Oh, same. My process starts by striving to picture The Happiest Ending for any given character, because I love them all so much, then doing the mental equivalent of spraying a cat with a water bottle because what am I thinking, a happy ending? in Twin Peaks??? Inconceivable.Cappy wrote:That's a good observation about Truman and Albert. Their dynamic might be more interesting if they do get together and adopt a child at some point in time, but circumstances do tear them apart and Truman goes off into the woods and hits the bottle, leaving Albert stuck in Twin Peaks raising a child by himself.
I just really like the idea of Albert being a vocal townie. I imagine he's the loudest concerned citizen at every town hall meeting, and the loudest parent at every PTA meeting. He frequently complains about tourists and out-of-towners, but he himself has only lived there about 20 years at this point.
Maybe Truman lives alone in the Bookhouse. He and Albert's dynamic might actually work better as an on-again-off-again sort of thing. Realistically, I don't know how comfortable Truman's character would be in a relationship with Albert, so I could actually see it taking many years for him to become OK with it and himself.
And maybe Andy and Lucy might be more interesting apart, it would create a more conflicted dynamic for the calm and collected Andy Jr. Maybe Lucy pushes Andy out of the picture entirely, leaving Andy Jr. feeling like his father hates him.
Ultimately I am just a fanboy whose first instinct is to make the characters happy. At the same time though, I do want to see them in situations that really stretch them to their limits and advance their individual arcs.
The matter of Albert and either/both Coop and Harry poses an interesting question because his distaste for country living is legendary, but Coop has wanted to retire since well before the show and Harry is a simple country boy. Give him a horse and a guitar, don't ask him to move to Seattle or -gasp- beyond. Would Albert get over it for the sake of a partner? Would it be a long-distance relationship? I'm cheering for him to be able to settle down at some point and just get over his issues with small towns (I headcanon that he's so bitter because he comes from a small town himself. Then he ran off to Yale and never looked back) but it may take time. Being very loudly involved in the town's life would probably help, haha you're right, I can see it so clearly! And maybe having a small farm? Living a little out of town, limiting human interaction except with the few people whose company he actually deeply appreciates?
And can I also definitely see him/them adopting... most likely due to unforeseen circumstances, they just end up with this teen who has nowhere else to go and keep him.*
I think Albert actually ticks a lot of Harry's boxes as far as we can tell (sophisticated stranger first and foremost, and a Virgo like Josie, even) but there's always the question of losing Coop in the finale which IS going to wreck them both, with heavy guilt trips on the side, and right now I can't even picture them recovering in the short term. I wish TSHOTP had told us something... well, it told us we lost Harry to the bottle but other than that damn it.
Sorry for the disjointed reply!
* this goes well with my general proposal to redistribute the teens in town, since everyone's family is either horrible (Laura, Audrey) or horribly fitted (Bobby, James). Random reshuffling, mostly ending up to childless Bookhouse Boys or as additional Haywards. It literally can't worsen the situation.