#tim nash

Yeah, I think we'll just have to learn to accept that this show will never address parental abuse or neglect the way it should be addressed.

I understand why they wanted Bobby to forgive his mom. It was mostly because she was dying of cancer. But even her dying of cancer doesn't take away that she knowingly abandoned her son in his alcoholic father's care.

And further more I didn't like the way she treated Charlie either. She obviously kept him around as some kind of aid for her scam business. Charlie didn't seem to have any agency of his own. He just followed his mother and did what she told him to do, even at the age that he is now. That is just not right.

Then there is the way they talked about Tim Nash. They presented him as someone who would be proud of Bobby, but they neglected to dig deeper and acknowledge that Tim caused Bobby heaps of trauma as well.

And now we are going back to the Diaz family in 8x12. Tim already kinda addressed the fact that Ramon isn't going to be the big problem here. Helena will be the problem. So yeah, ideally I would love for Eddie to give both of his parents a piece of his mind, talk to Chris and decide to go back to LA.

Since this is 911, this won't happen. There will be trouble with his mother, no doubt. But I'm pretty sure that they'll find some kind of scenario where Eddie and Helena will meet each other somewhere in the middle and they'll reconcile once again. Because that is the way 911 seems to operate.

Helena and Ramon will probably realise they were wrong at some point because of something Christopher says to them. Then they'll most likely help Eddie and Chris to go back to LA by helping them sell Eddie's house in Texas.

Do I like this idea? No. Is it likely to happen? Yes.

I've accepted it. This is just how they resolve these issues in the 911 universe.

Now, I won't stop hoping. I pray that they'll manage to surprise me with some genuine emotional clashes between Eddie and his parents and Eddie speaking his mind, telling them (not asking or pleading) that he is taking Chris and going back to LA. If his parents do show remorse at that, that is fine. I won't mind. But I want Eddie to not forgive them just like that and make them work for forgiveness. Even if it takes years.

The Diaz parents' actors are really good at their job, Ryan and Gavin are really good as well. It would be a treat to watch a scene like that unfold.

But I won't hold my breath.

There’s something that stands out to me about Bobby being so involved in Buck’s rehab process, especially after 7x08.

We know that Bobby started drinking as a child after his father’s death and then got addicted to pain medication after a back injury.

Do you think he ever looks at Buck and is worried that one day, he too will sustain an injury that will be too much? That he’ll follow his own father figure into an undesired pain management regiment the way Bobby did with his own father? Especially due to the severity of Buck’s injuries?

Do you think after the truck bombing, when he was helping Buck with rehab, he was also, knowingly or not (we know from throughout the series he isn’t always aware of how he treats Buck/treats him differently), keeping track of Buck’s meds, not wanting Buck to be in pain, of course, but wanting to be sure he’s not stepping over the line of no return the way he once did?

We have Doug and Kevin for Chimney

We have Shannon for Eddie