why why whyyy are people theorizing / sort of hoping for the buckley parents to react badly to buck bringing tommy as his date / being bisexual?
they literally proved last season that that simply would not be the case.
when chim’s dad made that comment about how “raising a child with another man is unnatural” phillip was the first one to step in and say something!
as maddie said, “they’re not bad people, just bad parents” . i fully believe they will accept him. because honestly? we do not need anymore sad / traumatizing homophobia storylines. that’s not the only way people react.
and another thing- i feel like we should normalize not having to come out? if we don’t want to?
why can’t we just exist like everyone else? why do we always have to reintroduce ourselves as if we haven’t been the same person as before?
I’m both scared and excited to see Buck and Maddie’s parents reactions to Buck having male romantic partner. Because while more than anything I want Buck to be happy and supported I’m a sucker for angst and hurt/comfort and I am 60-80% sure it’s gonna go badly given their track record but at the same time I kinda think they’ll be supportive. Like don’t get me wrong I hate them for how they treated Buck growing up but they don’t strike me as the types to have an issue with same-sex relationships to begin with but idk. If they don’t he’ll still have his adopted parents to support him.
With Oliver saying that Buck is on the way to a better relationship with his parents, I need them to do the bare minimum and call him Buck like he had asked them so many times, just to have Buck being all smiles when Tommy call him Evan in front of them two minutes later. Just as a little treat.
With Oliver saying that they want to do happy queer storylines with Buck without homophobia, I don't think the Buckley parents would react badly
I have mixed feeling because I HATE the Buckley parents, but I also don't want Buck to go through homophobia/biphobia. Especially not this early on in his self discovery
I think what a lot of people failed to understand about the Buckley parents reconciliation arc in the episode is that it was just that - reconciliation, not redemption. Buck did not forgive and forget the ways they hurt him, he chose to stop letting it create more future hurt by allowing himself to accept his parents wanting to do better. But he made that decision not because he needed their love, but because he didn't.
I saw a lot of people confused and upset thinking that the last scene negated the message of Buck and Bobby's father-son relationship that was so prominent in the rest of the episode but it's literally the opposite! By showing that Bobby is Buck's real dad in every way that matters, they closed the doors on any real redemption for the Buckley parents - their place in Buck's life, the hole in Buck's heart that had always been vacant throughout his childhood, is now filled and has no place for them. They can reconcile, they can build a better relationship, they can have a place in his life - but it won't the place of the person he reaches for when he needs guidance, when he needs love, when he needs affection, when he needs support.
There's actually a metaphor throughout the episode that I think none of us really caught the full meaning of earlier - Buck's jobs. In the coma dream, he's a teacher and he has the same job as his bio parents. But, ultimately, it's what he knows about being a firefighter, his real job, the job where everything he knows he learned from his real parent in all but blood, that allows him to escape the dream and come back to himself just in the nick of time. Buck let's go of the dream, of true parental relationship with the Buckleys, in favor of turning to Bobby.
Buck(at the Madney wedding):...Tommy, these are my parents...and I'm sorry.
Tommy: Evan, why do you look like a character on "Miami Vice" and smell like puke?
Buck:...Oh yeah, I'm sorry for that, too...but mostly for my parents.
Margaret: Evan, we're standing right here.
Tommy: Wait, Bobby isn't your dad - ?
Phillip: STANDING. RIGHT. HERE![to Buck] - And why do people keep asking you that?!