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the couch theory was genuinely the funniest thing we’ve ever been tricked into believing. like yeah, guys, buddie canon because look he’s sleeping on eddie’s couch! he always feels comfortable with eddie, and being in his house! he’s finally learning he doesn’t need a new partner to pick out a couch for him because he’s had one all along, a safe place to land, and- nvm he did it again.
#911 show#evan buckley#eddie diaz#ramblings#tv: 911#buddie#911 abc#the couch theory#this show makes me feel crazy#it’s not over till it’s over though!
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‘I think I’m afraid of making a mistake again’
#buddie#i'm still in awe of how they could screw this up like they did#this was so well written#the perfect slow burn and then#bamm destroyed#i'll keep hoping tho#evan buckley#eddie diaz#buckley diaz family#buddie 911#911 buddie#the couch theory#buck x eddie#eddie x buck#911 buck#911 eddie#buddie supremacy#9-1-1#911#911 fox#911 abc#9-1-1 fox#911 fandom#my screenshots#my screencaps#oliver stark#ryan guzman#9-1-1 show#show: 911#tv: 911
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Tired of the argument:
“No one ever said the couch theory was about Buddie”
Yeah bc they didn’t have to. The show alluded to it. You can disagree all you want but I won’t see it your way. The whole theory and talk of couches came from Buck and Eddie talking about “couches” aka relationships. Then you have Buck unable to even sleep on his couch for 2 hours and then when he goes to Eddie’s he immediately falls asleep on his couch and then the s’more scene with Christopher perfectly parallels the scene Buck fell asleep. So don’t fucking tell me they never said it was Eddie bc they didn’t have to. So sorry I read something that was clearly intentional as something it wasn’t. Not like I expected Buck and Eddie to fuck on the couch, but it could have been them and Chris just sitting on the couch and kind of open ended like not made canon yet but known it could go there.
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Actual footage of my mom yelling at me after I screamed about Chris falling asleep on the couch:
#i will not shut up about it#the couch theory#911#911 fox#evan buckley#eddie diaz#buddie#eddie x buck#buck x eddie#christopher diaz
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Hiii Juju 💕💕💕💕
Hope you’re having a lovely day/night 🥰
About the couch theory, did you see that there were two sets of emojis released for the first episode of season 7 and the first set had a couch????? As in the episode that highlights the Buckley-diaz family 👀👀👀👀👀
You may have posted this, I forgot, sorry 😂
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Hi Saturn!!! 💜
I believe I did discuss those emojis back then but also I’m just, I knew we were not crazy for that freaking couch theory. To have it so heavily talked about, then to have Buck go to Eddie‘s house and immediately fall asleep on the couch when he couldn’t sleep was a big fucking statement. And not just that but a few episodes later to completely parallel that with Christopher asleep on the same couch?? The same scene like it was a big fucking statement. And I refuse to believe that entire thing was hyped up for a random love interest that came towards the end of the season and brought absolutely nothing into Buck’s life. I believe Buck still hasn’t found the right couch bc his couch IS AT EDDIE’S HOUSE ALONG WITH EDDIE AND CHRIS. Just how it’s always been. He needs to open his damn eyes!!!! Oh if we’re still talking about the damn couch theory, that means we’re still talking about the implications of who his person is that he’s been searching for. His right partner per se!!! AHHHHHHHH I AM SCREAMING!!!!
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Tease tidbit WIP (count this as Tuesday and Wednesday)
Tagged by all these amazing people!
@wikiangela @made-ofmemories @wildlife4life @loserdiaz @theotherluciferr @thewolvesof1998 @your-catfish-friend
Guys, I started a new job this Monday, I'm currently in training and it's... a lot, so I might be slow (more than usual) at writing and participating in tag games for the foreseeable future. I'll still try to participate as much as I can so please keep tagging me 🥺!
Anyways, I'm not sure if I've shared this little bit from Take care of him, the angst Buddie fic, but here, suffer with me over the couch theory because I'll never get over it (Eddie's couch is the right one damn it!)
He pops one bottle of beer open and downs it faster than he should, almost choking when the bubbles travel back up his throat to his nose. He grabs a couple of bottles and takes them with him to the living room where he flops himself on his couch.
His couch. It’s funny, as much as he had thought Buck’s couch metaphor ridiculous he can’t deny that for a moment he had hoped that his couch could be the right one for Buck, that maybe Buck didn’t need to get a new one.
Yeah, fucking hilarious how that turned out.
No pressure tags! (consider it as me tagging you guys for wip wednesday)
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Raise your hand if you're mad/upset/disappointed!! 🙋♀️
#we could've had it all and look what we got#911onfox#you suck#f the 911 writers#evan buckley#you deserve better#buddie#the couch theory#evan buck buckley
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Evan Buckley looking at the love of his life (aka his couch)
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Okay, so, I've been avoiding talking about the couch thing but I really need to talk about the couch thing.
The main about the couch thing is that it exists on two levels, it is not something we decided that was there, it's something Buck talks about, we see him talking about it with Eddie, we know Maddie knows about it, it's something that's important to Buck and he says so. But, like everything else in any piece of media, it also exists at a meta-level. So we have things that Buck is telling us and we have things the show is putting on the screen outside of Buck's view of it.
With what Buck says in that conversation about the couch, we can backtrack the couch thing and apply it to season 2, with Ali helping Buck pick the loft and probably decorating it too. But me and my delusional juice want to take the couch thing back to Abby, so stay with me for a minute.
When Abby leaves, Buck stays at her place for a while, so technically speaking Abby also came with a couch, so 3 girlfriends, 3 couches, but he doesn't count Abby into the situation for whatever reason he might have, maybe he's just thinking about the loft. But the thing is, if you wanna apply symbolism to couches and Buck's bad history with them applied to relationships, talking Abby's couch is important because they're on Abby's couch when she tells him she's leaving and never comes back, so Buck's first big heartbreak started on a couch.
But sure, let's just count Ali, what conversation do Buck and Ali have on the couch? The one where she tells him she's not comfortable with his job, which pretty much translates to she's not comfortable with who he is, ultimately ending the relationship, so yet another L for team couch.
And adding Taylor in, we see them on the couch talking about Taylor's past, but that's on Ali's couch, Ali's couch already has its own break of trust, we see them "discuss" the couch situation when Taylor moves in, but the only time we see anyone on the couch Taylor brought in is when they are discussing Jonah. Surprise Surprise, the thing that ultimately breaks Buck and Taylor's relationship started on a couch.
Something else about these conversations that ultimately lead to the relationship falling apart is that they never start with both of them on the couch. With Abby, Buck is kneeling in front of her then he sits, with Ali he's sitting down, she's standing up then she's the one kneeling and with Taylor they spend the duration with her on the couch and him on the chair. Abby is in her couch, Ali's stays with Buck and Taylor takes her couch back.
So we retroactively get to add the couch into all of Buck's canon romantic relationships before we get to the couch thing being established in season 6.
I'm gonna use the layout of the loft on a meta-level here, so bear with me.
The couch thing starts in Buck's kitchen, with Chris making fun of him for not having a couch and him telling Eddie "my last 2 couches came with girlfriends" and "maybe I don't want to pick the wrong couch again" and this is happening on the show, so this bit exists on Buck's view of the couch. But I think it's important on a meta-level this conversation is happening in the kitchen while Buck cooks, one because food is a love language in the show and two because cooking is something that Buck enjoys, so the kitchen is his "safe place" in a way.
The next time we hear about the couch thing is after the lighting when his mother decides to buy him a couch. This conversation happens in the "living room" a place in the loft where we pretty much never see Buck alone in, and the only time we see him somewhat happy while he's alone in it is at the end of 6x01 when he moves the chair to where the couch is supposed to be. So the space where the couch goes it's for other people (maybe there's some extra symbolism here with the couch being constantly picked by someone else too). So his choice about the couch got taken away in a space that's for guests, but he's okay with it because Buck craves his parents' attention too much to not let it happen.
But now he's really uncomfortable with the couch he has (is funny that even Oliver said the couch was uncomfortable so like, it was an uncomfortable couch lol) we see him unable to get comfortable enough to fall asleep in it, we see the frustration in his face after he ends up on the couch when Kameron falls asleep in his bed. He's not happy with the couch but this is still about how Buck perceives the couch.
Then we have the couch getting ruined when Kameron gives birth on it. Something that I think it's interesting on a meta-level is that Buck's mother says the couch is for guests but until the birth, Buck is the only one using the couch and considering the way that we don't really get the living room as a place that Buck himself hangs around in, it's a choice even more considering he didn't pick the couch. Again.
I think from a meta and Buck's personality POV you can take the birth scene and peel it off and find a hundred layers, but there is something about the way they had the kid Buck chose to help someone else have being born on the couch the mother who had Buck to help someone picked. The couch is for guests, the living room is for guests, everything about that scene points to temporary in Buck's life.
Then we have the couch thing being "resolved" (quotation marks because I don't think it is resolved in all levels) with Buck deciding to ask Natalia to go buy a couch with him. From Buck's POV, the couch thing is solved, he's not afraid to pick a couch, he's getting a couch, he's getting a girlfriend (he should get a therapist instead but who am I to say anything).
BUT I wanna dissect the scene where he asks Natalia to buy the couch. Because here's the thing, we don't see Buck on his balcony often, but the balcony is his inner conflict location. He's there after Maddie and Chim leave and is trying to get Eddie to reassure him he did the right thing and he's there with Maddie after Taylor chooses her career over him trying to figure out if he got love wrong, so to have Natalia sitting outside is a choice. To have him not invite her back in is also a choice.
Because the couch thing started in the kitchen, a place Buck is extremely comfortable in and it could've also ended there. To have Natalia sitting by the counter or at the kitchen table while the cleaners did whatever and have him join her there, would be basically the same scene but it would have a different effect. To have him get to the door and pull her back inside would've had a different effect. Because she would've been in his space, not sitting outside of it. She's literally outside and while he's asking her to do something important for him with him, he's not bringing her inside. Literally. And all of this happening in his inner conflict location in the loft? It's a choice and it makes me wonder if that was really the end of the couch of it all.
Because, like, he was never all the way in with Ali or Taylor, they were always kept at arm's length, even with how long Buck and Taylor stay together, you can feel he's not all the way in, so it says something that the couch girlfriends he counts are the girlfriends he wasn't sure of.
And the way I typed all this out and still haven't brought up Eddie lol. I think it says something on a meta-level that Buck fell asleep instantly on Eddie's couch, like, they were doing something, BUT if the thing about the couch is about choice, Buck didn't pick Eddie's couch either. And I kinda think that should be a factor here too. Because if we wanna discuss the couch as a metaphor for relationships, we need to think about the way none of Buck's relationships start with Buck. He is never the one that takes the initiative. He never picked the couch. Abby gets his number, Ali calls him, Taylor sends him a drink, kisses him, and shows up at his door, and Natalia asks him out and shows up at his door, so if the thing here is the lack of choice or Buck being the one to choose the couch for a change they can't just put him in Eddie's couch and call it a day. It's deeper than that. Buck needs to choose himself and something for himself first.
#this is long#i went off wow sokaoskaoksaoks#anyway#911#911 meta#thoughts thoughts thoughts#the couch theory#the fact that this is a featured tag lol
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Okay but hear me out (I say this as if I’m about to say something completely normal, but I’m not. None of this is normal) TK and Carlos would both use Tik Tok. They would make POV videos except they are just real things that have happened to them. No one can tell if they are joking.
TK and Carlos’s Tik Tok adventures
- Carlos would start it. Something like “POV Your boyfriend almost set your kitchen on fire (he used to be a firefighter)” And it would show TK in the back trying to put out a very on fire pan.
- TK would retaliate by creating his own Tik Tok. “POV Your boyfriend fell down the stairs, and now you have to provide first aid” Showing Carlos sitting with and ice pack in his head and TK holding a first aid kid.
- They just become more unhinged after that. Everyone in the 126 follows them and so does the 118.
- POV Your boyfriend is in a coma after getting shot by a 10 year old ( TK in a hospital bed)
- POV your boyfriend is apparently just “your colleague” seriously TK
- POV your boyfriend brought a flesh eating lizard into your house and now your scared for your life (He says he wasn’t flesh eating but they found him inside a wound. So excuse me if I don’t believe him)
- The 126 each have their favorite videos
- Owen enjoys watching what his son gets up to but is also kind of concerned for his well being after seeing some of the videos
- POV your a former drug addict and your boyfriend brings drugs into the apartment (a bottle of Tylenol sits on the counter”. This is one one of the videos that concerns Owen.
- POV your boyfriend is crying because the lights were to loud (he swears he’s neurotypical)” Owen is once again concerned about his son
- Marjan enjoys the chaos of the videos.
- POV your dad and your boyfriends dad teamed up to stop an arsonist. They did catch him but now you don’t have a house (so many hoodie are gone) *pile of rubble in the background*
- POV your boyfriend won’t stop crying about his hoodies so now your spending your life savings at 3am to buy new ones
- Mateo is mostly confused and the more he watches the more confused he is
- POV your the bpd (note: try and tell me TK doesn’t have borderline personality disorder) boyfriend and your having a breakdown in the kitchen
- POV All you want to do is sleep but your boyfriend keeps talking about a couch
- Judd is genuinely concerned about both of their well beings
- POV your boyfriend just got kidnapped by a homocidal maniac but refuses to get therapy *carlos is crying in the background
- POV your boyfriend just went into a three day coma and now refuses to go to sleep (yes tk sleep is needed for human survival)
- Paul is entertained by it all
- POV your boyfriend is out with Cooper, whats so great about Cooper, I’m a cop Cooper
- POV A fight breaks out between the police and firefighters softball teams and your boyfriend won’t let you fight and steps in to fight for you (he tells them he’s a cop, it doesn’t work because they are also cops and have desks right next to them. He was invited to one of there childrens graduations. He apologizes to Brian his name was Grant)
- Nancy kind of wishes she never started following them
- POV you wake your boyfriend up at 2 am to tell him you want to write your will (he asks if the lizard is back, not sure why that’s the first thing that came to mind but ok)
- POV you were held captive by a lady who apparently loves the gays (she may want me dead but at least she’s not homophobic)
- Tommy just wants an explanation to it all
- POV Your boyfriend just became a paramedic and was kidnapped by a group of criminals (his dumbass tried to play hero and got knocked out)
- POV your boyfriend blames himself for the death of a criminal (it wasn’t his fault) and is now spending all of his time trying to solve the case (Grace is enabling him.) (I have the first aid kid on stand by)
- The 118 had there own questions and concerns, but the main one being how they know so much about their lives they just met them.
- POV Your boyfriend won’t stop talking about buddie and the couch theory. (Send help)
- POV Your boyfriend is crying because you wouldn’t stop talking about how we aren’t the main show (it’s because we’re in Texas)
Welp that’s it. I’m normal. I swear
#tk strand#carlos reyes#marjan marwani#paul strickland#owen strand#mateo chavez#tommy vega#nancy gillian#evan buckley#eddie diaz#the 118#the couch theory#buddie 911#tik tok#literally just crack#tk has bpd#and is autistic#fight me#carlos is mentally stable#I’m lying#the 126 has questions#tk has an unhealthy obsession with the couch theory#carlos just wants sleep#help him#My husband approves#maybe#he keeps calling me neurodivergent#I don’t know why#someone help
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Buck asking Natalia to pick out a couch with him is giving very much “I misunderstood the assignment” from 5x14, except it’s a lot less cute this time. He’s really going in circles, my lord.
#911 on fox#tv: 911#911 fox#evan buckley#911#buddie#buck x eddie#buck#911 abc#5x14#6x18 pay it forward#6x18#natalia 911#the couch#the couch theory#season finale#911 season 6#season 6
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telling people out loud that the reason I think buddie is going to happen is because of a couch is the most humbling thing I’ve ever had to do.
#evan buckley#eddie diaz#911 show#911 fox#buddie#tv: 911#911 on abc#the couch theory#couch theory#but it must be done
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Just imagine that Buck felt the fear of losing Eddie and after he saved him, he asked Eddie to buy a new couch with him. Just imagine….
#we could it have it all#it was not that hard people#it was right there#buddie#911#9-1-1#buddie 911#911 buddie#911 season 6#911 speculation#911 eddie#911 buck#buck x eddie#the couch theory#eddie x buck#911 on fox#911 fox#911 on abc#911 abc#911 fandom#911 finale
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Evan Buckley and why the writing choices for him in the season finale were crap
This is my take on Evan Buckley, and it's a long one.
I have to start to say that yes, I am a Buddie shipper, but also I think it’s fair to say that before that, I am an Evan Buckley truer. So my take comes from my love for the character, rather than my hopes for the ship.
With that out of the way, let’s get into it.
I have a lot to say about the season finale, but I’ll concentrate my thoughts on Evan Buckley and how this show managed to give us development and no growth at all, all at the same time.
It’s really important to remember that last night’s episode was meant to be a series finale. They made this episode with the thought of “this is the last time” on their heads.
This was a send-off, and as such, it was quite awful.
Maddie’s and Chim’s closure was fine, Athena and Bobby's was perfect because they finally get to have their honeymoon, and without telling anyone. Very on brand. Hen and Karen was a happy note, but it left me wondering, why now? I mean, it’s been a while since we saw this storyline and it kinda came out of the blue. A surprise if you will. A good one though. Karen and Hen deserve the world. The thing is that seemed rushed.
The lack of Ravi. I’m gonna just leave it at that.
Eddie. I have to be honest, this felt weird and also out of the blue. Just like people on Twitter were asking. Where did he get her number? That entire scene felt off. But that’s an analysis that I’m whiling to do another day. For now, let’s just say that it was a no for me. That’s how we were supposed to say goodbye to Edmundo Diaz? I’m sorry but no. He deserves better. We deserved better.
Now, let’s talk about Buck. It’s gonna be quite a ride, so bear with me.
As I see it Evan Buckley is a very complex character and sometimes I get the feeling that even the writers and showrunner of the show don’t fully understand how deep they can dig, so it’s understandable that fans feel underwhelmed with the decisions regarding Buck. As viewers, we tend to analyze everything. As fans, we like to see different sides of our favorite characters and we pay attention to everything. We keep track and sometimes, and not just with Buck, I feel that we do a better job at knowing the characters than the writers do.
With that said. We had Buck dying at the beginning of the second part of the season. It was quite a shock for the 118 and in my opinion, it was very well done. The emotional aspect of it was painfully good, so I had my hopes up for true growth for Evan Buckley. And we were heading that way until we weren’t.
I feel that after everything he went through, having to say goodbye to Evan Buckley with him getting involved with someone he just met and without really addressing his trauma was lazy writing. Plain and simple.
One of the things that always bothered me about how the show decides to write Buck is that he never truly faced his traumas.
Let’s see. Since he joined the 118 he got a truck landing on his leg, a pulmonary embolism, found himself in the middle of a tsunami with Christopher and he even thought the little guy was dead for several hours. He had to watch his best friend get shot in front of him, and for the second time, he feared for Eddie’s life. Just like Maddie said, just another trauma to add to the pile.
He almost died in a factory fire and was struck by lighting. Not to mention he was in an overpass collapse with his entire team. I know I left a few things out, but you get the idea.
And all of this is just since he joined the 118.
Let’s talk about his life before coming to Los Angeles.
I am a firm believer that Evan Buckley doesn’t really know what love looks like and what to do with it.
True. Growing up he had Maddie, and she did as much as she could with the few emotional tools she had. She was a kid herself. We know she raised him, and she did a fantastic job, but at the end of the day, she was his sister. The sister who had to step up into the mom role, even when their own mother was living under the same roof.
Buck grew up feeling that his parents didn’t really want him. Now we know why but can you imagine how confusing and painful must have been growing up like that?
They were his parents. They were the ones who should have loved him no matter what. They were supposed to be his safety net, the one place where he could feel safe. But they weren’t.
How damaged a kid had to be for him to realize by himself that only when he gets hurt he can get his parent's attention? Let that sink in for a minute.
As Taylor Swift said: “You know there's many different ways that you can kill the one you love. The slowest way is never loving them enough”.
And that’s what they did. They never loved him enough.
So, no. Evan Buckley doesn’t really know what healthy and unconditional love looks like. He had Maddie but the ones who were supposed to do the job and show him and teach him about love didn’t.
Not having that growing up leaves you with scars that will haunt you for years and years. And trust me, I know what I’m talking about.
On a good note, he’s surrounded by love at the 118. And we’ve seen him learn about love right in front of our eyes. But the trauma doesn’t go away. That’s not how it works.
We’ve seen him being left behind, and jokingly doubting if the members of his chosen family will come for him when needed - which they did. His self-worth was on the freaking ground, but slowly but surely has been getting better.
So, yes. After him realizing why his parents never loved him enough (Love me anyway), and finally letting Taylor go, I thought we were going to see a new side of Evan Buckley. And with the couch analogy coming to life, I really thought we were going to get a growth storyline, especially after they decided to kill him.
Don’t get me wrong. I have nothing against Natalia, and I understand why he felt like she ignited a spark in him. I really do. But I also thought he was going to realize it was a temporary thing, because overall having someone fetishizing your death is not really attractive.
As I said before, even after years of being surrounded by love, the trauma and the psychological scars of not being loved enough as a kid will haunt you to adulthood, especially if you don’t go to therapy to deal with it.
And they showed us just that at the beginning of the second half of the season.
As someone who wants love and loves so fully, when the same love is given back, Buck doesn’t know what to do with it.
I see it like this. When someone didn’t have physical affection growing up, as an adult is more likely to have an aversion to touch. But what happens when that person craves a hug, when that person knows it needs a hug but has no idea how to ask? And if it gets one, what happens then? It doesn’t know how to react and what to do.
After being struck by lightning we saw a parade of people worried about him and whiling to be there during his recovery and Buck was done. One would think he will take advantage of the situation and will let them shower him with affection, but it was quite the opposite.
The concept of this kind of love made him uncomfortable.
And then he had people reminding him that he actually died –for 3 minutes and 17 seconds, mind you- when he clearly was trying to downplay what happened.
So yeah, Natalia really ignited something new in him, because since the lightning she was the first one who looked at him without worries and fear. Quite the contrary, she was fascinated by the fact that he died. She literally was the getaway car for these traumas, so he saw an opportunity and took it.
I wasn’t really that surprised when he said to Eddie that she really sees him, because from his point of view that may be true. But the thing is that she’s only seeing what he wanted to show, which is this version of him that’s running away from his trauma. Meanwhile, the people in his life who are a constant will see that too but also, eventually, will dig deeper and will force him to see and face what he is purposely avoiding.
At the end of the day, he was looking for validation that what happened wasn’t that bad and that it was not worth the fuss, and he found that with Natalia.
So, sure. Being with her was easy for about 2 seconds. Then she runs away, pretty much in the same way Taylor did. Because people are right, is not hard to see the parallels between how Taylor and Natalia happened. Both after major trauma.
In my head, I could see Natalia coming back so they can give it another shot, but Buck will have realized by then that he reached out in the first place for all the wrong reasons. He would have to face his mortality and grow from it. Maybe he would work on himself and put his energy into growing at the job since he was having doubts before, and rightfully so.
I’m serious when I say that I’m in charge of pushing the Evan Buckley lieutenant-era agenda.
And with the couch metaphor, what can I say? In my perfect fantasy world, Buck would have realized the couch was Eddie and then we would have had Buddie canon. But since that’s virtually impossible as long as Kristen Reidel is the showrunner of 911, I thought the season was gonna end up with Buck buying the damn couch by himself since he realized his own worth, and that he as “just Buck” is enough and him knowing himself and seeing himself for what he is, is the most important relationship he has. An open and hopeful ending. A full circle with the moment back at the beginning of the season when he realized what the couch represented in his life.
What a send-off.
And maybe, in another season that now we know is a sure thing, after the trauma and growth, he can reconnect with Natalia and really see if he wanted to be with her because of how she treated his death or because there was something real there after all.
But no, they decided to go with the safe route and have him ignore his trauma and have him dive into a romantic relationship, which according to 911 is the cure for everything.
I was mad at the beginning of the second half of season 6 because I felt they made him forgive his parents way too easily. I know they went to therapy together, but it felt like all the damage and the hurt were overlooked in favor of giving the Buckleys the redemption arc they didn’t deserve. It was the show invalidating Buck’s trauma and that didn’t sit well with me.
And also, when I saw the promo for the finale I thought they were going to do the full circle thing with Buck taking charge at the scene and proving that he can act as interim captain. The parallel between the first episode of the season and the last would have been beautiful. Him buying the couch by himself and acting in charge at the house meanwhile Bobby is getting better.
That would have been a great way to say goodbye to Evan Buckley. Showing us he is more than his relationships. He, by himself, is more than enough.
What did I say before? Lazy writing.
I still can't wrap my head around the fact that they have him delivering “his baby”, which is not really his, and having him act all professional even when we saw the moment he broke his own heart for a second there right before he passed the baby to Cameron, and they still managed to left us with the feeling that there was no growth for the character.
One step forward and 150 steps back.
Anyway, I really hope next season something change with the showrunner or in the writing room, because we’re going in circles with Buck and people are getting tired.
My takeaway from the season is that Evan Buckley died for 3 minutes and 17 seconds and didn’t learn a damn thing.
Give that man a breakdown and have him go to a therapist. He desperately needs therapy.
Finally, I hate to think they had the opportunity of a lifetime to give closure to a character as complex as Evan Buckley and they decided to reduce him to a romantic interest.
Thank god that wasn’t the last episode of 911.
There’s still room for redemption.
On another note, Eddie realizing that Pepa was wrong and that in order to be happy you don’t need a romantic relationship; that would have been a good ending too. I understand where she’s coming from, but in this day and age, being alone is not a sad and pathetic thing as she made it look.
#evan buckley#911fox#911onfox#911 fox#911#eddie diaz#evan buck buckely#9-1-1#911onABC#I hated the finale so I had to write something#they did my boy dirty#this is an essay#the couch theory#the couch metaphor
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when in doubt i just look to the couch theory & everything oliver says about that and the finale. Also if Natalia was the couch the show has foreshadowed the entire season why does it take till bucks last scene in the finale to reveal it,see tome it means bucks scene and what oliver is talking about is something that is going to have fans talking in an exciting way about the show IMO.
Honest to god y’all can pry the couch theory from my cold dead hands. I’m going down with that theory. It’s been made such a big deal by Oliver and KR for it not to amass to anything of substance. And we have Andrew, who wrote the whole couch metaphor, who wrote Buck going and falling asleep on Eddie’s couch, writing the fucking finale. Where the couch is going to be significant in Buck’s very last scene. I’m literally holding onto that.
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Too busy being yours to fall for someone new
Co-written with the brilliant @made-ofmemories
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Natalia helps Buck pick a couch for his apartment, but when the wrong one gets delivered he starts to think maybe it's some kind of cosmic sign from the universe.
Determined to not let his best friend mope to death, Eddie decides it's time that he helps Buck find a couch so that he can stop associating a piece of furniture with the success or failure of his romantic relationships.
And he does, Buck finds the one.
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He knocks because he hasn’t let Eddie know he’s showing up on his doorstep today and Buck does have some boundaries when it comes to Eddie. Very weak boundaries that they both cross sometimes multiple times a day, but boundaries all the same.
“They delivered the wrong couch,” Buck says the second Eddie opens the door and he manages to sound only a little bit frantic about it.
Eddie sighs in resignation, seems to recognize exactly where this conversation is headed then steps aside so Buck can come in. Chris must be at a friend's house or in his room because Buck doesn’t see him when he walks through the living room and follows Eddie to the kitchen.
“I mean, I have to break up with her right?” Buck picks at the label on the beer bottle Eddie hands to him when he sits down at the kitchen table. “This is the universe telling me she’s not the one and I have to break up with her.”
Eddie doesn’t believe in signs and ‘The Universe’ but surely even he can’t deny this one.
“I think,” Eddie says slow and careful like he’s worried about making Bucks spiral worse which, fair . He probably isn’t being the most rational thinker right now, probably why he’s here in the first place.“That it was a delivery mishap and if you’re going to break up with Natalia it should be because that’s what you want not because some furniture store messed up your order and now you think the couch gods are trying to tell you something.”
#buddie#evan buckley#eddie diaz#buck x eddie#the couch theory#the couch metaphor#911 fox#911 abc#buddie fic
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