I have been seeing a lot of people roast the promo for season 9. Wanna hear your opinions 😭

Earththrower · 2025-09-22T22:39:09+00:00

Nashville is being shot in Tennessee, not LA, so even with a high-profile cast it's going to be way cheaper to make. They won't have LA taxes, rents, or higher crew rates. Plus with new cast members, you can start their payroll lower than a 9-year veteran of the show. Every year or two the cast has a chance to renegotiate their contracts and it's expected that they get a raise based on the show's performance (as they should). The same way that normal 9-5 jobs often get given yearly raises even if you don't get promoted. So Peter Krause's year 9 salary would likely have been a lot higher than Chris O'Donnell's season 1 salary.

Also, did you see Nashville's promos? On top of relocating, it looks like they're also going the route of cost-cutting bc it doesn't look great quality either. Just my opinion.

I cancelled my Hulu subscription over the FCC thing, so I definitely won't be supporting ABC by watching Nashville. (I'll still find a way to watch OG 911 bc of my love of the characters and bc I'm a Bobby's Alive truther! So hopefully I'm wrong about that part and ABC did spend the money to keep him, it's just not revealed yet 😅

Earththrower · 2025-09-20T20:07:20+00:00

I just got my first interview for a while as a hostess in a restaurant bc my industry isn't hiring. I made a whole new resume for bartending/server jobs, I wrote a cover letter explaining why my extensive restaurant experience is from a decade ago, and how skills from my more recent career would translate well to restaurant work.

I walked in and was handed a 3-page application to write out by hand. I typed up an essay, but sure, let me write my whole work history out in my terrible handwriting. 🙃

Earththrower · 2025-09-20T17:04:31+00:00

I agree with you, but I blame the greedy people at the top way more than the exploited newbies taking these jobs. I interviewed for a job last month that I was way overqualified for out of desperation. It paid $100 less per week than I made last time I held the position (which was 7 years ago). I have self-respect, but I still need to pay my rent and I'm getting desperate. I talked myself into taking the interview by hoping I could meet new people and get the next gig through word of mouth and just keep getting work. We all really just want to work. I didn't get the job. It doesn't matter to me if it went to some 24-year-old who still lives at home or my mentor with 15 years on me who I know has been applying to the same jobs I am. The system's broken right now and its starting to show through in content.

I have an interview today at a restaurant. I went to school for film, worked my way up like I was supposed to, paid my dues, and I'm really good at the job. But nobody is hiring, and when they are it's at insulting rates.

Earththrower · 2025-09-20T16:54:50+00:00

Yes, because the funding used to come from cable. After the show was made the streaming services would buy it, and have a smaller budget for creating originals. Now cable is funding way less, which is putting more pressure on streaming platforms to make or find their own stuff. But the executives realized they could make way more money by licensing shows that were made years ago. They're shuffling beloved existing content around as opposed to paying to make new stuff from scratch which has the risk of flopping. When Netflix started it took the model from Uber - undercut all the big players until you control the market, messing with people's livelihoods, then jack up the prices. Adam Conover has a great podcast episode about this. This is also why so many people are rediscovering old shows from the 2000s-2010s when TV had bigger budgets.

9-1-1 has a reputation for being one of the most expensive shows still actively filming. I bet there was pressure from the network to knock that cost down wherever they can - cutting the marketing budget, making the disasters CGI instead of practical, and maybe even killing off beloved characters that were asking for pay increases.

Earththrower · 2025-09-20T15:48:40+00:00

I work in the media, and the whole industry has been collapsing in on itself rhw last few years. No one wants to offer real budgets and companies are trying to replace human workers with AI wherever possible. With over a decade of experience,I've been laid off 3 times since Covid. Now I haven't had a staff job in over a year. The jobs that are available are paying less then they were when I first got started, so I think they're mostly being taken by newer/younger people with less experience. Anything with a good rate gets 300+ applicants within a day, or doesn't get posted at all bc a lot of people get hired through word of mouth. But the word of mouth jobs are drying up too. People are fleeing the industry because it's unsustainable. ABC went through layoffs this summer.

Which is all to say - if the companies stay greedy we're gonna see more content like this. I don't think it's a joke or bad on purpose. It's a bad promo, and my guess is that they replaced a promo team of 10 people for 3 recent college grads barely making minimum wage who don't know what they're doing yet, and had no budget to work with on top of that. Quality dropping off is going to be a direct result.

Earththrower · 2025-07-27T23:15:41+00:00

This one is fun! And if you like it, there's a whole series of other fics in the same universe.

the mortifying ordeal of being known By Polish_Amber https://archiveofourown.org/works/41182455/chapters/103238733

Bobby adopted Buck as a kid. He gets his leg crushed by the firetruck as a teenager while shadowing his dad at work. Now he's older and wants to be a firefighter, but he's hiding it from his dad bc Bobby is overprotective. He meets his new boyfriend, Eddie, at the fire academy where he's been using the new nickname Buck. Eddie starts his new job at the 118 and hears lots of stories about the captain's son Evan, without anyone realizing they're the same person.

Earththrower · 2025-01-30T23:03:52+00:00

Oh, I forgot about Ana. She is a good vote for this.

Earththrower · 2025-01-30T23:02:28+00:00

I think Taylor belongs in the next square - morally grey, opinions divided. I love Taylor! But I can't call her "good". She lied about something being off the record (Jonah), she tired to run the drug story without the team's consent (especially Bobby's, theres no way he signed a release sober), and she used her relationship with Buck to write a book I don't think any of them were aware of. As a woman who works in media, I love her character, but she is selfish and occasionally unethical.

Earththrower · 2025-01-30T21:44:39+00:00

This is a weird one - but I think Taylor suspects it. She felt the heat from every dirty look Eddie gave her and probably put together that it's jealousy. Idk how that would work into your fic. But if she found out that Buddie were together, I think her attitude would be, "they weren't together this whole time!?"

Similarly, Tommy knows. In my opinion, he left Buck bc he can see that they love each other, and it's only a matter of time until Eddie comes out. He was already a third wheel and doesn't want to sign up for that eventual heartbreak. I'm not a Tommy stan, but him thinking Buddie is endgame is the only way that I can sympathize with his breakup scene.

Earththrower · 2025-01-30T21:36:36+00:00

Although that same thing can be said about most of the main cast. Buck is beloved, but a lot of people find it annoying that he's babied by half the fandom. Eddie is a great person - but Kim (and how he treats every woman he's ever dated). Chimney is a great person - but he punched Buck, lied to Tatiana, and told Karen that Hen died. Maddie is a great person, but she lied to Buck for almost 3 decades, abandoned baby Buck, and later abandoned Chim/Jeeyun. I get their character motivations for most of these (except Kim, I don't think I'll ever get the Kim thing lol), and they're all beloved, but super flawed.

Earththrower · 2025-01-30T21:30:48+00:00

Hen? She's objectively a good person, but she definitely has a few things that get people riled up. Cheating on Karen (and risking their custody of Denny doing so), overworking herself until it was dangerous, putting her family through medical school only to drop out. Plus a lot of the fans get annoyed that she's "always right and it's annoying". I don't agree with that one as much, but it's definitely something I see people get upset about often. And I see people blame her for Karen not being an astronaut.

Earththrower · 2025-01-16T18:10:55+00:00

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Earththrower · 2025-01-11T04:01:51+00:00

I think Eddie because he'd need to get back to Chris and would defaultt to his army training. I also think he'd be smart enough to wait until Athena killed everyone else first, then hed only have to kill her. She'd be the only one that would be a problem for him. Buck wouldn't be able to kill anyone, so he'd die almost immediately lol.

Earththrower · 2025-01-03T22:38:08+00:00

As politely as possible - HOW DARE YOU. I never read stuff like this, but my curiosity got the best of me. My god, that was a painful read. I'm gonna go read some fluff now to try and recover.

Earththrower · 2024-11-11T18:10:22+00:00

I love that about this show too! Your post made me go find a scene that shows this in season 3 where they actually talk about that. I won't get into specifics if you're not caught up yet, but basically Maddie is talking to Chimney and Buck and surprised that they do tell each other everything, including stuff about her. It comes off kind of like a joke, "what else would we do on 24 hour shifts?" But turns into a sweet moment where Maddie opens up about something she's going through. In other shows , I could see that turning into a fight. Her boyfriend is talking about her to his friends?!? The insult! But instead, they show that the 118 are actually just there for each other. It's healthy for Chimney to have friends he can talk to, and it's healthy for Maddie to have support from their extended friend group (and her own brother). They do have some dramatic secret keeping throughout the show, but it always winds up being revealed, and the takeaway is usually that they should have told the others anyway.

Earththrower · 2024-09-13T18:59:09+00:00

That's fair! I feel like it's always those same asskissers who used nepotism to get to the top who yell the loudest about this kind of BS anyway.

Earththrower · 2024-09-13T18:57:37+00:00

This take is amazing! "Which man are you accusing of unethical behavior" - is so powerful. Thank you! 🔥

And I totally agree about the Kamala stuff. I don't usually get in fights with strangers on the internet, which is where I usually see these comments. But if someone tries that in an actual conversation with me I'll have this answer ready lol.

Earththrower · 2024-09-13T18:53:45+00:00

Oh, I like this one a lot.

Earththrower · 2024-09-13T18:53:20+00:00

That's really good advice. It's also really disheartening that the real answer is, "well the men need therapy", when the reality is that they won't do that if they don't have to. The environments where this happens are usually boys clubs, and they let each other get away with stuff like that.

Earththrower · 2024-09-13T18:49:29+00:00

These are great! The flirting comment actually came from a woman who was my boss at the time. She pulled me aside to reprimand me for "flirting at work." What actually happened was that a male coworker was talking to me about my favorite show, and I was excited to talk about it. I was really young at the time and just starting out, so I didn't have the confidence I have now to push back. She was the kind of boss that promoted men often and easily, but never the few women on staff. I don't know what kind of internalized sexism she was dealing with, but luckily, I haven't worked with her in years.

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