That was riveting!
We dived into an action-packed hour on Fire Country Season 1 Episode 16 because the workforce traveled to a neighboring county to assist put out a large hearth began by the mysterious arsonist we have now been conscious of.
After such a disappointing flip of occasions on Fire Country Season 1 Episode 15, this episode was such a welcome improve, and it was nice from the start to the tip.
Aptly titled “My Kinda Leader,” it centered on management and what these beneath them count on of a frontrunner. Many characters grappled with their function as leaders as they confronted new challenges and reeled from occasions previous.
Up first, we had Bode.
Bode just isn’t a frontrunner formally however has that high quality that makes folks need to observe him. Reeling from the occasions resulting in Rebecca’s demise, he questioned himself as a frontrunner and what extra he might have performed to stop Rebecca’s untimely demise.
Bode has all the time been onerous on himself. He holds himself to the next customary than most individuals do as a result of he has been starved for affection for a very long time. It’s solely pure that he needs to face out so that individuals discover and like him extra.
Rebecca’s demise felt like he let down her and himself. When it reaches a degree the place Freddy has to step in and lead, one thing should have been off. Can we respect how a lot Freddy has grown as an individual?
Freddy: Listen to me, Bode. I used to be there. Cap’s proper. Sometimes it is no person’s fault.
Bode: But you stepped up after I ought to have.
Freddy: You cannot all the time be the hero, dude. But now you bought an opportunity to step up her, proper? Givin the eulogy …
Bode: I’m fourth era Cal Fire. I ought to have identified higher. I ought to have been higher.
Freddy: You did your greatest then, and also you gotta convey your greatest now.
From the scared inmate firefighter who needed to run away from his first hearth to a full-on chief and nice pep speak giver.
The Drake County hearth was simply the chance Bode wanted to show to himself and everybody that he was not a loser.
Whether by good or dangerous luck, he met one other chief who shared his bravado to a fault.
Leadership is a singular trait that’s totally different for each individual. Some folks get too drunk with it, some take it to an excessive diploma, and others do not take it with the seriousness it deserves.
The Drake County Lieutenant did not match any of those classes, and he additionally suits all of them.
I’ve identified hearth to be a damaging ingredient to not be messed with, however I’ve by no means considered it as a dwelling factor — a respiration, feeding, and dangerous organism.
As a frontrunner, it’s nice to push folks beneath you, particularly when a lot is at stake. But it’s also sensible to know when to name it quits, which was one thing “Mr. Organism” did not do.
His perspective towards preventing fires was too literal.
Being in the midst of two overzealous leaders, Manny needed to step again.
Manny is a good chief who is aware of the best way to steadiness all the pieces. Even beneath such blatant insubordination from Bode and being challenged by the Drake County Lieutenant, he saved his cool and understood that they had been each going via one thing.
There is a distinction between heroism and stupidity.
Manny
I am unable to say I understood how he managed that as a result of if I had been in his place…
Sharon returned to work and was confronted with an accusation about her firefighters that had her questioning her actuality.
It was nice to see the hearth investigator do her job for as soon as. She nonetheless had that laisez-faire perspective when coping with Station 42 that we noticed when she investigated the notorious bridge rescue on Fire Country Season 1 Episode 9, however she put her foot down this time.
Such an accusation was wild, however she had the proof to again it up. The arsonist case is a curious one that we are going to discover subsequent.
Ultimately, management is about making one of the best determination in your folks, even once you aren’t thrilled.
Pelham would have most well-liked to maintain battling the hearth, however he understood he could be risking his life.
The gang leaders would have most well-liked to maintain their folks preventing till the strongest survived, however they understood that the hearth was stronger than all mixed.
Sometimes, forgiving your self for making errors generally is a problem as a frontrunner.
Eve struggled with accepting that one thing tragic had occurred on her watch. She was able to take go away, however when responsibility known as, she answered.
She hasn’t gotten over the incident, and will probably be fascinating to see how she copes, hopefully not by emptying bottles of beer.
Manny knew and accepted that typically, issues go flawed and that it is nobody individual’s fault. Rebecca’s demise was tragic, and the tragedy was sufficient by itself. There was no must play the blame sport.
The arsonist’s case was on the forefront of the hour, with them escalating to large forest fires.
The operating principle was that Colin is the arsonist. His actions this hour did nothing to assist his case.
If one had been to look deeper at him, one would see a boy struggling to see beneath their lifeless father’s blinding highlight. One would see a younger man barely holding on as a result of he pressured himself into one thing he wasn’t fascinated by within the first place.
One would see a person whose again was breaking beneath the burden of a household legacy he needed to uphold.
But I get it. Your dad died a hero. You know, the strain to observe in his footsteps and save the day it is simply crushing. And when you may’t, I totaly…
Colin
Coming from a legendary firefighting household, he is aware of all the pieces there may be to learn about fires. It would not be a stretch to assume he has some fire-starting and preventing gear inside his attain, even away from the station.
In his twisted means, lighting fires and taking a entrance seat take a look at them burning and folks failing to place them out is a means for him to regain management or give an enormous center finger to the world for placing him on this place.
And he’s not silly. He is aware of what would occur if he had been caught, so he has a fall man in Jake.
His interplay with Jake appeared pressured from the primary try to bro as much as the dialogue about Jake’s first arson. He was in search of an angle; he certain received it.
As Sharon put it, Jake was the personification of an arsonist, however that did not make him one.
I additionally, ONCE as a child, began a fireplace and watched it burn, however that did not make me fall in love with torching issues up. Sometimes, children do silly issues. It’s of their blood.
I’m 99% certain Colin is the arsonist, and it will not be straightforward for him to get caught.
“My Kinda Leader” was a loaded episode that balanced progressive storytelling and motion will. It is among the greatest episodes this season. Some season-long storylines, like Sharon’s kidney illness, needed to take a again seat in order that the arsonist storyline might be explored, and the outcomes had been implausible.
Tahmoh Penikett, who portrayed Pelham, did an awesome job with the character; he was a pleasure to look at.
What did you assume? Are you satisfied that Colin is the arsonist?
Was it as hilarious for you when Jake pulled a Will Smith on the Oscars with the quote under?
You wanna bro up? You hold my identify out of your Google Search.
Jake
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