Nicely, of us, that’s a wrap for 2024. Fireplace Nation, together with most of our favourite reveals, is now on fall break. As regular, the present left us with loads of cliffhangers.
Fireplace Nation Season 3 Episode 8 overview analyzes its occasions and aftermath and what we’d count on when the present returns in 2025.
Like most Bruckheimer productions, Fireplace Nation Season 3 Episode 8 had loads of motion, heart-pounding terror, insubordination, and private angst to tide us over via the vacation break.
And a number of other of our favourite firefighters had been left in mortal hazard. Might we maybe see the demise and exit of any of the Fireplace Nation solid? We haven’t acquired phrase of anybody leaving the present.
Three seasons in, and we nonetheless have the identical core characters, minus a couple of small roles from supporting characters like Cara, Freddy, and Rebecca.
The present has been constructing as much as these occasions because the begin, pushing every character via life predicaments that ultimately affected how every of them reacted in the course of the Fireplace Nation Season 3 fall finale.
As a finale goes, this one was pretty much as good as any I’ve seen within the 2024 season, and it’s actually miles higher than the delayed seasonal begin and shortened ten-episode second season.
And but, regardless of how properly the present did establishing its seasonal break so followers would keep in a state of intrigue and torment, there was a number of UGH and OMG actually’s from the episode itself. Actually, the entire season.
Beginning with the standard drama surrounding Gabriela. Go forward and weigh in actual fast, Fanatics, on the primary alternate between Gabriela and Jake. It’s arduous for this reviewer to determine which particular person is correct.
Whereas Jake feels they need to inform Bode about their drunken hook-up, Gabriela thinks that it’s none of his enterprise, since they aren’t collectively.
However like Jake stated, Bode is his finest good friend and Gabreila is his ex-obsession. Nevertheless, like Gabs stated, she was with Jake earlier than Bode. So ought to they inform Bode or let it keep a drunken episode of no consequence?
Though this reviewer’s twisted thoughts might completely see that one lapse of judgement leading to an unplanned being pregnant for Gabriela and Jake, who’s nonetheless tortured by the lack of Cara and the current resolution of Cara’s daughter to maneuver in along with her actual father as an alternative of Jake.
At first, Gabriela gave the impression to be doing higher this episode, much less hell-bent on beating herself to demise and doing dangerous crap. Like father, like daughter.
After which, we noticed her psychological standing deteriorate, leading to her disobeying direct orders from a superior, breaking the regulation, and being absolutely insubordinate. What number of instances does she get to yell at her boss (this time, it was Jake as an alternative of Sharon) earlier than she faces disciplinary motion?
I’m on her aspect for serving to out the determined mom and youngster who ran out of gasoline whereas making an attempt to evacuate. Their car was the one dwelling that they had left, and it didn’t appear honest that they’d lose the whole lot once more.
Honestly, this viewer most likely would have completed the identical factor by siphoning the gasoline from the automotive parked in entrance of a fireplace hydrant. Prison prices be damned.
However I can’t condone the remainder of her conduct.
She appears to have a significant drawback separating her previous from her job, usually letting her private experiences have an effect on her efficiency. One thing she incessantly scolds Bode and her father for doing.
It was freaking wonderful seeing Jake put Gabriela in her place. Her hissy match response was typical of her self-indulgent pity occasion, the place she desires everybody to really feel unhealthy for her state of affairs even though the place she’s at in life is all her personal doing.
After which, as regular, she acts all melodramatically, stripping off her hearth gear and strolling off in the midst of a fireplace name. Solely to finish up assembly a wall of flames as she wandered aimlessly down the highway.
She says she’s completed however completed with what? Her actions are as clear as any resignation letter. Might we be saying goodbye to Gabriela Perez when the present returns?
Or perhaps the Fireplace Nation Season 3 finale is the tip of the road for inmate firefighter Manny Perez. We’ve seen Manny expertise a full 360 of his life because the first season.
He was as soon as the captain of the Three Rock jail camp, mentoring Bode post-prison so he could possibly be profitable as soon as launched, solely to flip locations by Fireplace Nation Season 3.
Whereas Bode is a free man and now an official member of CalFire since Captain Camden Casey handed him in hearth coaching in Fireplace Nation Season 3 Episode 7, Manny is now a firefighter inmate at Three Rock, with Eve as Captain.
Seeing Manny falling so removed from his authentic redemption has been arduous, nevertheless it’s been a good way to discover extra of his character. Sadly, going again to jail appears to have dulled Manny’s righteousness.
He’s acted out of character a number of instances throughout Fireplace Nation Season 3, nearly as if he’s given up on a future on account of his setback.
Manny went from being my favourite character to an annoyance this season as he tries to make repairs with Gabriela whereas concurrently expressing his self-anger at anybody round him.
He struggled on this episode between being a supportive first noticed firefighter and being a sullen inmate pissed about doing time. Seeing him discuss down Cole when he nearly had phrases with Eve’s cousin was nice.
Sadly, Manny is unlikely to be as keen to observe Cole’s recommendation about not going out on his personal to seek out Gabriela.
The present ended with a cliffhanger involving him and Three Rock on the Edwards ranch, miles away from the place Gabriela went lacking. Attributable to her tantrum, she walked straight into a fireplace zone.
Manny simply requested a parole listening to. Going AWOL throughout a fireplace name, even when it’s as a result of his daughter is at risk, isn’t going to look good. Will the second half of Fireplace Nation Season 3 have Manny caught in jail longer for an “tried escape,” or might Perez be the present’s first common solid member to exit?
How did everybody like their first go to to the Edwards ranch? Geez, there was a number of pressure between the Edwards patriarch and everybody round him.
Elroy Edwards was precisely as we anticipated after we came upon Eve hadn’t talked to her household in six years. After assembly them, I perceive why there’s discord there.
Seeing her go to bat for her crew in opposition to her father’s prejudice was nice. He’s a cussed outdated man who thinks Eve selected firefighting and the Leones over her household, each previously and presently.
If you happen to learn our Fireplace Nation Season 3 Episode 8 spoilers, I lamented how cool it might have been to see Eve on horseback, combating fires. We noticed her on horseback, so I half bought my want.
Nevertheless, I’ll settle as a result of it was so cool that she delivered a foal and had a second along with her dad.
However whereas she was enjoying rancher, she uncared for her firefighting duties. Vince needed to come out and test on issues, ruining her progress. Elroy had a number of grievances in opposition to Vince and CFD.
The 2 debated making a backburn on the ranch to forestall the fireplace from spreading into Edgewater. Vince thought he had the authority to do it, even on non-public property. Elroy felt that he had the suitable to say no as a result of it was his land.
Eve ended up between her blood household and her hearth fam. She dissatisfied Elroy by siding with the job over her kin.
We’ve to marvel if her setting the fireplace was symbolic of burning her final bridge along with her household. It was supposed to guard the ranch.
However shifting winds carried embers throughout the fireplace line and onto the barn, the place the ranch fingers had simply put all of the horses, together with the brand new child foal Eve had simply delivered.
Eve wasn’t the one one whose plan to guard one thing backfired. Bode and Audrey went on a fireplace name, considering they’d solely be doing preventative measures. Go away it to their luck to come upon an enormous zombie hearth.
Huh? That’s a technique so as to add a novel twist to the standard zombie outbreak.
Present of fingers: Earlier than this episode, who had heard of a zombie hearth or holdover hearth? Not this TV fanatic, and I’m fairly certain I’ve seen each hearth film or sequence obtainable.
It’s fairly gnarly however completely superior, too.
How loopy wouldn’t it be to need to face a fireplace that’s been burning underground for months to years? That feels like some Tommy Lee Jones ’90s Volcano or the La Brea intro or one thing.
Bode’s a badass ex-convict, so it’s all the time a pleasure to see his softer aspect, from the teddy bear in his locker to the household portrait in his helmet to the close to tears he had when he listened to the sob story of an area with a fantastic dwelling and a lifeless spouse.
Bode made a promise to save lots of his home, and issues gave the impression to be going properly till James jinxed it by speaking crap. By no means check the universe with an early celebration, particularly in terms of combating fires.
Sharon continued to situation orders to Leone and James to desert the placement and deal with different fires. However the couple ignored her calls, freaking Momma Bear out.
Bode ought to face severe reprimand for ignoring direct orders. In his desperation to maintain a promise and supposedly depart behind the outdated Bode, he put himself and Audrey in a really harmful state of affairs.
Does anybody else discover it irritating that after Bode screwed up and put each of them in danger, he made a plan and tried to speak about the right way to save them like their being trapped wasn’t his fault?
As the fireplace consumed the whole lot round them, James held onto Bode for literal life as they dove underwater to keep away from the flames. After which the credit rolled.
Will Bode and Audrey’s first kiss be a mermaid breath of life as they share air? Will Audrey forgive Bode for placing her into the terrifying state of affairs of getting burned alive or drowning as a result of she couldn’t swim?
If that they had left earlier, as she had wished and as she had ordered, they’d not have been trapped on all sides by a wall of flames.
My favourite a part of the day was when Eve requested the right way to motive with a cussed outdated man, and Sharon and Bode each shot ‘that’ take a look at Vince. Priceless! Is {that a} trace at Vince’s personal father points? Or are they calling him a cussed outdated man?
And what was with this episode and other people ignoring their radio calls? Does anybody else discover a theme the place all the assorted scenes and other people are likely to concentrate on one narrative?
In Fireplace Nation Season 3 Episode 7, subordinates lashed out at their superiors, which in actual life would have resulted in quite a few firefighters being dismissed from their stations.
So, fanatics, what did you consider the Fireplace Nation Season 3 fall finale? Are you excited for the present to return so we will get solutions? The place do you hope the story goes from right here?
What did you want in regards to the episode? Hate? Is it higher than earlier episodes, which have been borderline daytime cleaning soap with fundamental or regurgitated storylines?
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