Would Love If Season 8 Had The 118 Repping The LAFD At Pride, BUT Specifically While Theyre Under Gerrard.

Would love if season 8 had the 118 repping the LAFD at Pride, BUT specifically while they’re under Gerrard. Hear me out, ok. You’ve got homophobic, misogynistic, racist dinosaur being FORCED to attend Pride for his JOB and having to seem like he’s enjoying it so he doesn’t get fired. He has to watch the openly lesbian firefighter under his command show the openly bisexual firefighter under his command all the wonders of the event, perhaps with the help of the openly gay firefighter that used to be under his command who is shacking up with aforementioned openly bisexual firefighter. He has to watch them be HAPPY and COMFORTABLE and FREE and he can do NOTHING because he’s representing the LAFD, he’s getting paid to walk through a crowd, this should be one of the easiest days of his career. And yet he hates it. He’s dying to say something homophobic and wipe the smiles off everyone’s faces but he CAN’T, and the firefighters who have had to put up with ridicule under his command know he CAN’T and shove it in his face as much as possible. Maybe he even breaks and causes a scene which goes viral and puts pressure on the brass to fire him, or maybe he just suffers in silence. Either way, the 118 will finally get their comeuppance in the form of happiness and rainbows and acceptance and love.

I have an idea for a future episode. It's called "Minor Burns". It begins with Maddie at the call center taking a call. Josh comes over to help her and when the call ends, instead of following Maddie, the camera follows Josh and we get a glimpse of his life. We see him take a call which the 118 responds to. When the 118 arrive at the scene Ravi is the last to get out of the truck and we follow him during the emergency and see it through his perspective. Next, we see Karen on a field trip with Denny at the Air Operations base. After the tour, Karen and Denny talk to Tommy. One of the students collapses and Karen and Tommy work to resuscitate them until the paramedics (Hen and Chimney) arrive. The kid is okay and taken to the hospital. Then we get to see an emergency where Tommy is required to fly his helicopter. At the end of the episode, we see Josh, Ravi, Karen, and Tommy return home after their day. We see them with their respective partners and yes, Josh has a boyfriend.

Bobby being so unfussed about their lost belongs compared to Athena being so stressed because he's already been through it before by himself and got out on the other side so he can do it again, except this time he's got his family with him so he knows he'll be ok... I mean I don't know about you but I'd call that growth.

Just thinking about the financial hits the 118 have taken this year:

- failed cruise

- lost luggage because of said cruise (includes fancy dresses, jewellery, bobby’s one suit and athena’s toothbrush)

- helicopter fuel(?)

- eddie’s medical bill

- buck’s apartment bills maybe?

- tommy’s incorrect coffee (coffee’s expensive these days)

- henren expanding their family (we love this for them but again children are expensive these days)

- the bachelor party

- the bachelor party aftermath

- the wedding (catering, venue, photography etc)

- chimney’s carjacking

- chimney’s phone

- chimney’s medical bills

- eddie dating two women simultaneously (surely makes a dent in the monthly budget)

- bobby’s carjacking

- bobby’s medical bills

- potentially athena and bobby’s entire house?!

- therapy bills (frank can afford to retire because of the firefam)

And I’m sure they aren’t done! I hope they’ve all got really good insurance because this is so much worse than usual.

Rewatching 7x03 and I just noticed that in the underwater shot of the capsized cruise ship they animated a little shark swimming by! I missed that the first time round but whoever came up with the idea deserves an award.