9-1-1 Season 3 Thoughts
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iaria+ I honestly love all the crazy big stunt disasters and ridiculous cases. They're fun. The tsunami wasn't realistic at all in how it was portrayed but I liked how things played out around it. The shark on the freeway was hilarious and I loved that they saved it. I liked the season opener with the runaway car.
+ The 911 Call Centre hostage taking was one of my favourite episodes. I loved the workers, individually and working together, finding ways to alert the outside world and then take down the hostage takers before the police got in. It was great. Also Athena taking Chimney and Buck 'prisoner' so they couldn't go off half-cocked made me laugh.
+ The scene where Athena was attacked by the real estate rapist on comms and we watched everyone's reactions as they listened to her fighting for her life was harrowing and a really great scene.
+ Bobby&Athena&Michael is definitely the relationship I'm most invested in. I just really love the three of them. The genuine deep love Athena and Michael have for each other, Michael and Bobby's genuine friendship and how hard they work to be supportive, and Athena/Bobby always being there for each other and being genuine partners. The respect and love on all three sides is just perfect.
+ In general I was more invested in the relationships this season. My other favourites: Athena&Hen, Hen&Chimney, Buck&Bobby, Chimney/Maddie, Maddie&Josh, and Maddie&Buck.
+ This season made me realise that I am not invested in Eddie at all. He's fine. I like his friendship with Buck. He's a great father to Christopher and I enjoy them. But other then that I'm just kind of eh, he's there, he's fine. His flashback really just brought that home because every other one made me feel for the character and/or more invested in them whereas his just left me - okay, shrug. If he died I'd be sad for the characters and then not really care moving forward. Alas.
+ Even in the last season I was very sympathetic towards Shannon. She did wrong in abandoning Christopher but I felt for her and the Eddie flashback episode only made that more so. Her desperately telling Eddie "I don't need a provider, I need a partner." and then him basically freezing her out was ouch. She was drowning. And then she 'took a break' to be there for her dying mother and then she didn't go back and kept not going back or getting in contacted and each day just felt harder.
+ It was so great to see Abby again! I was excited with her first appearance and wondered if they were going to bring her back but then the fiance reveal and I was disappointed. I'm glad she's happy and found a place for herself but also wow did she do Buck so wrong. While, like Shannon, I can understand how she got to the place she did with Buck, unlike Shannon, I find it a lot less excusable. She was super selfish in how she dealt with that situation. She did try gently breaking up when she first left I believe but yeah she should have cut that cord long ago. I am happy that Buck finally has some closure on Abby and can now move on.
+ The Michael cancer storyline was a bit nail biter because as a supporting character I can absolutely see them killing him and I am very against that! I enjoyed how the whole thing played out and especially that it ended with him having a clean bill of health and a hot doctor.
+ The Athena flashback hit the emotional mark (once again). Athena made me tear up.
+ I was sure that her fiance's killer had to be someone we knew and so found myself very suspicious of her mentor. I sincerely wondered if he'd killed Emmett because he couldn't stand the idea of Athena going the way all his previous mentee's had gone (married and stay-at-home mom) when she was already such a great cop with a promising future. Glad for her that's not what happened.
+ Emmett's killer presents such an interesting question about justice. Because he murdered a man, impacting all those who loved Emmett as well, causing decades of pain, and that is true and there should absolutely be consequences. But also he immediately turned his life around, got clean, had a family, and dedicated his life to helping others. It's inarguable that he is making a positive difference in the world and in the lives around him. It seems there is an almost nonexistent chance of re-offence. He isn't a danger. In fact things would be better if he were left to live his life. And yet Emmett deserves justice, deserves for there to be some consequence for his murder.
+ Bobby calling Athena first thing after Hen's accident and then Athena being there for Hen and both comforting her and (especially) prepping her to deal with the police and investigators was great.
+ I loved Chimney getting drunk with Karen and them confronting Hen. Very funny scene. I loved that Chimney, much like Karen, was offended that Hen would go to a restaurant they loved and not take them, lol.
+ I was really happy to see the return of the Lee parents. It was clear during Chimney's flashback that they were his family, and knowing they took him in at 15 after his mother's death just confirmed that they basically were his foster family, and so it made me sad that they apparently lost contact after Kevin's death. For all of them. Chimney realising it and reestablishing contact with them was lovely.
+ I love Bobby's figure skating background and that he wasn't ashamed of it at all.
+ Buck is super adorable with Christopher and I love how much he's embraced being his honorary uncle.
+ I totally get why people ship Buck/Eddie. I think the show gives the pairing a great base but sadly Eddie is so meh for me I just can't care.
+ I liked that this season had a lot more reoccurring characters.
+ The show knows that Fire Station teams have more then five members and it deals with that by having a bunch of background extras show up with Station 118 but it continues to throw me, and is frankly a little weird, that we've now gone three seasons and all those other Station 118 members continue to just be background extras. We don't even know names! You'd think at this point some of them would be reoccuring characters. I mean our mains absolutely know them and are probably friends with them. It's weird.
+ Buck is so impulsive and doesn't think things through but even for him deciding to sue his Fire Station as a way to get his job back made me facepalm. Dude, come on.
+ Maddie not really being around for the whole Buck sues to get back to the Fire Station was a weird choice.
+ I was thinking this season that we don't get enough of the crew saving animals and then Buck got to save a cat from a house fire so that was nice. I appreciate how much he committed to saving it. I need someone to rescue a cat from a tree thanks.
+ The 911 Call Centre hostage taking was one of my favourite episodes. I loved the workers, individually and working together, finding ways to alert the outside world and then take down the hostage takers before the police got in. It was great. Also Athena taking Chimney and Buck 'prisoner' so they couldn't go off half-cocked made me laugh.
+ The scene where Athena was attacked by the real estate rapist on comms and we watched everyone's reactions as they listened to her fighting for her life was harrowing and a really great scene.
+ Bobby&Athena&Michael is definitely the relationship I'm most invested in. I just really love the three of them. The genuine deep love Athena and Michael have for each other, Michael and Bobby's genuine friendship and how hard they work to be supportive, and Athena/Bobby always being there for each other and being genuine partners. The respect and love on all three sides is just perfect.
+ In general I was more invested in the relationships this season. My other favourites: Athena&Hen, Hen&Chimney, Buck&Bobby, Chimney/Maddie, Maddie&Josh, and Maddie&Buck.
+ This season made me realise that I am not invested in Eddie at all. He's fine. I like his friendship with Buck. He's a great father to Christopher and I enjoy them. But other then that I'm just kind of eh, he's there, he's fine. His flashback really just brought that home because every other one made me feel for the character and/or more invested in them whereas his just left me - okay, shrug. If he died I'd be sad for the characters and then not really care moving forward. Alas.
+ Even in the last season I was very sympathetic towards Shannon. She did wrong in abandoning Christopher but I felt for her and the Eddie flashback episode only made that more so. Her desperately telling Eddie "I don't need a provider, I need a partner." and then him basically freezing her out was ouch. She was drowning. And then she 'took a break' to be there for her dying mother and then she didn't go back and kept not going back or getting in contacted and each day just felt harder.
+ It was so great to see Abby again! I was excited with her first appearance and wondered if they were going to bring her back but then the fiance reveal and I was disappointed. I'm glad she's happy and found a place for herself but also wow did she do Buck so wrong. While, like Shannon, I can understand how she got to the place she did with Buck, unlike Shannon, I find it a lot less excusable. She was super selfish in how she dealt with that situation. She did try gently breaking up when she first left I believe but yeah she should have cut that cord long ago. I am happy that Buck finally has some closure on Abby and can now move on.
+ The Michael cancer storyline was a bit nail biter because as a supporting character I can absolutely see them killing him and I am very against that! I enjoyed how the whole thing played out and especially that it ended with him having a clean bill of health and a hot doctor.
+ The Athena flashback hit the emotional mark (once again). Athena made me tear up.
+ I was sure that her fiance's killer had to be someone we knew and so found myself very suspicious of her mentor. I sincerely wondered if he'd killed Emmett because he couldn't stand the idea of Athena going the way all his previous mentee's had gone (married and stay-at-home mom) when she was already such a great cop with a promising future. Glad for her that's not what happened.
+ Emmett's killer presents such an interesting question about justice. Because he murdered a man, impacting all those who loved Emmett as well, causing decades of pain, and that is true and there should absolutely be consequences. But also he immediately turned his life around, got clean, had a family, and dedicated his life to helping others. It's inarguable that he is making a positive difference in the world and in the lives around him. It seems there is an almost nonexistent chance of re-offence. He isn't a danger. In fact things would be better if he were left to live his life. And yet Emmett deserves justice, deserves for there to be some consequence for his murder.
+ Bobby calling Athena first thing after Hen's accident and then Athena being there for Hen and both comforting her and (especially) prepping her to deal with the police and investigators was great.
+ I loved Chimney getting drunk with Karen and them confronting Hen. Very funny scene. I loved that Chimney, much like Karen, was offended that Hen would go to a restaurant they loved and not take them, lol.
+ I was really happy to see the return of the Lee parents. It was clear during Chimney's flashback that they were his family, and knowing they took him in at 15 after his mother's death just confirmed that they basically were his foster family, and so it made me sad that they apparently lost contact after Kevin's death. For all of them. Chimney realising it and reestablishing contact with them was lovely.
+ I love Bobby's figure skating background and that he wasn't ashamed of it at all.
+ Buck is super adorable with Christopher and I love how much he's embraced being his honorary uncle.
+ I totally get why people ship Buck/Eddie. I think the show gives the pairing a great base but sadly Eddie is so meh for me I just can't care.
+ I liked that this season had a lot more reoccurring characters.
+ The show knows that Fire Station teams have more then five members and it deals with that by having a bunch of background extras show up with Station 118 but it continues to throw me, and is frankly a little weird, that we've now gone three seasons and all those other Station 118 members continue to just be background extras. We don't even know names! You'd think at this point some of them would be reoccuring characters. I mean our mains absolutely know them and are probably friends with them. It's weird.
+ Buck is so impulsive and doesn't think things through but even for him deciding to sue his Fire Station as a way to get his job back made me facepalm. Dude, come on.
+ Maddie not really being around for the whole Buck sues to get back to the Fire Station was a weird choice.
+ I was thinking this season that we don't get enough of the crew saving animals and then Buck got to save a cat from a house fire so that was nice. I appreciate how much he committed to saving it. I need someone to rescue a cat from a tree thanks.
