Making A Buddie Post on the Buddie Circle Jerk, I Mean, "9-1-1" Reddit
Here's the post I'm about to post. I'm ready for the nutjobs to come out and downvote me to oblivion.
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I'm ready to be downvoted into oblivion and have my post removed because the mods are psycho Buddie fans, because I know this isn't actually a 9-1-1 sub, but a Buddie sub. So, even though I have strong feelings about how much I've come to dislike Buddie over the years, I've actually tried to not be a dick about it.
I'm going to start this by saying, I used to be a Buddie fan. But two things happened that snapped me out of that delusion. One, fanon is not canon. There's nothing wrong with enjoying a fanon ship. I love many fanon ships that I know, or at least assume will never and have never been canon. I don't let that stop me from enjoying them. And two, the behavior of so many Buddie fans has almost ruined my 9-1-1 fandom experience for me, and I've been watching the show since literally a few days after the season 1 finale. (This does not mean that all Buddie fans are horrible assholes. I know they aren't, and I know some BT fans have been assholes, too. I'm not excusing any of it. We all need to do better. I'm just talking about my experience in the 9-1-1 fandom over the last several years.) I've just spent the last two hours scrolling this sub and trying to decide if I was going to join, but all the circle jerk around Buddie has made me roll my eyes. Like what you like, but claiming Buck and Eddie are soulmates, that they're going to kiss and confess their love to each other in the season finale, when both Ryan the actor, and Eddie the character, have said Eddie is straight, is just leaving yourself open to disappointment.
They've had almost 7 full seasons to put them together and they haven't. This isn't some slow burn friends to lovers crap. These two guys are literally best friends. The actors and people in charge of the show aren't going to tell you that it's never going to happen because they assume the Buddie fandom is bigger than it actually is, and they want to keep stringing you along like they have been all this time.
If they tell you that Buddie isn't going to happen, they're going to lose a few thousand people in the 9-1-1 fanbase and while I wouldn't give a shit, they care more than they should. I'm just going to say, I don't know what's going to happen in the season finale. I haven't watched any previews or seen any stills. But I'd be pretty surprised if they went the route of Buddie after all this time.
If they don't actually do anything romantic with them in the finale, please don't crash out like you all do every time they never get together. I would think after almost 8 years of them just being friends, and family, that you'd take the hint that the writer's just want them to be friends, and there's nothing wrong with that. What you guys, and what I used to want to see, is stuff they threw in to just keep stringing you along.
I'm sorry it hasn't happened so far, but at this point, I doubt it's ever going to happen. They don't seem interested in going there.
