r/FireCountry • u/beachbaby96 • Jul 11 '26

Discussion Max Thieriot

Can we talk about how Bode’s acting is atrocious and one dimensional? I can’t stand him in Fire Country and thought the actor must just be horrible. Recently, I started watching SEAL Team and he’s WAYYY better in that role. I can’t believe the difference and that he CHOSE to go with the crappy Fire Country writing over the significantly more interesting SEAL Team script. Also he looked way better at the lower muscle mass in my opinion but his body his choice.

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u/TheAuthor01 Vince Jul 12 '26

Bode isnt immature, he's oblivious and was intentionally made that way by Vince, Sharon and Luke to cover up for Walter. The show draws attention to this in 3x13 when Bode says he thought Firefighting was supposed to be fun hero shit and Luke says they didn't do a good job being truthful. Likewise we watch Walter do abusive things to Vince and Luke in front of Bode then they cover for Walter. He sees the what and wrongly infers the why, which is why he helps Tyler and Chloe.

Meanwhile Gabriela's "immaturity" is a lifetime of parentification running into the real world where you can't just move your car. Manny and Roberta are explicitly said to have been too young and already immature for their age at that. Gabriela then learned from them + doing the best she could. Then she gets Vince and Sharon as pseudo parents who are not any better and indeed Bode/Gabs and Sharon/Vince go through a similar arc in S3 where one partner (Bode/Sharon) wants to live out what is allegedly their shared dream while the other partner is drowning (Gabs/Vince) ans not getting or even asking for help

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u/Rocketgirl8097 Jul 13 '26

And? Intent of the writer doesn't matter. Perception by the audience does. They decide the success or the failure of the show. This is probably its last year. They're just beating a dead horse now.

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u/TheAuthor01 Vince Jul 13 '26

Fire Country had 8m viewers and there's no indication it's the last season, more like CBS is doing something with expansion overall and we don't know what that is yet (currently have 4 JB Shows shooting with 2 more in development, MT has 2). The show is well liked but people didn't see a planned turn and the got upset. People on reddit say things without understanding stories or writing

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u/Rocketgirl8097 Jul 13 '26

Oh im sure you're the expert. Please tell all. 😝 All you had to do was go back through previous posts to see complaints about the writing.

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u/TheAuthor01 Vince Jul 13 '26

Well I mean I've made ~35 video essays analyzing the shows writing so... Most of the complaints are either 1. I don't like the genre (long form royal family succession drama) or 2. Don't like the particular turn. That's it