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…..not even six hours later i got an offer of a well paying full time long-term job with free room and board in queens in nyc, allowing me independence and a way to escape an abusive situation and an unhealthy environment
likes charge reblogs cast, folks, this is the good luck post
the last time I reblogged this post right before I got a great job, in a permanent work-from-home position, with benefits, retirement, and a salary literally 3x what I was making before, doing something I really like.
Oh hey it's the 2nd of August. It's international Romani genocide memorial day. 79 years and still the vast majority of countries don't give a fuck about it nor recognize it. Hell on Earth everywhere
It's been 80 years since the Nazis liquidated the Romani family camp in Auschwitz, killing 4,000 people in a single night. Most countries don't recognize it and most European countries continue to treat us like shit
Reblogging because unfortunately this still needs to be said, and as a reminder no matter your gender or sexuality you deserve to be safe and happy, I had a family member who was in a really bad situation where the perpetrator was a woman and it was horrific how people treated him for speaking out about what she did to him
Now, I don't know if this is a feeling other people have amongst the fandom, but I just wanted to put my 2p in about something. (this has been sat in my drafts for a while, but after this ep, i needed to get this out there)
A personal opinion of mine about 911, is that I wished some of the ep plotlines would go over a couple episodes. Something I really struggle when it comes to the show is that there are these brilliant plotlines that get scrapped way to quickly, then we end up with ones that leaves the fandom feeling a little cheated. We have seen the writers create character arcs and plotlines that last chunks of the season (like sperm donor Buck, Eddie's mental breakdown, Hen's medical school, Doug, Bobby's addiction/past, Wilson family foster arc, and so on).
Hear me out, imagine if Maddie had to spend the next few episodes trying to adjust to not having her voice, while processing the trauma. The doctor in that episode says she would probably not have her voice for a while. The audience has to watch as she struggles with the attack along with the pregnancy and maybe even Chimney being in the lab. The scene where she lost sight of Jee would have been far more impactful of the audience watched Maddie struggling and when Jee goes missing thing of the fucking stomach dropping moment when we believe that there is all hope lost, then shit, she's got her voice and Jee is OK, all is right with the world... then bam... lab arc.
One thing I will die on the hill off, Buck should have struggled with discovering he is a saviour baby, his whole childhood was shattered, his family lied to him... c'mon, I'm not the only one who things that one conversation with his family and a therapy session with his folks is gonna make it all ok. In my opinion, it would have been a little more realistic and more interesting watching him struggle with the weight of it throughout S4, and it comes to it's peak when the factory fire happens. Us as the audience has been watching Buck struggle with having his world completely flipped, in the factory fire we then watch as he pushes past everything. He overcomes his fears and issues, by just being Buck (and it would have been eeeevvvveeeennnn better if he cut off his parents at this point as well, just saying).
So with the funeral episode, it should have been longer, or at least the episode should have been more centred around the characters. The amount of one off episodes that literally add nothing to the show. Now, I understand that this show wasn't created to be streamed, and I've been watching it on and off for years now. I binged it back in 2022, then watching it weekly from then on. I think that if the show played out the plots just a little bit more, it would be a more impactful show, more heart wrenching and just a bit more. There is this little thought in the back of my mind when I watch 9-1-1, its as if they are burning through as many plot points and arcs as they humanly can -- often at the expense of negating previous character developments.
We should have seen Buck call Eddie about the news. We should have seen Chimney deal with his grief, trying to push people away put they know they're stronger together. We should have seen Hen hold her family close and try to work through her grief. We should have seen Buck finally see Eddie for the first time under the worst circumstances. We should have seen Athena try and actually deal with her grief and sit down with the rest of her family. We should have seen so much more of the cast.
Fuck the two week convenient time skip, fuck the sub plots, your tv show isn't going to collapse of you spend one episode focusing on the main cast. The cast doesn't need to have an arc to be learnt from from a random character.
Right, please tell me if anyone else is a little annoyed at this episode being primarily focused around that "lost baby" case
Edit: I say a little bit… I’m pissed off, because you have this character/actor who had been the centre of the show for years now… and this was his funeral episode
