#analysis ones

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Do you guys ever think about Buck and Eddie and when they were each separately being crushed beneath the weight of somehow being able to live without the other?

Personally I'm never getting over this (I don't expect they will either)

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This scene is so funny to me, it's not even the first time the audience has to question "okay why is Buck there???" LIKE THE WRITERS SIMPLY JUST START INTERTWINING THEIR LIVES TO THE POINT WHERE THE AUDIENCE JUST HAS TO ACCEPT "well yeah of course buck is there I guess"

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Headcanon that Eddie actively avoids Maddie because the first time they met she made a joke that he and Buck liked each other and Eddie has absolutely no poker face and panicked and they just made awkward eye contact and he has successfully avoided longer conversations with her for the past five years

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Funniest thing about the kitchen scene is that they HAD to cut to the video game scene immediately after because otherwise EVERYONE would have assumed they had sex

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Can we talk about this shot for a second. What the fuck.

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I love how it is established that Buck is always welcome at the Diaz house. In season 6, when he turned up, Eddie was barely surprised, and Buck didn't seem nervous or unsure about whether he was overstepping boundaries. In season 7, he turns up at night through the back door and Eddie's only confusion is that he didn't use the front. And in S2 (I think, but maybe S3) when Buck says "it's Eddie's house, I'm not really a guest" to Maddie when we've literally never seen him in the Diaz house before??

I am obsessed with how Buck, a character established to have been almost lost, looking for a home and a loving family and feeling like he was talking up too much space in his own childhood home, is shown to be so comfortable at Eddie's, and that Eddie, someone who does not trust people easily, especially with Chris, has clearly put the work in to make sure that Buck has no doubts about his place in their home.

Also canonically they both have keys right? (Eddie waking Buck up so he can take Chris to that tsunami, Buck getting into Eddie's house when he had the breakdown and finding Chris in the hallway (Chris didn't let him in...)) I mean idk if it's different in the USA/LA, but generally people lock their doors right?

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Season 4 is so interestingly done.

The audience are shown Buck's past, his complete lack of value for his own life and where this stems from, and how this influences his current decisions.

And the audience is deliberately made more deeply frustrated by other characters failing to pick up on this (e.g. Bobby in 4x14, only talking about Buck's recklessness and not the reason behind it when it's RIGHT THERE, basically staring him in the face, that Buck simply doesn't care about his own life enough.)

The audience has been waiting essentially the whole season for someone to notice this and call Buck out on it, and it's so satisfyingly built up to the Will scene in 4x14 with Eddie.

The audience has to wait for someone to say what Buck needs to hear, because that person HAD to be Eddie. The writers saved that and built it up to that moment, so that the scene was so fucking weighted.

Buck's arc in S4 was devastating, and it was resolved by Eddie. Very very deliberately.

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Something about how "are you hurt" broke Buck out of the chaos for a second. Like the shock of it. Because Buck had switched into saviour mode, his default, and Eddie broke him out of it. No one he's tried to save had asked him that before.