okay. here’s what i want the buddie timeline to be (loosely) (in an ideal world)
9a: eddie questioning his sexuality, having more discussions with father brian about joy. buck enjoys being single.
9b: eddie coming to the conclusion that he is gay. he tells buck in the last episode. all this time, buck has been sleeping around and swearing to maddie that he’s not in love with eddie because eddie is straight.
10a: buck and eddie drift apart. buck pulls back because the thought of eddie being gay (and what that could mean) is too much. eddie forces him to talk and they fight it out, buck claims he hasn’t pulled back. eddie says that he doesn’t want to go through this alone and buck crumbles. besties again, they don’t talk about more.
UNTIL. buck, karen, and hen take eddie to a gay bar. jealousy ensues. dancing ensues. something shifts. they know it has, but the next morning they agree that friends can be attracted to each other and still be friends. what they have is too strong to be ruined by something as silly as attraction.
cue 10b: a season full of YEARNING. MUTUAL PINING. they both know the other thinks they’re hot but neither wants to act first.
and then, of course, NDE. idc who. one of them gets stuck in a burning building and when they get out, the other runs straight into a kiss. it’s raining. fire on fire by sam smith plays.
it needs to build for 2 season for it to really hit, and i’m so serious about that. one season for eddie to be gay, one for the yearning. any rushing will cheapen it.