Chicago Fire has solved Stellaride, now what about fixing Brettonio? Here are 5 reasons why Sylvie Brett and Antonio Dawson need to get back together.
Fans of Chicago Fire have seen love in the air for most of the show’s couples—except for Sylvie Brett and Antonio Dawson.
Chicago Fire season 6 has finally gotten Kelly Severide (Taylor Kinney) and Stella Kidd (Miranda Rae Mayo) back together, even if it took both of them seeing other people, Severide jumping off a roof, and Stella almost getting shot for Severide to finally confess his feelings.
Meanwhile, Matthew Casey (Jesse Spencer) and Gabriela Dawson (Monica Raymund) continue to be generally happy together, with most of their problems able to be resolved by a meaningful chat and a hug by the end of any given episode.
But when it comes to Brettonio, Chicago Fire has gone in circles. Brett (Kara Killmer) and Antonio (Jon Seda) seemed to be over. Then they weren’t. Then they were again. Now we’re not sure what the deal is, but all throughout the season they’ve been pining for each other, giving longing looks and keeping the audience wondering how long the show is going to keep us waiting.
It’s time to end the waiting game and set Brettonio straight, and we can come up with plenty of reasons why Brett and Antonio deserve to find their happiness before the end of the season.
Click through the below slideshow for five reasons why Chicago Fire needs to fix Brettonio next.
1. It’s time for it to happen already
Whether you’re a die-hard Brettonio shipper or have no opinion about their relationship, we can all agree that the storyline has gone in circles for awhile now. The back and forth of will they, won’t they and what are they this week has taken up more than enough time for both characters and for Chicago Fire season 6 as a whole—it’s time to move on.
This season we’ve seen a lot of Brett pining for Antonio, followed by the two of them having a one-time fling. The one-time thing turned into a two-time thing in “The Whole Point of Being Roommates.” Then in that same episode, Brett dumped Antonio again saying she didn’t want to “catch feelings” for him.
That didn’t stop them from hooking up in the car during “Hiding Not Seeking.” Then there was Brett’s subsequent pregnancy scare in the two-hour movie event only for her to find out that Antonio had agreed to a blind date with some other woman. So if you’re keeping score, Brettonio has been off, on, off, on and off again—just this season alone!
Four relationship changes in the same season is about two too many. If Fire is going to ask fans to care about the Brettonio ship, the show should pay off that investment by getting them together and keeping them together, instead of having the audience watch more back and forth than a tennis match. If they don’t get back together, then what has all this time been for?
2. Brett deserves a good man
Brettonio needs to get back together because Brett is in serious need of a relationship that isn’t messed up. Since the end of her original relationship with Antonio, we’ve seen her go on a date with a married doctor who just wanted to sleep with her, and compete with Stella for the heart of Hazmat Zach (guest star Daniel Di Tomasso) in a story that made her look like a teenage girl trying to land a high school prom date.
And that’s just her romantic life. Make no mistake about it, Sylvie Brett has been kicked while she’s down in Chicago Fire season 6. Her hometown friend Hope Jacquinot (Eloise Mumford) came into Firehouse 51, only to sleep with Severide and embarrass Brett with her scheming to get Stella out of her way. We’ve since been told in “The F Is For” that Hope was trash-talking Brett on social media when Brett wouldn’t forgive her for the whole Single White Female act.
Then there’s the awkwardness of Brett finding out that her roommate and ex-boyfriend Joe Cruz (Joe Minoso) has developed a crush on her again. Everything is a bit pear-shaped in Brett’s life this season, so she deserves to have one thing go right—and to find some form of happiness when so many people she’s gotten close to have turned out to be snakes in the grass. Antonio would be a safe, happy place for her.
3. Antonio is due for a storyline
At least Brett has had stuff going on, but since Antonio returned to Chicago PD after the end of his brief tenure on Chicago Justice, he’s been incredibly underused. Reuniting Brettonio on Chicago Fire would give him something significant to do and be a way to move his character forward.
We had high hopes that Antonio’s experience working in the State’s Attorney’s Office would give him a new storyline this season, especially given that the theme of Chicago PD season 5 is about police reform and what is or isn’t legal. But that hope has so far been in vain; the biggest issue he has had came in “Promise” when he found out Hank Voight (Jason Beghe) had taken justice into his own hands.
The other Antonio-centric Chicago PD episode was “Chasing Monsters” and that was one of the season’s weaker installments, where he inexplicably fell into bed with a foreign detective whom he barely knew and then had to turn on when she went rogue. It felt nothing like the Antonio Dawson that One Chicago fans know and love.
So while all this stuff has been happening around the Intelligence Unit, with bodies being found and Voight possibly having to turn himself in for murder, Antonio has largely been a supporting character. Restarting his relationship with Brett wouldn’t enhance his screen time on PD, but it would give him at least some direction to travel in this season and hopefully next.
4. Their breakups were iffy at best
We’ve discussed this before, but Brettonio’s original breakup in Chicago PD season 4 never rang true. It felt like a minor disagreement became a major fight for the sake of having a major fight, and it never came back down. Realistically, they should have never broken up in the first place.
But the logic of what’s happened for them since hasn’t been that great either. Every single fan knew that when they said they’d just be hooking up once, it wasn’t going to be once. Brett should have known that too, so having her call time on their relationship again because she doesn’t want to stir up feelings for him again? If she honestly thought it could just be fun and/or sex between them, then she wasn’t giving herself or him enough credit.
Then Chicago Fire got the audience’s hopes up again when Brett changed her mind in the two-hour block and decided she did want a serious relationship with Antonio. Yet now he’s agreed to be set up on a blind date with some other woman? On one hand, Brett is partly to blame here given that she was the one who told Antonio she didn’t want anything serious. He’s within his rights to see someone else if he wants.
But if he has feelings for Brett to the extent that he was visibly hurt when she broke it off again, would he even want to go on a date with somebody? Especially when he just had sex with Brett again, so it’s not like those feelings were awhile ago. The ways Chicago Fire keeps Brettonio apart aren’t that convincing. If the reasons for them not to be together are awkward at best, that’s a sign that they ought to be together.
5. They genuinely belong together
Every TV show seems like it needs a ship these days, which has resulted in many TV ships feeling like they’re put together, rather than belonging together. Brettonio is one of those ships that you honestly feel deserves to be together.
Let’s face it: some One Chicago ships seem more engineered by the writers than naturally coming together. Take a look over at Chicago Med and the new Connor Rhodes/Ava Bekker storyline to see what we mean; everyone knew from the moment Ava (Norma Kuhling) was introduced last season that she was there to flirt with Connor (Colin Donnell), and so the whole thing feels like something we have to watch instead of something we want to watch. And that’s not a slam on Med; that’s something that happens all across TV.
Brettonio is not one of those ships. Kara Killmer and Jon Seda honestly have a great chemistry together where it’s a joy to watch them play off each other. More than that, we’ve seen how the Brett and Antonio characters complement each other and how they are different together than apart.
It’s clear that they don’t work with anyone else, because we’ve seen the proof in those other stunted storylines like Antonio’s fling in “Chasing Monsters” and Cruz’s renewed interest in Brett that’s done nothing but cause heartache for Cruz. Chicago Fire and Chicago PD have tried to do other things with both characters, and it hasn’t accomplished anything other than to prove that Brettonio has become an honest part of the One Chicago world.
So now with Stellaride together, let’s hope Brettonio is the next ship that Chicago Fire sets right. The characters, the actors, and the One Chicago fans all deserve to see Brett and Antonio get their happy ending.
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Chicago Fire airs Thursdays at 10/9c on NBC.