S2 E18: This Life We Choose
package bomber!!! the child not speaking up does NOT surprise me.
love this strategy to pick a venue!!! a good cake can really make or break a restaurant. also yes, choosing to be a family all together as a family!!!
aaaaaaahhh eddie's family! we meet his parents! love how he's sticking up for shannon (she WAS brave!) and is then just blindsided that they want to take him and christopher back to texas. it would literally be throwing the last year of his life away! he's still a probationary firefighter and he's almost earned his shield! he does have a life here! a family here! in more than one way! tia pepa and abuela being in his corner is so good!!!
now here's the rub about S8b currently airing as I am watching this the first time around - "it's only been a year he can't have put that many roots down" and 'being with me [Eddie/his father] is what's best for him' ..... feeling like both of those things will come back around thematically.
Also love eddie stating plainly "i chose this life for a reason" (does he mean being a firefighter and/or being a firefighter in LA?) here's hoping THAT comes back, because its thematically/character motivation interesting, and in-line with the "begins" stuff the show does. (and i think the show-long question of eddie's identity, the pull between firefighter and father.) and then eddie's dad (pop? did he call him pop?) saying "you can choose a different one."
this car injury is really, really gnarly. gross.
is this the loft??? the loft??? also lol, the music cue like ali is a surprise with her reveal??? hello, she is not a serious love interest. but man, are they doing way too much PDA in front of this person showing the property.
pimple popper video ewwwww. i mean it's not a real pimple but blecccch. i did NOT watch those videos even when they were popular. lol, love this little science and geography lesson about the bot fly. buck's little happy "maggot!" is iconic. eddie's "belize is in central america" is also great.
michael being properly authoritative with harry and spotting the package!!! the children in my life are much more likely to act and only stop after doing the thing.
oooooooooh noooooooooo they searched bobby's house but "Maybe they searched the wrong house"!!!!!! noooooooooo!!!! NOOOOOOOOO! this is so ominous
and maddie has to watch Buck be hurt on tv!!! and no one is rushing in to help because they can't!!!! noooooooo :(((((((( chim stepping up!!!! but the son is very clear! so BOBBY jumps in :((((( him saying they can shoot him if they have to :(((
JLH's crying is making me cry.
gotta say it's really smart that this happens so recently after we get the bobby begins again episode going into this so the plotline is one we remember.
not "we were all doing our jobs" !
also i was too emotionally distracted but the "he's collateral damage" and the cut to eddie and hen :(((
oh, NOW we see ali at home watching in a just moved in loft!! which, this announcer being so uninformative. "we can only hope for the best" like you're in a newsroom why don't you find out how heavy ladder trucks normally are?
"we need more people" and people just rush over :''''''''') and eddie and hen being the two on the ground with buck ;') :((((
awww, athena and bobby!!! "you're a fool. i love you too"
a titanium rod and four screws!!! awww he was So Scared ... about not working again. hmm. gotta work on that buck. you should be more relieved about being alive. also i love the phrase "borrowing trouble"
ali and maddie walk in and maddie rolls her eyes at their kiss, lol. also,, ali seems incredibly bland, but she does have great chemistry with buck. also carla and maddie joking around :)))))
"the day i'm working from home our damn house is on fire" lollllll AWWWW, slipping in an additional kids talk between karen and hen!!! i love them and this!!!
bobby's back!! eddie first hug! hen second hug! i assume chim got the true first hug earlier bc he's already in uniform. "almost" yes eddie, you ARE not quite back to the way things should be. (ngl, when i saw him walking in with a bag and in civvies compared to chim in uniform i was worried it was be that he's leaving even though i know that doesn't happen?? i was IRRATIONALLY WORRIED i didn't know a plot detail) don't know that it's enough to count as buddie, but him being the one to say something does count in the cumulative effect. but also after watching the begins episodes, for hen and chim and bobby, they actually do feel normal with just the three of them there, whereas eddie can't fathom the 118 without buck!!!
"or better idea, don't get crushed by municipal equipment?" "why didn't i think of that?" VERY CUTE ACTUALLY. but oof, ali being like "what's next?" and he's like "ARE YOU INSINUATING I CAN'T BE A FIREFIGHTER ANYMORE??!?!?!?!!!!" ma'am you have hit a NERVE.
"that was one day of my life, but this is everyday for you." yeah! it is!!! ali being unsure, not outright breaking it off, :(((( sad. glad she knows she can't ask him to quit his job. also - A+ acting oliver stark. an excellent sad scene from you.
MADDIE! YOU'RE SO PRETTY!!! and chimney is so cute!!! MADNEY IS SO CUTE!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAHHHHHHHH. i love this conversation as a moment for them. "we could have something better"!!!!! the kiss is so good!!!!!!
"this is more important" (i'm reserving thoughts until i know what "this" is) they want him to have another surgery! replace the rod and do some bone grafts! "delayed union or non-union" god i hate that i kind of know what that is, but nurse speak is going over my head right now. why must you medical talk in this moment???? but okay, maddie getting to the heart of it, healing slowly versus Not Healing. Buck is Not Waiting. the doctor wants him to wait.
"being a firefighter is my life" aaaahhhh!!!!!!!!!
Firefighter diaz!!!!!!!!!!! THIS *IS* more important!!!!! smiley eddie!!!!!!!! he's pleased as punch, he is adorable!!!!! him and christopher are so cute!!!!
love all of these little slow-mo moments! that's family that is!!!!! buddie hug. maddie meeting karen? eddie's family! madney being cute! lots of adorable cake eating.
bobby athena getting married !!!!!!! Athena has a dress!!!!!
also i know this is an incredibly cute idea, but i would Not be able to pivot that quickly away from a chore day of laundry and grocery shopping to getting married at the courthouse. i just couldn't do it.