#911 writers

[deepfriedshrimpgirly]

Every single Ryan Guzman interview makes me realize that he’s actually got a really deep understanding of the character and also what the fans want from the show and writers are just screwing him over by giving Eddie like nothing to work with

[bucks-apron]

i didn’t even hate the finale, but one thing i did hate was how eddie’s nde was handled

there was essentially no narrative purpose for it, and it felt more like an excuse to get eddie “out of the way” of the main plot while keeping fans somewhat happy

[buddiesystempod]

Be honest — have you doomed today? 👀

Turn that frown upside down 🙃 with our new special episode!

[frantic-babbling]

Istg there was also a fic about Eddie finding bucks old suicide note in his drawer

[sloasis]

Re: the conversation with maddie that was forgotten. It's the age old problem of someone else writing the final episode and wrapping things up that needed more time, them having a different understanding of buddie (none). It's sad because they don't usually pick that stuff back up in the next season and as oliver said, because they killed bobby all the other personal stories got derailed :/

(And here we have another interview where he's clearly unhappy with the story but happy for peter for doing something new -- and already planning his own next move... Tim minear when I catch you)

Yeah ... All we have is hope they do continue that storyline , Maddie knowing or hinting at Buck for him to realize she was right and it's not so crazy after all ... Eddie is his best friend , they've been through SO much together , of course he would fall in love with him , etc . Him battling that idea even more because he was most definitely in denial in that scene as well and , the whole moving in moving out situation . It is unfortunate and definitely frustrating that these writers , put that in just for the other writers to fully ignore it and having it just . Actually not go anywhere just for some big shocking plot that had no good outcome ( Bobby's death duh ) . Season 9 definitely has opportunity to fix most of everything , I just hope they take it and give us real satisfying conclusions to everything that was dropped and forgotten . The whole episode of Holy Mother of God was SO good for the start of buddie canon .. just hope they give us more of that and they build upon it !!

[franchaelaismyeverything]

911 fanfics: Eddie meets and flirts with the hot priest after he goes to confession

911: *does exactly that*

911 fics: Abby and Tommy used to be a thing

911: makes that a reality

I don’t think it’s just Oliver and Ryan reading our fanfics.

[daniwib]

The difference in amount of comments received on a Buddie fic vs a BuckTommy fic being posted concurrently is glaring.

I ship both but I like validation just as much as any writer and if Buddie fics get so much less interaction (by which I mean comments cos I don’t look at kudos) then why should I bother writing them?

Yes, write for yourself yada yada yada. I do. But I have dozens of partially finished WIPs for both ships. Guess which ship I’m going to write when one gets more comments than the other?

I’m only human. I like hearing from my readers. And if my readers comment on BuckTommy fic more, then that’s what I’m going to be motivated to finish.

Maybe when Buddie stans are complaining about writers jumping ship they should consider how they themselves are interacting with Buddie fic first.

[sarbear94]

Because Evan-

(It’s a long one…sorry not sorry 😘)

Okay…. I’ve been rewatching some old Buddie scenes because of the potential of Eddie moving back to El Paso and…. excuse my language but…. What the fuck?

It’s like the writers are new or don’t know what to do with Eddie anymore. Or like someway, somehow the episodes are out of order.

In THAT scene, Buck asks “he has grandparents, family” and Eddie reply’s “After Shannon left, they tried to guilt me into giving Christopher to them. It wasn’t what I wanted then, it’s not what I want now.” They then both agreed that no one would fight harder for Chris than Buck.

So WHY THE FUCK haven’t either of them gotten him back yet??

Eddie started season 7 with Marisol and Chris and everyone’s fine. Then Chris is dating multiple girls (Eddie is baffled and doesn’t know how to handle it so he asks Buck for help) and said it has to do with his mom to Buck and we get that EMOTIONAL shot of Eddie devastated after hearing this. Then proceeds to give him a letter to bring about closure for him. Eddie seemed to already have closure or at least repressed it.

Then Eddie meets Kim…. And the Eddie we have loved for 6 seasons is IMMEDIATELY GONE. He does the exact same thing that he told Buck about Christopher was not okay And needed to be fixed (he was BEGGING Buck for help).

Like, my dude, how did you think this was gonna go? You kept everyone in the dark. Your son, your best friend, your GIRLFRIEND and even Kim! What was his end goal? It doesn’t make any sense.

Like I understand that if Gavin wasn’t gonna be around next season, and you need to write him off but have him potentially come back, there were several ways you could have done that but still kept true to the characters. Have Chris go to a boarding school. Or a school trip. Or literally ANYTHING ELSE! Then season 8, keep the Kim storyline, but Chris is already gone and doesn’t witness it. Cause now that whole confession thing with Kim pretending to be Shannon and actually get closure was pointless. If they’d done that with Chris gone, he’d have the closure. Work on the PTSD crawling back up in an empty house, keep the Priest and finding Joy and then keep that for a bit and then heal.

That was a whole side tangent really for the main point I was trying to make, but why does Eddie- lose Chris, grow a mustache, grieve for not having his son, have an episode where a Priest says “let yourself have Joy,” then take it away in the next couple of episodes by saying “I’m thinking of moving to Texas” based on the words of a psycho actor??

Chris is a TEENAGER! Hell- he might still be a preteen, grow the fuck up and go parent your son. You’ve put your foot down before, why is this any different?? After a few weeks, I would have been like “nope, we’re done with this. I get I fucked up, but I’m still your dad so we are gonna talk about this and figure out some common ground.” I understand feeling guilty and not wanting to push him even farther away but you’re not even trying! Phone calls don’t show “I want you here with me,” it says “I’m okay with you being gone.”

You’re thinking moving to El Paso is a great idea… but it’s not. Your parents suck. You know this. YOU MOVED HALF WAY ACROSS THE US TO GET AWAY FROM THEM FOR A REASON! I get you patched things up slightly, but not enough.

ALSO! Why wasn’t Buck an option?!? Because of Tommy? I get because Gavin being out of the show(temporarily?) would have made that impossible but why wasn’t it even mentioned? I mean, He’s run to him before, he’s called him when Eddie had his breakdown and Chris didn’t know what to do. But like THEY HAD THE WILL, why wasn’t it even a factor in this. At the time, it felt like, at least to Chris, that Eddie was incapable of taking care of him, which means that Chris should go to Buck. Not his grandparents.

I just don’t understand what they are doing with these two. E and C. Bucks got his bisexual journey(relationship with Tommy). Bobby has multiple storylines. The Hans had the Mara and new baby storylines. Hen and Karen had the Ortiz/Mara and Denny/Halloween storylines. Athena has literally any storyline involving cops. And all those storylines make sense for each character. Eddie’s and Chris’s doesn’t. They keep pushing Eddie to be sad then happy then making stupid decisions. DEVELOP YOUR FUCKING CHARACTER! You’ve been dropping the ball since at least the network switch. Which I find super funny because yes, he does the emotional scenes super amazing but now it seems like his character is more open. He’s making more funny faces, he’s got the loose hair, he makes comedic jokes. But he’s almost(so close) to reminding me of Buck 1.0.. but it doesn’t fit with the storyline at all. At least to me…

Like does anyone agree with any of this? Am I just seeing things? Did the writers get told Gavin was leaving too late and made this story on the fly and rolled with it? Does Ryan want out of the show and they are keeping it under wraps? Like WHAT IS HAPPENING? Make it make sense!

Ps. I did not proofread this before posting so if something doesn’t make sense, let me know. I was just trying to get down all my thoughts on this. Currently me vvv