#it should have been bobbi...

[balfeys]

#soulmates fr😭

[shadowsegregious]

not. the greatest cook (still comic under cut <3)

[tvuniverse]

9-1-1 -> 6x10-11 // 8x15 (potential) coma dream

[2hff]

I am also upset that the "big emergency" was so fucking lackluster. Like if Tim wasn't so fucking set on having the 118 "seperated and then finding their way back to each other" be at an uninspired building collapse then they could have been done with it in 12 minutes and spent the rest of the show on the actual storylines of the characters finding their way back home.

You know what would have been a MUCH better flow for the episode:

>Everyone at the station. Eddie gets his turnouts. Hen says no cap. Buck, being a dick, says "It's just a number now." Chin looks around and says something like "That's it, then? Eight years of us and it's just over?" Sad faces. Dramatic tension visible as they all won't meet each others eyes, etc. Blah blah moody lighting and camera angles, our babies are going through it.

>They get the call for the building collapse while all still together. Call center makes it seem like they're not going to have a lot of back up (all the other firehouses are actually off grieving bobby or some shit), so Eddie decides to go with them.

>The rescues still play out basically the same except FASTER. Chim AND Hen find Athena cause they're clearing the building. (There was no reason to have the whole athena/chim together thing because NOTHING really happened to move their characters forward until everyone else got there.) Gerrard doesn't let Eddie go with Buck because he's technically not employed so he has to stay down there. When Buck and Ravi get trapped, he has his idea. Bing Bang Boom shave off like idk 7 minutes.

>The Graham scene still plays out EXACTLY as it was on the show. (THAT is what we should have had with Bobby's death.) The whole team working to save him. The tension, the fear, the grief was thicker in that scene then the dust floating around and the soot coating their faces. And then the save. And the relief. And the imagery of them all carrying Graham out into the light as a TEAM?? Breathtaking. And then. And then...they all turn away from each other because even though they were united in that one moment - these people are still monumentally fractured in their mourning.

>Chim's Goonie's Never Say Die speech still happens, but without the whole calling out Buck and Eddie and not giving them the choice. But something more pleading. Please don't leave, please don't break this family even more. Please don't. Slightly more optimistic lighting and camera angles. There's a softening. A small release of tension.

>Then you spend the other idk 29.5 minutes stitching our babies back together. You see someone reach out to the other. You see Hen in the car with Athena. You see Chim and Maddie (and well EVERYONE if this was the 118 from several seasons ago) at the adoption. You see Eddie talking to Chris about moving back, with Buck in the background. You see them packing and unpacking. You see Buck sleeping on the couch with apartment hunting tabs open on his computer. You see Chim stocking gear and Buck checking off on his clipboard. They're teasing each other. You see Hen laughing in the background with Ravi - showing him a picture of Figure Skating Bobby. You see Eddie opening his locker and hanging his photo of him and Chris up. You see Chim slapping him on the back. You see Buck cooking in the firehouse. You see Athena placing one of Bobby's aprons around Buck's neck. She lingers over his heart. You see Maddie joining them for lunch. You see her water break. You see all of them jumping up and chaos getting her down the stairs. You see them piling in to the ambulance and captain's vehicle to race to the hospital. You see Athena clearing the way in her police car. You see Ravi looking like he's going to check how dilated Maddie is and then Buck elbowing him and covering both their eyes as Chim does it. You see Karen ushering Denny and Mara into the car at their house cause Eddie called since Hen's driving. He grabs the bar above the door as they take a turn. Hen flashes him a smile and Eddie shakes his head. You see May on the phone and yelling at Harry and Christopher to stop gaming cause they gotta go! You see the ambulance arrive at the hospital and they're pulling Maddie out of the back. It's cinematically shot almost the same way as when they all brought Graham out of the building. Only this time. This time there is joy. There is family. They are together. They have found each other again. They have chosen this. Chim places Robert KEVIN Han into Athena's arms. "Hello, Bobby."

See. It's basically the EXACT SAME EPISODE. No Buddie Canon, No Bobby alive in a govt research lab. It's the same. Only so so so much better and about the characters. It's about the family of the 118.

[esaari]

[littlespoonevan]

if my rewatch has reminded me of anything it’s that I would pay actual genuine money for the s9 opener to be about literally anyone besides athena grant

[pettyeddiediaz]

there are 3 people who got to hear how much bobby loved them in their last interaction (-ish) on screen

athena, buck, and ... eddie. bobby's words may have been said through captain morales, but "your captain nash loves you so much he said you'll always have a job back at the 118." bobby knew eddie would figure it out.

so when bobby turns up alive, his last act as captain should be giving eddie his job back and telling him bobby knew he'd always find his way back home. and THEN bobby can retire :) as an eddiebobby girl, i think i deserve it after the crime that was 8x14 and 8x15...

[yakichoufd]

So I've read Children of atom and I really enjoyed it greatly! It my favorite x-men comic read so far!! I really wanted to hug each o5 character at some point! Xavier isn't exactly what I remembered as a kid and I think it fits him better (kid me thought he was very gentle, but he is not really (he's not mean or anything, but he is not the sweet gentle professor kid me imagined). He has a goal in mind and does almost everything he can to get there). I like that each of the kids has different struggle with their mutation while being in highschool and they all survive in different ways (well you don't really see Jean, it is explained why but it was a bit of a bummer). Over all, there is a lot of angst for everyone.

I wanted to tell Bobby that everything would be ok, same for Scotty and Warren. I fell for them the most. I kind of wanted to see the kids bonding together, but I guess, that's never the point in marvel comic? I wanted them to do kids things since they could truly be themselves in the mansion. Scott was so skinny and always with oily long hair, poor bean!His nickname "slim" take a different meaning! It is quite interesting to read about his childhood. How messed up and tragic it was. He kind of has a villain backstory haha!

[1doesnotsimplyhavejust1fandam]

Need an acknowledgement after Buddie goes canon of them having had latent or explicit feelings for each other for years. This isn’t a case of “oh, we were best friends for years and then one day we woke up and were in love.” This is a case of “we’ve been best friends for years, and we’ve been falling in love with each other since the day we met. We just didn’t understand it yet.” We’ve already had Buck’s realization that he’s bisexual, but his arc was chock-full of obliviousness to his attraction to Eddie, his feelings for Eddie, whose attention he actually wants. He still doesn’t really get it, but he gets that he likes men too, at least. Eddie is a whole other ball game. From the Catholic guilt to the toxic masculinity to the childhood emotional neglect to the pressure he keeps putting on himself to perform in relationships. He’s repressed as hell, and he isn’t to “I’m gay” yet, but we see hints of him understanding that how he feels might be a little different (his pause at “follow your heart, not Christopher’s” from Carla, his two talks with Bobby, admitting to performance anxiety on dates to the whole team, his talk with Buck about Marisol being an ex-nun, his acceptance that Ana and a ready-made family was the reason for his panic attack).

We know that the two of them are bad at identifying how they really feel, or at least allowing themselves to feel it. So, it makes way more sense for the show to admit that they’ve had romantic feelings for each other for years, rather than trying to convince the audience that what we’ve been watching these past seven seasons isn’t a product of two characters’ struggles with their identity and relationships. And while I’d be satisfied with a light-hearted snark from Hen or Chim about how they’ve been seeing it for years, I’d be so much happier with a full circle moment of the boys actually fully knowing themselves, acknowledging that they were never just best friends, they just didn’t understand it yet. It would show their series-long growth, as well as being an enormous tip of the hat to the audience. Because we aren’t misinterpreting it. We’re reading the queer-coding directly from the show, yes through subtext of course, but also the literal text. There have been so many moments deserving of acknowledgement in this regard, and I would hate for Buddie to go canon without it being clarified that those moments were exactly as queer and/or romantic as we thought.

[heuffopla]

Just finished Kpop demon Hunters and I'm a little confused about something. Maybe someone has the answer.

So it's made pretty clear in the movie by Jinu that some demons were once normal humans who made a shameful mistake, they're then tricked by Gwi-Ma, trapped in the demon realm to live in suffering for eternity and I'm guessing that there are a lot more like Jinu that end up regretting their mistakes, and Rumi knows this.

So in the end how are we still okay with the "kill the huge wave of awful demons and close the portal to the realm of suffering and pain" ending when we know demons are like. Not this monolith of evil-ness? Was Jinu the Only ex-human who made a mistake somehow? Why are we letting them all suffer still then? I'm a little bit confused eheh :'}

[fastcardotmp3]

i'm really very excited to see hen grappling with what it would mean to try and step into bobby's shoes, both in the basic sense of having to be any sort of leader while still grieving the man who should and who always has carried them through the hard moments brought about by this job, but also in the slightly more complex trauma that is how he was lost.

because hen is smart and hen notices things where other people don't and there's gotta be this question, right? there's gotta be this question scratching at the edge of her grief, about whether or not she would have seen the signs if she hadn't been incapacitated in the way she was. there's gotta be this question, which can only reasonably lead to the realization that if she had noticed, if she had comprehended that both chimney and bobby were sick and there was only one cure, would it not have been on her to choose?

is there not this fucked up sort of gratitude that bobby didn't make her choose? is there not an anger at herself for feeling that way at all, for feeling anything which could remotely resemble being grateful that bobby is dead?

and how does she put on a shiny new title and claim leadership of anyone or anything when she can't even begin to reckon with that?

[writing-is-hard-af]

Okay, the end scene in was beautiful and heartbreaking all at the same time and I will stand by that. But the more I think about it, the more upsetting Bobby being buried in Minessota feels to me. Not even necessarily as a decision by Athena, because I can see it, I can understand it to a degree. But having him buried so so far away from LA, from Athena, May and Harry, the 118, all of them, feels both cruel to the characters and kind of illogical from a writing perspective. Because nobody, none of the characters, can visit his grave, can go to it and talk, grieve. Pretty much every grief storyline in media, especially TV shows, includes characters visiting the grave of the one they lost, includes them talking to them there, processing things. We saw it with Eddie and Chris going to Shannon's. But by having Bobby so incredibly far away from them all, none of them will be able to fully grasp the closure and comfort of it. Not to mention, he and Athena are far less likely to be buried together and that feels cruel. The concept of him being buried there is sweet, painful but beautiful in a way, as the end scene was. But the reality of it in the show going forward? That's something I don't know how to grapple with.

[herpderpingest]

I think the thing that bothers me the most about the Supernatural finale (aside from Sam's disposable wife/terrible wig) is just the fact that everyone goes to heaven.

Like a HUGE part of Supernatural after season 4 is dissecting the whole concept of heaven and fate and predestination and monotheism and the general idea of one ultimate final reward you get for being good in life.

And then you tell me we just swap Jack out for Chuck and the whole system is perfect now?

And moreover that Dean's version of eternal rest is doing the same thing he spent his whole life trying to escape. The metaphor of being on the road. Of not having a family or a place to land.

The boys are fighting for the messy, imperfect human experience and the idea of chosen family throughout the show, and in the end one gets taken out of that experience early and the other seems to suffer through the rest of it?

I know once you pass the threshold of "characters have died and come back to life several times now" it's always going to be hard to stick any kind of landing but for real, how did they go SO off-key?

[funeralprocessor]

I feel like the Primaris should have been the catalyst for like, an imperial civil war. At the very least, much unrest in the house of Guilliman. Their existence, let alone rollout/integration, should have had many chapters absolutely rioting. It should be beyond the pale by several orders of magnitude and be seen as an enormous overreach by the more autonomy loving chapters, a blasphemy by the more orthodox chapters, and an existential threat to chapters with geneseed quirks. Plus anyone with any awareness of the thunder warriors should take one look at them and recognize the writing on the wall. Guilliman should absolutely recognize what they represent, what they imply. Like they're the leading wave of a paradigm shift that doesn't bode well for what came before. And I say this as someone who's not averse to Primaris, I just think they could've, should've, been a waaaay bigger deal. I know they loathe changing the status quo and we're never getting rid of the posterboys but I think we missed out on something interesting.

[whatohitsonfirewelp]

The last time Athena will ever get to hold Bobby, touch his face, kiss his lips, hold his hand,

His body will be cold and unmoving.

And I don’t think I can ever forgive them for that

[miyagi-hokarate]

This is how I felt watching Johnny and Carmen get married before she entered into labor