the trajectory of “buddie housemates sharing a bed” speculation summer to “WHAT IF THERE WAS ONLY ONE BED IN THE REMOTE DESERT MOTEL?” speculation winter is truly a testament to the infallible and resilient hope that mankind is capable of

i actually do need someone to tell eddie to his face about his top tier DILF status. but not buck. in front of buck.

you know eddie texted maddie from backstage completely dramatic like “I NEED YOUR HELP” and she was like. oh finally. it’s time. he figured it out. he wants to buy my brother. or wants my brother to buy him. and then instead eddie explained his harebrained scheme to buy himself by proxy and maddie wearily started contemplating that open bar

every so often i'll see people being like "how can people still alobby?" and i'm just like. um??? take your pick: (a) because it's still fun (b) because bobby's death is still an open, ongoing story line (c) it was heavily foreshadowed and sometimes story lines are allowed to take multiple seasons to develop and execute (d) the idea of being wrong about a tv show theory gives me absolutely zero heartburn whatsoever so i'm happy to ride this train until it no longer entertains me (e) i don't give much credence to interviews or gossip bc them bitches are LIARS (f) god can you imagine how delicious the angst will be if the whole team goes through a year of mourning and rebuilding their lives just to realize it was all based on a lie? i love drama that shit is JUICY and i WANT IT (g) i enjoy being contrary for fun

the other thing about 9.11 being so much about buck reflecting on his own growth and change and the 9.12 buck+phillip interaction harkening back to “buck begins” conversations about daniel is that was when margaret made that statement about how buck was born to save someone and that’s what he spends his life doing… like actually maybe i DO want to see buck kill someone either in self-defense or, even better, to protect eddie. for you know. the themes.

i woke up at 2am possessed by the idea we might get to see eddie hotwire a car this week (after carefully buckling a wounded buck into the passenger seat and then there’s a car chase except eddie is prepared this time)

what i really want to come from the chain of command thing is for christopher to circumvent calling his dad for something and calling buck instead, thereby “bypassing” the correct chain and extending the metaphor, and then buck and chris have a really loaded conversation about how chris has to tell his dad the truth even if he’s afraid of eddie’s reaction, and then afterwards eddie thanks buck for how he handled it in a way that is intensely evocative of their post-tsunami conversation and reaffirms the weird pseudo-family dynamic at play. bonus if we also get someone mistaking buck for one of chris’s dads in front of eddie’s salad in the same episode.