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reference

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no seriously, 8x18 was so good.

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walk with me. They did all this buddie promo so that people would be thinking about buddie. so that when they watched the ep they would have buddie on the brain and would see all those loaded glances and go hmmmmm. like this is them preparing the audience for buddie next season because they can’t just spring it on casual viewers, and planting it in the brain with mass amounts of promo is one way to do it

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it will be season 15 and I’ll still think bobby is alive and being held in a government lab idc he’s literally fine

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i am lost, i am found

When Bobby enters the hospital room, he’s expecting chaos. Chaos, crying, nurses and doctors running around, monitors beeping. He’s expecting to see Buck with a clipboard and Eddie pacing. They’ve been waiting for this day for nine months now – longer, if you count the planning, and even longer still if you count the time Bobby was waiting for Buck and Eddie to pull themselves together – and it almost doesn’t seem real now that it’s here. So, yes, Bobby expects chaos, as he usually does when Buck or Eddie or any others from their little family are involved. Instead, what he finds is peace. -- Or, the future as it should be.

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“you’re here now”🤍

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i am lost, i am found

When Bobby enters the hospital room, he’s expecting chaos. Chaos, crying, nurses and doctors running around, monitors beeping. He’s expecting to see Buck with a clipboard and Eddie pacing. They’ve been waiting for this day for nine months now – longer, if you count the planning, and even longer still if you count the time Bobby was waiting for Buck and Eddie to pull themselves together – and it almost doesn’t seem real now that it’s here. So, yes, Bobby expects chaos, as he usually does when Buck or Eddie or any others from their little family are involved. Instead, what he finds is peace. -- Or, the future as it should be.

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Ryan Guzman as Eddie Díaz 9-1-1, S08E16 - The Final Alarm

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i am lost, i am found

When Bobby enters the hospital room, he’s expecting chaos. Chaos, crying, nurses and doctors running around, monitors beeping. He’s expecting to see Buck with a clipboard and Eddie pacing. They’ve been waiting for this day for nine months now – longer, if you count the planning, and even longer still if you count the time Bobby was waiting for Buck and Eddie to pull themselves together – and it almost doesn’t seem real now that it’s here. So, yes, Bobby expects chaos, as he usually does when Buck or Eddie or any others from their little family are involved. Instead, what he finds is peace. -- Or, the future as it should be.

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📸 • ryanaguzman: (5.1.25)

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you're the greatest thing we've lost

Eddie feels his own eyes prickling as Buck’s cries turn into heavier sobs, his breath gasping between each as if there’s not enough oxygen in the world. “Eddie,” his fingers are clenching at Eddie’s shirt now, holding him tighter, closer. “Eddie, why – why –” “I don’t know,” Eddie whispers into his hair, lips grazing along Buck’s hairline with every word. “I don’t know. I’m so sorry.” “And – and you –” Buck trails off, even though Eddie desperately wants to hear what Buck has to say. He wants Buck to yell at him and tell him off for leaving, wants him to scream at him for being a terrible friend just so Eddie can feel – something. Anything. “You came back.” -- Or, Buck breaks down.

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okay who's jumping onto the "government holding bobby for experiments" theory with me?!

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Bobby's Athena smile 9-1-1, S01E10, S02E18, S07E10 & S08E15

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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Sue Sylvester as interim captain

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Writers generally write plots in order to take a character from point a to point b. For instance, for Buck's bisexual discovery episode, rather than thinking "I'm going to have Buck meet this hot pilot and see what happens", Tim probably thought "I want Buck to come out as bisexual. How do I believably do that?"

People keep saying that if 911 is going to move forward, it needs to start bringing on new blood and integrating it into the cast. Well, this season, Ravi has been spotlighted multiple times. But in order to bring on someone new, someone else has to leave or fall back a bit. Technically, Tim could move one of the younger characters to another shift, but I doubt any of the younger actors want their screentime cut. However, Peter has stated that he's not into doing all the stunts anymore (and he looked super miserable shivering under a towel shooting the cruise line story) and that he might want to spend less time shooting generally. After all, he's getting a nice, fat producer cut now. He could probably shoot part-time and still make the kind of money he wants, and that would free up some budget for another character.

Additionally, unlike all of the other characters, Bobby has options that would keep him within the world of the firefam and would give 911 the opportunity to explore new parts of the first responder world. He is senior enough to run or be nominated for a senior position in LAFD, one that operates more behind the scenes, structuring budgets, communicating with news outlets, creating trainings, etc. That's a whole new world for the show. It keeps Bobby in the mix enough that we could occassionally see him show up at the firehouse for dinner, but creates a much less demanding shooting schedule for Peter.

But Bobby would never go for that. He would have to retire and then get bored. So, the question becomes "How do we take Bobby from gung-ho fire captain to someone who voluntarily gives up his post?" After all, s7 ended with him finding new energy for the job. A near-death experience like the one with the car pile-up wouldn't cut it. Because Bobby has faced those multiple times over the course of the series and hasn't considered giving up. It just wouldn't be believable to the audience and wouldn't be dramatic enough to cause the kind of shake-up that Tim wants to do. So, what would be?

Well. What if Bobby and everyone Bobby loves had to think he was dead for multiple days? What if the audience had to think that? What if viewers and the firefam had to watch Athena and her children (including Clifford) grieve him? If Bobby came back after something like that, absolutely, both the audience and the firefam would buy his wanting to finally retire. Especially if you throw a dream house into the mix? And Bobby suddenly desperately wanting to live as he's dying? Folks may end up messaging Tim on Facebook demanding that Bobby retire RIGHT THE FUCK NOW.

So. That's just some food for thought as to why Tim might do a death and resurrection. Additionally, whenever any character has a drawn out near-death experience it gives the writers permission to make big character shifts very quickly as characters process their grief. Characters are allowed to look at their lives, realize tomorrow is not promised, and choose things they may not have before the death. Those changes are even more believable if the audience has to mourn the character who almost dies with the characters experiencing a shift. So. You know. If, say, the show was going to have a character, I don't know, recontextualize his relationship with his best male friend and realize that choosing him would be choosing joy? Or if another character who had never stood up for a leadership position before were to suddenly want to do that? A major death that the audience felt alongside those characters might ease those transitions.

Think about it.

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Really thought you, of all people, would understand.