If you’re looking for an “emotion fest,” 9-1-1: Lone Star Season 5 Episode 5 delivered.
We had some interesting cases; both main cases ended in tragedy, which was really sad to see in some ways, but there were some bright spots despite that.
Carlos and T.K. have been back at the forefront of 9-1-1: Lone Star for a while, as have the two’s grief themes and Owen.
Owen has had a penchant for side missions throughout the series.
Luckily, this season, his missions felt more real and true to form, and they helped expand on other aspects of his character, not just the superficial ones.
He’s still grieving deeply over the loss of his brother, and with that comes the grief for the brother he lost before him.
When he’s not being annoying or obnoxious (and let’s be honest, sometimes he’s both), he’s a man who carries so much loss and grief inside of him that it’s hard to imagine how he functions.
And this is one instance where your heart goes out to him for his loss and how it still haunts and impacts so many aspects of his life and how he uses that to save a troubled horse who’s also in pain.
Owen has finally become a cowboy, and Judd is right when he says that Texas is agreeing with him these days.
The Thunder lasso moment is the cheesy fun you’d expect from this series.
However, the subsequent bond Owen forms with this horse immediately touches your heart because you can understand how he sees himself in Thunder.
He is also a person who is sometimes difficult to deal with and who has been through a lot of pain and is still trying to control it himself.
The idea that this injured horse who was literally crying for his owner in the middle of the highway (in a moment that definitely doesn’t trigger allergies for me, no) could be shipped off somewhere and abandoned because he was so difficult is heartbreaking.
Owen has seen so many lives lost, in true hero fashion, he couldn’t bear the thought of this horse meeting such a tragic fate because other people didn’t want to deal with him.
It says a lot about how we tend to approach problems in society that we don’t want to understand or solve.
