aaaaaah, i agree with what you said re 911 not showing us shit! sm of the show is "tell, don't show", and it's worse because of it. another thing that also came out of the blue is eddie apparently having regular poker nights with other people, even going as far as calling them another type of "family"! one of those people being captain mehta, who was there when eddie was shot! nobody else think that maybe that would have been important for us to experience with eddie? plus, idk, poker is smth you usually do at night ig bc it's accompanied with drinking? so who was babysitting chris all the times eddie went out? and why did buck apparently not know a single thing about this? sorry, i'd tell my friends-turned-family that i'm regularly playing poker? not like it's smth eddie has to be ashamed of?? 😂😂 it's this weird writing style that makes it seem like the characters aren't even that close (cuz normal people talk, especially when something new is going on in their lives, especially in a group who is supposedly as close as the 118), or forces me to readjust a lot of my knowledge about the characters retrospectively all the damn time fdhjdshfks; the show could simply show us when something new happens when it actually happens so that we can see things unfold with our own eyes instead of getting told stuff 6 months down the line (timeline-wise). OTL

oh don't even get me started on the tell and not show. we know why there was no hint of eddie playing poker before. it's because KR thinks of these things on the spot with no consideration for anything that's come before or what's going to come after. watch eddie at some point need to have an aspect of poker explained to him because KR will have forgotten that she made him a regular player. it was to serve buck's storyline after all.

and the golf thing is the same. has eddie ever seemed like someone who would play golf? with his limited free time in between working 24 hours shifts and being a single dad, he goes and plays golf? alone? send him to a batting cage, he can try and pick up woman there too, but at least it would have made sense as a healthy stress relief, hitting a ball instead of people.

i wouldn't be surprised if KR forgot that Mehta was there when eddie got shot, he was just a familiar face to round out the table. could have made some connecting comment about both buck and eddie dying/almost dying, but nope. can't acknowledge eddie's trauma without it being to service buck's story or set up another hetero love plot.

but yeah, the characters never talk anymore, except when needed to set up a storyline with the 500th guest star, then they've been having gab fests off screen the whole time, what do you mean you couldn't tell?

truly can't wait for the finale to air so i can put out my last bit of salt and most likely part ways with this show. (i'm not unfollowing everyone, so i'll listen up when s7 airs and see if it's even worth putting on in the background, but i def won't be rushing to download it every week)

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Thank you for the tag @hekaetes!! Sorry I took a bit to do it, got super busy 😭

3 Ships: suddenly like "I've never consumed a piece of media in my life" UH Marcus/Peter (The Exorcist), Azzie/Vin (Providence Girls), and gonna go with Ferus/Roan (Star Wars) because I am not someone who thinks a lot about shipping so I struggled 😂

First ever ship: I'm not sure--I think let's give an early mention to Nathan/Tracy (Heroes)

Last song: Glorious You by Frank Turner, according to my Spotify!

Last movie: gonna do TV show instead because I haven't watched any movies recently--The Exorcist show (for the 500th time)

Currently reading: I literally JUST finished King of Hell by @ghostpoetics so we'll shout that out!

Currently watching: finishing a re-watch of The Exorcist (TV) and also my partner and I regularly put re-runs of Bob's Burgers on TV as background noise haha I've got quite a few movies and shows I need to get back to/finally watch though!

Currently consuming: Coke

Currently craving: To actually decide what book to start next

Tagging: I don't think I know anyone well enough yet to say who to tag, but definitely feel free to tag me if you do it!!