#buck actually

[bamfbuddie]

You know when Buck was talking to Lola about Abby, Eddie was right there listening to everything. He knows how hurt Buck really was even though he said he was fine. He heard it in his voice.

No wonder that man hates her guts. Especially during the train derailment, he couldn't give two shits about her.

[robbuckys]

If I had a nickel for every time a gay man named Thomas changed Buck's perspective on love I'd have two nickels. It's not a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.

[thestrangestthlng]

🎖️Great Loves🎖️

Maddie's monologue from Buck, Actually | 9-1-1 | S2 E8

[unfuckablebogtroll]

I just noticed that I don’t think Buck has ever told someone that he loved them without the person telling him first. Like I feel like Buck has a hard time telling people he loves them even if he does and I feel like it does stem from a place of a fear of rejection.

And like the only romantic partner he said it to (their face) was Taylor and it was pretty explicitly a lie or an exaggeration at the time.

Like I do think he felt love for Taylor, but I think it was the idea of her more than the reality of her, and I think he wasn’t even quite there yet when he said it. He was trying a life on.

The bucktaylor era is so important, it brought out some of his best and his worst, and I think he regrets a lot about it (not that it happened at all but his own behavior). I think part of why he could say it to Taylor is because it wasn’t really true and so the stakes were lower. It was a toe-dip into an idea of what kind of relationship he wanted but of course it blew up in his face because he wasn’t doing things for the right reasons. But he learned from it!

And part of that learning is I think his hesitance to say it now, and his desire to do things for the right reasons.

I don’t know where they’re going with it or if they even have a plan at all, but there is something so something about the fact that in two scenes nine episodes apart, Buck was unable to say he loved someone, but his actions through the whole time have shown it. Josh asking Buck if he loves Tommy haunts me, literally haunts me, the way Buck was so taken aback and almost incredulous, but he could answer “yes” to every question that drives the same point. The way he couldn’t say it to Bobby even at the last moment, even when Bobby said it first. It’s haunting.

And in some ways I think Buck doesn’t at all love as recklessly as we sometimes think. I think he is very much impeded by fear of loss. Loving someone gives them a lot of power to hurt you, most especially by losing them.

But you can lose either way.

Buck didn’t tell Tommy he loves him, and he lost him anyway, and suffered more for this breakup than any other we’ve seen. And I think 8x11 shows that Buck and Tommy both are getting in their own way when it comes to holding on to the happiness they can give each other.

And Buck didn’t tell Bobby perhaps because he knew he was losing him anyway. And I think that’s something he’s going to have to regret and live with and learn from if he wants to ever have the kind of life and love he wants.

Love has been at the center of Buck’s storyline from day one. Wanting it, defining it, understanding it, finding it, losing it, finding it again, protecting it, saying it, not saying it. You can lose either way, and not having said it won’t save you, and perhaps the only way to not end up an old lonely man with nothing but regrets is to finally be as reckless emotionally as people think you are.

[buckslasagna]

#BUDDIE - you don't find it, son. you make it. inspired by @alexisrosemullens gifset (x)

[yeah-uh-the-pilot]

Cannot believe that I’m supposed to be normal about a (gay) man named Thomas teaching Buck what love is and about a man named Tommy becoming Evan’s first boyfriend

[callmebrycelee]

2x08

The episode "Buck, Actually" is severely underrated. There's so many pivotal moments in this episode that unintentionally foreshadow things to come.

The episode title "Buck, Actually" is based on the film Love, Actually; this film is Tommy Kinard's favorite movie

Buck hooks up with Taylor for the first time in this episode; the first time he met Taylor was when her helicopter crashed; Tommy flies a helicopter

On a call involving one half of an elderly gay couple getting crushed to death, Buck speaks with the other half of the couple whose name happens to be Thomas; Tommy's full name is Thomas

Maddie and Chimney sing "Islands in the Streams" by Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers; a cover of the song by Jennifer Love Hewitt plays during Maddie and Chimney's wedding ceremony; Buck introduces Tommy to his 118 family and actual family

[tevanactually]

What was Tommy's favourite movie again? Oh ya LOVE ACTUALLY!

What was the episode where Buck says 'i can only hope to find something that good....that's love " ?

Oh ya it was Buck Actually

How did Tim describe Buck and Tommy's relationship storyline? As a ROMCOM

'If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love, actually, is all around."