it’s the way some people were headcanoning beforehand that eddie would be dead in the dream bc buck wasn’t there to save him from the sniper but the episode chose to focus on buck’s impact on eddie so early on the show instead and how all that almost mirrors the “you act like you’re expendable but you’re wrong” conversation. Bc ultimately it’s never been about buck saving eddie in the literal sense, it’s about the way he’s saved him just because he’s buck. Because he’s eddie’s support system and because he has his back and because of his importance to christopher and because, from pretty much the first week, buck stepped into the mess with eddie and never stepped back out again