Their Arrests And Jamie In The Same Episode!!!! That's Crazy!!!!

Gonna be so real, gang, I kinda expected Eddie to only get three seconds of screen time but it’s kinda wild that we got a time skip and pretty much everything revolving his immediate, acute grief happened off-screen.

Actually the time skip was the worst decision of the episode tbh. Like, I’m more than fine spending most of the immediate fallout from Bobby’s death with Athena (never gonna complain about more Angela Basset on my screen), but the idea that we hardly see any of the main character’s reckoning with the loss besides Athena and Chim? Thank god we got SOME Hen in the end but fuck man. Why did we jump ahead two weeks? Why did we spend so much time on what should’ve been a B-plot? How is Bobby dead but still had more screen time than other main characters but also got a janky montage as a funeral rather than an entire episode grieving his death? Literally what. Was any of that?

And the stoic Buck of it all? Yeah, people who called that they’re setting him up for captain were right and truly I hate that with my whole heart. For seasons, so much of Buck’s character growth has been routed in realizing that he can’t always be “the guy who fixes things” and how he can’t be everything to everybody and more importantly that he doesn’t NEED to be to still be loved and accepted. And now they’re setting him up to the center point of the 118, the figure that every other firefighter looks to—listens to, follows through literal flames. Literally making him become everything to everyone. The guy whose job it is to fix everything.

Take that with the implication that Bobby was right to think LA was not his real home; just his penance, his borrowed time (burying him with his “real family” in Minnesota)—even after he insisted on his last words that he found a will to live and a new family instead? I just—

It’s like they’re undoing years of character development. And for what? For shock value and “creative decisions”? The characters are no longer three dimensional fixtures in an expansive work of art exploring joy, despair, hope, grief, and the tumultuous lives of first responders. They’re glorified baby dolls being smashed into trauma after trauma—as if the showrunners got tired of telling interesting stories and instead now chasing dopamine rushes with the next big emergency they can torture their toys with.

And I’m expected to watch season 9? Hell, the rest of this season? How? The creative minds behind the show clearly don’t care much for the characters, so why should I?

(Great acting by Kenneth Choi and Angela Bassett though. Phenomenal what pros can do even with shitty scripts.)

I'm just kind of fucking tired about this happening to good, funny, smart, diverse, queer shows. Ofmd has a huge fan base, a lot of potential, and became mainstream popular off of what was essentially a cold release of the first season. This show did everything right and was still not safe. I wish I could say I'm fired up or angry, but I'm just tired and sad. This was the first show I'd ever seen have a canon trans character (especially a nb person), the first show I saw with a poly relationship, the first show that basked so proudly in its racial diversity, the first show I watched that allowed for so much love for its disabled characters. This show was full to bursting with love. And they took it away from us.

"Once I was told that good men get better with age... We're just gonna skip that stage" - What Would I Do?

I was finally able to finish this painting to go with this one i did of Marvin at sitting by Whizzers headstone

Can it be next week now. Also sir this episode was fucking amazing. Trent pissed me off per fucking usual. Lacey's father have similarities to sir was a nice touch. Also sir being like drop the charges for his own kidnapping makes sense its just funny.

The opening with the sir dream and all the media shit got me hype for this episode!!!

More raptaurs! This time we got Tony Stark and Anakin Skywalker.

Lmao how are there people who watch Found on NBC, a show largely centered on the fucked up relationship between a woman and her kidnapper, that are shocked people ship it. Like the premise of the show is the fucked up intimacy and simultaneous disgust between them, and you, a person with a brain, are shocked that people are invested in that relationship.

I think i spend so much time in the iwtv fandom where the conversation of "enjoying fiction is not an endorsement of behavior irl" has already been had a million times that I forget most people when it comes to shipping have the mind of like, a 12 year old who hasn't learned the nuances of fiction portraying unhealthy dynamics.

Now I’m pissed off at Oliver lmao being bisexual does not mean you wanna sleep with tons of people. Buck already went through his meaningless sex phase, why does he need to go back there just because he’s realized he’s bi?? That’s so fucking stupid.

"I can't ship Gabbi and Sir."

YOU COULD IF YOU WEREN'T A COWARD!!!

2 weeks. 2 weeks time jump, they skip 2 weeks.

we got like 30 something minutes of this unknown woman that we never heard of before we got her pass, (which, by the way, I think that's like a clue as to say that Bobby is not really dead I'm been delusional but who cares) but the funeral is literally a subplot. really? Bffr

why is Buck not at the burial, like we've made it clear , this has been canon already that buck is literally the adopted child. may have said it, she has said it multiple times she even have said it about to Bobby's face. Athena has said it, like, why is he not at the burial.

And Eddie, flew in the day of.... Right right

Buck suppressing his emotions, can't wait for his crashing out