#911 lone spoilers

[heartofetherea]

The writers of 9-1-1 Lonestar really destroyed Grace Ryder in the final season of the show.

I completely understand why Sierra McClain left (I would have too) but they couldn’t have found any other way to write her out?

Grace absolutely LOVED being Charlie’s mother and she loved her job and husband. I understand her faith was very important to her but she would not have abandoned her life like that.

And are we forgetting that her and Tommy were best friends? Tommy got CANCER. Her best friend wasn’t even there to help her through it and it wasn’t even mentioned how she felt about that?

They would have been better off just killing her.

[everythingisconected]

okay, but all this ”you will be here without your father”, ”who will be in owen office”, ”i am here and he is not” through all second part of episode and than it's owen who just move in new york...

it's literally that meme where

owen: stop saying everyone i'm dead

tk/judd/tommy/etc: sometimes i can still hear his voice

[sageandred]

can we talk about the symbolism of Carlos mentioning he hasn't told TK of his decision on Jonah just moments before they walk off together? that this is them even amongst TK's commentary to Tommy & Nance that he won't sacrifice his little brother like he'd sacrifice his marriage. that they decided to show TK and Carlos still in conflict and that they're walking off into the sunset in the midst of it...not at a resolution between them that magically makes it better so that they can act like that, but that this is them despite the differences in a moment of support and one-sided knowledge to the beginning of a new chapter aka what Carlos is about to tell him that makes him feel happy and embrace his husband in the full-on walk to the car that TK is just as actively participating in...And that somehow makes it more meaningful and says more than taking place after "fixing" the problems between them

[dear-viv]

9-1-1: Lone Star 510

I can’t take my eyes off them…

[donovankinard]

what do you mean we don't get to see everyone in the waiting room for carlos. what do you mean that we don't get to see him in his hospital room, talking quietly to owen about fatherhood, because tk's fallen asleep curled up in the bed with an arm slung over carlos' waist. what do you mean we don't get to see marjan and paul marching in with a bunch of awesome homemade food because hospital dinners suck. what do you mean we don't get to see mateo bringing in a bunch of random shit to try and cheer him up. what do you mean we don't get to see judd just sitting there quietly, observing it all, cracking jokes every now and then. what do you mean we don't get to see iris, or anyone else important in carlos' life rushing in because oh my god, he was shot. he could've died. what do you mean we don't get to see andrea come into the hospital and carlos telling her i did it, mamá. i found the man who killed him. what do you mean. what. do. you. mean.

[gigigazelleloves]

I'm sorry WHAT 😳

[carlos-in-glasses]

His Husband's Voice

A 5x01 coda. 1k, rated M, on Ao3

The first time he saw the mortuary photograph of his father it was an accident. To an extent. He was snooping, but with the intention of seeking clues for who the shooter could be. Any leads Chief Bridges might be keeping from him. Anything, anything but that. ✨✨✨✨ A short history of Carlos stumbling upon that photograph of Gabriel, and what happened next.

Read on Ao3

[takendreams]

why do i lowkey have a feeling that ranger campbell is going to threaten TK next episode. just the way he said ‘you didn’t introduce me to your husband, the pretty paramedic right?’ had my senses tingling

[lassie-farce]

Nancy Gillian: cap if you drill into this man’s head it’s manslaughter

Tommy Vega: girlie pop i love you but i just died earlier today: can we talk about this later, please?

[lavendermerry-go-round]

You know maybe we'll get Buddie canon maybe not but we'll never EVER lose Tarlos canon.

Like, I would love to see the same bold, italicized capital letter LOVE with Buck and Eddie too, yes. I have an aching need for it in the pit of my stomach

Tarlos however, is there. Just there. No searching for breadcrumbs. No red strings on a corkboard connecting dots and scenes and theories.

It's just there in their unique, passionate and so incredibly human storylines and I feel like we as a fandom don't talk about it enough

(yes, I just watched 5x09 and I am not over the ending of it)

[kamisobsessed]

I KNEW RANGER CAMPBELL COULDN'T BE TRUSTED THAT FUCKING PIG

TAKE HIM DOWN CARLOS

[heartofetherea]

A few things about each characters endings:

Judd - I’m sooooo glad Judd got his full circle moment at the end. Him finally becoming Captain was absolutely the right move to make for his ending. And him teaching Charlie about his deceased brothers?? oh my heartttt.

TK - I expected him to quit his job for Jonah and I think it was a pretty good choice. I’m sad we won’t see more of him and Carlos as dads tho.

Marjan - I would not have expected her to have ended up pregnant so soon but it’s okay I guess?

Mateo - Obviously very happy he’s not being deported ahah. I think it was pretty obvious that his status as a firefighter would have been the solution.

Paul - We don’t really know how Paul ended up? Assuming not much changed for him other than being a mentor to that kid.

Nancy - Same for Paul. But she’s also progressing in her life with Mateo so that’s great. I love them together.

Tommy - Very glad she’s not dead. I think it was kind of a cool decision to fake us out like that lol. I’m glad she was able to go back to work.

Owen - Seems to be starting yet another new chapter in a new leadership position. I think it’s a good fit for him and hopefully he can use lots of his new knowledge from his time in Texas.

[buckstitslover118]

my snaps to my friend while watching 7x11 of Lone Star

[sageandred]

Carlos getting the answer to who his father's murderer was is closure to the curiosity he's had this year. But it will never make it better. The last scene is a perfect dialogue for the conclusion to this storyline.

Carlos waking up in a panic- Him still having this struggle and his inability to sleep, even after the resolution is an important note.

-Carlos is a problem-solver (as in he thinks in a way where there are clear steps to "fix" his problems/to guide his emotions). It could be the detective in him. He is a planner and it is so like him to "everything is going according to plan"(or "I must complete step A before I get to step B" his way through) his dad's investigation, so that it consumes him until he finds the truth.

"I thought if I figure out who did this, it would make the pain better, but it's worse."

I think if we go back to Carlos' initial hesitance from wanting to raise kids, it makes sense for Carlos; we know him to want to "do things right" and to doubt himself, so much so, that he puts his life on hold (to please his family's idea of him & his sexuality, to look after his best friend, etc). But you can tell there's two different showrunners. Rashad has taken the tarlos kids debate and made it more about not being in the right place in life, but in 4x12, while the same reasonings are an underlying cause, the issue is presented as more as Carlos' desire to experience more with the distinct possibility that he could never want kids (in a lengthier, solo-topic post, I could give my full thoughts on this, but all of this COULD be direct effects of avoiding). In 4x12, this is when Gabriel is still alive and the "not the right time" excuse that he uses cannot originate back to finding closure to Gabriel's death. Both of these scenarios have the same underlying cause on Carlos' end, but the former presentation in season 4 dresses up the issue with circling around the real reason and no immediate resolution at the end of the episode (which is the episode's purpose and couple's "compromise") that I now could honestly see for how some people thought Carlos' hesitancy = genuine disinterest to wanting to ever be a father. I guess what I'm trying to say is Rashad took a direct approach towards the issue, while Tim danced around the subject (could have been intentional for Carlos' avoidance, could have been not executed well; I'm not trying to get into a discourse for that part right now, but...) With Carlos, there would always be something stopping him.

Taking life as it comes, not waiting for when you think you are ready when you kind of know you are ready (in Carlos' case for wanting "the right time" for most siutations that arise with him, not that having a kid doesn't require planning in most cases/logicics-wise that aren't just down to avoiding life steps that seems to occur with Carlos) are general rules of thumb to uncertainties of living. Carlos had to come to that conclusion after his father's death and AFTER trying to conclude something of meaning of his dad's tragedy and STILL coming up with this outcome of no resolution...of no ending to an ultimate life-altering event, and no guarantees to the future he has dabbled about, like traveling to Tuscany or hiking. And it hurts...but it's such a real message!

Another thing that's occurred to me-on the topic of tarlos' involvement in this set-up: Carlos says he hasn't been able to look at the last photo of Gabriel since the day before he died (and not being able to reminiscence because of that pain). But..but, TK when Gwyn died was able to look at her pictures with him when he was little, once a bit of time had passed. That's another little parallelism of tarlos, really highlighting the differences in how they deal with things. Carlos waiting roughly a year and a half before he could view a camera-roll memory with his dad kills me. And TK realizing that after death, your loved ones live on, and having updated struggles even this year that led to talking with Tommy shows the growth in his grief journey...that still shows his grieving.

In thinking about TK's mom's death vs Carlos' dad's death. They were both murdered. But TK's mom's was accidental, which he had resolution on to who did it. And his view on that "last piece being gone" is something he would not have thought in the immediate aftermath of his mom's death. But here is this line now, where he can help Carlos through his sadness, because he's been through it and come to his own realizations in a similar way. And that's beautiful.

And Carlos coming to the conclusion about being a dad, like his dad, who he always saw as a work man and someone he idolized as a loving husband to his mom, despite never having the parental bond where he could be sensitive, is the full circle of this father-son relationship journey, because of how complicated their relationship was.

"You were my dad. And I hope you'll be with me as I become one too."

-And, thus, Gabriel lives on in him through this journey, as he tells him FIRST.

[notsofluffy93]

I just think Owen was right about Enzo since start of the episode. That guy is manipulative now, even though he was a good man and raised TK. Enzo and Jonah were not in Tk's wedding. I know the show is not ultra serious most times and it was just mistake that they were not in wedding .But all I know is that Owen strand has anger issues but he is perceptive as fuck and that the reason he was chosen to rebuild the 126 in the first place.

[wolvesofinnistrad]

The episode isnt even over and weve had a nuclear meltdown, an asteroid coming to explode, tarlos losing custody of their kid, Tommy fucking DYINGGG, owen leaving to nyc, and Mateo being deported????!??!!!