Chicago Fire Season 13, Episode 3 ‘All Kinds Of Crazy‘ is a good, if unspectacular episode that continues the same storytelling threads from previous hours and resolves some pretty satisfactorily, while still leaving others room to grow. Damon was, perhaps, the easiest storyline to ‘solve’ in that, as much as he could have, perhaps, found a place in Firehouse 51 because of Severide, he never truly fit in at 51. So, what we lose with him leaving is more promise than anything else.
What do we gain? Well, it depends on who takes his place, but if it is Kylie, as it should be, then we might perhaps finally fill the vacant spot at Firehouse 51 with someone who truly belongs. And maybe, maybe, that will give Chief Pascal a chance to see what Firehouse 51 can truly be …and perhaps even find his own place in it.
THERE’S NO ‘I’ IN TEAM
The clear problem with Pascal, as evidenced in Chicago Fire Season 13, Episode 3 ‘All Kinds Of Crazy’ is that he is not a team player, and he doesn’t seem to want to be. But it’s very hard to be in a leadership position without being one. Ironically, he tries to call Stella, of all people, out for her lack of leadership, while demonstrating a tremendous lack of leadership himself. He isn’t leading by example, instead, he’s just trying to give orders unilaterally without any attempt to understand what the people working for him are telling him.
Because that’s the thing, Pascal sees everyone at Firehouse 51 as working for him, instead of working with him. And of course, there’s gotta be a hierarchy, but if he doesn’t feel like he’s part of Firehouse 51 and like the people he works with are his team, in a way, he’s never going to listen to them and therefore is never going to actually be a good leader. Instead, he’s just going to keep acting like he knows better, even if he doesn’t.
In the end, he sort of listens, but only sort of, because Mouch kinda forces him to. Not sure if we should give him too much credit there. But Damon is gone, though the fact that it seems like the Chief considered for even a second that Stella was the problem and she should be the one that should be gone is something I’m not sure I can forgive and forget. Talk about being a bad judge of character. Stella Kidd, bad leadership? Pascal better start looking in the mirror while he makes these accusations about other people, otherwise, he’s never going to fix his issues at 51.
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HAPPY WIFE, HAPPY LIFE
You know the saying: ‘happy wife, happy life.’ Ironically, it might be one thing Severide and Pascal might actually see eye to eye on — though we might have to have a conversation about Pascal taking that way too far sooner rather than later. But in this episode, we get the fallout from Chicago Fire Season 13, Episode 2, and Severide’s decision to tell Stella the truth about Damon. And the fallout, of course, doesn’t come out on Damon’s side.
Severide was always going to choose Stella. He was always going to choose his family. It’s just that, in this context, that family is his wife. And that family has been Stella way before she even became his wife. And that doesn’t mean what he and Damon share isn’t important, and that they can’t build a relationship that can continue to become stronger. It just means that what Severide and Kidd have is already bigger and stronger and when Kelly had to choose what he valued more right now, he chose his wife.
And sure, Damon made that easier when he badmouthed Stella and showed a real lack of regard for her as a Lieutenant, but Severide made that choice before. You could say, truly, that there wasn’t even a choice. If he faltered for a moment it was only because he was trying to give Damon the benefit of the doubt he felt he didn’t get as a kid. But when Severide realized there was actually a choice to be made, and that by doing nothing, he was making it …he told his wife the truth. There was no other possibility.
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Things I think I think:
- Okay, I can take this level of drama for Stellaride, lol. And the hug? The way Severide rests his head on Stella’s shoulder? I’ll take that. I get being mad in the moment, but I didn’t really expect Stella to stay mad for too long.
- “Are you, though?” No, she really isn’t.
- Violet/Ritter/Novak is a fun trio too!
- The way I jumped when Ritter flew out that window!
- “Dismissed”? DISMISSED? IS THAT WHAT HE SAID?
- “We got ourselves into this, we got to let it play out.” Love the ‘we’ here.
- “Sometimes she’s clear, sometimes she’s not.” Damon, you’re making me want to commit violence.
- Novak with the kid and Violet fixing up the ambo? That’s my paramedics!
- “I’m going full fire cop.”/”You got this, Kelly Severide.”
- “Not just yet, but stay ready. You never know.” WHAT ARE YOU SAYING?
- Mouch going to Stella about the Chief was A+.
- Novak’s face when Carver’s gf said ‘the famous Violet’ HA
- What in the world is up with Pascal and his wife? Can someone explain it to me? But like, in small words?
- MOUCH, I LOVE YOU. HAVE I TOLD YOU I LOVE YOU?
- Well, at least Carver didn’t SEE the text. Now that makes sense.
- I’m glad Pascal did the right thing, but he had to be bullied into it soooo.
- Look, I like Fire Cop Severide when being a Fire Cop doesn’t take him away from the firehouse.
- I’m glad we got the scene of Pascal telling Stella.
- But that final scene with Severide and Damon? You are Benny? That was low.
- Especially with the kids storyline hanging over him and Stella.
- But I’ll just add that it proves Severide was right to choose his wife!
Agree? Disagree? What did you think of Chicago Fire Season 13, Episode 3 ‘All Kinds of Crazy’? Share with us in the comments below!
Chicago Fire airs on Wednesdays at 9/8c on NBC.
I think you are spot on. Kelly will always choose his wife, he loves her more than his own life. Tori needs to go away with Daman, Vi is simply bad ass, Mouch is my hero.