Miss Cellophane - Must Love Tommy Kinard

Just Tommy ✨looking✨ at Buck [Buck's ver.]

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HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER (9x16) / 9-1-1 (7x05)

look at him.

LOU FERRIGNO JR as LOUIS HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER (9x16)

Tommy Kinard; 08x06 (Confessions)

please please please please reblog if you’re a writer and have at some point felt like your writing is getting worse. I need to know if I’m the only one who’s struggling with these thoughts

This is going to be long as hell, but I really feel like some of you in this tag need some talking off the ledge, in regards to what will happen with Buck and Tommy in the long term.

For starters, I don’t think Tim Minear is going to stretch out the ‘will they, won’t they’ for much longer, and I will go so far as to say, I don’t believe he’s going to keep Buck a perpetual victim of the "hamster wheel" (I probably just lost some of you right here). This all coming from someone who is normally quite frustrated and pessimistic when it concerns the writing, character evolution, and general direction for 911 as a whole. I've been less than impressed with the show for a while now and often forget it's even a Thursday night option (especially with The Pitt right there...), let's just leave it at that.

And yet, I still think there are numerous signs, within and beyond the text, that suggest Minear and his cohort of writers may finally be doing something different here, at least, in regard to Buck’s development and, therefore, Tommy's by extension. If it turns out that I'm wrong, then I’m wrong. But I also don’t accept the notion that there isn’t, at the very least, some solid evidence pointing to something good up ahead for the pair.

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This. So much this.

I love a good in-depth analysis, and this is so well thought out and articulated. I have had many of the same thoughts (and even expressed some of them in long arse rambles of my own). Gonna don my Optimistic Akubra and add a few extra thoughts.

One thing that OP says that I agree with and haven't seen too many people say is that we were played in the interviews. Well, not so much played, more that we weren't thinking long term - we figured they were talking about what we were going to see in the immediate upcoming episodes rather than over the season as a whole. When they talked about having Buck and Tommy as a rom com, and overcoming hurdles, etc, I think we were all expecting those things to happen much sooner. And when 8x06 aired, I think many of us saw the Abby connection and assumed that was the hurdle and were shattered when they broke up, thinking that Tim and co. had lied to us. This wasn't helped by the fact that we were given an "exit interview" for Lou (so much for THAT hey?) with other interviews also shedding a more negative outlook on the relationship. But the thing is, those interviews were conducted by blatant buddie journalists - they were going to do anything and everything in their power to write it and twist words to make it look like their "buddie canon" was a possibility by having Lou/Tommy out of the picture.

Because looking back at those interviews about Buck and Tommy from the beginning of the season? When you start looking at the season as a whole, you realise that what we've been seeing is exactly what they said would happen. They've had the (hopefully) temporary break up and miscommunication tropes that are common in rom-coms. They had the hurdle of the break up, and now they need to figure out if their relationship is worth fighting for. They even Let Buck Fuck, except surprise! It was with Tommy, not some random stranger. Hell, even when they said that after the hiatus Buck would find someone new in his life, but they would only be temporary, here we were thinking Buck would be playing the field, but again, surprise! It turned out that someone new was a dog, and Buck STILL wasn't over Tommy!

The Buck and Tommy story has been playing out for this whole season so far and is clearly Buck's major plotline for season 8, so of course they weren't going to spoil anything by saying "oh don't worry, they'll be getting back together." Instead, they've been playing out the "will they, won't they" (again, something that Oliver mentioned in an interview) in the hopes of getting the audience invested and rooting for the two of them to get back together, something that, when you think about it, they would have to do since Lou is only a recurring and they wouldn't be able to spend a lot of time developing their relationship in an ensemble show. Like OP said, it's very possible that at least Oliver and maybe even Lou knew that Tommy would be coming back, and they've done a great job at leaving crumbs without revealing they actually know anything. And the thing is, yeah, we were angry, and yeah, some people stopped watching the show, but boy did what they do work. Because when you look at the fact that 8x11 had the highest ratings past the three-part opener (not bad for an episode that wasn't immediately after the hiatus and is smack bang in the middle of the season) and that every Buck and Tommy related post has the highest amount of engagement on social media, then yeah, they played us and they played us well. They wanted us to care about their relationship and for the most part I'd say they succeeded (I mean, buddies are never going to be happy, but what do you do).

Well played show. Well played.

This is how that morning went, by the way.

I can't wait for them to actually say it to each other.

the thing about me is that i occasionally take it very personally

top five most important things you can give a character. 1. bisexuality. 2. autism. 3. so much negative rizz it loops around into irresistibility. 4. so many bad events. 5. a coping mechanism that’s cute and silly provided you don’t think about it too hard

⤷ oliver stark as evan buckley in 9-1-1 - buck, bothered and bewildered

LOU FERRIGNO JR as LOUIS HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER (9x16)

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