botheredbuck

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nothing happened in the way i wanted, every corner of this house is haunted

[botheredbuck]

um. and what if i said buck’s reaction here to tommy’s “and for you” was not just him realizing that tommy still wanted him but an initial realization that tommy might just actually be the one to love him anyway

[botheredbuck]

[botheredbuck]

bobby carrying buck's body, buck carrying bobby's

[botheredbuck]

i don’t want to hear about how buck “wasn’t grieving” like i’m sorry you couldn’t see that he basically dissociated to get through the funeral

[botheredbuck]

Oliver Stark as Evan “Buck” Buckley 9-1-1, S08E16 - The Final Alarm

[botheredbuck]

Fixing his collar. S01E06 vrs S08E16

[botheredbuck]

i’m so glad they focused in on athena this ep but they also clearly laid the foundation for what’s going to crack them all open in my opinion :

eddie “i should have been there” diaz

hen “facing filling bobby’s shoes” wilson

chimney “survivor’s guilt” han

and evan “just trying to hold everyone else together so i don’t fall apart” buckley.

[botheredbuck]

well i'm sorry you guys are having a bad time and i don't agree with all the decisions being made but i thought it was a really beautiful episode and bittersweet ending for bobby and tbh 8b feels a lot like s1 to me and i'm really digging that

[botheredbuck]

here’s what i think. i think that if you watch a drama about first responders who risk their lives on a daily basis, but you watch it because you think it’s a slow burn romance because someone online told you it was, and then you turn around and claim that the show is “making fun of you” or “laughing in your face” or being “cruel to the fandom” - well, i think you’ve probably convinced yourself that this show is something that it isn’t.

people die. firefighters die. and you know what, babies and children die. to think that bobby’s beautiful full-circle story was anything but carefully crafted - we’re not watching the same show. like, we can’t be. you’re watching edits on tiktok. you’re watching week to week and clinging to anything that feeds the machine. 9-1-1, from season one (skipped by many apparently, which is a damn shame), has never shied away from the darkness of the human existence, and it never will. this show isn’t what you’ve told yourself it is. there’s nothing to be afraid of, though - you can enjoy darkness, you can appreciate it. no one is pranking you. no one is laughing at you. you can enjoy it for what it is. think your own thoughts.

[botheredbuck]

The LAFD lost an exceptional firefighter, and we all lost an exceptional person.

[botheredbuck]

Buck baby my most beloved you are the sweetest smartest kindest ticking time bomb of repressed grief and horror.

Can’t wait to see you go off 🥰

[botheredbuck]

BUCK WITH THE HELMET

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YOU’RE HOME NOW BABY, YOU’RE HOME

[botheredbuck]

no no no i’m so glad this is such an athena-focused episode bc i really think the best way of showing the beginning of this grief process was by putting it at the centre, with the woman who really loved him

[botheredbuck]

STOP IT

STOP IT

STOP IT

[botheredbuck]

im so used to seeing athena in control of,,,, well, everything that watching her lose it like this hurts like im being kicked in the ribs