This moment will always be IT for me. This scene was probably more significant for me than the table scene, and that says a lot because that scene was extremely significant! I remember when i first saw this scene and was genuinely so taken back by the editing, the song, the expressions. And the fact that it's STILL on my mind almost a year later and i end up finding something new about it every time??
Then people want to pretend that this moment was strictly platonic and that Syd only equaled the restaurant... I knew in this moment that they were showing us Carmy realized how much he loved Syd and that she meant so much more to him. She's his peace. She was not a product of his trauma through his childhood and family. He was uncertain about Claire, but certain about Syd. I don't care. I am not budging.
I even tried to one time just so i could stop talking about sydcarmy to my friend who wants them to only be platonic. But oh well! The editors and Mr. Storer shouldn't have shown me this scene!
The first time I learned about The Bear was through a random tweet kind of complaining how people had spent the previous summer hyping up a show about “two white boys screaming at each other in the kitchen” or something like that. I thought it was my type of show, looked at the replies, found out the name and sat down to watch through the night. I think I watched two or three episodes, before finally allowing sleep to win. I thought the show was solid, but I absolutely forgot to go back to finish.
Months passed, season two came out and I saw this clip making its round around Twitter. Initially I thought it was a fanedit or something, so I asked a friend of mine who had recently binge-watched the show if it was real, the moment they confirmed it was indeed real I went to binge-watch too. I honestly couldn’t believe what I was missing out on… so imagine my surprise – soon after I finished watching the show – when I found out about them being only Platonic™ and everything else that Ayo, JAW and Storer had said in interviews about Syd and Carmy as a couple.
I’m sorry, but they’re gaslighting us in real time. There’s no fucking way they didn’t realize what they were doing with these two and the potential they have together. Sure, it wasn’t their initial idea, but to deny the potential? Please. I feel like we’ve been stuck far too long in this era in which cynicism, hating the audience and trying to outsmart us has become the norm. I can’t see any other explanation.
Call me delusional, but I still have a little bit of hope that Storer and everybody else involved in the show will come to their senses. Working on Syd and Carmy’s relationship through romantic lens wouldn’t take anything from the show, quite the opposite; it could be a very beautiful story of them struggling, healing and finding themselves and, along the way, just so happening to find each other.