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9-1-1: Pay It Forward (2023)
The lowest point
Ok wow, so showrunners and writers knew from the start of the season that this could be the last and still decided that this was a worthy series finale? What a disappointment!
A slap in the face to all the fandom that has always loved the series over the years, supporting and promoting it on social media, creating theories, analyzing every little detail, despite the evident decline in the quality of the narration and the almost total disappearance of the action scenes with emergencies almost always of a medical nature and nothing more, where the times dedicated to the personal stories of the victims on duty prevailed over those dedicated to the main characters.
The big emergecy was good, maybe a little rushed and less emotional than I'd hoped, but it was an improvement over those near-total lack of action all season, but throwing two new love interests in Buck and Eddie in the last 5 minutes, no prior development, no emotion and as usual no chemistry, it really is the lowest point of this serie and the biggest problem is that history repeats itself over and over, it didn't work then, it won't work now.
Buck and Eddie deserve better, they deserve stories with a capital S, not rambling and inconclusive plots!
After a decent season 5 for Eddie, we are back to classic absolute nothingness for the entire season, only to end up with the random girl remembered for making loving-eyes her brother! What a pleasure to see, really... Not to mention the talk about dating someone met on a call, which never ends well...for what? Do the same thing 3 episodes later?
If for Eddie there hasn't been a decent story all season, for Buck it was instead a continuous succession of disjointed and pointless events. What about the meaning of the "happening convetion"? What was the purpose of all the "sperm donor" storyline? What is the trauma of being dead for "3 minutes and 17 seconds"? What about the whole "couch theory"? Did it really all come down to buying another couch with a death doula who thinks it was "cool" that he died? Why give Buck all these storyline that are supposed to show the growth of his character, only to make him make exactly the same mistake over and over again? Spoiler alert: men and women can be happily single and still have a fulfilled life!
It would have made more sense continue with Ana and Taylor and try to give them some development but they knew that the biggest part of the fandom would definitely leave, so better to stay vague throughout the season, create false expectations with small signals from the BTS scene so as to keep the interest alive and then stab the fans at the end.
Several times during the season they showed Buck, Eddie and Christopher as a family, the importance of their deep bond, if this really was mean to be the last episode why not show them happy and together? Not even romantically, but simply as a family, it would have been beautiful to watch, a logical ending for the general audience and a huge gift for the Buddie shipper.
Adding two new love interests outside of the already crowded main cast will always fail because it's impossible to sustain: the experiment was done with Taylor whose job was at least close to that of the firefighters and the episode that was intended to tell us about her past was, before this, the episode with the lowest rating, but these two girls have nothing to do with firefighting, so how do they plan to give them the right development? They will always remain someone's "girlfriend"...the "love interest" without any personality and if they try to give them more space, the fans of Madney, Henren, Bathena, Josh, Sue, May, Linda... will rightly complain that there is never visibility for them and furthermore these two ships will inevitably take time away from the friendship between Buck, Eddie and Christopher.
Magical stories are those that build foundations over the course of the seasons but have also instant chemistry, and they need to be between main cast characters. If instead of Eddie they had introduced Edith in season 2, they would already be canon by at least season 4!
I hope with the move to ABC there will be some major changes, a fresh start, solid non-repetitive stories that do justice to a stellar cast!
9-1-1: Fear-o-Phobia (2022)
9 star just for the last scene
My vote it's all for Ryan's acting in the last scene... outstanding, heartbreaking, the best part of the whole episode which deserves to have better grades than the havoc of some of the 5A.
I loved that moment so much, Eddie's pain, the way Christopher was so scared for his dad, Buck trying to help them both and then Eddie that only trusts Buck to open up with his fears. .. I hope the next episode will delve further into their dynamic because it's always one of the best things about the show. I refuse to believe it's "coincidences" that every time Buck and Eddie drift apart, bad things happens ... the choices were made by writers, they created this special, unique family that need to be together, Buck and Eddie are partners in every sense and trying to force a new love interest, just because the showrunners are scared to do the last logical step (Buddie canon), it will always fail miserably.
Otherwise the episode was better than 5x11, I loved the reunions between Hen and Chimney and Buck and Maddie, but I hate all the Buck / Taylor / Lucy mess and I was hoping that BT would break up eventually.
I don't like either that every pivotal moments seem to be resolved offscreen: Maddie and Chimney breakup, Eddie apologizing to Bobby, Chimney and Buck talking and it's not the first time, so why? If time it's the problem, the easy solution is to stop bringing new useless characters for the sole purpose to create drama. Lucy hasn't really brought anything to the plot so far, Ravi, who everyone loves, could have been Buck's temporary partner, so she's just here to recreate a soap opera, and that's clearly not what the audience want from a show like 9-1-1.
If and when the writers understand how important it is to focus on the relationships between the main characters, how beautiful and strong their bonds are, every week we would have masterpiece episodes like the first seasons.
9-1-1: Outside Looking In (2022)
Why?
Expectations were low but I didn't think so much!
The only good thing are the Diaz boys, Christopher is truly a national treasure and seeing, finally, father and son talking to each other was truly touching and the highlight of the whole episode. Eddie's torment is a punch in the gut and the worst is yet to come, but right now his story is the only thing holding me back from leaving the show.
For everything else, I am speechless.
How they managed to completely destroy Buck's progress in the space of an episode is something I can't explain.
Basically, the moment Eddie told him to move on, he kissed the girl who is Eddie's replacement at 118 and in the end, Buck is not only a cheater, but also a liar to his girlfriend and a hypocrite for what he told Eddie 10 episodes earlier.
What a way to screw up a character, there is no going back from this, and if the purpose was a BuckTaylor breakup, then there were a thousand better and more respectful ways to do it. I never liked Taylor, I want her gone, but she doesn't deserve this and neither does Buck's character.
But after all the horrible interviews over the past few days, I should have seen that coming.
In Kristen's mind, Buck cheating with this "breath of fresh air" is a good and believable storyline while Buck and Eddie's chemistry and potential are just fandom imagination, but writers can make fun of this same fandom by inserting "little jokes" because obviously "no matter how, as long as you talk about it".
Maybe Tim & Co. Should take their own advice and read some fanfics because they clearly lack ideas - this Eddie story arc is a carbon copy of Buck's season 3 lawsuit era and Lucy is both Lena and Eddie - it's unnerving! And maybe, by reading some good things, they could learn that when you create a character, then you have to take an interest in him, his development and his emotions, as the writers of fanfiction do, otherwise the story is going to fail.
9-1-1: Wrapped in Red (2021)
It's no longer our beloved 911
I was hoping in a classic 911 Christmas episode, with family feeling, with some happyness after the angst of this season, I believed that for once the writers could deliver a solid episode like the ones in season 3... yeah i was hoping in some kind of miracle and instead we get the nightmare before Christmas.
What was once a big beautiful family, their "choosen family", now is broken to the core, they no longer interact, they are like separated entities unable to speak, to share emotions, to confronts each others. It's painful to watch, all the feelings that made 911 a great show are vanished, the emergencies are less and less and usually boring, and the focus on sideline characters takes away space from the main ones.
I get that Maddie leaved because of JLH maternity, but what happened to Chimney? The concept of a road trip without destination with a newborn baby it's stupid, he could have took a paternity leave staying at home, showing the others helping him with Jee.
But the biggest issue is with what is described one of the key relationship of the show, the friendship??? Between Buck and Eddie.
I enjoyed the moment between Eddie and Chris in this episode, that they finally dealt with their trauma, proving once again that Eddie only thinks of his son, that every decision he makes is life is for him, leaving El Paso, try to make things work with Shannon, dating Ana and now leaving the 118... just... normally he would have talked about it with Buck but now he seems to confiding only in Carla. How did we go from "You can have my back any day" and "you are stuck with us" to "I'm leaving the 118" without Buck and Eddie talking? It's sad and heartbreaking, the distance keep growing between this two since 4x14 and the more the fans ask for Buddie, the less they let them interact. Eddie nearly died in front of Buck then he threw the will bomb, but they didn't once talk about what happened. Buck is stuck in a relationship with one of the worst character that could return to the show, she suck the life from him, every smile he share with her is forced, they don't know and trust each other and every time they spent together is a waste of time for the viewers.
They really wasted four years of development on Buck's character for what? Caring and sweed Buck is gone, welcome to sad and introverted Buck, but hey he got the pretty girlfriend so everything is perfect now right?
Too much for the worst Christmas episode in the worst season, no Buddie moments, no Buck/Christopher moments, a predictable cliffhanger... they may have gold with Buddie, but they chose ash with the reporter.
9-1-1: Past Is Prologue (2021)
It's a big NO to me
I'm done with this show, this episode was the last straw, they chose to focus on a secondary character that most of the fandom hates, forcing Buck to mostly interact with her when they have zero chemistry.
How can it be credible that at the beginning of the episode Buck doesn't even seem scared thinking that she is going to leave him and in the end he tells her that he loves her too (albeit with the same enthusiasm with which I speak to my plants)?
If the point of giving her a sad backstory (like all the other characters on the show actually) was to make her more likeable, well, they failed miserably because now the lack of empathy she showed with Bobby makes her even more hypocritical.
This season is the worst, most of the episodes are just a hasty emergency at first and then turn into soap operas every week, the main characters barely interact and everything feels so disconnected.
I enjoyed the story of Hen and her mother and that they eventually showed some light and funny moments between Athena and Bobby, but that's not enough to save a lame episode.
I won't lie, I miss Buck and Eddie together, their chemistry is insane, and that was one of the reasons I fell in love with this show; now it seems to me that writers are afraid of Buddie's power and barely let them interact during calls; they don't talk to each other anymore, they don't hag-out after work, we don't have family moments with Christopher, nothing ... just a big emptiness ...
9-1-1: Ghost Stories (2021)
Worst episode ever
I'm so sad, really a disappointing episode, but this season is a mess and there's nothing about 911 that I loved ... they changed the order of the episodes, losing continuity, they cut scenes that used to be shown in the promos and, worse yet, in this episode they have focused on secondary characters that no one cares about. It's a show about first responders, firefighters, paramedics, and dispatchers, what's the point of an entire episode about a reporter-detective sidelining all the main characters?
Do they really think the hint of a "dark" background story for her character will magically make us love her? Rather, this really scares me, because it means we have to watch another episode focusing on her. Clearly things don't work out between her and Buck, there's no chemistry, no sparks, nothing ... so why drag this on for so long?
The episode deserved 0 stars for me, I gave 2 just because Karen was here, Tracey is such a good actress that even a few minutes of her on screen makes the episode better.
But I really miss the old 911, seven episodes in a row and Bobby is like a secondary character, Chimney is somewhere away from the others (I understand why Madde is gone but why Chimney too?), Eddie and Buck are so distant, they continue to share traumas and never talk about it. I miss the Buckley/Diaz moments with Christopher, I really really miss Buddie, now Eddie is withdrawn and Buck is always sad and dejected.
3 more episode until the mid-season finale, I just hope they end the B/T story with a break up, so during the second half they can focus on pure calls, adrenaline moments and other main characters, otherwise I fear the ratings will drop again.