911 + Text Posts pt186/?

2.12 Chimney Begins - 2.09 Hen Begins - 2.16 Bobby Begins Again - 7.04 Buck, Bothered and Bewildered

Tommy's family arc

real.

The thing with Hen calling Chim Buck and Eddie the three judases is actually really interesting. Because Judas did what Jesus/ god wanted him to do. His betrayal was necessary - in Christian theology it is his betrayal that brought the salvation of humanity.

So Hen referring to the boys in this way is a moment of double meaning - yes it is a reference to her feeling betrayed, but it’s also a way of foreshadowing that they’ll have her back - that they are also her salvation and I think that’s really lovely

Headcanon that no-one in the A shift is straight. We have Hen who's a lesbian and Buck who is Bi. Then I headcanon Chimney as bisexual and Eddie as Bi/Pan or (repressed) Gay. Ravi is Ace/Pan. My favourite part of my headcanon is that everyone is talking about how they are all Not Straight and tease about Bobby being the token straight and he's like, who said I'm straight and they all go ?? And he just says "I've been alive longer than any of you, you don't think I've ever kissed a guy before? Experimented a little?" And while everyone just blue screens Bobby just smiles and continues to cook as usual. When asked, he tells them he doesn't use any specific labels but he's just not straight.

Athena after learning about Buddie

Athena: What are your intentions with my- 

Bobby: *cough cough* 

Athena: OUR son 

hot take

but i think buck and eddie should have friendships that don't revolve around each other. tommy would be great for this.

If I have a coin for anytime I fell something for a tired old man who may or may not accidentally adopted their mentally unstable subordinators and would fight anyone who hurt them. Then I would be few coin richer, not much but it’s weird that I would have more than a coin.

(They and their partner would be the old marriage couple who looks at their unhinged adopted kids and their shenanigans, then wonder how tf did they even get here, but won’t trade a thing for the makeshift, dumpster fire of a family they have made along the way)

the fact that the show has decided to do these cute little almost black-and-white flashback snippets spliced into important emotional moments this season about chosing each other and finding happiness!!!! I am fucking rattling at the doors and clawing at the walls over the possibility of getting one FOR BUCK TOO but about him and eddie and chris and the family he already has and does not want to give up and how happy they already make him

I need us all to be prepared for the possibility that the couch is the 118. I think it'd be a lame and wimpy choice but I just. Need us to be ready for that possibility and also to be normal about it

It's all about the kids being the anchor to their parents life whenever they are in danger.

Buck being the one to make Bobby come out of his shell and fight for his life (his sobriety).

Christopher being who Eddie fights to come back to.

Christopher telling Buck to come back and Buck's perfect dreamworld being broken when he is being reminded of the tsunami and told that Eddie and his son aren't even living together.

It's all about fighting to come back to life, literally and metaphorically, home to your family.

I know how people (even the fans, including me) give the show shit for the pure insanity that is some of the plots (but it’s ok I love mess!) but one of the things 911 does exceptionally, unironically well is the way they showcase an ensemble cast.

We might not get to see every relationship as frequently as the primary ones but the little ways the show highlights everyone’s unique relationships is so great!

the way they all came and he wasn’t alone anymore brb crying

what makes the 118’s glorious found family dynamic is that the 118 was never the magic fire house station that makes everybody feel like a family. it didn’t have a history like that before them, quite frankly it was the opposite. they never had captains long enough to make it that kind of fire house. they didn’t have that sort of relationship that somehow even after two straight days of being with each other, the comfort and the peace still exists within that space, with each other. what makes it so great is that the people who makes the 118 now are the reasons why that fire house is what it is. they made the 118 legendary—not because it was before them, but because they made it when they all came together and became a team, a family. it wouldn’t be that way if it wasn’t for every single one of them. it wouldn’t be that way if you left one out of the equation. they come as a group, as a team, as a family. now their stories and banters and pranks and shared dinners and breakfasts and book sessions and heart to hearts and love will live in that fire house long after they’ve all gone and people will know, will feel it.

my opinion, like many in the fandom, is that Buck has always been a little bi coded, and I think handling it like the way abc handled Rosa Diaz being bi, by simply having Buck drop some information he’s always known about himself but never been comfortable sharing, would be a decent way of handling it. for one thing, having both buck and eddie go through a gay panic thing would be a lot for one season, and maybe a bit repetitive, and I think it would be perfectly in character, while adding a really lovely layer to Maddie & Buck’s relationship, that Maddie has always known Buck was bisexual, and has attempted (maybe awkwardly) over the years to get Buck to be more comfortable with it. I also think it would add a really wonderful layer to Buck and Chim’s relationship (again, to make the b99 comparison bc this is a textbook “if i had a nickel for every time a beloved, diverse show involving police officers got canceled by fox and picked up by ABC bc beloved diverse shows with a really active fan base are their bread and butter i’d have two nickels” situation lol), the same way it was a natural & moving way to have the first person Rosa came out to be Charles, if Chim finds out because Buck needs to talk to Maddie about how he and Eddie had a stress induced make out on Eddie’s couch and then Eddie had a panic attack over being gay, and Chim is there trying to connect the dots of this conversation & be supportive bc Buck is anxiously mumbling while bear hugging Jee in his kitchen. And “Buck has been bisexual the entire time” leaking out to the rest of the 118 has a lot of potential; we know they’re all gossipy & nosy about each other, and Chim is terrible at keeping important secrets, so Hen & Bobby piecing it together from Buck‘s sudden interest in LA Gay Culture & Chim’s nervous stuttering, while Ravi is like “happy that you’re comfortable enough to come out to me Buck but again, i do not need to know this much detail about your personal life” all of this just seems like a very natural, easy way of getting Buck to come out.

and that leaves the Gay Panic storyline to Eddie, lmao. because whether they decide to go with the common fandom idea of “eddie is gay but due to being a really macho dude from Texas, born into a family of very typically ‘we will always love you no matter if you’re straight or choose to be gay’ esque family, has been heavy repressing it all these years” or they decide to make him bisexual, it’s clear that Eddie’s continued wild misses at dating women, panic attacks over the idea of being with a woman, and naming another man as the caretaker of his child in case he dies, that Eddie is primed to have an absolute break down if he ever comes out. Is it very similar to Carlos’ story? Yeah, obviously, but they’re incredibly different people, and more than that, the type of family they come from is incredibly common in this day and age, and whereas we’ve seen the fallout of all the shame that comes with feeling like your parents love isn’t unconditional wrt Carlos, we never saw the initial, badly handled coming out that prompted this break in the Reyes family, and we would be seeing that with Eddie and the Diaz family! not only that, but we have Hen & Toni there to help Eddie (and his parents & pepa & abuelita) through it, to help them handle what are bound to be difficult conversations on Eddie’s history of dating women his family will like that he has minimal interest in, and what happens now that Eddie is once again testing the unconditional aspect of his family’s love.

And that’s not even touching The Bobby And Athena Of It All, from Bobby once again relating to Eddie’s struggles of “what do you do when you feel like the core of who you are has shifted and everyone else is standing still” to Athena having intimate knowledge of the effect of coming out late in life, after you’ve lived a whole life as an ostensibly heterosexual man. We could get a really touching scene between Bobby & Athena and Buck, discussing how this is something he’s always known but it’s just been easier to let it go unsaid even if he knew Bobby and the rest of the 118 would be loving and supportive if he ever came out. Imagine the jokes re: Buck, Eddie, AND Hen being the messiest gays in LA while Ravi is begging them to Say Less.

I think the storyline potential of “Buck and Eddie impulsively make out after a stressful call in ep 1 and then skirt around their feelings for at least half a season” can be really rich, and also kind of in line for how abc has handled a character who got popular for being bi coded, and I’m not saying i trust them to not be cowards about it, but I am saying they shouldn’t be cowards about it.

Bobby one second after meeting Maddie

Bobby: Sooo, Howard… If that even IS your real name… What are your intentions with my daughter? 

Chimney: Bobby? Are you for real right now? 

Maddie: He asked you a question, Howard. 

Chimney: 🇰🇷🏃🏻🇰🇷