#rebs watches 911

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reactions about the new 911 behind a cut bc i'm not saying anything that hasn't already been said (and i'm about to reblog a few of those posts)

i've been watching a couple episodes late bc my partner got into it so we watch it together, and we were just. sitting there like. they're really comparing this child to a dog? they're really doing that?

like. they handled that whole plot line SO badly. the scare tactic music when karen found the ripped up stuffed animal, and again when she was at the foot of their bed? the fact that the social worker was like 'she made it known that she wanted to keep her blanket' but didn't feel the need to go into more detail so the foster family just had to figure out on their own that that was a trigger for her? like! as fosters, they should have gotten SO much more information, but the way the episode was structured was for *drama* instead of empathy or accuracy. the ending, with karen telling mara how strong and brave she was, and that she didn't need to be brave, and identifying a positive coping mechanism to help with her transition? absolutely lovely. most of the rest of it? a mess.

as for hen being like 'i don't know if we can keep her'--i do think that set up was also for drama, bc as i said above, in a real circumstance i do think they would have been more informed. if it was just mara and no other children, i don't think hen would have brought that up at all. but...look. fostering is hard. she wasn't wrong about denny needing to feel safe in his own home. i think it would be realistic for her to be concerned about making sure the environment is safe for all the kids in the home. but that conversation itself, and the fact that hen needed to be convinced to give mara another chance through saving a traumatized dog, was trash. there was a better way to approach a complicated situation like that.

eddie's storyline was. fine. i can tell it was rushed bc of the short season, and some of the character beats that i think they would have taken more time on just had to be told to the audience in shorthand, and frankly, i can forgive that. bobby's scene with eddie was very nice. how relieved he was by her moving out at the end was, frankly, funny. like 'haha i can't wait to move out' '*relieved sigh* me EITHER' girl if i was marisol i would be so offended.

buck is a hot mess and i'm glad tommy gave him another chance bc he made an absolute fool out of himself, but his scenes with maddie and eddie were both really nice.

overall it just. hm. it felt uneven. like eddie and buck's storylines were both treated in a really light way, which kind of worked with the subject matter and resolution of their plots. but then when hen and karen's got a...sort of similar treatment? with the ~~spooky child~~ thing they were trying at the beginning of the episode, it rang very unsympathetic and dehumanizing toward a little black girl in pain, which is not what i want, need, or expect from this show.

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god but hen 'my mother didn't show up to my wedding' wilson telling her comatose father about how the first time she realized she wanted to kiss a girl, she wrote him a letter about it? 'confessions to an imaginary daddy'? because someone out there has to love her for who she is, even if that person is gone

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buck yelling, 'eddie, what are you doing?' as eddie spidermans up a burning house in 2.14

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eddie yelling, 'buck, where are you going?' as buck bikes after a drunk driver who's absconded with chim in 6.04

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I LOVE HEN AND KAREN

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we love a woman in STEM

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taylor: no more lies

buck literally one episode later: lying by omission

Taylors asked about Lucy enough that I’m thinking at this point that Taylor’s gonna end up in trouble and have to use that emergency beacon that Buck got her for the holidays, and then Lucy’s also gonna be there for the rescue, and that’s how they’ll break up. The high of rescuing the person you…you love (complete with uncertain pause), straight to the lows of having the things you’re not telling her for fear of being left blow up in your face.

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buck to hen: I…I love her

buck to maddie the very next episode: I do…I do love her

why does it seem like he needs to psych himself up to say it every time?

…no I know why. I’m completely on Taylor’s side in this impending breakup, and I’m getting such a kick out of buck completely ignoring the advice he gave Eddie about Ana at the beginning of the season

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i saw the sign, and it opened up my spine

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the karen and eva confrontation i didn't know i was waiting for AHHHHHH