i see your 'buck gets jealous of people bidding on eddie' and give you 'the auction was on a voluntary basis and buck is the one who put eddie up for it without telling him -to continue his 'eddie needs a night out' plan- and then he still gets jealous of people bidding on eddie'
can we climb this mountain?
i don’t know
higher now than ever before
(i know we can make it if we take it slow)
can we climb this mountain?
i don’t know
higher now than ever before
(i know we can make it if we take it slow)
favorite bathena moments: 21/? - 8x03
poor athena's heard them all 🤭
Once more thinking about the bit in the Stephen King novel From a Buick 8 where in the end as the kid is being eaten by the evil portal car (don't worry about it) the other characters use a random rope they have lying around as an anchor to go in and save him and it's offhandedly mentioned that the kids dead dad tied the knot in it years ago. Even if he's gone your father's hands are here to save you. Thinking about Bobby Nash, how there easily could be some piece of equipment he personally checked out or set up or prepared that saves Buck's life, even now.
how it feels to genuinely and seriously hate something but all its critics you see can't stop making really really stupid points when hating on it
you think a movie is bad because it just sucks and then dudebros hate it because it had women and minorities in the cast. you think gen ai sucks but so many anti-ai people try to defend copyright law or the idea of art having a Soul. someone's criticism of something is generally correct but they lean into conspiratorial thinking. a person online had a shitty take but everyone's saying "of course they had an ace flag pfp". many such cases.
When making up a backstory for a character it's so tempting to have little moments that like... Explain something that happened in cannon but I think I need to fight that impulse. That's the bad movie sequel impulse. Not every character trait needs to be defined by a specific moment in childhood and it can become trite when it feels like you're reading a decoder key rather than a story.
Conversation carried out throughout the shift
@emziess: "there's also something to the fact the last time someone lied to chimney about being sick they died for him"
buck voice yeah eddie is sexually repressed but not Like That
he thinks eddie is the first closeted straight man in the world and if he ever voiced any of his thoughts on eddie’s sexuality he would get canceled on twitter
as a the narrative has been pushing captain hen for years truther there is something so so so delicious because yeah it has! it has! and you know what happened? bobby died.
it changes everything and letting it change everything is vital to the forward progress of this story, because she knows that Bobby has been preparing her for captaincy, she said so herself, but Bobby dies and she says not like this.
she reacts in her grief just like the rest of them are doing-- buck cries out for help by trying to run away and eddie gets stuck on the tracks he was already on trying to go back to Texas because that was the plan just like he tried to get back together with Shannon and just like he has tried again and again to create what he perceives as a Whole Family for his son because that was the plan-- and that means she is protecting herself.
the last time hen was captain, her child was almost taken from her. the last time hen was captain, her team followed her into a truly deadly situation which could have easily turned out so much worse-- she sees that now that it actually has, she sees every time they've trusted her big swings and and can't help but picture different aftermaths to all of them.
so she says no. not like this.
but where hen looks at the future from her spot incapacitated on a table with her captain's hands literally opening her up to breathe and sees everything she cannot do to save her people, chimney looks straight into bobby's eyes and sees the promise to protect a legacy in his final breathing moments and reshapes his entire philosophy on what it means to be captain.
bobby would have given his life for any of them, he says, because he took their lives as his responsibility. their safety. comfort. happiness.
hen looks at the captain's chair and sees all the ways it goes wrong. a simple malfunction is all it takes to send her careening into a young musician's car, after all.
chimney isn't even looking at the chair, though, because no one was preparing him to, because there was no pressure to. instead, he's looking at the people amongst whom he should not get to stand and just decides to push them back together, save them from splintering.
protect them.
bobby nash's legacy.
a promise returned.
(and if that dynamic between the two of them has infinite juicy potential..... well that's gotta be a different post i've already been yapping too long)
the dynamic!!! the potential!!!!
the way hen's secrecy is in so many ways still reactionary in her need for control over her life in the wake of losing bobby, just like choosing not to take the captaincy when it was offered to her was!!!
the way chimney is just starting to accept his new leadership role only to be faced with the realization that maybe his best friend and closest confidante hasn't gotten that far and doesn't see him that way yet!!
the way that at the end of the day it is still all about bobby and the holes he left when he died and these two most seasoned and experienced members of the team being the ones trying to fill the gaps but feeling so off-kilter in every fragile step they take both as individuals and a team!!! that's the good stuff!!!!!!!!!!
they haven't had good meaty interpersonal drama since the madney proposal arc and i am CHEWING
Oliver Stark as Evan “Buck” Buckley 9-1-1, S09E07 - Secrets
THE hen and chimney for @livingincolorsagain