#he gives eddie just as much fatherly advice as he gives buck if not more

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eddie diaz bobby nash fathersonism is sooo underrated we should be talking about them more

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Before Buddie becomes Canon which I hope and I believe is next season writers should consider the ff.

Buck and Bobby scene - a talk similar to their season 1 Bobby tying Buck's tie scene. More like the pseudo father giving his fatherly advice to his pseudo son.

Maddie and Eddie scene - Buddie Canon is nowhere near possible if these two won't have a talk and a scene together. Maddie cares so much for his baby brother and Buck looks up to Maddie too much. Maddie giving Eddie a big sister shovel talk and Eddie assuring her his baby brother is safe with him. The scene can happen during a call like Maddie and Eddie was trapped somewhere and Buck with Ravi was in to save them.

Buck and Abuela - maybe nothing too dramatic just the two of them having a conversation for reassurances.

Bobby and Eddie - oh of course, if there's a sister shovel talk, there must be a pseudo father shovel talk too. Bobby sees Buck and Eddie differently. Bobby sees Buck like a kid of his own without even admitting it. Bobby sees Eddie as a friend and a confidant. Of course this talk needs to happen too.

Buck and Maddie - it's going to be emotional, I'm telling you. They're The Buckley's for a reason.

Buck and Christopher - this is one important talk and scene and I can't wait for it to happen and the thought of it is making me cry already. Assuring Christopher that he's not replacing his mom. Assuring him that he's not gonna hurt his dad. Assuring him that whatever happens, he's not going anywhere that Buck will remain a permanent fixture in his life. And Christopher patting Buck's shoulder assuring him that it's gonna be OKAY.

Chim and Hen's teasing, one liners and bets. Of course, they're the annoying yet loveable big siblings shovel talk to both Buddie.

Wait, why does it feel like I'm already talking about their wedding? 😆 They're just gonna try and date for f*cks sake why am I so dramatic over this? 😆😆😆

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Buddie 506 meta

Not only did we get Buddie working together again (gotta live up to that battlefield boyfriends brand), we also got a funny little moment thanks to editing that made it seem like Eddie was wearing Buck’s turncoat with “Buckley” on his back, and a million crack edits went canon for a second. XD ~~~

I have talked about this heart theme for Eddie before and this ep revisits it: Eddie’s been told to follow his heart rather than Christopher’s in 413, right after that he was shot in the chest, then in 501 he thought he was having a heart attack, in 502 he was trying to reach for a heart he needed to rescue but he failed at that point, when finally in the next ep he took Buck’s advice and broke up with Ana, meaning he followed his heart. And now he gets a story arc in this ep about having to keep a heart alive, connected to a father who sacrifices himself in order to donate his it to his son, screaming that this man, Mitchell, parallels Eddie as a fellow father who would give everything for his kid. But they could have used so many metaphors for this type of unconditional giving as a parent, yet they used a theme connecting back to everything Eddie’s been through since 413. This ep concludes with Eddie going home to Chris, hugging him in bed in such a sweet, heart-melting scene. It tells us that Eddie’s very heart is and always will be his son, but the overall story might also hint that he still has some way to go to explore who else is in his heart in addition to Chris, enabling Eddie to love and give to Chris with all of his being, but without crossing over to the extremist self-destructive pit Mitchell ended up falling into… And who can that other person be if not the one who shares how Eddie feels about Chris?

Because see, the very fact that it’s Buck and Eddie in this specific situation is meaningful. Ep 505 was all about these new partnerships the 118 splits up into while Chim is gone, so the kidnapping could have been Eddie and Hen, or Buck and Ravi, it could have been Eddie with the fatherly Bobby (who even more than usual is in this ep the dad of the team), or just to mix things up Eddie and Ravi. There were so many options! In fact, we see Eddie pair up with Hen as well as Buck with Ravi when the team first arrives on the scene, so these pairings are def still on. Yet it was Eddie and Buck together facing danger. Again. Just like with the shooting arc that starts in 413 (and see a later paragraph here on the writer being the same for both these eps) what happens to Eddie is intrinsically linked to Buck. And the threat to Christopher’s life is made more meaningful because it’s Buck who’s there to react to it. Hen’s a parent, Bobby’s a parent who lost his kids tragically, both of them could have given us a really significant emotional response to that threat, but with both, despite that background and even though they love Eddie and Chris, it would never be as intense as Buck’s response. ~~~

And this ep really shows how Buck is so freaking gone for Eddie and Chris, I just CAN’T. It’s the way that when Mitchell asks “yours?” the first close up is on Eddie but then Buck gets one as well (not a shot of both men, Buck gets an equal close up right after Eddie), the way he jumps into action without even thinking about it when Mitchell threatens Chris (while Eddie’s army training has clearly kicked in and keeps him focused even when Buck is pistol whipped... that reminded me of Eddie’s tight lipped reaction in 218 as well, nothing but a jaw clench, but it says EVERYTHING about how he’s roaring inside, furious at anyone threatening Buck, so as soon as he can, he rushes into action, running over to Buck, holding his hand while the truck’s being lifted and not letting go...), the way Buck’s so reluctant to leave Eddie in the ambulance even though in reality they’re both equally as defenseless in the face of those guns, the way they communicate and Eddie just says his name but it’s more than enough to convey so much and thus Buck, despite his reluctance, goes into the hospital, it’s the way he says “with Eddie” to Athena and his voice almost cracks with emotion, the way Athena talks to Buck about what’s going on with Eddie and the inmate keeping him hostage including Buck like he’s a family member rather than just another co-worker and Buck keeps giving her and her captain input in planning what to do even though police work really shouldn’t be something he weighs in on… the way Athena mentions that Mitchell is doing all of this for his son and suddenly Buck can understand him because he’s a dad too, the way Athena’s present and she loves Eddie as a part of the 118 family plus there are so many policemen trained for this on the scene, yet Buck leaves them all behind in a cloud of dust, sprinting right into danger while screaming Eddie’s name… (which you can see giffed here with a parallel to eps 315 and 414… Buck is just incapable of not reacting like this to Eddie being in danger), the way it’s Buck that Eddie trusts with the message about what needs to happen with Mitchell’s heart, even though there are so many other people around with more authority in this matter than him, and the way he doesn’t question Eddie, Buck just runs immediately to deliver the message urgently.

That man is WHIPPED (and not just by the pistol! XD sorry for the lame pun). Even when Buck is in a romantic relationship with someone else and on the surface seems like he is supposed to be more removed from the Diaz family than in previous seasons, he never really is. This ep is a reminder that Chris is Eddie’s heart, which he shares with Buck, but it also spells out in neon lights that no matter what happens and where Buck is in his personal life, even when he goes home at the end of the day to someone else, the Buddifer connection is real and mutual, Eddie and Chris are Buck’s heart, too. Always. ALWAYS. If Buddie never go canon, they will still forever remain each other’s most significant partner on the show and this ep cements it, precisely against the background of this ep’s end (which is a part of why I think it had to be done as it was). At this moment in time, they’re not supposed to be so intertwined emotionally, and yet, they are. ~~~

It’s small, but I love that when Eddie is searching for a solution to the issue of Nolan’s heart transplant, his first thought is Buck. He could have said, “my team will organize a charity event for you, to get you the resources you need” or “let us go and the LAFD will make sure your son’s case is prioritized,” but nope, his first thought is Buck related... ~~~

Regarding Taylor, at the end of 505, I felt like the show needed to give us a scene with her and Buck so that when a break up eventually occurs, it has some emotional significance. I feel pretty much the same about this scene in 506. Yes, we see him coming back home to her, no I don’t feel like this is truly deepening their relationship. She’s not a character that exists in her own right on this show. Just compare her to other significant others (and even significant exes) on 911. They’re all fleshed out, while Taylor has actually in a sense regressed since she’s been with Buck, she’s less of a character in her own right in s5 so far than she was in s2 or even in s4. Which is… the exact opposite of what they should be doing with her if they wanted to give her and Buck an actual shot at a future together.

Not only that. Taylor isn’t exactly right for Buck in a manner that feels like a callback to his past gfs. Abby and Ali have both been absent and distant a big part of their relationship with Buck, and we’ve seen in the first couple of eps of s5 that the same is true for Taylor. Abby couldn’t handle being a first responder herself and had to leave everything to do with it behind, including Buck, while Ali told him she couldn’t handle him being a first responder. Now we have Taylor similarly expressing worry over the first responder aspect, but in a way that seems incredibly subdued, to the point of being an extreme contrast of Ali.

It’s implied Taylor’s caught up on the gist of what happened, but the gravity of Buck being held hostage doesn’t seem to be reflected in her behavior: she’s in the middle of what sounds like a work call when he comes in and doesn’t sound too upset, she doesn’t rush to him, takes the time to tuck away her phone into her pocket (have we seen her hiding her phone away like that before? I feel like she’s usually with her phone out and at the ready), she hugs him and says she was worried, but doesn’t ask how he’s been or how his fellow teammate who was also held hostage is, there’s no sense of unbearable tension that finally finds relief. Not that there isn’t any, but think of Buck’s reactions when Eddie is safe from danger, and Taylor’s pale in comparison. Does Buck reassure her? They did hug, but much like their 505 scene showed his face falling towards the end of the hug, in 506 too his face doesn’t convey a sense of being comforted. In fact, not only does Buck still seem upset (even though the hostage situation ended as well as it possibly could have), so does Taylor. TBH, she looks more concerned while asking for details than while she mentioned having been worried about Buck. This is not your normal domestic scene IMO. Whatever this might mean, the bottom line is that B/T are not ok as a couple and the things that aren’t working out between them WILL come back and demand to be addressed. This show is actually pretty good at picking back up seemingly dropped issues (Hen’s med career is an example in this very ep, after we haven’t heard a word about it in s5 up until now) where other shows have dropped entire plotlines and acted like they had never happened (I’m especially glaring at you, Glee), so that adds to this implicit promise that the show will delve into the cracks in the B/T relationship and it will do so soon. This is the necessary build up towards that. Even if B/T will temporarily work things out before eventually breaking up (just like it took Eddie almost a whole year), everything so far in s5 feels like it’s spelling out the inevitable B/T demise. ~~~

Bonus bit, and this might be just a complete coincidence, but I always try to check out the writers... The one for 506 is Andrew Meyers, who has worked on the show since its first day, who has written several really good eps (including 403 meaning he knows how to give us good Buddifer domesticity, 502 so he hasn’t shied away from a good Buddie talk, and 413, so he knows how to write an epic moment for Buddie), he has worked in the past on Ryan Murphy’s The New Normal (so underrated, one of my fave gay shows ever and one of the most domestic ones, too…), he’s been a producer on 911 since the start of s4, and interestingly, he also worked on 208, the ep where Buck meets a Thomas and Mitchell, declaring that what they have is love, and being taught that love isn’t something you find, it’s something you make. I’ll repeat, this can very much be a coincidence, it probably is, but in an ep that’s all about creating a family and a future based on what we’re willing to do for it, I found it interesting that the name Mitchell, which isn’t as common (they could have at least changed the spelling, but they didn’t), was suddenly used again… So I’m focused on how Thomas stated all he and Mitchell ever wanted to do was go together, which is consistently what Buddie do, no matter how dangerous the direction they go in, including in this very ep!

~~~ Thank you so much to the incredible @judsonryder​ for adding so much beauty to my meta! You’re a gem! If you like my perspective on Buddie, you can find more of my meta and fics here. Thank you for reading and for any like, comment and of course reblog! Writing these posts takes a lot and it makes me so happy whenever I see people enjoying them. xoxox