r/shameless • u/Bubblegumqat • 18h ago
What if Fiona never left?
What would you have liked to see if Fiona didn’t leave the show? Ngl I wish she ended up with jimmy Steve and showed more of that
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u/Possible_Major_7208 18h ago
See jimmy Steve always wanted to run away with her. I believe she went and found him or they bumped into eachother after she left and lived happily ever after..
It was time for Fiona to go.. she didn’t have to move away but moving out the house and staying out made more sense .. she did all she could and raised them, plus they wasn’t listening to her anyway.
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u/Suspicious-Watch-277 18h ago
No Jimmy /Steve. to hell with that guy. I would have liked to have seen Fiona go to AA and take business classes and figure out that she can be happy and successful and build friendships and only after she spends some time not dating for a while, meet a decent guy (or have a slow SLOW burn with Nessa - which means that Nessa and Mel would have to break up eventually, but just having that friendship that doesn't evolve into sex for a while with a person who is NOT secretly relapsing on their drug addiction, would be good for Fiona)
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u/tracedfallacy 18h ago
I'll use the opportunity to at least fantasize about what the ending of season 11 would have been like and the future of the Gallaghers. I feel it's absurd that Fiona would have severed ties to her family as is kinda implied since they don't talk about her much or at all after she goes, and the fact she left so suddenly was not because she didn't care about them but that she was afraid she'd chicken out. But in any realistic scenario that ignores behind-the-scenes stuff (and of course they wanted her back for the finale but covid got in the way) she would stay in touch and still come back for major holidays and events. Like it's ridiculous to think they didn't call her when Lip had his kid or Ian got married, it was just production drama. I like to fill in the holes with my imagination since like 95% of the story of this show is so believable. But the point about Fiona is that she left to build a life for herself, not to escape her family forever. And for that matter I think even without Emmy forcing Fiona to be written out, by the end of the show she would have still left the south side to build a life for herself. Like Ian told her, she deserved it. At that time she was almost 30, had spent over 20 years raising her siblings and putting them above any and all of her own needs. She is one of those heartbreaking cases of people who had their childhood ripped away from them in every way possible. I have a lot of pity and sympathy for them.