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What are some things that you want to happen in Season 6?
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What are some things that you want to happen in Season 6? Like, anything at all- from big moments to small ones? Doesn't have to be any kind of all-or-nothing, overarching season arc, just general random stuff you want to see.

My list:

  • Ted and Alexis break up, and realize that both of them were imagining in their heads a relationship that was better than what they actually had and were just trying to overcompensate. I think that their relationship was a weak point in Season 5 and I'm hoping that it's a lead up to them realizing that it needs to end. I have written about why I don't like their relationship several times, including here, if you're interested.
  • David and Patrick adopt a dog. Bonus points if the dog is Dan's actual dog.
  • Johnny finally stands up to Moira after the past few years of enabling her. She won't listen to the kids, but she does listen to Johnny, as we saw with the awards ceremony dress. Moira really treated David badly in the S5 finale, and has a history of problematic interactions with her kids, and needs some sense knocked into her, and Johnny is by far the best candidate to do it.
  • Patrick works through his honesty problem (from The Barbecue and Meet The Parents). Yes, evasion is a form of lying, and as was pointed out in The Barbecue, if you want someone to trust you you have to earn that trust. I don't think David will go back to not trusting Patrick in the sense of not believing in Patrick's love for him, but I can see him realizing that he doesn't trust Patrick to tell the full inconvenient truth, which is a MASSIVE problem. (That said, it's a bit too much of a downer for a show like this, so I hope that they actually deal with the issue but in a more lighthearted way.)
  • We meet someone from Twyla's mythically insane family. Wait, I take it back- you know Stefon, from SNL? Where he kept making throwaway jokes about all those crazy people at those clubs in NYC? And then he's at his wedding to Anderson Cooper (boy, Anderson Cooper really does get around, doesn't he....?) and in the church are all of these rows of all of those people who were in those jokes from the previous Stefon segments, from Menorah the Explorer to DJ Baby Bok Choy? So THAT'S what I want- I want a Sands Family Reunion with ALL of those people from her anecdotes there.
  • David and Patrick start planning a whole fancy wedding, and they each get so worked up over it in their own ways that they decide to screw it and elope in a private ceremony at Town Hall, with only each of their families and Stevie there. My reasoning: 1) all of my favorite TV weddings have been spontaneous and unplanned, and I think for good reason, because wedding planning arcs on TV shows can be really boring, as can typical wedding episodes and 2) there is no chance in the world that a typical planned wedding for David and Patrick would live up to all the stuff that the fans are imagining, no chance at all (though I would not be shocked to be proven wrong on that- we'll see)- so something about it needs not so much to exceed but to completely subvert our expectations.
  • The business manager returns, whether because he was caught or for some other reason, and he's played by Colin Mochrie (I have very strong feelings about this).*
  • We get the full Jazzagals Nine Inch Nails medley, and Ronnie forgets to bowdlerize the lyrics.
  • I know that the typical expectation for the ending is that Stevie goes off to the big city to find her passion and Alexis settles down in Schitt's Creek with her one true love, but I want the opposite to happen. I think that Moira's message in her Cabaret pep talk is really great- it emphasizes that no matter whether Stevie stays or goes, she's still an amazing, cool person who needs to feel comfortable in herself. I think Stevie COULD leave, but I don't think she HAS to. I do, however, want her to find the right person for her, and think that that's extremely important for her, because so far she's never had anyone who loves her romantically and she needs that. (I may also be identifying a little too hard with Stevie right now for reasons relating to my own life, but let's ignore that for now.) She's been building up her self-image through the support and love of the Roses, but romantic love is something different that she deserves, especially after how disappointed she's been by it in the past.
    The opposite, I think, is true for Alexis. I already explained why I think she needs to break up with Ted, but I think that the thing is that Alexis never really explored who she is. I know there was that S2...? arc about how she needed to learn how to be alone, but I don't think that ever really happened. She immediately latched on to "being the kind of person Ted would be with" as her goal post, and needs to try to figure out who she wants to be for herself. David, after living a miserable life out in the world, is thriving in Schitt's Creek, but Alexis really isn't- she's grown as a person, but I think that the next step for her should be going back into the world, trying to develop her business, and growing for herself into the kind of person that she wants to be, not the person she thinks Ted wants her to be. She obviously has learned a lot about love and empathy in her time at Schitt's Creek, but the true test of her character will be her going back to civilization as this new person, forging her own path without relying on her romances.

So this is what I want (either in pieces or ideally all together), what do you all want?

*Okay, so especially after having my instinct on this affirmed by some of you guys, I decided to imagine if Ryan Stiles were cast as well. Not going to happen, but just on the instinct of theme casting, and the fact that one should never separate Big Nose and Puffy Don't-Need-Combs. And he should have a cameo as Gwen's friend that she met on the internet, who is basically portrayed like an exact copy of Bob (down to the weird limb action) except Lewis Kiniski dumb. But this I don't insist on by any stretch of the imagination- I just thought it would be fun to try to slot him in.

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