it would be a disgrace to not follow up on this character, because if we don’t then all the show has done is leave a gay man lost, heartbroken, and alone with seemingly no plans to resolve it.
This is the crux of the issue for me. All of Buck's other exes got better opportunities.
Abby got a husband and two step-daughters, a family of her own.
Ali got a better job.
Taylor got a book deal.
Natalia still has a job that fulfills her.
Tommy, the man who has been craving a family since the first time Buck and Tommy had an intimate conversation, he is just left alone to suffer.
And I know he broke Buck's heart, and there was biphobia there too. (I'm blaming writers more than Tommy, but even in the watsonian perspective we can't brush over it.) However, Buck is a main character. We'll see his side of the story. We know he will be okay, because he is always okay. In addition, as a main character in a procedural he has to maintain the status quo of overcoming everything.
But at least we’ll see Buck’s aftermath. For Tommy, we’re left to wonder.
The show who gave a better ending to the homophobic, racist ex-captain of the 118, and even gave a better send-off to Eddie Diaz's mustache fumbled the messages of their own story so much if they leave it like this.
Because if Buck doesn't fight for what he wanted for once, and let's the universe deliver "the one" to him like Maddie seems to want, what does that say about Mitchell's dying words to Buck?
I don't know, I don't write the show, but thinking Abby's ex being named Tommy is just too good of an opportunity to not use and ignoring the the coincidence of Buck bonding with a man who is mourning his own Thomas is definitely a choice.
(Tagging @thatmexisaurusrex who pointed out the treatment of Buck's exes.)
