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doublel27 · 1 year
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That’s so valid about Owen. “I’m gonna go annoy my kids now”
And there was something so squishy about the 3 of them being a lil family unit now 🥹
I'm sure whoever you are, dear sweet nonny, you threw this in here knowing I would likely meta on about it.
And I've been thinking about the end scenes nearly all day.
I'm notoriously interested in Owen as a character. He's a facinating character who, like his son, has had his life scarred by loss. Owen's whole raison d'etre is saving his brother. It's why saving that one little girl from drowning sent him into a life focused on saving others. Then he lost his entire firehouse in 9/11, and slowly lost other survivors of 9/11 to cancer and mental health disorders.
Then, he has to bring his son back from the dead and moves him to Texas in an attempt to save his life and restart, all while diagnosed with cancer. We lose Tim Rosewater which sets Owen into deep levels of depression and guilt, because he'll never be able to keep the promise that everyone who starts a shift goes home at the end of it.
Gwyn is in town, and they're still in love and he's working on making it work. They're gonna have a baby and Owen has a redo. He's got a chance to do it RIGHT this time. Because Owen's fatal flaw is always believing if things had been different, if he had been better, if he'd beena moment sooner: maybe he could have fixed things. He had a whole speech to that effect in last night's episode, where he figured if he'd known about 9/11 ahead of time that he could have prevented his whole team from dying.
Then the baby's not his and Gwyn leaves and whatever Owen managed to cobble together of his mental health for Gwyn and teh baby disipates and there's a lot of very classic PTSD/depressive/anxiety things that come up in Owen.
And then we lose Gwyn which is devestating to everyone but Owen soldiers on for TK, but he's...not doing well, at all. He finally gets his ass to therapy and even though we see him make some progress he's still keeping TK at a distance. Mostly because TK's doing well and Owen CANT be Captain Save a Ho for TK in these moments. He does crop up (usually) when TK's struggling, but only when there's something TO DO.
This episode marked a change.
Owen, in talking with O'Brien, who is giving a speech pretty reminicent of Owen's own speeches, about how he made a promise and he didn't keep it because look at this awful thing that happened, and Owen manages to give solid reasoning to be like "Look, he's alive and his son's alive and that's something."
And then it's like the lightbulb goes off in Owen's brain as O'Brien takes off after his great nephew - that Owen is indeed alive, and his son is also alive, and that's something. He may not have saved everyone but he saved TK.
Then, Owen goes and picks up food (which is really one of Carlos and TK's main love langauges, is feeding people - TK does it with takeout because he shouldn't be in the kitchen) and brings it over. But he doesn't just pick up any take out, he picks up the chinese food that TK introduced Gwyn to that they used to eat as a family.
I take this to be significant in multiple ways:
One, the Gwyneth Morgan of it all. Owen picked something that was a family thing and brought it over. Which is a very significant thing to do.
Two, it's one of the few times that food is involved and Owen doesn't mention the healthy/unhealthy nature of the food. Look, I could probably write a whole disertation on why Owen Strand, who has survived 21 1/2 years post 9/11 is obsessed with his health, but nearly every interaction with food, Owen has a coment about it. He doesn't make a single comment about this round of chinese food. I lied, he doesn't mention it in 3.08 either. But that's in the wake of grief, and maybe here Owen's still living in it.
Three, ordering chinese is very clearly TK's comfort meal. Look, a lot of us who are neurospicy joke about TK being neurospicy. And when you are neurospicy, there are certain foods that are..."safe" or an instant "yes" all the time. And we default to them often. I know when I'm struggling when I'm like "It's a comfort food day." (I have a rotation) but it eliminates decision fatigue and the need to emotionally regulate if it's not exactly what you wanted. Chinese food has a connection to Gwyn, and comfort and it comes up a lot when TK's stressed. (Even in 3.03, when Carlos doesn't come home, TK ordered chinese for them)
And then Owen does something he hasn't done...at all...since TK moved out (maybe they did when they moved into Owen's house and I don't know where they had chinese in 3.08) but Owen shows up at their place to share a meal with them.
And it's significant because TK and Carlos have invited him over for many meals between seasons 2 and 3, and Owen never accepts. Or, in the case of 2.11, Owen accepts and then goes off to catch an arsonist instead, which could be his hero complex but could also be a general avoidance of things that are uncomfortable for Owen, like TK growing up and not needing Owen anymore.
For as much as Owen has been an absent father for various parts of TK's life, because of his PTSD and trauma and general *waves hands* Owenness, Owen is a loving dad who would do just about anything for his son. We know this, we've watched him do it. But Carlos is also a competent control freak who Owen trusts implicitly with TK's life on numerous occasions. I do believe there's a big part of Owen's psyche that doesn't know what to do if he's not NEEDED.
But at the end of 4.06, he shows up, with chinese food, which is not needed because TK and Carlos already made a beautiful dinner and are looking very handsome, but he comes in and tells TK that he's proud of him, again. And you know, not trying to blow people up is a very low bar, but you know, TK clears it. And then they stay and have dinner, and Owen inserts himself in his son's life, not because TK needs him, but because Owen WANTS to be there, and that's such a drastic change for these two.
I love that Carlos and TK bring him in. Look, we could punish Owen for his mistakes and transgressions, but that's never been who TK is and this is his last living biological parent (Enzo forever) and TK loves him. And Carlos loves TK and respects Owen and wants them to have a good relationship.
And I cannot wait for Owen to "do what he does best" (owen's words) and be a pain in their asses about this wedding.
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lonestardust · 1 year
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Andrea and Owen overcompensating for not being there for their kids back then — not knowing how to.. and them talking about it.. Owen becoming aware of his control freak behaviours — he's aware it's distressing his son and his son in law so he chooses honest communication, because he knows better now, and goes and explains to his son how he feels like giving his all this time because he thinks TK will no longer need him when he soon marries this capable decent amazing man who will take good care of him, and that's not true because TK will always need his best friend, he will always need his dad........ YUP I'M SOBBING
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thebumblecee · 6 months
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If the horrors allow it: could you maybe share your favourite Owen&TK moments per season? That would be spectacular!
In this instance the horrors are my tumblr for not telling me I have notification for a week and me going into a depression spiral soon after.
Hi I’m back to being annoying I’m so sorry anon.
I can ABSOLUTELY do that.
Season one has a rich array of Owen and TK moments that I just love.
Right from the start Owen breaking down TK’s door because he knows there’s something wrong with his boy. The roof top conversation? Owen packing up his entire life to get TK somewhere safe UGH what an opening episode.
From season one I also love the conversation over Buttercup. “It’s not about the dog.” conversation. TK feeling safe enough to voice his fears and worries to his dad and Owen reassuring him he’s valid.
Again the season one finale with the X Ambassadors Unsteady playing over the top when Owen pulls him out of the water. TEARS EVERY TIME.
Season two, for me has to be the rescue he does with his dad where TK steps up because Pearce doesn’t want to and realises he wants to be a paramedic and the fall out from that after where they talk about TK leaning to work for Tommy. I think it’s lovely, well done, Owen is watching TK become his own person before his eyes and yeah !!! love love love.
Season three: “the baby that’s still a baby or the baby that’s a grown man and smirking at me.” That’s Owen’s baby and TK’s little sway kills me.
Season four: dad of the groomzilla Owen gave me life. He wanted to be the best for TK he could. I love it. He’s so over the top with it. His child is getting married and EVERYONE is going to know about it. 10/10 no notes.
I miss early season interactions between them (and between the gang as a whole tbh) but I think they have such a nice, non-toxic, caring father & son relationship that is refreshing to see and also one of the main reasons I started watching the show
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musickickztoo · 1 year
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RIP  Iain Templeton
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marjansmarwani · 2 years
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I really want to see Owen open up to Tk about everything even though I know Tk would be devastated for his dad and for his uncle he was named after, I still think it would be an amazing bonding experience and Tk deserves to know what’s been really going on with his dad and Owen needs closure too and not to hide from his past 🥺
Yes, exactly this. I have my doubt about them actually showing any of this happening, but I'm hoping they might at least hint that it happened.
If they don't you can bet that I will write it, whether I plan to or not. I have little control when it comes to Owen fics these days, it seems.
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juiche · 3 months
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a moment of peace before the whole world shatters 😇
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tsotc · 4 months
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fucking obsessed with the uni town i live in
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mpekamitzii · 1 year
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Tfw your shapeshifter friend forgets how to turn back into a human and has a crisis
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penisman9000 · 2 months
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ceo-of-sloppy-men · 8 months
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cheddar-baby · 4 months
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Death Stranding 2 Reveal Trailer 4K | The Game Awards 2023
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doublel27 · 2 years
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You know that summer Owen became a lifeguard, and he saved that first person, it was like saving Tyler. And that’s where he got hooked. He has been chasing the high of saving his little brother ever since.
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lonestardust · 2 years
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THE STRANDS : FATHER and SON : Almost losing one another. S1E8 : Monster Inside — S3E18 : A Bright and Cloudless Morning.
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qweenofurheart · 8 months
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their dynamic is so
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nidorion · 1 year
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albedo sees an opportunity to cause psychic damage to everyone within hearing range. he takes it.
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azulhood · 4 months
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Jazz is wandering Gotham with Danny after their parents visited the city for a convention but left them behind in the excitement of one of their ghost traps going off on the other side of the country.
The hotel they were staying at kicked them out not caring if they had a place to stay or not, only caring that the source of money had left.
Jazz couldn't show how scared she actually was, not when Danny was looking at her with complete faith that she could somehow fix this.
How he managed to keep that faith after a day of jumping at shadows like they held enemies and vending machine food for lunch was a mystery.
She's tired, she's stressed, and she needs an adult.
Like an actual adult and not her much loved but very scatterbrained parents, Vlad did not count either.
Nightwing: *falls from great heights into nearby dumpster* ...ow.
Jazz: ...You'll do.
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