It’s humorous how time works as a result of one week can really feel just like the longest factor on the planet sooner or later in your life; different occasions, it would fly by immediately.
It has been seven entire days since 9-1-1 Season 8 Episode 15, the hour through which the world misplaced Robert ‘Bobby’ Nash, and it’s been a VERY lengthy week.
Followers (myself included!) have been struggling since the previous few minutes of that episode, and even days later, they’re left questioning why it occurred and the place issues go from right here.
The collection cut up the final hour of the Contagion arc between Buck and Athena out in Los Angeles in search of mad scientist Moira, who had the one dose antidote that might treatment Chimney, who was rapidly dying from a lethal tremendous pressure of the Crimean–Congo hemorrhagic fever.
It was a race in opposition to time as Athena and Buck positioned the antidote, and Bobby and the remainder of the 118 trapped contained in the lab fought to maintain Chimney alive.
However unbeknownst to everybody, Bobby had additionally been uncovered to the lethal virus, and after Chimney obtained the treatment, Bobby stayed again within the lab and succumbed to the virus, getting simply sufficient time to say goodbye to Buck and his beloved spouse, Athena.
It nonetheless doesn’t really feel proper to sort these phrases out as a result of it’s powerful to think about the 9-1-1 universe with out Bobby.
An older episode of 9-1-1 was on tv earlier this week, and it was odd to observe the Bobby from 9-1-1 Season 2 and take into consideration the completely happy man who was within the early days of his relationship with Athena, falling in love once more, and moving into a brand new season of his life.
Realizing how secure and absolutely realized that relationship will really feel in just a few brief years earlier than it simply ends will make you dizzy with distress.
We’re coming to the tail finish of 9-1-1 Season 8, and so far, the present has been devoid of a major character’s loss of life, regardless of how shut some characters have stepped proper as much as loss of life’s doorstep.
And that’s one cause followers are struggling to make sense of issues. For thus lengthy, the one factor they may all the time depend on was that their consolation characters can be protected, it doesn’t matter what trials and tribulations the Gods of tv drama put them by way of.
There’s something to be stated for that form of stability whereas watching tv, as for a lot of, it’s typically a type of pleasure and escapism from the monotony of on a regular basis life.
You agree down, snuggle up, and lose your self within the land of make-believe, which doesn’t really feel so make-believe when the characters turn out to be such a vital a part of your week.
That’s what has the followers reeling, they usually’re holding onto hope {that a} last-minute Hail Mary will flip issues round.
You tune into 9-1-1 to see these characters, who really feel so acquainted to you, navigate troublesome jobs and distinctive dynamics. Whereas the present can get darkish and deep, there’s all the time a pervasive sense of hope that blankets every little thing.
Bobby’s loss of life seems like somebody took a colossal hammer to that very very best.
We requested earlier than the place the present goes from right here, and with some days passing since then, we’ve had time to sleep on it, reset, and revisit the query once more, and we’re nonetheless not sure of what lies forward.
Top-of-the-line components about being a tv fan is theorizing and making an attempt to foretell what’s going to occur, whether or not your ideas make all of the sense on the planet or it’s essential do some heavy squinting to see how issues can go from A to B.
Tv deaths are a standard incidence, however simply because one thing is frequent doesn’t make it any much less painful. And for followers, there are such a lot of inquiries to ponder (and maintain pondering!) throughout this mini-hiatus.
It’s that uncertainty that has followers holding onto hope that possibly they missed one thing or issues aren’t fairly like they appear, even when the daring writing on the wall tells us that we could have to arrange for Bobby-less Thursday nights quickly.
However 9-1-1 has executed the not possible earlier than and zigged the place you thought they may zag.
It’s poignant, although, {that a} present whose physique was constructed by hope would have so many followers hopeful that this tragedy will one way or the other flip itself round.
Slightly hope by no means harm anybody, and we’ve discovered from 9-1-1 that it’s one of the vital essential issues in life.
The mini-hiatus comes at an fascinating level.
We’ve now had seven days to course of our emotions, and we’ll have one other seven earlier than we discover out what the post-Bobby Nash world of 9-1-1 seems like.
I wasn’t prepared just a few days in the past, and I’m nonetheless not prepared now, however I’ll nonetheless be right here to see what occurs to those characters as they decide up the items.
We’ll see how the present navigates the rocky terrain of an unstable core now lacking its emotional chief.
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