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9-1-1 as The Onion Headlines - s8b edition (Part 4) (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3)

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two months after bobby’s death, chimney tells them about the desk.

everyone had been sharing stories about how bobby was always so excited to get feedback from them, and how they felt like they were glued to that desk until they threw him a bone. and very quietly, chimney confessed that he hasn’t had the heart to go through it since he took up captaincy. and athena tells him that just won’t do. that she’s finally ready to get this last look into his life.

and so they go through it. a lot of it is expected- paperwork, pens, the framed photos of athena and the kids chimney had gently placed in the drawer. but a lot of it is unexpected. there are dozens and dozens of newspaper clippings. big saves throughout the years.

hen with that little girl in the earthquake. eddie saving the boy from the well. buck leading the rescue at the overpass collapse. in the article about the cruise ship, when it describes who alerted the coast guard, bobby has crossed out LAPD and clarified. Hen.

there’s a box of recipe cards, and buck eagerly flips through them, holding each one like it's sacred. he goes to give them to athena, who pushes them back towards his chest. and she says he’d want you to have them and when he goes to argue, she just tells him he’s in charge of barbecues from now on, and he starts really crying.

chimney hands her a stack of receipts paperclipped together, from dates and dinners throughout the years, including the bill for their very first one. and now she’s watery eyed too.

chimney starts laughing because he finds a handwritten draft of a speech bobby prepared for him and maddie’s wedding, a particularly sentimental section annotated too cheesy? and yes, chimney says, very cheesy, but he’s choked up anyways. 

the last thing they pull out is his notes from when he interviewed eddie. it’s a glowing review. hard worker, veteran, level-headed. buck peaks over his shoulder as he reads it, pointing to the scribble that says respects authority. jokes that bobby might’ve missed the mark on that one. at the end of the list of praises, circled:

good for buck. 

and he can’t argue with that one. so, he just smiles at eddie, who’s smiling right back. they all leave the office carrying memories. and as chimney sits in the captain's chair of the empty office, he reads the one thing he kept inside. a crinkled sticky note he’s stuck to the bottom of a drawer, taken from his last performance review.

Chimney leadership- needs push.

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buddie + word choice

for anon

bonus

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8x09 sob stories // 8x18 seismic shifts

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hi, it seems I’ve grown quite fond of these two lately…. 🥺🤲🏻

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okay. it’s not even about like whether or not buddie happened. it’s actually the fact that they literally spent SO much time this season focusing on buck and eddie’s relationship to the detriment of BOTH of them having coherent and developed storylines—cannot overstate that buck had NO STORYLINE this season except to be weird about eddie and eddie had TOO MUCH texas storyline that ultimately led nowhere—and then. didn’t follow through even ON THEIR RELATIONSHIP? EVEN THEIR PLATONIC RELATIONSHIP? i said this before but “buck misses his best friend” is not. A PLOT. okay.

and this isn’t even touching the fact that. um. basically none of the characters did anything this season that led to anything for them because they were all these choppy self-contained one-offs—bobby? hotshots, then his mom showed up, then he died of ratpox. hen? brief confrontation with ortiz, denny nde with no consequences, everyone forgot her birthday, she decided she didn’t want to be captain. maddie? world’s shortest pregnancy and also kidnapped but she’s over it now. chimney? maddie’s short pregnancy and kidnapping and then bobby died and he was set up to become captain (WITH NO FOCUS ON HIS LEADERSHIP PRIOR???😭). athena? beenado plane crash, sparky the rookie, cart cop, then bobby died. buck and eddie are the only characters who actually had anything consistent happening across the season and it didn’t even end up being resolved. season 8 is watchable and in isolation most episodes are enjoyable for what they are but as a whole it’s disorganized and inconsistent and the storytelling is unsatisfying and that Sucks .

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they wasted so much time what do u mean we spent all episode on the disaster and spent 4 minutes collectively on mara being officially adopted, second han baby born, eddie moving home, buck looking for a new place, and athena selling her dream home that she built with bobby. FOUR MINUTES.

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okay and maybe you are all going to look at me like i’m crazy. I think they were 1 billion% going to do buddie canon this season and were going to start following through on it in 812 but then for some reason tim decided to kill bobby. like bobby didn’t die for buddie canon. buddie canon died for dead bobby. which is worse.

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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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the way they ultimately didn't even let eddie make this one decision (to move back) himself after a STORYLINE LASTING A YEAR LONG IN REAL LIFE. just crazy work. every emotional beat of this plotline happened offscreen. the kimshannon root issue of it all was not mentioned even once. i'll lock back into the roommates era/sitting on it summer soon but someone's head should roll for this and we should be saying it with our whole chests.

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BUCK MOVING OUT? EDDIE STAYING BUT NOT OUT OF HIS OWN DECISION? BOBBY DEAD? HAN BIRTH OFF SCREEN? I AM MAD

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I am going to Italy tomorrow morning for a uni trip and with the nervousness of that, everything that happened in the past 2 days and the season finale tomorrow (for me), I feel like im being hunted for sport

I'll have to watch the finale on the bus and it will be so hard to keep my cool

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I just know when Eddie came back , he looked around to see what Buck did with the house but saw that fucking huge ass bike that Buck has never ridden , pinned up and just did the most deep sigh ever

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