Within the three seasons that Fireplace Nation has been airing, it’s been a curler coaster journey of superior motion and sloppy private relationships.
This Fireplace Nation Season 3 mid-season report card breaks down all of the occasions which have unfolded within the first half of this season and what we’d count on when the present returns from its break.
The present has had its moments of genius and trash. It’s needed to redeem itself after a weak second season stuffed with half-ass storylines and cleaning soap opera drama. Whereas issues have improved with Fireplace Nation Season 3, we’re not out of the woods but.
Followers nonetheless need issues to deal with firefighting and fewer private drama. And greater than something, we need to cease seeing repeated storylines which can be turning this hit drama right into a weakened cleaning soap opera of messy relationship entanglements.
Greatest Episode – Fireplace Nation Season 3 Episode 5
Though we’re solely midway by means of the third season, there have been a number of nice episodes. The very best to date has been Fireplace Nation Season 3 Episode 5. It briefly introduces a brand new character who’s round however vastly impacts Bode.
Jared Padalecki visited Fireplace Nation for a three-episode arc as California Fireplace Captain Camden Casey, who got here to Edgewater to do Part 3 of fireplace coaching.
And what an impression he made as he intervened in a battle Bode was about to get into over Gabriela.
Out of the whole lot the present has accomplished incorrect, writing Padalecki’s opening scene as a long-haired man in a baseball jersey throwing flip-flops at a gaggle of indignant drunk guys was 100% proper.
It didn’t take lengthy for Camden’s character to make a nasty impression on everybody — together with the viewers. However they couldn’t have launched his character and the attainable Fireplace Nation: Surfside spinoff any higher.
Together with assembly Casey, the episode additionally gave us the grand opening of Smokey’s after Vince and Sharon purchased it and made repairs.
It began the thrilling potential of Bode and Audrey as a pair as an alternative of Bode losing time pining over Gabriela.
Worst Episode – Fireplace Nation Season 3 Episode 1
Fireplace Nation Season 3 Episode 1 was the worst, opening on a bitter observe for many followers. Bode was out of jail and making an attempt to be supportive as the lady he cherished deliberate to marry one other man.
A helicopter crash on the town saved Gabriela from calling off the marriage in entrance of everybody, however Diego may inform she wasn’t going by means of with it.
We struggled by means of an hour of awkwardness because the love triangle labored to save lots of an injured helicopter pilot. Whereas Diego was the voice of cause making an attempt to save lots of Gabriela from herself, Bode supported her with blind religion and 0 qualms about breaking the principles.
Earlier than he may even begin with CFD, Bode was placing his profession on the road to save lots of Gabriela’s. She screwed up doing her job, and Bode stole from a affected person to cover her error.
The transfer brought about extra drama between Bode and Jake, worsening an already tense friendship as Jake needed to determine whether or not to cowl for the 2 or rat them out. It was additionally the beginning of Gabriela’s psychological downward spiral.
General, it was a weak season premiere, which could change into a behavior for Fireplace Nation. Fireplace Nation Season 2 Episode 1 was additionally laborious to look at.
Biggest Storyline
The best growth in Fireplace Nation Season 3 to date is the addition of Audrey James, a feminine model of Bode.
Straight out of Three Rock jail camp, James tries to redeem herself by becoming a member of CalFire after serving time. And he or she’s been excited by preserving Bode on the straight and slender whereas he’s been hell-bent on throwing away his probability at a profession.
Audrey isn’t simply making associates with Bode. She suits proper in with the remainder of CalFire and Bode’s group of associates. In spite of everything, she bought as geeked as they did when the child eagles hatched. A transferring occasion that didn’t have an effect on Gabriela.
Even the hardass Sharon had a mushy spot for James. She’s taken the youthful girl underneath her wing and taught her what it was wish to be in cost.
Possibly with constructive position fashions like Sharon, Audrey gained’t change into a repeat offender who finally ends up again in jail.
Given Audrey and Bode’s chemistry, we count on their friendship to develop right into a romantic relationship within the second half of Fireplace Nation Season 3. Though we predict there shall be some hiccups alongside the way in which, like perhaps a jealous confrontation between Gabriela and James.
Nonetheless, the story would please extra followers in the event that they let Gabriela and Audrey change into associates reasonably than enemies.
Worst Plot
The worst plot of the season has been Gabriela’s psychological decline as she nears all-time low. She’s been spiraling downwards because the present began together with her as a brand new firefighter after giving up her dream.
As soon as she discovered her place with the identical fireplace division the place her father labored, it appeared like she could be okay.
However then she met Bode, which derailed her regular relationship with Jake. Ever since, she has continuously made the incorrect errors, resulting in her present state of affairs.
She’s dwelling contained in the Leone’s AirStream camper trailer, which remains to be parked inside the fireplace division. Now that Bode’s out of jail, she referred to as off her marriage ceremony to Diego to be with Bode.
Then she began a quick dalliance with him, solely to finish issues when Bode wished to make issues severe as an alternative of her low-key non-public affair.
Add some heavy consuming, harmful risk-taking like insane cliff diving, and an entire lot of anger at her father, and also you’ve bought the proper situations for a lady on the sting of a full meltdown.
Gabriela’s present behavior of constructing dangerous selections to really feel one thing — or perhaps so she gained’t really feel something — has left her in fairly a predicament when the present went on its fall break.
Sticking to Fireplace Nation custom, Fireplace Nation Season 3 Episode 8 ended on a significant cliffhanger.
A number of of our favourite Station 42 firefighters have been in excessive peril.
Gabriela stormed off in a tantrum in typical Perez style after yelling at Jake when he reprimanded her for being insubordinate throughout a hearth name. She ought to get suspended when the present resumes, if not lose her job.
We left her in the midst of nowhere, trapped on all sides by flames. It’s of her personal making. She wouldn’t have ended up in peril if she hadn’t thrown a match when she bought into hassle for yelling at her boss.
And as common, she gave zero regard to anybody else, particularly her dad. She and Manny have been at odds all season as Gabriela continues to behave out as a result of he went again to jail.
We’d count on it from a child, not a grown grownup.
Simply when it appeared like Manny may get out of jail on parole, Gabriela went MIA. Because the season went on break, it appeared like Manny would go AWOL from the jail camp to seek out his child.
That doesn’t bode effectively for his future.
However Gabriela wasn’t the one one in peril from the out-of-control fireplace.
Bode and Audrey have been trapped underwater as a zombie fireplace raged above them and sealed off all sources of an exit.
Most Enjoyable Shock
Whereas we’ve spent eight episodes drowning within the aftermath of Bode and Gabriela’s relationship, we’ve additionally gotten some much-needed perception into secondary characters like Eve and Jake.
Jake misplaced the love of his life in Fireplace Nation Season 2, leaving him as a struggling single dad to her daughter, who we thought belonged to Bode.
Jake’s stepdaughter was lengthy gone when the present went on its sabbatical, selecting to remain in one other state together with her organic father.
Nevertheless it’s Eve’s backstory we’re actually having fun with. From assembly her former associate on the Eagle Sanctuary to studying extra about her previous as a rancher, we’re studying extra in regards to the present Three Rock fireplace captain.
The present has additionally discovered a inventive approach for her to deliver us residence, again to her roots. Nonetheless, it hasn’t been as heat of a homecoming as she’d hoped.
Whereas she was in a position to mend bridges together with her brother, she hasn’t been ready to make things better together with her father. When the present went on its break, Eve stood in the midst of her household’s ranch as flames unfold round her, touching the whole lot she cherished.
Her father’s indignant phrases warned her that in the event that they lose the ranch, he’ll by no means forgive her for selecting CFD and the Leones over her heritage.
Issues didn’t look good when the present paused, making us involved for any probability at an Edwards household reunion. For Eve’s sake, we hope Station 42 and Three Rock are ok at their jobs to save lots of the ranch earlier than it ruins her future.
Over to you, fanatics. How are you liking Fireplace Nation Season 3 to date?
What are your hopes for the second half of the season? Are you involved for the security and way forward for any of Station 42’s (or Three Rock’s) firefighters?
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