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I feel like Lou Ferrigno Jr is the ideal actor to interview because not only is he so fucking polite but he compliments the interviewer saying "what a great question" and gives SUCH insightful answers and you can tell how much he loves his work and his characters (especially Tommy) and he cares about the fans and he's just so fucking honest and I just love this man so much

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LOU!!!!

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really hot of lou to push off an interview about 911 because he was simply too booked and busy with other things 💅

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look at that profile 😫

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✘ S.W.A.T. 1x9 ❝ blindspots ❞

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My favourite part of the interview

Because it was just like "woo" and then "ahhh" is the most accurate description of how watching that moment felt

Lou Ferrigno jr never change

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Okay, bear with me on this, but I am more and more convinced that 911 is in this mess with BuckTommy because they picked up a very audience-favourite trope and then, did not follow through with it till the end. What I am talking about is the 'if you are going to be bisexual, it better be for someone who's worth it' trope. We see this in most mainstream bisexual representation nowadays - schitt's creek, heartstopper, rwrb and I wouldn't say it is the best representation or the healthiest one but it is a hopeful approach and one that makes bisexuality palatable to a much wider range of audience than it would otherwise be, kind of like how 'gay for you' worked but with a step in the right direction. It also kind of subverts all the negative representation of bisexuality that we have seen so far, with the non-monogamy, sexual perversion and cheating etc and at the same time, establishes the bisexual identity in a more romantic sphere - where you are bisexual because you loved this person enough to question yourself. It is okay rn because it is so new, practically not even 5 years in the making, but it could turn harmful because that is sadly not how bisexuality works.

Now, coming back to BuckTommy, they followed this formula because that is the best way to go when your audience is not that educated on all things sexuality. If they were going to make Buck bisexual after 6 seasons of straightness, they had to put someone opposite him who would make the audience feel like 'yes! I too would question my sexuality for that guy'. So they created Tommy and they literally went the sugar and spice and everything nice route. We see other characters complimenting him and whatever else you say, you cannot claim that firefighter pilot who can fly in a hurricane does not sound fucking cool. But . . . the problem starts because they dragged it out and in an attempt to make him worthy of Buck's bisexual realisation, they kept building him in a way that would make him perfect for Buck. And this thing worked for the other shows/movies/books because the relationship is endgame in every single one of them. it works because they are literally created to be the only ones for each other. But if Tim's words are to be believed and Tommy is only the beginner relationship, he's done the math in the wrong formula here because he's accidentally created an endgame character for a temporary arc so obviously, when everything went down, the equation did not match for the audience. They are used to things happening a certain way and a cable tv procedural is not where you expect a subversion of tropes especially when that trope is nowhere near saturation point yet.

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what i especially love about Lou's interview compared to all the other cast ones we've gotten this season, is that everything Lou talks about was present in the scene. He isn't making up depth where there wasn't any, everything about Tommy being flawed and hurt and needing therapy was signalled in the scene through Lou's delivery and also through the snippets of Tommy backstory that we got from the show. None of what Lou said was a surprise to us, he didn't try to input depth into some throwaway lines that were played for jokes, he literally just explained his thought process for the exact things we saw on our screens.

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everybody say thank you lou 😏

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The fact that my whole tl is talking about the same thing explains this 😅😅😅

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the way his face dropped ):

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why this is so cute 😭

oh and the ‘and he’s always excited to see buck- evan’ 😭😭

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So we all agree Tommy thought Evan wanted a quickie before the movie right

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everyboddy shut  UP im THINKING about finctional character

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that little tommy thing

7.04//8.06