#i AM judging the show and production team for throwing women at buck and eddie

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to be fair a lot of what that anon is seeing is not them actually shipping eddie and buck with these women but appreciating their hot. they still very much are team buddie endgame and I've seen nothing of what the anon is talking about. I've seen them praising their looks because these are gay women who love attractive women no shock but in the same beat know that it's Buddie till the end.

To be fair to that anon, I HAVE seen (here and elsewhere) a lot of people saying "well we knew Buddie was never going to happen so I'm on board with these new love interests because they're hot" which...EYE find a little...IDK, reductive because we know NOTHING about them! And it's a repeated cycles we've all seen before.

People were willing to give Tay Kay a pass as a LI because she was a "strong female" character and pretty, when she was actually AWFUL to Buck and constantly hit on his insecurities with delight because it put him in his place. And yet people are still saying how if he was supposed to end up with a woman and not Eddie he would have ended up with her because she was perfect on paper for him. (???? friendo, where?! Nothing about her was good for Buck in ANY capacity! The show re-wrote her character every episode to try and keep the GA that hated her to tolerate her for as long as they "had" to keep her around for supposed "scheduling conflicts" when they easily could have just...focused on the characters they already had and not paid someone else to waste everyone's time, and drag Buck's character down as well to pretend he would even WANT anything to do with her after what she tried to do to Bobby, but I digress.)

We STILL hear how Ana was sooo pretty and sooo "perrfect" for Eddie and for Chris but he's clearly gay because he couldn't make it work with her even though on paper it should have been perfect. When actually the show told us in s3 that she was NOT good for Chris, and then again showed us Chris was unhappy with his dad dating, only to turn around and pretend that it was Eddie second guessing all along (because this showrunner is inconsistent and perfectly happy forcing the characters to change to fit plotlines she wants rather than allowing the characters to drive the plot). Also, please anyone look at that woman and tell me her and Eddie had ANYTHING in common outside of her working with kids and a shared cultural heritage. There is a zero percent chance they had any shared hobbies or interests so "perfect on paper" has always sounded ridiculous to me. She was perfect for an ideal image Eddie thought OTHER people would think was right for him, yet people are still saying "at least she was hot so if they weren't going to put Buddie together they should have kept her around".

People can certainly love and support these new characters and enjoy seeing pretty people on their screens! That's totally fine! Which is why I posted about filtering out content.

But when there's already an uphill battle wrt Buddie and representation, I get being disheartened to see people tagging the show's SM (on other sites, not here because this is a void and there is no actual direct link to the show's official sites) and loudly saying (without knowing ANYTHING about the characters) that since they're pretty, Buddie fans will accept them as LIs if they aren't going to do Buddie. Because that tells TPTB that they can run with this without getting as much backlash from the loudest and most vocal online community as long as they pick someone pretty enough. Which again, on the SHOW'S side (not fans seeing and enjoying a pretty face) is reductive to female characters in general AND something I find reductive of the loving family Buddie has built up over YEARS getting tossed out in favor of giving them new families. 🤷🏻‍♀️

#my sweet nonnie friends #911 #911 spoilers #buddie #i am NOT judging fans who enjoy pretty people! #i AM judging the show and production team for throwing women at buck and eddie #until they find one that's pretty enough to get buddie fans to accept them even without knowing anything about the characters