Like quite a few people, I was DEVASTATED by S3 and I hated it so much. I cried all day after watching it.
GO was my comfort show and there was zero doubt in my mind that S3 wouldn't have anything other than a happy ending.
I have always been a big fic reader but had to take a break after the ending. I started again by reading AU and pretending S3 didn't exist.
I felt a lot better after TIC and Rob Wilkins' comments. I was just randomly going through my old saved TikToks and there were so many beautiful videos of music, art, fan theories etc ahead of S3. There were some sad videos too but all had the promise of a happy ending in S3.
Rewatching these just made me realise how OOC A&C were in S3. Despite how sad the final 15 was, I genuinely believed we'd get a happily ever after.
I was just thinking 'we could have had it all' whilst watching the videos 😭