Exploring-the-cosmos - Unending 9-1-1 Brainrot

911 Text Posts 11/? (Eddie Diaz)

Hey yo guys- so what the actual everloving FUCK did we just watch-

Nonono because- alright let’s- take a moment shall we LETS FUCKING BREATHE for a moment and think about how the only time someone has addressed the fucking Godzilla in the room was Maddie fucking Buckley IN SEASON 2 and it was a haha joke

It’s not a haha joke anymore I fear ITS NOT A HAHA JOKE GUYS BECAUSE to have two separate characters in one episode be like “you’re in love with Eddie Diaz” and one of them is your ex boyfriend. who was FRIENDS with him. Who Eddie apparently dropped like chopped liver -HIS ONLY OTHER FRIEND BESIDES BUCK- the moment you two weren’t a thing anymore and the other is your long suffering sister who has watched this is unravel since the moment she stepped foot in godamn LA, TO HAVE BOTH OF THESE PEOPLE BE LIKE ????you have feelings for Eddie Diaz ??????? And Buck being completely unhinged “I don’t have to sleep with everyone I have feelings for” my brother in Christ that sure was a sentence you just said what are we even talking about at this point we’re just saying words “he’s straight” WERE JUST SAYING WORDS I need to be shot in broad daylight through the eyeball goodbye-

the thing is. there was a way to write the bucktaylor breakup in a much more coherent way that didn't make buck look an unreasonable freak. it's simple -- when hen and chimney ask bobby and athena how they knew where they were, have bobby and athena tell them that they got a lot of 911 calls from jonah's neighbors who heard suspicious noises and were moved to call 911 because they heard about him from the evening news. cut to reveal: taylor kelly aired the segment about jonah before they caught him.

this way, the buck/taylor conflict becomes much more meaty and complex: taylor legitimately would have betrayed buck's trust in this instance and gone behind his back, but she also would've been vindicated in her choice to do so because it saved hen & chim's lives. thus they both have points, and they break up over the fact that they have irreconcilable priorities -- taylor will always choose the truth & the greater good, and buck will always value interpersonal trust more.

the problem with the way it was written in the show is that by the time taylor did the segment on jonah, he was already caught and she knew he was already caught, and thus all of buck's reasons for not wanting her to do the segment (#1: they didn't have 100% proof; #2: airing the segment could make jonah target hen & chim) were null and void at that point. so buck looks like a whiny unreasonable asshole when actually for once i don't think he's supposed to, i think we're supposed to think it's a moral gray area. but it's not. because they wrote it bad. but it would've been SO EASY to write it well, and that's what makes it so frustrating.

there is simply no world in which they’d have buckoliver doing All That if buddie canon wasn’t happening - like, they would not even touch this if it was just going to be one-sided?? not only would that upset people who want buck and eddie together, but also the people who want them to remain friends because unrequited feelings would permanently hurt their dynamic, and ripple through the rest of the team. not to mention, it puts one of their main characters in a position of being the ‘bad guy’ for not returning buck’s feelings. it wouldn’t make sense for them to blow up such a significant part of their show when there’d be no winning for anyone. and when you take a step back and put down the interviews and just look at what’s actually playing out in the show, it’s clear what’s happening.

they didn’t have to so heavily lean into focusing on buckandeddie since the switch to abc. they didn’t have to tie eddie to buck’s relationship with tommy. they didn’t have to make buck’s 8b arc all about grappling with losing eddie! say what you will about some of the writing on this show, but they’re not totally incompetent. these things didn’t just accidentally happen. it was always going to be either all in on canon, or nothing at all. and they’re all in.

let the story play out. it’s coming.

buck is so so good at the bits of parenting that eddie is struggling with at the moment, and eddie sees that as a personal failing on his part because he thinks he has to be everything to chris at once. but actually they can both parent chris, they can complement each other!!! he just hasn't realised that yet but he's so so close!!!!

The 911 episodes ratings on imdb are sending me.

This is fucking WILD.

the way they had a solid rating across the board and now they have an episode rated 2.2 is insane.

hereditary alcoholism. childhood ice skating stardom. con artist mother. who's doing it like the nash family?

Eddie's going to leave his parents' house after a huge blow up fight with his mom and he's going to be alone in his truck and he's going to look longingly at the passenger seat and sigh because Buck should be there.

And then he's going to call Buck on his drive home and Buck will have Eddie's back when he tells him about the fight. And when Eddie gets home he'll park the car and sigh and close his eyes and Buck will still be talking and Eddie will pretend Buck's in the car with him (where he belongs) for just a few seconds and then he'll tell Buck he's home and they'll hang up and Eddie will be alone again.

And he'll realize that the person who has always had his back is over 800 miles away and he misses him more than he ever thought he would. And it'll hit him like a ton of bricks that Buck is the first person he calls after a bad day and after a good one. That Buck is the voice he wants to hear when he's spiraling. That the reason it's been so hard to look directly that his relationship with Buck is because it's something beyond friendship. He loves him to the core.

(x) bro kenny literally kept telling him it's a shit idea. if bobby really is dead then this is just... man...

if taylor shows up again just so tim can do a scene direct from fanfiction in which buck is like "oh btw i'm bi" and taylor is like "me too. congrats on finally figuring out your feelings for eddie" and buck's brain implodes well. that would be the funniest thing he could possibly do