#like my dreams will be point blank referencing something going so far as to literally tell me that in dream but either I don’t know what or

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I really really wish dreams were easier to understand/interpret

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Even your unbaked version is so so eloquent 💕 This turned into a whole page of reading into things so I will be kind to the people on my dash and put it under a cut...

“believing he's not worth anybody's time unless he's hurt”

Picking this out specifically because I know there’s been a lot of discourse over the Buckley Parents in this episode. I’m in agreement with the people that have said that this isn’t redeeming them, it’s Buck choosing to move forward in his relationship with them because he feels that they’re trying. They weren’t there any of the other times he was in hospital, but they are now.

But I also believe that the couch and redecorating is just the grownup version of how they treated him when he was injured as a kid soo…

“That msg on the wall is a reminder for him.”

Yes!!! And a reminder that his subconscious must be starting to believe in. It shows us just how far Buck's character has come from the last time we saw his parents in Buck Begins where we all know he was still very much of the belief that if he couldn't save people who was he? Of course, there's things that he sees that he wants to try and fix (the whole donor arc) but I think Bobby's line whilst they're playing cards "You walked away from a world where you could fix everything" signifies a true turning point in Buck and how he sees himself in the world.

I think it's also a reminder to himself of the realisation that being Buck is enough. If you look closely the same message is there in the first scene where Buck meets Coma!Bobby, but you can't read it for everything else that's in the way. Considering that this is all in Buck's head, it's suggesting to me that on a surface level he knows that he is enough and he is valued by his 118 family by just being him. It's only at the end of the Coma Dream that he truly starts to believe it and really sees it as being true. Of course there's still that little bit of doubt there in his self conscious, which is perhaps why we don't see the whole message in full, but Buck is becoming confident enough in himself to 'break the glass' as Chimney put it and let his family do their bit in helping.

Which from what I've read is what we're going to see explored in another episode?

“They never stopped trying because they loved each other enough to never give up”

Excellent call back to the balcony scene where Buck says basically this! (Or maybe even this word for word?). For me this was the real meaning of the episode - the Found Family of it all.

Right before the lightning strike Buck literally says "it almost felt like an actual family." Well Buck... what's missing? What are you referencing this against? What is an 'actual' family to him?

The 118 perhaps?

I feel like I could read into Eddie's response here of "You are an actual family." ... something something,the 118 being an actual family something...my brain is blanking right now so coherent thoughts on this are welcome.

But anyway, "never stop trying and never give up" is exactly what we see in action at the end of 6x10. We see Buck's found family doing everything they possibly can to bring him back and get him home.

And in the end of 6x11 we see Buck making a choice to not give up... very similar to Eddie's choice of not giving up in 3x15.

Which brings me to another thing...

Fix You was an excellent song choice here, I do not fault whoever made that decision. It is Buck to a T if you properly listen to the lyrics that play. HOWEVER... Why not Carry You? The song that played in Eddie's flashbacks during 3x15 AND played more recently when the 118 dug Bobby and May out in 5x16.

Both very significant episodes for Found Family.

Maybe they just don't want to overuse the same song or use it in episodes so close together. I just feel like that song would have linked it all up so nicely after May's comment about Buck being Bobby's son, Athena's demanding he wake up, and Christopher's scene telling Buck that this is only temporary.

I apologise, this turned into a long one with a lot of thoughts that people have probably already had or read themselves.

I’m back! Having just rewatched… still so many thoughts, but noticed that in the final coma scene as Daniel follows Buck into the room there’s a whiteboard behind them with something written on it…

I believe that it’s one from It’s a Wonderful Life (though I’ve never watched it) - remember no man is failure who has friends

I could absolutely go on a rant about the significance of this but wondered if you had any thoughts until I can get something more coherent down 😅

Lol, I remember seeing this one first watch, and I was like, yeah, Buck has his friends, his work family, the family that chooses him every day.

His bio family did a number on him, which has had him believing he's not worth anybody's time unless he's hurt or useful for years.

And in that dream world, he doesn't go to his bio family for help, he goes to his chosen family. To Chimney and Hen and Bobby - the siblings figures and the father figure.

That msg on the wall is a reminder of what is waiting for him. He never failed his chosen family, and they have never failed him, and as long as he has them, he will be okay.

This also threw me to 3x03, where Buck tries to understand why Eddie leaves him with Christopher after the tsunami, Eddie tells him, "And what, you think you failed him?" And "I love him enough to never stop trying, and I know you do too."

Buck's chosen family never failed Buck, and he never failed them, and even through the highs and lows, they never stopped trying because they loved each other enough to never give up.

Unlike certain bio parents, whom, according to Oliver, will be gone by next episode.

Buck's friends, his true family, the one he fought to return to (like in s3, minus the lawsuit), they will be there for him when he really need the support.

This is the unbaked version😅, tell me what you think? 👀❤️