JUST TIRED OF PEOPLE NOT APPRECIATING THE 9-1-1 WRITERS...
I was gonna reblog someone’s post but I don’t wanna hijack it and impose my opinion on someone else... I saw someone commenting 9-1-1 has bad writing in my dash, it’s because the show did not focus on Buck’s trauma and/or say something about the bad disgusting therapy session he had in season one and I just have to say something it...
It’s really unfair to hardworking writers of 9-1-1 show to call what they have done that bad writing... I mean come on they are alloted 45 mins at most (not an hour because of commericials) to tell their stories, and 18 episodes each season that’s 810 mins or about 13.5 hours... They have an ensemble cast, 8 main characters, 11 including the children, each of those cast members have their own storyline, their own drama going on in their life. The writers have to weave those in midst of telling stories involving big emergencies like tsunami, train derailment and normal everyday emergencies first responders deeal with. AND THEY HAVE ONLY 13.5 HOURS PER SEASON TO TELL ALL THOSE. Do you even know how hard it is to write within those parameters? Not to mention there’s not just one of them they are a group, it’s hard enough to write alone, try doing that and working with other writers, trying to make sure all your stories line up straight. It’s a process let me tell you not to mention they have to have those scripts be appoved by network exec or something...
9-1-1 might not have the best writing out there but it’s not bad writing... It’s called 9-1-1 not Evan Buckley’s Trauma Show, do not expect them to elaborate on his trauma alone, that’s what fanfiction is for... And short of Buck Begins, they’ve given Buck good story progression and character development... It’s in the nuance, if you look hard enough... They did deal with Buck’s trauma... they did it over several episodes, Buck in 3x01 was depressed, the tsunami is an allegory of how he was drowning in it... and all through out the season we see hints of how Buck have dealt with that, how after tsunami he got back up from depression only to be triggered back into it with that lawyer and that disaster dinner with Bobby and Athena... Buck more than any other character on the show have been open about his feelings, he was depressed and we saw that, he was angry about losing his job, we’ve been shown that, when he got back and everyone gave him a cold shoulder except Chim and Hen and he felt bad about it, yeah that’s shown... It’s not like we saw Buck get crushed by a truck and he was fine the next episode and the show forgot what happened, they’d shown what Buck went through and how he got past with his trauma in best way they can and working with what they have... And I think fans should appreciate that...
The trauma of losing that guy in episode two, Buck’s way of dealing with it was to have sex with that therapist... IS it wrong? YES, it is. It’s really disgusting that the therapist acted the way she did. But to Buck it was not even a blip in his radar, he didn’t get trauma from that encounter despite what fanfic writers like me have been writing. Buck had always joked about it and that’s how he coped with the shame of the encounter, it speaks to Buck’s Buck 1.0 character, playboy with a heart of gold. And the writers sort of dealt with the therapist seeing as Bobby mentioned she doesn’t work on with the department anymore, that may not have clearly meant that she got fired but if you looked at Bobby’s face you’d know that they knew about the incident since he knew who Buck was talking about and the fact that Chimney didn’t comment on it meant he knew about that incident too which tells me it was brought up some time between them... And in the grand scheme of things, that one incident in Buck’s life is not as traumatic as what he went through with the truck incident, so of course the show won’t focus on that because AGAIN limited time slot of 45 minutes!!!
The thing is if they gave more focus on Buck’s trauma in season three that might have mean that we don’t see Hen’s struggles with her relationship with Karen or her job. It might have meant we don’t get to see Micheal struggling with his cancer diagnosis, or him having a moment with his son and a talk with him about being a black man in America. It might meant we don’t get the storyline with Josh. The thing is that if you are a writer on a show like 9-1-1 you have to choose which storyline to go with to keep viewers or engage new ones. It’s having to choose what’s best for the show and it’s not elaborating on Buck’s trauma cause not everyone who watch the show is gonna want to see that. I love Evan Buckley and I would have paid to see that but at the same time I acknowledge that not everyone who tunes in to 911 is in it for that and the writers know that and write accordingly, that doesn’t mean it’s bad writing.