It's been a while since I've posted a Fandom Friday and here are some of my thoughts:
I have a few thoughts on 9-1-1, first is the dynamics for the ninth season feel so off after Fire Captain Robert "Bobby" Nash was killed off last season. It really killed the dynamics and vibes of the show. For instance, I don't understand why the writers are trying so hard this season to make it seem like Evan "Buck" Buckley has a sibling connection with May and Harry Grant. Buck has never had any substantial scenes with May and Harry for them to be pushing this forced connection in the ninth season. I love May and Harry's sibling bond and they don't need Buck being forced into it. Buck might have had a sort of father and son bond with Bobby but he didn't have a sibling one with May and Harry. And not to mention Buck already has a sibling, his big sister Maddie Han (née Buckley). I think Buck being a mentor for Harry is okay even if seeing as Buck still needs to get his life in order. With that said, there was no need to force Buck in this sibling bond with May and Harry that was never there to begin with.
Second, the Showrunner and writers are back to separating fan favorite characters (and non-canon couple) Buck and Edmundo "Eddie" Diaz. They are now back to working with the same co-workers they were temporarily paired with in the fifth season. Eddie is with Henrietta "Hen" Wilson as firefighter/paramedics and Buck is with Ravi Panikkar as the firefighter duo. In the sixth season, they also reduced Buck and Eddie's screen time together. And in both the fifth and sixth seasons, it was very noticeable how the viewers were not a fan of either decision. And it threw off the vibes of the show and the characters with them sharing very little screentime together. I've been seeing where many fans are saying that this ninth season separation is because after the writers baited Buck and Eddie's potential romantic possibility last season and don't seem to want to follow through with it, they are now just separating the characters. And unfortunately they will probably put them in relationships with yet again more random love interests than with each other. I guess I'll see how the season goes for Buck and Eddie.
Third, so far the season opening space emergency is kind of boring. It just feels like the writers have run out of ideas and figured they could just add in a big space emergency in hopes of making it interesting. It just doesn't feel like an emergency that should be on this show. Instead wouldn't a big fire emergency have been more interesting as the season opening emergency. Especially if it's not just one fire they are dealing with but several. I could see someone targeting buildings and setting them on fire. This storyline could have given Police Sergeant Athena Grant a mystery to solve as well as possibly working with Hen or Interim Captain Howard "Chimney" Han. I could also see Eddie and Buck deciding to separately investigate because they had an idea that no one really listened to. So they could have followed a different set of clues. A storyline like this could have kept the firefighters very busy trying to put out all these huge fires that someone kept setting.
Finally, my thoughts on Bobby. I just think it would have been better to have had him survive the contagion storyline in the eighth season and then have him retire. Because he could have been given the cure and survived but side effects left him with a few health issues that would make it difficult to be an active firefighter. And with Bobby retired he would have still been on the show but he could have been like Michael Grant was as a non-first responder but still a main character. And Chimney could have been promoted without the sad aspect of Bobby's death haunting at the current moment his Interim promotion. I hope Chimney will get to be the actual Captain of the 118 and not the writers bringing in some random character to be Captain instead. And with Bobby retired, him and his wife Athena could have enjoyed the new house that they had built and she wouldn't currently be sad and depressed and using work and this trip to space as a distraction for her grief.
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