#911 s2e01

[icetobes]

season2 ep1 is THE funniest episode of tv i have ever experienced because you’re telling for 4 seasons of a tv show these two never fall in love (canonically at least)

because bobby is like “hey son here’s a friend” and buck spends the whole episode pouting and arguing and eddies just trying to be there and make friends

and then you get eddie going “i can do it” to take the bullet thing outta the guys leg and bucks fully “i’m in” like as in it goes wrong your issue is gone orrrr ?? because you’re going in to buddy

“buck you don’t have to do this” “what and let the new guy have all the fun? we might end up real close” mashing limbs in one way or another huh?

“coke on you got this” the softest he’s spoken all episodes

“badass under pressure brother”

“you can have my back any day” “or you know you could have mine” T E N S I O N IM TELLING YOU TENSION

finally eddies comic relief “you guys hungry” i love him

[matan4il]

Okay, first of... I adore you and your metas and just ❤️❤️❤️

But also, two things. I'm re-watching and I realised that, even though Eddie knows as early as s2e01 that Buck was left by his gf, he somehow never knew Abby was a 911 dispatcher? At least according to a scene in Powerless. I mean... the Abby topic might be a sore one but surely, they would have had at least one convo about her. And a big part of who she was and how she came into Buck's life is her being a dispatcher.

Which leads me to the conversation Buck and Abby have at the end of What's Next? and how Abby says that she was a person whose life revolved around other people's problems and that she had "no identity" other than the people she helped. And that she left to figure out who she was. Part of which was leaving Buck and never looking back.

Isn't that what Eddie is going through as well, figuring out who he is, i mean. How cute would it be if the end of his journey, of him finding his identity, would be to be with Buck.

Sorry for the weird, and possibly already discussed, braindump ❤️❤️❤️

Awwwww, Nonnie! Thank you SO MUCH for the lovely words and I hope you can feel just how big I’m hugging you right now!

Oh, the talk they have in the truck on the way to the hot air balloon call in 317. I always assumed that Buck has told Eddie all about Abby and how she hurt him (Eddie already knew the gist of it from Chim in 201, clearly heard even more details by 204, and then 318 makes it clear he knows everything hurtful about Abby and her r/s with Buck), I wouldn’t think he’d leave out her being a dispatcher. So based on that, I believe I wrote in the 317 back in the day that Buck probably didn’t wanna upset Eddie by bringing her up, so instead he just says, “I heard dispatch gets...” without specifying who at dispatch filled him in. Eddie at that moment has more than one option, since Buck has a sister who works there, through which he has also befriended at least one other dispatcher, Josh. Both are more current fixtures at the end of s3 in Buck’s life than Abby. So Eddie goes for the most likely option, Maddie. Buck denies, but he’s also very awkward about it. We don’t get a cut back to Eddie’s face after that, but I always assumed if we did, we’d see him serving one of his patented, “I know when you’re bullshitting me, husband, but I’m gonna let it slide until you’re ready to tell me. 'Coz we both know you will.” Basically, Buck doesn’t wanna bring up Abby, Eddie doesn’t wanna press, but that doesn’t mean Eddie doesn’t know Abby is one of the contenders for who said that stuff to Buck.

YEEES! The difference between Abby and Eddie as Buck’s potential soulmates is glaring with that one, isn’t it? ‘Coz Abby needed to find herself and she didn’t come back. We always knew Eddie would. But then she doesn’t come back because she eventually chooses to walk away from being a first responder, she feels drained by helping others and realizes she can’t continue to do it anymore. I wrote in the 318 meta post that Buck is the opposite of that, he IS that guy who WANTS to run into burning buildings to save others. And the thing is, so is Eddie. Ali chose to walk away from the first responders life, Abby did as well, but Eddie didn’t really want to. He felt compelled by what he heard from Chris. He was going through a lot, so he overreacted and quit instead of communicating with his son, but he never actually wanted to be away from saving others, which is why even before he’s resolved all of his issues, he goes to Bobby, wanting back in. Even when quitting, he still found a job that was firefighting-adjacent, one that allowed him to still help and save people, like we saw in 511. The things he has to figure out aren’t going to change this about who Eddie essentially is, on the contrary, they’ll only reinforce that this is who he is, a guy who cares a lot and wants to help others. Just like Buck. Which is precisely why yep, Eddie will ALWAYS choose to be with him. The way these two are so compatible, I AM WEEPING.

Thank you so much for the ask, Nonnie! And I’m so sorry if my own ramble is weird and unhinged, but they make me feel things. Have a great day! xoxox

(I got an influx of asks, I WILL answer all of them, but it might take a sec. If anyone wants to check whether I've already answered theirs or to read my replies, here's my ask tag. Thank you! xoxox)

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I promise.

[morganofthefairies]

Eddie Diaz on his first day at the 118:

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the 118 + bets

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2.01 // 4.09

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I’m just passing through.

2.01 // 4.05

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4.05 // 2.01