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littlespoonevan · 3 years

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Does anyone else feel like there's been a shift in the general attitude towards Buck/Eddie since the end of season 4? I lurk the 911 subreddit sometimes, and that place used to be very "you are RUINING the SANCTITY of PLATONIC MALE FRIENDSHIP" whenever anyone mentioned Buck/Eddie, but recently there have been actual discussions about it, and people seem to take the possibility of them being each other's love interests seriously. That legal guardianship reveal really had an impact lol.

that's really interesting!! i can't speak for anything beyond what i see on my dashboard (which has always been pro-buddie lmao) but speaking from my own perspective, i know my feelings have shifted since 4x14.

i binge-watched up to 4x06 but i very much came into the show with the attitude of i'll enjoy it for what it is but it's never gonna happen. and for all that i adore the quietness of buck and eddie's dynamic in s4 i certainly felt a bit???? off maybe???? around the middle of the season when ana and taylor had both been re-introduced and then, because there were a few eps where neither buck or eddie had a main storyline, we hardly saw them interact at all? (it was the first 3 eps back after the break i think and obviously it's more than okay that other characters were at the forefront in those eps, it was just noticeable in its rarity since we hadn't really had that happen since s2 when shannon was back)

i even made a post around that time about how 911 had written themselves into a corner by keeping buck and eddie single for so long bc now that they both had love interests it was impossible to maintain the balance of the dynamic that we're used to with these two new relationships also. and truth be told i was afraid things were about to go the teen wolf route of, we shipped them too hard now they're never gonna interact ever again akjdfh

obviously treasure hunt happened and it lifted my spirits a lot and we'd sort of figured out eddie would be the one getting shot and look. i'll say it again that if i get right down to it, i don't think the show is gonna make them canon. i don't think that takes away from the integrity of their relationship in any way and i do believe the writers value their dynamic a lot and treat it seriously so that's honestly fine with me.

however.

there are choices that were made in 4x13 and 4x14 that i Cannot explain and that left me genuinely in shock because i didn't think for one second they'd happen. carla commenting on eddie and ana's relationship and suggesting he's not happy (even though we technically had no indication of this prior), the entire framing of the shooting scene and the way they paid equal attention eddie and buck. buck sobbing over eddie when he tried to tell christopher what happened. and obviously the legal guardianship, "because evan" and "you're not expendable" of it all

i can't explain any of that. i can't explain why any of that happened if buck is supposed to be with taylor. i can't explain why our first meaningful episode with ana since 4x08 immediately casts doubts on her and eddie's relationship. i can't explain why they prioritised buck and eddie's relationship over everything else in 4x14 and bound them together even more intrinsically than before. i can't explain all the parallels between buck and taylor's scenes and buck and eddie's scenes in 4x14. and tbh i'm still reeling from it all these months later?

at the end of the day, i don't know what goes on in the writers room and i do think more so than other shows they're open to the idea (even though i'm very sceptical on fox giving the green light?) but like. if buddie isn't happening, i'm really gonna need some step by step explanations for the choices made here skdjaha

#anon #asks #i wouldn't say i'm more optimistic that it's gonna be canon #but i am more optimistic that our theories are accurate 75% of the time lol

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buttercupbuck · 3 years

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That’s why these “positive” posts make me a bit furious, ngl. It’s like “Yeah, Eddie and Buck have a great bond, they are so important to each other, so you really shouldn’t mind if they throw in a random ass love interest and tell you to see their relationship as equal to Buck and Eddie’s. They are still family 🥰 The girlfriends just a tiny bit more important 🥰 And if course, Buck and Eddie will distance themselves from each other a bit 🥰But that’s just life🥰”

yeah lol like literally what show are they watching, because the writers have never even tried to show that their other relationships are more important/meaningful/fulfilling than the one they have with each other

and they could’ve shown that, right? we could’ve seen some distance put between them in a way that still didn’t ultimately emphasize how much they are partners. like there is definitely a feeling of distance and of change in some episodes (mainly 4.08 and 4.12), but it’s not framed as “oh but that’s just life,” as it would if they were just best friends or something, but instead there’s this feeling of wrongness and unease about it all

like we see buck starting to spiral in 4.08 after eddie and ana have started dating, and why show him doubting his relationships again at all, you know? they could’ve just ridden the high of the resolution from buck begins and of the work he’s assumably done in therapy and shown him feeling secure in his relationships from then on (which, i hc him as having rsd, so i don’t feel it would’ve been super realistic, but just from a narrative standpoint). but instead they put him feeling lost and uncertain side by side with eddie talking to athena and bobby about introducing chris to ana.

and then in 4.12 it’s a similar thing where buck feels rejected by his team and by eddie and reaches out to taylor as a result, but of course eddie comes to him and asks to partner up (because that rejection/distance had never been real) and of course buck includes him

and even in the midst of all of this, we still see more of buck being firmly rooted in the their family - we see chris running to him and buck reassuring him he’ll always be there, buck and eddie’s little good cop/bad cop moment, buck naturally being the one to stay with chris and take care of him when eddie’s in the hospital, and then the will. versus like the ten second scenes we get of ana in the diaz home (minus the scene with carla, where she suggests that she’s not truly who he wants)

anyway long rant over but yeah their relationship is definitely not a consolation prize or runner up to anything else lol

#ask #anon #buddie

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