So i didnt get to watch live this week only got to follow along with tweets and then see the tumblr ramblings. So i went into the episode already not happy about the marina/jack sperm donor possibility and what may gave happened. But then i watched the episode and i have a different opinion though i do want to say two things first. One i am not really a fan of using jack as the donor but if that happens I’ll hold final judgement until i see it play out (im hopeful if they do some of danielle’s conversations on the topic with her own life experience will come into play) and two i dont think they will, honestly believe its a misdirect.
Okay so my opinion on the episode. I had thought before the episode that they had decided to use a knowb donor and that was that. But i was happy to see they are still trying to decide whether to use a known donor or not which is very real. So them discussing in the abstract using even jack didn’t bother me because its very real. They are still considering all possibilities and may move on to discussing with a few of the guys even jack about it ( even if they only talk to jack i feel like travis would find out and offer to help as well which could open up the possibility of travis) (side note i just thought of, there will be testing for the donor to go through so what if jacks sterile).
But anyways i think we are a ways off from picking a donor and doing the procedure, so im cautiously optimistic and going to hold off judgment for now. So yea thats my two cents. Side note im going to make a post related to this without station 19 tags so if anyone is interested in understanding better my take on this click on the tag below “our conception story”
A few thoughts about marina based off last episode. First carina’s comment is valid. She isnt thinking about how maya took off work to be with her while she was greiving andrew or ignored a 5 or 4 alarm fire for her when Andrew was in the hospital. She is thinking of when Maya said she’d go with her to italy and didnt. She also doesn’t know that maya basically blew off her inspection to go help andrew and carina. She only sees now that the loss of maya’s captaincy is looming over their heads and has been for over a year and is maya’s focus especially on the job. I wish she’d made that statement in front of andy who could’ve reminded her of those instances.
Second thing i firmly believe once maya decided to have a baby with carina she bought all kinds of books on fertility, artificial insemination, and making a baby betwen two women. Girl doesnt do thing half way she studies and prepares and she has a pro con list somewhere of using known donors vs anonymous, her carrying vs carina, possible complication all of it. I just need carina to see it and be like oh okay you are all in on this. I truly believe her comment is just fear that maya made a rash decision and doesnt really want to have a baby with her. Just my thoughts, also if anyone wants to fic these things feel free.
Has anyone written marina olympic fanfic, where both are competing in the games? Like maya for track and carina for some aquatic sport and meet, hookup and fall in love or for maya something like skiing or hockey or snowboarding and carina for figure skating.
I dunno the Olympics have started and im watching curling and there is a italian player name stefania and i couldnt not think of marina.
MAYA BISHOP, CARINA DELUCA and PRUITT MILLER I Station 19 5.06
As a lesbian mother I’m excited to see their path to becoming moms. Side note im pretty sure maya’s look is the same i make when watching our daughter interact with my wife
Okay but what relationship milestone? Like if its the 1 year anniversary of getting together officially then that means its also travis/Emmett’s 1 year anniversay and marina’s first wedding anniversary. that would explain carina being at the station. Hmm so many questions.
So, I’ve been thinking about Marina’s relationship as a whole and I realised that there are a couple of things I wish we got to see.
1. The beginning of their relationship. I mean we know that they hooked up and exchanged numbers after meeting at the bar. But it would have been nice to see Maya processing the fact that Carina was actually someone she wanted in her life. I wonder what exactly made Carina different, maybe she felt lonely cuz her team was mad at her or she probably felt a pull to Carina that she couldn’t explain. Probably a combination of both.
2. Although I’m over it, I really wish we saw them having a proper conversation about the cheating. Particularly what led up to it, Maya coming to terms with her dad’s treatment of her, what led to her cutting her hair etc.
3. Maya finally being able to take Carina to the airport! But seriously, it must have been really sad to get engaged then separated just a couple days later for six weeks. They would’ve definitely killed that scene. Also the reunion would’ve been nice to see.
4. There were a lot of things we didn’t see during the wedding but I would’ve really loved to see them put their rings on for the first time as they’ve become a huge symbol of their love.
5. Flashbacks of the first 10 months of their marriage. There’re so many things we don’t know. Did Maya’s mom stay with them? Was Andy there too? Did they even have a honeymoon? So many questions
6. Their anniversary
If anyone fics these please tag me. Im highly interested in reading these.
So i completely forgot that there were witnesses to this scene specifically travis and warren (who may confided in about kids questions). But now that im reminded can we please get a scene of them bringing it up to her now in s5.
And since we most likely wont can someone fic it, hell have them do it in front of carina.
My take: not sure why there is so much unhappiness and hate about Marina and Carina in the episode.
Yes Carina is an obgyn but is also a doctor who has basic medical condition from before she became specialized in obstetrics, so its feasible she would be able to treat more than mamas.
That being said maya said she volunteered to help. My guess she saw a need and though she was upset with her wife - she probably still wanted to be around her (24 hour shifts are no joke) but also wanted to be around to support her wife and the team for the push in.
The hat for carina being bitchy with sullivan surprises me because i remember over the summer i saw many people wanting carina to go off on him in defense of maya. Now yes there was a time jump but i think this was the only time she was around him closely because i believe the pandemic ended just before the first episode. So them just now being around him to express her displeasure with him, feeling like he has contributed to maya not wanting kids and maybe being a bit ruffled that he started explaining for her to the dad as if she wasnt the doctor, she wasnt in control and maybe feeling like he didnt respect her as a woman and doctor in that moment - makes her comment, and interactions with him completely understandable.
Further i think what carina was trying to accomplish with the sex qnalogy is to convey to maya her displeasure that they did not discuss kids instead feeling like maya just shut it down much like miller said.
The sullivan and carina italian exchange didnt bother me or come off as rude despite maya not understanding it. Like im sure by this point maya is learning basics but is not fluent enough to follow wants though she does understand tones. Sullivan approached carina and chose to speak in Italian when it wouldve been reasonable to thank her in english, instead approaching her like they were close. So im sure that further pissed her off. I mean lets consider who she speaks to in italian; her lovers, her brother and her friends and noone else we’ve seen.
I also don’t think the kid is what “turned maya around on kids”, as i was saying last week the way which her voice cracked when she said she cant have kids makes me believe she wants to but mulitple fears are impacting her desire for them. So instead i think her bbn interaction with the kid showed her that maybe she could do it and that she is not her dad and should not give up on what she wants.
Meanwhile carina’s behavior towarss the dad may have seemed harsh but i understand it. She was seeing it two ways and have an emotional response. She saw his behavior towards his son as abuse and im sire she thought of maya and her father as well as how her wifes past is coloring her decision even now. But carina also had genuine concern for her patient.
People also seem upset that carina was not working with addison, but why? We have a whole season for it and grey’s was about addisons return and dealing with the past which carina wasnt involved with. So my question is do we not want carina on station 19 ingeracting with her wife and the team??
And it made me think of maya and Andy jumping off the truck in the premiere. So being that everyone always has their phones surely someone filmed that and the news got ahold of it. So what was carina’s thoughts on it and how did their conversation about it go. Like im sure s bit was said about how incompetent the captain is but yea i need this ficd.
1. Get picked up by the Athletes Unlimited lacrosse league;
2. Not get injured before then;
3. Graduate.
She isn’t supposed to get hurt in one of the season’s first games, and she isn’t supposed to fall for the athletic training assistant who helped her limp off the field. But with weeks of physical therapy on the horizon, Maya’s self-restraint will be pushed to its limits when met with wandering hands, late night training sessions, and lasagna dropped off at her apartment door.
Maya Bishop has three things on her to-do list: 1. Get picked up by the Athletes Unlimited lacrosse league; 2. Not get injured before then; 3. Graduate.
She isn’t supposed to get hurt in one of the season’s first games, and she isn’t supposed to fall for the athletic training assistant who helped her limp off the field. But with weeks of physical therapy on the horizon, Maya’s self-restraint will be pushed to its limits when met with wandering hands, late night training sessions, and lasagna dropped off at her apartment door.
Maya Bishop has three things on her to-do list: 1. Get picked up by the Athletes Unlimited lacrosse league; 2. Not get injured before then; 3. Graduate.
She isn’t supposed to get hurt in one of the season’s first games, and she isn’t supposed to fall for the athletic training assistant who helped her limp off the field. But with weeks of physical therapy on the horizon, Maya’s self-restraint will be pushed to its limits when met with wandering hands, late night training sessions, and lasagna dropped off at her apartment door.
For you, there’ll be no more crying. For you, the sun will be shining. And I feel that when I’m with you it’s alright, I know it’s right. To you, I’ll give the world. To you, I’ll never be cold. And I wish you all the love in the world but most of all, I wish it from myself.
You cramming for a pop quiz? Uh, brushing up on protocols just in case. Just in case Chief Ross suddenly asks you about… “universal precautions which shall be observed to prevent contact with blood and other bodily fluids”?
