Lab Rats

He's got zero clue about who his audience is, what they like, why they're watching the show. He doesn't understand his characters, either. And he especially seems to hate his actors. He needs to leave this show and go straight to superhell. This episode was extremely poorly written and makes no narrative sense. Shock value death is so lazy, and completely out of tune with the show. There's been nothing realistic about this show (and especially not this episode) since day one and that's what's kept everyone watching. It's low stakes! That's why we like it. No matter how absurd the story gets, everyone makes it home! It's a comfort show, you don't kill off main characters in a comfort show! You barely even kill side characters. Once again, Tim Minear has no idea what's he's doing.

People do not watch this show for its realism; rather, we are drawn to it for the comfort and entertainment it provides. In today's world, there is an undeniable need for an escape from reality. This series has been a source of entertainment for millions, and this particular episode marks the beginning of its decline. Despite this, the actors delivered stellar performances, deserving of the highest praise.

There are more sophisticated methods to captivate an audience. This approach resembles a juvenile attempt at seeking attention with a "look at me" flair.

The writers can go ingest a satchel of Richards

I do not intend to watch season 9 or the spin-off, 9-1-1 Nashville.

As Peter Krause said in an interview at the end of the previous season (S7, 2024);

"The characters in the show have survived so many horrible and life-threatening accidents, like characters from Looney Tunes cartoons - none of which ever died. So in keeping with the language of the show, we are incredibly resilient characters. We go through things and we come back ... We want to speak to people's resilience and, in Bobby's case, redemption. So, I don't know if killing off characters is necessarily a part of the language of the show - at least not the main characters."

... and yet, here we are.

I love you, Cap.

The episode felt really out of place. It didn't have the 9-1-1 feel, apart from the unrealistic handeling of a big emergency, but we accepted that a long time ago. ;)

Eventhough 9-1-1 is always ambitious in having these huge scale emergencies, this felt off. This episode was obviously written with a goal, which was not the continuation of the storyline, but to be an episode with a shockfactor.

It really felt like a one off. I missed the interactions between the characters, the family feel. There was more time for flashy, high-budget, signs than there was for connection.

The emotions of the episode were reserved for one moment and wouldn't it have been great to feel the angst and worry through the characters' eyes in the rest of the episode... They had such a good opportunity with this storyline for character'- and relationshipbuilding. Too bad the writers weren't interested in writing an episode for their show, but more interested in... I don't even know what the point was.

We've survived snipers, lightning strikes, tsunamis, earthquakes, beenados, serial killers and throat slashes, pirates on cruiseships, to only name a few... But we've not survived the writers' whim. 💔

I made an account on this godforsaken website just to rate this episode one star. The decisions made in this episode completely undermines and betrays the covenant the show has built with its viewers over the last eight years. If tim wanted to make a different show, he could've created a new show. This was our silly wee woo show - 9-1-1 provided levity, comfort, and found family to its viewers, and the reaction to this episode shows just how out-of-line this was - is there not enough suffering in this world? This episode was nasty in a way that just felt especially and needlessly cruel to the viewers who have invested their time into a stable and comforting show.