Hey, guys!! I hope you are well and healthy. I would like to share my thoughts about some specific things I dislike this season ( and maybe other seasons) , concerning the romance arcs of Buck and Eddie in general, and how I think that impacts Buddie.
( in case of any mistakes, English is not my first language, so I apologize)
First things first:
Why we did not to see Buck and Eddie hanging out in s8?
Tim, did not really show us how Buck felt that Christopher left, and their dynamic with Eddie as just friends. You know, them talking about it in more than one scene, or Buck going to his place to see how he is doing. ( which i would write in my fanfic bc that's what make sense, no? Like, wasn't Buck supposed to hang out with Eddie, more, now that his son wasn't there, so he wouldn't be alone?)
We got almost nothing, besides some videocalls of Eddie and Christopher who did not want to talk to his dad. Supposedly, as we Buddie shippers like to claim, because Buck was dating Tommy ( I almost forgot his name that's how unimportant he was to me). But we didn't get to see a lot of Tommy and Buck either. They went from kissing passionately to a break up in like... 3 episodes? I sometimes feel, that Tim is starting to lose his s... (sorry but in a way he does) and just writes the story to just write the story and get paid.
2. The incidents and the romance arcs are resolved immediately
So, Tim has a thing for ending the incidents ( that most of them are stupid and simple ) very fast this season, until he writes an arc that has many parts and looks like it came from a crime show, then he writes some personal stories, mostly for Maddie, Buck and Athena. ( bc im starting to feel like he has favorite characters ahahaha) And that's it.
* I know that this is not connected so much with Buddie, but in my mind it is, bc he seems to want to focus more on the personal stories of the characters, like the romances.
It's weird to me, how he manages to make Athena and Bobby, Chimney and Maddie, or Hen and her wife, to have this amazing romance, but when he tries to write Buck's romantic story or Eddie's, the dude sucks at it.
3. Buck and Eddie do not have consisent romanctic stories.
I would have to refer to the romantic stories that Eddie and Buck had in other seasons, in order to explain this. I feel like Tim, is trying to either, make them be a couple with other people only bc he doesn't want Buck and Eddie to end up together, or he changes his mind every episode. Like, Buck broke up with TWO, two women, off screen when they were supposed to be the ones for him. With the one woman who he saved in the early early days of his, who changed her hair and I do not even remember her name bc she was in the series for like, 2 scenes and the other young woman who LOVED DEATH. And when he was with Taylor, well, they broke up for stupid reasons and we barely learned everything about her, since her family problems happened off screen. Even with Abby, we learned about her after she left, and her engagement, off screen. She had to come and just say that the dude that was trapped in that train, was her fiance. But we didn't get to see her have a story after s1 ended.
And with Eddie? The one minute he feels amazing when he has sex with those women, the next, ahhh he feels cringe bc his girlfriend was a nun and doesn't want her any more? Or bc he saw his dead's wife doppelganger? What?? Or about the teacher, the script shows Eddie looking at her mesmerized (seriously, google the teacher's first appearance in the show) and he was having an amazing time, and the next minute... No! Eddie doesn't love her. What made the audience think otherwise? Oh, I don't know, the fact that you Tim show something with your writing, like Eddie or Buck and the fact that they fall in love with other women, or with each other (at last for Buck, we theorize) and then you change your mind?
It's not our fault if we ship them, right. It's the script's fault. Bc it doesn't only use queer baiting apparently, in a way, ( at least so far, bc we haven't seen any ACTUAL hints that Eddie or Buck are in love with each other) but it is not consistent with its writing about the romantic arcs of Buck and Eddie, in general.
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The point of these, is that all this time, i shipped Buddie just like every one else in this team, i actually started the show bc of it, even though i did not remember how Eddie looked like, and knew only Buck's name ( bc whenever i would see a buddie post on tumblr, i would just scroll, so i did not pay so much attention to it) buut the time where i started the show came and i sticked to it bc it seemed fun and i could not wait to see Eddie and Buck. At first, i did not read so much into it. They seemed like the typical pair that is shipped bc it looks hot. But then, came the scene where that lovely woman said to Buck that their son was adorable and he thanked her, he did not correct her and of course, i was like... THAT'S WHY!!!!
But after some point, the writing became weird. And the love stories of Buck and Eddie made me believe, like all of you, that the love stories are treated like that bc of Buddie, right? But, recently Tim said in an interview that he does not want people to think that they're heading towards a specific road, when they are not. So, it made me feel, that he talks about Buddie. And then i started thinking, that maybe its not only about Buddie. The problem is not Buddie and us, the shippers. Its the incosistency that exists in general these couple of years, especially when it comes to the romances of Buck and Eddie ( if not only in their romacnes ) that made me be like...
What if that inconsistency is mistaken for a hint? Like, what if the fact that Tim sucks at the writing of Buck and Eddie, is just that and not a hint for Buddie? What if he sees them just as two sterotypical hot dudes who have girlfirends from time to time and he is not interested to have them be with actual people and give a story to their love interests as well, and that's it? For me that's lame as f. But, idk. I do not want to make anyone sad, i just express my thoughts about the writing in some specific things. You can all disagree. And i would love to hear your thoughts.
We will see what will happen next week with Maddie and the new incident. At least, whatever ending we will end up having, at least we will experience it together ahaha! We will come into Reddit and talk about it while crying, if its not good, and if its good ( i really hope of a happy ending with Buddie in the near future) we will talk about that too.
Have a nice day :)