#hell it could be both he and Tommy live together and buck advances professionally

[bi-bi-buckleys]

Thinking about 911 and Oliver teasing developments in Bucks life, and I know life developments aren’t just about love/personal life, but the more I think about this show they don’t really progress professionally.

Like, Maddie left dispatch then came back, Eddie left FOR dispatch then came back, Hen was going to be a doctor, but then decided to stay, Bobby retired, un-retired, worked on a TV show, then came back to the 118, Buck was fire marshal for like a day, and Chimney went looking for Maddie in Boston and was a volunteer medic then came back.

And I know the reason is because they’re an ensemble and they belong together, that’s the core of the show.

To me this means not to expect any real advancement professionally.

If they had a storyline for Buck that was maybe he gets an opportunity to advance and be captain at another firehouse or something I wouldn’t expect it to last because he’s a core member of the 118 and would inevitably end up back there.

I do think if they went with a “Buck and Tommy move in together” storyline, it would be a significant move for Buck. We saw Buck move into Abby’s after she left but that was to watch her place for her until she came back, and we saw him ask Taylor to move in because he panicked over kissing Lucy. Both of those were more about him clinging to something he was afraid to lose and not him actually wanting to commit to a relationship. If he and Tommy have a discussion about moving in and they make that decision together, it would be because they both want it and want to move their relationship forward. That, to me, is significant and a big difference in Bucks personal life. Plus it hammers home the whole “Buck is off the hamster wheel” storyline that they were so adamant about last season.