gay firefighter show good
Apr. 29th, 2024 10:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
isunshowerpeople, recently i heard that the TV show 911 had made one of the characters in its much-shipped homoerotic friendship canonically bisexual. i sat down on friday to start watching it and. well.
with a lot of shows like this, you assume that the fandom is making a lot of shit up. no, the hot single dad isn't really that hot. no, the homoerotic friendship isn't really that gay. no, the hot eventually-bisexual firefighter doesn't actually broadcast his emotional intimacy issues for miles and miles. i hate to inform you that on this show, they aren't making this shit up. (i mean, they do make some things up... a client initiating intercourse with his therapist and both of them consenting to it enthusiastically is like unethical and probably malpractice but i'm pretty confident that it's not rape.) it's like they made this show in a lab to capture the minds of millenial women.
there's just something for everyone, you know? there's hot guys. there's hot girls. there's canon gay, lesbian, and bi characters. there's a hilarious set of besties who pass the bechdel test. there's a lot of trauma. there's hurt/comfort. there's miscommunication. there's ALSO talking like they're all in therapy. there's high stakes and also there's some adorable fluff (hot single dad is prime real estate for this). there's even catholic guilt.
i mean there are also things i'm wary of. writing the child character like he's even younger than he is, for one. this is an issue in fic (because i was really irresponsible and spoiled myself) but, apparently, also in the show. so that's cool. i worked with preschoolers and i don't believe for a second that these writers know how a seven year old talks because they're writing him like he's four. also i get the vibe that the fandom maybe hates women a little bit. soon-to-be-bi firefighter has a hot older girlfriend in season one (hot older girlfriend is awesome in her own right btw) and they're just not right for each other and that's... fine? and i worry that she gets demonized. i'm worried carla is going to have no personality besides being a caretaker. that the eventual girlfriends that buck and eddie both get are going to get demonized as well. etc etc. and of course i'm a very anxious person who hates gore and now i know all about the bad things that can happen to me on escalators or in car repair shops or so on and so forth. but listen, there's just something electric about this show, the high stakes and the emotions just keep me hooked! i haven't binge-watched something on this scale since doctor who, and that's when i was probably fourteen or fifteen. (i started on friday and i'm about a quarter of the way into season two, i think?)
also evan buckley has adhd. i don't care if it's canon or not i've been diagnosed with adhd and i'm claiming him.
so i'm gonna write fic about this eventually and in the meantime i'm gonna see if there are any good dreamwidth accounts who watch :)
with a lot of shows like this, you assume that the fandom is making a lot of shit up. no, the hot single dad isn't really that hot. no, the homoerotic friendship isn't really that gay. no, the hot eventually-bisexual firefighter doesn't actually broadcast his emotional intimacy issues for miles and miles. i hate to inform you that on this show, they aren't making this shit up. (i mean, they do make some things up... a client initiating intercourse with his therapist and both of them consenting to it enthusiastically is like unethical and probably malpractice but i'm pretty confident that it's not rape.) it's like they made this show in a lab to capture the minds of millenial women.
there's just something for everyone, you know? there's hot guys. there's hot girls. there's canon gay, lesbian, and bi characters. there's a hilarious set of besties who pass the bechdel test. there's a lot of trauma. there's hurt/comfort. there's miscommunication. there's ALSO talking like they're all in therapy. there's high stakes and also there's some adorable fluff (hot single dad is prime real estate for this). there's even catholic guilt.
i mean there are also things i'm wary of. writing the child character like he's even younger than he is, for one. this is an issue in fic (because i was really irresponsible and spoiled myself) but, apparently, also in the show. so that's cool. i worked with preschoolers and i don't believe for a second that these writers know how a seven year old talks because they're writing him like he's four. also i get the vibe that the fandom maybe hates women a little bit. soon-to-be-bi firefighter has a hot older girlfriend in season one (hot older girlfriend is awesome in her own right btw) and they're just not right for each other and that's... fine? and i worry that she gets demonized. i'm worried carla is going to have no personality besides being a caretaker. that the eventual girlfriends that buck and eddie both get are going to get demonized as well. etc etc. and of course i'm a very anxious person who hates gore and now i know all about the bad things that can happen to me on escalators or in car repair shops or so on and so forth. but listen, there's just something electric about this show, the high stakes and the emotions just keep me hooked! i haven't binge-watched something on this scale since doctor who, and that's when i was probably fourteen or fifteen. (i started on friday and i'm about a quarter of the way into season two, i think?)
also evan buckley has adhd. i don't care if it's canon or not i've been diagnosed with adhd and i'm claiming him.
so i'm gonna write fic about this eventually and in the meantime i'm gonna see if there are any good dreamwidth accounts who watch :)
