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Team TVLine recently listed “the irrefutable romantic chemistry between 9-1-1‘s Buck and Eddie” as one of the TV blessings for which we’re most thankful — and we’re clearly not alone. Ever since Oliver Stark and Ryan Guzman’s firefighter characters met and bonded at the start of Season 2, fans’ desire to see them paired has grown exponentially, even if their fervent tweets have yet to manifest themselves on screen.
Stark on Wednesday reached out to fans on social media to clarify where he stands on the matter: “The truth is, I don’t know where the story is going. … I have always spoken openly about how amazing I think it is that you are invested in these two characters, and I totally support that. But I feel uneasy about RT’ing stuff, because I know it can sometimes come across as me confirming something is going to happen. I don’t want to get anyone’s hopes up.”
“Our writers 100-percent care about you and respect the audience,” he added. “I love getting to work for them and completely trust in their ability to craft the story.”
For what it’s worth, the Powers That Be are well aware of Stark and Guzman’s inexplicable chemistry, hence the occasional wink-nods at their character’s potential coupling. During last season’s Christmas episode, a kindly elf mistook Buck and Eddie for a married couple, telling them, “You two have an adorable son.” Rather than correcting Santa’s misguided helper, Buck simply replied, “Thank you.”
“I know a lot of people are getting that vibe [between Buck and Eddie], which is why I put that little joke at the end,” executive producer Tim Minear told TVLine at the time. “Basically, the winsome elf was speaking for the audience. And I’m not saying that the fountain shooting up behind them meant anything metaphorically. You decide.”
Read Stark’s full statement below, then drop a comment with your own thoughts on all things “Buddie.”
The actors definitely have chemistry, so why not? It could be interesting. It’s a story that hasn’t been beaten to death like most television romantic pairings, and a long slow build could be way more authentic than just having one come out over the course of two episodes out of no where.
Putting Buck and Eddie together really does make a ton of sense from a storytelling perspective. Buck has really found his niche with Eddie and Christopher, and it’s really lovely to see them developing into such an organic family unit. And yeah, their chemistry is off the charts. Even if this wasn’t in the plan, 9-1-1 has something white hot on their hands, chemistry and narrative wise. Rooting for these two.
i started this show literally last week. i binge watched the entire thing and was caught up in time to watch the fall finale live. i’d seen videos of buck and eddie on my timeline prior to starting the show and they’re honestly the biggest reason i chose to watch the show. there’s so much potential with the relationship of these two characters. i really hope the writers see that and run with it because it would mean a LOT for lgbtq viewers.
It’s not even about representation honestly. Aside from their insane physical chemistry, the two characters and their respective arcs compliment each other so well. So much rich storytelling to mine from both of their personalities and backgrounds. Buck and Eddie are a perfect match.
I am all for it. I would love to see them being a couple, they have chemistry.
Same! My whole family watches together and we’re all rooting for Buck and Eddie! Even my dad, haha.
This is hear warming. :)
are you kidding me? Ya two of the hottest straight actors are going to become a couple….that would ruin it. There’s already a gay couple on this show and every other show I watch. Why do they feel the need to appease the smallest percent of the population? What a ridiculous thought for a story line. Two guys can’t be best friends without attaching a love story to it? gross
I’m with you Janice!
I’m with you this is my favorite show on TV I just love all of the actors.I’m with you Janice
I think Buck and Eddie are amazing as best friends, but could be much better in a relationship. Although I will be fine either way, I’m more so towards the relationship.
I agree. Two totally straight guys loving best friends is a good image. Why change it?
I totally agree. Both are Good Looking men, why not get a couple of cute girls for each of them
except one is in serious need of dermabrasion. Strong male friendships need to be portrayed. No need to include sheets in a solid friendship.
agree! 2 men or 2 women get close it doesnt have to be ended up as gay. i love eddie and buck because of their true friendship not bromance!
Exactly!
THANK YOU VERY MUCH…IM SO GLAD YOU SAID THIS…..Buck is straight why is it necessary to make him gay…WE HAVE A GAY COUPLE ON EVERY SHOW…
Janice I agree and will stop watching this show if that happens…
Hey Janice, I promise you there isn’t a shortage of gay couples irl. There is no reason to place a “quota” on how many gay characters can inhabit tv shows. The reason it’s considered a “forced agenda” to appease a “small percent of the population” is because people refuse to let go out the outdated idea that TV shows are forcing these relationships for social justice “brownie points”. And even if they were, I’d rather there be more representation for a small percent of people who look at these characters and find comfort in them. There are so many shows that shove straight couples with zero chemistry down the throats of its viewers for no reason other than to force an empty romance plot. Here, we have a genuine shot at a slow-building relationship that isn’t forced just for the purpose of fitting to basic outdated expectations of mindless television shows. They aren’t appeasing anybody, if they do decide to make Buddie a thing, it’ll be because both characters work well together. If Buck were a female lead, I’m sure no one would bat an eye at this “controversy”. Also, there are already a ton of other perfectly good examples of men being best friends in the show, like Bobby and Michael. Buck and Eddie becoming a couple wouldn’t erase their friendship either, it would just add another layer to their close relationship. A healthy relationship is when two people develop a connection based on trust, mutual respect, and playfulness. Neat.
Straight couple it.com for this show, your appetite for best friends both turning gay is not logical,but your appetite will get feed
they have gay michael and lesbian hen already. if they make buck and eddie become gay couple,then i will believe that this movie is one of the gay propaganda or following the gay trend only so put lots of gay characters in it. if that really happen fro buck and eddie then hope the producer make maddie or athena become gay too. so it will make a perfect gay series
How offensive to call someone gross. And a storyline between any two characters isn’t just for those who might see themselves in those characters. You think Will and Grace became so popular with just a gay audience or that Blackish became a hit with only black viewers? While this might not be true for you, a lot of us are capable of enjoying a storyline even if we don’t see ourselves in the characters.
I know. When they paired up Maddie and Han, I was like “OMG Are they kidding us? We already have ONE straight couple on this show. In fact they have multiple straight couples on every show. Why cant they just be friends? Gross”
Besides your homophobia, why is it gross?
I don’t particularly feel the need for them to become a couple, but Janice your hate about it reads absolutely that you are a homophobic Karen. I think mostly straight or mostly gay people can find themselves in a relationship they didn’t expect, but I am fine with Buck and Eddie being 100% straight. The difference is I don’t hate on that as the reality. I am so tired of people flipping out about seeing something in entertainment that isn’t their reality.,
It would definitely go along with the storyline and neither Buck nor Eddie ever clearly stated they were straight/not into guys. It would also give the show a more progressive attitude (which it 100% is not already lacking ;). I’m all for it and clearly everyone else agrees. I’m sure there are people who disagree but I honestly haven’t seen anything to date speaking against their relationship turning romantic.
Totally agree! Why do the straights always see in gay or straight terms. Maybe these guys are pan or bi or just guys who have sex with guys and it’s a perfect fit. Why would two best friends “taking it to the sheets” Rubin anything when most straight tv story arcs have a switch off of sexual partners throughout a series. Why would a same sex version change anything more then those?
It needs to happen, honestly. I’m a straight guy, and even I am invested in their relationship. I thought they were already headed there this whole time. It wouldn’t even make sense to pair them up with new, outside love interests.
well it stop me watching
must be boring to be a homophobe
Being a heterophobe seems to make you angry. You can’t stand it if they don’t make 2 hetero guys gay.
Heterophobe???? Ma’am. That doesn’t exist.
Does not make you homophobe if you see enough gay relationships…straights have an opinion also..why push it …not judging…just saying if they are straight why make them gay..
Maybe they aren’t straight. I thought I saw Buck in a conversation with a female character where she asks him if he’s finally going to date a guy? Admittedly, I’ve only see this on YouTube, I’ve not watched the show – but it’s interesting enough to get me to start watching. I thought the scenes I saw were from a movie.
By the way, have you noticed that whenever a majority sees any movement that might even slightly affect the amount of their dominance often some members of that majority start to get upset? You can see the same thing with what’s happening in the US with white people losing their huge numeric advantage. I understand it, I’m white, but it’s a feeling that has to be identified and processed – then move on and accept that things change.
I with you . The min that’s in I am done . I love this show but I won’t watch either . The 2 ladies from the beginning were so that was already in. But really buck who like woman . Ok
Oh no, you were forced to tolerate the lesbians! Not bisexuals, too!
Bye, Theresa
It’s widely accepted today that very few people are either 100% straight or 100% gay, so while both Eddie and Buck “like” women, and both have had trouble in their relationships with women, nothing says that one or both can’t also “like” men. Come join us in the 21st century.
WTF
Ha. Man, I thought I was the only straight guy invested in their romantic relationship! I don’t see how anyone can watch the show and not root for Buck and Eddie to be together. Their scenes are electric. As are Chimney and Maddie’s, but that’s for another post!
I’m straight and I’m rooting for them
Thank you for this.
I haven’t noticed it. Although they do make good co parents.
I’ll never understand this yaoi-like trope of let’s take two straight guys and get them together because they’re both attractive and work well off of each other. Characters finding themselves and realizing they’re gay, a la Willow in Buffy, is one thing. This isn’t what people seem to be asking for here. This just seems to be people wanting to to see two hot guys grind on each other.
This is exactly what we want! I loved how they revealed that Willow’s sexuality in Buffy. I don’t need them to bone. I just want them to grow together. We’ve seen what great partners they make both at work and as parents to Christopher.
Plus, I’ve always seen Eddie as a gay man. He didn’t seem to be in love with Shannon at all, he was trying to Christopher’s sake. He also seems to not be interested in women whatsoever, and Buck has noticed that…
But, you’re not asking for these two guys to discover that they are gay. You’re asking for these two guys to be gay for each other. If they both realized that they were gay but, didn’t see each other as anything other than friends you would freak out. So no, you aren’t asking for a Willow-type situation. You’re asking for a trope.
Who is the “you” you keep speaking of? What do people “seem” to be asking for? Lol, there are millions of fans. Your argument is simple because you’ve simplified the complex perspectives of a varied audience. Viewers want this relationship because it’s good, invigorating storytelling. I promise you there’s no “grinding” on network television.
“You” is the person that I am responding too. And people “seem” to be asking exactly what I said that they were asking for. This isn’t people asking for more gay representation on TV. This isn’t people asking for “invigorating” storytelling. This is people asking for lazy storytelling. This boils down to “Hey, two hot guys that get along. Let’s make them gay”. If it was two guys that looked like George Wendt that had the same chemistry you wouldn’t be hearing a peep about having them explore their sexuality.
That seems to be what it boils down to for you, and you should examine that, “Gern.” But you’re projecting something kinda baseless onto millions of viewers and fans, so your oversimplification of a massive and complex viewership js pretty silly.
This doesn’t boil down to anything with me. My wife watches the show while I read or play video games. It’s background noise for me. So, I don’t have any kind of investment in this other than an aversion to tired, lazy storytelling. Like I said before, this isn’t people wanting these two characters to realize that they are gay and be true to themselves. They want them to be gay for each other. Which is a lazy trope in this type of yaoi-like storytelling. You are giving this really limp, “not everybody” push-back because you don’t really have an argument as to why I’m wrong and you know that I’m not. It’s about their relative attractiveness. If even one of them was a hideous CHUD, you wouldn’t be hearing one word about getting them together. This isn’t a complex issue like you are trying to make it “Tim”. The issue is lazy, trope-y storytelling. That’s really it.
About a quarter of men are bi….
A quarter of gay men are straight. I mean if we are throwing out wishful statistics why not? I find it amusing that being gay is sacrosanct but being hetro is all flexibility. I guess we really are privileged.
Putting away my sarcasm we like who we like but humans like to complicate things. I think people are more generally solid about their
physical attraction in one direction. It’s very fanfic to have the I’m only gay for this person trope. But it’s a fun trope so I guess why not. It’s not like tv is realistic.
Lmao what? There are plenty of people who identify as gay who later find out that they are bi. Same with people who identify as straight. Often people mistake their strongest attraction as their only attraction, but bisexuality often isn’t 50/50. A guy can live his entire life primarily attracted to woman, but only experience attraction to men a handful of times. That’s not wishful – that’s just paying attention to how complex all of this really is.
As if pointless vanity based shipping doesnt happen abound all sexual spectrums …no it’s just people getting up in arms when it’s the gays wanting a ship
I don’t really get the point of “shipping” in general. Regardless, the rest of my point still stands. And is it “the gays”, as you put it, that are shipping this or is it straight women? I am genuinely asking as in my experience it’s straight women that are attracted to this kind of story as opposed to gay men or women.
literally 85 percent of us are gay/bi men and women and the other 15 percent is straight women and men
Okay. I’ll have to take your word for it. From my experience, admittedly limited, it’s flipped. It’d be like more 15% gay and 85% straight women that are invested in this type of story.
Factually, all definitive studies to date on western cultures have shown gay men, women, bisexual men and women, and transgendered men and women account for approximately 5% of the west’s total population.
I’m a straight woman and I’m,not interested in watching Eddie and Buck become a couple. I like their bromance not romance. I’m also not against being who you are, if you’re gay, straight, bi whatever doesn’t matter… I just don’t get that vibe from either of them.
Gay woman here, and I agree. I just don’t see it. I am much more into Buck being represented as queer than I am of the Buddie ship.
There’s a lot of irony in choosing Willow as your example.
How so?
Let’s see. Willow was never intended to be written as a character that would later come out as a lesbian. In fact it was Xander the writers had tossed out. They were going to play on the fact that every girl he likes turns out crazy or a demon at the time. He was going to start questioning why that happens. Yadda, Yadda, Yadda, he realizes he’s gay.
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However some behind the seens stuff happened that gave Joss and the writers the idea to maybe explore Willow as the character who comes out.
During S4 Seth Green decided he didn’t want to be on the show anymore. The writers weren’t planning on splitting them up but what else could they do? So they had to write him out. The original S4 arc for them was going to be the Willow/Oz/Verucia love triangle. But they had to condense that into a few episodes since Seth wanted out.
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Originally Amber Benson was only hired for the episode “Hush”. But during filming of the episode Joss and the writers noticed the chemistry between the two actresses. So they went back to the writers room and started to talk about heading down that road with Willow. Amber Benson was asked to do a couple more episodes. This was done to kind of test the waters with the two actresses and characters. When Hush finally aired and a lot of fans took notice of the chemistry between Alyson and Amber it kind of sealed the deal.
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So the irony is that you chose Willow and her storyline as a good example of a queer character, presumed to be straight, finding themselves and not put together because two people work well off of each other. When it reality that is exactly how it happened. Only it wasn’t the fans and SM behind it, it was the show itself so to speak. Had Seth not quit and Amber and Alyson’s chemistry not been that palpable to even the show’s creator we would never had had lesbian Willow.
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In fact there are so, so many examples of characters, storylines, etc only existing *after* actors start working together, fan reactions, and random happy little accidents as Bob Ross called them occurred.
I’m not arguing any of what you said is wrong. What I’m arguing is that people are clamoring for these to people to be gay for each other. In the Willow example it was the writers deciding to have her come to a realization and come out as gay. Not just gay for Tara. But, gay. In this case it is viewers who want these two to be gay but, only for each other. If they both came out but, decided to still be just friends and date other people these same people calling for them to be gay would be apoplectic. That’s why I don’t get this and have a bit of an issue with it. In this instance people don’t seem to be looking for gay representation on TV. They want to have these characters play gay (that’s probably not the right way to describe it but, I can’t think of a better way right now).
Go back to not watching TV with your wife, you clearly don’t know jack about the topic you are talking about. Its cute that you want to come into the comments about a show you very clearly have opinions about but dont know how to express properly.
Way to not actually counter anything I said.
if you don’t watch the show why are you evening giving your point of view?
I get what you’re saying, why make them gay just for each other if they’re actually not gay.
Agree totally . Just not watch if this happens .
If the writers play this right they could have something seriously amazing. Showrunners rarely care enough about mlm/wlw ships enough to let them simmer. It’s always straight to boiling and then to the back burner. But the simmering is what everyone is attracted to. We need that build up and that growth for the relationship to be believable. I think they’ve done an amazing job so far and I’m actually really excited to see where they take their relationship in the future.
You rarely see a slow build for a gay romance in many television shows, especially on networks. It’d be wonderful to see a romantic relationship build between the two of them.
If they were male and female with that same chemistry you just know they’d have people clamouring for them to be a couple and there will probably be a will they/won’t they storyline for sure. Why can’t it happen for two guys?
i always feel so embarrassed whenever i see fans go crazy like that on social media. don’t get me wrong, i ship buddie as well and i would love to see them get together, but there is no need to constantly involve the actors and writers, or severely harass them like some fans did after monday’s episode.
the actors shouldn’t have to feel pressured to constantly acknowledge every little thing, they already do plenty enough for the fans.
i’m glad they’re so professional about it, considering the way some of the fans talk to them.
and i do hope buddie will get together one day, but if not, then i will continue to enjoy their wonderful friendship.
Oh my god! This 1000000%
I ship Buddie so hard, I love them dearly and want them to happen, but this constant harassment of writers, directors and actors is just embarrassing.
You would think these people are a bunch of five year olds, when in fact they’re probably much, much older.
When I don’t like stuff in the show, I keep my mouth shut and move on and not go on social media and trash everyone.
Well, people are passionate about the show and especially these characters of Buck and Eddie. They’re afraid the writers and producers don’t see the potential, the parallels, the nuances of how they intertwine. When you invest so much time and energy and emotion into a narrative, of course you’d want the people in charge to know how you feel. :)
But that doesn’t excuse their behavior. They can be passionate and respectful at the same time. Just because they got butthurt over being mislead (which I have no idea about cuz I never saw anyone promising anything) does not give them the right to harass the cast and crew. They can have a civil conversation with them instead. But apparently civility no longer has a place in fandom.
(I am a die hard Buddie shipper and would absolutely love to see this slow burn play out. But the way some fans are starting to act, esp on Twitter, has me wanting to peace out of social media all together. It’s embarrassing.)
There’s a massive difference between tweeting the writers to ask if this pairing will ever happen/starting hashtags to show your support of the pairing and actively harassing the actors (who have nothing to do with the writing) about not retweeting fan videos to the point where they have to address why they aren’t doing so. It’s honestly pathetic the levels of harassment that some fans stoop to. And it exists in so many fandoms – people need to calm the f down and leave these actors alone. They are just doing their jobs.
Yes but it does not give fans the right to say some of the things I’ve seen thrown at Oliver and Ryan, like accusing both of them of homophobia because Eddie and Buck aren’t together. That is too far, that is not healthy passion for a show, that is toxic harassment. There needs to be a line.
A majority of people that ship white slash m/m ships usually don’t. Look at the Dean/Cas fandom from SPN or even people creepily shipping Louis and Harry from One Direction. No lines at all there. )And then canon interracial slash ships usually get ignored.)
Omg this! The way a subset of fans harass Oliver, Ryan and the writers makes me cringe hard. Then when Oliver addresses it, they play it off and say they are joking. I’d love for Eddie and Buck to happen but the constant attacks on them is something I don’t like. There are fans that are sweet and just say they wish they’d be together and then there are fans openly harassing them for not retweeting everything Buddie and that is what I do not like. Have some respect and don’t do that.
Buck and Eddie have shared more romantic tropes than some of the canonical couples on the show. The only reason for them not to happen would be because they’re two guys and that simply won’t do in 2019. MAKE THEM BI, YOU COWARDS.
Maybe 2020 will be more generous to us 😊
MAKE THEM BI, YOU COWARDS is the catchphrase I didn’t know I needed.
You’re getting your hot, gay, first responder couple on the new 9-1-1 Lonestar next month…Buddie is not happening.
And of course, every same sex couple is interchangeable with any other same sex couple. Or any straight couple, for that matter, which is why one straight couple on one 911 show is enough and we won’t have any more than that in the entire 911 shows universe.
This! And it completely disregards the huge difference between handing an established mlm/wlw to the audience and acting like it’s even remotely the same as a slow burn, trope-filled, friends to lovers narrative. A narrative we literally see applied to m/f couples ALL THE TIME in EVERY SHOW. But never happens for same gender couples. The only established relationship we started 911 with was Hen and Karen. All the m/f couples we’ve gotten to see develop into couples ON THE SHOW. And now Lonestar looks to be the same thing. Is it too much to ask that lgbt ships get slow burn too?
The social media presence of these two characters’ relationship is insane. I’ve only seen a few episodes of this show, but I already thought these two were together. How are the EPs not already capitalizing on a story element that has so much audience momentum behind it? Response like that is GOLD. They have something white hot on their hands.
who tf is saying that they’re gay please we’re saying BISEXUAL jeez
not bisexual or gay just straight…jeezzz
I am gay, so it’s always great to see LGBTQ+ representation on screen, but I’m not sure if I want them to be a couple. The chemistry is off the charts but I believe it’d be much better if they kept the relationship as it is in a way to show viewers that two male characters are capable of being truly honest and show their emotions without being taken as gay or less of a man. The male characters on 9-1-1 are a really good representation of a masculinity that’s not toxic and that’s one of the reasons why I love it so much.
This.
It’s 2019. There are literally non-toxic friendships between two males on every television show. Especially procedurals. This would be a very bad reason for this relationship not to progress into romance.
YES!! This exactly. I agree with you.
I agree with Nerdbot.
I am gay too. And while I would be relatively okay if Buck and Eddie’s relationship stayed the same, using the need for non-toxic male relationships on tv as an argument is so weird, because in every other show I watch there’s a bromance? Literally eveywhere, I don’t get the argument.
Agreed. Close, non-toxic male friendship is not something tv lacks representation of.
EXACTLY, Nerdbot. 👍
ditto nerdbot!
It needs to happen but i know they won’t go there.
I’m all for Buck and Eddie to happen down the line. Oliver and Ryan work so well together. And the way the writers have written them (this season the most) is not just friendship between them. From Eddie trusting Buck the most when it comes to Christopher. How he reacted with Buck’s lawsuit. How Buck was trying so hard to say sorry to Eddie. How Buck was the first one who notice something was off with Eddie. The sexual tension and the flirting going on in the kitchen scene at Buck’s apartment. And all the heart eyes they give each other. Also the fact Christopher wanted to spend Christmas with Buck when Eddie had to work, but when he couldn’t because he had to work too, Buck with Athena’s help made sure that Eddie and Christopher could spend Christmas together at the station (that was the main reason he fixed this party at the station). I’m all for the slow burn with these two. I don’t see them happening yet. I’m so sure they have feelings for each other, but they both need to work through stuff before they can be in a relationship with each other and being the best parents to Christopher.
I don’t see any reason why Buddie couldn’t happen. Everything’s here… If that was a man/woman relationship it would’ve happened already. And that’s why it’s pissing me off. Love is love and this is what I see here. I’m not asking for it to happen right away like kissing etc, on the contrary they need to build their relationship slowly to make it real (if I can use that word?). But I just think they’re so right for each other and meant to be together at some point.
Exactly. If these two characters were male and female, you wouldn’t see half the whining going on in these posts.
Oh but they are not gay…..savaride and Shay?
I have thought that they had chemistry towards the beginning of season two. They are really good together and they just seem to click well. I’d love to see a slow buildup to them realising that they care about one another and that it’s more than just the platonic friendship love. Buck gets on beautifully with Christopher and you can tell he loves that boy so much. I truly think that buddie could be something truly incredible and break down a lot of walls and carve a new path in television. The show has already shed so much light on a unique way of dealing with things and in how things are portrayed so it’d be nice to have these two end up together. They’re already practically inseperable and what’s better than falling in love with your best friend and having the feeling be mutual?
Exactly. It doesn’t mean they need to jump each other in the next episode but their chemistry and friendship shows. I would love them together and I feel like if they did get them together it wouldn’t be a rushed thing and it’d be them slowly figuring things out.
I don’t care either way with Buddie, i just want Carla to come back!!!
Baiting 101
I don’t think this is queerbaiting at ALL. It’s actually a refreshing and honest response to a fanbase that is constantly stalking his every move on SM and calling into question what he likes, RTs, and doesn’t.
I don’t think this is queerbaiting at all. I think it is a refreshing and honest response to a fanbase that is constantly stalking his every move on SM and calling into question what he likes and RTs and what he doesn’t.
Sorry for the double post. Though not really my fault? Come on TVLine’s comment thing-y
This is literally the opposite of baiting lmao. Dude straight up said he doesn’t know where the story is going bc he’s not a writer/producer, and he doesn’t want to get anyone’s hopes up if it doesn’t happen, but he supports the fans’ rights to support what they want to support. This response is the least baiting I’ve probably ever seen from an actor in response to a possible pairing.
It is sad that the world is so devoid of examples of true male friendship being displayed on television that when two guy characters get along people feel those relationships should be sexualized. The same thing happened with Supernatural even though those characters are brothers. Sam and Dean even made fun of those social media posts and fan fiction stories in one of their meta episodes they did a few seasons back.
totally get where you’re coming from !! but honestly i think that in this case it’s not about that. it’s that people do ship them because they do act like a couple and have scenes that made people think they would be a thing – and also because some bisexual/pan representation would be amazing. we all know that if buck and eddie were portayed by a man and a woman they’d be canon already.
The “true male friendships” that you speak of are on EVERY television show out there. However, we have never seen a strong friendship between two guys slowly evolve into something more over the course of multiple seasons.
Now that is the truth.
Lmao there are examples of true male friendship on the majority of shows that are on air, and people aren’t pushing for all of them to get together. Supernatural is a bad example – CW viewers will “ship” any two random characters together, even when they barely share screentime.
I would love to see them as a couple. To me it looks like they already are a couple. Because all the scenes they have together alone looks like they are in love. And there’s no hetero in those scenes at all. Take the episode before the christmas episode, everyone knows they were flirting. And I’m telling you in that scene was no hetero. ‘Well, I’d still take you’ ‘Should we go for the title?’ And we won’t forget this.. ‘Buck. There is no one in this world i trust with my son more than you.’
it’s a very modern look at a queer relationship starring what I assume would be two bisexual/pansexual men. It would be a refreshing look. They both have undeniable chemistry, and it seems like a very sweet, innocent relationship. I think it would be groundbreaking.
their chemistry is undeniable. when i first started watching the show i really thought they were gonna be a couple. hope the writers give the fans what they want.
I ship Buddie so much. I want the slowburn and the build up. Don’t want them to get together too fast. I will wait for them.
I belive this shows has really good writing and the way the actors play they characters are fascinating. Buddie is a like a endgame ship, and I hope to see their bounding growing to and amazing romance storyline, the thing about them is they’re pure emotion and we need to keep that to build something beautiful between those two 💕 I STAN BUDDIE
I think a romantic relationship between Buck and Eddie makes a TON of sense for both of their stories, and has the potential for a lot of interesting storytelling as well.
I already thought Eddie was a closeted gay character (Mexican-Catholic, from Texas, hyper masculine surroundings like the army, always repressing his emotions and desires). He barely showed any interest in Shannon. That really seemed to be for their kid’s sake.
And Buck, well, what’s to say Buck hasn’t been bi this whole time? He was a very purely sexual being when we first met him, and his own sister Maddie asked if he had a crush on Eddie, and it didn’t seem to be a joke. She’s probably known since they were teenagers.
Don’t ruin this show
how would buddie going canon ruin the show??