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m3r1m4r5u333 · 1 year ago

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Hey buddies... LET'S GET TRULY DELUSIONAL. And talk about buddie and curses!!!! How

"I see crows." truly is

"I see dead people." ... And how that is...

"I know you... I met with you once upon a dream..."

Because I FREAKING KNOW THIS CROSSOVER WE ARE WATCHING, with Eddie's journey into this delulu ✨dreamland ✨

to date his dead wife.

And no, I'm not talking about Vertigo now. (Though I don't doubt that either. The show is super into intertextuality)

It's the Sleeping Beauty!

And it has been foreshadowed a lot!

The team being superstitious:

worrying about .

CURSES...??!!

Worrying about birds who are omens of death and illness? (Maleficent's was a raven, another bird who is an omen of death. Ours are crows!)

Remember Buck being warned not to go chasing waterfalls? Well he did!!

Recognise this scene from the 9-1-1?!!!

"YOU TWO HAVE AN ADORABLE SON!"

And rewatch that scene in which Eddie enters Buck's apartment with Chris, before he goes to meet Kim!!

Buck talks about baking a lasagna (a dish with many layers!) and when he says he might have cracked himself trying out this recipe, and ended up burning the dish, since Eddie is smelling smoke...

As Buck says this, he glances up at the

very familiar bicycle hanging on the wall.

Burning spinning wheels, that's the lasagne written here!!

Eddie suddenly sleep-walking, dreaming about dating his dead wife.

Really, Eddie is simultaneously dating Marisol, Kim, Shannon and Buck. That's a damn bicycle in flames, alright!!! How bisexual is this love square? Very!

So it's...

"Don't go chasing waterfalls, Buck!"

And

"You two have an adorable son!!"

And Chris, waking up, screaming, from his nightmares,

And Buck asking what Eddie thinks triggered the nightmares - maybe Shannon returning at Christmas?

Remember what initially triggers the whole curse plot in the Sleeping Beauty?

It is Maleficent being excluded from the celebration, the party celebrating Aurora's birth!!

Isn't that quite a parallel to Shannon being excluded at Christmas, the birth of baby Jesus, right?

This is her, outside, looking in.

And when Chris wants to make a wish (another parallel to the movie, fairies and wishes!) to Santa...

Eddie invites Buck, not Shannon.

She is again excluded from this birthday party, like Maleficent was.

Really, remember the team worrying about curses,

Remember how we were warned not to torment, anger, attack crows.

Remember crows being named.... Buddie?

Remember one particular crow following the team around.

Remember being told crows are the birds associated with death and pestilence.

Well, isn't that bird Shannon, Kim?! Isn't she also a crow, a bird associated with death?

So...

maybe buddie isn't just Buck and Eddie.

Chimney does name a crow buddie, so crows are Buck and Eddie,

and Buck and Eddie are crows...

But there were lots of crows in that episode.

Maybe Shannon and Eddie were the "original buddies".

Friends to lovers, and both of them crows in their own way. They certainly lashed at each other when they hurt each other. But they're also loyal. They tried again, and even after divorce and death... Shannon still shadows Eddie as a ghost...

So maybe buddie isn't just about Buck and Eddie. But also... About another ship.

"Bud... Dies."

After all, in this crossover... Aurora, the princess, the one who was destined to die... She was also called "Rose". And in the world of Disney, roses symbolize love.

And what is young love, like Eddie's and Shannon's, but a young rose: a bud.

Bud... Dies.

So yes, I rather feel like we are watching a crossover of 9-1-1 and

The sleeping Beauty

and that powerful sleeping curse... It has just been activated in Eddie. He is dreaming, delusional!!

And hey, Hen just revived a dog called rosie!!

She revived rosie, right before we get Eddie spiraling to madness, into a dream land, trying to date his dead lover. That's a dead bud, revived!

So yeah our prince got too close to the spinning wheel (Buck? coming out as bi, maybe triggering something)...

And the way Eddie excluded Shannon at christmas, threw her out, didn't invite her, angered her, inspired her to show up at the team's Christmas event, to embarrass Eddie by loudly airing details of their sex life to his collegues...

Maybe that's what triggered the nightmares, Shannon returning at Christmas. Being uninvited, excluded, that's what made Maleficent dish out her revenge, and cast the sleeping curse on the kingdom.

The are just so many similarities between this film, and the show.

Maleficent's outburst after realizing her cronies have been looking for a baby all this time...

In the Monsters, the team slipping past the crows in disguise, disguising the boys to look older, hurt... To avoid being recognised by the disgruntled crows.

Then these persistent crows...

Remember how Chimney starts talking about the crows to Maddie? He asks her if she wants to know a secret:

"I see crows!"

Much like... the famous line...

"I see dead people."

Eddie seeing Kim, and dreaming that this will surely all work out perfectly, that she won't be at all freaked out this stranger who thinks he knows her, is his husband, and she his dead wife??

Yep. Eddie thinks this will all work just as nicely as in the Sleeping Beauty,

when the Prince just shows up, being a total stranger, and sneaks behind her, takes hold of singing Rose's shoulders to dance with her (like a total creep!)...

and when this freaks her out,

he just tells her not to fear her because

"He recognises her from a dream??" (And he kinda does actually, in the movie Philip meets Aurora when she is a baby, so they saw each other when they were younger. Like Eddie thinks he knows Kim, from his past life.)

Isn't this scene of Philip and Rose meeting really curiously similar to Kim's and Eddie's meeting.

In the Sleeping Beauty... Rose is just having fun, singing to herself in the Woods, not meaning anything by it when she sings "Once upon the dream"...

Isn't that similar to Kim basically singing to Eddie

"I know you, I met with you once upon the dream"

when she shows her the beach candles, ones she doesn't know Eddie associates with memories of Shannon?!!!

So Eddie is receiving messages she never intended to sent. There is no "I know you", Eddie just thinks there is.

So yes, I think this is what we are watching right now. A sleeping curse that's been activated.

Kim and Eddie. Shannon and Eddie.

I know you, I walked with you once upon a dream

I know you, the gleam in your eyes is so familiar a gleam

Yet I know it's true that visions are seldom all they seem

But if I know you, I know what you'll do

You'll love me at once, the way you did once upon a dream

But if I know you, I know what you do

You love me at once

The way you did once upon a dream

I know you, I walked with you once upon a dream

I know you, the gleam in your eyes is so familiar a gleam

And I know it's true that visions are seldom all they seem

But if I know you, I know what you'll do

You'll love me at once, the way you did once upon a dream

And ultimately...

It's Eddie, finally having that long overdue meltdown about Shannon dying. After all, he's never had it. We see him destroy a room when he learns about the death of his friends. With Shannon? No strong reaction, ever, just some quiet tears. That's barely a reaction!!!! Obviously Eddie is quite capable of meltdowns!!

So. Eddie hasn't really faced it, that she really is GONE.

This is what's happening here, Eddie is starting to spiral because he hasn't processed Shannon's death.

This is why we are getting Once upon a Dream, now. Because no, Shannon wasn't perfect, their love had lots of fractures, but he did still love her. It's apparent from the way he keeps trying to find her again and again. Like she isn't dead.

Remember the way Ana dressed so similarily to Shannon? Really, their clothes were almost identical.

And then Eddie startles when Ana visits the fire station and Ravi thinks Ana is his wife, Eddie keeps staring at Buck, and when Buck asks if he's sleeping or just pretending...

Eddie says he doesn't want these things to wilt, looking between Ana and Buck. It's not about salads, he doesn't want his roses to wilt. His great loves.

So asked about sleeping? Eddie says he was trying to, until Buck interrupted. Because that's how the curse is broken in the film, with true love and persistence!!!

And Buck? What does Eddie say to him?

"You never give up, do you?"

Yes. This is the "locked yard mystery"!!!!

"There was never a ring, there was a fence.", Buck and Eddie, talking in the kitchen before Buck tells Eddie he'd still take him. I rather think this "fence" is built of roses!!

And Buck... He is the type to hack that fence down, to get to Eddie, to wake him up!!

He's a fire fighter. He can take down any door, all he needs is the right tools, and enough time. That's what he says in his coma dream.

Oh, and the reason why I think we have crows instead of ravens? I think it's because our story is very bisexual, and ties to a film that looks super bi-coded to a modern queer viewer. Because Maleficent is basically the bisexual fairy, okay! Her signature color is purple, she enchants a woman who also loves a man,

she is the fairy who is too wild and scary and excluded from a party celebrating Aurora's birth (go watch Verilybitchie on YouTube, learn your queer history. How another weather phenomenon's, Pride's 🌈 birth wasn't actually an inclusive celebration. Bisexuals not welcome, among others.)

And the buddie mascot animals being crows...? Crows are also queer history. They are queer subtext, and distinctly bi.

The show has made references to the Wizard of Oz before, that's a classic film full of queer subtext. So go watch the scene in which Dorothy meets Scarecrow. He's the character who Dorothy doesn't at first notice... Who is stuck at a crossroads and tells the audience that he cannot make up his mind, and People do go both ways!)

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