9-1-1 (TV) | Buck/Eddie | 7,057
“911, what’s your emergency?”
“It’s my dad! We were hit by a car and he won’t wake up,” Christopher cries. He looks around. He remembers Dad telling him to give his location to dispatchers first but he doesn’t see anything. “I-I don’t know where we’re at. We were on the freeway.”
or in which Eddie and Christopher get into an accident on their way back to LA which leads to feelings realization.
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breaking from the fandom norm here a bit but i actually do want to see eddie being a flustered mess about buck, too. i want to feel like there are stakes here that matter to him! eddie's only confident and smooth about romance when he's playing a role, wearing his Perfect Romcom Boyfriend mask, and he doesn't wear that with buck. i want to see him flounder a bit. i want them both to be disasters here.
3x06 / 8x09
“I’m having more trouble dealing with the idea of you not being around than I’d like to admit” was phrased 100% intentionally to mirror the line from Josh’s speech: “Do you think about him when he’s not around?”
Because in all honesty, without that parallel, the line almost sounds kind of…clunky? It kinda uses more words than necessary, really. The word choice immediately stuck out to me because I thought the phrasing was a little odd.
Like I think if they weren’t writing to intentionally call back to Josh’s speech, the line would’ve been: “I’m having more trouble dealing with the idea of you leaving than I’d like to admit.”
But they intentionally went with “you not being around” instead. I think the choice of wording was 100% intentional.
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ok said this in tags, but it is really bothering me
i think it does such a disservice to buck and eddie's characters to imply either of them wouldn't actively choose the other. the narrative has shown us time and time again that they prioritize each other. and they both know that! they are each other's safe places. anytime buck is going through something big, he goes to eddie (6x12 after the lightning, only consciously coming out to eddie in 7x05, break up with tommy in 8x06). he goes to maddie for advice too, sure, but we are talking about life-changing things where he is seeking comfort and reassurance. eddie started choosing buck the moment he decided buck was the person he trusted most with chris. eddie held off on letting shannon, chris' mother, back in for months, but after a little over a year of knowing buck, he was the person eddie trusted most with his son. also in general. for someone like eddie who was used to trying to go at it alone, that's huge. to say either of them wouldn't choose the other romantically is just... it's funny to me. because it could be a really huge risk, you know? the show has created this story where they are each other's most important adult relationship in the same way all the other mains have their spouses. that would be scary to change the status quo, especially if it didn't work out. they both have to choose to risk it because they love each other more than they fear what will happen to their friendship.
something something buddie metaphor something...............
