Station 19 Round Table: Unpacking the Series Finale, the Show's Legacy, and What's Next

A lot to our chagrin, it was the final name for Station 19.

Whereas the battle nonetheless rages on for something extra, Station 19 Season 7 Episode 10 offered closure for these characters we have come to like as greatest as they might handle.

Be part of Station 19 Fanatics, Elodie MV, Heather M, and TV Fanatic Haley Whitmire White for one remaining spherical desk.

Station 19 had the difficult activity of wrapping up many storylines and arcs in underneath an hour. Do you assume they succeeded?

Ellie: No. What precisely have they wrapped up?

All I take into consideration that remaining episode is that everybody made it; they’re all alive. Within the final 5 minutes, we all know that Andy is Chief and Maya is Captain. And the others? We do not know.

We all know that Pru is a probie at 19 and that Travis and Vic go to D.C. It feels incomplete.

Heather: Ellie, I completely agree. I did not love or hate the finale, however I can not say any storyline was actually wrapped up.

They spent an excessive amount of time on the wildfire and never sufficient on what made this present: the characters.

Haley: I will be the odd one out! They did an incredible job of wrapping every thing up.

I did not love the entire future storylines, however I appreciated that they tried to offer everybody a cheerful ending.

It was a difficult activity.

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The writers missed a chance to flesh out a few of these futures this season, and I’m wondering if that is as a result of they have been holding out hope that the present can be saved and did not wish to set something in stone too quickly.

However so far as collection finales go, it was effectively executed.

Ben is about to return to Gray’s Anatomy. What are your ideas on him shifting again to medication? Additionally, do you assume Carina will be a part of him too?

Ellie: With Ben shifting again to medication, it seems like Ben is a person having a life disaster in his 50s, and it is somewhat annoying…

And it was too predictable that he would return to medication.

As an enormous Carina fan, I sincerely hope Stefania will return to Gray’s as a result of she deserves it.

Carina deserves a storyline on Gray’s Anatomy, so I hope she is going to.

If she would not, I shall be very disenchanted, however I’ll look ahead to Stefania’s new initiatives.

Heather: I really feel like Ben returning to medication wipes out every thing in his story of sticking with firefighting.

And I used to be bothered by how his character was at all times working triage or doctoring somebody on the station moderately than preventing fires.

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The entire thing about the way it impacts Miranda was dragged out too lengthy, so utilizing it as a part of why he returned to medication felt like a cop-out.

Carina deserves to start out her personal follow, as she has talked about earlier than.

Haley: I assumed this was how Ben’s story would play out, so I wasn’t shocked.

For me, it was the primary time we have seen him make a calculated, considerate resolution about his profession.

He give up anesthesiology to turn into a surgeon, after which he give up his residency to turn into a firefighter, and people felt like selections made by a person chasing success.

I believe he discovered that at Station 19, however at his age and together with his historical past, preventing fires would by no means be a sensible long-term profession for him.

I am glad he’ll return to Gray Sloan to complete his residency.

I believe it will be good for Miranda, too, who spends lots of time anxious for Ben’s security.

I hope to see Carina (and Maya) over on the Gray’s facet, too, and I believe there is a good likelihood that we’ll.

(Spoiler alert for Gray’s Anatomy Season 20 Finale: Now that Jo is pregnant on Gray’s, it is sensible that Carina would come again and be her OB-GYN, particularly as a result of it is uncommon for a significant character on that present to have an easy, uncomplicated being pregnant.)

Had been you underwhelmed by how they dealt with Theo’s scare? Did you discover it odd that they shifted all their consideration to Andy on the hospital?

Ellie: I imply, Theo’s scare was nothing. I might have been pleased if he died.

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I did discover it odd for 2 causes:

Why injure Theo if it is for shifting all their consideration to Andy?

Maya received surrounded by fireplace, and he or she was high-quality?! I might have preferred to see Maya faint moderately than Andy.

Heather: The Theo scare was dealt with terribly.

I actually was scared they might kill him and have it have an effect on Vic one way or the other, and I am glad they did not go that route.

However they put the majority of Theo’s harm story on Gray’s Anatomy Season 20 Episode 10, and on Station 19’s finale, I believe solely Vic requested about him.

They solely did this to scare the viewers with a number of cliffhangers. It did not add any actual worth to the story.

Haley: I am pleased Theo did not die, however I’m glad they’d him expertise this life-threatening harm on the finish.

It was a full-circle second for his character and a means for him to get full absolution (hopefully lastly forgive himself) for getting Michael killed.

Saving Travis’s life by risking his personal was a totally selfless act, and it wanted to be a near-death expertise in order that Theo would really feel like it could, in a means, make up for his previous.

Which of the goals/flash-forwards did you discover essentially the most emotional? Had been there any that you just did not get pleasure from?

Ellie: Vic’s dream was essentially the most emotional as a result of we received a cameo of Oak (Dean), so it was nice to see Vic succeeding with Disaster One.

I loved not one of the flash-forwards as a result of I felt it was pointless.

I simply didn’t see the purpose of them within the episode as a result of nobody has died (disappointing).

I believe as an alternative of creating these goals/flash-forwards as if the characters have been about to die; the writers simply might have executed a time bounce with everybody on the finish, like Travic in D.C. for Disaster One, Maya & Carina with their three youngsters, Sullivan and Ross married, Andy being the Chief, and so forth…

They might have executed one thing that feels extra like an ending as a result of I did not really feel that the ultimate episode was an ending of the present.

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Heather: Once more, Ellie, I agree.

All of the flash-forwards had a sweetness to them, and I particularly loved seeing Dean and Pru graduate from the fireplace academy.

However the flash-forwards have been pointless.

They might have higher conveyed what they have been attempting to get throughout the display with flashbacks as an alternative of flash-forwards.

Kinda like individuals’s fan edit movies, simply fast clips of all of the individuals they love from previous episodes. To me, that will have been extra particular.

Haley: It was undoubtedly good to see Dean again for a second to inform Vic how proud he was of her.

I actually preferred the flash-forward scenes as a result of I like understanding the place characters find yourself.

I used to be most emotional after I noticed Vic and Travis collectively in the long run and after I noticed Ben and Miranda’s youngsters all develop up and achieve huge issues.

Pru at Nineteen was actually candy!

Seeing Tuck graduating from faculty was bizarre as a result of it felt like Bailey was simply pregnant with him.

As for what I did not like… yeah, I might have executed with out Andy and Jack ending up collectively, however I am glad they’re each pleased, I suppose.

Did the hints of Jack and Andy’s endgame come out of left area?

Ellie: Jack and Andy as endgame was so pointless as a result of they’ve been greatest pals for six seasons, and abruptly they’re endgame?

That sounds just like the writers didn’t know what to do with Jack, so that they made him endgame with Andy.

The writers have executed Jack so soiled this season, which is extremely disappointing.

Heather: Sure. I’ve by no means felt at any level on this present that Andy was in love with Jack in that sort of means.

After studying articles in regards to the finale from the showrunners and studying that this concept was a last-minute concept given by Jaina Lee Ortiz, it tells me the writers weren’t doing their job and actually did not know what to do with both of them.

I might have most well-liked to see Andy as a single and thriving profession girl. Firefighting has at all times been her love.

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And so they did Jack so soiled by not even giving him a flash ahead and exhibiting a number of the concepts they’d for him, like social work for foster youngsters.

Haley: Yeah, completely. These two have not been a factor in years, and most lately, they’ve shared a extra sibling-like friendship.

I do not really feel like they’ve a lot chemistry, actually, as a result of Andy type of treats Jack like a sick pet.

However I’m glad they gave Jack a cheerful ending on the present, despite the fact that he deserved so significantly better than what he received this season.

Did Travis make the appropriate name shifting with Vic to D.C.? Did you get pleasure from their Platonic love story being so central to the finale?

Ellie: YES, YES, YES! I used to be SO pleased that Travis determined to go along with Vic to D.C.

I am so pleased we received to see their platonic love story till the top as a result of I couldn’t image Travis nonetheless in Seattle and Vic in D.C.

They’re platonic soulmates, and I am so pleased they received a fantastic ending.

Heather: Sure! I actually loved this a lot.

I cried so arduous for that airport scene.

They’re the 2 characters I like essentially the most, and it could have been arduous to see Vic shifting on her personal.

The difficulty I had associated to them was once more in regards to the writing.

In Station 19 Season 7 Episode 9, Travis acknowledges Vic is true and that he’s afraid of change.

Within the finale, he argues with Dom in the course of the wildfire.

On their means again to the station, he tells her he cannot go; his life is in Seattle.

Then we get to the airport scene.

So, I actually would have preferred to know higher what made him change his thoughts.

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Haley: I used to be devastated when he stated he would not go together with her as a result of his “life is in Seattle.”

So when she sat down on the airport, I noticed the again of Travis’s head earlier than he was revealed and instantly began crying (sue me).

I am so pleased that he determined to go together with her.

I might give absolutely anything for a Disaster One spinoff set in D.C.

Station 19’s legacy lives in its remaining scene. What’s your response to Chief Andy Herrera and Captain Maya Deluca Bishop’s goals coming true within the parting scene?

Ellie: My preliminary response was, “WHAT THE FUCK ARE THOSE AWFUL WIGS ?! Who received that ugly concept? Ew.” My response to Chief Herrera and Captain DeLuca-Bishop was that Maya ought to have been Chief first.

Maya was a fantastic Captain, and everybody has been so unfair to her. But, she received the very best character improvement on the present, and Andy received all of the credit once more on the finish.

Nope, I do not purchase this.

As an instance that the time bounce to the longer term is 15 years.

Why is Maya nonetheless Captain when she might have ended up as Chief, too?

Why cannot the fireplace division have two feminine Chiefs?

As a Captain Bishop fan, I want Maya had her captaincy again throughout season 6, not on the present’s finish.

Particularly with that horrible wig when Danielle reduce her personal hair within the Station 19 Season 3 finale.

Heather: Oh god, these ugly wigs!

And why make them have brief hair when Andy has at all times had lengthy hair, and Maya grew hers again out?

Sadly, that may be essentially the most impactful a part of the episode, and it wasn’t that vital.

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Once more, this was one other pointless scene.

Why do writers wish to wrap up exhibits by exhibiting the longer term?

Why not depart it open to interpretation?

I like the concept of Maya and Andy working issues, and I agree that Maya ought to be increased than Captain.

My solely rationalization is that Maya stayed lieutenant for a very long time whereas elevating their household after which received again within the Captain race.

I might have most well-liked if they’d ended the present with Andy’s captaincy (since she has been preventing for that since day one) and her giving some variation of that speech after a name or perhaps on Travis’s or Ben’s final day when it feels just like the household goes separate methods.

Haley: You guys are cracking me up in regards to the wigs!

They have been tremendous bizarre, weren’t they?

It was good to see that they each did so effectively of their careers, however it could have made extra sense if their roles have been reversed.

Maya might have left 19 for a short time to be Captain some place else and in the end labored her method to Chief.

However the entire thing about Andy was that Nineteen was her legacy, and I at all times assumed she’d be Captain there till she retired.

What have been your general ideas on the ultimate season? Is there something you would like was dealt with in a different way?

Ellie: I hated it.

I hated the ultimate season as a result of it felt like such a fan service season, and each episode was too predictable, so it was not pleasant.

I want the writers had put extra effort into writing a fantastic remaining season, creating and focusing extra on each O.G. character (and never bringing new ineffective characters like Dominic) as an alternative of creating the final season for the followers.

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I want the writers had written Jack so significantly better than this tiny dispatcher position.

I want the writers did not convey Emmett again to make Travis seems to be like a cheater as a result of he couldn’t get his shit collectively.

Heather: I want a lot of this season had been dealt with in a different way.

It felt so disconnected from the final six seasons.

The appearing was the one a part of this present that felt constant this season.

The writers and/or showrunners simply tried to get cute with this season to place their spin on issues and threw all these pointless tales in it.

So as to add to Ellie’s listing:

Why did we want two episodes with tales primarily based on Michael Dixon’s funeral to have two Travis intercourse scenes to make him a cheater?

Why did we’ve an episode with everybody preventing due to funds cuts when this isn’t the individuals they’re, and it by no means has been your entire collection?

Marina’s storyline was so baby-focused that there was barely any room for them as a pair. Then they threw within the Mason and lawsuit storylines, which went nowhere.

I hated how they did each Jack and Theo’s exits from the station, and we knew then that they might break this household up. For what?

Dragging out the Tully proposal and love story took up far more time in every episode than essential.

Haley: There have been undoubtedly some low factors, and I want issues had gone in a different way.

Jack ought to have by no means been written out the way in which he was, Travis ought to have by no means had a dishonest period, and if Jack and Andy have been going to finish up collectively, they need to have executed extra to trace at that all through the season.

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There have been issues I did like, although.

Vic’s psychological well being struggles have been dealt with rather well.

Kate received killed off, which I might been hoping for all season (sorry, not sorry).

Beckett’s redemption arc was convincing and adjusted my thoughts in regards to the character.

So, there was good and dangerous, for positive.

What was your favourite factor about this collection, and what is going to you miss most?

Ellie: My favourite factor about this collection is the chemistry between Stefania Spampinato and Danielle.

Their chemistry is so particular; watching it for 4 seasons was wonderful.

Stefania’s appearing is my different favourite factor in regards to the present.

She has proven in 4 seasons how proficient she is as an actress, and he or she completely deserves recognition for this.

I’ll at all times miss how nice Station 19 was in seasons 1-3.

I miss the outdated seasons when everybody was humorous, 19 felt like a household, and the calls have been nice… All the pieces within the first three seasons was so particular; I’ll miss that almost all.

Heather: The 2 issues about this present that grabbed me are its heartfelt nature and the variety of its characters.

It is not solely in regards to the firefighting and saving lives however the issues everybody goes by.

Every character on this present has a deep really feel for serving to individuals and going above their job duties.

It’s by no means about cash or energy for them.

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The present introduced real-life points into the tales and confirmed us how the issues occurring on this planet have an effect on individuals.

It then used these flawed characters with huge hearts to indicate how we could be higher people.

On the similar time, we see that nobody is ideal, even individuals attempting to do good.

We get to see these characters undergo so many psychological well being points, heartache, and grief, amongst different issues, all whereas nonetheless being full of affection.

And seeing their love for one another is the glue for this present.

All the pieces, each story, comes again to that.

Greater than something, I’ll miss the characters and their relationships with each different character on the present, whether or not huge or small.

There was at all times lots of love there.

Haley: Vic and Travis’s friendship was my favourite factor about Station 19.

I’m a sucker for platonic soulmate storylines, queer illustration, and located household, so the entire present was actually nice for these issues.

I’ll miss the sensation of household these characters introduced each week.

Because of Gray’s Anatomy, I am glad we do not have to say goodbye for good to a few of them, and I will hope towards all rationality that Shonda offers us a Disaster One spinoff.

Over to you, Station 19 Fanatics. Share your ideas in regards to the collection finale under!

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