I’m first and foremost a Grey’s fan but I know some Maya/Carina shippers only watch Station 19. I’m wondering though if they’ve seen the season 15 episodes with Carina & Andrew’s father though. My heart breaks for the Deluca siblings.

Some of them might have, a fair number were already Grey’s fans but I think some of the Marina only people did go back and watch the respective Carina and Maya parts from the two shows. I myself didn’t go back through Grey’s but I guess I read up or picked up a bit on the DeLuca history because it does sound brutal just seeing the aftermath. Watching it actually happen must have been super painful, and now it’s something they’re having to experience again. I really hope we see the effects on Carina in the upcoming season.

So is Vera bisexual in Summerland? I mean she seems to have loved her husband even tho we know that her true love is Alice. What do you think? Thanks for all the gifs you’ve made about the movie! I watched it bc of them haha I loved it! It was really sweet although no revolutionary or anything but the kind we don’t really get ever…

Revolutionary for us, right, since we don’t ever get that. And I’m glad you enjoyed it and my gifs helped you watch!

Hmm, I dunno, from what Frank said when Alice came out to him, “better  than marrying someone you don’t like”, well, that’s kind of pretty telling. But I don’t suppose we really know either way. That was obviously his kid’s interpretation after many years of marriage, they could have genuinely been in love at the start and just grown distant as many couples do. I don’t know that I really thought much about it either way, I guess my unconscious reading of that line, to have it included at all, leaned toward lesbian, but really, either reading would work.

My Fight Against Cancer and Medical Expenses, organized by Robin Olanna

My Fight Against Cancer and Medical Expenses, organized by Robin Olanna

i really know what you mean abt Away having mixed genre and not fully delivering on either. Like i felt my eyes totally glaze over every time the focus was on the daughter or even the dad, even though i didn’t mind their stories independently i just wasn’t all that invested. whereas i really loved all the crew by the end of the season bc they all do so much more growing and don’t feel as stagnant. also the “problem / conflict of the day” episode format can be fun with sci fi but it gets pretty stale with family dramas lol

 Yeah, I wouldn’t have minded the stories existing as they were but wayyy toned down, especially Lex’s, like, to see Emma trying to be a supportive wife and parent from space and dealing with these conditions, sure, that’s interesting and novel, but it should have been much more in Emma’s perspective than actually following Lex meet and spend time with this boy. There was just nothing novel or new about it, even Matt’s added a lot more, there are way fewer stories about disabled people out there, compared to a pretty ordinary teen romance. 

It seems to be a really common complaint from what I’m seeing, so hopefully they take a cue from this for s2 (if we get one) and focus more on the astronauts.

And another anon:

I think your points about Away are spot on. I even started to skip the teenage stuff. There would have been so much more interesting topics/storylines to go deeper: science!!!, religion/atheism, cultural differences,… I was also disappointed that in the end it was Emma’s husband who solved the water problem, it made her look even more incapable of doing her job. (Which should have been Lu’s anyway imo)

Oh, lol, same. And seriously!! These astronauts and their backgrounds and the intersections and contradictions are so interesting. Just language ALONE, I loved that unlike, for example, Sense8, another very international show where they mostly all spoke accented English, here they actually speak the language they naturally would and people actually have to ask for translations and banter about it organically, like Misha and Lu teasing Emma for not knowing Russian. That’s fair! Or the way they’re each slightly snobby about their area of expertise. 

The only thing I didn’t love was just how far apart they started the mission, kind of petty and immature in how they were arguing, but still, at least they put their differences aside. There’s just so much scope in that, it feels a bit of a waste to focus on the interpersonal drama that could have existed in any old show and then, as you said, the lead-biased writing, where in this case Matt has to be the one to fix things to justify being a lead. 

I guess it’s working, Away’s been at the top in the US Netflix rankings since it dropped, but I hope they take more time with the other astronauts next season too.