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.

Putting it out there now that tomorrows ep isn’t allowed to be sad because I have been battling a blocked nose for the past six days and crying will reverse any progress I’ve made so yeah. For my physical well-being (as well as my emotional wellbeing) Bobby can’t die, Christopher can’t leave with his grandparents, hen and Karen can’t lose Mara, Eddie can’t be having a breakdown and any other curveballs are not allowed to be thrown.

Would love to see an episode where a majority of the 118 get injured and have to take a significant amount of time off. In the beginning they're all too sore to really be bothered but after a while they're ready to go back to work but haven't been medically cleared just yet. So they start getting restless, much like Hen when Bobby forced her to take time off. But this time there's multiple of them in the same boat so they meet up and obviously shenanigans ensue. Maybe day drinking, maybe monopoly, maybe gossiping, idk, but I'd love to see a juxtaposition between the absolute chaos of the injured group versus a fairly peaceful shift in the firehouse. The episode would obviously finish with those on shift meeting the injured group and being astounded at the amount of chaos caused in one day.

Whatever you do, don't think about Eddie ending the season 'isolated' due to the fact that in the case of Bobby's death he's going to have no one to comfort him.

Dont think about how he's basically put the nail in the coffin in his and Marisol's relationship.

Dont think about how he has just retraumatised his son, who's now probably going to be very angry and ignore him for a while.

Dont think about how he's finally let Shannon go so he doesn't have the ghost of her to fall back on.

Sure, he'll have the rest of the 118, but they've all got their own people to turn to.

And REALLY dont think about him turning to Buck for comfort in the hospital, but sees Buck is already being comforted by Tommy, because he doesn't need Eddie as much now he has Tommy.

Just don't think about it.

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.

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