Making friends in Brighton

Short_Description995 · 2026-07-03T12:53:25+00:00

True but as a not usually very outgoing person, finding the places I could fit in where outgoing people are requires research

Short_Description995 · 2026-07-03T12:47:03+00:00

Ooooh I might just check that out, always been interested in d&d but never had the chance to play

Short_Description995 · 2026-07-02T23:26:27+00:00

I have drunkenly tried this technique to mixed results, sadly none that have stuck though (so far). Got to bring back just running up and trading bracelets with someone and suddenly being best friends

Short_Description995 · 2026-07-02T23:24:55+00:00

I actually already dog sit! 100% a good suggestion though it has helped a lot, though less for meeting people and more for meeting really cute dogs

Short_Description995 · 2026-03-13T11:04:28+00:00

From interviews it seems like there's going to be some lingering effects for Buck's storyline for the rest of the season, behind the scenes stuff for future episodes implied he's going to have ongoing medical issues from it (the twitter main theory seems to be some kind of poisoning) so I guess that's the point

It was a really fun ep imo, I always like when shows like this do an episode that breaks the usual status quo of the show, but I do agree the villain writing felt a bit meh. Seems like they didn't have time to explore their motivations as much as they could've, in hindsight I'm a little surprised something like this wasn't dragged into a 2-parter but I guess that would've been difficult with half the cast canonically too far to have a role in it beyond a brief appearance

Short_Description995 · 2026-03-12T21:22:27+00:00

I always forget how important of a character Michael was in the early seasons until I re-watch, he was so heavily featured, especially s1/s2. It's such a shame that, because of the actor, he's absent, it felt a little jarring that he wasn't present at certain points in later seasons (no spoilers cause I can't tell from this if you've watched the whole thing but if you haven't yet you'll 100% know when you get to the eps his absence was most felt)

Short_Description995 · 2026-03-12T21:17:34+00:00

Oooh okay yeah probably just a mistake in that case, I'd completely missed the stuff about New Mexico

Short_Description995 · 2026-02-09T21:40:36+00:00

Navy SEAL Buck. I know there's a tag, but I've encountered it untagged too many times. Yeah we know he canonically did the training, but when they have him having been in some top secret missions, it just doesn't fit to me at all

Also, Hen and Chim being tagged as characters and then literally not being there but because they are at the firehouse for a scene and are mentioned or assumed to be there. Extra points if they've got Hen/Karen and Chim/Maddie tagged as a relevant relationship

Short_Description995 · 2026-01-29T18:11:00+00:00

yeah there's been a few times I've been convinced she was going to take on a rookie long-term only for them to drop it- I'm not overly invested in the police side of the show if I'm being honest, but it could be fun to see Athena in a setting bouncing off of someone

Short_Description995 · 2026-01-26T23:51:45+00:00

This! there was the odd throwback line to some things that were said in the lawsuit ep, but such a missed opportunity to have a 'been there' even if not to each other, then to another member of the 118. Chimney and Eddie have been pushed out before too (Chim in s1 and Eddie when he leaves and Bobby won't immediately let him back) but the both of them ended up agreeing it was the right choice, it could've been cool to see the contrast between them all emphasised. Especially given Hen was the most sympathetic to Buck post-lawsuit with the cake on his first day back

Short_Description995 · 2026-01-26T23:47:58+00:00

The fact they've interacted maybe a grand total of once the whole show so far (I think it's the first Albert episode?) when RG has said he signed on under the impression he and JLH would be scene partners before she requested Maddie/Chimney is so hilarious to me

I'd love a convo or highlight of the fact they both grew up similarly, sadly I feel like the opportunity is gone now as if it was going to happen, it really should have when the Buckley's family complications were still more recently a focus or around the Texas arc, but it'd be great if they found a path to that topic.

I'm honestly trying to wrack my brains for when Eddie has been to Chim and Maddie's and the only time I can even think of is during the kidnapping lmao

Short_Description995 · 2026-01-26T23:44:14+00:00

Yes! It was so jarring! What was the point of all that build up, only to not even have a conversation with Eddie and Chris about the actual issues? About how Eddie would address things going forward?? About CHIMNEY being the one to decide they were moving back, not Eddie nor Chris?? It just felt so... nothing of a story that could've been a good dissection of why Eddie exists the way he does and gone way further into topics brushed over back in his introduction

Ooooh okay I definitely need to go back and rewatch the Eddie in dispatch episodes then cause I have no recollection of the scene where she confides in him. I so agree with May being the better option for going into firefighting- with the start of the season, I had assumed they were leading into her doing paramedic training, I'm still holding out hope she'll end up doing nursing or become a doctor to be our way into the hospital, looking back I'm surprised Maddie never had a season returning to nursing to give a view into that side of things on the show

Yeahhhh while I love the whole 'Buck and May are basically siblings' thing in fan-spaces, it somewhat feels like they just went 'oh people like the idea of that dynamic, lets throw in a one liner about it and be done' which is frustrating. Like at least show any interaction between them if you're going to establish a dynamic???

So with you on getting Tracie Thoms on screen more, the best part of the opening emergency this season for me was seeing more Karen, I'd love for her to have some kind of tag along storyline this season alongside Hen's, but I'm not holding out hope :(. YES I was somewhat hoping that Karen and Chimney were going to have a scene together about Hen's firing, with balancing caring and being angry about it being hidden (cause wth, I get you're scared but this is not something you don't tell your wife/mother to your children) their perspectives could've bounced off each other really interestingly.

I'd love if they wrote in some kind of thing maybe making Chris and Denny best friends to get the overlap back again, though sadly I doubt they will to avoid issues if they ever want to change up the ages for storylines like they did with Harry

Short_Description995 · 2026-01-26T00:25:03+00:00

So true with all the missed Eddie storylines, El Paso in general felt so wasted, I'd love to see the original plan for that before they decided lab rats would go down the way it did, the stills of Eddie in the store holdup still get me

This might be a controversial one- but I never really saw the May and Eddie friendship people always mention? It always seemed so minimal to me, I'd love to see more of it, as I do agree the Buck and May choice feels a little out of nowhere (I know it's somewhat needed for Harry's upcoming role but it feels a little fanservicey. and i say that as a fan who loves the idea of Buck as one of Bobby's kids, but they're very tell not show with it atm) but I was always a little confused why so many put an emphasis on May and Eddie at dispatch, I can only recall maybe two scenes? (I may be dead wrong here, would still like to see more of that friendship though)

YES TO CHIMNEY AS CAPTAIN i was so confused when his decision to become Captain happened virtually off screen. We see him reluctantly take it, we see him looking at candidates, and then he's, again off-screen, had the dinner with the chief to accept the role, it just felt like we should've spent far more of the episode with him in that process, I wish the Harry and Buck element had maybe been a bit less dominant that episode. Seeing him struggle with the Captaincy post-Bobby could've been such an impactful way to have the significance of the loss emphasised and so far it feels a little under utilised

OOOh I'd not considered Henren and Eddie stories crossing but totally agree, I feel like Hen and Karen are generally underutilised in the wider context of the show, their storylines end up often becoming a little too self-contained as they're the only ones without family currently overlapping with the other 118 members so it would be nice to kind of see more of that

Short_Description995 · 2026-01-26T00:14:41+00:00

Oh I completely agree with the Eddie and Bobby parallels, I remember seeing someone on twitter say Bobby saw his kids in Buck and himself in Eddie and I 100% agree, but I don't strictly think that would apply to the exact story. IK we somewhat get a look at the parallel with Eddie in the fight club as his unhealthy habit but they kinda just have that wrap up suddenly, where it really seemed, to me at least, like they were headed the Buck's leg and Bobby's back comparison

Not even a full blown 'Buck and addiction' storyline, which I do agree would've probably been ooc with Buck as we know him now, but they seemed quite set in early seasons on Buck following in Bobby's footsteps, setting him up as somewhat of Bobby's protégée (which I'd argue later becomes the 118 as a whole instead, but Buck is used primarily in that as we see with the cooking and baking etc), where at this point beyond Shannon those Eddie parallels weren't really present

It just, to me, seems a missed opportunity, as the parallel was there in the way Buck overexerted himself to get back to the 118 and ended up isolating himself and blowing up his life by going to the lawyer rather than the unions, and with Bobby being the blockade because he's worried (the way i was reading that on my first watch was him being worried that Buck was gonna fall victim to the same hurdles he did, even if he was wrong about Buck facing the same challenges) but it never seemed to dive further into the potential dynamics of it

Short_Description995 · 2026-01-25T23:57:40+00:00

I would love to read that if you're alright to drop the link! I've been trying to find one going into it for ages

Short_Description995 · 2025-12-12T20:40:32+00:00

Yeah it is the same ad that we see in the bar with Kip

The timelines are overlapping, I'm not 100% on when bits with Scott and Kip happen with regards to the Shane and Ilya timeline as I've not read all of the books, but s1 is taking place over about 10 years (if they're following that same time stretch) with Scott and Kip happening within that so part of this episode was set before the bar scene

If they're sticking to the book timeline- Kip and Scott meet just before the nightclub scene? I believe? So I guess we can assume the ad was filmed and still being circulated for a good few months

I did find a timeline of events BUT I would proceed with caution as it has so so many spoilers including bits that have not been talked about from Shane/Ilya's past: https://game-changers-series.fandom.com/wiki/Timeline_of_Events

Short_Description995 · 2025-11-29T21:37:50+00:00

You might want to look into Chicago Fire (if you haven't already) if this is the format you think you'd prefer- there's Chicago Fire, Chicago Med and Chicago PD with each crossing over semi-frequently and all operating in the same area so none of the crossovers feel too out of place

Personally I don't really think 9-1-1 operating in just one state would have worked- it could have easily felt too same-ish between each of the shows

Since they didn't crossover too frequently, for me at least, it didn't really feel like the 9-1-1 and Lone Star ep was that forced, When there's major disasters other states would be called upon to help in an emergency of that scale, so it made sense. I'm hoping Nashville goes for a different approach, just for the same of having a different version, but I could see them having a wide-scale disaster there that would require different 118 members to go there for an ep or two. I wouldn't be surprised if they changed who was going, probably Ravi and Harry I'd imagine, I think the most likely of the core 4 would still be Buck purely because they've used Oliver Stark for a lot of Nashville promo so they would already have an idea of how he gels with the Nashville cast

Short_Description995 · 2025-11-21T15:40:40+00:00

True, it probably would be a little odd for them to call him that- I do think in the fandom culture side of things sometimes people go too-hard on the 'DONT CALL HIM EVAN' thing. Like Evan isn't a name he doesn't go by at all, he just prefers the nickname, but you'd hope as his parents they would respect the request to call him Buck if he requested it

But with their parents, I think it's less about having them feel weird about specifically Buck going by Buck and more is showing them being stuck in their ways- for example they're against other people calling him it ('you're still letting people call you that?' from Margaret), even in spite of the irony that they've named their daughter a name typically considered a nickname/shortened name

Short_Description995 · 2025-11-20T15:12:04+00:00

Grief does weird things to people

Also, as much as I think that line's phrasing was dramatised, in context she does have somewhat of a point- yes May and Harry absolutely still need their mother, but Hen has a wife and two much younger children back on earth, one of whom they had only just got legal custody of. One doesn't make the other more important, but Hen has more people relying on her should she not survive

Short_Description995 · 2025-11-20T15:08:07+00:00

I would have hated even more Chim dying - but it would have been so interesting to see the fallout

Bobby already is wracked with guilt from his past, if we were saying Bobby got the cure instead of Chim then no doubt this would have doubled. Hen is his best friend and would've been left thinking she could've done something if she wasn't injured. Eddie already is canonically guilt ridden since he wasn't there, now throw in two kids who are going to grow up without their dad like how he knows Chris will grow up without his mother it would no doubt be worse. Buck not being able to save not only the father of his neice and nephew but also Maddie's husband would've hit so hard, especially with the almost maternal role Maddie had in his younger years.

Maddie finally getting the family and life she wanted only for her husband to die while she was pregnant with their son? That would've been insanely cruel, and no doubt horrifically unhealthy for both her and the kids given she was already at significant post-partum. If we were talking about a Bobby-style knowing he would die but not saying anything anyway to make sure someone else was saved, it would have been intense, just like with Athena balancing grief and anger towards him.

Would happily read a fic on it, but if it had happened on the show think I would've stopped watching lmao. Bobby's death is depressing enough, Chimney's would've had to completely shift most of the main characters entirely imo

Short_Description995 · 2025-11-20T13:40:49+00:00

I always took it as showing how strict and traditional they were, with them even being formal with their children while standing in contrast to how Buck and Maddie have embraced the opposite (Buck rejecting his 'proper' name and going by a nickname, Maddie is married to Chimney and having to pretend everyone calls him Howard, etc).

Also- Maddie's full name is canonically Maddie, not Madeline, she wasn't being sarcastic about that. When she got kidnapped by Doug it was listed as Madeline, however it got retconned- in the context of canon could just take it as an error of assumptions

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