‘Fire Country’ Season 3 Is Making Up Excuses To Keep Bode and Gabriela Apart

Fire Country‘s latest episode seems to have resolved the situation

with Gil’s (Paul Moniz de Sá) necklace, once and for all.

After the previous episode ended with Jake (Jordan Calloway)

finding the necklace in Bode’s (Max Thieriot) locker, it looked like Bode and Gabriela (Stephanie Arcila) would be facing some serious repercussions. This week, though, the whole storyline gets wrapped up pretty neatly. In Season 3, Episode 3, “Welcome to the Cult,” while Jake decides what to do about the necklace, Bode and Gabriela confess to Gil. Gil immediately forgives them and expresses his gratitude to them for saving his life.

With the Gil situation resolved and their jobs safe, Bode and Gabriela finally have breathing room to discuss their relationship. They haven’t had the chance to properly talk about everything after she ran off on her wedding for him, and it seems like the perfect opportunity for them to get back together. Instead, though, Gabriela expresses to Bode that she wants to take a step back. She worries that their relationship is just a continuation of Bode’s addiction to thrills and that the two of them are too dangerous together. At this point in the show, it feels like a bit of a cop out, as if Fire Country is just stalling Bode and Gabriela’s reunion.

‘Fire Country’ Season 3 Is the Perfect Time to Bring Bode and Gabriela Back Together

Gabriela Perez and Bode Leone standing next to each other inFire Country Season 3
Image via CBS

For a typical slow-burn pairing, a show can easily go on for many seasons without bringing the two characters together. Once a pairing has actually gotten together and broken up, though, there is only so long that obstacles can keep them apart before it gets too repetitive. Going into Season 3 of Fire Country, the previous obstacles keeping Bode and Gabriela apart are all out of the way. When they broke up at the end of Season 1, Bode pushed Gabriela away because he was going back to prison and didn’t want to hold her back. Now, he is out of prison and on the path toward becoming a firefighter.

Gabriela literally left Diego (Raphael de la Fuente) at the altar because she was in love with Bode. She got into a massive fight with Manny (Kevin Alejandro) when he disapproved of this decision. From a storytelling perspective, it doesn’t make sense that Gabriela would now be having doubts, when she burned everything to the ground because of her love for Bode. Gabriela’s relationship with Diego is no longer an obstacle, and both her and Bode’s jobs are safe. There is nothing standing in the way of them anymore and it is the perfect time for the two to finally get back together.

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