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kinda upsetting bc eventually tim will have to bite the bullet and progress with buck’s love life, so all this baiting will just backfire when eddie ends up with a new girlfriend too.

glad to see lou doing well on such a huge show like the pitt, but part of me is really disappointed with how tommy’s story was handled (if that’s really it).

I've already closed, tbh. I know it's taboo to say it nowadays after an episode, and I definitely don't wanna shit on anyone's hopes, but that's just how I feel. I think if they wanted to do something with it, they would've already, or at least they would've left solid crumbs to indicate that that's where they're going. But Tim's priorities were made very clear this season, so I'm not gonna bother expecting anything. And yeah, the unfollow pretty much sealed the deal for me.

Putting the rest under a Read More cause I got ranty:

You know it's bad when they start ripping off themselves lmao.

There was an interview last year where Oliver wanted to explore the donor baby storyline again. Since he’s the male lead now he gets a say in what his storylines are. He got lbf and now he getting donor baby storyline. Seems like that unfollow really meant something. I was hopeful but doesn’t seem like Tommy will be back. Looks like Oliver doesn’t want to continue the relationship with Tommy. They really going to fumble this if true. Like the worst case scenario, this is what Tim mention he was going to introduce in last episodes and continue to explore in s10 and the baby and Kameron is going to be Buck’s storyline if Connor is gone from the picture. I’m just so tired of being constantly disappointed. Guess I’m moving on once s9 is over.

https://thenerdsofcolor.org/2025/05/19/reflecting-on-9-1-1-with-star-oliver-stark-on-the-disney-upfront-red-carpet/

Is there a past storyline from older seasons that you would like to see further explored in the future, if you could bring it back and go deeper with your character?

This is probably an unpopular answer, maybe it would be cool to check in on the sperm donor baby, see if there’s anything to explore there in terms of, oh, do I feel a connection to that child? Which I don’t think he would necessarily, but I don’t write the show. So maybe there is, maybe there’s something there, I don’t know.

At this point I just expect the worst with this show, but this would truly be an incredibly stupid decision if they suddenly want Buck to be on this kid's life full time. It would be such a mudled message on so many issues:

Unconventional methods of reproduction/IVF can't lead to happy families. Only blood and DNA matters.

Buck gets out of his first queer relationship but now since he's the male lead of the show, he can't date men and is automatically thrust upon a traditional heterosexual family structure.

A kid/family is a reward for overcoming addiction.

if oliver isn’t keen for buck to be in a relationship, giving him a child to raise alone would be the perfect way for them to just stall completely on buck’s love life & shift his focus to “oh i need to care and put all my efforts towards this kid”.

i just get this impression bc oliver kinda implied it with his interviews at the beginning of s9. like i know he changed his tune slightly after the bachelor auction, but i do think tim took into account his idea of wanting buck to “be free” & that’s why his plots towards the end of the season aren’t romance-centred. i think some of it is just oliver knowing whatever relationship buck is in won’t be accepted by the majority of his fans & not wanting to upset them, but i do wish he spoke out against how his love interests have been treated.

my issue is that it’s such an integral part of buck’s character to be in a happy relationship & to “make it”. forcing a child onto him just adds to this repeated theme of buck having 0 agency & not being allowed to make his own decisions. with how awkwardly BT was left with seemingly no follow up (no payoff after tommy seeing buck mourn alone in 8x15 or the mentions in 9x07?), i just have 0 expectations with buck’s love life & they’ll probably just do a natalia 2.0 when they get confirmed for cancellation.

Yup, that's my opinion as well. A combination of Oliver not liking Buck's relationship storylines overshadowing his character + Tim's inability of writing a compelling longterm LI and commiting to it before getting bored. He hit gold with Tommy, which was almost all by coincidence, and then threw it away. He's gonna keep using the excuse of not wanting to pair up his characters with random people and that he prefers couples with estabilished characters, and now with the baby, it's the perfect excuse to not have to bother with writing a new LI, at least for the time being.

Even if it's a temporary situation, this will clearly be Buck's main storyline in S10. They're gonna morph him into Dad Buck™ and that will be his schtick now. Let's see if they can mine this storyline for more than one season, knowing Tim lol

he’s doing anything he can think of to delay buck’s love life just so he can keep baiting those fans. and i wouldn’t be surprised if oliver knew buck wasn’t going to be in a long term relationship, and that’s why he was down for all the conventions.

if we never see tommy again, the way his story was handled will never sit right with me. you make it repeatedly known he’s searching for a family, connect his life even closer to buck’s by making him the tommy abby talks about in s1 (& we never get to hear his pov behind his near-marriage with abby), have him show up no-questions-asked for the 118 only whenever they need a pilot, and then… leave his story as one big question mark? how did gerrard end up with a better ending 😭??

I just saw that 💀 And the fact that it's only Kameron's actress and not Connor's...

I'm now deeply posessed by a dreadful fear that Tim might actually be crazy enough to have killed Connor offscreen or divorced them and set up Buck and Kameron actually getting together and raising that child 💀

I am praying to every force in the universe that this doesn't happen and the rumour that ends up being true is that the kid has leukemia and Buck helps treat them.

Personally, I don't think the "unfollowed him to avoid being harassed" is a thing, especially after two years. Maybe after everything that's happened these past few months, he's not interested, or somehow he knows they wouldn't bribg Tommy back.

So, since then, I'm just meh, to be honest.

Yeah, this argument never made sense to me. He stayed following OS for two years without getting followed back, and almost a whole year after he was last seen on the show. Why would he care about "protecting his peace" now?

Can we maybe just enjoy being in the fandom?? There are some bucktommy fans who still think Tommy will come back and that's ok