Chicago Fire midseason finale takeaways: Always A Catch

What should One Chicago fans learn from Chicago Fire’s fall finale? Look closer at the episode with our Chicago Fire season 7, episode 9 takeaways.

What did One Chicago fans learn from this week’s Chicago Fire midseason finale? Here’s what we took away from this week’s installment, “Always A Catch.”

“Always A Catch” featured Matthew Casey (Jesse Spencer) paying a high price for getting involved with Naomi Graham (Kate Villanova), while Stellaride got to the halfway mark being pushed apart by his jealousy issues.

If you missed any of this week’s episode or just want a refresher on the events that we’re about to discuss, you can catch up with our Chicago Fire recap.

Below are our takeaways from this week’s episode:

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1) What’s the deal with Tyler, really?

The Chicago Fire midseason finale concluded with Stella Kidd (Miranda Rae Mayo) and Kelly Severide (Taylor Kinney) spending the night apart, after they sparred for most of the episode about her old friend Tyler (Tye White).

Severide thinks that Tyler wants to be more than a friend to Stella. Stella thinks Severide is jealous. And Tyler compared Severide to crazy Grant.

Everyone’s got their own opinion, but who’s actually right?

Chicago Fire seems to be telling a story about Kelly having jealousy issues and seeing things that aren’t there, but notice that Tyler has never explicitly come out and said that he has no romantic interest in Stella.

And the scenes that he’s in could be taken both ways; he could easily be just a close friend who wants the best for her, or maybe he does like her. The episode seemed like it was trying to play coy with the whole plotline—and some clarification would be appreciated. Not only for the fans, but knowing the truth about Tyler would give some more context to Severide’s behavior.

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2) Burning down the house

Is no longer just an awesome Tom Jones song. The cliffhanger for this episode was Casey opening his bedroom door to find out that somehow, his entire living room was on fire. And based on those threats Naomi got earlier, it’s a safe bet that it wasn’t started on accident.

There are a couple of thoughts about this. One, it makes sense because to that point, the show had not had an actual fire and especially in a fall finale, you expect a huge fire. Two, you have to be a little bit worried about Casey, who keeps ending up in the middle of fires (remember the season 5 finale?)

But last and certainly not least, was this fire meant to be a little bit symbolic? In the same episode where Casey officially moves on from now ex-wife Gabriela Dawson by sleeping with Naomi, the apartment he shared with Dawson burns? Is this Chicago Fire giving Casey a fresh start, with the added dramatic benefit of trying to kill him?

3) Farewell, Brettonio (and apologies to all your shippers)

It’s official: Sylvie Brett (Kara Killmer) has moved on, as “Always A Catch” saw her ask out the new chaplain Kyle Sheffield (recurring guest star Teddy Sears).

That likely broke the hearts of all the folks who shipped Brett with Antonio Dawson (Jon Seda), in particular when you factor in the back and forth that Brettonio went through last season.

But as great a pairing as they were, and even given all that history, this makes a certain degree of sense. After last season, Derek Haas was honest about how production schedules made it hard to write Brett and Antonio together, since both characters have such big roles on their respective shows.

There’s only one crossover pairing in the whole One Chicago fandom, and Mouch (Christian Stolte) and Trudy Platt (Amy Morton) get a lot less screen time than Antonio or Brett.

Plus, canon kind of honked up Brettonio last season, between him having a one-night stand with someone else and her fawning over the Hazmat officer. The writing made it feel like they both had fallen out of love with each other, so having them get back together at this point would be going around in circles.

And Antonio has bigger problems anyway. So we’re really sorry to all the Brettonio shippers that your ship got messed up because of mostly off-screen reasons, but that page has definitely now been turned.

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