Excited for the henisode because she's been dealing with like the same reoccurring storyline abt her and karen wanting to keep their kid(s) since season 2, and i want her to have other stuff going on. Idk maybe shes gotten really into pc gaming and they need to find room for her setup. Or like, karen wants to join a community theater production and they have to iron out the logistics so that we can have a scene of hen cry clapping while karen belts onstage. Something. Can they go camping? I want to see them setting up a tent and stargazing. They deserve a storyline where their family doesn't hang in the balance please. Maybe mara wants to get a pet snake but denny's scared of them.

Ok walk with me here. The stills of buck (unexpectedly?) being there for henren bathena double date have got me wondering- hey, at this point does anyone besides ravi know that buck and tommy have been in contact? Does anyone besides buck and tommy know that they hooked up? Alright keep walking.

Buck is out sick and is mid home improvement/distraction project when he randomly or not-so-randomly ends up having dinner with the two most established relationships in his family, alone. And he gets asked when hes gonna meet someone new so that he can stop fifth wheeling and it becomes a couples night. Hes stuttering, mumbling that he hasn't gone out and looked for anyone, hasn't even thought about it. Ofc the 118 party line of other fish reigns, and hes told he just needs to put himself out there again.

And he knows his friends are just being overbearing because they are worried and want the best for him, but he's still sore from the months of everyone telling him to move on- the people he loves most in the world keep telling him he needs to love someone else, someone who isn't tommy, including tommy himself. And he just can't take it anymore! He interrupts and finally gets to stop being nice and tell everyone that no, he doesn't want to move on from tommy, he wants tommy, he loves tommy. And he doesn't want him to slip through his fingers again, he wants to get him back and make him stay, because he wants a future with tommy, and yea it's been rough but he knew it wouldn't be easy. He knows he won't drift into the life and love he wants, he'll never just find it, he has to make it.

And in the aftermath, standing in front of everyone, grubby and tearful, in the silent dining room, phones start ringing and the 118 gets called in to help with whatever big disaster, minus buck. Karen has to leave to deal with a development in the a plot, and now athena and buck are left. They both want to be at the crisis, they need to help, even if they have to steal a helicopter to do it. And they know just the guy who can help.

Athena is once again sitting in the back of a stolen helicopter with buck and tommy up front, except this time she can see that buck's starry eyes run deeper than gratitude, and she knows tommy is looking at buck with more fear and desire than she's ever seen on him in the over twenty years since they met. And she looks at these two men, these asshole probies who grew up and fell in love, and she knows something about fighting to build the life and love you want, working to trust yourself and open up. She knows that it's so hard to not be ashamed of being happy. She knows they can learn, they can teach each other, just like how she and bobby did.

We've arrived at our destination, a rooftop at sunset. I wonder what will happen??

I can deal with the icons but man it really bugs me that they abbreviated the note count. What was the point??