Shauni and Eddie Leave Baywatch

Random Things

I have a cold, it crept up on me which I don't recall ever happening before. I didn't get my usual saw throat a day or two before hand. Also I've been exercising a lot so I thought my immune system would have been stronger

Thoughts on Writing More About Baywatch

Some problems have appeared; I can mostly justify watching one episode almost everyday in the morning while I'm eating breakfast but writing about it those days is probably too much. It takes too long, longer than watching the show. One option is to write about it the day after, skipping watching a new one for a day, but that kinda sucks.

That may not be a problem on the other hand, due to another far bigger issue with Baywatch - I might stop watching it and therefor writing about it. Or I might keep watching it a but I might not have enough interest to write. Oh no, what a travesty! Haha, as if it matters. This is an unknown blog, written badly, written with all types of errors imaginable and also it's about a long dead TV show probably no one cares about anymore. Despite it apparently being one of the most watched shows ever and going on for quite a long time, it finished twenty-two years ago! I lived in a different town back then and I was working in a video games store. I didn't care about Baywatch at all back then, I never even thought about it.

 Even if I was writing about some new, popular show, even that is kind of a waste of time. I think the only good thing about writing on here, about anything really, is that it's good writing practice. Maybe it would make me improve, even if I'm writing about Baywatch, something no one cares about.

I just realised, I didn't get to the actual second reason why I might not write about Baywatch anymore - It turns out that Shauni and Eddie leave the show in season 3. If you read my last post, I think I said that I was pretty sure they are in it for one more season, that being season 3. This was because back when I started watching season 1, I stupidly didn't care about spoilers. I saw a few things online and one of those things was that they leave the show in season 3. Now, my assumption was that it would be at the end of the season, but it turns out that they are only in the first two episodes.

River of No Return, Part 1 & 2 - End Times for Shauni and Eddie

These first two episodes happen to be a two part story which do partly involve Shauni and Eddie. By the way this probably isn't going to be a review and I've decided there's no point writing summaries and a synopsis for each episode since they can easily be found on other sites like IMDB. Also I need to look up the definitions of 'summaries and synopsis' because I think I have them confused, haha. Not that all of that matters because I might stop writing about Baywatch all together.

The intros to both parts are misleading because Eddie and Shauni show up and they're in their usual spots after Mitch. Baywatch does this thing were the most important characters are closest to the start of the intro. It being a new season, I assumed it meant they will be in the rest of it but oh boy was I wrong. Shauni and Eddie leave the show after this two part story and not only that, it also felt rather sudden. It's not the focus but there is a small story that leads up to it, not that it really matters. I was going to write about it but who cares? It was most likely written into the script a little later so as to explain why they are leaving their job at Baywatch.

I didn't even see it coming even though perhaps I should have. Eddie talks about going to Australia for a year for some sort of life guard exchange program, which... I guess could be a thing. Stuff happens and then Shauni decides to go with him. I don't recall her actually even saying this, it's just an off-handed comment that Mitch says to Hobie seconds before the episode ends. In fact come to think of it, Mitch says 'at least a year' which of course turns into forever, at least for Shauni. There's not much of a risk of spoilers after this so I looked up the characters online. It turns out Eddie does in fact return but it's so insanely brief sounding, that who cares. It's in 'Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding' and I think that's his only appearance after River of No Return - Part 2. Hawaiian Wedding is a TV film that came out in 2003, two years after the show ended, so that's... wow, twelve years after Eddie left.

To add insult to injury, according to 'baywatch.fandom.com', Eddie says that he and Shauni have separated, not explaining why. He then has a new love interest in the film or something but I don't know how important to the film that is. My guess is that it's extremely insignificant. Anyway finding out that Shauni and Eddie split up is a kick to the teeth, just WOW! That is absolutely depressing as hell. They are supposed to be the unbreakable couple, the never ending love. I'm sure none of that mattered in the fiction of Baywatch in 2003, of course.

I sound really quite upset over this fictional couple from thirty one years ago, don't I, haha. I forgot to mention a big part of it though - They get married at the end of 'River of No Return, Part 2'. I really should have mentioned that earlier shouldn't I. I know it's fiction but finding out they split up after they got married is just sad, couldn't you have just left them as the perfect couple? I know the reason is probably just because Erika Eleniak wasn't in Hawaiian Wedding. In my head cannon they stayed together after they left their job at Baywatch... forever. Those actors were actually dating by then and I think they even got engaged, they split up not long after though, so real life kinda sorta was like their characters on the show.

So, the wedding, what can I say? One of the reasons why them leaving felt abrupt was because the wedding is a short montage at the end of the episode. Being a montage this of course means there's no dialogue. They get married on the beach and it all looks quite nice, though short. Bearing in mind that Eddie proposes to Shauni moments before that wedding montage. At this point I honestly still thought they were going to be in the rest of the season, ya know, being engaged and perhaps having some stories around that.

Everything above was written several days ago but I didn't post it because I thought I needed to finish it. I really should just make posts lives because it doesn't feel right going back to them, plus I forget things. I'm going to end this one here even though I may continue to write about the same stuff straight away in a new post.