There’s nothing fairly like catching up on a sequence that you simply’ve heard so much about.
And for me, someplace in between escaping to Cousins, chilling out in Silver Falls, and ready till I can head on again to Virgin River, I spent a couple of days catching up with the Sullivan’s Crossing crew.
The sequence does, the truth is, scratch the Virgin River itch. Nonetheless, there’s one plot that’s completely maddening, and it’s regardless of the heck is happening with Sydney and Rafe.
How are we three seasons into this sequence, and so they’re no higher off collectively than they have been to start with?
Their scenes haven’t improved. They’ve turn into more and more painful to observe as we witness what it’s like for 2 individuals to be utterly incompatible, nonetheless forcing one thing that shouldn’t be.
Within the first season, there was an endearing high quality to Rafe falling in love and desirous to pursue one thing extra.
He’s a good man, fairly easy, and merely needs love and for somebody to like him in return.
However Sydney was a bit extra sophisticated, had a previous, and a substantial amount of baggage.
It resulted in some comprehensible battle when he wished extra from her than she was capable of present, and she or he was content material with simply hookups on her phrases.
Whereas the story was adequate within the first season, it has since declined. If each characters have to be onscreen to the diploma that they’re, I’d a lot want they’ve one thing else to do than be tied to this relationship.
Sullivan’s Crossing shackles them to this relationship with each other, and neither character thrives a lot exterior of it.
No less than by the third season, we get a extra fascinating dynamic between Rafe and the brand new chief. Hell, they’ve extra chemistry than Rafe and Sydney.
However in flip, Sydney has nothing. It’s little or no that the sequence does together with her exterior of serving to her brother with the restaurant, and her arc that had her confronting the person who brought about her hurt throughout her modeling days.
Nonetheless, the latter story lacked the chew that it deserved. The present handled it like background filler to spherical out the episode.
Exterior of that, Sydney doesn’t have a lot goal inside the sequence. They only tie her to Rafe, and provided that the chemistry has solely petered off over time slightly than grown.
Sydney moved in with Rafe, and it by no means felt like an actual milestone for them, because the sequence dealt with it with little care or curiosity — it simply occurred.
And because the sequence has subjected us to Sydney navigating the condominium on eggshells, as if she’s extra of a visitor at worst, and feeling extra like a roommate than a romantic accomplice, at greatest.
It doesn’t really feel like a relationship milestone for them as a pairing, only a matter of happenstance.
However that’s how a lot of their story arc performs out, particularly in relation to their romance. It’s simply there … current, with little else.
All through their relationship, Rafe and Sydney haven’t been on the identical web page. Whether or not it was about if they need to date, transfer in collectively, or what their subsequent steps can be as a pair, they have been all the time bumping up in opposition to the identical obstacles with out doing a lot about it.
The third season ends with them uncertain of their future. Rafe needs marriage and a household, whereas Sydney opposes the thought.
It’s simply yet one more approach by which they conflict on values and compatibility, and provided that they’ve been on this identical state of affairs so many occasions, it’s unfathomable that they haven’t hashed all of this out or had any in-depth conversations earlier than.
I’d say that love, affection, and chemistry aren’t sufficient to carry a relationship collectively, however hell, more often than not, I don’t even purchase into the chemistry in any respect, and the love all the time feels one-sided.
It’s troublesome to observe a relationship by which it’s clear that Rafe cares about Sydney greater than she does him. And that’s the place they have been for almost all of their time on this present.
Now, it appears like Rafe resents Sydney. His shutting down on her, going chilly, and distancing himself when he was stressing out concerning the job was troublesome to observe.
Nevertheless it was additionally probably rooted on this notion that Rafe has a couple of picture-perfect life, and the woman that he loves not truly becoming what he envisioned.
It is mindless that after three seasons, this couple remains to be treading the identical water. They are saying that madness is doing the identical issues over once more and anticipating totally different outcomes.
And, for our personal sanity, they should launch us and these characters from this relationship as soon as and for all.
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Alright, Sullivan’s Crossing Fanatics. Am I alone on this? Are there precise Sydney and Rafe shippers on the market who could make the case for them? What am I lacking?
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