hi. massive massive huge huge enormous obx four spoilers are below.
if you have not watched every single episode of season four, and finished every minute of the finale, please stop reading now to avoid spoilers
i'm so serious. last warning, don't want to spoil it for yall <3
there are a lot of things that could be said about the death of jj maybank.
I, as well as many of you, have plenty of my own thoughts & feelings about everything that I think should've gone differently and what a bad & tasteless job I think the show did handling this. and I have many, many vulgar choice words for the writers and show runners.
they killed our sweet boy.
I am gutted, and beyond angry, and I know so are many of you. my heart is hurting with you.
he was the show. without jj, there is no outer banks.
but I don't have the energy to rant about all that right now. I just wanted to open up a space for anyone to do so, and rant, and cry, and to feel anything they're feeling alongside people who are also upset about this. I am going to respond to all comments here at some point, just not tonight. please say whatever you want / need to say here <3
I am also aware that the heaviness of my tone might seem far too serious for a fictional character. I would like to use that as a reminder that many people, especially young people like me, like many of you, have grown up relying on escapism. especially in recent years. this often amplifies the emotions and connections we feel to things and characters and stories that aren't reality. I would also like to point out that I think this especially applies to outer banks. this show came out in an incredibly dark time of many of our teenage years, and served as a beacon of hope for many people, myself included. this show came when I needed it the most. in the middle of one of the darkest times of my life, I found sanctuary in a group of friends who surfed all day and hunted treasure. they got me through the pandemic, an ed, and a whole lot more. when they rest of my world was cut off, there's was one I could always rely on. so I would like to remind people please don't judge the extent to which people might be feeling or not feeling this loss.
I only want to truly address two things tonight.
one, I want to address how this impacts wonderwall.
I will be continuing wonderwall and have a new chapter coming soon, but I would like to be very clear on how it is going to go. It will only cover seasons three and four, and JJ Maybank will not die at the end. he and Cordelia Edwards will live happily ever after with the rest of the pogues. this story is going to be nothing but a happy ending. as far as I'm concerned, outer banks ended the second JJ found the crown.
two, to our dearest jj.
you deserved so, so, so much better. I am not sure why the obx writers deemed it necessary to chalk your entire life & existence up to one of tragedy. you started with brokenness and you ended with brokenness, and I am so damn sorry.
you were the best thing in that show. you were the show. you were it's heart and it's humor and it's joy and it's thrill and it's spirit. you leave a splintered shell of something that was once beautiful in your wake.
thank you for being the best mild kleptomaniac and future tax cheat surfer boy from the cut we could've ever, ever asked for. I promise to show you love in this story.
we all miss you, we all love you.
goodnight jj maybank. you're finally free.
xoxo, cam
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