#analysis ones

I am obsessed with how Buck, a character established to have been almost lost, looking for a home and a loving family and feeling like he was talking up too much space in his own childhood home, is shown to be so comfortable at Eddie's, and that Eddie, someone who does not trust people easily, especially with Chris, has clearly put the work in to make sure that Buck has no doubts about his place in their home.

The audience are shown Buck's past, his complete lack of value for his own life and where this stems from, and how this influences his current decisions.

And the audience is deliberately made more deeply frustrated by other characters failing to pick up on this (e.g. Bobby in 4x14, only talking about Buck's recklessness and not the reason behind it when it's RIGHT THERE, basically staring him in the face, that Buck simply doesn't care about his own life enough.)

The audience has been waiting essentially the whole season for someone to notice this and call Buck out on it, and it's so satisfyingly built up to the Will scene in 4x14 with Eddie.

The audience has to wait for someone to say what Buck needs to hear, because that person HAD to be Eddie. The writers saved that and built it up to that moment, so that the scene was so fucking weighted.