"Good luck with that, Showtime."

"It’s true I can’t put myself in Ian’s shoes, but after Mickey’s departure the show seemed to forget that Ian even needed to wear shoes, damaging his arc in ways similar to how I’m destroying this metaphor."

Honestly, at this point, I'd take that and run.

Maybe you didn't see it that way because you weren't looking closely enough. Which is fine! If you don't care about how the writers treated Mickey after he left, then don't care. Others of us do. But your lack of interest in it doesn't mean we have to ignore it just because you, personally, don't want to talk about it.

it's not you; it's sloppy writing. They kept him stuck at 17 for a few seasons in a row while continuing to age up the younger kids and Lip at a normal rate. Someone asked Sheila Callaghan on Twitter if Ian is 18 now (since they haven't, you know, mentioned that or anything on the show) and her answer was basically ".…

Aw, thanks for the humorous Correction from a Boner™! Lol. Maybe go rewatch Isidora's first topless scene, and laugh about that one! It's during Mickey's rape. You know, since that's what the writers had Ian and Caleb doing this episode. Laughing about that time Mickey was raped at gunpoint. Hi-larious, and definitely…

Myles, thank you for continuing to hold the writers critically accountable for the sloppy characterization of Ian this season, and the general mishandling of his plotline. Those of us fans who, yes, cared more about Mickey and Ian's relationship than other elements of the show (which, why does that invalidate our…

"Mickey was always incredibly violent and not in any way capable of participating in creating a healthy environment for someone who's bipolar."

"he thought he must have been wrong and people didn't actually kiss in relationships" doesn't hold much water. In season three, Ian still seemed perfectly aware of what a kiss was, and what it meant, and that he didn't want one from Ned (who he had had sex with multiple times at that point) and that he DID want one…

It's not even their season one dynamic that Ian describes to Caleb. It's their season five dynamic, from episode ten, same writer as this episode. Except that Ian was the one who insulted Mickey, Ian was the one who punched Mickey, Ian was the one who was being abusive. I'm honestly starting to feel like season six…

Yes, he loses all interest in Kash, and has very little time for Ned. Because he prioritizes his relationship with Mickey over both of them. And basically everything else. For five seasons. Until the last two minutes of 5x12, when he dumps Mickey for wanting him to take his pills . . . except that he's (apparently)…

I didn't say I thought Ian and Kash were romantic, jesus christ, man! I said that Ian thought that. He argued it to Lip, multiple times. Your claim was "Except for Mickey, Ian has never been about relationships." I'm saying that, in Ian's mind, and per his own arguments, that's not true. (Also, you didn't address my…

"except for Mickey"? So, "except for the previous five years of Ian's characterization in relationships"? And hell, even during the (three whole) episodes in season one with Kash, he was pretty insistent to Lip that it was tuw wuv. Not to mention, he was a go-go dancer, not a prostitute, at the club, and dealing with…