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That's so weird because my reaction to S4 finale is it was the moment that convinced me Buddie was going to be endgame. Now two seasons later and we could be heading back to that same ending for the season depending on the events of the finale leaves me doubting things ngl. The only things I'm clinging on to are the couch theory, Eddie saying that relationships with people you meet at a rescue never works, and the fact that we're being introduced to these women so late in the season. It just seems like the writers even know they're giving this the most superficial things so that they can fix what they did in early S7.
To put it bluntly it just sucks that you know if this was gonna be the final 2 episodes that instead of going towards a story they've been telling since S2 they decide to put Buck and Eddie with women we don't even know their last name or anything about them. But they got renewed and will be moving to ABC so they can do the story they wanted to tell and I imagine these women will be kicked to the curb early in S7.
Okay, I'm gonna be real honest with you. I've seen that you've sent asks to a few of my friends, all generally saying the same thing. So to see you send me this ask makes me feel like you don't really want to have a discussion and aren't looking for actual support or positivity, you just want to keep being upset and tell people until someone agrees with you and tells you that your opinion that the writers made a shitty choice etc is valid.
So, to repeat a few things my friends have said:
They have not been doing Buddie since season two. I don't know why people persist on claiming this. Buddie was never the original plan. They did not decide to have Eddie get with Buck in season two. In fact in season two they seemed kinda unsure what to do with Eddie since he wouldn't be with Maddie any longer, but they still wanted the character, and Ryan, on the show. For my money, they started exploring the possibility of Buddie and discussing it seriously in season three, and season four was when they locked that in.
Now, I don't know about you, since you're a stranger on the internet, but to me, as a writer, it is a much, much better choice for them to have taken the risk rather than cram Buddie together, for a few reasons.
One: They cannot walk it back once Buddie is together. You're telling me you wanted them to sacrifice their story's integrity to give us a rushed unsatisfying get-together? Get out of my house. Watching television is, inherently, a gamble because it means you might get your stories unfulfilled. If you can't take that risk, then leave the casino. I am willing to risk it because I want a truly satisfying get-together, not something that was rushed and therefore isn't worthy of the delicious slow burn they're building.
Two: How many times do I have to scream at everyone to consider the behind the scenes issues before people start actually listening to me? Oh, forever? Because everyone is operating in bad faith and nobody wants to actually listen? Good to know. This will be the last I say on the matter.
We do not know what behind the scenes was going on in addition to the cancellation. What if certain Fox executives weren't supportive of Buddie? You're telling me that the writers and cast and crew should have, right when they'll need new jobs, guaranteed that their last employers will talk shit about them for disobeying orders and putting two characters together that they were told not to put together?
This is purely conjecture on my part, but I have seen time after time in fandom certain cast members and certain crew members and certain writers want a ship to become canon, and others not, and I have seen the way that back and forth played out, and guess fucking what? NOBODY WANTS TO LOSE THEIR FUCKING JOB. NOBODY WANTS TO BE PREVENTED FROM HAVING ANOTHER JOB.
Now, again, that's pure conjecture, but Fox really hasn't treated OG well for a while in terms of renewal, marketing, etc. And I have never, EVER, seen a show snapped up by another network so quickly. It's always "we got cancelled!" and then a few days or weeks later it's "we were saved by another network!" ABC was ON it. This gives me hope for a lot of things, like perhaps a 22 episode season. But given Fox's lack of promotion and appreciation for OG, it wouldn't surprise me if the cast and crew wanted Buddie and some people in the network didn't, and that is why we've been delayed on Buddie going canon. And while YOU may cry viva la revolution, it's much easier to have your principles when you've got a belly full, and while it may suck creatively there is no reason to piss off your bosses right when you need them to write you a recommendation for a new job because your show got cancelled - and while I'm sure they were hopeful, given the cast's social media I do not think anyone knew until it was publicly announced that they had, indeed, been saved and gotten another season.
My point is, this is just one theory I'm pulling out of a hat like a rabbit. We do not know what other BTS stuff is going on that made them choose to delay Buddie until season seven.
Three: To go back to point one, I do not think you've seen the reactions when a ship goes canon poorly. I was there, Gandalf. I was there the day that Booth and Bones got together. I was in the trenches. It soured SO many people, including me, on the show. To quote MBMBAM: YOU DIDN'T STICK THE LANDING! YOU JUST FLIPPED IN THE AIR FOR TWENTY MINUTES!!!
Sticking the landing when getting a ship together is possibly the most important moment in the couple's story. You cannot fuck up that landing. The writers chose to take the chance on it never happening in order to stick the landing the way they wanted. If that pisses you off, FINE. But stop coming into our inboxes to say the same thing over and over again about it, because we do not agree and we are never going to agree. We are at an impasse.
Now, to move onto some other points, WHY IS EVERYONE CONVINCED THAT EDDIE WILL STILL BE WITH SOMEONE WHEN THE SEASON ENDS!? WHEN DID WE DECIDE THIS!? He could be! But holy shit he could just go on one date with her that fizzles out! We have no clue! If someone in this fandom can see into the future and knows for sure this is going to happen then give me the winning lotto numbers right this second!!! Give them to me!!!! I need to fund my world domination campaign!!!
And finally, I feel like you've answered your own concerns, here. Given that you have sent similar asks to my friends, I don't think you're actually interested in allaying those concerns, because you keep answering your own questions and repeating yourself ad naseum. I could be wrong. Again, I don't know you. But this sure seems to be the case given that you're saying to me similar stuff you've said to my friends in asks they've already answered.
But to look at your own ask, you just said why we shouldn't be worried. "It seems like the writers even know..." YES. YES, THEY DO KNOW. I would love to know who the hell decided that television shows are made by the Television Fairy who creeps into the studio at night and waves her magic wand to create all the good stuff we see on our screens while the writers sit around with their thumbs up their asses.
Let's imagine you are a showrunner and you are going into the second half of your season, and you learn that it is extremely likely this season is actually your last. You guys start negotiating quietly with other networks to move the show, while hoping against hope this is not, indeed, the end. But this means you now have, what, nine episodes? To put all your characters in a place that is, if not ideal, at least somewhat positive for your audience?
You can't start any too-major arcs. You can't end on too bad of an emotional cliffhanger. This means some things will wrap up faster. Other things will get pushed forward. And some things have to be delayed, because they might never happen, and you can't give people a third or a half of an arc. Which means that you're going to be throwing in some filler for those characters instead, and doing things differently than how you might have wanted.
I do not know how many times I have to explain this, but television is not fanfiction. When I sit down to write a fic, there's not a damn person in the world who can tell me what to do. I write the story that I want, and if someone doesn't like it, they can hit the bricks.
Television is not like that. Television is one of the biggest group projects there is. Picture the worst group project you had to do in school and then times it by ten. Welcome to the television and film industry. The fact that any film or show, even the truly awful ones, gets made is nothing short of a miracle given all the people involved and all the ways the ball can be dropped. As a show runner, you are answering to multiple executives, to the creators, to the executive producers, to your own writers' room, and to the fans. You are trying to balance what everyone tells you to do, what the fans want you to do, and what you and your (hopefully trusted) writing team want and plan to do. I could never be a show runner and while there are quite a few with whom I've got bones to pick, I cannot deny that they all do a job I would never, ever be capable of pulling off. I'd quit on day three.
So, yeah, they gave Buck a temporary girlfriend as filler, to kinda cap off his current arc if this was the end, or to provide more layers to his full arc if they got another season. If you don't like that, then that's okay. Nobody is telling you to like it. When you come into someone's inbox like this, the assumption is that you're looking to be reassured, and so that's why you're getting the responses that you are. The previous people who've answered you have been trying to reassure you and allay the concerns you seem to have.
But it seems to me like you want a more full conversation, and possibly, that you just want to rant and vent. That's fine, but find a friend for that. Join a discord server. Because when you send the same stuff over and over again to different people, all of whom give you basically the same reply, it just makes you look like a very obstinate stick in the mud who wants everyone else to join them in being upset, and people don't much like having the same conversation multiple times, or being pushed into being upset when they're not.
You might just have to agree to disagree, and move on. Find other ways to get this out of your system, because my inbox, and the inboxes of others, is not the place for your venting in circles.
Now, in spite of my firm tone, I hope you will believe me when I say that I hope you're taking care of yourself, and that you are staying safe in this scary world, and that you have a good rest of your day.
#mads answers things#pedropascale#I'm closing my inbox guys I refuse to discuss this any further#genuinely I mean this with all sincerity I think some of you need to go into the Supernatural fandom and learn about the backstage drama#because that was a BIG lesson for me as a fan in how BTS can seriously affect what you see on screen#and no I do not mean this in a shipper way#I mean this in a 'what the hell was going on during seasons six through eight' kind of way#for example all the jokes you're seeing about 'what happened last time we had a writer's strike'?#THAT'S SUPERNATURAL#DEAN WAS NEVER SUPPOSED TO GO TO HELL#SAM WAS SUPPOSED TO LEAN INTO HIS DEMON POWERS AND EMBRACE THEM IN ORDER TO SAVE DEAN'S SOUL#BUT THE WRITER'S STRIKE HIT AND THEY SAID SHIT WE'RE OUTTA TIME UM. GUESS YOU'RE GOING TO HELL!!!#and then they had to GET HIM OUT OF HELL#so Sera Gamble (YUP IT WAS HER DON'T GET ME STARTED OR WE'LL BE HERE ALL DAY)#said hey what if we actually DID have angels#(previously angels were not supposed to exist. hunters were God's agents on earth. it was demons vs hunters. no angels.)#and one of those angels was sent to rescue Dean? since Heaven would be invested in this too?#(I don't know if they already had the Dean-as-Michael idea or if that came up along with the angels idea)#and so Sera Gamble created the angel Castiel#who saved the Righteous Man from Hell#AND SHOCKWAVES WERE SENT THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE POP CULTURE SPHERE#AND AN ENTIRE GENERATION OF FANDOM WAS AFFECTED BY THIS DECISION IN A DOMINO EFFECT ARGUABLY NOT SEEN SINCE AMOK TIME#I know we like the idea of our stories existing in a vacuum separate from the real world#and that our stories are told the way the writers want to tell them regardless of all else#but that is unfortunately not how it works when the story you're telling#requires millions of dollars and the involvement of dozens if not hundreds of people#we have GOT to give our creative teams some fucking grace for the realities of how their jobs operate#we must we must we must
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Everybody wanted a hint about if Buck and Eddie is gonna happen. Well it happened in this episode in the most unsubtle way. When Ravi essentially said Buck's partner should be someone who has his back. A direct echo to the line Buck and Eddie said to one another in Eddie's first episode. People wanted to know if Buddie was happening where's the first canan hint, I think that's as much a canon hint as you can possibly get.
Literally all of 5B was so loud about Buddie canon it was screaming into a megaphone. How anyone steps away from this episode where their only scene was to be as husband shaped as possible repairing Eddie’s walls (after Ana and “I guess it’s your mess now”) while Ravi told Buck that true romantic partners have each other’s backs and where Buck told Maddie that true love was about being there for each other at your worst and most vulnerable and staying and think that Buddie canon isn’t coming…idk, get well soon ig 🤷🏼♀️
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okay so i'm bingewatching abott elementary and s2 is so good i just finished the festival episode. ummm are they doing some enemies to lovers stuff with jacob and mr morton because i'm getting the vibe and I found it interesting that jacob has more scenes with mr morton then his own boyfriend who he never got a one on one scene with at all this season. IDK I just feel like mr morton and jacob are gonna be a pairing. i'm going crazy aren't I lol
Ha! Oh my goodness you gave me a good laugh. I have to say I absolutely love this little side storyline of Jacob and Mr. Morton's feud. I can never tell if it's a two way feud, or just Jacob overblowing Mr. Morton's general annoyance with the younger teachers into something personal and reacting to that. I can't remember which episode it is, but there's one where Mr. Morton is being supportive and Jacob is just reading evil into it... Hilarious.
I would hate to see anything happen to Jacob and Zach's relationship, Zach is such a good guy and they seem pretty solid. At this point I don't think they are planning a romantic pairing for Jacob/Morton, but I would be here for an enemies to friends journey for them.
Actually I'd love to see a bit more of Mr. Morton, overall he's such a good foil for the younger teachers.
If they do become a couple, feel free to come back here and say I told you so! You'll deserve it :)
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I've never been concerned about Natalia, death doula you met at a rescue and in the same episode are told this won't end well is not a recipe for endgame. I have no doubt they will break up in S7. Marisol tbh had me a little nervous because it seems clear that Eddies endgame is going to be in the same make up as Bathena. If they had Marisol sit with Eddie at the hospital or had them meet again by fate and see them on a date then I'd be oh shit this is paralleling Bathena. But what they did was very uneventful and frankly juvenile that there's no lasting impression they can make and with a time jump on the way probably a big one will not surprise me if Marisol is taken completely off screen but we still see a more confident Eddie going into S7.
Meanwhile they hammered you with the parallels in episode 17 that Buddie = Bathena.
TBH S6 especially from 11-14 were saying, these two are endgame but they're so stupid right now. Then they introduced these love interests that they telegraphed to the audience that neither is going to last so now we just wait and see the Buddie storyline continue to deepen in S7 and hopefully we get to the point where they wake the hell up already.
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more power to you if you wanna be negative it's your blog you can write what you want just have a tag warning for negativity so that the people that think this show can do no wrong don't have to see it because this season especially I'm having huge issues with.
it's less about my followers seeing what i post and more about me not wanting to get too comfortable with constantly posting negative stuff about the show. i don't want to turn into one of those bitter blogs that's always ranting about a show they clearly hate lol. and i also don't want to let myself forget about all the things i've enjoyed about this season, too. so that's why i'm preferring not to be overly negative on here, i don't want to end up in a place where i'm suddenly hating and dismissing every single good thing about 911.
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you should explain it instead of mock people that have a right to be upset. explain what the writers are putting down because I'm still not seeing a valid reason why Eddie was completely almost erased from this episode.
Hey!
I've seen your other ask as well and I'm answering it here.
I did explain it and I wasn't mocking people - and if it came over that way then its because I'm fed up with my inbox filling up with anons being incredibly rude to me (and others in the fandom) - I've had over 40 anon messages since the episode started - most of them either rude or nasty. Everyone has the right to feel how they feel about things, but they don't get to come into mine and other peoples inboxes and mouth off about there unhappiness over something which I've (and others) have interpreted differently to them - they have their own feed they can post it there - just as I do - our inboxes are not here for hatred - I have no issues saying what I think for everyone to ready - using anon for nastiness is not what its there for. They clearly don't think about the mental health of those whose inboxes they go to and that is never ever ok.
I won't turn my anon because I believe in its value - some people are shy about asking questions that they worry about being silly questions and I've made mistakes in things I've posted in the past and I've had lovely people in my inbox on anon explaining to me why I've got something wrong - its allowed me to learn and be better so I will leave anon on, but is it really any surprise that lots of people turn theirs off?
But to get to the question at hand;
For starters Eddie wasn't completely erased from this episode - we saw his reaction to Buck being in a coma - he was full in crying and trying to stop himself breaking down - not once but twice. I'll go into it in my costume meta, but the fact that he only has one outfit for the whole episode (after his turnouts), despite clearly being in the hospital for several days - thats very telling to me - especially coming from a costume background!
The reason we didn't see much Eddie in the real world, or any in the coma verse is because Buck and Eddies relationship is not a familial one - as in they are not brothers, nor are they a parental figure to one another - that was the entire point of the episode - to emphasise the familial relationships and their importance to Buck (and the firefam as a whole more widely). I don't know how to explain that this episode was about family - about fathers and sons and siblings - in a different way!
The show by not including Eddie in Bucks Coma dream was very clearly saying that Eddie doesn't fit into the parameters of those boxes - that Eddie has his own box - one that is very much separate from any one else in the episode and one that Buck is not in a place to open yet. because opening that box means reckoning with romantic feelings and accepting that he's in love with his best friend. Buck needs to do a bit more work on himself before he reaches that point (and Eddie does as well actually).
Hopefully this has helped you understand more of where I'm coming from. Subtext is a very powerful tool in the writers arsenal and they are very deliberate in how they use it.
#kym answers things#pedropascale asks#I'm jsut here to enjoy my wee woo show!#911 spoilers#to anyone getting hate anons - don't feed the trolls and use the block button with gay abandon!#911 on fox
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woof aisha's live has a spoiler in it that's probably gonna make people upset...
It was a sentence that was said without context. No one knows the intention behind besides the person who said it and the person who was supposed to hear it.
#the instant everyone is upset without knowing what happens is exhausting to me#nothing at you pedropascale#but its everywhere all the time#and im tired#its why i dont have anon on#novs answers
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why did you rage quit in s4?
A couple reasons. The first is that I was in the middle of a bad living situation and the worst mental space I'd ever experienced in my life. So I wasn't in the best space to not get what I wanted from my fictional blorbos.
The second is that after the shooting happened, I thought we'd get Buddie canon the next episode in the finale, and was disappointed and upset when it didn't happen.
The third is that I didn't want Taylor and Buck to get together. I really liked them as platonic friends, and thought Taylor could actually be a good friend to Buck that way, since she was someone outside the firefam who could call him out on shit. Her suddenly turning around and wanting to be with him after the shooting felt like a 180 to me in her character development, and that upset me.
Basically, I was too impatient and in a bad headspace. I thought the finale would give us Buck or Eddie confessing to a third party, I thought we'd get Buddie Roommates because I apparently CANNOT let go of that dream no matter how much the show keeps telling me it's not going to happen you stupid slut, and I didn't cope well when my expectations were not met.
After I had ranted and raved, I was able to listen to the more reasonable people like @extasiswings who gently coaxed me back to sanity and pointed out how I was being a bit impatient. I joke with my friends that my entire personality is "I will get over it! BUT LET ME BE DRAMATIC FIRST!" but it really was a lesson in remembering not to let my emotions get the best of me.
I ended up adoring season five, and what season five did with Eddie's arc both with Ana and with his trauma. It strengthened Buck and Eddie's bond, and it set things up so that it would make sense that Buck would kinda flounder and regress the way he has in season six, setting himself up for his own arc of truly facing his trauma and coming into his own so that he's ready to be with Eddie in a way that will be healthy for them both.
So, as we approach a finale that might very well parallel the season four finale - one half of Buddie in a picture-perfect surface-level relationship and the other dating in a response to that - one half of Buddie dealing with a massive trauma they are refusing to face in a healthy way and the other just trying to be ready to catch them when they fall - I brought up my own previous "rage quit" as a way to show worried fans that things went so much better than I thought they would.
I understand fans being worried or frustrated. But I would like to remind everyone that season four was during a pandemic. Season six is experiencing a similar behind-the-scenes issue that heavily affected their storytelling i.e. they most likely knew for weeks if not months that Fox wouldn't renew them.
It means a delay in the stories we want to see happen, and the stories the writers want to tell. But it does not mean doom and gloom. I think if we truly enjoy the show and trust the people involved, it's only fair we understand the circumstances under which they were working, and give them a little grace.
#mads answers things#pedropascale#I know it might annoy people to feel like we're in the same place we were two seasons ago#but we're not#Eddie is aware he's in love with Buck and has faced his own trauma#and Buck is going to finally face his instead of hiding and running from it using band-aid solutions (like romance)#I was deeply scared because I suspected for a while Fox wouldn't renew#but now that we have a guaranteed season seven#I am truly confident in Buddie happening and not at all worried#I literally cannot express how chill I feel it's so nice
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I will say contraception, same sex relationships and marriage are different. Clarence Thomas is the most homophobic piece of shit but even Kavenaugh and all those other justices do not agree with Clarence Thomas on how he views gay sex/marriage and contraception. I think a women has the full right to what she wants to do with her body but this fucker doesn't have the votes to go after the other freedoms.
That’s simply incorrect. While Thomas is the most extreme in terms of saying outright that he doesn’t believe that any substantive due process rights exist, all of the conservative justices disagree with those rulings, disagree with the idea that the constitution implies a right to privacy generally, and specifically want to overturn LGBT and women’s rights. ACB is on record as saying she only thinks there are about 7 “superprecedents” that shouldn’t ever be reconsidered and there’s absolutely no reason to think she wouldn’t vote to overturn marriage equality or Griswold. Roberts and Alito were in the dissent on Obergefell and clearly have no problem with overturning precedent (Roberts, as I’ve discussed before, has no problem doing it but likes to play the long game and hide the ball with his true intentions). Kavanaugh and Gorsuch ascribe to methods of constitutional interpretation that are incompatible with the holdings of Obergefell and Griswold (and Lawrence)…so yes, the Court absolutely has the votes right now to overturn all of those precedents, the only question is whether they’ll get a case that gives them the chance to do so before the makeup of the Court changes again.
Personally, my theory is that a Griswold challenge will come in the form of some red state banning IUDs and a district and appeals court deciding Griswold doesn’t apply because IUDs weren’t a form of contraception contemplated by Griswold. Not sure yet what the challenges to Lawrence and Obergefell will look like going through the pipeline, but they will come.
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I can see that happening, so you think the final scene with the couch theory this season is Buck and Eddie after Eddie and Lucy end it. If Eddie and Lucy date I don't see that lasting more then an episode and definitely not carrying over to S7.
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Well we know that the couch Margaret is picking out for him isn't going to last and that he's going to be picking his own couch at the end of the season, so for me that is very much a metaphor for buddie. I don't think its going to be Buck choosing Eddies couch because I don't think Buddie will actually be together at season end, but I do think we'll see him with a couch that compliments Eddies one that can go with him when they eventually move in together and combine their stuff (theres enough room in Eddies sitting room for a second couch!!) and that is ultimately more of a satisfying thing - it plays on the idea that they are both still individuals as well as a couple, and that unlike Taylor getting rid of Bucks couch, they are on equal footing!
I think we'll be seeing Lucy in 6x17 and 18 because they seem to be set up as a double episode arc with the bridge collapse etc. We know Lucy is now with the air operations team and if you try telling me that an episode entitled love is in the air doesn't have some connection to Lucy and dating in it then I'll eat one of Ryans hats!! ( I also love the idea that love is in the air and the Lucy being a female Buck of it all is also very much about the fact that Eddie saved Buck when he was up in the air - literally hanging in the air - its very much playing into the concept of dating the wrong person) We might see her in 6x16 for a bit of set up - depends how they set it up - are they going to start 6x17 with the 118 bumping into Lucy pre the big diaster that will happen towards the end of the ep (for resolution in 6x18) or are they going to put her return in a little earlier so its less jarring - my thinking and feeling is 6x17 is when she'll be back but its hard to know at htis point.
She definitely won't last very long as a love interest it will be a couple of dates and then something will happen to end it and move things forward! and I'm pretty confident that Lucy won't be around in season 7 - it all very much smells of tying up loose ends and a very specific narrative purpose!
#kym answers things#pedropascale asks#911 speculation#911 spoilers#911 on fox#couch theory#911onfox#911 fox#eddie diaz#evan buckley#lucy donato
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did i miss the report that eddie and lucy go on a date or is this just speculation lol?
Hey Pedropascale!
Its speculation - Oliver said a few things in interviews (such as Lucy being the opposite of a love interest which means love rival) that point towards it being very likely!
Thing is it makes sense narratively, I've said since the beginning Lucy's purpose is to move the story forward - her name literally means guiding light. She's been described (by both Oliver and KR) as a female Buck and we've also had Oliver talking about Buck still being on his pursuit for happiness and going on an 'insightful journey' as well as 'opening himself back up' - combined with the bts of a potential earthquake and bridge collapse tying into 7.1 and the happiness convention
Put that together withEddie going on dates andtheir being trial and error, placing her in the role of love rival to Buck and Eddie dating someone who is like Buck but isn't actually Buck is very likely and Lucy provides everything needed to move the Buddie of it all much further along - because everything is pointing to feelings realisations, potential pining and then Buddie goes Canon either right at the end of this series - or more likely in 7a (my money is on 7x04 with it being the 100th episode) so they can build up a bit of hype during hiatus!
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Hi how are you doing today I really enjoyed our talk yesterday and I actually wanted to discuss something with you. So I'm a member of a forum(yeah I know big mistake) and buck and eddie is brought up a lot in it. And yesterday someone came in and said this comment " Alot of you don't understand true friendship and unconditional love. Buck and Eddie are not lovers. You do not have to screw someone to love them/care about them". I personally think this comes off incredibly obtuse and also a bit homophobic if I might add. This belief that we want Buddie canon because we wanna see them screw which is not the case at all. First of all show on Fox is never ever gonna show anything remotely like that. It's about the story they're telling. A very clear queer love story and I just think making a comment like that is just so linear and obtuse it cheapens the dynamic Buck and Eddie truly have.
I have a lot of thoughts, but honestly the short response is just this: not only do we understand true friendship and the many different kinds of love that exist in the world, so do the writers of the show. They could have written Buck and Eddie the way they write Hen and Chim (best friends who love each other deeply), or Hen and Athena (best friends who love each other deeply), or Bobby and Michael, or Bobby with any of the firefam (a father figure who similarly loves them all deeply and vice versa), or Buck and Hen (who love each other like siblings), or Eddie and Hen, or Buck and Chim, or Maddie and Josh, or even like Buck and Maddie or Chim and Albert (who are actually siblings). But they didn't do that. This show is brimming with platonic unconditional love for friends and found family in all sorts of configurations, and instead of writing Buck and Eddie the way they do every other platonic dynamic, the writers have instead chosen to regularly code them romantically and parallel their dynamic and their arcs with the main explicitly romantic pairings on the show.
Also? "True friendship and unconditional love" and "romantic love and sexual attraction" are not mutually exclusive concepts. A hell of a lot of people fall in (romantic) love with and marry their best friends. Straight people don't have a monopoly on that.
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Hi just wondering did something happened or is this just people on Twitter being dumb again?
A podcast episode about 911 and “how the show queerbaits and plays into harmful tropes about representation” with quality gems like “with Lonestar it felt like they were like look at all of this representation to distract you from the lack of LGBTQIA representation in the original" (when OG literally by the numbers has more queer rep and at least in S1 more diversity than LS, so they’re really saying that they just think black people don’t count) and claiming that Tim said that "well we have hen and karen so we don't need more" and how that's putting a cap on representation (to my knowledge Tim has literally never said that, and it wouldn’t make sense for him to have said that either since, again, OG has always, from S1, had more queer rep than Hen and Karen alone (although Hen and Karen would still be awesome rep even if they were the only queer rep on the show)). Pure clownery (derogatory).
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So Oliver says Buck is gonna realize what he wants in a partner and a relationship and what he wants in life and now we know he's taking care of Chris. Him and Eddie are literally wearing matching suits to the wedding. He is the light and Eddie is the dark, the whole yin and yang symbolism of it all. You can also go with the Sun/Moon analogy, either way you spin it, it lands at Buddie is going canon. Also the seating order is probably Buck, Chris(their son in the middle) and Eddie. A family.
I have nothing coherent to add to this atm because I’m too busy screaming crying fainting and my whole brain is one big blue screen with white noise crackling in the background and a big neon sign flashing “wedding reception love confession” and I’m going to fling myself out a window. I know I’ve been SAYING this is happening but jesus fucked a saint it’s REALLY HAPPENING someone bring me a crash cart please 😭😭😭😭😭
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