#Water Water Everywhere

[bastionofbibliophiles]

You're referencing the part of "The Rime [Rhyme] of the Ancient Mariner" where the Mariner's ship is stuck in the middle of the ocean with no fresh water. You say:

[wronghands1]

[stagefoureddiediaz]

Ok so I’ve been chatting on discord with @theladyyavilee @mistmarauder and like you do I had a lightbulb moment!! Jess is an enabler and made me make this post so I’m sorry everyone in advance!!!

We are talking tsunami and the next level layering the writers have been doing. I really love that this show rewards us for rewatching and really looking at the details! 

I was rewatching the tsunami arc for watery reasons and it got me thinking about the line the incident command dude says (3x02 15:29 if you want to watch for yourself!)

 ‘we’ve already had two [waves] so far and can expect another 4or 5 before it starts to recede’ 

Well that got me thinking about it being deeper than a throw away line about the fact that tsunamis aren’t just a single wave of devastation, but actually multiple waves. We’re currently doing so research to establish when the water theme actually starts but I’m currently wondering if this line is the possible beginning of the water metaphor - the two waves we’ve had being what precedes the tsunami - so the truck bombing and Shannon’s death. 

Then the 4-5 expected waves to come after being the show telling us that there will be 4-5 things happen before we get to canon Buddie - before the water finds it’s level. The waves we’ve had since then are the well, the shooting and the lightning strike making 3 and we can maybe include Eddie’s breakdown as another one (although I’m not sure) which makes 4. We also know there’s going to be some big disaster at the end of the season (two trapped dads theory my beloved) which could take us to either 4 or 5 (depending on if we include the breakdown or not) suggesting that perhaps water will find its level the the end of this season/ the beginning of the next season and therefore Buddie canon will happen shortly thereafter!

If we think about everything in a little more detail and think about how those 4-5 more expected waves would decrease in strength each time (as the water settles back to its level) and them being key marking points in their relationship - the most intense ones that have the biggest impact - being at the beginning and clearing a path for the subsequent ones which are no less important, but having seemingly less dramatic results as they are just building on what’s already there.

But lets, for a minute, go right back to the beginning - back to season two - things then begin to make even more sense - tsunamis are started/created by underwater earthquakes which means the earthquake in s2 is the starting point for everything (If that’s how this came about the writers of this show are so genius I can’t even begin to put into words how much I love them and their insane cleverness!) it is the big event that sets everything that comes after into motion - and it is the event that actually establishes buddifer (Buck mets Chris post earthquake when he drives Eddie to pick him up from school).

Then you get that vacuum where all the water heads away from land as the tsunami builds its strength - Christophers line ‘Where did all the water go’ is kind of a metaphor for the vacuum created with Shannon’s death. She was Christopher’s previous water level - his having two parents (even if she was absent he still carried hope that she would return - then she did. Her loss creates turbulence for him (and Eddie and by extension Buck) and his waters are no longer level. I love the idea of this vacuum being created at this moment, but the events leading to it had already been set in motion before she even came back into the picture - that this massive change was already incoming. 

The truck bomb is the first wave - and actually thats when we see Eddie’s attachment to Buck in a physical way - the hand holding - and it leads to our first Buddie hug (and technically the second as well). It also marks the point where we end up with both of them being single.

The tsunami is wave 2 - the big shift here is obviously the deepening of  Buck and Christopher’s relationship - the biggest and most important pivotal thing after Buck and Eddie’s own developing relationship - because Buck having an independent and strong relationship with Chris is a requirement if buddie are going to work - the show needs to establish them having their own special bond which is separate from Chris and Eddie and from the 3 of them together as a unit.

With those two things established - the two big waves - then the smaller waves can surge in - they don’t need to reach as far because the base has been created by the first two waves - their path has already been cleared making these subsequent waves’ jobs are ‘easier’.

So wave 3 (or wave 1 of the 4-5 further waves) is the well - with it comes the big and key change of the will - and we continue the link to water.

Wave 4 (wave 2 of the further waves) is the shooting which as well as revealing the will, independently continues to further the father-son relationship between Buck and Chris. I can’t think of any obvious watery connections here - beyond the pool of Eddies blood we see spilling onto the asphalt. 

If we assume Wave 5 (wave 3 of the further waves) is Eddie’s breakdown - which ties all 3 of them closer together and establishes just how deep the level of trust is between Buck and Eddie. there isn’t an obvious water connection to Eddies breakdown - beyond the tears - but the episode itself involves several water related accidents or scenes (Shark cage rescue, and all the fish from the freezer and we get Maddie playing with Jee in the bathtub as well).

Then wave 6 (wave 4 of the further waves) is the lightning strike - which just continues to build on all that’s come before - it doesn’t really reveal anything new just leads to a big jump in the amount of buddifer scenes we’ve had since. again we have a watery connection with the heavy rain!

And the potential final wave is the one we haven’t seen (which would be wave 5 of the further waves)- but could be the two trapped dads of it all - both of them being at risk at the same time and the realisation that potentially comes out of that - it not necessarily being a confession moment, but the moment before it - before the waters calm and find their level and then they’ll be in the right place to move forward - together!! We know there is a watery connection to whatever this happens to be from the bts we’ve had - filming at the Queen Mary and the road collapse is next to/ over water.

So there we have it - either the writers set out the roadmap to Buddie way back when, or I’ve gone insane and should probably be locked up in an institution - I leave it to you to decide which!

[nando161mando]

"El agua no tiene dueño" (ES: Español)

"Water has no owner" (EN: English)

[home-phoenix]

Throwback. Haarlem. July 2023.

[djhenryhall]

Water Water Everywhere - Dolphins

We came across these magnificent Dolphins along the South African coastline.

During our quest for migratory sardines off the coast of South Africa, we had a delightful encounter with a group of dolphins. This post was inspired by Photos by Jez’s Water Water Everywhere photo challenge.

[thesobsister]

Evocative, atmospheric landscape photography of created landscapes.

The interior images remind me of what reading Piranesi felt like.

[lexsowet]

on a water based diet

[photosbyjez]

Straiton Pond for Water Water Everywhere #209

🌊 Dive into the beauty of water in all its forms with our Water Water Everywhere #209 photo challenge! 📷 Featuring Straiton Pond. Join us and share your best water snapshots. #WWE209 #PhotoChallenge

Hi all 👋 Feel free to join in whenever you have a water picture to post (any type of water, in any state, will do). See below for how to join the fun 😁 My next series will feature Straiton Pond, near Loanhead, just outside of Edinburgh. It’s my birthday at the end of the week, so I’ll be taking a wee break 🎂 WWE will return on the 26th of February with more shots from Straiton Pond. Straiton…

[feralchaton]

feralchaton : love at the inlet

[punkrockmixtapes]

The Arrivals - Water Water Everywhere

[judgmentalfishnun]

This year I wanna shout out to eldritch bodies of water. The Strid. Lake Baikal. The Great Blue Hole. Thanks for making life terrifying and sexy.

[perevision]

I’m thinking about The Last Unicorn

kampiotis: In the Iliad, Homer describes Poseidon, god of horses, earthquakes, and the sea, driving a chariot drawn by brazen-hoofed horses over the sea’s surface. I now know why.

[djhenryhall]

Water Water Everywhere - S.S. Sapona

SS Sapona #shipwreck in Bimini. Circa 2012 #bahamas #caribbean #waterwatereverywhere

The S.S. Sapona was a concrete-hulled cargo steamer built in 1911 by Henry Ford for use in World War I. The ship was intended to transport troops and supplies to Europe, but the war ended before it could be put into service. Instead, the Sapona was sold to a shipping company and used to transport goods between Florida and the Bahamas. During the Prohibition era, the Sapona was used by…

[photosbyjez]

Dancing Water -- Water Water Everywhere #246

Dancing Water -- Water Water Everywhere #246

Hi all 👋 Feel free to join in whenever you have a water picture to post (any type of water, in any state, will do). See below for how to join the fun 😁 This is also my post for John’s Cellpic Sunday. This fountain display can be found at the waterfront in Dundee, next to the V & A. I’ve added a video so you can fully see the display 😃 Dancing Water A wee video of this colourful, watery…

[jayciethings]

The massive geek in me just got so excited because:

"not a single reliable narrator in sight"

AKA

"Water water everywhere - not any drop to drink"

AKA

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

AKA

The ultimate unreliable narrator

*wriggles in satisfaction*

not a single reliable narrator in sight