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maya and carina were so sweet this episode. i second everything you said in the tags but i especially loved how cairna interacted with maya’s mom. i don’t watch greys so idk how she is there, but on s19 she seems very collected/not easily phased. i do wonder what’ll happen when naya does eventually breakdown(because that’s what’s coming i assume). i keep thinking of her’i dont fix broken people’ comment and if theyll ever address that. but so far she seems very willing to stick it out

I JUST had a conversation with my friend about tonight’s ep and basically said all of this! I super, super love Carina, which, maybe it’s easy to do because I’ve also mostly just seen her on this show and she’s only been allowed to be a supporting character and what’s not to love about an endlessly supportive upbeat sweetheart. Because yeah, even with the “I don’t fix broken people” line that seemed to imply she wasn’t going to put up with all this, she is putting up with a lot. 

And I love Maya too and of course she’s a victim and it’s super sad to see her be grateful to her abusive dad, it’s so hard for her to separate her achievements and identity from his abuse, obviously, this is a big, important arc for her, but they’re getting close to a line where it’s just Maya pouring a LOT on Carina and Carina just taking it with no other role in this relationship. Maybe there was meant to be a balance, with her brother, maybe next season, but I assume it’s actually going to be deliberate on the part of the show where Carina’s like, okay, you can’t talk to me like that. We’re starting to see Maya exhibit the same behavior her father did, pushy and bossy and I’m sure it comes from a place where she thinks that’s the best way to achieve success, but it was abuse then, and it’s just not going to get good results now. If Emmett is too scared to go back into the fire, fine, in the moment, deal with him quickly and effectively, but at some point, you have to get to the root of the matter, you can’t just give him an errand as punishment and that’s it. And in the heat of the moment or not, you can’t talk to a fire victim like that. 

The show’s being way too obvious about this arc to just assume it’ll be brushed away, things are going to come to a head, I just hope Carina and their relationship won’t be a casualty on the way.

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Haha, Maya’s welcome to the Seattle Fire Queers was awesome. I love Bishop and I’m really glad they had her go off on Chief Dixon this episode (though I suspect that’s not going to come without repercussions) and show her goofy side with Vic/Travis. Also, Danielle’s arms … yeah. T-minus 13 days till Carina meets the fam too. These last 3 episodes should be great.

I love that there are three distinctive characters. 🙂 Their own little club. And the Grey Sloan doctors when they visit add like, at least…four more?

Oh, for sure, I’m glad she got to have her cool moment with Dixon but it feels more than ever like her time as captain’s limited, that sooner or later Andy’ll claim what everyone in the station considers her rightful spot.

God, she’s buff! It’s so hot. Ah, yeah, I can’t believe after seeing those BTS pics we had to wait not just past yesterday’s ep but an extra couple of weeks after that. I hope Carina’s in all of them but I have no idea how they’re gonna handle whatever was supposed to happen on Grey’s during this.

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OMFG CARINA IS GOING TO MEET MAYA’S MOTHER IN THE EPISODE 314 ??????? IT BECOMES VERY SERIOUS BETWEEN THESE TWO ???❤️❤️❤️???

Yesss! I’ve become interested enough in them to regularly check series updates and was SUPER hyped to see these pics (more at source)!

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It looks from the rest of the pics like there’s some kind of lunch set up for the firefighters’ families, so maybe Maya invited her mom? Or just Carina–I wondered if she might not have invited her either but I feel like they’ve moved past that? But the way the ep summary phrases it “Maya’s mother, Katherine, pays Maya a visit”, and the way these look, I wonder if she showed up uninvited and Carina’s trying to defuse the situation.

I’m curious about the situation between them! Because her mom let her be abused, but is also an abuse victim herself. So like…how do you navigate that? But Maya seems to still be talking to her dad and on “good” terms with him (because so far she keeps meeting his expectations), so I can’t think she’d kick her mom out of her life but not her dad. I’ve missed so much of the show I don’t know if Maya’s mom is still even with her dad, maybe she left or is about to and Maya resents that. 

Or it could all be unrelated to that, lol.

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Wait, what scene in the captain’s office on Station 19 do you mean? ? Btw thanks for all the gifs for the various fandom, you’re great!

Thanks! Tthe scene in the captain’s office comes from the live with Danielle and Sfefania from the Thursday when the vacation ep aired and there was a question about favorite scenes together and at first they were like, they’re all great, and that the bed scenes were cozy to shoot, but then Danielle said that she’s really excited to see a scene in the captain’s office that hasn’t aired yet. No guarantee it’ll be a positive scene, of course, it could be another fight but they both seemed hyped about it.

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I have to give props to the actress that play Carina and Maya. Not only do they have natural chemistry that is apparent, they have all the nonverbal actions down as well. The way Maya’s eyes traveled down then back up Carina’s body and how you could see the second she lost all thoughts besides thirst she had and the little wiggle Carina does as she approaches to seal the deal. I’ve seen both F/F and M/F couples on tv in the same situations where small gestures like that are missed.

They do! Actually, when you say natural chemistry and nonverbal actions, I feel they’re both part of the same thing.

Last year, I was talking to a friend about what made Juliantina seem so natural and we decided that’s what “chemistry” actually is, the commitment from the actors to treating that relationship as real. For the actors to behave as it was real and convey it in every way, big and small, without that self-consciousness or distance you sometimes get, especially with same-sex couples. And then earlier this year, I saw this interesting post, where Celine Sciamma was praised for the chemistry between the characters in Portrait and how it was something you just couldn’t fake, and she was like, well, it’s literally our job to fake it, it’s our job to make you believe in this romance. And you know, exactly! 

All this effort they put in, it’s part of it. And these two actresses do it well. I haven’t seen much of Stefania Spampinato before this, but she’s got the easy smiles and touches down, and well, we know Danielle Savre’s got that, well, that gay gaze, lol. They’re both totally selling it, and that’s exactly what you want from all your ships’ actors.

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I like how Carina said she’s not in the habit of fixing broken people, but she’s very good at it. She’s handling everything Maya’s throwing at her very well. Not sure what her tipping point will be because Maya has a lot of legitimate issues. Curious to see how they continue to evolve because I really like them. I’d also like to see Maya be there for Carina. I reckon that would be on Grey’s since S19 is Maya’s show so Carina is the supportive GF for her. Unfortunately, Carina isn’t a main on GA.

Ohhh, that’s right! I totally forgot about that. I was so stuck on her knowing Maya’s “eyes forward” mantra, meaning she’s told her about that, but it slipped my mind that Carina said she wasn’t gonna do this. And has been doing this for a while, starting from the truck breakdown, lol.

She could have meant she won’t try if people don’t put in the effort themselves, or signaled she’d changed her mind by not leaving when Maya opened the door for her. Or maybe she just continued to want to have fun too, but each step deeper happened without her really noticing and now she’s going on a couple’s vacation a thousand miles away and knowing exactly how to bring back Maya from a panic attack.

And yes, I’d like to see Maya do the same for Carina. Maya does have a lot of issues, but most stem from the same source, and she does seem to be tackling them, now it’s Carina’s turn. You’re right, it’ll most likely be on Grey’s, not only because that’s Carina’s show, but it’ll probably be tied to her brother. Even though Meredith seems to be handling a lot of that, they can’t leave Carina out of it completely, right? Unfortunately, though DeLuca’s arc seemed to be building to something, isn’t Grey’s about to run out of eps soon and won’t be finishing the season proper? So it might have to wait till next season? I actually don’t know how it all works out, are they just going to air Station 19 eps that assumed Grey’s would still be shot? Or are they so independent in terms of story that it doesn’t really matter if a character pops up in S19, there’s no chance something important was happening to them in Grey’s?