#someone yell at me about writing buck and eddie's AU 'under pressure' meeting because confrontation is HARD

[lovecolibri]

SaL anon here friend, still here though its been a very long work week, and still stewing in my bitterness about the OG finale 😠. And by finale I mean season 6 in general. Like, there are parts of the LS season that sucked and absolutely could and should been done better (dropping the marriage plot and 50% of the police investigations to make room for the 3 tragic storylines in the finale to breathe over the season and let it end with a happy wedding pretty much fixes 99% of the problems) but it could at least have been done better. I think if you asked me how to save S6 I would say something like "with a time machine to S4" or "don't try, just burn it to the ground".

And if I really think about it, it didn't start out this way? Remember 1000 years ago when we got 6x01?? I remember being excited because the things being setup looked legitimately interesting for all the characters. Buck starting his leadership arc, Chim and Maddie repairing their relationship, Hen struggling with to balance her job and medical school, Eddie having to deal with Chris growing up (remember that?), Bobby and Athena going to see her family and giving her a chance for closure, everyone had something that made sense for where they were when S5 ended. Even 6x02 didn't look too bad, I though Buck's happiness arc would end up tying into his leadership one, and basically turn into a finding peace with yourself plot. And maybe its just me but suddenly there was this abrupt, weird shift in 6x04?? Like all these wonderful potential season-long plotlines suddenly needed to get wrapped up ASAP? Maybe those scripts were already written before the cancellation news came in because when I look back it feels like a different show. I remember being excited that the firefam was a focus again, we got them back!! And then the slow disappointment as the season went along to find that those moments didn't ever hold any weight. Am I imagining all this??

I don't know if any of this makes sense. When things disappointment me I tend to shift into analysis mode and try and make sense of it, and after thinking back to those first few episodes, i feel like this isn't the season we were supposed to have. Like all that promise in the first couple of episodes suddenly got replaced with half thought out nonsense. Again, I don't know if I'm trying to make a coherent statement here, or maybe checking in to see if I remember things right.

Anywho, hope you are doing well on your end cause we have a long, fraught hiatus up ahead. I've started to watch The Night Agent for a distraction and so far (I'm mostly through episode 2) am enjoying it. Rose hasn't done too much but I see the potential with her character and Peter looks like a highly whumpable partner for her. Can't wait to see where it goes. Got any good recs for further watching during hiatus (to distract me from keeping an eye out for KR hopefully making a career change)?

Hello my friend! It has indeed been A Week and that's even without all the 911 nonsense. You're not imagining things though! There was a lot of potential set up at the beginning of the season, though much like the blimp emergency, it turned out to be a lot of hype for an anticlimactic dud of a season. (I'm also wondering if the shift came about after the cancelation notice went out since it was before October, but also we all saw season 5 so KR just being Bad At Showrunning could also be a lot of the problem. If they were getting canceled you would think they would make an effort to...IDK make it better? Not waste any time? Have all the mains all the time doing all the things? What an idea 🙄)

A time machine back to season 4 would have been nice! LS definitely had pacing issues but you're right that just spacing some of it out could have solved a lot of problems. Also cutting Owen's billion plots outside of the firehouse and giving that time to emergency calls where we see more of the 126 interacting would have helped. But OG feels very much like a "throw the whole thing out and start over" kind of deal. Even the ideas that WERE good were executed so poorly that really just starting from scratch is the only fix. *sigh*

Anyway, I hope you enjoy The Night Agent, it was a lot of fun! Rose is very much "wet feral cat" energy and down to commit crimes at all times, while Peter is so "golden retriever that got left on the porch in the rain" energy it hurts. They're wonderful and I love them so much! Enjoy!

I'm not really watching much else? I started White Collar with my mom since I lost track of that show at some point and never finished it, and I'm about to watch the last episode or two of So Help Me Todd which I found to be some silly, laid back fun. I also really enjoyed Animal Control. It was absolutely RIDICULOUS but also sweet and fun. Shred and Emily are TOO CUTE. I'm working on finding something else to watch, but I'm also working on my Countdowns fic FINALLY even if it's just a lot of bullet points right now. I have some fun ideas I'm excited to work on so hopefully I will be able to get that done before the show comes back to suck the life out of me again. Or, if we're lucky, turn my brain to static in a GOOD way! Also, if you want to dissolve into a puddle of feelings, the new Ed Sheeran album WRECKED me this week so there's that too. I'm just full of emotions!

Hopefully next week will see both of us feeling a little better, or at least on the motivated side of salty and spiteful instead of the mournfully sad side! If season 7 and ABC don't give us episodes we can make song posts about I'm going to pull a Jason Mendoza and start throwing Molotov cocktails.