Team Zude

Tumblr broke the bad news over the weekend that Adam Senn has confirmed that he will NOT be returning to HTF s4. I am surprisingly upset by this news, given my reservations about what a season four might hold for Jude, Zero, and Zude.

I will be joining the ranks of people not watching the show, even if Jude is on because I can’t imagine how they’d write Jude without Zero while still keeping Zude. And if they decide to give Jude another love interest, I’m not here for that.

This does seem to add credence to my speculation that the renewed show will focus on new characters, possibly a new generation, because everyone got closure in the summer special, and Ahsha and Derek moved to Miama, so they’d have to undo that . . . and I’m not interested in watching that. (Unless we see Jude’s son or daughter running the Devils, which I highly doubt.)

If you need to vent, please feel free to do so in comments.

Jude and Zero are both such fascinating characters, but the character I have a lot of questions about is Jude. I think they boil down to: who is Jude, and what was Jude’s pre-s2 relationship with Zero? The two questions kind of overlap, but I want to concentrate on the first for now.

Who is Jude?

Zero calls him a junior agent (2.01); Derek calls him a ‘desk jockey’ (2.11); and Lucas says ‘wasn’t it just a year ago he was screwing up our coffee orders’ (s3). Also according to Jude himself, he was just assigned to the Arena as the agency’s ‘point person’ since they have two clients there now, but before that he hadn’t ‘always felt welcome here’ on his own (2.01) and admitted that he had to sneak in the night Olivia was murdered when he says he was on the arena floor because, as Det. Harrison said, Oscar wasn’t giving him that kind of access to the arena then (2.12).

Based on the above, Jude shouldn’t have been in a position job-wise (just a junior agent, desk jockey, got coffee) or location-wise (didn’t have access to the arena) to become friends, or even acquaintances with Derek or Zero. And yet he did.

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