S02.E03: Hold The Line

[formerlyfreedom]

As a wildfire spreads across Texas, Evan "Buck" Buckley, Henrietta "Hen" Wilson and Eddie Diaz from the 118 firehouse in Los Angeles arrive in Austin to help Capt. Strand and the 126. As the crews race to save a group of teenagers trapped by the fire at a campground, Owen and Hen fight for their lives in the aftermath of a helicopter crash.

Airing Monday, February 1, 2021.

 

[anna0852]

I was wondering if the fact Julian Works had done a guest spot on LA would come up. My cousin Marvin! I love it!

And Iove that it was Buck and TK heading off to snitch a truck. And Buck being concerned about Bobby getting pissed about scratches. 

Great crossover! Hope we see 126 deploy to Los Angeles at some point. 

Edited February 2, 2021 by anna0852

[DearEvette]

Ok it was a nice little Easter Egg for Mateo to mention his cousin Marvin,  The character he played in the original recipe 9-1-1 as a guest spot. 

I liked this.  It was good storytelling and made good use of the characters and I liked all the different pairings and the camaraderie between the groups. Hen and Cap for the win with Eddie and Judd's friendly old high school rivalry as a second place.  Missed Grace, but she would have been superfluous here. 

[Bulldog]

I hope Clayton Farlow's ranch survived the fire. (Yeah, I'm old and if you get the reference, you're probably old too.)

Did they ever explain what happened to the pilot that was on the chopper with Hen and Cap?  I heard them talking about some broken bones.  Then I must have missed something.  Did he die?  Surely, they did not leave him out in the fire by himself while injured?  If so, that should give Cap a little more guilt to chew on. 

Jud (and Grace, even though she wasn't in the episode) remain my favorite characters.  I'm hoping we see some more interaction with him and JJ in the future.     

[anna0852]

Hen and Owen pulled the pilot into the mine shaft with them

[jewel21]

As they were being rescued and carried to the helicopter, we saw the pilot ahead of them on a stretcher being loaded into the chopper so I'm assuming he survived. 

I liked TK and Buck working together and laughed when TK said he was in a serious relationship, heh. 

I don't recall this Marvin character. Was this in the first season because if so, I never watched it. 

[Court]

That was fun. Marvin, the cousin cracked me up

[anna0852]

15 hours ago, jewel21 said:

 

I don't recall this Marvin character. Was this in the first season because if so, I never watched it. 

'Marvin' is an in-joke. Julian Works played a teenage car thief named Marvin that Athena arrested during the season 2 earthquake episodes on original flavor 9-1-1

Edited February 2, 2021 by anna0852

[lorbeer]

I feel dissapointed with this episode. I mean, don't get me wrong it was a great episode, BUT:

1) we didn't see them actually fight a wildfire, for me it felt just like a background

2) they went all the way from LA to Texas to be there less than 24 hours?!

I know they needed a reason to send a fire team so far away, but you know... it should be more in my opinion.

3) they better do not hint that Buck is gay.

I liked Eddie's interactons with Texas team.

[possibilities]

I never watched the original 911. I liked Hen, and some of the other visitors this week (none of whose names I can remember), though. Usually cross-overs annoy me, but this one actually piqued my interest. I'm surprised, because I have been on the verge of stopping watching Lone Star, and didn't expect to be drawn towards the other show by it showing up here.

[Bramble]

14 hours ago, anna0852 said:

'Marvin' is an in-joke. Raphael Silva played a teenage car thief named Marvin that Athena arrested during the season 2 earthquake episodes on original flavor 9-1-1

Actually Marvin was Julian Works (Mateo), not Raphael Silva (Carlos)

[iMonrey]

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I liked TK and Buck working together and laughed when TK said he was in a serious relationship, heh. 

Even the writers are trolling us now.

I thought it was a fairly well done crossover but as an episode it felt a bit overstuffed, and I agree with lorbeer the actual wildfire sort of took a back seat to the stories.

[anna0852]

1 hour ago, Bramble said:

Actually Marvin was Julian Works (Mateo), not Raphael Silva (Carlos)

Oops!

 

Shouldn't have been posting while half asleep 

[tennisgurl]

That was a pretty fun crossover, I was a little worried about them doing a crossover so early in the season, but this worked out quite well. It felt a bit overstuffed, in the way that crossovers often do, but I thought that everyone had time to shine and all of the pairings between the Lonestar and 911 crews worked really well. It took me a bit to get the Cousin Marvin joke, but when I did finally get it I really cracked up. That was quite clever, and in general I thought this was a fun first crossover, and I would be totally down if the Lonestar crew ever came up to LA. 

I am glad that they only had three cast members from 911 come over, it didn't feel like they took over the show from the Lonestar cast, but they also gave them things to do and we got lots of interaction between the two groups in ways that felt organic. I especially liked Buck getting all star struck over Marjan, the one-upmanship over who has had the most insane rescues and situations, and using Eddie's backstory of being from Texas. The interactions between characters from different shows are usually the main draw of crossovers, and we had a lot of really good interactions between casts, like Owen and Hen talking about their issues with guilt and calling back to Hen and that horrible accident she was in, Eddie and Jud being from rival high schools, and of course TK and Buck running off to try and save the day alone, and TK thinking that Buck is hitting on him, which...I kind of got the flirty vibe as well, so I don't blame TK one little bit for picking something up, even if he is already seeing someone. Besides, we all know that Buck's heart belongs to Eddie. Seriously show, if you don't want me to keep waiting on Eddie and Buck to finally make their My Two Dads stuff official, stop winking at me about it! When Marjan was going over Eddie's Instagram pictures, I expected her to comment about how every picture was him, Christopher, and Buck, and to be like "single dad you said?" 

I missed Grace, but I totally get why she wasn't here, they had enough characters and plot elements already. 

[DearEvette]

3 hours ago, lorbeer said:

1) we didn't see them actually fight a wildfire, for me it felt just like a background

How does that work, IRL?  I just assumed wildfires are fought by specialists who specifically fight wildfires, like smokejumpers , hotshots or wildland firefighters and that your municipal firefighters are called in for support?  So maybe they were there to do mostly search and rescue or stuff like that?  At least that was my headwank.  But then this was also the tail-end of the fire and we missed most of the action off screen.

[PamelaMaeSnap]

I'd say the one thing that bothered me about this episode was having Rosewater appear as such an evil ghost, when the original character was so sweet. I understand Owen being haunted by him, but think there could have been a way to portray that without his seeming like a demon. 

[lorbeer]

22 hours ago, DearEvette said:

How does that work, IRL?  I just assumed wildfires are fought by specialists who specifically fight wildfires, like smokejumpers , hotshots or wildland firefighters and that your municipal firefighters are called in for support?  So maybe they were there to do mostly search and rescue or stuff like that?  At least that was my headwank.  But then this was also the tail-end of the fire and we missed most of the action off screen.

Well, frankly I don't how to fight wildfires. I was hoping to see that in the episode. 😉 I thought it was just the beggining of the wildfire because it started when that kid went camping and didn't the rest of the kids say he had went 'yesterday'? And since they had to bring firefighters from all over the country I thought it was a big one and a hard one to control. Maybe I just assumed wrong. I kind of was hoping to see action like this because last year there were a lot of huge wildfires all over the world. Like you know in 9-1-1 shows they make up those big natural distasters when the nature in real life already 'came up' with a big disaster. 🙂 It would be interesting to see that in the show.

[iMonrey]

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Well, frankly I don't how to fight wildfires. I was hoping to see that in the episode. 😉 I thought it was just the beginning of the wildfire because it started when that kid went camping and didn't the rest of the kids say he had went 'yesterday'?

Yeah that doesn't make a lick of sense. Presumably the fire started because of last weeks' volcanos (!) so why in the hell would anyone take a group of kids camping when fires are breaking out everywhere?

I understand a bunch of the firefighters were relegated to digging ditches to contain the fire but their conversations seemed a little too casual for the situation they were in. Kind of an urgent moment to be oohing and ahhing about someone making a ferris wheel rescue, or mooning over "Firefox" or whatever they were calling her.

[Kel Varnsen]

On 2/3/2021 at 1:58 PM, lorbeer said:

Well, frankly I don't how to fight wildfires. I was hoping to see that in the episode. 😉 I thought it was just the beggining of the wildfire because it started when that kid went camping and didn't the rest of the kids say he had went 'yesterday'? And since they had to bring firefighters from all over the country I thought it was a big one and a hard one to control. Maybe I just assumed wrong. I kind of was hoping to see action like this because last year there were a lot of huge wildfires all over the world. Like you know in 9-1-1 shows they make up those big natural distasters when the nature in real life already 'came up' with a big disaster. 🙂 It would be interesting to see that in the show.

My brother in law who is currently a municipal fire fighter used to do forest fire fighting in the summer. My understanding is that a lot of his former job was cutting down trees and making breaks.  I mean it is not like there are fire hydrants out in the forest.

[shapeshifter]

18 minutes ago, Kel Varnsen said:

My brother in law who is currently a municipal fire fighter used to do forest fire fighting in the summer. My understanding is that a lot of his former job was cutting down trees and making breaks.  I mean it is not like there are fire hydrants out in the forest.

And setting backfires https://www.nwcg.gov/term/glossary/backfire