Eddie In El Paso Right Now: So The Bill Is Taking Forever And The Game Starts In Like 45 Minutes And

Yeah same, this is exactly why i think they might make us wait until next season to actually get them together: there’s just (possibly) too much buildup to do in just half a season. But hey, if we get canon buddie im really not that picky about when :)

ok so not really criticism but a bit of concern: how will the show make it obvious to the audience that Eddie has feelings, is queer and this has been going on for a bit? Or how will they show it believably that he just realized all of that in his 30s?

Like to me it is so obvious, and they have been setting it up for at least half a season now. There are hints in the show (him being ultra monogamous & catholic about relationships and not having true chemistry/romantic feelings for most of his female partners, they're more of an obligation) and it makes so much sense to me that he's a repressed gay man, and the acting supports that. But it's harder to see/believe if you contrast that with Buck's realization who has been making googly eyes at everything and everyone, and is an open book, wears his heart on his sleeve. A casual audience will be able to go back and see it. They won't immediately see it when they look at Eddie, because the acting is way subtler and the queercoding more subtextual as of now, the queerness is in the narrative and possible feelings are explicitly labelled as a deep platonic bond between friends.

Which, in and of itself, no problem! There have been wilder revelations in film and tv with no textual buildup that have been very believable. It all hinges on how the show explains and shows it to the audience. I just don't know if I can trust this show to do a storyline like this justice? Like having someone have a multi-layered revelation and solve some of their emotional struggles within the span of a few episodes. Am I making sense? I love the characters and how they've been portrayed, but I might have grown overprotective of them. I just don't see yet how the show will do it in a believable way. It's one of the reasons I hope they let us steam a bit longer and go for it in the next season

I don’t know who allowed Capt. Tommy Vega certified BAMF and amazing precious on-in-a-kind person to be hurt but LOOK THE FUCK OUT IM COMING FOR YOU.

RICKY WHEN I CATCH YOU RICKY. RICKY WHEN I CATCH YOU. RICKY WHEN I CATCH YOU RICKY!!!!!

If so, I take it all back. The queerbaiting was better.

is this our price for getting buddie :(

me in the gc yesterday joking about bobby being buried alive after being presumed dead and i accidentally have a moment of omniscience

oh hey by the way watching tonight's episode was wild and reminded me that i wrote a fic where tommy taylor accused buck of being in love with eddie so he went to talk to maddie about it and kept talking about how he'd never allowed himself to think about it bc eddie is Straight™

anyway this is just me saying if you'd like to read a fic with that plot you could read finding our way (back home)

which was literally written in the middle of s5 in 2022 lol

buck in 2x01

they wore a couples costume. and it was EDDIE’S idea!!

but not with the gun…

caitlyn hit her HARD