#and established bucktalia is a very real possibility for the season

[lover-of-mine]

ngl i will be really disappointed if they do a full time jump and buck is still with natalia. like i wish they wouldn't keep skipping the beginning stages of buck's relationships, which they basically did with both taylor and ali (though we at least knew more about who taylor was before they got together and they were semi-friends already).

i'm thinking they may not do a full jump though, do like they did for s4 which started late too

The thing is, we are already living in a liminal space of time jumps when it comes to Buck and Natalia specifically, because it's implied that the birth happens right after the bridge and the meditation on the roof has to be happening some place in the future (at least 6 weeks considering Eddie is back and he had broken ribs and Chim is coming back) so either way we won't see the beginning stages of the relationship, that already passed. I hope there isn't a full 8 months to a year time jump, because that's a lot of time and it changes all the dynamics, a relationship that's a few months old is very different from a year long one. My expectation is for them to pick it up right after the meditation, just pretend it was the usual amount of time between seasons, because yeah, I feel like throwing Buck into a 6 month to a year long relationship without showing it to us will make it even harder for people to find things they like in Natalia and the relationship, and a lot of people are already against them to begin with, so it would be a delicate thing to navigate if they choose to keep her for the long run. And I think that skipping the part where Buck gets to know her is skipping the part we get to know her, so we will give even less to the relationship. I don't really think they have a fighting chance, not unless they do some serious work on her character and actually make her exist outside of Buck, but just dropping us a year in the future and telling us "the relationship works yay" without showing us how they got there will seriously doom them. Taylor was bad, but Taylor existed for us, Natalia is beautiful girl who works with death, that's all I can think of when I think about her, to just skip it to a part where they are established and working would make it a relationship impossible to care about, because we invested nothing on it. So I'm hoping there's no big time jump at all.