#are we really putting a tag on how much someone grieves???

[notashadowbutawave]

ID: screenshot of this article : https://www.tvinsider.com/1186967/911-bobby-dead-peter-krause-leaving-athena-goodbye/

text reading:

TV INSIDER: Because you talked about what Bobby meant to Buck, who is Buck leaning on more, Maddie or Eddie?

Tim Minear: Buck is trying to lean on himself. Because Bobby says to him, "You're going to be okay and they're going to need you," and that's going to confuse Buck. He's not going to quite know what to do with that. Everyone's going to be just a little off their equilibrium in these last three.

TV INSIDER: So when Buck does open up to someone, who is it going to be?

Tim Minear: He's going to open up to everyone on some level. Yeah, you'll see. You'll see, Meredith.

The obsession with Buck and with Buddie is really starting to fucking weird me out. We haven't spoken the name "Eddie Diaz" for the entire two parter and people are just OBSESSED with this nonexistent storyline where Buck leans on Eddie for support and they realize they're in love and marry each other. Like it's not happening. It's not in the script. They did, however, show Tommy crying looking at Buck on the video feed. There is no need for them to be paying Lou to show up as a recurring guest star to shoot these scenes if it's not important. like. 555 come on now. You get the screeners and the interview with Tim and this is the shit you ask about ?

on top of that I think Buck as a character has AWAKENED something in some people that is so haunted. Unfortunately Oliver Stark can't help that his face looks like this but truly that mouth and the wet crying to Hozier, I think the potency of the lab grade blorbo has increased. Like there is a biohazard and it's that huge man's tears

I'm probably focusing on this insanity as a way of coping with Bobby.... which ultimately I think was right for the show but. This is how I described it to my GC:

ID: two text messages from me :

like this show used to be a kind of character driven soap that said weirdly mature things

now it's like "hey what if everyone suffered" and on one hand I think it's madness that meets the current cultural moment but on the other hand I miss knowing peace

I'm just so... I don't even know

it doesn't help that the arc of the entire plot was easily gleaned by observant people from BTS photos and the set leaks were CRAZY. no one I know IRL has ever even seen this show and yet extremely online people seem to gravitate towards it like moths to a flame, across the political spectrum and spanning generations. people are NUTS about this show. this was a big dick swing of an episode at an audience that is splintered into many factions and alliances

I love this stupid firefighter show but Wow this has been a wild ride I think I'm gonna try to stay offline about it for awhile (this will inevitably not happen, because I'm at my mom's without much to do for a couple days, but !!!!! Put it on the record that I tried)

ETA that I re tagged this "anti bobs" (... I hate that this ship war has like distinct terminology) because I'm really not anti buddie at all, ppl should ship what they want and have a good time, but this type of weird insistence that buddie is the only reason that 911 exists is not my jam at all