#buckera

Heyyyyyyy!!!!!! Really choosing violence here:

8. common fandom opinion that everyone is wrong about

This could go anywhere but a hill that I will definitely die on is that we like the main cast of characters so much only because they are the protagonists of the story.

And what I mean by this is that by being the protagonists of the story we afford them some slack we wouldn’t if the story was from anyone else’s perspective. And this influences the way we treat basically every other character that is not part of the firefam.

Take Shannon, for example. Most people hate her because she left Chris, wanted to leave right after Eddie came back from the war, yadda yadda yadda. But let’s face it, if the story had been about the teenage mom whose coparent thinks the only way he can provide is by fucking off to the other side of the world, leaving her alone with his family - who makes it quiiiiiiite clear they hate her - raising a toddler with special needs, and gets only denied over and over when she asks to be with her mom while she’s dying….. well, Eddie wouldn’t be as liked as he is.

Also, Shannon does not abandon Chris. She leaves him with his dad and his grandparents. She leaves him in a completely safe environment. So.

(And don’t get me wrong, I love Eddie Diaz with every single fibre of my being. But we only see his side if we think Shannon was 100% wrong in leaving when she did).