The season two finale of 911: Lone Star lets me know, not for the primary time, that I’m very afraid of Texas and its climate patterns. What begins as an episode about being break up up and misplaced independence quickly turns into an episode of household and help.
Provided that the 126 actually exploded, everybody is distributed to completely different firehouses or is out of labor.
Marjan, Paul, and Judd (greatest trio on the planet) are despatched to a soft nation club-like firehouse, whereas Mateo is caught on his personal. Actually and figuratively.
It’s onerous to decipher precisely why his new group dislikes him and appears down on him, a couple of prospects being, in fact, poisonous masculinity and racism. Perhaps they’re simply pulling a very good ‘ol selecting on the brand new child, however regardless, it’s utterly pointless.
After all, we all know that firefighting – even being a paramedic – is a boys membership. (Let’s be sincere, I may say that about nearly any subject and it’d be true.) They “joke” harshly, they’re abrasive, and whether or not that’s true in actual life, it’s at all times been true within the 911-verse.
Not our 911 and Lone Star firefighters, although! They’re light, caring, and useful to one another simply as a lot as they’re to the general public.
For this reason Mateo was one of the best individual to position with this kind of group.
Not that he received’t defend himself or his pals if want be, however he’s very by-the-book. If he’s advised he must do one thing, he’ll, irrespective of how unlucky or time-consuming the duty is.
The place Marjan, Paul, and Judd will routinely say one thing to a supervisor, Mateo goes together with it as a result of he is aware of, or at the least thinks, he has no different possibility.
I don’t assume any viewers anticipated Mateo not to step up in the midst of a mud storm, however the best way he does it utterly alone was really implausible to see.
We’ve gotten to see Mateo go from insecure, shy season one Mateo, to going into season three as firefighter Mateo. His progress is persistently increasing, and it’s what makes him an excellent character.
Tommy’s resolution to stop and maintain the women is extraordinarily practical, and simply as heartbreaking, however even her children know that she belongs on the market serving to folks. It’s calling her. Even when a kind of folks she’s saving is Mateo’s imply boss. Even by means of Charles’ loss of life, it referred to as to her.
Grace getting again into the decision middle and serving to once more on calls is well among the best elements of the episode. Seeing her gentle up doing what she loves is so great. Additionally, I’m fairly positive none of us knew there’d be a protocol for being buried alive in a coffin. Yikes.
I can not put into phrases how little I care about Billy. Like, okay, forgive and neglect and all that, however Owen – this man tried to run you out of a job you liked while you had most cancers. That’s actually evil.
Right here’s the factor about not reopening the 126: logically, it makes some sense. Just a few, although. Owen got here up with that finances reduce plan (that nobody else did!) as a approach to ensure everyone seems to be impacted by the cuts, so who tossed out the thought to completely shut the 126, and why?
If Owen’s plan coated all the pieces concerned with the 126 as nicely, why reduce it now? Why wait weeks to determine that? If Charles’ funeral was two weeks in the past, I’d wager the station has been closed for shut to a few. And if the finances plan is saving cash, why wouldn’t they’ve sufficient for the 126?
It’s an extremely unusual situation, one which was undoubtedly introduced up by Billy, which made Owen punching him so, so candy. Lastly, somebody places Billy in his place for actual.
Whereas I used to be form of hoping that Owen would take that pencil-pushing job, the finale gave us a very good dose of what Owen was once like.
Season one Owen, who fights for his group, his household, and himself. Season one Owen who cherished TK greater than anybody else on the planet; who supported, and was supported by his group.
Let’s break down the ending prospects. Everyone seems to be moved to a distinct group, besides perhaps TK and Nancy, after which what?
Given the upside-down approach we’re going into season three, this might give us extra alternatives for episodes to discover the characters we haven’t seen the backgrounds of but. If the primary few episodes are centered round respective characters and beginnings, then they’re all again collectively, it will give us a lot extra context into these characters.
However I’m getting forward of myself. For now, I’m simply so grateful all of them have one another to lean on.
What did you consider the episode? Are you excited for season three? What do you concentrate on Billy? Let me know within the feedback beneath!