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I was talking to my friend last night about 9-1-1. She has never seen a single episode and only knows these two things about the show:

1) it’s about firefighters

2) Ryan Guzman is in it

And she was fully convinced that Buck and Eddie were dating. She had referred to them as ‘the gay couple’ and didn’t believe me that they weren’t together for a solid 30 seconds and was shocked that I was telling the truth

I’m rewatching 911 with my coworker and not having to pay attention to the plot and watch the background actors is way more entertaining than it should be

I’ll say it:

- does Tommy need to apologize for the shit he put Chim/Hen through? Yes.

- has he changed and deserve a second chance? Also yes.

- does he deserve all the shit he’s getting from 7x03? Not really.

@slycopersicum-in-disguise put it best. He was surrounded by not so good people and so he took on some of those biases/ideas. Once he was surrounded by better people, he had started to change. And a lot of that had happened off screen once he transferred to the 217 but that does not discredit and/or diminish that character arc and change

Two questions that have been bothering me the last few days about this still:

1) why the hell is Chim wearing sweats and a hoodie to play basketball?

2) what’s with Tommy’s bright ass blue basketball shorts?

I called it on Twitter. We finally got bi Buck. This means the absolute world to me. Excuse me while I go cry happy tears

anyway, a lot of this episode was fun but full stop evan ‘buck’ buckley doesn’t owe his parents shit and i’m tired of the story that children of abusive / absent / unhealthy parents owe them the opportunity or effort to repair that relationship. it’s been almost three decades of emotional negligence. it’s one thing that he forgave them in order to move on with his life and to give up the weight on his shoulders, but ‘they’re putting in an effort and i figure i should too’ reeks of the same reciprocity he’s been beholden to his whole life and that’s not moving on or healing. it’s expending effort on people who won’t do the same, have proven they won’t do the same, and a handful of therapy sessions does not make up for the absolute lack of formative emotional development. i’m all for buck letting go and moving on, and if giving a sweeping forgiveness to his parents is the first step, that’s fine, but the idea that he owes his parents any effort beyond that is 🌠 trash 🌠 

how did buck and veronica get to a face to face date if they’re that incompatible like if you met on an app did you simply choose to not speak to each other at any opportunity or 

anyway so —— and i want to preface this by saying that i don't actually mind eddie & ana, and i think a lot of the recent scenes we've gotten of them together have been cute —— but part of the whole issue with regards to eddie moving on + christopher is that, while we know that time has passed, of course, in an abstract way, we, as the audience, aren’t necessarily provided a lot of context to said passing. to us, as viewers, it seems like ana and eddie have been on two dates, despite it likely the case it’s been more than that, if not alot. it’s just that.....there’s nothing narratively to imply said other dates have ever happened, which makes it difficult to take into account when viewing the progress of their relationship. so it does seem awkward at best for ana and christopher to already be introduced, though, to be fair that is a personal preference per adult and all ( and i’m sure expedited on the grounds that this season is already reportedly shortened ) and doubly so because i think the whole introduction was definitely expedited as a way for eddie to deal with christopher’s discomfort. 

the other thing, and frankly, the big thing for me with christopher in relation to eddie’s dating situation is that we know that while eddie is definitely, pointedly making an effort when it comes to showing his emotional vulnerabilities to christopher and being able to talk out situations, he’s not always great at employing those tactics versus pretending things are alright as to not unsettle his child’s perceptions. and i kind of feel like, for all the buck & christopher scene was very sweet, we kind of deserved eddie and christopher having a legitimate conversation about dealing with the grief of both the loss of relationship with shannon and the actual, physical loss of shannon, which is........never addressed. like we get eddie speaking to his therapist, and we get eddie’s conversation with bobby, but outside of that we don’t get a whole lot of closure on that, let alone with christopher specifically. which makes it seem like it was simply........not talked about between the two of them, aka the two people who should have been having that conversation in order to pave the way to ana being introduced as eddie’s new girlfriend.

also, 911 writers, please know it’s fucking weird to full name your partner all the time

not Eddie & Christopher Diaz repeatedly showing up like a m*rvel after credits scene lmao

buck + taylor friendship is hoe energy™ solidarity

hey, so now that i finally caught the new 911 episode, what the fuck

honestly, i’m just glad we got that filling buck & eddie content. however you choose to interpret their relationship, the fact is that there’s such a significant emotional connection between the two of them that has definitively become one of the strongest relationships on the show and fellas i’m just glad to see the narrative reinforcement of their bond. 

anyway something to consider as you are circling back to write another post - lawsuit specific fic ---- as it is the one thing the fandom will reliably fall back on ---- and that is how the fandom is generally very good at acknowledging one character’s trauma to the detriment of other existing traumas.

first and foremost being that these are all emergency responders, and as such are all probably suffering from moral injury in conjunction with their PTSD --- few first responders escape without one or the other, and often both. first responders don’t get adequate time or resources to recover from one individual trauma, let alone each and every that they have to deal with, and they have to deal with a lot, and to little resolution. it’s a lot for anyone’s emotional bucket to hold. what’s more ( and more important in this context ) than that, the other members of the 118 each have their own trauma to contend with, unrelated to the job, that plays into this situation specifically: Bobby, with the deaths of his family; Hen, who was abandoned by her father & who has mentioned difficulties in being raised by a single mother; Chim, who was abandoned by his father & who watched his mother die of cancer, as well as the loss of Kevin; Eddie, who has an emotionally complicated relationship with his own parents & an estranged wife he watched die.

the point: they’ve all got their own compounded traumas, and specifically all have issues revolving around family & abandonment, and that lends to decisions regarding behavior around those they consider family and situations they might consider abandonment. there’s not an inherently proper way to respond to these circumstances. ( also, this idea that the team just abandoned Buck to his recovery isn’t necessarily true, it’s got more to do with what they’ve chosen to show us on screen, and the reality of that is they focused on Eddie visiting Buck as a lead in to the tsunami arc as well as to affirm the intimacy of their friendship rather than, i think, a deliberate point at making the rest of the team seem like they don’t give a shit. )

it also needs to be taken into consideration that in the episodes themselves, the team doesn’t just abandon or decide to take out their problems on Buck, despite the way it’s often portrayed by fandom. Hen reaches out to Buck of her own accord, and Chim makes jabs at Bobby for the way he’s handling his feelings regarding Buck’s accident & resultant complications. as for Eddie, he’s not reaching out specifically because of the lawsuit --- he was told that he couldn’t, and so he doesn’t even though it’s implied he wanted to, and this is on top of all of the compounded trauma in his personal life that he isn’t properly dealing with ( which is another thing entirely, and we all collectively know he’s not appropriately dealing with it but that really isn’t anyone but Eddie’s fault at any point, either. ) Bobby himself is reacting because he’s still trying to parse out his own guilt, both for the ladder truck bombing specifically, but also at his issues with the loss of his wife & kids, to which he also still feels responsible. it’s not often considered his perspective of fear of losing someone else he was supposed to protect --- and while i will tend to agree it was something of an overreach, and it’s something that would have been solved with real actual communication, something these people tend to lack in earnest, it doesn’t make it less of a trauma fueled reaction, same as Buck’s, but he’s given less leeway for it because it’s not considered a favorable trauma response ( and it’s not considered favorable because it doesn’t work in favor of the fandom’s favorite, to be frank. ) never at any point is it implied that any of these people are harassing Buck after he comes back, or ignoring him out of malice, and frankly, anyone outside of the immediate group that we recognize as the core 118 kind of has a right to be distant with the man that they don’t necessarily know on an intimate level anyway, especially after he just sued the department and they have no context for the situation.

and it’s not that Buck’s trauma doesn’t absolutely take a part in his decision to file the lawsuit, because it’s very much that response driving his impulsive decision, but it’s often enough not taken into consideration how everyone else’s trauma plays into their response to his filing. a majority of the time, these fics tend to be from the perspective of feeling bad for Buck and demonizing the team, when realistically the perspective needs to be somewhere in the middle because it’s not a clean cut situation. the fandom hyper - sympathizes with ( read: tends to woobify ) Buck without taking into consideration that he is an unreliable narrator inherently, and that just because he feels a certain way doesn’t make it the reality of the situation. 

9-1-1 establish why the buckley siblings have no relevant pop culture knowledge challenge

everyone keeps making fun of eddie’s little wave to christopher as he sends him off to camp but i need u to know that that is the way christopher waves to him and he’s just mimicking that wave in a way that has probably become habitual in regards to his son and that is the most dad thing ever it’s just a dad wave be nice to him thank u

911 was like we have to give eddie another health scare because we remembered we didn't actually significantly include his girlfriend in the last one and we understand now that might have been misconstrued as us not remembering he had a girlfriend

imagine this man been under anesthesia the whole time and he’s gonna come out of it in a whole different hospital