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I haven't seen anyone else mentioning this, but I noticed this blue light in some of the buddie scenes.

There's a literal exclamation mark beside Eddie's head, when Buck says he broke up with Natalia!!

And this blue light flashing just when Buck mentions Eddie's cologne

I'm sure I've seen more similar things this season, but these were the only ones that I could remember.

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I don't like to speculate much (outside my head I mean), but this basketball discussion made me think. I believe if Tommy is in this scene he is making fun of Eddie for missing a shot or just being bad at the game. Eddie probably takes it as a joke, like it's meant to be, and moves on, but it pisses off Buck and he accidentally knocks Tommy a bit too hard or something, when he's making a shot. I mean, if Buck is hurting anyone (accidentally or not) it's certainly not gonna be Eddie.

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I have hope that they decided to change the ending from buddie getting together to... this, because ABC probably wants to have the moment of uniting buddie to themselves, and fox then decided to fuck with us. The problem is, that they fucked with us too much. If they had given us even a small hint of buddie; the couch, shared looks or even one conversation (!), that would've been fine with me. But this way they turned most of this part of fandom away from the show, and almost even me (for a whole two days... I might be too optimistic), even though I adore all the characters and have been rooting for buddie for years now. But I can only hope my thoughts are right. I do know it's going to be an agony to wait until next year to see where this is going.

Lots of hugs and energy to you all!

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Can someone wiser than me explain why their shadows are touching when they are standing slightly apart? 

[akewolf]

This is a super interesting question and it’d deserves an equally interesting answer that I’m not sure I can provide ‘cause my English is a bit wonky :/ but I’ll sure try and maybe you can go search some papers on the matter because this is a great topic

Here, we’re talking about light and shadows and how they work when a source of light hits something. In this particular case —the cemetery scene between Buck and Eddie— the shadows are dark and defined and a bit long so basically this tells us it’s a sunny day, clear skies and the sun isn’t at its zenith but probably not too much low on the horizon. Simply put, it’s approaching sunset. (well, it’s a simplification because the rotation of the earth on its axis changes the shadows according to seasons and location so it’s much more complicated than that— but we’ll try to keep it simple, k?)

Before we get to the point, we’re going to take a slight detour to understand the basics of how light and perspective work so please, bear with me. The light travels in straight lines until it hits an object, right? Thus the shadow forms in a straight line wherever there is an opaque object between that and the sun. So why when we are looking at shadows they’re not parallels but they spread in different directions?

Perspective and the so called vanishing point(s).

A common example used in classes (but also a very good one) is that of the railroad tracks

the lines are parallel but converging on the horizon and THAT is the vanishing point. And we know the railroad tracks never touch, of course we do, but we’re looking at ground level, not from above, so our eyes see it that way. These are the basics of perspective.

But how does it work in relation to a single light source? In this case the sun? Even light and shadows have their vanishing point, very specific ones at that and I’ll try to draw some visual examples to reach the Buddie scene at the end.

as you can see the two people are not touching but their shadows do because they are NOT on the same ‘depth of field’ (does it make sense? I hope it does).

another example on actual photographs:

and finally the scene that concerns us:

so I hope my messed up (probably most certainly a bit imprecise) drawings are clear enough and that I also made the point of what I was trying to explain. Maybe someone who knows English better than me can expand on this tread or, you know, help me explain things better lol

BTW, this is just the technical part, but as far as speculation goes I sure as hell know this was INTENTIONAL. We’re supposed to see their shadows (dark and defined on the ground) connect despite Buck and Eddie being slightly apart (aka misunderstanding between the boys). The writers know what they’re doing, and Buddie is coming at full force.

Hope this was what you were asking hon, have a great day!

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Thank you so  much for this! I didn’t expect such an awesome and through reply and it made my day! I absolutely get what you’re saying and your English is perfect. 

They really do know what they’re doing.

Thanks again and have a great day too!

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Can someone wiser than me explain why their shadows are touching when they are standing slightly apart? 

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I firmly believe Buck had reserved a spot for Eddie right next to him, but Eddie just couldn’t see it from where he was standing

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When people think Eddie’s alone

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What is Eddie’s hand doing here?