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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. 💔

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.

Fans watch it for the idealistic values and the fact the "main characters always find a way". They find comfort in the personal storylines of the characters and not the emergency's. No one was becoming uninterested or bored of the same emergency's or repetitiveness of the show, we watch it to see the development of the characters and how they grow and learn from things. How their relationships grow and how they work together as a team. It was never about the emergency's or violence it was about the personalities and how they change throughout time. We want to see new relationships, more kids, even possibly add a new main character not ruin the foundation built to support the story's. Thank you for destroying the purpose of this series to many viewers.

I think the real issue that we're experiencing right now is that Tim Minear doesn't understand his audience. Most people watch 911 as a comfort show. We watch for the silly emergencies and the found family feel. There are a thousand other shows we could watch if we wanted our main characters to be at deaths door. The fact that they always got out of the most impossible situations alive is why people watch. There's comfort in knowing everything is going to be okay. Tim wrote the show he wanted to write but forgot the audience he was writing for. When people talk about this show in the future this is the episode that people will point to and say 911 jumped the shark.

I am so deeply disappointed with this episode (the last one wasn't better).

As a fan, I feel disrespected by the writers of 911. How did they manage to write this big emergency without including one of their main characters ???? Eddie deserved to be part of this, especially if Bobby's death is real (which I believe it won't be).

How come the writers couldn't include Eddie's reaction to his death but they manage to include Tommy's? Tommy who was not part of the 118, Tommy who had racist and misogynistic attitudes towards Chimeny and Hen?

The writing was lazy (it had some good parts) but Eddie's absence was so loud that I couldn't feel the emotions the characters were supposed to portray.

One thing I need to give to 911: it sure loves to give screen time to racist characters (and actors).