#theres actually plenty to pour over and analyse and none of it spells buck and Natalia endgame imo!!!

[stagefoureddiediaz]

I have so many thoughts and I remain convinced there was some major rewriting going on because they thought they were getting cancelled and then they weren’t.

But Buck starting something with Natalia does make sense in a few ways even if it feels forced - because him ending up choosing to be alone would’ve made more thematic sense - unless you want to explore his relationship with death further in season 7. Buck hasn’t reckoned with his relationship with death fully yet and him literally dating the embodiment of death allows the show to explore that especially because the show spent a lot of 6b reenforcing a few different things - dating someone you helped save never goes well and the seeing being seen of it all. 

There were also a fair few parallels to Ali in play with Natalia as well in this episode most loudly the couch of it all - Buck not choosing his own couch but doing it with Natalia is a call back to how Ali decorated his apartment - this isn’t him choosing his next couch for himself, this is him having his couch partially chosen by someone else. But there was also something in the way in season 2 they had Ali present and part of the whole rescue - playing a part with the ironing board etc and 6x18 had Natalia present during Kameron’s labour - helping but not really helping and they made a point to show her still not really understand Buck - when she makes the comment about why he would do something like that for them (I can’t remember the line right now) in the same way that Ali commented about not really understanding why Buck would want to go back to firefighting after the truck bombing. I could go on but I’m tired and I need to sit with things for a bit!