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[unkillable-gays]

9-1-1 8.16 "the Last Alarm" liveblog

Oh they are NOT starting this episode off with a dead baby. What the FUCK.

(Also idk much about house fires, but that one looks CRAZY!! what happened there????)

Buck sounds so awkward entering the Han house 🥺🥺🥺

(kind feel like Oliver's American accent might've been fighting for its life in that first scene. Like he didn't sound British, but he did sound...off? I imagine it's pretty hard to do a foreign accent WHILE trying to express a lot of emotion and also stay in character.)

Buck don't think i didn't notice you absolutely refusing to talk about your feelings!!!!

hshdjdj LOVE that Athena's like, "ohhh, OTHER people's problems? Instead of my own? Don't mind if I do!"

Oh, these guys should NOT be back at work 😬 send Chimney home!! Him lowkey threatening to kill Gerrard was kind of funny, though.

I'm kind of enjoying the Micah storyline tbh. I mean Athena is fully spiraling, but, like, I get it! I also don't want the baby to be dead!!

CHIMNEY you gotta be there for your daughter and your pregnant wife!!!! Take a page out of Buck's book and repress that shit!!

I feel like the fact that there wasn't a body would've been in the police report, or whatever documentation they have for incidents like these? I mean, I get that there wasn't foul play suspected, but if someone dies, I'd think you'd want to record the details.

(It does seem strange, though, that Gary's like, "I thought she might listen to someone who was there," and literally Tommy, Hen, and Chim were all there, too?? And no one mentions it? Like I understand Gary not knowing who was there, but Athena literally talks to Hen about it, and they don't address that Hen watched this happen?)

The Athena and Leah scene 🥺🥺🥺🥺

Awww, May and Harry, best children ever 💕💕💕

Ohhh, the boys getting ready together 🥺

bdnsjksks is it normal for churches in LA to have suits of armor as decor? And 100-foot paintings??? (I mean I'm assuming this is a real place, so, i guess so, but)

Okay, help me out, I haven't watched most of this show, who's the guy next to Athena?

Also why did she say, "today of all days??"

Did they not bring back Bobby's mom and brother for his funeral?? That wouldn't be so weird if we hadn't seen them so recently! (Okay wait I think there might've been a quick shot of the mom? idk I'm not good w faces 😅)

The folksy soundtrack is an interesting choice, but i don't hate it!

Okay wait kind of crazy that they were considering other burial location options when his family already has a plot??? Like I get that it's not conveniently located, but c'mon. Also tbh I feel like Bobby's the kind of person who would've had those arrangements made in advance. He's certainly spent enough time thinking about his own death. (Also Catholics LOVE to plan their own funerals.)

Honestly? Everyone did a really good job crying this episode.

Not a very fun one, though :/ and also not a lot happening! Kind of like a "buffer" episode? Like, not "filler", (I don't really believe in that) but kind of just the stuff we need to get out of the way in order to keep moving forward with the story.

But it was also, just, like, "let's watch Angela Basset act her ass off for 40 minutes", which I can appreciate!

Since I grew up watching MONK and psych, and other mystery-type shows, I couldn't help thinking that Bobby's funeral would've been a REALLY good time for some opportunistic criminals to pull something off while everyone else was occupied and the street was closed down. Maybe a heist?? Or, like, an assassination, if we were gonna go kinda dark.

(I don't think that's gonna happen, it would very much interrupt the solemn tone they've carefully been setting, it's just where my mind went.)

Love that if Bobby does show back up, Athena and Chimney might have to fight it out to see who gets to yell at him first.

[merthurians-prat-and-idiot]

9-1-1 season 9 is actually just a full series of Eddie, Karen & Maddie trying different ways to jailbreak the 118 & Athena after they all get arrested for this whole thing.

[marshmallowgoop]

No matter how special it is, a kid's lunch is still just a kid's lunch.

I dunno, I liked "The Genius Restaurant" (Episode 1,089).

Happy (belated) birthday, Jimjam.

[Song link] [YouTube link]

[after-nine-at-the-oasis]

9-1-1 prison au except it's not an au. canon compliant. they just all go to prison after everything they just did

[friendly-jester]

multishipping is the fucking best because I KEEP WINNING NO MATTER WHAT MOTHERFUCKERS

[chiefblossom]

5x16 May Day - 9-1-1

THEY CANNOT PUT BOBBY HAVING TO FIGHT AND SAVE HIS STEPDAUGHTER FROM A BURNING ROOM IN THE SAME EPISODE THAT CHIMNEY HAS TO WATCH HIS BROTHER ALMOST FALL INTO A COLLAPSING ROOF.

like sorry. are we just mixing both of their traumas in the same episode???? bobby having to save his daughter from a situation he couldn't before and chimney being able to reach his brother in time this time. WHAT THE FUCK ARE THEY ON. At first with it just being bobby and may I was like "oh! Okay we're using his backstory here this is fun and traumatic" BUT THEN YOU BRING CHIMNEY ASWELL IN THE SAME 5 MINUTES WHAT THE FUCK. Two of my favourites going through it in the span of 5 minutes 🫠

"wait! that's my dad I want to ride with him" "you didn't have to lie" "I wasn't. I have two dads and you're one of them" JUST STAB ME WHY DONT YOU

[fluffyblue-multifandommess]

"I don't have to want to sleep with everyone I have feelings for, and I don't have to have feelings with everyone I wanna sleep with"

Okay Buck

Now answer me this

which of these two hypohetical categories is Eddie in

It's okay, I'll wait

lmk when you're ready

[icy-watch]

I was not expecting this scene.

[normcore-tertiary-character]

"does this boycrush on Eddie mean you're finally ready to move on from Abby?"

In SEASON 2? Y'all have just been living like this? For 5 years???? 9-1-1 fans are powerful

[norapetals]

i want them all to be happy but then again i also want this show to keep happening

[unkillable-gays]

As far as, "Bobby's not dead" theories,

it doesn't seem like "buried alive" is our strongest contender anymore?

I know 911 likes to stretch the boundaries of medical science, but going WEEKS in a seemingly-dead state, with little to no nutrients, heartbeat, breathing, etc., seems a little hard to come back from. Then again, they did invent a fictional super-virus just to kill him with! Maybe it's keeping him going somehow!

But yeah, if he is still kicking, it seems most likely that it's a federal cover-up, kind of Stranger Things-style? Especially given that they made a point to tell us they were dragging their feet on releasing the body. (Which we never saw.)

They've got poor old poppy locked up in a lab somewhere so they can observe the virus in a live host! He's in a hospital gown and yelling at two-way glass and praying the rosary to try and stay sane.

[merthurians-prat-and-idiot]

Bathena adopted a Buckley each 💓💓💓

[jcforsapphics]

Focusing on the bright side May is stunninggg

[after-nine-at-the-oasis]

I promise I will eventually finish my liveblogs but I gotta say: and people wonder why I prefer Lone Star xd

Lone Star isn't perfect, not by a long shot! But they have done well by their characters. Even when Owen pulls focus, or characters do something we don't think they would.

I'm mad Grace isn't in the last season. But they continue to mention her, show Judd texting and calling her. Maybe they could do a bit more, but they're doing pretty darn well.

9-1-1 (the OG) feels a lot more flexible and review driven (maybe not literal professional reviews, but I mean to say: what people are saying about it). Maybe that's the price it pays for being more popular than 9-1-1 Lone Star, I don't know. But in my time in the 9-1-1 fandom, it certainly feels like things are uncertain. Like the fandom has perhaps a bigger influence than it should, whether this is proven or not.

Every Lone Star actor cares about the integrity of their character. Not to say the OG's actors don't, but with Lone Star it feels a lot more personal. I don't know how to describe it, it just feels different.

Lone Star does crazy and out of left field things. Why is Carlos married all of the sudden? Why did Tommy and Trevor have to break up? But ultimately, even though I disliked the events, I was able to move on. I don't have to get through the show by pretending they aren't real. And I'm pretty sure at least a fair part of me is going to have to do that for 9-1-1, probably for quite a little while.

I'm not going to stop watching. Especially since it'll be all I have when Lone Star ends. But the two shows have completely different vibes, even if I love them both. And right now, I especially prefer Lone Star.

[friendly-jester]

HOW WE FEELING BUCKTOMMY NATION?!?!?!

any tommy/ship hate on this post will get you blocked. ain't got time for that bullshit 👍

[gking10]

Liveblogging TMAGP 9: Rolling with It

CAT3RB3354-14101998-08032024Dice (bone) / fate [Magnus Statement]

You cannot just do this. You cannot just do this. You CANNOT just DO this are you JOKING

Since this is a Magnus statement, this might just cleanly map onto End. Then again, maybe not. Everything else is fucky. I thought maybe it could be possible the burning of the Magnus Institute cause an "ecological" shift in the fear landscape that created a new categorization system and the breaking/forming of new alliances and groups, but the violin was all half-Slaughter half-Flesh and that was centuries ago so maybe not.

But whatever the case, I guess I'll have to... play the hand I'm dealt? Idk, I can't think of a better phrase. 0:08 - "statement regarding their entrapment in The Podcast" I know I don't normally bring up the episode dedications but YOU CANNOT DO THIS TO ME. My brain is already melting you can't just say "statement" I was half convinced I somehow spaced out and it was already starting!

2:57 - "Like its deliberately weird and pointless y’know?" That's what I've been saying!

4:40 - "Statement and Research assessment for artefact CD137 -" I think the computers like you, Sam. You let them get access to your phone, so now they're doing you favors! There's artefact storage information attached too? I don't think we ever actually got to see a detailed report from artefact storage. This should be good.

4:51 - "Magnus Institute – Manchester. Private and confidential. Viability as subject – none Viability as agent – low Viability as catalyst – Medium" Hey wait a minute, that's not London. That's not right. Alternate realities! Everything is in slightly different spots, hah! A catalyst is meant to initialize a reaction. So I'm guessing "Viability as catalyst" is about if the artefact can trigger paranormal events. And perhaps trigger reactions in other artefacts during cross-testing? Subject and agent are trickier. "Viability as subject" could be the opposite of "Viability as catalyst": How easily can this artefact be made to react if another artefact is used on it. "Viability as agent"... An agent of protection, perhaps? How good the object is at preventing you from being affected by the supernatural?

5:16 - "I’d put them in that box real careful, because let me tell you, those babies are due for some serious bad luck." That's not how that works. That's gambler's fallacy. Besides, we all know dice that roll good are innocent saints that always give good results and any other dice is naughty and deserves to serve 25 years consecutively in a maximum security penitentiary. Fate was one of the tags. It seems like the dice might control it. Good rolls make good things happen and bad rolls... Well, car accident is one of the incident elements. Dramatic highs that set you up for dramatic lows. Thinking of it, that feels more Web than End. And gambling addiction is also one of the incident elements...

7:00 - "I realize Gary has been doing seriously well since school" "That said, when he invites me in, I notice he’s looking kind of haggard" The money's all from the dice, isn't it? Literally just gambling his life away. It sounds like it just causes you to end up in a bunch of seemingly mundane accidents. And be really stressed.

7:11 - "I ask if he’s okay and he mumbles something about a mugging" Nevermind. Not just mundane. Okay, I guess getting mugged is technically mundane, it's something that could just happen, but still. "I do notice that a bunch of the bulbs have blown and there’s a huge leak over his massive sound system" And there are the accidents. Technology just breaks sometimes, right? Probably a coincidence :)

7:47 - "I’ll have to use his. That puts a smile on his face" Really, Gary? Pawning off your cursed relic to your unsuspecting school friend? Not cool. Probably won't even work. You'll probably get at least a week of peace and then suddenly die of a stroke or electrical fire.

8:36 - "From that point on I own those dice. And I know it." God, it's that easy? You just have to touch them? You don't even need to decide to use them? Just touch the dice once and your life is ruined? Geez. Of course, you could just... not roll the dice. Theoretically. I thought the dice might lead with good luck to lull you into security and make you develop and addiction before you start getting all the bad rolls, but maybe you just start to grow an addiction anyway before you even take the first roll. Worse, it might even be like the coffin. You just wake up in the middle of the night to find yourself rolling the dice. Do you have a freezer, statement giver?

9:35 Yeah, it's just like I predicted. High for good luck, low to start suffering. 9:57 - "The thing is though I still don’t really know if they ever made me roll them. I mean, I did. A lot. And I knew that the risks probably outweighed the rewards but I don’t think I ever felt them like “calling” to me or anything y’know? It always felt like my choice. Even if it was a shitty choice." That's... uncomfortable to sit with. Questioning free will. Something something "You're as in control of yourself as you've always been in your life" something something.

10:20 - "it's not actually random. You get a few high rolls, your next one's is probably going to be low. And if you've gotten all the bad luck out, you've got good things coming." Even if you're not just making up rules in your head based on random patterns, even if you're not just falling for the gambler's fallacy... This could very easily just be the dice setting you up. If they were "sentient" enough to balance out the luck, they could easily be "sentient" enough to just be baiting you this entire time into doing something really stupid. Like believing you're in control. The house always wins. 10:43 - "So that’s when I get to thinking, what if the person rolling doesn't matter just as long as the rolls balance out overall... Well, you see where I'm going with this." Please do not sacrifice people to the fucked up bone dice. I won't hate you as much as violin guy, but I will still be mad.

And then he just does the thing! Seems to just be doing it to random people though and not specifically the poor and homeless, so I'll give him that. The "Not-As-Much-Of-A-Jerk-As-You-Could-Have-Been" Award. 12:47 - "And as my luck kept getting better and better I started to feel less and less… connected to the world." Is he becoming a reaper? Or some embodiment of fate? An avatar either way. 13:06 - "I started to enjoy that more than the luck" Yep, he's eating fear now. 13:14 - "focusing more on being some mysterious stranger" Hey wait a sec- 13:22 - "I even began dressing for the part: I got hold of this long dark coat, a wide-brimmed hat, grew a proper goatee, the works." Let me look back at the transcript of Taking Note real quick. Hmmm. The gift-giver in the woods is only described as "A gentleman, it appeared, of surprisingly refined countenance". No mention of a goatee or hat. Still, the gift-giver does have dice. I realize it would make no sense for this statement giver to be him timeline-wise, but what if this is instead a role people inhabit, like the position of Archivist? When someone finds these dice and decide to not use it for themselves, they become to become the new Dealer of Cruel Fortunes. Perhaps collecting various other fear-touched items to hand off as gifts. The man in the woods in Episode 4 did even mention fortune and luck. He offered the violin as a way to change it. "Luck assumes a myriad of forms". Hmmmm. 13:30 - "That’s when I see Gary" Oh, Gary lived! 13:43 - "And a vicious little idea comes to me" And Gary is dead. Is this fate as arranged by the dice? Is the statement giver the house now, here to collect its due? 14:33 - "I’d never seen snake eyes come up before" Well, fuck. I also notice that the car accident in the incident notes... hasn't happened yet. Gary is going to die in one, isn't he? In fact... is snake eyes the only roll the outright kills you? People have been scarred and hurt, but I think the dice just lets you suffer. 15:09 - "When the truck barrels through the wall, it isn't the grill that hits Gary first. It’s the bricks that are crushed in front of it." I was... not expecting the car to come directly into the building at Gary. I just thought the statement speaker would find out Gary died in a horrible accident later while Gary was driving or crossing the street, not for a car to literally be launched at him like a heat-seeking missile! And that rising noise earlier, was that supposed to be the car? The description of the gore is... vivid. I do not think I want to relisten to it.

16:08 - "I don't know what I expected to happen, what satisfaction I thought I might get from seeing Gary get screwed over by the dice, but that… it’s too much and I know I can't keep them." So you DO have a conscience! Too bad this decision is going to send you into fear withdrawal, because you fucked around with those dice way too much to still be human. You keep pushing and pushing, playing your games of luck and only backed out when you really had to actually see the consequences to their fullest extent.

16:36 - "Well, maybe just once more. For old time's sake." IDIOT. IDIOT. IDIOT. Okay, I don't think the dice ever compelled him when he chose to roll it on his own, but I think its definitely compelling him now. You don't get to just quit the game. Time to watch a bookcase collapse onto this guy's skull, or for him to suddenly suffer the wrath of a bunch of artefacts spontaneously triggering. "Viability as a catalyst - Medium". 17:33 - "You are to visit a man by the name of “Nigel Dickerson” and hand him this envelope which contains a name and address. Take note of anything he says or does in response, especially his stress levels and emotional state, as well of those of any companions." So Gwen's new job is essentially to act as the messenger... who might get figuratively or literally shot. She delivers private communications with important parties and then reports back any relevant details that will help Lena and those she works for decide what course of action to take next. 17:40 - "You must know him. He was huge in the 90s. Saturdays on Six? Mr Bonzo? The Prank Tank?" HIM? BONZO IS GETTInG INVOLVED NOW?

18:35 Okay, I looked back over the transcripts. Alice's phone has been used as a recording source for a scene before. This isn't new. For a second, I thought it was and thought whatever in now in Sam's phone spread. But no, this is just the standard level of privacy invasion. Gosh, even the people in TMA knew there were tape recorders. This is messed up actually.

23:07 - "When do we leave?" I'm VERY surprised Alice agreed. She seemed very intent on not poking her nose where it doesn't belong. She outright told Sam to drop the Magnus thing. This exploration is not set up to end well. Last time I checked, the last person who went into the Magnus Institute ruins had eyes grow all over their skin! (or something). Not good vibes!

And that's episode 9! A cautionary tale of what happens when you don't put dice in dice jail. It was a bit simple, but I enjoyed it! It definitely picked up when the statement giver started to become almost an avatar. That is not an angle I saw coming. Too bad he's dead though. I morbidly kinda hope he became, but he said himself he wasn't the right holder, and his death the result of him rejecting his position. He's probably just dead.