#oh eddie

[caroandcats]

"i don't trust you to pick a nice one on your own" - buck is allowed one (1) i told you so i'm afraid

[saryasy]

"Angry guy. Hey, you'd be angry, too, if you lost your kid." and when that nightmare becomes a reality, Eddie is far from angry. he should be. fucking hell, he should yell and curse at his mom. he should scream at a universe that will not scream back. that seems to have it out for him. one mistake that wasn't even a conscious mistake but a call for help. a plea for a past that never was. and he lost his child. and his parents don't even give a fuck about him. but he's not angry. he's heartbroken but hides it. he blames himself. but he's not angry.

except at himself.

[justafaller]

I can’t get over the two truth and a lie scene from yesterday, it doomed Marisol before Kim even stepped foot onto screen.

Marisol has never tried a s’more which was a blatant show of her disconnect to Shannon, who Eddie is trying to find in her.

Eddie and Chris made s’mores together last season in order to keep a tradition they had with Shannon alive, because the Diaz boys are nothing if not consistent in their unresolved grief over her.

Each time they think they’ve found a way to move on, they discover a new issue in how they respond to situations that has been caused by the trauma of losing Shannon.

Anyways, back to Marisol never having had s’mores-marking her as decidedly not Shannon-to then have Eddie come across Kim, a woman who immediately brings back Shannon and her memory to him…he’s going to have to confront some pretty painful truths and it’s building up to be explosive.

No one will be able to measure up to Shannon…not even Shannon could.

Eddie has idealized her beyond reality, as if he’s trying to explain away the reason he hasn’t truly connected with anyone romantically.

If he can chalk it up to Shannon being the only one for him, then he won’t feel like he’s broken.

[makorragal-312]

"You really did that for me?"

Bro, the guy literally slid underneath a firetruck after getting his leg crushed by one to get to you after you got shot. Should you really be this surprised?

[livesbetweenpages]

Everytime I think how sad Buck is going to be now that Eddie’s left, I remember Eddie is going to be just as sad. Except Buck has the place, and the family, and the house that was all Eddie’s too. Meanwhile Eddie’s going back to a place he left, to a family who doesn’t trust him to know what’s good for himself or his kid, and to an empty fixer upper, all the while trying to rebuild the relationship with his own kid.

[buckleyanddiaz]

Eddie repeating Ramon's words about providing for the family to Shannon and then about sucking it up to Buck and now letting Chris go because he didn't want his kid to resent him like he resented Ramon. we're at 3/3 for childhood trauma rearing its head in his most important relationships.

[eddiestightywhities]

Buck: It can’t get any worse though, right?

Eddie: Sure it can - just give me a minute.

[mairaiscarrierofthepaperclips]

Hen: So, do you have an idea of how you're gonna ask out Buck?

Eddie: Oh, yeah, I have a great plan.

Hen: Really?

Eddie: Well, it's a good plan.

Hen:...

Eddie: It's a plan.

[userautumn]

someone needs to make a gifset parallel of eddie hearing that woman call ramon christopher's father vs eddie going to the bar in 5x11 and seeing the entire 118 having fun without him because it's the same goddamn look oh my god

[gl1tchr]

Would you consider the riddler to be underrated?

This is an interesting question to answer in the year 2025! I talk a lot with @falbrightsplace about the state of the Riddler pre and post-Zero Year, when the Riddler actually started becoming more of a force in mainstream runs. I think if you asked me in the early 2000s, it'd be a much stronger *yes*. Very few stories were attempting to tackle him, mysteries are *hard* to write, and it's essentially the World's Greatest Detective vs The World's Greatest Mystery Maker, so you had to both write a mystery compelling enough that readers will enjoy it, but difficult enough that Batman struggles with it, but not *so* complicated that it seems like you're just being intentionally obtuse to confused the viewer - see what I mean.

NOW? I dunno - an unfortunate side effect of comic books is, they're comic books. And not everyone reads them. Not everyone experienced The Riddler Renaissance in the same fashion, not even me. I wasn't reading Zero Year when it came out ghjdsg it was 2013 I was a Star Wars boy at that point. I think me n a lot of other people experienced their own Riddler Renaissance with Batman 2022, and that's why it seems like Dano Riddler is such a darling despite being really *unappealing* to what would've been considered the average Riddler enjoyer. I think it came off as an attempt to Heath Ledger the Riddler, but as the dust has settled he's actually shown to be a Very Standard Eddie.

Definitely comparing pre-2013, 2013-2021, and 2022-Current, he's much LESS underrated. Each span of time he's gained more traction as a really interesting Rogue that's woefully underutilized, but I'm not confident in saying he's POPULAR quite yet.

EDIT: NOT TO MENTION GOTHAM AROUND THE SAME TIME AS ZERO YEAR! That was how a lot of younger *non comic* readers got into him thru Gotham and Riddlebird lmao. Complicated times for Eddie indeed

[originalcrime]

god eddie diaz loves proving his love for his son through grand gestures that are barely disguised self-punitive behaviors and believing that he’s only doing the right thing if he’s gritting his teeth to get through it

[buddieisgoingcanon25]

I don't think the confession is about Shannon asking for a divorce because that's something we've already known since season 3, it has to be something more unexpected and serious, something we don't know about yet, and I think it will have to do with his difficulty relating to women in the long term and a very big clue is when in season 6 he confesses that she feels like he has to performing.

I agree. It’s gotta be something we don’t know and haven’t seen yet.

[ikilledyvette]

Rewatching the couch scene in 8x01 because I was so distracted by hiding my face/sympathetic embarrassment for Eddie that I couldn't even properly focus on our first bucktommy moment of the season.

[aphantasias]

a second plane has hit the towers

[imtheiliad]

so we all agree that a rowboat date is extremely high school date coded yeah?

[allisonrw96]

The way that Eddie is still going to need Buck to lean on after Christopher leaves and the way he won’t is gonna wreck me. That isolation is going to be of his own making and I wasn’t totally scared for him but now I kind of am.