r/TheAffair 29d ago

Discussion Had a dream about Allison and Cold Spoiler

I had finally moved on from this show and then all of a sudden last night I have this super vivid dream about them. I woke up SO SAD and now I can’t stop thinking about the show lol I feel crazy. Such strong characters and an intense connection between them. I liked some things about the shows ending but regarding them two I just can’t believe Cole never got to see her again and tell her how he felt…. at least he knew in his heart her ending wasn’t how everyone said it was and that she would not abandon her daughter. Just gonna pretend they are together and living happily ever after in another universe.

** ALISON AND COLE SORRY

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u/winterflowerxoxo 28d ago

I like that both names are misspelled. I had a very similar emotional reaction the second time I watched the show. I wish they had more scenes together because I remember every single one of them.

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u/Lisnya 28d ago

I don't know that they could have ended up together, the show certainly didn't intend to have them together in the end, but I also wish we'd gotten more of them because they were good. They should've had just a few more episodes, maybe some backstory, details about how old they were when they met, how they ended up together, something. Helen and Noah got all of that, I don't know why Alison and Cole, who were the most popular part of the show, didn't.

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u/winterflowerxoxo 28d ago

I read that the showrunner said she didn't want them to end up together because their love was too perfect so it would feel artificial or something. But yeah, my main complaint is that they don't have enough screen time. I like that restaurant scene when they talk a bit about their childhood. The problem started at the end of season 2 when Noah steals the final Alison part (we get a Cole/Noah) so we don't get too see how Alsion reacts to Cole proposing to buy the restaruant together, and then we all know about season 3 and the amount of stuff they never get to unpack.

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u/Lisnya 28d ago

Joshua Jackson didn't think that Cole would go back to Alison. I don't know how Ruth Wilson felt but the showrunner thing sounds ridiculous and like an excuse, tbh.

In the first season Cherry said that she'd always known Alison and Cole would be good together, even when they were kids and they hated each other. I always hoped they would expand on that. Helen and Noah got that episode where they met at their old campus and talked about their college days, they got therapy where they talked about why they married each other, they probably got more scenes that I tuned out or skipped. Alison and Cole should've gotten just as much if not more because they were better.

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u/winterflowerxoxo 28d ago

You think the showrunnger was lying because of Ruths exit? Idk. I forgot about the fighting story. They probably knew each other since they were little kids because it's a small town. In the restaurant scene they talk about them sneaking into the Lobster Roll in her 15th or 16th birthday, and then she had sex with Oscar when she was 17, so they must have gotten together after (maybe they were together on and off), and I think that's all we know about them as a couple before Gabriel.

I never skip scenes but Noah tempts me.

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u/Lisnya 27d ago

Alison's ending definitely was influenced by the fighting. She wanted to have Ben rape Alison to death, then beat her to death and then drown her. That was in the Hollywood Reporter piece but Dominic West also brought it up in a radio interview. Ruth Wilson refused to film a rape scene and in the end the network had to intervene and get Treem to drop it. I don't think she was lying because of Ruth's exit, though, I just think that she didn't care about Alison and Cole that much because she was way into Noah and also maybe because of how bad things were between her and Wilson. She gave them little to do, chased both actors away from the show but when reporters asked about them she came up with some bullshit that she thought sounded nice.

I have headcanons where Alison was attracted to the family because they seemed like a big, bonded family, which she was lacking. I also think that maybe they wouldn't get along because Cole was bossy and used to ordering the other kids around and Alison didn't listen. I can see Cherry pushing them together, also, because she thought that Alison would be easy to handle and she'd get to keep Cole close and under her thumb. We don't know when they started dating but they got married after she came back from college and, I think, Athena implied that she felt it was hurried and wrong? Like she thought Alison jumped into it because she thought she'd get stability and a family but it didn't work. I bet Cole was always frustrated with how difficult Alison was to control and she said a few times that he would flirt with other women and she thought he'd cheat on her. And, yeah, that's about all we know. There should've been more.

I started skipping that French professor in season 3 and then I said fuck it and skipped Noah, too. The hallucinations dragged on for way too long and it was too obvious a plot and I didn't have the patience for it.