Chicago Fire Tries to Milk More Stupid Drama Out of Severide's Exit
How good must it feel to be missed by so many people?
The show Chicago Fire is now on its 11th season and something odd is happening there.
The thing is that one of the protagonists of the show, Kelly Severide, played by Taylor Kinney, decided to take a temporary leave from the series… and this decision has thrown almost every storyline in the show into chaos.
Severide's character has been a regular on the show since the beginning, and his absence will certainly be noticed and will have a massive impact on this season's storytelling.
It was difficult for the writers to find a way to explain that he would not be on the show for some time, but they managed it.
So his absence is explained by some last-minute OFI training camp opportunity that he happily decided to take.
Frankly, it really makes sense for his character to be tempted to accept the invitation to this training, but many fans feel very skeptical about the explanation, calling it a stretch.
But it seems that Chicago Fire is trying to create a little more unnecessary drama around Severide's absence, intentionally making everything sound worse than it actually is.
The fact that he is "not there" is mentioned in almost every episode now, almost creating a new storyline.
For example, in Acting Up, when Stella Kidd, his love interest, shared that she was worried that something else was wrong with Kelly, and that his training was not the only reason he left town.
And the episode before that – the whole crew discussed how Severide's character got the "opportunity of a lifetime.
The fans do not get it at all. Instead of developing new, frankly much more interesting storylines, the writers keep referring to a certain character who is not even on the set!
The only thing that could explain all this nonsense is that maybe they want to create a permanent way out for him with all these conspiracy theories and everything.
Others believe that the show is simply setting up the stage for Severide to leave for good… apparently, by never letting him go.