So this episode is getting beaten with low star ratings - somewhat, but not entirely unfairly.
The first 35 minutes of the episode are tense, with the spectacular practical effects we love from 911 and a real sense of "anything could happen" with everyone in true peril; I could absolutely believe that any one of the Main Characters were at risk of being killed off.
Then it was all hand-waved away and they were all home or out of hospital in a matter of hours despite life threatening injuries.
Karen and Hen have a lovely season end, and I'm so please Bobby and Athena get their cruise (although, that's got Speed 2: Cruise Control written all over it). Chim and Maddie, similarly in a great place and that's lovely - can't wait to see their wedding in S7.
However! 6B has once again relegated Eddie Diaz to basically a supporting character, and now he's been squished into a relationship with a woman that had worryingly strong chemistry with her brother's character...
Buck had all these indicators that he was growing up, that he was learning to be his own man and that was just punted into the sun as he falls into another relaationship with a woman from a call, and doesn't even choose his own couch in the end.
I'd also like to see them remember that Buck and Eddie are supposed to be these great friends - they barely even talk these days!
I'm glad it wasn't the last episode ever, because that would have been an unworthy ending to the 118.
The first 35 minutes of the episode are tense, with the spectacular practical effects we love from 911 and a real sense of "anything could happen" with everyone in true peril; I could absolutely believe that any one of the Main Characters were at risk of being killed off.
Then it was all hand-waved away and they were all home or out of hospital in a matter of hours despite life threatening injuries.
Karen and Hen have a lovely season end, and I'm so please Bobby and Athena get their cruise (although, that's got Speed 2: Cruise Control written all over it). Chim and Maddie, similarly in a great place and that's lovely - can't wait to see their wedding in S7.
However! 6B has once again relegated Eddie Diaz to basically a supporting character, and now he's been squished into a relationship with a woman that had worryingly strong chemistry with her brother's character...
Buck had all these indicators that he was growing up, that he was learning to be his own man and that was just punted into the sun as he falls into another relaationship with a woman from a call, and doesn't even choose his own couch in the end.
I'd also like to see them remember that Buck and Eddie are supposed to be these great friends - they barely even talk these days!
I'm glad it wasn't the last episode ever, because that would have been an unworthy ending to the 118.