I’m pretty annoyed with the writers, heh. I was liking the episode so much, including their fight, and I laughed out loud when Andy came into the firehouse where Maya was working out and they got into a projection competition about their dads. But as soon as Jack came into the office, before the door even closed, I was like, why is this super pointless convo even happening, the mood Maya’s in, this is going to lead somewhere, please don’t, please don’t, please don–okay.
We knew it’d be bad, we thought Maya would snap at Carina some more, maybe something really reminiscent of her dad with her mom and it’d shake her into realizing. The way Danielle was talking about her hopes for them in the future during last week’s live made me go hmmm about where they’d be when the season ended, since it seemed open-ended, but this wasn’t even on my radar.
Like, even Maya trying to start something with him, I thought maybe that’d be enough for her part of the plot, self-sabotage, but he would stop it, since Dean’d JUST brought up how he’d forgiven Jack FOR SLEEPING WITH SOMEONE ELSE’S WIFE because he could see him trying to be a good person. Pfft, where.
I mean, what can I say, right? It’s just the same old totally plot-contrived OOC nonsense this franchise will pull all the time, all over the place, not just with this ship I like. And maybe that makes it easier to compartmentalize and still ship, like you move on from it and ignore it as an aberration, but at the same time, it makes it hard to get invested as deeply. Although in this case, it’s not as if there was ever particularly deep writing behind this ship, it was mostly cute scenes between two gorgeous, cool women with a ton of chemistry. I dunno how I feel about them now, tbh. Cheating is usually a dealbreaker for me but like I said, the ship is kind of shallow in some ways, and as soon as it went deeper, this happened. Which is super frustrating!!! But it’s still so imbalanced, as much as it ever was, Carina’s brother’s storyline was finally brought up between them IN THE CONTEXT OF MAYA”S STORY. That is just ridiculous.
And another anon?:
I’m starting to get really annoyed with S19. Either let maya come to realization about the abuse and move on or move onto another plot. It was enlightening when the story line first came out ( because abuse isn’t always physical) but they are ruining her character with the wishy washy shit and one of the best things going for her character was carina helping her learn how to deal with her emotions more healthily. Bah it’s an annoying to see the potential of a character be shit on by writers.
I expressed most of what I felt about this above already, but I will say, Maya being wishy washy is also just as enlightening as the idea that abuse isn’t physical. It CAN be this difficult to admit, it’s only been a few days or let’s say weeks in their world, but in real life this would take years, including with therapy. That is not at all my issue. It’s this soap opera cheating bullshit out of nowhere that I’m annoyed by.
And another anon?:
I feel like it’s a character assassination the way the writers are treating Maya.
Not to defend the show but they’ve never particularly favored Maya, over Andy or even Jack, and writing characters as cheaters is second nature to them, I don’t think they’re singling her out to make her look bad. This is her about to hit rock bottom and then come back and be fine and likable. Do they not do this for like…all their characters, all the time? But for fans, especially those invested in a ship, this does make it tough to see her in the same way. I’m gonna assume a lot of people are pivoting over to being more Carina fans right now while being mad at Maya. Which, understandable. Maya better freaking get therapy and go back and beg Carina for forgiveness on bended knee.
Also, I wish they’d just give Carina more to do. Do we not get to see her side of this? If Grey’s had continued, would we have seen her be upset about this? Who would she talk to? All this while Andrew’s possibly deteriorating? This character is just there to prop up other storylines while being a saint.
