Anyone here watch 9-1-1? Spoilers and hypothesis

[JRoss]

So I'm enjoying what I've seen so far of 9-1-1. The third (I think) episode is all about a plane crash. At the beginning of the episode we see the young guy asking the other firefighters about the black book that Peter Krause writes in. Krause gets upset when the young kid starts to read the book.

The kid concludes that it is a book of names of people that Krause has saved. Any savvy audience member knows that this is probably not true. I was a firefighter, and you'd have to have some sort of god complex to write down something like that. This has to be a list of the people that he couldn't save.

Later in the episode Krause is having a conversation with his daughter at home, but they zoom out and you see that he's alone. He's just deluded into thinking that his daughter still lives with him.

Before that scene there is a very intense sequence involving a woman who's pinned to her seat in the airplane while it sinks underwater. Krause promises the woman that he'll save her so she can be with her son. It comes down to the wire and Krause and the woman only get out because the young firefighter attaches a carabiner to Krause and lifts him out. Krause int turn grabs onto the woman and pulls her up. Hooray.

Here's the thing. The setup for that rescue was all wrong, dramatically and practically speaking. I don't think that the woman survived. I think Krause is deluding himself into thinking that he saved her and that any memories he has of talking to her afterwards and reuniting her with her son are bogus. We never see the woman in any scene following the rescue except for when Krause is present. I can't recall if she interacts with anyone except for her son, but those could be delusions, too.

What I'd like to see is a few more sequences like this throughout the season. Then in the finale Krause has a real meltdown and we get a flashback scene to show that he failed a lot. What do you think?

 

[Danny99]

I don't see how this show is going to effectively juggle the fire fighters with Bassett and Britton. Are they all just going to end up on the same call each week or on the flip side, how are they going to serve these characters each week to make us invest in them?

 

[JRoss]

I've wondered that, too. I used to be a firefighter, and the shifts are 24 hours on, 48 off. You spend one of those days on call. I hear that 911 operators have 12 or 24-hour shifts. In this case we see Britton working late at night, so I'd assume that it's 24 in their jurisdiction. If this is the case, then her shift and Krause's might be in sync. Cops work regular hours though.

That said, Bassett's character I could take or leave. she should have been fired for harassing that punk kid. And her husband is very annoying.Also, the young kid should have been fired in the pilot. I know he helped save the day (it was nice that he didn't have to "rescue" the competent cop, but was just in able to help because of circumstances)., so I guess he gets a tiny pass for that.