Happy Fandom Friday, here are some of my fandom thoughts:
- Why does the 9-1-1 fandom feel so dead during this hiatus? Usually during hiatus, all us fans are excited about upcoming stories and making theories and guesses about not only the stories but the characters as well. However, so far during this hiatus it has been like a scene of a tumbleweed rolling by. The interaction and engagement just seems very low. It's just been very quiet and dead. It doesn't help that the first half of the ninth season (which only had six episodes) has felt lackluster and inconsistent. Not to mention wasting the first four episodes on the opening emergency that didn't really do much except for moving two characters' (Athena Grant and her son Harry) stories of grief (for her) and finding purpose (for him). Also, there was a bare minimum effort in regards to Howard "Chimney" Han's story about him possibly taking over as the Captain of the 118 fire station which was finally concluded in the sixth episode.
As for the last two episodes, they felt like they existed in a bubble. Because why did Edmundo "Eddie" Diaz's Abuela Isabel die in the fifth episode but the next episode it was not mentioned at all. The writers could have wrote in a small moment of Eddie's friends and co-workers asking how he was following the death of his beloved grandmother. The sixth episode mostly focused on Henrietta "Hen" Wilson's mysterious health issue and Evan "Buck" Buckley training Harry to become a firefighter. Other than Hen's health and Harry joining the 118 there were no other upcoming storylines set up for fans to speculate on.
I'm still a big 9-1-1 fan but even I was disappointed with the first half of the season, yes there were good moments but not enough. It just wasn't the most interesting first half. And I also didn't like how the Showrunner and writers are separating Buck and Eddie. They barely have any scenes together especially nothing really significant. Instead they are really trying to push these old now new dynamics of Eddie working and hanging out with Hen as well as Buck working and hanging out with Ravi. As a Buck and Eddie fan, I miss seeing them work together and be the best friends that they are supposed to be. Last season, the Showrunner and writers baited fans with the possibility of something romantic between Eddie and Buck and now they don't want to follow through which is why they seem to be separating them.
I always feel like there is a difference between fans and the general audience because the general audience is going to tune in to simply watch the show. While fans are the ones that are passionate and are invested in the show. Without the fans, you have a general audience that tune in but don't actually care about what's happening in the show. And it doesn't help that the show currently has one of most boring social media going at the moment. Maybe it's time to get a new social media manager because what they are currently doing is not sparking any fan energy. And right now, it feels like the fans have lost trust in the show and the writers and I hope the fans are just taking a temporary break from the show. Because right now I'm not seeing a lot of fandom energy for the show, especially since the show returns in January for the second half of the ninth season.
- I rewatched a few episodes of Charmed (1998) and there were some things I didn't like, first was when the Magic School was introduced in the sixth season of the original series. Side Note: I thought that was such a generic name for the school. And absolutely no creativity was used in naming it. I just felt like they were trying wedge in some Harry Potter element that didn't fit the series at all. It made no sense that somehow the Magic School existed all that time yet no one mentioned it to Prue, Piper and Phoebe Halliwell in the earlier seasons when they were still getting used to being witches and dealing with their powers. Magical schools may work for The Worst Witch, Harry Potter, etc. but not for Charmed. It felt like a lazy way to expand the Charmed universe. The first three seasons are still my favorite and the most rewatchable for me because it had the best writing and it had this grounded feel despite all the interesting supernatural elements.
Something else I didn't like was when the writers added in Billie Jenkins and her older sister Christy in the final season. They were two of the worst characters in an already bad season. And it still made no sense that the writers made them out to be more powerful than the Charmed Ones. The eighth season was just so bad with Piper, Phoebe and their sister Paige Matthews at first continuing with using different identities while continuing to let the supernatural world believe they were dead. And then you add in Billie, an annoying and naive witch who thinks she knows everything. Then Billie's sister Christy (who had been missing for years) was found and she turned out to be evil and easily manipulated Billie into believing the Charmed Ones were bad. Leading to this big series ending finale that could have ended much better than it did.
- I watched the third episode of Heated Rivalry and this show continues to be good. This third episode Hunter focused on hockey player New York Admirals Captain Scott Hunter and Smoothie Barista Christopher "Kip" Grady and it had that old school romantic dramedy feel. This episode had a slightly more mellow feel yet while still being just as emotional and intense as with Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov's so far undefined situation. I really liked it, it was a good episode but that ending was so sad and bittersweet. It's has to be resolved before the end of the season.
One of the funny moments from this episode that I enjoyed, was Shane and Ilya separately annoying Scott during his team's losing streak on away games. I was just like, why are they kicking this man when he was already down. I know professional sports are competitive but they really just annoyed him for no reason at the end of both their respective games. Their teams had already beat Scott's team they didn't have to get in that last little dig. And I guess Shane's comment was the last straw because Scott shot a very pointed response back at him. Which lead to that unexpected fight (argument) on the ice between them.
(Scott Hunter Heated Rivalry season 1 episode 3: Hunter)
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