#buddie thoughts

[retroize]

It's pride month and buck is now putting bisexual hearts in his bio and ever since he came out to eddie, he puts a rainbow in his every june :) #ally #oblivious

[indigo2831]

I'm tired of Buck and Eddie getting half-storylines because a rabid faction of Buddie fans has essentially pushed the writers into a corner and harassed the actors off social media.

I want to see Eddie get married and have a daughter. I want to see Buck find the love of his life.

I want to see Oliver acting in love and/or having a knockdown drag-out fight with this partner.

I want to see Ryan's take on happy, besotted Eddie.

I do not want to see Eddie go an entire fucking season without going on one date. It's just sad, and there's no chance for the characters to develop or the actors to fucking ACT.

The Buck and Eddie story, as it currently is, two men being best friends and raising a kid together, is one of the coolest love stories I've ever seen on TV, so let it be that. And explore how partners fit into it.

[eddieseason]

Eddie has learned to listen to his own heart. We all see something has shifted in him. He knows.

A couple of times now Eddie has listened to Buck's heart for him, as if he's keeping Buck's heart safe and healthy until Buck is ready to listen to it himself.

[eddieseason]

"So if I said 'jump off a bridge', you would just do it? Oh, you know, I probably wouldn't even actually have to say it. You'd already be jumping, seeing as you have a death wish."

The way Buck doesn't seem to be able to grasp the idea that it's not about Eddie having a death wish, but that it's about Buck asking Eddie to do something, or about Buck needing help. If Buck is in A Situation Eddie will be there, even if that means taking huge risks.

Like Buck's been doing these mental gymnastics around the topic of Eddie's sexuality for so long that he doesn't even know he's doing it anymore. He doesn't stop for a second to see the glaring truth right in front of him.

Imagine being Eddie, knowing you'd do absolutely anything for this man, and always doing everything in your power to protect him and keep him safe, and he just doesn't get it. At this point Eddie could give the most heartfelt declaration of his undying love for Buck, and Buck would twist it into something else without even blinking.

At the diner, while Buck was saying all of those things, I imagine Eddie's sitting there thinking 'is he gonna get it this time?', but of course he doesn't.

It's fascinating how Buck is simultaneously so close and so far away from the truth of their relationship.

[eddieseason]

Imagine when Buck finally allows himself to really look at Eddie after denying himself that indulgence for years. He will know every dip and valley of that ass. He will write poetry about it. Sonnets.

Imagine when Eddie finally lets himself look at men, and mainly Buck, after years of repressing that particular interest. He will know every single curve of those tits, and turn into an artist who can paint exact replicas from memory.

There will be so much oogling.

[eddieseason]

I want Buck and Eddie to both realise their feelings and see their best friend in this new, horny way and then I want them to objectify each other so bad. Like blatantly. Shamelessly but tinged with a little shame. Losing train of thoughts looking at the other. Not hearing things other people around them are saying because they're just gone. Mouth agape, cheeks flaming. Stuttering a bit, lingering close, sweating. At the risk of bluescreening around each other at any given moment. All this before anything has even happened between them. Give me all the unresolved sexual tension!!!

[lemotmo]

Okay, I've only seen both recent eps once so far and that was live watching and all but I've been think bout the Nashville ep but also some of the stuff in 9x12.

I might be totally wrong but these are some thoughts I sent a friend. Lol. I thought you might like them too. 😝

Hmmm. I think that maybe yes buck was a bit ooc in nashville but i think maybe not as ooc as first appears.

Just after the whole parents gettin divorced thing and the talk with his dad he's like just 'I AM OKAY! I HAVE NEVER BEEN MORE OKAY! I AM FINE! FIIIIINE' (Narrator: he was in fact NOT fine)

Because his bio Dad has accepted that Bobby was more of a Dad to him than Philip but Bobby is still dead but he still doesn't wanna let him down. Because this is like Bobby's last ever gift to him & he can not fail Bobby again, etc.

It's like totally a grief reaction. He needs to be locked in to win. And he's jealous of Ryan & Blue getting to work with their Dad and their Dad is still alive and that's fucking unfair, he thinks.

Maybe it's Eddie tryin to like convince himself that no he doesn't want Buck and so he's like lets push him towards women cuz he's still bi. Lol.

And because Buck is in like a grief spiral & has hyped himself the fuck up and later overdozing on energy drinks, he kinda reverts to who he was back before Bobby really became his pseudo Dad. 🤔

But you'd think after they tied for 2nd place Buck had gotten over some of that cuz ya know umh they realized it was more about camraderie & workin together than winning & that's wat Bobby would want, etc.

But the end is still kinda weird with Dixie. 🤔 But maybe they're just both still kinda scared of goin there so like Buck talkin to Dixie is the easy way out for both of them.

Thank you for thinking of me. 😋 You are right, I do enjoy think pieces like this. These are the fandom discussions that I prefer.

I agree with you that these could have been conscious choices in order to show us that Buck wasn't fine after all with his parents' divorce, Bobby signing them up and Philip's apology. And yeah, Eddie pushing Buck at women like that? With the whole 'bachelorettes' and Dixie thing? It could have been a defensive mechanism so that he doesn't have to examine his own feelings about Buck too closely.

I guess there's many ways to interpret their behaviour in the crossover. The problem is that we don't really know if the writers of both shows communicated or not. We don't know if the Nashville writers watched some essential OG episodes to get a feel of their characters.

For me personally? Something felt 'off' during the crossover. I still enjoyed the games and the Buddie shenanigans, but it was almost as if they had rewritten certain characteristics of these characters in order to fit Buck and Eddie into the more 'narrow' Nashville narrative.

Let me put it this way: if either Buck or Eddie were still plagued by some of their OG issues? I feel like they would have shown this differently on the OG, than the way they showed it on Nashville. They didn't 'feel' like themselves. Does that make any sense? 🫣

Anyway, I do feel that, in the long run it won't matter much anyway. The crossover was a little extra that we all enjoyed, but it didn't show us anything meaningful or useful for the overarching Buddie narrative.

As usual though, these are just my opinions. Feel free to disagree. 🤗

[eddieseason]

Are we all experiencing mass psychosis right now. Did we all die.