so I’m thinking about watching halt and catch fire but I’m kinda turned off by all the heterosexual nonsense at the beginning, how quickly does it get better?

Well, Joe is bi, but I get what you mean. The tonal shift starts in season 2, and some people even say to start from there directly and then return to s1 if you want to see how they got there. I like to see the changes and growth so I personally am still glad I watched s1 first, and I’d recommend that even if you do skip, at least watch the last ep of s1.

I want a Truth and Measure style post-HACF Cameron/Donna fic. ALL THE BEATS WERE THERE IN THE FINALE. Omigosh. I should have known. It’s so weird when you think that for bad things that had proven their awfulness, but in this case, so much of the season with them apart and being the actual slow burn for the series send-off. Not Cam and Joe but Donna and Cameron.

I should have trusted them to treat them right. 

 God, there were some moments in there when I really thought they were gonna go farther. It was just all about them. This show should be remembered well, it made such a bold move and stuck with it, removing the two men almost entirely from the finale.

Pleeease, fic writers, it could so easily be done from where they left it.