A little bit of discourse to distract myself from the sads.
• the canonical year is 2025. Chim joined the 118 in 2005. That twenty years, two decades. Tommy said that shitty did someone forget to tip the delivery guy NINETEEN YEARS before he came back into the current narrative. Like people fucking change and if you’re still stagnant after two decades, I feel bad for you.
• “east coast bitchiness” isn’t the same as calling someone a bitch and isn’t misogynistic. There’s a longstanding East Coast/West Coast “rivalry” that has people from the west coast thinking about us out east that way. It’s not that serious. Also, a decade ago.
• “he’s belittles Buck by calling him Evan.” Buck is a grown as fucking man that can speak up for himself. Buck is a nickname. Evan is not a dead name (imma really need yall to stop saying it is… it’s reductive and offensive).
• “he bought him basketball tickets, he hates basketball.” It was sweet. It’s a throwback to what got them together. Again. Buck is a grown ass man.
• “they’re setting him up for Buddie.” No, you chuckle fucks. They shut the door on that in 8x11.
• “why is ‘that man’ at the funeral?” Because Tommy was there for his first and last shift. Technically Eddie shouldn’t have been a pall bearer and he definitely shouldn’t have stood and saluted with the other personnel in uniform. He’s not a firefighter anymore. Tommy saved Bobby’s life TWICE now on screen. They didn’t have to bring him back, but they did and maybe it’s time to think on that.
The fact of the matter is that this is the most significant relationship Buck has had to date and they’ve been off as much as they’ve been on. If you watch what has been on the tv and ignored discourse, meta, and interviews and just watched the show how it’s written you’d see that Tommy is playing an important role. One that is a pointed storytelling decision.
You can like Bddie or dislike Tommy/BT, who cares, honestly. But be honest in why you don’t like Tommy, you can just not like him because he’s not Eddie. That’s fine. Both Buck and Eddie have both had misogynistic moments over the past eight seasons. You move past that, perfectly fine. It’s almost like it’s all performative. Trying to make yourself seem superior. How come all of Eddie’s not so great qualities are explained away by him being “repressed”, but the same leeway isn’t granted for the actual canon gay man who was actually closeted.
• Perfect characters are boring.
• People should be allowed to grow and change, encouraged in fact.
• “Tommy’s good people, he’s good for you.”
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