I skipped - I'll just read the recaps. Unless something really, really wonderful happens in those episodes, and, obviously, it should be something that I would consider "really, really wonderful". 

("Nobody dies" would be nice, for starters. Or "half of the characters comes out as some flavour of queer and does it in an unambiguous way that straight fanboys won't be able to handwave". Super unlikely, I know. I'd also accept "turns out that Iris has like eighty female friends, whom we finally get to meet, and they aren't here to be anyone's Mandatory Het Love Interests". Or another sadly improbable scenario: "Hartley returns, Linda also returns, both permanently become part of the main cast: Linda isn't here just to fulfill her destiny as Canon Endgame for Wally, but actually has her own storyline that has nothing to do with being a love interest (though somewhere in Season 5 they do get together eventually, but there's a twist: see, Wally and Jesse talked about their relationship and decided that monogamy is overrated, so they're going to Stay Together and See Other People at the same time... which leads to them both dating Linda - yay, polyamory!); Hartley, meahwhile, gets his own onscreen Grand Romance... involving whatever new Wells we're getting the next season".)

("Write a fanfic" - ha, ha, very funny. I can't write fanfics. An outline of one, maybe. Not an actual fanfic.)