Maya and Carina are engaged. This isn’t a drill—time to sound the marriage bells.
After a lot back-and-forth and a few extra after which a little bit extra, our favourite energy couple ended Station 19 Season 4 Episode 14 as fiancée and fiancée.
It was a joyous second, nevertheless it took an excessive amount of time and power to get there and in the end dampened the celebration.
From the beginning, Andy informed Maya proposing to Carina in order that the pair may keep collectively would not magically remedy their issues.
Though Maya could not let her girlfriend go away for Italy, not when there was one thing she may achieve this the pair may keep collectively.
Carina: Marry me. Marry me. I don’t need to simply get married as a result of the federal government says we now have to, and I nonetheless assume marriage was meant to maintain girls as property, however I’d a lot relatively do one thing that I don’t need to than lose you.
Maya: Carina, I don’t know if I need children, and the world is a multitude proper.
Carina: Sure, the world is a multitude, and the world is altering proper now as we’re standing right here, and it’s lovely. We will fear about children later, however what I do know is that I need to be on this lovely, mess of a altering world with you, please. Please, marry me.
Maya: Sure.
Maya then proposed, and from there, it was fixed whiplash as Maya and Carina oscillated between marriage proposals and breaking apart.
It was pointless drama and tainted their eventual engagement, because the present made such a powerful case for why they should not get married.
Maya and Carina need various things out of life and have vastly totally different viewpoints and philosophies.
They see the world so otherwise, and as Maya identified, they do not know one another in addition to they thought they did.
Carina sees marriage as a societal constraint that may solely finish in divorce and resentment, whereas Maya views marriage as the final word signal of dedication and love.
Carina is deadset on wanting kids, and Maya hasn’t given it a lot thought.
Maya’s made no effort to study Carina’s language or tradition and has no concept about her girlfriend’s nervousness and stress as Carina will get able to return to Italy.
Maya’s suggestion of them taking a break was extra a response to Carina rebuffing Maya’s proposal, nevertheless it does make some sense with all of the info specified by entrance of us.
Maya: I believed we had been constructing a future collectively.
Carina: We’re. We don’t have to be married to do this.
Maya: However you’re shifting again to Italy.
Carina: What would you like me to do about that? That wasn’t my plan both. Do you assume I need to transfer again to a rustic that jogs my memory of my lifeless mom, my lifeless brother, and my very tough father? I’m sorry I’ve to depart. If there was some other manner…
Maya: There’s. We may get married.
Carina: Um, I’m not getting married simply due to the visa.
Maya: Simply because?
Carina: what I imply.
Maya: I actually don’t apparently.
Carina: Maya, this isn’t one thing you do to unravel an issue.
Maya: I don’t see some other manner.
Carina: We’re doing the opposite manner. I’ve already left Gray Sloan. I acquired a job in Italy. I’m about to go to the airport. We will’t get married simply since you need to be aside from me.
Maya: That’s not why we might be getting married.
Carina: That’s why we moved in collectively.
Maya: That was simply the paperwork of it.
Carina: So is that this marriage concept. It’s simply paperwork. The one purpose it’s arising is as a result of I’m not from this nation, and I can keep in yours. That it’s.
Maya: That’s it? That’s a fairly good purpose.
It would not have been the more severe factor on the planet for the pair to take a while to resolve the place they stand and what they need out of life, however after a fast name with Gabriela, Carina determined she needed to marry Maya even when she would later remorse it.
Carina actually talked about that she would not need to get married, as she proposed to her girlfriend.
The music within the background and digital camera pictures made all of it so romantic, however in actuality, it wasn’t.
It is as if Maya and Carina are getting into into this marriage and anticipate it to fail, or no less than Carina does.
It feels just like the incorrect foot to start out a brand new life on and would nearly be higher if the couple determined to get married purely so Carina may keep within the nation.
On paper, they might be married, however in any other case, nothing would have modified.
That manner, it will nonetheless really feel like they had been constructing towards one thing as a substitute of accepting the opportunity of defeat.
Possibly, I am off base, and I need nothing greater than Maya and Carina to be glad.
Maya: I hate this.
Carina: I do know.
Maya: All the things you mentioned is true. I used to be so nervous about you leaving, that I by no means requested you ways you felt. I simply assumed that you just had been glad to go residence for a little bit bit.
Carina: Residence?
Maya: I do know your house house is within the south, I simply thought…
Carina: Italy hasn’t felt like residence since my mama left once I was 16 years previous. It simply turned the place the place I lived. I didn’t discover my residence till I met you. You’re my residence, and I’m being kicked out of my residence in the midst of a pandemic. It sucks.
Maya: And also you’ve been pretending it was no huge deal so I wouldn’t lose it.
They’re my favourite couple and are so cute collectively, however the storytelling wasn’t there for me to completely assist their resolution.
The Marina ‘shipper in me is past ecstatic, however the important reviewer is not positive they’re doing this, past Carina getting to remain within the nation — for the appropriate causes.
Wanting again, all through the sequence’ total run, nobody has technically gotten engaged or married for the appropriate causes, or relatively love wasn’t the one purpose they acquired engaged or married.
Andy and Sullivan acquired married as a result of Pruitt was dying, and he or she needed her father to be at her wedding ceremony, and Vic and Ripley acquired engaged, so they might keep collectively and preserve their jobs as firefighters.
It looks as if a bizarre message for the present to ship out, as Maya and Carina are actually the third engagement motivated by one thing apart from love.
However perhaps, I am this too simplistically.
Possibly tv has romanticized our concepts about real love and marriage in order that we think about each love story as some epic fairytale when it is normally removed from it.
Possibly that is an correct illustration of life and marriage in the true world.
Maya: I needs to be operating residence, wanting to absorb each final minute along with her…
Andy: However, it sucks. As somebody who not too long ago weathered a separation from the one she loves, I want I may say it gained’t suck, however it would.
Maya: Oh, so inspiring. Thanks. I preserve considering perhaps I ought to simply suggest, after which she gained’t have to depart.
Andy: Properly, um, as somebody who additionally not too long ago acquired married super-fast, it’s not the answer to your issues. You two are supposed to be. You’ll get by this. Now go residence and take in each minute.
In any case, Meredith and Derek acquired legally married on Grey’s Anatomy so they might undertake Zola, and that did not detract from their love story.
So, who am I to move judgment?
Elsewhere, Jack and Inara spent some high quality alone time collectively, and Jack’s begun to appreciate he is with Inara for the incorrect causes.
He loves her and the moment household that comes from being along with her, however Jack is not in love with Inara.
He is making an attempt to persuade himself that he does love her due to how a lot he cares for her and Marcus, however in the long run, each of them are going to get damage, and the cracks of their relationship are already starting to indicate.
When Inara needed to partake in some sextracurricular actions, Jack’s face as they attached on the kitchen counter mentioned all of it.
The firefighter can be more than pleased to settle into the function of husband and father as long as issues stay PG-13.
Household is one thing Jack has been looking for his total life, and he seems like he is lastly discovered one with Inara, Marcus, and Marsha.
Jack: You don’t have to do all of this.
Inara: All what?
Jack: I such as you a lot, and I care about you. I really like caring for you and Marcus.
Inara: So which means I am unable to be attractive since you like caring for me and my child?
Jack: No, no, that’s not popping out proper. What I’m saying is you don’t have to be one thing that you just’re not as a result of I did some loopy issues in my previous. I don’t want that from you.
Inara: I’m not. Jack, I’m an entire individual. Imagine it or not, I like intercourse too.
Jack: I do know you do. I’m simply saying it doesn’t should be all wild, and together with your historical past…
Inara: Oh, I see since you rescued me from an abusive state of affairs, you assume I’m fabricated from glass.
Jack: That’s not.
Inara: I’m not just a few damsel it’s essential preserve rescuing, Jack.
He’d fortunately — OK, in all probability not glad, however he would — forgo intercourse to maintain dwelling this make-believe life he is constructed with these folks.
Jack cannot preserve pretending without end. In some unspecified time in the future, he’ll have to inform Inara the reality; she deserves that a lot.
Nevertheless, Jack is such a standup man that he’d in all probability by no means consider breaking issues off with Inara until he will get a push from a buddy, say like Andy.
At first, it will be exhausting for each of them, however in the long term, it is the appropriate name.
Jack and Inara should be with somebody who can return their love and devotion, not a companion who’s on a distinct web page.
Hopefully, Jack can stay in Inara and Marcus’s lives, however which may be too huge of an ask instantly.
As a result of no matter Jack could also be faking with Inara, he does love Marcus with all his coronary heart.
Lastly, Ben had his surgical procedure and was pressured to confront his fears of shedding a part of his manhood head-on.
The anesthesia-induced hallucination was fairly a visit — pun meant — however in the long run, Ben realized he was making the appropriate name.
That’s not what makes you a person, Benjamin. It’s what would have made you a lifeless man.
Mom
Rationally, Ben is aware of that solely having one testicle would not make him any much less of a person, husband, father, or firefighter, nevertheless it’s not at all times that straightforward to simply accept what we all know to be true.
So what precisely did it take? A vivid hallucination with varied variations of himself, his deceased mom, an previous girlfriend, and Joey. Piece of cake, proper?
It additionally did not assist that Ben felt alone as he went into surgical procedure.
Bailey was MIA, which the sequence tried to clarify away along with her having an emergent surgical procedure.
Bailey could have been late to her personal wedding ceremony as a result of she was working, however that was as a result of the affected person was Adele.
So until it was Meredith Gray on the working desk, there is no manner Bailey would have missed Ben’s surgical procedure, even it was one thing fairly normal and routine.
Moreover, Ben had his surgical procedure at some random hospital as a substitute of going to Gray Sloan.
Understandably, he would not need his pals and former colleagues pitying him or seeing him as a affected person, however Gray Sloan has the very best docs in Seattle.
Mom: Benjamin Warren.
Ben: Ma?
Mom: I didn’t increase a idiot.
Ben: Why are you right here?
Mom: Since you’re scared, and that makes you silly.
Would not Ben really feel extra snug having a top-notch physician that he is aware of and trusts earlier than the surgical procedure relatively than some stranger?
Happily, Ben had his firefighting household at his aspect, and it was candy that Andy and Sullivan got here to be there for him.
Although it was a comparatively straightforward surgical procedure, Ben was nonetheless scared, and Andy and Sullivan may inform, in order that they confirmed up. Pruitt would have been so proud.
Some stray ideas:
- Why weren’t Vic, Travis, and Dean on the hospital? I get that they had been at a Black Lives Matter protest, however they could not have swung by to investigate cross-check Ben? Weirdly, Dean wasn’t there after every thing he and Ben went by within the freezing water on Station 19 Season 4 Episode 13.
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Who would have thought that Gabriela would have been the one to push Carina to contemplate Maya’s marriage proposal? Possibly the fiery Italian is not all dangerous in any case.
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Did Bailey and Ben formally undertake Joey, or did I miss one thing? I believed Joey was simply dwelling at their home, and since he was 17 or 18, they weren’t even fostering him. That does not imply he isn’t their son; I am simply confused on the specifics.
So what did you assume, Station 19 Fanatics?
What are your ideas on Maya and Carina’s engagement?
When will Jack break issues off with Inara?
Why had been so a lot of Ben’s household and pals MIA from his surgical procedure?
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