#911 watch through

[dungeons-are-too-cold]

i cant wait for all the malicious compliance thats about to ensue in 911 season 8.

gerrard says jump? ravi's like "off which bridge sir?"

gerrard says clean the truck? Eddie says yes sir and cleans his own pick up cuz gerrard never specified which truck.

gerrard says cook dinner? bobby personally researches gerrards food allergies and makes sure not a single dish is edible to him

im waiting for buck and chimney to get into some real amelia bedilia type shit, hen to just straight up ignore him, athena doesnt even fucking work there and shes making gerrards life a living hell towing his car and writing him traffic tickets.

lets sitcom the fuck out of gerrard and get that bitch out of the captains seat.

[livetogether--diealone]

6'2'' weighted blanket with attachement issues

[faramirsonofgondor]

imagine your a firefighter in LA in the 911verse. you hear about some guy getting impaled through the head with rebar and surviving: the guy is a firefighter. you think “woah what a coincidence”. you see on the news a firefighter getting stabbed and a woman getting kidnapped. it’s the same guy as before. you see on the news a fire truck getting blown up, and a firefighter getting crushed by it. at least it’s a new guy this time. it’s the same station as the guy before. that’s a little strange, isn’t it? he makes a miraculous recovery. a year later you hear about a man saving people during a tsunami. it’s the same fucking guy. you see on the news a firefighter getting trapped in a well, and another firefighter clawing at dirt. the firefighter looks familiar. it’s the same. fucking. guy. whatever, there’s plenty of coincidences, right? a year later you see your colleagues getting shot on TV, one face looks a little familiar, but you don’t place it until after the shooter is caught. it’s the fucking guy who was stuck in the well. this is getting a bit ridiculous now, isn’t it? you hear on the news that a firefighter got caught killing people on purpose, and that is was solved by two other firefighters. you beg, you plead, you pray to the TV gods that it’s somebody new, some other station. it’s not. when you hear about a firefighter being struck by lightning at a scene, you have a fleeting moment of hope where you believe it might someone else. you punch a hole through your TV as soon as his face shows up. you don’t replace your TV. you go to a poker game with your boss, hoping to find some solace in this horrible, hopeless world you’ve found yourself in. you see them and nearly the flip the table. you don’t follow the news anymore, you don’t go anywhere besides work, paranoid that they will appear suddenly. you get a call about a bridge collapse. you quit your job as you as you get to the scene. you go on a cruise. you meet another man who says he’s also a firefighter. you ask him what station he works for (it’s only the polite thing to do). you run away and stay in your cabin. the boat fucking capsizes. a helicopter descends from the sky, and you want to feel relief, but all you feel is horrible, all consuming dread. a hand reaches out to pull you up, you grab it, unthinking, and look up to see who’s rescued you. you let go.

[balfeys]

#soulmates fr😭

[stevenrogered]

Everything isn’t black and white. You know, life it’s-it’s weird. People meet at work. People meet at work. 

[lonestardust]

CARLOS REYES & Wyatt HARRIS at the call centre. 9-1-1 : LONE STAR : SERIES FINALE "Homecoming"

[epiphainie]

i love bucktommy because we see buck on his most childish (complaining to maddie, masterminding his way into basketball games, MAIMING HIS BEST FRIEND) and most mature (acknowledging the poor way he acted, asking for a second chance) behavior over tommy. like, yes king i see your duality. i see your unchecked insane desire and your new software update.

[honestlydarkprincess]

Buck: What about us?

Eddie, confused: What about us?

Buck: What about everything we've been through?

Eddie: Buck, what are you talking about?

Buck: What about trust?

Eddie: Are you fucking singing high school musical to me right now?

[lenodrysalad]

"Eddie said he's straight! Buck said Eddie was straight! Buck said he's not in love with his best friend! They shut down Buddie in the show it isn't happening ya'll are delusional! Queerbait! Queerbait! Blah blah blah"

I feel like I'm going insane. I'm sure we're all tired of people shouting "media literacy" every five seconds, but like... Yeah, develop some media literacy, please.

I'm saying this as someone who doesn't usually like romance, despite being subjected to it in basically every piece of media. As someone who doesn't generally look for love stories. As someone who loved Buddie but didn't consider any serious possibility of it becoming canon before season 7/8, who refused to believe Buddie was truly happening until I couldn't deny it anymore: this episode is loud.

Please understand how narrative arcs work. How character arcs work. How character development works. How serial broadcast television works. Understand how writing works. Consider context; take the whole episode, the whole season, and the whole series into account instead of treating things like they exist in isolation.

I'm too tired to go through the step-by-step details of the episode to prove why these, "they said it on screen, therefore..." takes are shortsighted and ignorant; plenty of people have done that already.

But that episode, even if we do take it in isolation, is textbook. Do people really take everything characters say at face value? Do people not watch other character's reactions? Listen to what else is being said? Watch what is being shown? Consider the implications? Themes? Narrative devices?

Consider that maybe, just maybe, characters can be unreliable narrators, or believe something to be true only for that belief to change later. These things don't happen in one episode. There's such a thing as set-up, foreshadowing, the starting point of a plot. 911 is a serial drama, therefore it is going to have A) long-form story and character arcs, and B) drama.

Characters are not going to move in straight lines, or talk in therapy speak, or solve every problem in an hour. They are not always going to be right, or self-aware, or truthful, or rational. Direct dialogue does not equate to honest dialogue.

Also, saying, "well in real life, people do this, I do that, their feelings would be this, yadda yadda yadda" means nothing. Your experiences are not universal, and more importantly, this is a work of fiction. Realism is whatever the story says it is; it's going to do whatever creates the most dramatic, interesting, developmentally beneficial, or emotionally satisfying story. Whether you like that story or not is irrelevant to the fact that stories are not going to cater to all your expectations or real-world experiences.

To people pointing to Tim or the actor's interviews as "proof" they're shutting down Buddie: again, please understand how broadcast television works. They are not going to tell us everything that's going to happen before it happens. They are going to play the neutral zone, the "wait and see," the "will they/won't they." They are going to lie. That is television production 101. You can compare what they've said in the past with canon and list all the contradictions, misdirection, and twists you didn't see coming because they didn't spoil it for you. Watch the show. That is the canon.

They're also not catering to fandom--people they already know are devoted to the show, familiar with Buddie, and consistently tuning in. They're introducing the idea of Buddie to the general audience, people who likely haven't considered the possibility before. The GA has to see that Buddie is an option, so the show needs to manifest it as if it's a brand new concept. This episode pulled the pin on that grenade in a very obvious way; the idea that Buck could be in love with Eddie and that Eddie could not be straight has been planted. The next seed will be Eddie's feelings. Now the show needs to water it and let it grow.

One last thing. Been seeing a fair amount of hand-wringing and condescension over people interpreting this episode differently. As if this is some sort of "gotcha" for bad writing, baiting, or people being stupid. Listen, genuine complaints about this show's writing aside, different interpretations or inferences are completely normal. This isn't unique. That is how people interact with stories, through personal biases, experiences, emotions, and expectations. That isn't inherently a bad thing. It's totally fine to have your own views; media is all about interpretation.

However, it is also true that just because you have an interpretation, that doesn't make it true. Not all interpretations are equal in their validity, evidence, or warrants. The show has an intention, it has a story in mind. If you don't see it, sure, that could be a failure of the writing, but it could also very well be a failure of your analysis, especially when the show hasn't finished telling the story. Looking at one thing in isolation and forming your whole conclusion based around that makes for poor critique.

I guess we'll just have to wait and see who's right.

[dungeons-are-too-cold]

Buck: *has sex with Taylor Kelly in the bathroom at a bar*

Buck: *Immediately tells bobby about it the next day*

[thosesillylittlegayghosts]

Buddie 2nd divorce arc so good I’ve had to go back to season three

[stagefoureddiediaz]

Ok Buck and his two watch theory - I’m still percolating but here’s what I have so far!!

The second ‘watch’ is a fitness band - it’s a whoop band - top of the market biometrics tracking band that monitors your heath and fitness and offers you custom suggestions on how to improve things - sleep, fitness, weight etc etc.

This is not the first time we’ve seen buck go on a health kick - he’s done it periodically - the interest g tho g is when he’s gone on these health kicks! The first time we get health kick buck is in 201 - which is obviously when Eddie arrives on the scene at the 118. Now obviously we could tie it in to Eddie and buck feeling threatened by this hot new guy with a silver star - except that’s not what it is because he is already on his health kick (dhx scan!) before he knows of Eddie’s existence. Abby left Buck at the end of season 1 and this health kick is in gear in the immediate aftermath of that - almost as if he thinks that improving his body fat percentage and getting fitter, stronger, leaner etc will bring Abby back to him - that that is why she hadn’t returned - that he’s not good enough.

The second time we see a health kick is after Ali leaves him at the end of season 2 - we get buck determined to get back to work at the beginning of season 3 and therefore pushing himself harder than he should - which leads to his blood clots occurring. Buck has placed his worth in his job and therefore needs to be fitter stronger - healed - as fast as possible so he still has the one thing he has left - his job - because both of his relationships have been connected to his work so if he’s better able to do his job he’ll be more attractive to someone and then they’ll stay!

The third time is once again connected to the end of a relationship but it’s not so much about his physical health as it is his mental health - but buck did the breaking up this time instead of being broken up with. He splits with Taylor at the end of season 5 - he is the one to end the relationship. At the start of season six instead of placing his worth in his job and being fitter and stronger etc we get Buck deciding to take a different tack and he starts a year of yes, after reading a book, which does end up becoming about his physical health when he says yes to becoming a sperm donor - abstinence and alfalfa smoothie anyone?!

The sort of anomaly is his break up with Tommy - firstly because it happens in the middle of a season rather than at the end (it’s not even a mid season finale break up either) and secondly because he starts baking instead of going on a health kick. Baking is still about improving oneself - but it’s much more about learning a new skill rather than getting fitter etc. in someways it’s a continuation of the previous breakup coping tactic - in that it’s about mental improvement rather than physical and we haven’t seen it become about physical health. And before anyone tries to point out that the new fitness band is it becoming about physical heath - after they hook up in 811, reply with - the start of the fitness band wearing stems back to Eddie telling buck he’s moving back to El Paso - that he’s leaving him.

The Eddie leaving to go back to El Paso did happen at the mid season finale and we’ve returned to buck wearing a fitness band. They haven’t outright stated or even clearly shown why he’s wearing the fitness band, but this upcoming episode has it on full display so I’m hoping we’ll get to find out the reason for its existence (give me the exposition). My feeling is that it’s Buck once more trying to improve himself through his fitness and health, but unlike all of the other attempts this one has something much more permanently tangible - that band is always on him.

So whereas before all his breakups were connected to fad health and fitness regimes or as a way of improving himself through things that had a fixed date attached to them or something that is generally connected to poor health (baking as it’s cakes and breads are not really healthy) - a dhx scan is a one off thing not something you do all the time, the same for getting fit from you injury so you can get back to work and the year of yes and alfalfa smoothies have fixed time periods attached to them as well. These all speak of bucks abandonment issues being central to why he’s cycling through this behaviour pattern - in the same way getting injured as a child got his parents attention - temporarily and in an unhealthy way, these attempts to fix himself in the hope people won’t abandon him.

This time though there is no fixed time period attached to this potential health kick - the band is always on you and will feed back suggestions on improvements Buck can make on a regular basis.

The implication is that this self improvement kick is a genuinely healthy more sustained one and that it will therefore bring Eddie back to buck because he’s finally growing in a sustained way rather than a faddy way as a coping mechanism for being left or having to leave.

This is all purely speculation around a possible explanation for why the whoop band has appeared - there are all plenty of possibilities for it’s appearance on bucks wrist, including that they’re going to use the biometrics tracker as a way to have buck taking a sick day next episode when there’s nothing wrong with him - false data being provided by the tracker - which would also fit into the lying and fake theme we seem to be getting this season, especially because it’s collecting biometric data when we are seemingly going to get a biohazard incident of some kind in 814. Or it’s possible that it’s connected to the reverse - that the data buck is collecting on his biometrics helps provide information that helps put an end to the biohazard - although this seems very unlikely. It could also be an even longer game - and that it’s in some way connected to bobby and his impending death and resurrection - because a fitness tracker will only collect data if someone wearing it is alive - it can’t collect heart rate etc when there isn’t one. So if buck gets bobby involved in wearing a tracker for some reason it could either prove bobby is alive because it’s still getting data, or it could lead them to where bobby is located!

Only time will tell why we’ve now got buck wearing a fitness tracker and if I’m correct in any of my theories and speculation!!

[jackabbot]

EVAN BUCKLEY + close-up 11/?

[eddiesgmcsierra1500denali]

they literallyyyyyyy. Took the priest. from the pilot. whose ringtone was firework by katy perry. and they sat him in front of eddie diaz. and made him gay. on 911 on abc. this is real and true.

[emolionsrawr]

buck: meradith grey can do better than mcdreamy

tommy: what do you mean babe?

buck: well, he didn't tell her he was married, he didn't chose her, when he broke up with his wife he got with a different woman even though he was in love with mer, she deserved better

guy with a stab wound: he's right she did deserve better

chimney: sir please don't talk i'm trying to save your life right now

tommy: maybe we should talk about this later babe?

guy with a stab wound: please don't it's distracting me from the pain

buck: okay, oh my god and IZZIE?! i hated her! god what is her deal she spends ages angry with alex, gets with denny then cuts his LVAD wire, then marries alex and runs off, then years later gets in contact and ruins alex's relationship with jo?! what a bitch!

tommy: agreed

[defencelessbuddie]

The day Buck world turned upside down…😞