#and i saw angela bassett?

[ghost-in-the-corner]

Ok who was going to tell me that Angela fucking Bassett was the voice of Regalla??? I cause have words

[thefrsers]

im unwell😭she really said Nash with her whole being😭

[911bts]

Is Angela doing an interview today?

Yes! Thank you for reminding me. She's going to be on the Talk today

[fandominstability]

Fully not the point of the episode at all, but fuck me, if I don't get to see Athena in that green dress again, I will be the saddest bisexual to exist

[romance-incubomp3]

I think I underestimated how prestigious the playwriting conference I’m attending right now is. because it’s in valdez which, while historically significant, is tiny and in the middle of nowhere alaska

[cinnamonsikwate]

stephanie hsu and angela bassett i will avenge you

[papabearbobbynash]

Watching some complain of Angela, Peter and even of Oliver's acting on Reddit is hilarious to me.

I mean, I would get complaining of the emergency bg characters (because dear lord some are really cringe) or even Ryan (who sometimes is just ? with the acting)

[satan-says-uwu]

I used to be ok with BuckTommy (or tevan or whatever y’all are calling it) and its shippers because I saw Tommy as a stepping stone for Buck to realize his love for Eddie, but now I’m so fucking done with it because of people like this. This person is genuinely laughing at people who have critiqued the Lou interview, for good reason by the way, just because they are so utterly obsessed with Lou. Buck kisses one boy and they are fucking going wild and saying he’s his soulmate. Homeboy has less than 10 mins of combined screen time and he’s apparently Buck’s endgame, give me a break. Just say all you care about is white men kissing.

The critiques of the interview are so warranted as well! Like tell me why Aisha and Tracie don’t have any interviews together? They have been in a queer relationship since s1! Why not interview Kenny or Peter or fucking Angela Bassett! BuckTommy shippers will say Buddie shippers are only upset because this means BuckTommy are endgame. I’m begging you, please use your brain.

[outrunningthedark]

tinaaaa did you see the ew article???

Might be my favorite article for this show ever??? -> Let's appreciate this banger of a start: After an epic seventh season that began with a Poseidon adventure at sea and ended with Bobby (Peter Krause) and Athena's (Angela Bassett) home burned down and the fire captain quietly resigning from the 118, 9-1-1 co-creator and showrunner Tim Minear had one thing in mind when his team returned to start writing season 8: "To not just take back everything that happened at the end of last season." Tim KNEW people would complain about Eddie's arc, and Gerrar, and ofc, BuckTommy, and you know what he did? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Don't like? Don't engage. (Find a better outlet for your pent up anger. It's embarrassing.) -> I don't even care to speculate on what the post-bee story line is because I'm bad at that stuff, I am just DYING at all that hype over an "AU to give us gay!Eddie" and Tim actually wrote something that will focus on Athena. (You know Athena, right? The main character? The whole reason the show still exists?) -> Gosh, it sure was hard to connect the dots re: Buck struggling the most with Gerrard because he's got no prior experience with the guy! Almost like focusing on Hen and Chim would be repetitive considering they've been there before! 😉 -> L O L @ Tim letting us know there isn't supposed to be a significant time jump between seasons so that it makes even MORE sense for BuckTommy to continue settling into a serious relationship. Sounds like we're not missing the milestones! And "we definitely call them a couple"??? Is there a show runner who is more petty than Mr. Minear because WOW. (I love it, though.) -> Buck focusing on his BOYFRIEND instead of his best friend's issues??? Who saw that coming??? (All of us. Literally all of us. 7x10 is canon.) -> People are probably gonna get upset about Chris not talking to Eddie (you know they'll somehow make it Helena's fault, lol), but creating even more distance between father and son, especially when there is no real time jump, will only HELP emphasize just how badly Eddie fucked up and how hard he's gonna have to work on himself if he expects to earn that trust back. A+. -> Han/Wilson family is here to stay! I'm glad Tim is finally realizing that putting Maddie with other characters outside of dispatch even when the scene isn't about her actually makes it easier to maintain that firefam feel! [I believe we have entered a new era, y'all. Buckle up. Enjoy the ride.]

[talokanda-forever]

I am SO very proud of my people.

Yeah, this is long but these thoughts hit me hard this morning and I gotta let it out.

Angela Bassett did it. When I first saw the throne room scene where she stripped Okoye of her titles, I knew she was giving us an award-winning performance. Some will see this end result of her claiming her Golden Globe as black excellence...and it is. But black excellence is displayed by the hard work and commitment that began 2+ years ago when a heartbroken cast and crew worked through the devastation of losing Chadwick. That is who my people are...we persevere. The excellence is in creators and artists who dig deep to build worlds that ring true on the screen. So that those communities who are starving for true representation can take pride in what they are consuming; instead of feeding us the same old caricatures that some think should satisfy the call for inclusion and representation.

I think about the brilliance of Ryan Coogler. How he puts in the work, how he listens, how he INCORPORATES the feedback he receives, how he is a true CO-LLAB-O-RA-TOR. He didn't create the Talokanil salute, others did. But some would have brushed it aside because it wasn't their idea. He listened when Tenoch told him he didn't look Mayan and took the time to incorporate Tenoch's heritage into his script (we need that extended cut, y'all!). And I think about how during the filming of this very production, Ryan was subjected to racial profiling when he attempted to withdraw money from his own bank account. Cops called out and handcuffed (don’t get me started). Still, they continued. Through a pandemic, they stayed on course. Through Letitia's injury, they plowed through. THAT IS BLACK EXCELLENCE AND THAT IS WHAT WE DO.

Movies like this hit different for POC... they just do. On some level, they go beyond entertainment for us. Someone who has not suffered the exhaustion of getting beat up by society just for existing may not understand. It is a fucking breath of fresh air to look up at the screen and see cultures that have been shit upon--and in some cases exterminated--presented with the utmost respect. We hold them high as banners of pride. We don't want to go to the movies only to get beat up again by images that only denegrate vs uplifting our people.

I love the MCU. I've been there since the first available screening of IRON MAN. Can't tell you how many midnight showings I've attended. I'd be lying if I said it didn't feel a little (ok, a lot) more special that the first major acting award for an MCU film was from the BLACK PANTHER franchise.

Wakanda Forever! Líik'ik Talokan!

[bekolxeram]

I’ve been looking at comments about our weewoo show on reddit outside of the fandom.

Actual first responders usually hate it for its inaccuracies, especially dispatchers. Those who understand the nature of dramatization and love the show, watch it solely for Angela Bassett 99% of the time.

When I go to more fandom adjacent space like r/fanfiction or r/hobbydrama, I see a bunch of people who like the show but can’t stand the fandom. The recurring themes seem to be woobification of Buck (and Oliver), general misogyny against female LIs, picking fights over trivial stuff and shippers attacking not only anyone who doesn’t ship the same pair, but those who have a different interpretation of the same ship. I saw people complaining about all these 1-3 years ago.

It’s been eye-opening, since I’m pretty new to the fandom. I’m just gonna leave this gem here about the other shippers hurling “media literacy” as an insult and to disprove the canon ship:

[eddiespornstache]

Some of my earliest 9-1-1 reactions copy pasted for posterity

- tell me why you’re paying for Angela Bassett to appear on your show and these are the plots and wigs you give her ??

- Love it when they do thematically linked emergencies across an episode it’s so camp 

- First Eddie episode … yeah I’m a Buddie truther they’re gonna be so in love … Like the way the latent bisexuality jumped out .. Buck saw one hot man who isn’t a father/kooky uncle figure to him and forgot how to act 

- they’re actually so in love:

- God I love 9-1-1’s approach to pacing so much. Like what do you mean Shannon has a pregnancy scare, tells Eddie she wants to divorce him, and fucking dies all in the same episode? Cut my man Eddie a break that’s too much for 45 minutes 

- me when im in a making things about myself completion and my opponent is Evan “Buck” Buckley:

These are months old at this point but I didn’t have an account yet and they’re still so hilarious to me

[redvelvetcupcakes21]

The fact that ABC is freaking advertising and promoting 911 is amazing and a 180 from Fox. My friend saw my shock that there was a 911 ad on busses and billboards and asked why I was surprised.

Me: the shows been airing since 2017 or 2018 and it barely got advertised, despite Angela Bassett being on it.

Friend: THATS the show she's on?! Angela Bassett has been on that show since 2017?

Me: Stars and Co producer.

[princessfbi]

okey so i need some tv recs for this hiatus 911 fan overall procedure fans i guess that's all the vibe i can think of to ask lol so hit me with your recs

EXCELLENT! So glad you’ve come to me Nonnie. I am honored. This is in no particular order but in terms of general procedurals with similar 911 vibes I’ve got a couple:

1. Sirens

It’s about a paramedic team in Chicago and it’s fucking hilarious. We're talking laugh out loud can still quote it from memory hilarious. There’s two seasons and each episode is about 25 minutes so it’s easy to get through. There is a British counterpart that is also funny but it’s definitely a different tone for sure.

**If you were a fan of Arrow then you'll recognize Josh Segarra

***Also you can scream with me and @lucydonato about the show

2. ER

I always describe 911 to people as ER for first responders. Part of that is because it’s so episodic. It gets really melodramatic at times and there are a LOT of story lines but for the most part the general stakes keep to one episode at a time and the show gives you permission to let things go which is nice. I’m a fan of the earlier seasons as opposed to the later seasons but Angela Bassett is in the last season. Lots of great guest spots and very character driven.

**Characters do die in this show so be aware of MCD warnings. No one is safe in that show. Except maybe Noah Wylie but that's cus it's Noah Wylie.

3. Numb3rs

It’s an awesome crime procedural with a twist on it. The oldest brother, Don, is an FBI agent who has his baby brother, Charlie, help him solve crime using math. This show has all the tropes too. Brother relationship, found family, etc etc.

4. Psych

It’s a procedural with a much lighter tone. Shawn pretends to be psychic and solves crime. It’s chaotic and messy and wonderful and perfect.

**Gives me coming home from the pool and vegging on the couch summer vibes.

5. Castle

On the same side of the coin, it’s another procedural with a twist. Castle is a successful mystery novelist who helps solve crime. Nathan Fillion for those fans of The Rookie and there's a lot powerful female characters in it.

6. Murder, She Wrote

MSW walked so that Castle could run. This is an oldie but a good. Angela Lansbury is a mystery writer who solves crime. It’s super cool knowing that she insisted on hiring a lot of older guest stars so that they could continue to be in the union and get their benefits. Also omg the 80s/90s wardrobe. There's also a couple of episodes with other detectives and crime solvers when Angela started to get tired carrying the weight of quality television on her shoulders.

7. Drop Dead Diva

THIS is such a good law procedural. It has the added bonus as having the same casting director as 911 so you’ll see a lot of familiar faces. But Deb is a model who died and got reincarnated in the body of a plus size lawyer named Jane and it’s the most wonderful little nugget that just existed in its own space. It was SO ahead of it's time on certain issues and it deals with a variety of topics such as body shaming, slut shaming, mental health, etc in such a kind and compassionate and positive way.

**Gives me late summer 'I haven't moved from the couch and omg it's season three' vibes

8. Scorpion

A team of geniuses (with neurodivergent representation in action genre scenarios) who help solve crime and crisis situations for homeland security. Lots of found family feelings! SO MANY! Big time character driven show.

9. White Collar

A white collar criminal agrees to help solve crime with the FBI agent who arrested him. Neal is so whumpable and it's one of the few times I've seen a fandom really embrace the idea of a poly relationship in fanon? Idk I wasn't really in it but the fics I saw all seemed to agree that no one would complain if Peter, Neal, and Elizabeth all lived happily ever after with their golden retriever. NOW, I will say this is a Jeff Eastin show and he has a tendency to take the amazing female characters in the show, throw them in a blender, and then bring them back as Frankenstein's monster bride and act like he didn't just ruin their character and it drives me fucking insane. BUT those first couple of seasons are fantastic.

Ask Me for TV Recs To Get You Through Hiatus

[buddiebeginz]

Rewatching that Zach Sang interview with Oliver makes me more convinced than ever that Buddie is coming. The question about Buddie was at the end of the interview and it didn't really feel like an organic question more like something maybe they were requested to ask about.

I mean why not ask Oliver what the future of Buck and T*mmy is considering he's the one Buck is actually dating right now? And like I said in a previous post about this Oliver could have answered this many different ways in an effort to not get people’s hopes up. It just feels like they're trying to get the audience ready for Buddie by talking about them so much. They talk about Buddie in pretty much every 911 interview about the show lately. This wouldn’t be happening if the intention was for Eddie to be straight and Buddie was never going to be a possibility. The focus would be exclusively on Buck and T*mmy and while they have gotten some focus because of Buck’s coming out and that’s who he’s dating there’s always stuff about Buddie and Eddie. Tim and Oliver and the rest know how popular Buddie is, if it wasn’t happening I truly think they’d try and distance themselves and Buck from that. Obviously you want fans to tune in but you also don't want fans expecting something that's never going to happen because people will just get frustrated and tune out.

They very intentionally made Buck's coming out connected to Eddie in such a huge way that if Buddie wasn't happening I find it next to impossible that not one person would have looked at the script especially for 7x04 and said hey maybe we shouldn't feature Eddie so heavily in this episode when so many people want to see these characters in a relationship.

Plus everything that Lou has been saying too leads me to believe he's not staying beyond this season. Like I know some of you really like him and like him and Buck together but nothing the show has been telling us and nothing the actors etc are telling us gives me the impression he's being set up to be a long term love interest.

I also think when you look at Buck in some ways he's almost the main character of the show. I know it's an ensemble show and I know more experienced actors like Angela Bassett and Peter Krause get a lot of attention but if you go back an watch earlier seasons a lot of storylines are from Buck's pov to a certain extent. Plus there isn't another character that we've watched grow and change as much as we have Buck. My point is considering Buck is such a central character of the show (and an extremely popular one at that) I find it highly unlikely they're going to just stick him with any ol love interest as his endgame ship. Especially now that Tim is back as showrunner he's expressed that he didn't really like some of Buck and Eddie's past relationships.

Oliver has also talked in interviews about how Buck is going to have to work at his next relationship and I don't see that as being with T*mmy. He hasn't really had to put any work into this thing with him. He liked T*mmy and now they're dating. Same as with any other relationship he's been in. Oliver literally said that is how all of Buck's relationships have been. He likes a person and he gets that person and he said this season that is supposed to change for Buck.

The thing that will be different I think is when Buck finally realizes he's in love with Eddie and has to deal with that. I also wonder if Buck is going to have to work to prove to Eddie he wants to be with him. Eddie has been there loving and supporting Buck for years but then you had Buck saying (last season) that Natalia (this women who he just met) saw him in a way no one else does. Which I think had to have hurt Eddie on some level.

I also wonder if Eddie, once he truly realizes his feelings for Buck will be hesitant to change their relationship. Eddie has historically chosen romantic partners he doesn't allow himself to get too invested in, I think so he doesn't have to be afraid of losing them like he and Chris lost Shannon. I also think that Buck actually dying for a few minutes when he was struck by lightning brought all of this up even more for Eddie. Buck has been the one constant in Eddie and Chris' life and I wonder how Eddie will deal with things as the relationship is changing. I think he'll be afraid of losing Buck and resistant at first so I see a lot of areas where the show can take things to have Buck be the one to fight for Eddie and for them to be together.

There's also the fact that Buddie parallels Bathena, Madney, and Henren all the time. The show has a history of these epic ships while Buck and Eddie have for so long been in these lackluster relationships that go nowhere with partners that are not their equals. The deserve to have a great love story every bit as much as the other characters and that's clearly with each other.

[observers-journal]

Helloooo tunitas! Happy new year ❤️

I was home for the break after a long time. Sorry I have been MIA. But I more or less saw everything related to our man. Him and his beautiful capes, his appearances, him looking even more smoldering hot.

But most importantly, two things: our king had his homecoming moment. And that's the biggest slap to everyone who hated him. Looking big and broad, standing tall at a Marvel premiere. The war is over, everyone can go home.

And our queen, Angela Bassett won an Oscar! Her speech moved me to tears. Gosh do I love that woman. So inspiring.

I'm gonna take a leaf out of our beloved man's life and keep my head down and keep working. I will be going in and out of here, sharing and spreading the love off and on. Not sure how much original content I'll post. Until then, love and light ❤️🙏🏼🧿