#911 the blackout

[thatbuddie]

[shitouttabuck]

[littlespoonevan]

actually i think the reason the tsunami is the best opening disaster is bc no other opening disaster has the same level of tension?????

[lesliesknopes]

Eddie is honestly such a bad boyfriend because all he uses his girlfriends for is babysitting. like girl get tf out of here 😭😭

[thequeenofcarvenstone]

[stagefoureddiediaz]

The fact that buck and Tommy were eating two types of salad has me cackling - now we’re paralleling Tommy with Ana!!

[diaz911]

Does Eddie just date women to have a babysitter?

[stevethehairington]

no because like. okay i KNOW eddie does have wife related trauma but ALSO there are Layers here and it is s o o o o fascinating that eddie is getting CRIPPLING panic attacks over someone being called his wife. like. you would think maybe said wife related trauma would be the cause of that — like yknow. the woman i called my WIFE died, so now im terrified of ever having anyone else be called my wife , because what if that happens to her TOO. only NO. THATS ACTUALLY NOT IT AT ALL. it's anxiety about what having a wife means for HIM. like. LIKE. INSANE IMPLICATIONS INSAAAAANE IMPLICATIONS!!!!!!!!

[shitty-proendo-blackout-posts]

yo. I'll have two number 9s, a number 9 large, a number 6 with extra dip, a number 7, two number 45s, one with cheese, and a large soda.

this is the right drive-thru, isn't it?

9 one one

[runawaymarbles]

The thing is. Barnabas!Eddie would I think have a very different reaction to the beginning of season five and the Jeffrey arc, because of his and Athena's torturing-and-killing-a-guy-a-few-times-and-dying-together bonding that Athena doesn't know about. This would be very fun to explore, except for one problem, which is that I fucking hate that arc.

[captain-hen]

"ooooooooHHH you made him cRY" this show is a comedy

[louisdotmp3]

this whole superiority complex thing that 911blr has going about not being a cop show is sooo silly. are we just gonna ignore the many episodes that are Just or Primarily copaganda? Are we gonna ignore that the highest billed actor on the show plays a cop? come on be serious and engage critically with the media you consume by at the very least acknowledging reality

[littlespoonevan]

I know the tsunami is the tsunami and it 100% is still the best opening disaster they’ve ever done but the earthquake takes the number two spot without question. It really was just so good in balancing all of the characters’ storylines and giving them each a moment to shine in a way I don’t think any of the post-s2/3 disasters have done????? Like I think it’s fine - exciting even - to have one or two characters be the main focus or be the ones in danger but what I’ve found lacking in the s4/5/7 opening disasters is that we don’t get those individual pockets of storylines in the same way and that’s sort of the key to what builds the tension and makes those episodes so good????

[thewingedwolf]

@lovecolibri WAIT RE: YOUR TAGS ABOUT INJURIES bc that drives me up the WALL in ls how often someone will be horribly injured and then never discuss it again. at least in the main show, you usually get a small b plot the episode after that delves into it - buck most noticeably tends to get an episode or two arc whenever he gets injured, but we see it frequently with eddie and bobby, and sometimes with chim and hen as well. like, yes they heal way faster than anyone realistically would OR there’s a small time jump and they’ll kind of comment on being back at work again. meanwhile, carlos AMD marjan straight up almost die and then they’re back at work like it’s nothing the next episode?? like, marjan’s lil side quest was excellently done imo (and honestly, tying it back to Marjan’s own belief in her strength, her faith, and adding in a reminder that she’s gotten this far because of the love and support of her family, that is the sort of story i’ve wanted for her, and the one [1] thing i will give the writers on both shows is that they clearly listen to feedback from the actors on their characters and imo that almost always leads to a richer storyline) but she was banged the FUCK up at the ending and then next episode she’s just. hanging out. still firefighting.

WHAT. WHY. chim in the og gets that treatment the worst (imo anyway. hen doesn’t really get arcs like that but that’s bc hen is not nearly as impulsive or accident prone as the entire rest of the 118 lmao, so she usually just doesn’t get injured as badly) but even chim gets an episode or two to deal with his ptsd after Maddie’s ex nearly kills him! buck gets at least one arc a season where he’s injured and has another quarter life crisis, bobby has had to chill out a few times after injury or a wobble in his sobriety, Athena was benched for like half a season after being injured, even Maddie will get b plots (or even main plots!) where she’s dealing with the emotional if not physical fall out of her job. Marjan’s car gets flipped off the road, she spends an entire day running through the woods bleeding and injured, and is then SHOT and KILLS SOMEONE and it’s just a shrug. We haven’t even heard from Iris since Carlos’ story wrapped!! The OG isn’t perfect at continuity or at, like you said, the kind of circular storytelling where something is brought up several episodes in a row as a b plot, then resolved as a main plot, but when you compare it to ls, there’s a clear disparity there that I find annoying. but rob lowe’s kids are in the writing room so Of Course they care more about Rob Lowe doing shit that has nothing to do with being a first responder (like, he’s not even going for ride alongs with Carlos or something! he’s just jogging around Austin and getting into shenanigans) than actually paying attention to the story they’re telling

[limitedanomalies]

I just stopped here bc i smell the upcoming disaster 😨

[lover-of-mine]

as a computer scientist i hate wannacry episodes.