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[bess-turani-marvin]

Nancy Drew 4.10 - The Ballad of Lives Forgone

[nainz7]

Has anyone noticed how Nancy has absolutely no chill when it comes to Ace. I mean she is usually very rational and logical but when it comes to Ace she has like two braincells. Since the earliest episodes she has no sense of personal space when it comes to him and ONLY him. She tries to sacrifice her life to save her friends after he hints that she put their lives in danger. She gives a list of witnesses to a criminal and makes a shady deal with her grandmother to exonerate her grandfather to save his life. Legit goes to his house to confess her feelings for him even though he was in a relationship at the time. Kisses the next guy she sees after she thinks he stood her up and breaks up with him the very next day after Ace confesses his feelings. Offers Temperance her blood in exchange to save his life. Sacrifices a wholeass town (temporarily) for a chance to be with him. Tries to stay away from him and nearly folds every time he merely looks at her. Brushes off almost dying to try again to be with him. The absolute low, barely leaves her house after their breakup. Tries to send him signs and gestures to fight for her. Recognizes the sound of his car, the sight of his shoes and even the sound of his footsteps (girl, how?). And my personal favorite, accidentally starts a literal death game because she couldn’t handle him seeming indifferent to her dancing with someone else. And these are just the ones I can think of on the top of my head. I’ve seen so many posts about how Nancy moves on too fast and how she doesn’t care about Ace the way he cares about her and it baffles me. Because this girl is so in love that she barely sees anything but him. All her sound logic and calm flies right out of the window and she becomes this unhinged, chaotic version who’s willing to do anything and everything when it comes to him. She has a coping mechanism of getting into rebound relationships and Ace has definitely loved Nancy longer but that in no way means that she loves him any less.

[fandomcentral101]

Nancy Drew and Ace Hardy

Nancy Drew 4x13

[bayside-claw-official]

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[naancypants]

It's about Nancy and Ace sitting across from each other, on opposing sides of the booth, in the first scene where Ace is asserting his desire to figure out the curse while Nancy continually shoots him down because she's afraid to take the risk of losing him

And then it's about Nancy and Ace being side by side in the last scene, aligned as equals on the bed, when Nancy chooses to lay out the entire truth regarding her dreamscape and how much she wants to be with him and is willing to search for a solution, together

[horseshoe-bay-ledger]

NANCY DREW || 4x12: The Heartbreak of Truth

"Horseshoe Bay will exist in truth."

[i-shouldnt-steal]

CW Nancy Drew Timeline

Have you been watching CW Nancy Drew wondering, "What is this timeline? When is this even happening?"

Well then I have the document for you! Over the past two years I've been meticulously watching and re-watching Nancy Drew in order to compile this unnecessarily thorough timeline documenting any and all dates we can glean from the show.

I'm still working through adding the events of season 4, but seasons 1-3 are all there! Please take a look if you have any interest :)

[drxnkflattery]

bess would totally suggest periodical almost-kisses as some sort of progress check on breaking the curse, and nancy and ace would say ��no way too dangerous’ and then proceed to have 17,000 charged moments in each episode that culminate in almost-kisses anyway

[jcforsapphics]

Ryan's smile after Nancy said he's nothing like Everett will forever be stuck in my brain

[thebeastofblackmoor]

honest CW Drew Crew endings

Nancy: After multiple seasons spent wondering if her Hudson lineage made her a bad person, her fears are confirmed! Her soul was that of one of the original Hudsons who was the ultimate oppressor and sacrificed children to create monsters that would erase crimes from memory to defend perpetrators. Explicitly out of guilt, Nancy takes to the road alone to erase these beasts from the face of the world. She's in a distance relationship with Ace, though, so that's all we care about.

Ace: Despite being a genius computer hacker, Ace decides to get into medical examination. (Also alone and far away!) I guess the problem with getting a job in the field he was truly gifted at wasn't that he was having a hard time motivating himself or that he didn't have a good group to support him, but that he was not working with corpses! Despite having claimed in the past that he's never had a group of friends like the Drew Crew and showing no interest in the medical field before last season, he leaves them all to pursue medical examination. Except Nancy, who he's doing long distance with I guess.

Bess: After having been kicked out of no fewer than three households in her life and spending her entire childhood friendless and family-less, Bess's first actual home is burned down by an angry mob and her friends all leave town. She is explicitly devastated by this, but don't worry, this sudden and complete massively triggering abandonment is played for laughs! And she has a girlfriend, so rest assured she couldn't be happier.

George: After having been forced to work her entire life to support her sisters, George selects a notoriously difficult, stressful, and cutthroat career path. I guess she's passionate about it, although like Ace, she's never shown interest in being a lawyer for more than a season. We are informed that her mother just... got better offscreen and that her sisters are grown now! (After one in-universe year.) Rather than finally being able to settle down in her home and be cared for alongside her sisters, she also leaves Horseshoe Bay to hit the grindset far far away from her friends and family. But she's not alone! She has the most boring and random man in existence with whom she has 0 chemistry and we've almost never seen her interact with. Seriously, this is a good thing for her, trust us!!

Nick: Nick's ending is the only one that makes even a little sense, since he has had a long-established interest in tinkering and technology and had an established rapport with Tom Swift. However, the career that he got with Swift Industries is only brought up in the very last scene, presumably because the writers had to pull something out of their asses to justify him leaving Horseshoe Bay, too. He also has an eleventh-hour significant other to run off with.

Seriously, I get that the ending of everyone going their separate ways is supposed to feel "realistic" and like everyone is prioritizing their own happiness, but I am baffled by the fact that anyone in the writer's room thought these were good endings. Everyone's paths came out of nowhere and were way too sudden to feel realistic. The writers love to gripe that they weren't given the time to do the ending they really wanted to pull off, but if that's the case, then they should have adapted the ending accordingly! If they didn't have time to set up all these individual career paths, they should have worked with what they had set up. If they didn't have time to get us to love new romantic interests, just scrap that altogether; not everyone needs to be neatly paired off with someone. If they weren't able to show all the magical Horseshoe Bay adventures they wanted to, they should have left the group intact so that the audience could imagine more and the group would still feel whole rather than randomly and swiftly disbanded, especially since they only did one year of in-universe time, and that leads me to believe the Drew Crew will not keep in close contact. It's not like they're long-term friends.

The focus on everyone having a relationship and a career that trumps their friendship and established happiness in Horseshoe Bay just feels icky to me. Like the writers thought that having a high-powered career and an SO--no matter how irrelevant both are to the established character--is the only way to have happy ending and are the only things that matter.

[bess-turani-marvin]

Nancy Drew (2019-2023)

Will you solve this part of the mystery with me? Yes. Always. Forever.

[nainz7]

Do you guys know how incredibly lucky Ace is? He had a crush on a local celebrity in high school, who was on track to go study in an Ivy and never look back to a town he was sure he would be stuck in forever. But then after a few years by some twist of fate she started working where he worked and they slowly became friends but it didn’t stop there. They started solving mysteries together, she started laughing at his jokes and seeking him out all the time and he became her best friend and then SHE FELL IN LOVE WITH HIM AND HE ENDED UP WITH HER!

Like… I mean!! How wild is that! He’s really out there living every girl’s dream.

[izzielizzie]

the juxtaposition of carson and ryan vs nancy kills me every time i think about it. carson and ryan had their loves. their had their version of ace. carson loved kate so much that he built his entire life around her. and lucy was the best part of ryan’s life. she looked past his reputation and flaws and saw a teenager trying his best. but they’re gone, and carson lives with the knowledge that he watched kate die and had no way to change it. and ryan has to deal with the fact that he could have done something to change the outcome, but he didn’t.

and then we have nancy. she’s so ready to build her life around ace, and in some ways she already has. he sees the best in her, even when she can’t, just like lucy saw the good in ryan. and now nancy’s caught in between trying to break the curse, failing, and having to watch ace die, knowing that she can’t change anything. or she could live her life, ignoring the curse, and in turn her feelings for ace. but the trade off is she’s stuck being in love, spending every day wondering if she could have done something different.

she has the opportunity to live the lives her fathers wanted. with her love. with her person. and, just like her fathers before her, she can’t.

[bayside-claw-official]

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[naancypants]

Can I just say how proud I am of Ace for standing up for himself in that final 4x05 Nace scene.

One of Ace's longtime struggles is that he is a pushover. This boy is so kind and easygoing -- which is part of why he works well with Nancy -- but as a result, he frequently lets things slide that really damage or hurt him. Those feelings then get distilled and placed on the backburner. The thing is, Nancy broke his heart, too, for months on end, by lying about her feelings and pushing him away. That part has barely been talked about by anyone.

And now after all this time of quiet hurt and crushed hopes and sitting in the wake of devastation, he has had to make the horrible decision to protect Nancy's life and whatever is left of their relationship. He loves her so much it aches, and he is miserable without her, and she is angry at him for a choice he never wanted to make. He has every right to be frustrated!

It's rare that this show grants Ace the space to express his unfiltered, messy emotions and I'm so glad they gave him the opportunity for that kind of catharsis. It signals autonomy and growth that he was able to stand by his decision and lay out all the reasons for it, yet still have a compassionate conversation with the love of his life about why their love for each other has led them to different conclusions.

[horseshoe-bay-ledger]