Okay, it's that time of the year when I talk buddie screentime.
As a reminder, my numbers come from my scenepack cut, not the watchable one I've been making available (you can find those here). The rules for this one are if they are directly interacting for most of the scene, the scene stays in full, if not, I cut around the relevant parts. If they are just in frame at the same time, I cut around them to keep just the times where they are in frame. For 913 specifically, I cut the opening scene since Buck isn't there, the police and dispatch scenes that didn't include Eddie, and the Buck scenes that didn't mention Eddie. I kept all of Eddie's scenes since his plot revolved around finding Buck.
Season 9 is complicated. Not counting the crossover, it had the first episode in the ABC run to have under a minute (904 with 30s) and 3 episodes with over 10 minutes, when 12 episodes on the show go over that mark (of 122). And obviously, we have the first episode to go over 20 minutes. And the crossover, that broke all my records, just for 913 to break them all again the following week.
Counting 9a as 901-910, we have a total of 1h07m07s, and 9b as 911-918 + crossover, we have a total of 1h30m.
With 10 episodes, 9a has a 6m42s episode average.
Realistically, 913 fucks up my math. Crossover + 913 makes it insane. As in 9b's an hour and a half for 9 episodes gives us an insane 10 minutes per episode average lol. Removing both gives us a 4m55s average, which is the lowest from the ABC run, but still higher than the fox run average since that one is 4m23s. And the reduction is understandable when we consider both the crossover and 913 were basically about buddie. I mean, that combo is longer than all of s5. And longer than any half-season, besides 2a, 8a, 9a and b.
9a is the longest half-season ever if we don't count the crossover, detroning 8a, which had 1h01m36s. With the crossover, 9b is the longest.
Overall, s9 is the longest full season, with 2h10m38 seconds without the crossover. With the crossover, it has 2h37m08s. Dethroning s8 that had 1h51m26s. Before that, it was s3 with 1h24m38s.
S9 is also one of 2 seasons where they at least stand next to each other at some point in every episode of the season, the other being s4.
My conclusion in all this is that it feels disconnected since the pacing was weird and the airing schedule was all over the place, but we still got a lot of quality buddie.
Other posts I made on the screentime can be found here. I also have a breakdown of the screentime of all of Buck's love interests up until 811.
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