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Well, well, well… Looks who’s back on our screens!

The DeLuca-Bishops have returned to us! And not only that, we’re getting an addition to the family!

Welcome baby Liam soon to be DeLuca-Bishop! You’re so cute!

Not to mention that, but we’re not giving up on Carina’s dream to have a child of her own. Which I enjoyed.

To be perfectly honest, I suspected that they were going to do both since this may be it. Give us time to see them as mothers while also going through the IVF process. Which I hope is the plan, because I want to see them still have a baby because we’ve been talking about it for so long now!

Because I suspected this to be the case, I have made my peace with it.

What I struggle to make peace with is the complete lack of screentime.

Like jeez people.

Maybe if you didn’t have 12 main characters, there would be time for the couple to have conversations on screen about wanting the baby.

There’s an unspoken rule for TV shows that if you have more than seven main characters, the stories won’t work. There just isn’t enough time to get to know or have plots for everyone.

Station 19 is the epitome of why it’s a rule you should never break.

Maya and Carina are arguably two of the most central characters in the show.

Yet we spent time with Dixon’s family when no one cares about them. Revisiting a story we put to bed in season 5, was it? Emmett and Travis hooking up again, complicates a story no one cares about. Like, let Travis be happy in his new relationship instead of adding this when you only have ten episodes.

We spend time on a call we could have avoided. Take the call out and make Jack in the hospital the focus if that’s what you want instead of jumping around.

In fact, because I only pay attention to the moments involving Maya and Carina, I’m a little fuzzy on when Maya was dispatched to the call.

Just saying.

Also, Station 19, I’m going to say something from the bottom of my heart here. If you’re going to make the season finale a huge life-threatening situation where people’s lives hang in the balance, have the f*cking guts to off some of your characters.

Dixon doesn’t count because no one likes him.

Kill the Chief. Kill Jack. Injury others. Give Andy an existential crisis over losing team members five seconds after being named captain instead. Kill Theo. Have Beckett disappear.

Because there’s nothing, I hate more than leading up to this huge disaster without consequences.

See Arrow! Arrow blew up an entire island filled with Oliver’s loved ones and I knew – I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that they wouldn’t have the guts to kill anyone important! They killed one person, just to finally get Oliver’s kid into his custody. That’s it.

That’s a lame cop-out.

Just like this is.

You had a chance to trim your cast and give more time to things people would like to see!

No, instead, I’m over here dissecting every interaction like I do when I want Xena: Warrior Princess, a show – mind you – made in the 90s where everything was censored!

I’m doing that now, in 2024.

I’m watching Carina’s facial expressions for all the hints that she wanted that baby! Because they were there! And if Stefania wasn’t as amazing as she is, it would fall so flat, be so unbelievable!

Carina’s face said it all in the first scene.

I kept thinking about her on Grey’s, when she admitted she had never lost a mother, and until the pandemic that was untarnished. With the pandemic (in show) over, she’s probably returned to not losing mothers.

Except her she has.

We can see it on her face.

In her voice.

We can hear it in Maya’s for crying out loud! Who sounds like she’s been repeating that her wife did everything she could for the mama over and over to comfort her.

We see Maya isn’t surprised to see her in the NICU. No one is.

No one bats an eye at them there.

She’s there again later without Maya.

We see the pain in her eyes at the thought of the little boy being adopted by someone who isn’t her. How she tries to be happy, because someone is going to love him and care for him and really that’s what is important.

Except, we can see it on her face – she wanted it to be her and Maya.

She’s already filling Maya in on the chef when they go to visit the baby again later. To say goodbye or see him. Either way.

An OB doesn’t deal with babies.

She’s the mama’s doctor.

The mama is dead. Job over.

Yet, here they are.

Visiting the baby. So much that no one is surprised by them there. That Carina feels totally comfortable reaching in and touching the baby over and over! We don’t see anyone else reaching for him, putting their hands in the crib.

Just Carina.

We can see the level attachment Carina has by every action Stefania takes.

And I love that, because she’s a brilliant actress who moves mountains with a spoon.

As does Danielle who has a similar mountain to move in this episode.

Making the adoption sound not so far-fetched.

Now, I know people don’t like how it was handled and others do. I’m going to tell you why the more I watched that scene back and thought it over – that I came to the conclusion that I do really like it.

Maya and Carina have already made their choices.

In the finale of last season, we see them discussing how many kids they want. They decided not three, but seemingly more than one. Something Carina already wanted and Maya just doesn’t want to be outnumbered.

Two is good.

Adoption gets them a baby now.

IVF is hard, long, and painstakingly hope-filled and hope crushing process. Making their dream of being moms won’t happen tomorrow in this process.

Adoption could.

If they get emergency approval for a baby who needs a home now, it could happen way sooner.

And somehow, in my brain, it’ll cushion the blow of not already being there from everything that happened last season. And in whatever wait is to come.

Because they won’t wait to have what they want.

They’ll be mothers right now, while they work on having their second child.

Have their cake and eat it too.

Not to mention, Danielle does an excellent job of believably convincing us she knows that Carina wanted that little boy.

Carina mentioned it last season, that when she sees her future children she pictures a boy.

Here he is.

Alone. In need of parents.

And here are two parents in need of a child.

For me, it actually became clear and simple. They want a baby, and this baby needs a home.

They’ve already had the tough conversations and worked out what they want. They’re on the same page now and stronger than ever. They’re making plans to find a house. They are stable and solid and ready.

If they both are attached to the small boy and want him – the decision really is that easy.

As for choosing to move, I’m surprised the show acknowledged Carina’s struggle with the apartment again. I thought they were going to brush it aside and I’m super happy they’re not.

But it also explains why in the picture of them in bed together that the wall isn’t the right color.

I’m choosing to ignore the comforter.

Yikes!

Anyway, aside from having to read the subtle things left unspoken or said off screen, I’m excited to see them be moms, and move forward.

Are you?

Also, they totally banged in an on-call room or Carina’s office. Just saying.

Thanks for reading! See you next week!

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