I’m sure I don’t want MRJ to come back just to set up Emma’s future with CS. It’d just be a tease for SF fans, another painful what-might-have-been kind of scenario that the writers will pretend is they way they always intended it to be. I hope MRJ has the sense not to return for that.
Me too. I personally don’t understand why, now that they’ve made their bed, the show runners refuse to lie in it, so to speak. On the one hand, they keep setting up this hyperbolic true love to end all true loves thing. On the other, we see that very often, things don’t work out for the characters, and except from Snowing, which is by definition the unsinkable ship, and CS that gets crammed down everyone’s throat with a toilet plunger, there’s not much of a happily ever after for anyone. But it’s never addressed, or dealt with, there is not a shred of “meta” commentary about how a character might process loss, grief, and disappointment, and grow from it. Instead, it’s just a tedious plot pileup and heavy-handed injunctions to fawn over CS.