yes bobby-michael style shenanigans between tommy and eddie in s8 would be *chefs kiss*
but if we’re putting orders in I’d like to make the case for a co-brothers-in-law tommy and chimney team up.
just give me those sweet boys bonding over how much they love their buckley sibling, give me them joking about how they never would’ve guessed all those years ago they’d end up family, give me the buckley parents coming to town and chim saying a not-so-silent prayer that he finally has an ally.
low stakes tomfoolery or high stakes maddie and buck end up in danger together, idc, I need all of it.
Maddie: So you have a crush, what do you do?
Buck: Break his leg, and then use that as a catalyst to get in a relationship with my other crush until he gets with the program so I can live out my dreams of having two boyfriends.
Maddie: There are other ways of doing this, Evan.
I love this cast so much every single last one of them.. 💕💕💕 I love all the behind the scenes we have gotten this season truly spoiled! So sad it’s gonna be over this week. 😭
BUCK: Oh, to be a bored heir to the throne who keeps rejecting marriage proposals due to being secretly in love with their personal guard.
EDDIE: Oh, to be the heir's guard who secretly places roses in the heir’s room because they are in love with them.
HEN: Oh, to be the palace guard who discreetly helps to cover for their secret deliveries in the middle of the night.
MADDIE: Oh, to be the heir’s sister witnessing the two fools dance around each other while knowing damn well that the two like each other.
CHIMNEY: Oh, to be the sister's suitor from another royal family who comes to know of their love instantly and plans an entire plan to get them their happy ending.
RAVI: Oh, to be a medieval peasant who knows nothing about the heir’s personal life and who dies of dysentery at age 23.
not me desperately trying to figure out a timeline for these finale stills
because it's very clearly dark out during the bucktommy date
whereas all the stills from eddie's house and the hospital look like the daytime
tommy's date outfit also seems to be the same one from that hospital bts pic. however there's also a snap of ryan clearly in his own clothes so it could be ppl were just hanging out there at some point.
and from these shots it looks like buck is with eddie when they get the call about bobby (which seems improbable bc the fire happened at night and you'd assume the firefighters who brought bobby & athena in would call them sooner but w/e)
there's also shots of buck and eddie (+ chris and eddie's parents) in different outfits that are also all in the daytime? so are presumably a different day as well.
i guess these could be from earlier scenes, like chris calls his grandparents and goes to stay with them and then the other shots are them going back to get chris' clothes or something.
but eddie also looks way more frantic in the other shots so idk, it would also mean there's somehow either at least two days between the fire and the 118 finding out or they're really stretching the timeline. (and i mean last episode they couldn't decide if buck joined the 118 five or seven years ago so it's not impossible)
we also got images of athena up and about whereas in the trailer she's still wearing a hospital gown when she goes to see bobby
i'm wondering if we actually find out that bobby is going to be okay pretty early on, just because i can't see bucktommy having a cute date night whilst bobby is on the brink of death ya know?
there's also some very cheery madney + hen shots in different outfits
(wondering if that one spec about madney fostering mara whilst henren get everything straightened out was onto something)
Buck: It’s just that lollipop sticks last longer than the head, even if they’re less flavorful. I’m thinking of paper sticks, because you can peel off the layers with your teeth or leave it there until they fall off naturally, but plastic sticks can be chewed on too or left sticking out like a cigarette. Paper straws can be eaten layer by layer over time though, so they have the edge.
Maddie, bored: Can’t we just leave while he's distracted?
Chimney, genuinely interested: But what about wooden sticks?