#ep: riddle of the sphynx

[tkslittlesway]

When TK smiles, Carlos smiles - 3x13 & 4x01 Parallels

[librathefangirl]

Tarlos Week 2022 Day 1: Tarlos + Favorite Season

ID: 8 gifs from 9-1-1: Lone Star season 3 of TK Strand and Carlos Reyes. Gif 1: Fully colored gif from season 3 episode 8. Carlos runs across the airport and wraps TK, who meets him with open arms, in a tight hug. Gif 2: Fully colored gif from season 3 episode 4. Carlos and TK stand in their loft. TK holds Carlos' face with his hands as he pulls him into a slow kiss. Gif 3: Black-and-white gif from season 3 episode 4. TK lies in a hospital bed as Carlos leans over him. TK grabs at the back of Carlos shoulder and pulls him down into a hug as Carlos wraps his arm around TK's head. "Every moment we're not married is a wasted moment" is written across the top of the gif, while "And baby we only get so many" is written across the bottom. Both in capital red letters. Gif 4: Fully colored gif from season 3 episode 8. TK sits on their bed. Carlos is crouching before him, one hand at the back of TK's neck. Carlos reaches up and kisses TK's forehead. Gif 5: Fully colored gif from season 3 episode 13. Carlos sits by their dinner table as TK, standing beside him, leans down and places a kiss on top of his head, one hand on his shoulder. Gif 6: Black-and-white gif from season 3 episode 18. Carlos and TK sit together on their bed. Carlos smiles widely as he grabs TK's face with his hands. TK smiles back at him, equally wide. "Tyler can I say yes now?" is written across the top of the gif, while "A thousand times yes" is written across the bottom. Both in capital dark blue letters. Gif 7: Fully colored gif from season 3 episode 13. Carlos stands behind TK inside their loft, one arm wrapped around him. He smiles at him. TK looks up and over his shoulder at Carlos, smiling back at him. Gif 8: Fully colored gif from season 3 episode 15. TK and Carlos stand in front of each other inside their loft, both nodding their heads. Carlos looks exhausted as he slumps forward and falls against TK's shoulder. End ID.

[guardian-angle22]

TK/Carlos + Touch

↳ 3.13 Riddle of the Sphynx

[iboatedhere]

all your tags make me so curious about what your top 10 eps of lone star are lamdkfajfdla

LEST I BE JUDGED

Push

Bad Call

The Big Chill

A Bright and Cloudless Morning

In The Unlikely Event Of An Emergency

Riddle of the Sphynx

Texas Proud

The Big Heat

Yee-Haw

Monster Inside

[maxbegone]

hi! i just wanted to say that I’m really enjoying your top 10 set and I’m (nervously 👀) looking forward to seeing the last two , but I wanted to know what your top 10 episodes were? They’re all so good it’s so hard to choose!

thank you anon! it's been a lot of fun, and there were definitely a few surprises on that list. as for my own top ten, it's a little hard. my top five is pretty easy, but here we go:

1. in the unlikely event of an emergency - i hold this episode so close to my heart and consider it one of the most beautiful episodes of television I’ve ever seen. gwyn is undoubtedly one of my favorite characters on the show, and tk's experience losing her so suddenly and dealing with that subsequent grief hits very close to home. i'm going to cherish this episode for a very long time.

2. push - what is there to say about push that hasn't already been said? it's a perfect cap to the first arc of the season, and was my favorite episode of lone star up until 3.08. it's just beautiful all around, and my only complaint is that this is the only episode we got with andrea this season. i miss mama reyes.

3. saving grace - i love me some judd and grace, and this episode by far is one of the most magnificent. heart eyes all around, tommy leveling judd in the past and in the present, pushing him to say introduce himself to grace, the three of them and charles (who i miss dearly) being a family, and the 126 coming together to support judd in the hospital. never not crying.

4. riddle of the sphynx - i think this one is pretty self explanatory. we have carlos learning to take a step back while tk takes a step forward in his sobriety, carlos learning what it means to be in love with an addict, hard conversations, and a moment of, once again, reassurance that tarlos is endgame. shout out to wes from the icarly reboot who played cooper and made me scream when he first appeared on screen.

5. bad call - i mean obviously the first carlos-centric episode has to be on the list! every single bit of this episode was perfection; we got our first glimpse at detective reyes, learned a little more about his realtionship with gabriel, the first instance of tnt being badasses (and also absolutely fucking done with these kidnappers), and, of course, "hi baby, hi baby."

6. the big heat - alexa, play fever by elvis presley. i mean. i mean. clearly. on my first watch i was being thrown back and forth on who was on whose side, which is probably what the writers wanted, and ultimately did not expect raymond to be the culprit or gabriel and owen to team up like they did. so many twists and turns, so much yelling, our first on screen "i love you." and, of course, that ending when tommy gets home. oof.

7. red vs blue - nostalgia ep, my beloved! despite the fact that i have a v small, v playful, grudge with tk/ronen choosing #2 for his jersey in honor of derek jeter because i'm a mets fan, this episode makes me wish i was still playing softball. all of the 126 is competitive, we knew that from catan, but my god was this a whole other level. and then there's nailed it nancy followed immediately by the phone call that had every single person screaming at the screen in shock. man, oh man. 8. displaced - the first instance of paramedic siblings being paramedic siblings as well as the first time the 126 really made nancy she part of the group. that tribute to tim was everything. (re: let's continue to have episode 7 of every season feature something for nancy, thanks! but maybe not episode 8 be where we hurt tk). we also had owen and gwyn sincerely breaking my heart in this episode because they just love each other so deeply at the end of the day, along with, if i'm correct, the first instance where owen actually showcased his anger. also, that mri scene. damn, tk. 9. a bright and cloudless morning - don't yell at me for how low on the list this is, but classics took over! this was, hands down, lone star's best season finale. it was epic all around, and i'm so happy everyone wound up ok. i was genuinely nervous for wyatt and judd there for a while. the prominence of owen's grief and guilt with 9/11, gwyn coming to him just like she came to tk when he needed her, the sequence of the 126 getting owen out of the rubble as he saw faces of the 252 and nypd. i had chills the entire time, and especially during that shot of paul and tommy passing owen's helmet down the line. that, for some reason, gets me more than anything else. and of course — the proposal. i've watched it too many times to count, honestly, and i'll keep doing it for the continuation of the hiatus.

10. prince albert in a can - give me all the carlos and grace teamwork! this is what we needed! carlos boxing to up in here by dmx made me scream, sure, because wow, but watching these two team up and figure out what went down on a call they were both so clearly blaming themselves for was incredible. and ask literally anyone, i jumped up and down and screamed "there she is, there's mom!" the second athena was on screen. god's plan, bitch.

honorable mention to hold the line, in which this was the first time i met the 118. i watched the episode again during my first og watch and it felt like i was visiting the 126 with them. such a great episode, i don't care what anyone says. get those crews back together!

[tkslittlesway]

This time last year, we were anticipating episode 3x13: Riddle of the Sphynx, which originally aired April 11, 2022. It wound up being such a great episode! The angst, the communication, the flirting, the hugs, the kisses, the casual affection. The episode had it all. And I've been in the feels about the episode lately, especially after the dry spell that is season 4; and I'm just *hoping* we at least get One episode like it this year.

[tkslittlesway]

If TK is looking at photos of him and Carlos and 'grieving', it's reminding me of the last time we saw him looking at photos and grieving 😭

[librathefangirl]

It's finally here! The next 9-1-1: Lone Star Humor video!

[guardian-angle22]

TK/Carlos + Touch

↳ 3.13 Riddle of the Sphynx

[librathefangirl]

Coming soon!

New 9-1-1: Lone Star Humor Video dropping soon! Enjoy this little sneak peek 😂

[maxbegone]

May have misunderstood the questions in your post, but IMDb ratings are just user ratings... anyone can go on IMDb and rate an episode, and episodes are ranked by their averages. As for what criteria users have for ranking the episodes, I think it could be anything. (For example, a lot of homophobes recently ratings-bombed a few episodes of Amazon Prime's A League of Their Own on IMDb because they didn't like the queer content.) It can definitely be a little odd to see which episodes are rated so highly without knowing why someone rated them that way, but that's why there's a limit to how important those ratings should be considered. I agree though, it is very interesting.

Ohhh, you know what? I think I did know that about IMDb ratings…but still, it’s good to know.

My question was, in the end, what is it exactly that makes people vote for certain episodes? Is it the action or is it the storyline? Is it something else? I don’t understand why One Day is so high up — yes, it’s a great episode and we get to learn a bit about Tommy and Charles, but I don’t think it’s the best.

I do personally think Riddle of The Sphynx should be higher, but it is a Tarlos-heavy ep, so maybe that factors in somehow? I’m not sure.

This is me rambling.