My favorite unhinged Buddie moment isn't even really a single moment, exactly, it's just how it stopped being a joke after Season 2. like Season 2 they could play into the haha bromance of it all, but then Season 3 happens and Buck stoops down so he can look into Christopher's eyes while he reads his card and Eddie watches them with a smile, and Buck almost commits suicide jumping in the water when Christopher goes overboard, and Eddie doesn't let Buck look away when he tells him there's no one he trusts with his son more than Buck, and Buck and Eddie argue in the supermarket like a divorced couple and no one treats it as abnormal, and Buck turns into a grieving husband when Eddie is buried alive, and Eddie is the first to get to Buck when he's almost given up in Buck Begins, and Eddie reaches for Buck when he's shot, and Buck stays with Christopher at the Diaz house and everyone defers to his authority re: Christopher, and Eddie makes Buck Christopher's guardian, and.........

Yeah. All that

Indeed, Jack. Indeed. All of it — simply every moment — is unhinged, each choice building on the other, all adding up to one hell of a revolutionary love story.

And looking back, you're so right about that moment in the Season 3 premiere, of Buck squatting down so he can be at eye level with Chris.

That really was the pivotal moment wasn't it? The sign that everything has changed and they are telling...maybe not a different story, but this story we thought we understood was about to open up into entirely new dimensions we cannot yet fathom.

Because this? Believe it or not, was the first conversation we witnessed between Buck and Chris. The first one!!!

We'd seen them hanging out together, with Eddie, but this is the first time we saw them talk to each other. And they are obviously a whole ass family right here.