I’m blindly hopeful and will remain so until I hear MRJ say he’s in fact not coming back;
Yeah, that’s struck me as odd, perhaps even moreso than the rest of the cast not tweeting him goodbyes. He didn’t even live tweet that ep, which you’d think he’d do if it was his last one. He didn’t tweet a goodbye to the cast and crew, and/or a thank you to the fans immediately after the ep. When he did tweet, he said he was “breaking radio silence”, which, why was he even set to radio silence to begin with? And his tweets dispelled some rumours, said he wasn’t fired and didn’t quit, said he’s thankful for all the friends he’s made on the show, said he’ll always be a Oncer. The closest he came to saying he’s legit left the show was when he said he’d let us all know what’s next when he decides what that is, but it’s not like actors on TV shows don’t look for other projects to work on during hiatuses, so he very well could have just worded it carefully. He never actually blatantly admitted having 100% left the show. It’s…odd.