#Eddie and Buck

[chenfordsbee]

buddie + insane shots

[simplylupin]

Vertigo and Eddie Diaz

because the connection has been made between eddie's current arc and hitchcock's vertigo, i thought i'd give my two cents on the topic as a mediocre film student whose had to study vertigo for two years of her life

so here's a basic (very over-simplified) summary of vertigo for those who are unfamiliar

The protagonist, Scottie, is a policeman who took a break/was discharged/retired because he couldn't save a fellow police officer from falling off a building to his death

Because of this he suffers from vertigo and/or fear of heights

He's hired by his old friend Gavin to follow Gavin's wife, Madeline, for fear that she's been possessed by someone called Carlotta Valdez

He does so, and slowly falls in love with Madeline - and her him

We also learn that Scottie's best friend Midge is in love with him, but he's too obsessed with Madeline to notice Midge

Him and Madeline go to a church bell tower where Madeline seemingly offs herself by jumping off

Some time later, Scottie goes to Madeline's old hotel room, and finds a woman called Judy who looks exactly like Madeline

She agrees to go on a date with him

We, the audience, find out that Judy actually is Madeline (and vise versa). She was hired by Gavin to pretend to be Madeline.

Scottie grows more and more obsessed, forcing Judy to change her appearance to look like Madeline

He makes the connection that Madeline and Judy are the same person, and drives her to the bell tower

He forces her up the tower, over coming his fear of heights

Once at the top, they have a confrontation

A nun appears, scaring Judy and she once more falls to her death (really this time)

So, from what I've gathered, the loose connection between characters is:

Scottie = Eddie

Madeline = Shannon

Midge = Buck

Judy = Kim

The Nun = Marisol

Scottie's unable to save his fellow police officer. Eddie was unable to 'save' the people he pulled out the helicopter: "I pulled them out. But I didn't save them." Because of this he suffers from immense guilt and PTSD (as seen in his season 5 arc). He's unable to move on and this hinders him to a certain extent - just like Scottie.

After Shannon's death, he's thrown through the loop again, with the added bonus of him not having been able to save her too. Scottie's job was to save Madeline, and he failed at that, resulting in her 'death'.

Eddie is constantly trying to find a woman to fill that role of Shannon in his and Christopher's life; we see this with both Ana and now Marisol. He's looking for her in them. Scottie does the same - he visits the places he went with Madeline, he goes to her old room.

Eddie finds Kim, Scottie finds Judy.

For a little while, Judy helps Scottie get over and get closure on Madeline. She fills that empty space and allows him to move on. This is what I think Kim is going to do for Eddie.

She looks so much like Shannon but she simply isn't her. We know in later episodes that Buck is going to meet her and proclaim that she's "nothing like Shannon." There's a clear distinction there - Eddie is only seeing Shannon in her because he wants to, because he's still holding onto that idea. I think Kim is going to be the closing point of this ongoing search for Shannon's 'replacement'; someone who looks exactly like Shannon should be perfect, right? But when she too doesn't 'fill' that role that surely must spark some sort of realisation in Eddie, because if not her then who.

For Scottie, he feels betrayed by Judy. He brings her to the last place he saw Madeline, and ultimately, indirectly, causes her death. Obviously I don't believe Kim is actually going to die, but more the idea of her. She's the final chapter of him pursuing Shannon's ghost.

Midge is Scottie's best friend. They met in college and were engaged for a few weeks before breaking up. They spend a lot of time together, staying at each other's houses and going out. She helps Scottie through his vertigo and acrophobia, and tries to 'bring him back' in his grief. At one point, Midge paints her face onto a painting of Carlotta Valdez, showing that she's there and ready for Scottie's love, if he's willing to give it to her.

I believe, in this scenario, Buck takes on her role (for seemingly obvious reasons). Him and Eddie are best friends, they do so much together, he helps Eddie when he's struggling etc etc. Midge is the idea of the 'other woman', someone who is right in front of Scottie's eyes, someone whose always been there for him. However, Scottie is too obsessed and fixated on Madeline that he can't see this and continually brushes it away. You see where I'm going here...

Although Buck potentially doesn't even realize it himself, he has taken on Shannon's role in the Diaz family for years. Eddie already has the 'replacement' for Shannon that he's so desperately been searching for right in front of his eyes.

In Vertigo, Judy and Madeline are the same person, whereas Shannon and Kim are obviously not. However, the comparison still stands.

Scottie meets Judy and immedietely latches onto her because she looks so much like Madeline (duh) and he is so desperate for anything that'll keep Madeline's memory with him. He makes her undergo a series of phsyical changes (dyeing her hair, changing her wardrobe, her style etc etc) so that she appears more like Madeline - so he can get that closure and pretend.

Eddie clearly isn't going to do this to Kim. However, whatever way you spin it, he is projecting Shannon onto her. He saw her, and thought of Shannon, he pursued her because of that, he's doing all this because of Shannon. He is chasing that closure and that moment were he can be like 'Ah. I've finally found someone who can be Shannon for me and Chris.'

I doubt Kim is going to be around particularly long. As much as it sounds diminishing, she really is just a tool for Eddie to have this realization that nobody can replace Shannon, and that that's okay. He doesn't need to find Shannon 2.0.

Now, in Vertigo, when Scottie and Judy are arguing on the bell tower, a nun appears from the shadows and startles them - causing Judy to fall to her death. It's a very abrupt and out of nowhere.

The character of the nun, I think could represent either one of two things. Marisol, as we know, used to be a nun (i'm still not over this btw). That's a pretty straight-forward, clear cut comparison. The nun causes Judy to die, Marisol causes 'Shannon', and the idea of Shannon, to 'die'. This interpretation leans more heavily on Marisol and Eddie staying together, however, so I'm not sure.

The nun could also just represent religion as a whole, and Eddie's Catholic guilt particularly. Eddie tells Bobby that he only really married Shannon because he felt like he had to, he felt pressured into it because of his religious guilt. Despite this, "There was still a part of me that loved being married to her."

There's no doubt in my mind that Eddie loved Shannon. He did, they loved each other, and he still does love her - he always will. I do think that the choice of focussing on his marriage to her and how he "loved being married to her" is interesting though, he doesn't try to clarify that he was in love with her. This could just be because it's a given orrr

Whatever, not really the point.

The point is, the fact he's now "awakened" his Catholic guilt by finding out Marisol was a nun, must mean something for his upcoming arc. In Vertigo, the nun kills Judy. Here, his religious guilt 'kills' the idea of Shannon??

I'll definitely have more ideas about this later but this was my word vomit for now! Let me know what you think please.

(Also something I find funny is that the actress of Madeline/Judy is called Kim!)

[valenschmidt]

Buddie and a foreshadowing through lighting ✨️ 🏳️‍🌈

(Eddie walking towards BUCK while a rainbow aka the gay flag illuminates him will forever be my Roman Empire)

[mid-knight-black]

Bobby is always at the scene of the crime smh 🤦🏻‍♂️

[and if I tell you that Mr. Nash has been playing cupid since 2x01?]

[frostymilkovich]

The end of the chapter:

[frostymilkoviches]

Son los mismos 😍

[s-cordelia-mae]

OLIVER SAID THE LOFT IS GONE FOR GOOD THIS IS NOT A DRILL

Also he for sure already knows we’re getting buddie canon like have you seen him

[eddiesbuck1]

Oliver

I'm sorry, but Oliver's excitement about breaking up with Tommy should tell you what you need to know. It was also his favorite or most anticipated episode at the time.

[chenfordsbee]

buck: gives the most crazy advices eddie: yeah that can work 🥰🥰🥰

[haydenthewitch]

okay so. comphet victim eddie diaz suddenly relizes that he's intrested in buck right? luckly, buck is just as intrested in him, and so they get together.

and eddie starts to encounter... um.... a slight problem.

he wants to touch buck, all the goddamn time.

the thing is, eddie has never been a very touchy, feely person in relationships. Back in high school, he dated shannon, and while all the other highschool couples were literaly all over each other, all the fucking time, shannon had told him early on that she didn't like much PDA in the school hallways and eddie was respectfull of that. They hugged, and kissed (and made chris) in private, but even hand holding was rare for them. Eddie was okay with that. he always used to scoff at pepole frenching in the hallway, talking about how it realy wasn't HARD to keep your hands to yourself. Some of his guy frenids would look at him funny, but he always thought that it was a "them" problem.

And after shannon passed, that traditon contuinied. He always reasoned he was just a provate person in relationships. That he didn't need to be in public acting like a teenager and that he didn't need his son seeing any of that at home. Any Girlfrenid he had was respectful and accepted that eddie was just like that. (Looking back on it... jesus. those women were saints.)

And then he starts dating buck. And it's like every fact in the universe just... shifts.

He suddenly understands the urdge to always be on top of your partner (or have them laying on top of you). He gets impulses to kiss buck every twenty seconds. He knows now why it must have seemed impossible to 'keep your hands to yourself' now. IS THIS WHAT EVERYONE ELSE WAS FEELING?? THE WHOLE TIME??

and look. None of the women he's ever dated have been... unpleasent. He felt an unwavering duity and devotion to these women. He thought that.... well, that is all love is. A promise to be devoted till death. a partner through life. And he feels all if those emotions with buck too! But he's never... He never understood what bashfuly blushing has felt like before buck. Buck makes him giddy. He's never....

(The sex with women wern't bad eather. it was nice. relaxing. Like a bath at the end of a very long week. But he has NEVER. not ONCE. felt so..... INTENSE like it does with buck. He suddenly understands porn where pepole moan and whine a lot. He never used to do that before... buck.)

So yeah, Comphet victim eddie diaz goes a little fucking insane for the first three-ish months dating buck. It's like Buck has suddenly spelled out every interaction he's ever had aroynd love, all the while making his life so much better (and plesent... and plesurable....). He desperatly chases the feeling, trying to understand it before he fucks up and they break up.

(Around the fourth month, eddie finds a ring, hidden in bucks sock drawer, with the words "Buckely-diaz" custom carved into the band. Turns out, buck is just as insane about eddie as he is about buck, and this might be eddie's new forever. Buck is going to be his husband one day. He expects panic at the thought of another marrige... but it just doesn't come. Apparently buck is going to be eddie's husband.... that thought bounces around his head for about twenty seconds before he goes and find's his boyfreind and absoulty jumps his bones. Turns out, He has forever to identify all of the feelings he's been having about buck.)

[stelacole]

buddie incorrect quotes

Eddie: eyes narrowing playfully, voice low "Stop doing that." Buck: glancing at him, confused "Stop doing what?" Eddie: taking a step closer, smirking "Saying things that make me wanna kiss the hell out of you." Buck: smirking back, leaning in slightly "Oh? And what exactly did I say that got you all worked up?" Eddie: grinning, voice rough with desire "I think you know exactly what you’re doing." Buck: teasingly "Maybe I do. Maybe I like making you feel that way." Eddie: his lips curling into a devilish grin "You’re playing with fire, Buck." Buck: shrugging innocently "Then you better stop me before I burn you." Eddie: without hesitation, leaning in "I’m not stopping you."

The tension between them crackles, and before he can respond, he closes the distance between them, capturing his lips in a kiss that speaks louder than words.

[oakenhills]

Buddie fans on my dash lately

[bobagensdamarti]

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