Imagine Having The Angela Bassett On Your Show And Ruining Her Character Just Bc You’re Out Of Ideas

Catsy Jones

Gonna be so real, gang, I kinda expected Eddie to only get three seconds of screen time but it’s kinda wild that we got a time skip and pretty much everything revolving his immediate, acute grief happened off-screen.

Actually the time skip was the worst decision of the episode tbh. Like, I’m more than fine spending most of the immediate fallout from Bobby’s death with Athena (never gonna complain about more Angela Basset on my screen), but the idea that we hardly see any of the main character’s reckoning with the loss besides Athena and Chim? Thank god we got SOME Hen in the end but fuck man. Why did we jump ahead two weeks? Why did we spend so much time on what should’ve been a B-plot? How is Bobby dead but still had more screen time than other main characters but also got a janky montage as a funeral rather than an entire episode grieving his death? Literally what. Was any of that?

And the stoic Buck of it all? Yeah, people who called that they’re setting him up for captain were right and truly I hate that with my whole heart. For seasons, so much of Buck’s character growth has been routed in realizing that he can’t always be “the guy who fixes things” and how he can’t be everything to everybody and more importantly that he doesn’t NEED to be to still be loved and accepted. And now they’re setting him up to the center point of the 118, the figure that every other firefighter looks to—listens to, follows through literal flames. Literally making him become everything to everyone. The guy whose job it is to fix everything.

Take that with the implication that Bobby was right to think LA was not his real home; just his penance, his borrowed time (burying him with his “real family” in Minnesota)—even after he insisted on his last words that he found a will to live and a new family instead? I just—

It’s like they’re undoing years of character development. And for what? For shock value and “creative decisions”? The characters are no longer three dimensional fixtures in an expansive work of art exploring joy, despair, hope, grief, and the tumultuous lives of first responders. They’re glorified baby dolls being smashed into trauma after trauma—as if the showrunners got tired of telling interesting stories and instead now chasing dopamine rushes with the next big emergency they can torture their toys with.

And I’m expected to watch season 9? Hell, the rest of this season? How? The creative minds behind the show clearly don’t care much for the characters, so why should I?

(Great acting by Kenneth Choi and Angela Bassett though. Phenomenal what pros can do even with shitty scripts.)

Hugh had to have like read up on her before they met right? Cause he wouldn't just poison some kid for her from just knowing her for a couple hours. Imma just theorize he knew who her mom was and pulled some string behind the scenes to get her transferred so I like the scenes better.

Omg this episode is so good. Also Gina I love you please keep telling them to step the fuck up before sir does.

The way she told him to strip has me feral!!!

well. that wasnt a very good catholic funeral for my best friend, allegedly dead, bobby nash

FOUND Season 2: Missed Opportunity

So, my mom had a theory during the early episodes of this season of the show Found. It was so good that I wish I could have shot it to the writer’s room to run with it. She basically suggested that Lacey’s mom was Sir’s accomplice all along. Like, chick was bat💩 crazy this entire time and helping him because she is in love with him. It would explain why he could move so seamlessly in and out of that baby’s room after their escape. She could also be crazy jealous of Gabi and secretly plotting her downfall because Sir will never love her the way he loves Gabi. I hate to pit us against each other but this would have been too good. Oh yeah, and did I mention that Sir is actually Lacey’s biological father in this scenario? (BOOM 🎤 drop)

It would explain why he took her originally and why her mom never really seemed all that shook about it. It would also explain why he let her live the second time around. His sister being the accomplice doesn’t explain how Sir had so much inside information about the agency before she was introduced on the show. He had their files like he had a man/woman on the inside. Lacey’s mom being the accomplice would explain that. It also would be a very interesting arc for Lacey to have to navigate. She would be utterly destroyed and the actress would really have some serious trauma to navigate in that role. Perhaps even question her own morality with Sir as her father. So juicy.

But alas, opportunity missed.

Not him playing hero and making her film it as he stands there awkwardly like look what I did Gabriel

Naw fuck everything I said said about Ethan. Heather is Hugh's sister and is working with him. My main complaint with the sister theory was we haven't met her yet so it wouldn't feel as much of a twist but this gives it to us.

Okay crazy theory that I doubt will happen but it did I called it. The season ends with Gabi either killing herself or letting Lena kill her. Sir doesn't follow her into death however as he blames her family for self hatred to the point of death and not saving her so he now is determined to break them but not by just killing them as that would to easy. That is how in season 3 we will be able to get more of Dahn and Zeke flashbacks as sir will play with their traumas. Obviously I don't want Gabi to die as she is my favorite character and I would be devastated but this would be interesting to see play out.

(Edit: Another way they could do this is if Gabi is put in a coma either from Lena or from a failed suicide attempt. Sir would be just as pissed)