They need for people to constantly declare in the Buddie tag that it will never be canon... that people are risking the reputation of fandom... I've seen both sides and I have to say it is both sides that have a very small minority that could be behaving better.
But that aside and circling back to the declaration...
I mean how can you know, really?
Buck for six seasons was exclusively straight even though the subtext suggested otherwise to the viewer.
How do you know that Eddie won't have the same journey?
The truth is you don't... no one does ... to declare it is never happening is to not look at the journey of the show thus far... nothing is set in stone... just like Buck's journey...
Eddie's subtextual journey is similar to Buck's.
You can not categorically say something won't happen just because you want it to be that way.
Why are you trying to control the narrative and how it is interpreted?
Buddie has had six seasons of history...
It is a forest full of shipping and ideas that has grown and will continue to grow as oxygen from fandom and the show collide.
Let people speculate...
let people have fun...
let people ship and let ship...
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I'm curious. What is the one thing you don't want to happen? /I read tags
lfkjdhkljfhk I was actually just debating whether or not to make a post about this! 😂
I don't normally express my *opinions* on Lizzie and Lizzie x Tommy here because I absolutely hate the feeling of raining on other people's parades, but I don't think that this really counts as bashing, so I'm just gonna leave it here and put it under a cut so those who don't agree can just scroll on by. This is just my opinion, guys! No hard feelings or anything if you feel differently!
I really don't want Tommy and Lizzie to get back together in the movie.
Lizzie's character went through so much development in finally accepting that Tommy can't be who she wants him to be and breaking free from him, and I feel like it would be a massive disservice to both characters, but particularly her, to force them back together. That storyline was closed pretty definitively at the end of season 6, and I honestly don't think that there's time to be reopening and focusing on it when we've only got about 3 hours max to work with as far as runtime. And there are just so many other aspects of the story that I think would be far more interesting to explore.
She was so miserable the entirety of their marriage, and deserves to be free of the Shelbys and their bullshit and to either be happy on her own with Charlie or go find that nice, normal man that she so badly wanted Tommy to be post season 4, and finally have some peace and happiness.
And Tommy deserves to not be locked in a marriage with someone who only loves the fantasy of him that she's projected onto him, or to be weighted down by feeling like he's failed her by not being able to be someone he's not. I think that they could be happy co-parenting Charlie together, but outside of that, I really feel like they should go their separate ways.
I always had the interpretation that Ruby was the only thing holding them together. And that the moment she died, so did their marriage, effectively. I do think that they cared for each other, but I don't think either of them really were in love with the other (as mentioned above, I think even Lizzie only loved her fantasy of Tommy, and not who he actually was). And by the end they both just seemed to bitter and resentful of each other. So it's really hard for me to root for them to end up together.
Anyway, I've always gotten the feeling that most people in the fandom strongly feel like they are *the* couple of the show and are passionately in love and should be together, so I shall now go hide under a rock to avoid the barrage of shouting likely to commence in my comments and inbox 🙃
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i find it weird how the fandom gets so touchy on the subject of Aaron's homophobia, of all things. like. you don't have to agree. you don't. i see why people don't
but we can see nuance in such vastly delicated topics, why can't we also see how some people can very possibly read him as such, and that homophobia in itself is not black and white thing?
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Paul loves enjambments
Enjambment is the continuation of a sentence or clause across a line break. For example, the poet John Donne uses enjambment in his poem "The Good-Morrow" when he continues the opening sentence across the line break between the first and second lines: "I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I / Did, till we loved? Were we not weaned till then?"
These are the examples that I could think of right now of Paul hopping across lines (well, if you agree with where the cuts are placed, as lines in a song can be written in several ways, and if you agree that the breaks in syntax are unusual enough to be considered poetic/interesting enjambments) :
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I've just seen a face I can't forget
The time or place where we just met
...
I was alone, I took a ride
I didn't know what I would find there
Another road where maybe I
Could see another kind of mind there
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Ooh, you were meant to be near me
Ooh, and I want you to hear me
Say we'll be together every day
...
And it really doesn't matter if I'm wrong, I'm right
Where I belong, I'm right
Where I belong
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There beneath the blue suburban skies
I sit and meanwhile back
In Penny Lane there is a fireman with an hourglass
...
And when the broken hearted
People living in the world agree
There will be an answer
Let it be
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Mull of Kintyre
Oh, mist rolling in from
The sea, my desire
Is always to be here
Oh, Mull of Kintyre
Feel free to add more if you can recall any!
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Someone tells me they don’t like Billy Hargrove:
*Long winded discussion of how fiction is about modelling problem solving, and how as an antagonist with relatable problems and inherent conflict with the other characters, people would naturally be drawn towards his character in fan works. The lack of emotional catharsis in the end of his story line also makes his character ripe for fan interpretation. Continuing with the role of the antihero in media and how the lack of critical thinking skills in media interpretation leads to a lot of people associating protagonists with heroism and goodness, and antagonists with moral turpitude aka badness, is in general going to lead to more confusion around how to interpret fiction because ultimately it’s a very binary structure and we don’t actually live in a binary world.
Furthermore explaining that the problems that Billy represents are problems that actually can be addressed in the real world, like racism and abuse, sexual grooming and assault, classism and mental illness. Discussion of how reducing those problems to a binary system of good or bad has actual implications for real people who experience them. Explaining how dismissing the nuance is in general emblematic of a larger movement towards binary carceral thinking. Carcerality meaning the spread of techniques for regulating human behavior through surveillance processes most commonly seen in modern prisons. And while some people may see no issue with this way of thinking it doesn’t align with my personal politics and so I prefer to see characters actually go through the process of solving problems, rather than be relegated to bad forever. Furthermore, discussing how the source material must do a better job addressing the problems presented in the story, like childhood abuse, mental illness, and especially racism and how we have a duty to present these problems with sensitivity.*
Someone tells me they don’t like Lucas or Argyle:
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