–and a little frustrated that even the promotion of this fact seems like an afterthought (if you wanted it to be a big surprise, you don’t confirm it two weeks before…).
The only reason it’s being announced now is because the media finally got screeners at the big celebration. A and E gave permission, never mind the fact that 90+% of the viewership has known for about a month given Isham’s leaked photo, MRJ’s trip to Vancity where he took very open pictures with Sean and Colin, and then TVLine’s Blind Item. He’s still not in the press release or any of the promotional material like promos or photos.
And I’m just going to say it: sure, he’s appearing (which makes sense) but he’ll also be forgotten about (not addressed) for the rest of arc. Somehow this reunion will be both a goodbye to Henry (probably, and really the only thing about this that is going to be acceptable and tolerable, for me, at least), a blessing from Neal for CS, and Neal telling everyone that he’s at peace, they don’t need to save him which gives the characters (and writers) license to forget all about him (again) for the rest of the arc/show.
I’ll use the word I kept using when this first started leaking: it’s cruel.