#In case anyone accuses me of being Anti-Taylor because I’m open to Buddie

[myriadofunchartedworlds]

I think about how BuckTaylor would have worked if…

(1) … Taylor wasn’t shown friend-zoning Buck just two episodes before the finale AND THEN running away.

I get running away because you’re surprised by your actions. That in itself would have been okay but when you couple it with how she was thinking of him as friends just two episodes ago, and then fail to develop the transformation of her feelings enough, then it makes Taylor look like a really fickle/flaky person.

Add in her expectation to be chased after the mixed signals and it does not look good for her.

(2) …They didn’t get together after Buck was reeling over the trauma of seeing Eddie shot, and beint exhausted from this + the sniper/keeping his firefam safe + caring for Christopher.

This is a big one for me because starting a relationship in the height of emotional/psychological turbulence is really risky. We all know that although not impossible it is still hard to think straight/clearly in these situations. If we want BuckTaylor to work as a stable relationship it might have been better to have them both come in with cool heads.

Adding in the fact that Taylor probably has a hint of Buck’s insecurities and also how he wants a meaningful relationship… the way the writers wrote them getting together in 4.14 makes Taylor look like a not-so-good person. (Which honestly sucks because I was genuinely beginning to really enjoy her character and her dynamics with Buck this season. Like she was more humanized while retaining some of her ambition driven qualities.)

It also put Buck in a bad light to some extent. Sure he had that line about not running after people, but jumping straight in to this the moment Taylor seemed decided on her interest/feelings EVEN after some flaky behavior kinda contradicts his statement too since it doesn’t resolve the underlying issue that people leave him (and now he’s learning to stand up for himself and not let them…or at least he was before this.) i think if the writers hadn’t put her in the Eddie Homecoming party scene and if they chose to show that BuckTaylor was taking it slow then it would have been more believable that Buck was learning to set boundaries to protect himself too.

Although maybe the party thing is no big deal for Americans? I’m Chinese-Filipino and one thing I think I have in common with Mexican family culture (from what I know at least) is that you normally don’t bring a girl/guy to a family heavy event unless it’s pretty serious. Considering how Eddie’s party was essentially an Intimate family gathering, where even the firefam wasn’t invited,either Buck’s clueless or the writers are sending a message.

So yeah, I would be more supportive of BuckTaylor if the writers didn’t pace and present their “story” this way. Right now, Taylor comes off in a negative light and the writers basically undid all the positive development from the previous episodes. Buck also comes off as not having grown as much as we thought from his previous relationship experiences. Maybe this was intentional for the next season but it feels like such a waste of their really awesome dynamics in the rest of the season. 4.

Ngl though, I wished they stayed as friends because I like the way that portrays both of their growth from needing meaningless, temporary-escape, fwb situations to being secure with just a meaningful solid friendship. That’s personally a way better character development than ending up in a real romantic relationship, especially in a TV series that thrives on drama.

Tl;dr BuckTaylor would have worked if the writers didn’t rush to get them together by the end of the finale and portray them as being super serious by Eddie’s homecoming. Now they just both look like their character development regressed.