It's kinda curious and hilarious how twitter fandom always choses the Bobby/Bathena arcs to complain about long focused arcs.
I mean yeah we already saw Bobby Minesotta fire backstory, but we also already saw Eddie relationships failing because he doesn't realize he keeps looking a woman to fulfill a role of mother for Chris/A woman he can project his glorified relationship with Shannon. We also already saw Buck's multiple times navigating through feelings and LIs to discover a new self (the gender of the LI being different doesn't change it's basically the same thing), except for the representarion, that is always good and needed
"But it's new layers of the characters being shown, it's not the same", this also applies to Bobby.
We're actually about to see his childhood, something the writers never touched or explored before, so people acting like it will be the same stuff again is kinda ?? to me.
Also acting like thevcruise ship arc is at fault for madney wedding being short was hilarious to me, because the writers could totally have cut the nun bulshit with Marisol that had cost half episode of scenes where Eddie was spiralling over it. In fact, the writers could have finished eddiesol relationship off-screen way before, like it was done with bucktalia. This way Eddie didn't have to cheat and his fans didn't have to fight their lives trying to defend it due context/narrative. If the writers had cut any of that, we could have seen more of the wedding prep.
I'm not even afraid of them not wrapping storyline in two episodes for S7, because they legit don't need to rush. They guaranteed S8 so idk what is the need in rushing the arcs (Hen and Eddie's) to wrap the season. If the writers are smart they will leave arcs for S8
Anyway, sorry about the negativity, just ignore me. i'm just a little bit bitter because I only see this type of discourse when it's bathena/bobby arcs. It was like this with "The Devil You Know", same with cruise arc and now with "Bobby arc" that didn't even air.