Chicago Fire season 6: Future hopes for Taylor Kinney’s Severide (character spotlight)
Let’s just start this discussion with the most basic of declarations: We just want to have hope for Kelly. Out of all of the characters within the franchise at this point, he’s been through arguably the most in between a history of addiction, a complicated relationship with his father, multiple near-death experiences, and then the arrest that happened during the crossover with Chicago PD last season.
Let’s actually use the Chicago PD story as a jumping-off point for what we want to see from Severide in the next year: A chance for him and Erin Lindsay to say goodbye. Sophia Bush’s return to the series for a farewell arc is still ambiguous — she’s been radio silent on the matter online, and the same goes for the rest of the cast and crew. What we can say for now is this: The two had a relationship, and while it didn’t work out, the two did learn a great deal from each other in the process. Not addressing that and giving that relationship closure would be incredibly disappointing. We don’t feel like the moments they had in the crossover should serve as their final ones.
In getting back to Chicago Fire proper, hopefully, Severide doesn’t just survive the fiery season 5 cliffhanger and forget about his relationship with Anna. Maybe she was meant to be his great love, his wife, and the mother of his children someday. It’s hard to speculate when she had such difficult circumstances the entirety of her relationship with him. Kelly shouldn’t dive into something else romantic, whether it be with Stella or anyone else, in the immediate future if he wants a relationship to be successful. He needs to focus on keeping himself together and keeping his eyes on the prize: His mental health. That’s tied so much to his addiction and the complicated relationships that he has.
What we’d really like to see for him in season 5 is building more healthy friendships at Firehouse 51, and get involved in the community even more in his time away from work. His family history is rough, so why not work on constructing his own extended family? Obviously, Severide is not a perfect person — he’s going to have flaws and make mistakes — but with the right support system, he can avoid some of the most catastrophic ones and allow himself to be a good person who is there for other people. That is probably what he learned the most from Anna: Empathy. He cared far more for someone else than himself; it’s strange to say that given that his job is saving people, but that wasn’t always reflected in his personal life.
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Audra
August 14, 2017 @ 1:33 am
I want him to work on his life get his life
together get a relationship with dad..since loved shay more then ever loved anna…i believe anna was just to make his life have meaning nothing more..she i don’t think was his soulmate she was not his forever..erin doesn’t need to say goodbye to severide they were a one night stand nothing more they had closure…anna and kelly didn’t have enough time to be considered soulmates or thought of as endgame he fell in love cause he wears his heart on his sleeve and always falls for,girls his saves or needs something including stella…he needs a good woman maybe a new paramedic from another house or a female squad luietenant who saves him who she has alot in common with kelly and he finds his forever not with a nurse, a cop, cancer patient, fire victim or any other random bimbo they find..he needs a new storyline and dont have him as such a player..also the pictures of he and anna have him put them in an album and put the album on the shelf…have him move on and maybe not forget the reason she was brought to him to bring his life meaning but forget about a love he thought was there and see it was only cause she was sick and his feelings werent real love but just love to help her fight.