Chicago Fire Season 12 Is Ruining Stellaride in Real Time

Summary:

• Chicago Fire fans find Taylor Kinney’s return from his leave of absence the best gift they could have got for Season 12.
• With Kelly Severide back, his relationship with Stella Kidd is seemingly more in shambles than ever.
• The Stellaride drama had grown old before it started, and fans are frustrated that nothing changes between the two.

We’ve all been waiting for Chicago Fire Season 12, even more so after we learned that Taylor Kinney would return from his leave of absence in the premiere episode. Unfortunately, Kelly Severide himself could not outshine the fact that Chicago Fire is making the same mistakes as usual, following through with its most annoying tropes.

Stellaride Remains a Dumpster Fire

It was only predictable that after Kelly Severide’s return from his arson investigation training that admittedly took him too far away from the actual training, he’d be in trouble with Stella Kidd, his wife who had no clue where he went. Unfortunately, the Stellaride arc started off terribly in the Season 12 premiere.

Severide and Kidd have learned nothing from their past. They are still completely unwilling to communicate and discuss what bothers them. They don’t admit their mistakes — and don’t connect the dots between what was and what is now.

As soon as she found Kelly and dragged him back to the Windy City, Stella’s been on his bottom about how he broke her trust that could never be regained. The same Stella Kidd who suddenly left for months for Girls on Fire and effectively ghosted her partner can’t find it in herself to forgive him for doing the exact same thing!

It’s worth noting that Severide forgave her rather quickly then. But he’s no better.

Severide experienced what it’s like when his partner left and ignored him for months on end, and it was hard for him. He should have known that for his wife, it wouldn’t be any easier, but he still went and did the same thing to her. And now he somehow can’t wrap his head around Stella’s distress about his decision. Say what now?

The worst thing is that these two just can’t talk to each other. It would have been so much easier if they discussed what happened and how they felt about it, but no! It would have completely avoided the cheap drama in Chicago Fire’s most notoriously dramatic couple. They “can’t keep their hands off one another,” and that’s it.

Chicago Fire Fans Are Fuming

Many fans admit they’re largely disappointed that, despite everything they’ve been through, Severide and Kidd have learned absolutely nothing. Their relationship remains a dumpster fire of drama and miscommunication that’s solely used to move their character arc along. Others try to find reasonable explanations, but lowkey fail.

“Maybe the writers saw the complaints about [Kelly] forgiving [Stella] too quickly and said ‘OK, not this time.’ But now there’s complaints about the opposite so can’t win them all,” Reddit user IndependenceFront588 suggested.

User whats_up_bro pointed out that Stella still doesn’t grasp the real problem and blames the arson itself for Kelly’s questionable deeds. Just like her husband, she doesn’t realize that the issue between them is the utter lack of communication.

“Stella acts like ARSON is to blame for their relationship instead of just correctly blaming Severide for his own behavior and for not setting boundaries between work/personal life. It's a Severide problem and trying to prevent him from going to investigate fires is plain laughable and isn't even going to fix the actual issue at hand,” they wrote.

Most fans are not impressed with the premiere drama of the new season, but they’re too cautious to hope that it’ll change any time soon. At this point, so are we.