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sure ok. why did eddie even go to texas then? why set up that he’s gonna choose to stay with the 118 (not even like. a buddie thing specifically) for himself because thats where he belongs and then instead he’s forced to stay by CHIMNEY??? why did bobby die?? why did athena sell their house? why did eddie go to texas?? why was eddie going to texas buck’s entire storyline for the season? why chekovs el paso fire employee who abandoned them for a wife in another state? why did eddie tell buck he wasn’t going to make him move out if he came back and then he moved out?? why did bobby die in the middle of a season of rat disease?? why the silly and flippant tone after bobby died? why the 4 minute funeral? why the theme of people returning? why the grahambobby parallel except he lives??? why did athena take bobby’s body to minnesota? how is maddie already giving birth?? how long was eddie in texas? why didn’t chris ever express any desire to move back to LA ?? why did hen do literally nothing all season?? why did bobby die? why did eddie go to texas?

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s9 opener buddie carpooling to work and chim negs them for buck still living on eddies couch. buck rubs his neck like haha yeah nothing seems quite right...cue a 8.12 style montage of eddie finding problems in every apartment buck tours

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I think it's abundantly clear that the pacing of 8B got fucked up around the time they got confirmation of renewal, so I'm stuck wondering if Tim Minear once again decided to just rip up everything he'd planned and do something completely different

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lol

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gerrard saying "pretty boys" about buck and ravi and 6 seconds later my dad says "oh did diaz go with them?" 😭😭😭😭

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RYLIVER ★ SPILL THE ETEA

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Ryan and Oliver seem to be doing a press tour via Oliver’s story 📸

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#bobbyalivemaxxing again kinda sorta (not really) but

"why would maddie answer a 911 call made from minnesota?"

lone star had grace answering a call from the international space station. do you really think they give a fuck

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man fuck being neurodivergent for real. It's 3:30 am and I just started crying 6.5 hours after the episode aired because I can feel my love for this stupid show dying and it genuinely feels like a part of me is going with it. we're living in a world filled with so much constant despair and fear and we can't even have a little escapism without being mocked for daring to have hope. fuck this.

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i don’t want to say anything i’m going to regret later when i’m not as. sleep deprived and emotionally vulnerable. but there are only so many narrative opportunities you can miss before it just becomes bad writing. and there’s only so much benefit of the doubt that your audience can give you before they start feeling betrayed and disheartened

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i wish I could make a serious post about Bobby’s death but it’s just so stupid and unserious to me. like buck didn’t even cry this episode. hen was barely in it. eddie didn’t come back to LA until the day of the funeral???? and tommy was a pallbearer. of Bobby’s empty coffin that was buried in the beautiful city of Saint Paul Minnesota. how am I supposed to make a serious post about any of this.

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a five year long hyperfixation that has at times been one of my only sources of happiness about to die because this stupid upper-class white man thinks he's a creative genius and god's gift to the television industry. lol. lmao even.

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Why was that episode where that police horse died more emotional than the episode with Bobby’s funeral?

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this episode should have absolutely been dedicated to the personal stories of each of these characters. they all just lost a man who was not just a coworker, but a friend. a close friend. we absolutely should've gotten to see how badly everyone is coping with this, how deeply it is affecting not just chimney, but ALL of the 118. athena. harry and may!!! we should've gotten to see tears, we should've gotten to see anger, we should've gotten to see survivor's guilt. we should've gotten to see hugs. we should've gotten to see eddie have a REAL fucking reaction to this. we should've gotten to see the 118 coming together to support each other in this, because they are NOT alone and they ARE a family. we should've seen them leaning on each other. crying together and spilling their guts about the should have could haves and offering each other comfort, whether that be through words or touch or just existing in the same space together. silently, but not alone. we should've gotten to see them standing up at bobby's funeral, talking about the man they loved and looked up to so much. we should've actually gotten to SEE the procession play out - not just a montage of it. like you say you wanna shake up this show and make it feel fucking real then make it feel fucking real. let us, the audience, actually FEEL something during these scenes.

this could have been SUCH a visceral, deeply moving episode. but it fucking WASN'T and i'm so fucking mad about that.

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okay so hear me out: jesus resurrected after 3 days and bobby died missing 3 episodes for the season to end so what I'm saying is alive bobby reveal episode 8x18

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I have come to realize that, to me, one of the worst crimes a piece of fiction can commit is being mean-spirited. Just about anything else can be good in certain circumstances. But a mean-spirited work diminishes anyone who encounters it.