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The funniest interpretation of the bet surrounding how long Bobby will last as captain of the 118 is that the bet was created not only because itâs so goddamn hard to captain a station in Los Angeles, but also because this specific station is just chock-full of feral firefighters. We like to laugh at the current members of the 118 for being constantly unhinged, but I truly believe that had Bobby been anyone else, his bet wouldâve been lost before the end of the first week. The 118 firefighters were yearning to be adopted by this equally unhinged midwestern gourmet chef, and we all KNOW that Bobby needed the 118 in return. But mostly, Iâm just convinced that all the captains between Gerrard 1.0 and Bobby were driven off by the sheer horror of seeing how the 118 firefighters operate on the daily (in life and on the job). Bobby is the only one who knew how to roll with the chaos.
#bobby nash#the 118#118 captain#captain bobby nash#I do mostly mean#chimney han#and#hen wilson#because they were NOT gonna let another Gerrard take over THEIR station#but this includes some other firefighters because honestly who is out here making a bet about their new captainâs chances in full earshot#of the front door like???đ#so silly of them#also related but only barely#anti tommy kinard#I do NOT like his ass idc how long he was at the 118 for#Buck Iâm begging you to break up with him pleaseeeee#pre-season 1 911#911#9-1-1#911 abc#9-1-1 abc
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Okay, I thought about it. And, I think that the Bucktommy hurdles are going to be one of two things. We now know that Buck learns something about Tommy's past that we haven't seen in a flashback. So, that knocks out anything Gerrard-related (thank. GOD). What do we know about Tommy's past? 1) He was in the army 2) His dad is basically Gerrard 2.0, to the point where Tommy directly compares the two. So. Here's my thoughts. I don't think we're going to be getting Tommy's daddy issues, because... I don't see how that would cause a rift between Buck and Tommy? Maybe. MAYBE, it has to do with Tommy's jealousy over the 118's family structure, but Buck's already well aware of that. The hurdles are going to be one of two things, in my opinion. 1) Something army related. It's something that we haven't seen in a flashback yet, and Buck "flunked out of Navy SEAL training because he couldn't turn his emotions off" might be a bit put off about his boyfriend possibly committing something. 2) Ex-related? Maybe they run into one of Tommy's exesâ Wait. They're going to Miceli's next episode, aren't they? Y'know what'd be a fun parallel? ... just, food for thought.
#i'd prefer something army related bc i think it makes the most sense? BUT#because 8x06 is shaping up to be mostly eddie-focused then they might not be able to fit it in/pace it properly.#an ex is easy to fit in and any drama can be swept through in one episode's b-plot#911 spoilers#911 speculation#bucktommy#911#911 abc
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when eddie decides to dip his toe in the dating pool again can we Please get a scene where theyâre at buckâs loft with maddie and chim eating takeout and eddieâs lamenting how awful modern dating is and retelling a string of failed dates while he and buck are very domestically like, sharing food and preparing each otherâs plates. and eddieâs like âi just want someone i can feel comfortable with, you know? someone whoâs good with chris. someone i can trust and just- build a life withâ and buck is nodding along like, âtell me about it. youâre preaching to the choir, man.â meanwhile maddie and chimney are watching them in disbelief bc they are literally describing their own dynamic and then we get the flipped version of buckâs âseriously guys, youâre a coupleâ speech from 2x08 but to buck and eddie instead and maybe they donât get together right away but by the end of the ep they acknowledge that feelings might be there and maybe one day when theyâre ready theyâll take that leap thus completing the madney/buddie parallels and bringing us full circle from âbuck, actuallyâ because âmaybe the greatest love stories arenât the ones that end in tragedies, maybe theyâre the ones that start with a second chance.â
#listen for legal reasons i'm mostly joking but i've sAID buck actually is the real beginning of buck's story#(i wrote a meta on it and everything askdjh)#and i will not rest until we get a satisfying conclusion to it#anyway buck actually is the best episode it's the bEST EPISODE#911 rewatch#911 related#buddie#mine
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I feel so itchy and skin crawly looking at this picture
Like that is Eddie covered in bees (shudder) Iâm assuming during the call at the perfume launch thingy where weâve seen him running with his bee net on!
Itâs also making my brain itch!!
#Eddie covered in bees like that is making me itchy#but also - the metaphor is not lost on me#actually there are several metaphors#the idea of being covered in bees and thus being stung repeatedly - much like Eddie has been stung repeatedly by life#the idea that bees only sting when under threat - Eddie blowing up his life could be seen as him stinging because he feels under threat#in part because of his familbut mostly from himself - his subconscious is fighting against him - related to his dawning queer awakening#plus there is also the fact that the reaction to being stung is a delayed one - yes you might feel the initial sting#but the reaction develops over time as the body reacts and tries to expel or neutralise the bee venom#this is a massive metaphor for Eddie - the delayed reactions heâs had to many things in his life but in particular to buck coming out as bi#he felt the initial sting but claimed it wouldnât change anything only now heâs reacting to that sting - the swelling and pain is happening#and that will lead to recovery - it all plays into the queer Eddie narrative very nicely#because when you get stung by a bee you think it wonât be that bad - but itâs always worse and more itchy than you think#Iâm not being remotely coherent about this at all#I might come back to it tomorrow!#911 spoilers#eddie diaz#911 abc#bee theory
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firstprince and buddie in the same room. chaos ensues. nothing is getting done
those are two peak dumbass x dumbass ships
#firstprince#buddie#rwrb#rwrb movie#abc 911#911#911 abc#evan buckley#eddie diaz#prince henry#prince henry rwrb#alex claremont diaz#buck definitely asks if eddie and alex are related#âyou guys have the same last nameâ#red white and royal blue#dumbass x dumbass ships will always be my fave#mostly because they remind me of myself
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Recently read a fic that had the quote "you think that you're invincible, but you're not" and god I love ships with that "im going to run head first into danger beause others wellbeing is more important than mine" x "your life is important to ME" dynamic. It hit different with this one cause the guy who said it is immortal and the (just realized) love of his life is not and he keeps throwing himself into danger.
#mostly made this because that line reminded me of 911 and this fic was in no way related to 911#blue thinks things#original posts
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Actually, no. The shippers in the 911 fandom who primarily complain about Tommy and his past don't actually care about Tommy's past or his actions that contributed to the previous toxic workplace environment and harassment at the 118. Not everything is about a fucking ship, believe it or not, yet the only time they bring up his behavior is in relation to shipping. And because the only time they bring up a valid critique of Tommy's character is during shipping "discourse," I'm convinced it's not brought forth in good faith. Finding a way to tie everything to a shipâespecially things like racism and misogynyâis cheap and tasteless. Not everything is about "shipping;" shut up about the shipping.
I don't think they actually want to discuss how white queers contribute to the marginalization of others, including other queer people, by weaponizing the patriarchy and/or white supremacy in their favor because so many of them are fellow white queers themselves. They don't care about how Tommy inadvertently, because of his past, provides a realistic portrayal of how white queers divide or hurt the larger community because of an inability to find solidarity with people of a different background, culture, or race (especially if it would "inconvenience" them or if it does not directly benefit them, like Chim saving Tommy's life). White people would rather choose misery and isolation over standing with or up for non-white people. White people are generally not willing to put in the work to build community; they'd rather contribute to the system or fly under the radar to avoid being shunned by the structures they, and the Ol' Boys Club, benefit from, like white supremacy or the patriarchy. Most white queers would rather be complaisant, complacent, and complicit. It's the white queer's adherence to oppressive systems that divide the community, not people's calls to tear those systems down. And it's only the white queer who can change their perspective on this.
Tommy only has himself to blame for his jealousy and alienation from a supportive and familial community, and only he can take the steps to ameliorate the situation. Tommy was an absolute fucking dick to Chim and Hen, and that has had long-term consequences on his life. Only he can correct for his behavior. He contributed to a toxic work environment, referring to Chim as a Chinese takeout delivery man, actively participating in Chim's hazing, and telling Chim that he did not like the man (mostly because he didn't know him). He would later call Hen "bitchy," and the men of the 118 would leave the "domestic work" to her as they did Chim, actively contributing to her hazing. He did not (verbally) stand up for her, iced her out, and also contributed to a homophobic work culture that made same-sex attraction the butt of jokes. He contributed to this toxic culture to fly under the radar, and that directly hurt people he should have extended a hand to.
Unfortunately for most of the fandom, this is, ultimately, a show that loves stories about redemption and resolution. And there is actual, explicit (meaning, non-subtextual) evidence that Tommy has put in some work to remedy what he did and who he was (including being able to 1.] own up to his past actions, 2.] understand how he hurt others, 3.] recognize why he did what he did and how that it is an explanation, not an excuse, and 4.] begin to make amends or rectify the situation, like reporting Gerrard and changing his mind about Hen and Chim). Hen and Chim would not have invited him for drinks regularly if they thought he was "irredeemable." The 118 would not have thrown him a going away party if they disliked him. Chim would not call in favors from Tommy on more than one occasion or even describe him as "so cool" if they weren'tâwellâcool. Eddie wouldn't enjoy ring-side fights and basketball games with Tommy if he didn't enjoy the man's company. Tommy also clearly refers to the type of man he was in the past tense, implying change over time. It can be argued that he has not put in enough work, but that's not what's being argued. We're getting bad faith arguments that Hen, Chim, and Eddie hate Tommy or bad faith arguments where Tommy's past actions are only brought forth as some sort of "gotcha" when a fan prefers canon representation over homophobic fan fiction tropes. You don't have to like Tommy, but making up non-textual reasons to dislike him is absurd.
Tommy, as a character in a narrative, provides a lesson for the general audience (GA), the majority of whom are white. It's not just important to see queer people on screen; it's important to see white people learn and change and admit they were wrong. It's also important that the showâwellâshows the GA that whiteness and man-ness affect people's perception, position, and treatment. Tommy isn't just a gay man; he is a white gay man, and this has had a direct impact on how he navigates the world and how the world interacts with him. Gerrard treats men like Sal and Tommy differently than men like Chim or women like Hen, and staying in Gerrard's good gracesâlike the good graces of oppressive power structuresârequires one to conform to a very narrow definition of a "real man," like being straight, white, palatable (like... not kinky, not risquĂ©, not queer, all the things the fandom seems to actually hate Tommy for), and not helping oust regressive figures from positions of authority for the way they treat your coworkers. The audience got to see how Tommy went from being the prodigal son to being openly mocked by men like Gerrard. And it's important to show the GA that someone can and will be happier if they go against the grain and that admiration from men like Gerrard means very little in the grand scheme. Tommy is happier now after having been "rebuked" by men like Gerrard than he was when he strove for their praise and acceptance.
It's also important to show that men like Gerrard and his beliefs belong in the past, even though they exist in the present. This is a network TV show. A non-zero number of men like Gerrard catch this show weekly. It is still important to show that Gerrard is not the "type" of man anyone should aspire to be. His beliefs and actions are not commendable, and the show is very heavy-handed about this. The show is going to once again compare Gerrard ("bad captain") and Bobby ("good captain") to show how Bobby has created a good legacy at the 118. It began this parallel with Bobby Begins Again, continued to reinforce Bobby's good legacy in Buck's coma arc, and then revisited how Bobby has had a positive influence on the lives of the 118 in his season 7 montage. Now, the show is going to compare and contrast him and Gerrard to reinforce how important Bobby is to those around him. The show will also continue its inadvertent parallels between Buck and Tommy, showing how Buck is a different man under similar circumstances because he has had good influences (re: Bobby, Hen, and Chim) in his life. Buck and Eddie's relationship was shaping up to be very similar to Tommy and Chim's relationship: oppositional because of one-sided disregard and dislike, but it didn't because they had a good influence: Bobby (given the rather... fucked timeline, Tommy was likely newer to the 118 when Chim joined and, like Buck, his hostility and posturing were also likely influenced by insecurity and a desire to secure his position at the table).
Most unfortunately for many, the show is also going to show how Tommy has changed due to the same influences (re: Bobby, Hen, and Chim). They wouldn't have re-introduced both Tommy and Gerrard and mentioned their dynamic on more than one occasion if they weren't going to do something with that. Season 7 set up Tommy's upcoming arc very nicely. He knows the man he was, he knows the man who shaped him into that, and he knows how and why that was wrong. We'll get Tommy confronting his obvious daddy issues, jealousy, and desire for community (and why he didn't get a family-like dynamic at the 118, re: Gerrard *and* Tommy's own behavior). Tommy has been explicit about this, literally telling Buck that he envies the relationship the people at the 118 have and mentioning that he was not a good person, and this played a part in why he didn't have the same rapport.
9-1-1 is not a perfect show, but it does reflect some of the positive changes of our time. It's important to see representations of comp-hetâlike Buck, Tommy, and Michaelâand how it negatively impacts people's character or relationships, and then how theyâthe characterâcan amend that. It's important to see stories that depict how silence is complicity and how refusing to be silentâas Hen refused to beâmakes change and changes minds. It's important that the show reminds the audience that Hen is a black lesbian and that this has impacted how people see her and treat her, but that she is just as capable, if not more so. This includes men like Chim. Because I see nearly none of the people who "critique" Tommy in the name of "shipping" ever bring up how Chim has leaned on the patriarchy for support and a position at the table. He may have been the kindest to Hen, but he was by no means normal about women. And it is important to see how non-white men benefit from the patriarchy even as they are victimized by white supremacy. It's also important that the show shows the GA that non-white men are not affected by white supremacy equally, as Michael and Harry have had discussions about blackness and police brutality, a conversation that Chim is never going to have to have with his children, but that doesn't mean that Chim won't have to one day have a discussion with Jee-Yun about how and why some people treat her differently.
But the fandom approaches everything in a very... Catholic way. They don't approach this from the view that people can change and should be pushed to change; rather, they shun people like they've been marked by original sin. The structures we live under have deeply affected each and every one of our worldviews. "You are not immune to the propaganda" includes your personal philosophies and ideologies as well as the things you were taught since you were a child, consciously and "subconsciously." But, people would rather condemn everyone else as "irredeemable" than look critically at their own behavior out of fear of being "one of the bad ones." They'd rather *not* accept the fact that everyone has learning and changing to do as that would reflect upon them, too. This leads to being very resistant to being told that you're mistaken, you've hurt others, or that your behavior and beliefs contribute to repressive, dangerous, or toxic ideas (and we've seen a lot of that; y'all do not create safe online spaces). This leads to a lack of personal change as well as a lack of change at the interpersonal level because rather than teach or challenge, they stick up their nose and turn the other way. "Their barbaric bigotry; my enlightened neglect."
So, really, they've learned nothing from a character like Tommy.
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SOTM: Finn, James(/Holden); private number
For the prompt: Please, we need Finnâs POV of James and Holden!
This is 99% a loving but honest treatise about Finn's Bestest Friend, because Finn Schneider, everybody.
James has always been someone who keeps things close to the vest. Some of their teammates have referred to James as secretive, and every time Finnâs overheard them heâs corrected them.
Private, he says. James is private.
But honestly, Finn doesnât actually disagree with them.
James is private, Finn means that, but it isnât just privacy. Privacy is a preference. Secrecy is something else. Finn doesnât know how to explain the difference, but he thinks most people would agree there is one, and most people whoâve met James would agree that James is the latter.
Finn is private. James is something else entirely.
Finn had known James for almost a year before he learned he had a brother. Even though James had met all his siblings by that point, Finn had only heard about Chelsea, and he probably only knew about her because, besides his parents, she was the only person who ever called James. Or, Finn supposes, not necessarily the only ones who called, but they were the only ones whose calls James actually picked up.
It took Finn five years, give or take, before he knew, really knew, that James was gay, and even then, it wasnât because James told him. And maybe he isnât gay, maybe heâd prefer Finn use another word entirely, but itâs not like Finn can ask him, considering if James does know Finnâs aware, heâs doing a very good job of pretending not to. Or maybe heâs just trying not to think about it. He does that sometimes.
Five years. Finnâs not saying that he didnât suspect before that, but â
He doesnât like that word, âsuspectâ. It makes it sound like James has done something unethical, illegal. Or alternately, that Finn spends all his time gathering intel about people, putting together data like pieces of a puzzle â adding up a glance, an awkward pause, a smirk, forming a clear picture out of signals that most people donât even know theyâve been making.
Maybe the second oneâs a little too close to the truth for his liking. Itâs not that he does it on purpose, exactly â he doesnât want to be nosy, or overstep, and he thinks he mostly manages to avoid that.
But he canât keep his brain from cataloguing all those pieces of information, canât keep it from noticing which ones might fit together, even if he never confronts someone with the information, never mentions it to anyone else, never lets it change the way he treats them.
Giving someone clues, often unknowingly, isnât the same as telling them something, and in his experience, people donât appreciate you knowing things they havenât told you. They certainly donât like knowing you can predict their behaviour â people really hate thinking they're predictable â so Finnâs learned to keep his mouth shut, let them think that they arenât.
But he still knows all those things about them. He can't help that.
Five years, it took. At least four of them as Jamesâ best friend. Because that's what he is, he knows that even though James doesn't say it. Heâs the only person James can still tolerate by the end of a long road trip, the first person James would call if he needed a hand, an ear, a guide. On most things, at least, and heâs thankful James can go to his sister or his mom for all the stuff Finn's just as hopeless with. The first person James would call in an emergency â after 911, obviously, if it was that kind.
Itâs not like that doesnât go both ways â heâs Finnâs best friend too. Finn probably wouldnât call him in an emergency, but thatâs because James usually has his phone on silent, and he probably wouldnât pick up. Also, Finn loves him, but with the exception of a couple very specific scenarios Finn can see James being extremely helpful for, most of them hockey related, his particular skillset doesnât exactly match the ones needed during most emergencies.
Finn had a flat last month. Not a real emergency, honestly, but close enough for the purposes of illustration. The first call he made was to AAA, and the second one was to Georgie, who lived nearby, and came to pick him up so he didnât have to catch a ride with the tow truck.
If Georgie hadnât answered Finn probably would have called Logan, though heâs almost as bad at picking up as James is, then maybe Greg, who also lived around there, or his right-side neighbours, who are the genuinely neighbourly kind, and wouldnât be going out of their way on the ride back home, at least.
He texted James while he waited for G, though. James replied three hours later with You have AAA right?
Finn doesnât mean to make James sound like a bad friend, because he isnât one. Heâs kind, and hard-working, and brilliant about the game. He has high standards, but he holds himself to even higher ones. He can miss the obvious sometimes, but he's uncannily observant about other things â he probably knows more about Finn's preferences than he does, and notices before anyone, even the coaching staff, what isn't working with a drill.
He makes Finn laugh too â sometimes it's unintentional, but it usually isn't. James is funny, though Finn knows nobody believes him, because James doesn't tell jokes, he mumbles them, and he only does it with a few select people, Finn luckily among them. And the comments he mutters to Finn under his breath are usually snarky enough to make Finn struggle to keep a straight face, things that Finn would never say, or even mutter, but does sometimes find himself thinking.
And heâs â heâs comfortable. Or more, Finnâs comfortable around him, the way he hasnât felt with anyone but family before, not even G.
Around James, everything is just a little bit easier. Itâs easier to step up, easier to speak out, easier to know what to do, to trust the decisions he makes.
It probably helps that James always looks like Finnâs saved his ass by ordering his drink while heâs in the bathroom, grabbing him OJ across the street because the hotel ran out and James isnât nearly awake enough yet to go himself, checking in after James notices a call-up has been putting it back after games. Like Finnâs some kind of really boring superhero. Super Schneids, saving the day one glass of orange juice and possible intervention at a time.
Finn didnât tell James, because it wouldnât have helped anything, but he wasnât any more enthusiastic about Holden joining the team than James was. Itâs taken years for their team to grow up, grow closer, for the room to gel. It's their team â all of theirs, of course, but itâs James' and Finnâs and Gâs. Like some sort of Charlieâs Angels, where Gâs got the good looks and charm, James is the strategic genius, and Finnâs â well, Finn knows how to talk to people.
Adding anyone to the room can change the dynamic, no matter who they are, and Holden Chase wasnât just anyone. He had a history with half the roster, some of it pretty ugly, and James didnât hide the fact he detested him. Detested him a way Finn hadnât seen him act with any other opponent before, though James has nursed more than a few quiet vendettas, ones Finnâs probably the only one aware of, because, well, James is private. But everybody on the roster knew how he felt about Holden Chase well before he got here.
It makes Finn wonder if this was something â inevitable, maybe. That line about a thin line between love and hate. James doesnât pay much attention to anyone unless they impress him, but he paid a lot of attention to Holden, even as he claimed he wasnât impressed at all.
Inevitable, though Finn doesnât know what started it, canât quite peg the moment, though he bets it wasn't when James was clenching his jaw the second Chaser walked in the room, certainly after he lost his composure in practice for only the second time Finnâs ever seen, and more...spectacularly than anyone would have expected, Finn included, and Finnâs pretty sure he knows James better than anyone.
But still not well enough, apparently. Not well enough to know what changed, or more, how it did â when it was, who made the first move â though he assumes it had to have been Holden. He knows James at least that well.
But he doesn't know exactly what it is, or more, how James would describe it. Beyond âsomeone specialâ, at least, though those are the words from Finnâs mom, not him, he just acknowledged there was someone. The first time he said it, Finn assumes to anyone.
A confession he followed up with an uncomfortable, roundabout series of questions that Finn was pretty sure boiled down to âdo you know itâs Chase? Please donât actually confirm that, Iâve already dealt with enough tonightâ, judging by his visible relief when the subject was dropped. Right before he lit up at the suggestion of going to meet up with the team, even though a year ago he would have made a face at Finn for the question, like âobviously not, who do you think I am?â.
But then, a year ago, Finn wouldnât have asked him that question, because he does know James. Not perfectly, or even as well as he wants to, because James shrinks back from interest like a turtle hiding in its shell, but as well as James allows.
And, as well as he knows James, he still finds it all a little â inexplicable, maybe. Or not, maybe it isnât, but nobodyâs explaining it, certainly not to him. But Finn keeps his mouth shut, keeps his eyes forward, the first rules of the locker room, probably even more important than âdonât suckâ. If James wants to explain it, Finnâs happy to listen, but in the meantime, he picks up the pieces, fits them together the best he can, and hopes like hell this all wonât blow up.
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i mean - i think buck has not exactly been liked by a big part of the buddie fandom for a long while. some of them liked to hide it or not admit it, but they were bad at it. i thought it was obvious they donât like buck for the longest time.
if you read their takes, or their fics, or any headcanon, itâs always the same formula. buck screws up, buck acts like a child, buck needs eddie to come to the rescue because he doesnât know better, buck has to apologize to eddie. most of the time they also have eddie be super understanding and catering to buck as if he was his second child.
but then the buck we get in canon becomes more and more like the complete opposite version of their buck. and eddie is becoming someone they also donât register in their fanon fantasy. i think they deeply hate how buck is the more stable one of the two. i think they hate how buck has grown up and is, arguably, a bit more mature than eddie right now. i think they hate the show is starting to paint buck as a figure you can rely on, that is wise and helpful, and mature (i think they slowly want to make him be the perfect captain, but i digress).
meanwhile eddie is slowly spiraling down, he hasnât exactly grown a lot since he came onto 911 (in comparison to other characters, including buck), heâs if anything, gotten slightly worse. he mistreats women and doesnât show a lot of remorse for it - he doesnât seem to be super guilty over the pain he caused marisol in 709/710. understandably he was more upset about chris, and i would think of this as a fluke, but weâve seen this before (hey, ana). eddie has also been shown to lash out against people whenever he gets mad at them, and heâs shown heâs okay lying to his friends without, again, feeling remorse about it. and hey, i am okay with a flawed character. everyone at the 118 is flawed and i think thatâs what makes them great characters. i personally donât like eddie as much as the rest, but thatâs mostly due to his lack of self reflection and how he usually doesnât apologize for his actions. as well as for the way i just donât see him grow up in a way i can relate to.
to sum this up, when you put buck and eddie together it is rather obvious how different they are. and how different they are to the version that exists of them in fanon. and when you put them together throughout the seasons you can see buckâs growth, something itâs barely there with eddie.
so it makes sense that theyâre now hating on him. they started at 710 when they wanted buck to be the one to solve eddieâs issues, and were mad that he chose to leave the diaz family alone to deal with their stuff, and went home to decompress and be with his boyfriend. heâs been judas to them ever since.
but hey, if some of them stop shipping buddie because apparently buck is a pos (ofc it can never be eddie, the one to make several big mistakes and have questionable behavior during s7)⊠silver lining. if they leave because of them i wonât complain, iâll just watch them to with a smile and a sip of coffee.
sorry for the long rant lmao.
No I think you're right! They want the dynamic of uwuBuck and parental figure Eddie and that is not what is happening. If they wanted that, funny enough, they'd need season 1 Buck, the one they really don't like. (Or even know)
I believe Eddie's problem is that he's always been the hero. He won that silver star and I don't think he really believes he should have. He was just doing his job, ya know? But everyone looks to him as this army hero and in reality this man is so terrified underneath it all he feels inadequate in every avenue of his life.
It's why Ryan's excited to basically "ruin" Eddie. He needs it.
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Poseygste?
I was there Gandalf⊠3,000 years ago.
Basically once upon a time there was a lil show called Teen Wolf on MTV and that show had a weirdly popular crack ship called Sterek (MieczysĆaw âStilesâStilinski/Derek Hale) it dominated the fandom at the time as the One True Pairing of the fandom kinda just based on vibes at first but the show did start throwing out teases near the end of season 2. In 2013, they were the runner-up pairing just behind Destiel in the AfterElton.com (now called The Backlot) Slash Madness Tournament, beating out several canon ships at the time.
Basically the fandom culture has gotten to the point where it was kind of assumed if you were a fan of Teen Wolf you were a fan of Sterek and if you werenât well something was wrong with you (kind of like 911 and Buddie pre-s7). So, naturally, as MTV was pretty plugged into fandom culture at the time, they would often approve Sterek related questions for interviews. This got to the point were actors that had nothing to do with the ship were being asked about this ship that had next to no canon material outside mostly violent interactions (remember this is post season 2 pre season 3 timeframe) where for example Derek, a 20 something with supernatural powers, smashed Stiles, a 16 year old with no powers, head into a steering wheel. Anyway the main character of Teen Wolf, believe it or not, is neither of these two but in fact one Scott McCall played by Tyler Garcia Posey. So one can imagine Poseyâs understandable frustration with being asked multiple times about a ship that was manufactured by fandom and almost completely irrelevant to the actual show.
Cut to the pre-promotion for season 3 and one of the first and only questions an interviewer asks Posey, the star of the show, is about Sterek. Not about the season ahead, not about Scottâs character arc this season, about a fanon ship his character is not even a part of. He answers âSterek is this weird, bizarre twisted phenomenon and I think anyone who watches the show solely for that is not watching for the right reasons.â The fandom got really really mad because 1) he shat on the most popular ship of the fandom and 2) he did so with some words that some people interpreted as homophobic (personally I disagreed at the time and disagree to this day that he meant it homophobicallyâ in fact he would later come out as bi/pan)
This catalyzed a divide in fandom as Stereks relentlessly attack Posey and his character in ways that werenât always justified and other people, later dubbed The Scott McCall Defense Squad defended Poseyâs words as being about Sterek as a phenomenon not as a ship, in which case he was right that Sterek was kind of weird in that it sprang up as the main ship when Scott and Stiles had a pretty codependent relationship, and Danny Mahealani was canonically gay and the show had twice teased the idea of Scott and Danny as a couple by this point (funnily enough both times by their lacrosse coach). The whole situation was looked back at as âPoseygateâ and was a formative moment in shaping Teen Wolf fandom.
TL;DR: Poseygate was when Tyler Posey insulted Sterek, a popular ship in his show.
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Goodbye Tommy.K
WHY LOU/ TOMMY. K ABANDON 911 ?!
Lou.F character was only temporary, an arc for the buck to have a character development because even that storyline was going to be with Eddie to begin with, but since it was not very conclusive, they passed it to Buck for his awakening BI, since it could not be with another person.
The lack of Chemistry between the characters, is public knowledge that there was no chemistry between them, in the seventh season he only appeared less than 5 minutes on the screen and in the eighth the same and if they did it was mostly with Eddie there, Tommy did not know the family circle of Buck with the 118 since despite participating in the rescue of Athena he did not know that she was Bobby's wife, he did not know Buck's tastes either and gave him basketball tickets, not to mention that he treated Buck like a damn child.
It was a matter of time for him to leave, since even in chapter 6 when they ask Buck if he loved him, he couldn't answer and then desperately asks him to move, despite not feeling a real feeling and wanting at least one relationship to work.
Lou.F did not get along with the Cast, it is also public knowledge that Lou did not participate in interviews with his star or the cast, even in season 7 when he had to do it since he was a new and important character at that time, he only had 1 interview with Oliver and it was very unfortunate. Nor did he appear in the TikToks of the series, publications and other things, it is as if he did not exist, not to mention the lack of chemistry with Oliver Stark since it is also known that he never uploaded anything related to Lou.F.
The question here is how do you want there to be chemistry between your ship when the actors have a bad relationship? How does chemistry flow?
Point apart, even when Oliver Stark and Ryan Guzman fought at some point and had a disagreement, they managed to make the famous and popular scene " wanna go for the tittle", which is very popular and overflowed with chemistry between them despite their differences.
5. And finally this is a wake-up call to people blinded by a ship that clearly had no future, STO FUCK OLIVER STARK, STOP ACCUSING HIM OF BEING BIPHOBIC, because it's not, Buck's character can't be in a relationship right now since it's a new stage and he has to grow more, explore himself, not put him in a relationship! Since that's always what usually happens, they put him in a relationship and end and then he returns to another, they also have to learn to be alone and go out with other people casually, it's for a character development, so stop accusing him so shamelessly.
#911 abc#911 season 8#911 on abc#911twt#911 spoilers#evan buckley#bucktommy#evan buck buckely#buck x eddie#buck and tommy#tevan#buddie#bummy#bummy bones#tommy kinard#lou ferrigno jr#oliver stark
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911 Masterpost
All my 911 related gifsets (mostly Buck and Tommy)
You can find my BuckTommy gifs here
The 118 eats together
Happy Pride
Me having to interact with other people
They're all freaks
so proud
What's our motto
I think I've seen this film before (Buddie/BuckTommy)
I'm not laughing
The Maneuver
911 Humor part 2 part 3
Me having to interact with other people
Evan Buckley
1x01 Pilot
1x02 Let Go
1x03 Next of Kin
1x04 Worst Day Ever
1x05 Point of Origin
1x06 Heartbreaker
1x07 Full Moon
1x08 Karma's a Bitch
1x09 Trapped
1x10 A Whole New You
2x01 Under Pressure
2x02 7.1
2x03 Help is not coming
2x04 Stuck
2x05 Awful People
2x06 Dosed
2x07 Hunted
2x08 Buck, Actually
2x10 Merry Ex-Mas
2x11 New Beginnings
2x13 Fight or Flight
new kink activated
2x14 Broken
2x17 careful what you wish for
2x18 This life we choose
Get hurt in much dumber ways
Endless list of fave characters - Evan Buckley
daddy issues
Buck x Bobby talk about relationships S1/S7
Oliver "hell yeah lets do it"
Days of our lives parallel
You love so loud you should be proud of that
tackling down people
Idiot parallel (1x07/7x05)
Basketball
Basketball beard
Buck on ice
Tommy Kinard
Is there a twist coming
Hot pilot
A little Tommy for our dashboard
He is so pretty I wanna cry
Can we have him back now
They had Henleys in the '80s
Tommy Outfits
Pilot Tommy
Basketball Tommy
First Kiss Tommy
First Date Tommy
Coffee Date Tommy
Photoshoot
From utter disbelief to heart eyes
I just love him
So confident
Tommy and the 118
Captain Gerrard parallel
so relatable
Tommys humour/sarcasm
That smile
Buck is going to be the death of him
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911 8x07 Hotshots
This episode didnât give me much to work with, so itâs not really a meta post but something in between with my personal opinion. Mostly about Buck.
First of all I want to say that Tim commenting fandom through FlashRob and Hotshots - nice move. Also Bobby storyline - awesome! Love it! So much fun!
BUCK: Too many baking scenes for my taste. 3 time reminder can be a little annoying, but⊠I thought about it in context to the lightning strike and Brad saying his character is in a coma. Buck knows calling Tommy is wrong, because deep down itâs not Tommy he misses but how comfortable in his own skin he felt and of course the rush of new relationship which allowed him to explore his sexuality. So yes, baking is about Buck not understanding what his next move should be in terms of being bi. The line about which pond to jump into is the quintessence of his dilemma, the core of falling into baking string. Tommy didnât teach him anything, didnât show him queer spaces, didnât introduce him to people who would make Buck feel more sure/comfortable about his sexuality. Buck didnât seem to need it, because he felt comfortable with Tommy, and this is what is drawing him back. It can be scary to take that step alone, and while I have no doubt Buck wouldnât have a problem flirting with guys, I believe he is stuck at the start line, meaning he doesnât know which guys he can flirt with. Itâs not rocket science, but when youâre sitting alone at home, thinking you want some intimacy with a male friend, you suddenly realize you have no idea what to do, where to look, so itâs natural you miss and seek familiarity. Letâs circle back for a moment. Buck said he doesnât know which pond to jump into⊠he didnât say he doesnât want to jump at all, or that heâs not ready. And this is why I think his obsessive baking has nothing to do with Tommy and everything to do with his sexuality and understanding himself. He followed an easy path - a guy kissed him (confusing him about his feelings by the way), they got into a relationship and he never analyzed it too deeply what it meant to him. Now heâs left to figure it out by himself. And here is where coma comes into play. Buck is stuck right now, unsure, a little lost. If you want to go further you can say his world has changed and he has to learn the rules anew (like in his dream). The key to waking up from a coma was to realize that being Buck is enough. Well, itâs still true in terms of his sexuality, and I think that calling himself âbisexualâ on screen would be a nice end to his struggle and a nice step forward.Â
It would be really funny if Buck would figure himself out in the same episode that Bradâs character would wake up from coma.Â
Another thing about Buck I want to mention is more sweet and Buddie related. The scene in the firehouse, how Eddie steals Buckâs phone, playing hot potato with it. Come on, itâs basically a school puppy courting. If Buck had braids Eddie would be pulling them. And Buck even asked the teacher for help, and Bobby actually had to admonish/tap Eddie to give Buck his phone back. Itâs a nice way to show that Buck is not alone, and his family, however savage sometimes, are there for him. Itâs also a nice way to show goofy Eddie, the one who tries to be joyful (that little hop over the couch, awww), and itâs easy and natural with Buck. This scene also made me think about what Maddie said: âSo does this boy-crush on Eddie mean youâre finally ready to move on from Abby?â Iâm probably seeing too much into this, but it makes me happy so⊠who cares!
Now, I see a lot of people upset about Buck and Eddie being stuck, like there is no progress compared to the last episode. But I think itâs not that bad. These things, figuring yourself out, takes time, and I believe Tim is taking every opportunity to tell their individual stories right. Itâs better to drop a few short scenes telling the audience âBuck is struggling, Eddie is choosing joyâ than put something more significant into the episode with 2 other big plotlines. I know it feels like Buck and Eddie are on two different paths, parallel to each other, but those paths will meet eventually and we wonât be prepared for that.Â
We should watch our backs, because something is coming right at us. This is actually the theme of this episodeâŠ
Starting with Athena - at that sting operation, when she was told sheâll have a rookie and later when she shares her opinion about him. Gerrard and Bobby have Brad creeping behind them. Eddie get scared by the Chief, and of course his scene with Buck when he gives the phone back (and this one is the closest of them all).
Now⊠I would ignore it, call it a comic relief if that would happen once or twice (Athena with the rookie, and Bobby with Brad), but seven times? Somethingâs up⊠And I have a feeling it's about next episode. Maybe someone's past will catch up to them, or someone will hear something they shouldn't, or not being aware of their surroundings will put them in danger... I don't know, there is something ominous about it. Or you know, I missed something deeper in this episode or this is a message for us, fans, like I said, to watch ourselves because we have no idea whatâs coming. Or maybe... someone is watching us...
#buddie#eddie diaz#evan buck buckely#911 abc#my stuff#911 spoilers#911 season 8#911 hotshots#if not buddie why buddie shaped?
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Iâve set up a side blog for all my creative/arty stuff đ±đ±đ±
Sooooooooo if you wanna follow my creative output and see what I get up to and create beyond 911 and rwrb related art then give @colouringbuck a follow!!
I nabbed and saved this url as soon as I saw Buck colouring with Jee (love me a play on words!!) and Iâve been sitting on it ever since without actually getting round to doing anything with it - until now đ
#kym gets a side blog#Iâve become a multi blog person!!!#creative blog#side blog#psa!!!#it will be mostly 911 or rwrb related tbh#but I am looking forward to sharing some of my old art so you can see how far Iâve come#as well as costumes Iâve made for various things#other embroidery or crafty things Iâve made#and wherever my AuDHD takes me đ
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Why does it feel like people ship B/T out of obligation? Not because they actually like the ship, but because itâs canon queer representation that they have to support otherwise you get labeled as âhomophobicâ or not supportive of bi! Buck. They care more about what the ship represents and not at all with how itâs written.
Because that's the reality. For some people they don't care what kind of representation we get for queer characters/ships so long as there is canon representation. Let me tell you as someone who is a little older and has been watching queer media for a long time shitty or minimal representation is not better than no representation. Not for me anyway.
I want so much to see more people like me in media especially considering that I'm bi and there are so few canon bi characters. I will always be grateful to 911 for them making Buck (who I relate to a lot btw) a canon bi character. But at the same time they haven't handled his bi journey all that great and they've handled his first relationship with a man even worse.
Personally I don't care for T*mmy as a character and mostly I just think Buck deserves better. There is so little substance to that relationship. Buck and T*mmy barely even talked through most of s7 and when they did I didn't like how T*mmy treated Buck. I didn't like how dismissive and sometimes down right snappy he was with Buck. Plus we saw how much T*mmy went out of his way multiple times for Eddie but we never saw him do the same for Buck he couldn't even be bothered to dress up for the bachelor party.
I also didn't like that we really didn't get to know how Buck feels about T*mmy and that relationship by the end of s7. You can say we saw some of that during the dinner scene or when he talked to Bobby but it was really Bobby doing most of the talking in the locker room scene and the date only made me dislike T*mmy more. Buck was being vulnerable and T*mmy was made to seem like he didn't really care again. It would have been nice to have a scene where Buck talked about how he felt having been dating a guy for a little bit and what he really thought about T*mmy at this point but we really haven't gotten any insight on that.
All that aside though no one has to like any ship and it certainly isn't homophobic/biphobic to dislike a pairing (unless your reasoning is you don't want to see two people of the same sex together). I actually haven't cared for any of Buck's love interests for one reason or another but here's the thing if you have an otp for a show you don't need a reason to dislike it when the characters you ship are with other people. You can simply say I don't like them with that other person I want to see the ship I love together.
B*mmys will come up with all kinds of reasons as to why they've decided it's not okay for you to dislike their ship but it's all a bunch of bs. I heard similar stuff when Buck and Taylor were together. That it was misogynistic because I didn't like Taylor and them together (mainly because I've never liked Taylor after what she did to Bobby). But whether it's B*mmy's calling us homophobic or Buck/Taylor's calling us misogynistic it's all the same kind of stuff. They're just looking for a reason to make us feel bad for not agreeing with them. You don't have to like the same kinds of things as anyone else and you don't have to see the show the same as anyone else.
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911 Season 7 Critique
This is a long post. If you donât make it to the end, I totally understand.
I know we all have lots of feelings about this season and most of what Iâve read from others in the fandom here on tumblr has been overwhelmingly positive, but I have serious and persistent concerns. Here me out, if youâre willing and able.
This entire season something about 911 has felt off for me in a big way. I couldnât quite put my finger on exactly what the problem was until recently. All I knew was that season 7 was weird out the gate. Now I finally think I have something coherent to say about this season now that itâs over. The whole seasonâs main plot(s) have been overblown and overworked. All season long, the characters have felt bodysnatched by extraterrestrials being just similar enough to our beloved characters to not raise total alarm - at least initially - but different enough to snatch some epic side-eye outta me. Then ep 4 happened and the whole time I was a mix of elated and confused. Anybody whoâs been paying attention for the last 7 years knows that Buck is queer so that wasnât the shocker. For me, it was the way everything went down in ep 4 with the characters that felt heavy-handed and untrue to who they are. The weird strange bizarreness through the season just kept on coming like a freight train with no breaks or relief. By the finale I was scratching my head and kinda irritated because the tiny bit of actual character work that we saw over the course of the season was odd as hell and now itâs over and Iâm not really excited about much of anything thatâs supposed to be coming in s8. The characters feel too ooc and the plots feel too uncharacteristic of 911. Like for a bit there I thought I was watching Days of Our Lives meets Miami Vice meets The Walking Dead, and thatâs not what I signed up for with 911.
Season 7 left me earnestly wondering: Where are the family feels, the tight bonds, the heartfelt connections, the vulnerable conversations, the healing community that is the 118, the fucking togetherness? Everyone feels like they are adrift and alone without the found family support that they enjoyed in previous seasons. This season has been a trauma fest with little to no emotional payoff. Drama for its own sake. Problems resurrected, rehashed, blown way out of proportion, repackaged, and sold as authentic current issues. This season I felt like I was watching a completely different show.
Yes we are on a new network. Yes Tim is back. Yes a bit of shake up can be good. But this doesnât feel like a good shake up. I feel like Iâm being jerked around for sport. Like past BS is being thrown in my face instead of laid on the table and worked through by the characters that I know and love. Season 7 was mostly just trauma porn and I did not enjoy it.
Yes we could argue that Tim is trying to grab the attention of new viewers on a new network. But honestly that kind of feels like a cop-out explanation given what he delivered. If I were new to this show, I would not feel like I have any idea who these characters are beyond the wild crap that happens to them. I feel like I know more about how to sink a cruise ship or how to traverse the desert than I do about how the characters relate and connect with one another.
As someone whoâs watched 911 from the very beginning live and in real time, the plotting, pacing, and character choices in season 7 feel like Tim is putting on a show instead of telling stories. Shows are a wacky wild ride with little cohesion and/or progress; characters take a backseat to whatever the ptb can cook up for the weekly plot. Stories center characters and whatâs happening to them is processed by them and moves their arcs along in mostly coherent ways. A show is âshit happensâ. A story is âshit happens TO ME AND I DEAL WITH IT in ways that show the audience who I am and what matters to meââ.
Maybe season 8 will feel more like a story since it wonât be a truncated season, and season 7 has reintroduced people to - aka dredged up long-past but somehow present again - character issues. I donât know. I hope season 8 is more coherent, character-focused, and progress/healing-oriented like previous seasons have been. Honestly the show has been running too long to act like rehashing the past over and over again is enough to carry it for 7 more seasons.
Anyway, my specific concerns with season 7 are below the cut.
The main plots have just been hilariously bad. Soap opera levels of wtaf.
The cruise ship disaster had pirates, cheaters, and poorly-developed conflicts between lovers all of which (mostly) came out of the thin blue sea air and/or were handled in incredibly ooc ways. MIssing groom because of viral encephalitis. Hospital wedding like its a good thing and preferable to the warm fuzzies that Madney deserved. Long-dead wife put on such a high pedestal by Eddie that she walks the earth once more. Bobby chasing a random man from his past into the desert to say/do what exactly? All while mixing it up with a literal Mexican cartel. A desert crossing complete with traumatic flashbacks, a car crash, and a makeshift stretcher. (Bobby should have left Amir where he was after the crash and just walked the mile to the road without him in tow. But instead he slowed himself down and risked sunstroke in the process. That was a drama choice made by the writers, not a paramedic/firefighter choice made by the character.) Post-house fire Bobbyâs heart stops for 14 whole ass minutes and he wakes up fine and perky as meringue. Athena Grant choosing cold-blooded vengeance over holding vigil for her allegedly dying husband. Racist and misogynistic Gerard returning for absolutely no narrative or character-related reason at all, at least not for one that couldnât be more effectively accomplished by some/any other means.
The women have been side-lined in their own stories, and/or their characters altered in problematic ways.
Hen dismissed the councilwomanâs son in the seasonâs opening arc and ignored his potential injuries because he was being an asshole. A lesser paramedic would do that, but NOT our Hen. Also that plot point was unrealistic af because if someone is not in their right mind to make a life-saving decision for themselves, like in the case of intoxication, medical personnel can ethically treat them anyway. It was such a weird plot/character choice to Hen use that guyâs intoxication as a reason NOT to treat him when itâs actually a great reason to go ahead and check him out. She should have and would have worked the problem (poised and professional) instead of storming off in a huff (emotion-driven and unethical) because that guy was being a dick. Hen is not easily unsettled, nor is she unprofessional!
Hen and Karen were oddly clueless about Maraâs trauma and the fact that it was actively relevant to her behavior when they took her in, despite the fact that they have fostered several children at this point in the story. They considered âreturning herâ before they considered the trauma factor. Unreal. Our Hen and Karen were not born yesterday, are no strangers to hard times with foster kids, and have hearts the size of the 7 seas. This writing choice made no sense to me and made Hen and Karen feel like extraterrestrials to me. Ignorant ones at that. In the finale, Hen didnât tell Karen she was going to see Mara. Like. Why? They talk about everything. Hen claimed itâs because Karen would have tried to stop her but we all know that would have been a half-hearted comment while she put her shoes on and grabbed her purse. No. Hen and Karen are partners and they act like it. The one woman show era between them has been over for a while. Especially when it comes to their family.
Athena and Bobby had a conversation at the end of season 4 about cutting each other out and leaving each other emotionally stranded and since then have been actively committed to communicating and staying a team. So what the hell was that vibe between them on the cruise. Athena was evasive and weird the whole time and in the most banal gender stereotyped way possible. In addition, Tim seems obsessed with women as damsels in distress this season which is not and has never been Athenaâs vibe. Even with the Jeffrey arc in season 5 while she coped with the trauma of that encounter, she displayed agency. So Iâll never understand her indirect approach to dealing with Bobby running off to âStep 9â Amir or her decision to turn right around and talk to Amir about Bobby instead of talking to Bobby directly. Athena is a direct person, especially about her family. She cuts to the quick and gets to the heart of things. The drama I needed was Bathena working through Athenaâs fears for Bobby and Bobby working through his trauma/recovery with AthenaâŠnot a Mexican cartel and shenanigans in the desert. Then there was the way Harry talked to Athena when she discovered that he ran away from Miami. Athenaâs response to Harry would have been understanding but corrective. She wouldnât have stood there and let him disrespect her. Not in a million lifetimes. She also wouldnât have left her allegedly dying husband at the hospital to reenact a revenge plot from some B movie. Plus what was up with her blaming herself for Amir supposedly burning the house down, and her doing no police work to puzzle out what happened? She just went on an emotion-fueled rampage. Thatâs not how Athena operates. Remember her namesake, goddess of WISDOM and warfare. Come on bffr.
Maddie. Oh where do I even start. From ep 1 she was treated like a means to an end instead of the first responder former nurse badass that she is. This whole season, she comes across as âjust another dispatcherâ instead of the focused problem-solver and active agent that we know her to be. Prior to season 7 Maddie would have had her thinking cap fully on right along with Hen in the first episodes as they worked out a way to get in touch with the cruise ship. Calling Tommy could have even been Maddieâs idea since Chim and Tommy are still in touch but Hen and Tommy donât seem to be. Then there was the whole Maddie hearing what she expected to hear with the abuse victim on that one call. Like. What?! This is not Maddieâs first rodeo, she is not easily unsettled, and sheâs a damn professional. She would have done what she had to do to emotionally regulate and help the woman in danger before she let herself âhear what she expected to hearâ. Admittedly she would have cried the whole time because thatâs JLHâs jam and sheâs good at it but Maddie wouldnât have fallen down so hard on the job (especially not after what happened in season 3 with Tara and Vincent). And the wedding stuff! Maddie was just watching and waiting instead of using what she knew about her partner in life Chim to deduce where he might go or what he might do. Instead of collecting information about their previous calls and how they might be playing into Chimâs disappearance, she was busy being insecure about whether Chim actually wanted to marry her. Mind you, Maddie was the one who was originally reticent about marrying again AND sheâs the one who proposed to Chim. After all the drama with the ring, there is no world in which Maddie would have imagined Chim was running from her. She would have known something bad was up and that it had nothing to do with their love for one another. In the finale Maddie calls Chim to talk about Athenaâs suss behavior but Maddie has more connections and professional wherewithal than just âcall my husband heâll know what to doâ. She would have called the precinct and asked about 727-L-30 in a discreet way and put most of the pieces together herself and then actually sent Chim and Hen to stop her. And she would have been ready at a momentâs notice to call the cops on the rogue cop. The way that scene actually played out felt more like gossip on the high school bleachers than Maddie doing her actual job.
The relationships seem plain odd/ooc, distant, and/or superficial. Very few vulnerable emotional conversations happened and when they did they felt generic, shallow, and/or incomplete.
Bobby and Athena on the cruise. Athena just didnât feel like herself because she refused to talk to Bobby. When they did finally talk it was when they were about to drown and it was more of a mini-therapy session for Bobby. After Amir was introduced, Bobby pulled away again and Athena let him. Then Athena chose to approach the traumatized stranger rather than have a talk with her own damn husband. When they finally confronted each other about that situation, she walked away from Bobby almost like she was punishing him for walking away first instead of them both leaning into the conversation as partners. Really? Bffr.
Buck and Eddie having a bro convo about womanizing in the early episodes of the season. The âhey pal please talk to my kid bro because you have experience with these issuesâ rather than the all important âthereâs no one in this world I trust with my son more than youâ vibes of it all. Eddie making limited eye contact with Buck and ignoring him in ep 4. Eddieâs physical demeanor in ep 4 being bro-ed up and distant. Yeah I know we can argue that was all from Buckâs perspective in the moment but that explanation seems insufficient to me because it was so extreme, and was kind of maintained in some ways throughout the season. The âiâm gonna maim my best friendâ energy of the bucktommy origin story despite the fact that buck is not violent at all and definitely not towards loved ones. (Tim seems determined to ruin everybody just enough to generate unnecessary and ooc drama.) Buckâs weird dudebro conversation with Eddie while on his date with Tommy as if the foundation of buck and eddieâs relationship has ever been conversations about women solely to assert their heterosexuality * facepalm emoji * The super textbook sterile coming out scene in ep 5 like these guys arenât besties and donât actually know each other deeply. I wanted that coming out scene to have 504 patio conversation energy, not whatever it was we got in 704. Like that coming out conversation could have played out the exact same with one of the no-name background firefighters at the 118 or with Connor or some other rando. It felt so impersonal to who they are and to their particular brand of vulnerable courageous conversations. Honestly even the hug in 704 was weird. I was happy to have it but it was still weird. The kitchen conversation in ep 9 at Eddieâs place felt odd and incomplete for buddie. We get queer sexual innuendo (âskulking around my back doorâ), basic mutual acknowledgment of worry about the dead wife doppelganger, and thatâs a wrap? Okay I guess * eyeroll emoji * Then we had the finale where Eddie is obviously losing his mind and Buck is just sitting on the arm of the couch like âi dunno what to tell you manâ. Like theyâve never had a (chris) conversation before in their life. Like buck wouldnât have been the one to VOLUNTEER to go talk to chris without eddie spelling it out. Like buck wasnât the person who stayed with chris talked to him and took care of him when eddie got shot and when eddie lost his damn mind in 513. The buck in the finale was not the buck who did all those things. He was so bodysnatched itâs not even funny. Also, in what world would buck have snarked that chris canât keep eddie out of his room??? Buck, my good sir, if eddie wanted to break down chrisâ door he wouldnât have called you over bc he can do that on his own without a consult. That scene felt ooc af plus the dialogue was just plain dumb.
Hen and Chim have barely had a meaningful friend moment this season. Itâs mostly Hen razzing Chim, a polite smile, or nada. Letâs not even talk about the âbetrayalâ in the beginning with the councilwomanâs son and then the deeply meaningless drama that ensued after. So much so that they commented on it in a joking way on the helicopter. Thatâs not how Hen and Chim roll. They give each other clear and unapologetic honesty at all times. Not the cold shoulder for sport which is what it felt like when Hen finally said she wasnât actually mad. The gender and racial implications of how that played out are not lost on me. It felt like a 180 from how these characters normally interact in serious circumstances. Complete waste of time and invented drama for dramaâs sake. I donât blame Hen and Chim for that, like everything else Iâve mentioned in this critique of the season, itâs pure writing room weirdness.
Bobbyâs locker room conversation with Buck in ep 9 was more like mentor-mentee than father-son. Weâve stated that as their dynamic several times but thatâs not what we got in that locker room. They were standing several feet apart, Bobby and Buck smiled politely, no hug, no shoulder pat. Just textbook sterile âyouâre okay kidâ. Bobby could have given that speech to no-name firefighter number 12 and it would have felt the same.
You mean to tell me in the finale that Bobby was just gonna stroll back into work in uniform after quitting like nothing happened? Like heâs still employed. My good sir, you didnât even call headquarters before showing up to be like âjust kidding i want my job backâ. You mean to tell me Buck and Ravi were at work, in uniform and clocked in, but didnât already know Gerard was there? You mean to tell me Bobby was supposedly that allergic to having a real emotional/vulnerable conversation with literally anybody that he strolled into work WHEN HE NO LONGER WORKS THERE like he was gonna get to actually work??? I just canât -
Anyway, this post is long af so if you made it to the end, thank you. Honestly, I'm still processing this season but as of now, in the words of Lady Catherine de Bourgh, âI take no leave of you, [Tim Minear]. I send no compliments to your [season 7 showrunner decisions]! You deserve no such attention! I am seriously displeased!â
#Iâm exaggerating with the p&p quote. Iâm approximately 85% displeased with this season.#911 meta#911 critical#911 season 7#911 abc#athena grant#bobby nash#hen wilson#karen wilson#maddie buckley han#chimney han#evan buckley#eddie diaz#christopher diaz
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