They beefed Bobby’s funeral so badly back in May that in October they’re going to try to fix it by doing this big memorial as the opener and do a Bobby montage and do stories and grief and it’s like. Why didn’t you do this his actual funeral. Why did you waste precious time on a dead baby. When you could have done this instead. They beefed it so badly that over five months later they’re going to try to fix it and it’s not going to work. Me and Susan from Kenosha both have Hammers and Axes and are Getting Tim Minear’s Ass over this.

Oh my fucking god they’re only doing this because they realized burying him in Minnesota means they have no place for any of them to go grieve at and now they have a plaque for Buck to go stare at sadly sometimes and think of What Would Bobby Do. Chimney is going to sadly hold the captain badge and mournfully glare at the plaque and damn Bobby for leaving this all to him. WELL MAYBE HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN ALIVE IN THE COFFIN!!!!!!!

as optimistic as I remain about other aspects of the show. well there is something genuinely and surreally comical about how Tim Minear bragged that killing off Bobby was all his idea and absolutely everyone fought him on it but he knew better, proceeded to get the worst critical and fan reception of his life after going through with it, and then completely disappeared for almost 3 months after a bizarre funeral episode he co-wrote where almost nobody who loved Bobby talked about him or with each other and there was a distracting side plot about how you shouldn’t believe in miracles and every other season storyline got derailed and hastily wrapped up and all the characters got pushed forward in time and towards the moving on stage before the audience was even able to really properly process anything and the cast got cornered having to answer all the questions about it and be diplomatic. and now he’s back saying well we want to honor Bobby’s sacrifice and pay homage to the character’s legacy. Awesome dude do you know when would have been an ideal time to do that

sure ok. why did eddie even go to texas then? why set up that he’s gonna choose to stay with the 118 (not even like. a buddie thing specifically) for himself because thats where he belongs and then instead he’s forced to stay by CHIMNEY??? why did bobby die?? why did athena sell their house? why did eddie go to texas?? why was eddie going to texas buck’s entire storyline for the season? why chekovs el paso fire employee who abandoned them for a wife in another state? why did eddie tell buck he wasn’t going to make him move out if he came back and then he moved out?? why did bobby die in the middle of a season of rat disease?? why the silly and flippant tone after bobby died? why the 4 minute funeral? why the theme of people returning? why the grahambobby parallel except he lives??? why did athena take bobby’s body to minnesota? how is maddie already giving birth?? how long was eddie in texas? why didn’t chris ever express any desire to move back to LA ?? why did hen do literally nothing all season?? why did bobby die? why did eddie go to texas?

s9 opener buddie carpooling to work and chim negs them for buck still living on eddies couch. buck rubs his neck like haha yeah nothing seems quite right...cue a 8.12 style montage of eddie finding problems in every apartment buck tours

I think it's abundantly clear that the pacing of 8B got fucked up around the time they got confirmation of renewal, so I'm stuck wondering if Tim Minear once again decided to just rip up everything he'd planned and do something completely different