Yeah, I hated him sometimes, then was okay with him. I think you just have to accept S19′s writing swings back and forth like that, whatever’s…convenient.
You know, everyone keeps talking about Danielle and Stefania’s chemistry, for good reason, there’s something really special, but Danielle also has this intense gaze in general, at least as Maya, and given that a lot of her scenes are with Andy, and Maya is either supportive in her intense way or bickering in an intense way, that might have helped how you were reading them. I certainly shipped them for a bit, heh.
But yeah, I don’t think they’d ever go there. But the good news is that they ARE friends now again. 🙂