Hahaha, yeah, pretty much. They have to do a LOT of heavy lifting. If it weren’t for their bonkers chemistry, I don’t know how many of us would have stuck past 3×15.
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I liked what happened with Maya and Carina even if it was really easy for Carina to forgive Maya. I feel like they can work on their communication and what comes of this next season, but I for one am happy to be going in to an indefinite hiatus on a high note. Sometimes I just want characters to be happy and for forgiveness to be easy so I’ll take it. On another note, Stef and Danielle’s live was beyond adorable.
Yeah, I really do hope that with the extra time they’re getting, they’ll write something for them that continues from this, where Maya’s trying to be more open and aware she has to make up things to Carina and not just being her usual hardass self as if they’ve skipped past all that.
I LOVE that we’re going into this happy, now I can keep making all the gifsets I had planned, and that wasn’t at all guaranteed after 3×15!
Their live was an absolute balm after the whole rollercoaster of a week. 🙂
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people getting mad at station 19 for what happened with maya and carina: yeah i get it of course i do, it’s not great, however this is the same shit shondaland has been pulling for over FIFTEEN YEARS. tbh if the season hadn’t ended this way i would’ve been concerned. i can’t believe no one died like holy hell like we should be preparing for next season to be way worse bc season 4 of greys was when they started killing off mains
Right, I really don’t love it, but part of what made me still willing to see where it went after 3×15 was because this was just such a common thing they did for everything. And nooo, S19 already killed off Rigo, Ryan, and Pruitt, like, please, after this year, on the show and off, we don’t want more deaths. :<
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I enjoy how sweet they are and also am a little bit in love with Stefania so I’m happy she’s sticking around. My perfect finale would have had Maya go to the hospital after the shit with her dad willing and ready to talk but have Carina too pissed to really want to hear her out. And they end it on a cliffy, where Maya is groveling. Because I’m still salty. Also Jack should have apologised as well like dude you totally took advantage of the situation come on! What would you have liked to see?
Jack should have apologized too, yes, though I don’t really see it as taking advantage in like, a predatory way, but just, he was a bad friend, aside from again sleeping with someone else’s partner. He knew exactly why Maya changed the convo to sex and he just went with it, helping her to wreck her relationship and do exactly what he’d just pointed out she was doing, shutting out her partners. Honestly, it undid a lot of his journey. I absolutely grant that growth is not a smooth trajectory, you can backslide after progress, but RIGHT after Miller forgave him because he was trying, he went and did this, and sure it happened because he’s still messed up but then he didn’t show the slightest bit of guilt when he went back to hang out with Miller after.
While I think Maya should have groveled for longer, I absolutely wouldn’t have wanted this to end on a cliffhanger, and instead, would have moved the timeline backward, so the cheating happened 3×14 and 3×15 was the realization and groveling and 3×16 was Carina taking her back. 😛 Or at least give Carina two different scenes in the finale, one to air her grievances and not as she’s forgiving Maya. But tbh, I’m still okay with this.
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I’m going to say it. The actress Carina deserves better. Bye. (And by ‘deserves better I mean this terrible thing called Grey’s Anatomy writing… Can she go across the pond and meet fellow Christina Yang aka Eve Polastri and have herself because her own Villanelle.?)
She does, but they all do. If we got to wish for whatever we wanted, I’d want both Stefania and Danielle to get writing that fit their chemistry. I don’t know that she’d be treated better in a KE situation, heh, she has great hair, so that means at some point she’ll be shot and left to die. Is that better??
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The most recent danielle/Stefania live was a lot. Well they’ve all been a lot, but this one was especially lovely. They’re so cute together. It’s nice when the actors playing love interests genuinely like each other and like working together and understand how important their onscreen relationship is to people. You can hear it in the way they talk about their characters. I’m not expecting much for them next season being on separate shows, but hopefully that also means less relationship drama lol
Haha, yeah, remember when we were like, they only get 30 seconds every ep but at least it’s a cute 30 seconds. And yesss, their lives are all adorable and this one was especially great to watch, kind of freeing the tension that’d been building up, this fun celebration of the ship and fandom and each other. They just seem smart, nice people and that came across, like, Danielle’s guiding of the live and Stefania’s insights.
Yeahhh, I dunno what we can get next season, this was probably a “lot” for Maya’s story so she’ll be on the backburner for a while. But at least she’s still captain! Who knows what’s gonna happen with that since Sullivan, who’d made the selection, is now in this situation. But I absolutely hope that a lot of their time will be devoted to Carina and HER storyline now.