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Station 19: Twist and Shout (2022)
Sullivan and Ross are the villains of every story
I find it so humorous that Sullivan thinks he can take the high road ever, with anyone. Like I'm still laughing. Drugs, stealing drugs, bullying 2 people to cover ... should be in jail not still in uniform! Then stabbed Bishop, the only reason why he has a job, in the back ... and despite being asked and saying he would, he never put in a good word for her with Ross. And now he thinks Bishop threatening them with no follow through is the same ... like I'm still laughing!! And Maya never tried to have him kicked out of the house. Sullivan is what is wrong with men.
And Ross ... She is so terrible for women in power, but on par for Shonda Rhimes ... women who can't stay away from their toxic men. And now needs to destroy women like Maya, so she can keep Beckett in pace because he would actually out them... what kind of pathetic excuse for a leader is she?!
And Travis running for mayor is the stupidest storyline ever. Travis is the last character on the show who should be running for mayor. Everyone would be better than Travis. Everyone!
Station 19: 100% or Nothing (2021)
It's amazing how wrong the his show is ...
Considering how many women are behind the scenes. At any point is Sullivan actually going to realize how wrong he was. McAlister said there would be an investigation and that he would talk to Maya ... until Sullivan happened ... then no investigation, no conversation, just demotion and blackmail. Sullivan stole drugs and bullied 2 firefighters to cover for him, and Maya gave him her unequivocal support. Why can't Sullivan ever realize what he did wrong? And Jack is so wrong. Everyone else got hearings, Maya didn't. And Sullivan did that. Why did the show lean so heavily into misogyny and not let the team back Maya and let her be the strong female character that they built over 4 seasons and fight for her job and take down the system and Sullivan and McAlister!
The writers really failed over and over again.
Station 19: One Last Time (2024)
Just terrible in every way that matters
Why did this season fail Maya Bishop, the best character on the show, and Marina, the best relationship?
Why did this season become the Vic and Travis hour? They are the whiniest, most annoying characters to ever grace a television. Part of the story fine, but the majority of the time ... no!
Why was Ben's whining given so much time this season? Of course, he's going back to being a doctor and can inflict his preachiness on GA for seasons to come since no one will end that show.
No amount of screen time will make Ross or Sullivan ok. Sleeping with and promoting a subordinate will always be a fireable offense. Period.
And the ascension of Princess Andy to her throne ... I still haven't stopped laughing. Reckless and insubordinate all the time, but sure, why not?
And the worst part is that once again Maya and Carina separately and together are pushed to the side. There was more dialogue given to Travis and his 3 men this season.
Then the biggest bait and switch of all time ... all this discussion of Maya being afraid to die now ... then the cliffhanger at the end of episode 9 ... for nothing ... no injury, no conversation with Carina. What a joke? Did Maya getting injured take away from the ascension of Princess Andy?
And I'm sorry, but the only original character with no dialogue in the 3 months later ... Maya! The writers even threw Theo in but nothing for Maya and Carina.
Clearly, the writers have bowed to the prevailing winds of hate and shoved aside the best relationship on the show and one of the best wlw of all time because they want to embrace the prejudice. It is interesting that in this time of hate, they would still rather show Travis with all his men than a committed female couple.
Good riddance to Shonda Rhimes. Good riddance to so many of the problems with this show and these writers, especially their inability to recognize that the best characters on the show were Maya and Carina and give them the important stories that need to be told and the screen time to do that justice.
#SaveMarina #MarinaSpinoff.
Station 19: Trouble Man (2024)
This show is so problematic.
You can't sign a contract and make Ross and Sullivan ok. She slept with and promoted a subordinate. She should have been fired as a man would have been post #metoo. And if she wasn't such a liability and couldn't keep Sullivan out of her pants or at least not promote him, she has brought on all kinds of problems. And I just love how she allows Princess Andy to be rude and insubordinate and keep her job, allows her to embarrass SFD in uniform and keep her job ... and Maya, she just got destroyed by this toxic sludge of a chief who is no better than Dixon or McAlister. Oh, to have Ripley back.
And the fact that the show holds Ross out to be some wonderful, strong female leader is toxic to all the really strong women out there.
Station 19: Forever and Ever, Amen (2021)
Robert Sullivan is the most disgustingly sad excuse for a man, much less a person
I'm not sure how Robert Sullivan isn't the most reviled man on television. He did drugs, stole drugs from the fire house, bullied and manipulated people to lie for him. And somehow he doesn't go to jail. And keep his job because of Maya Bishop. Then the things that McAlister hates about her are that Sullivan got arrested with Miller and that she supported a lawsuit he was a part of and marched in protests that he marched in also. What kind of sad excuse of a man is he?! And Maya goes down because she is a queer woman who doesn't know her place and Sullivan helps take her down. The biggest mistake the show made is not killing Sullivan in that fire in season 5 cause he is a toxic and pathetic man who should have been hated. Instead he sleeps his way back up and everyone abandons Maya. Congrats writers for showing that in a contest you will prefer any man over a queer woman.
Station 19: No One Is Alone (2021)
Was this meant to punish us?
What did we ever do to deserve an episode that was just Vic and Travis, the 2 most annoying characters to ever grace anyone's television. They are annoying and immature and only tolerable in small doses ... very small doses. Actually, I just wish we could get rid of them ... then we could have more screen time for less awful characters. And the show drags their baggage on endlessly ... daddy issues and boyfriend issues and the list goes on and on and on. Like grow up already. They can't have high school problems forever, right?! I'm holding out for a Marina spinoff, so I don't have to be annoyed by Vic and Travis every again.
Station 19: This Woman's Work (2024)
Problems
I am not saying that I don't want 19 saved. Ok, I would love for the ever toxic Andy to go away, far away ... and Sullivan too ... and Theo, god he needs to go ... and why bring back Beckett and Kate. But let's get one thing straight, the reviewers here and so much of the fanbase has proven just how toxic the women's message is on this show. There is very little true female empowerment. Ross should have lost her job and Sullivan his promotion. The Me Too movement did not fight so that women could sleep with and promote subordinates. Maya was right. She just should have reported them without threatening them. Period. I don't recall any female empowerment when Andy tried to destroy Maya because Princess Andy didn't get what she wanted. I don't recall any female empowerment when Ross acted like every man in a position of power destroying the women and promoting the person who will sleep with her. I don't see any female empowerment in Sullivan using Ross and her being too besotted to realize it cause newsflash Sullivan only loves himself. And watching Maya support Princess Andy when Andy has spent years destroying Maya is just disgusting. So I want to save a different version of 19 with Maya, Carina, Vic, Travis, Jack and Ben. The rest are toxic and should have been dumped a long time ago. Maybe then the show's rating would be so good they wouldn't need saving. And I better not have to watch another episode full of crappy Theo, horrible Sullivan and Ross, incompetent and whiny Princess Andy, and Travis cheating to get 3 minutes of screen time for Maya and Carina.
Station 19: Never Gonna Give You Up (2023)
Wtf
I'm not sure I can adequately express just how awful the writers of this show are. Almost 1 year ago, Ross destroyed Maya and allowed the misogyny of her demotion to stand. She went on and on about the importance of chain of command. By the book Bishop disobeyed 1 order and her demotion is permanent and her career is over.
Now Ross is praising Andy for her insubordination when there is no actual proof that Beckett was compromised. Andy who never met an order that she wouldn't argue against and a superior that she wouldn't scream at on scene. But Andy is a leader while Maya was insubordinate? Wtf!
Ross needs to go. The writers need to go. I know that Princess Andy needs to be praised at all times but this is ridiculous. The message that the misogyny of Maya's demotion wins and that women like Ross helped make sure the misogyny won is harmful to women. Station 19 should be ashamed.
Station 19: Stuck (2018)
Andy is the worst
1st episode and Andy is cheating on her boyfriend, so upset about her father's cancer that she forced him to promote her and put her in line to be captain from his hospital bed, actually blames her father for her not having even applied for the job of lieutenant cause filling out paperwork is so hard. Thankfully, her best friend Maya is funny and hot so maybe they will dump Andy and focus more on Maya and Vic who are much better characters!
I don't really care about realism if the show is good. But the central character can't be so heinous. And this is a Grey's spinoff. They should have done better cause Meredith was a great central character.
Station 19: Could I Leave You? (2023)
Maya Bishop is brilliant and fabulous but this storyline needs to be over
Maya is the only reason I still watch this ridiculous show. So let me get this straight ... not a single person on the team with the exception of Ben has shown any support. And not a one of them has apologized for how horribly they treated Maya for months (or years of you start with her promotion). Because apparently the shows toxic message is that Maya must take all the blame even for the toxic actions of every member of 19. No let's be there for Maya meeting like they had for Jack. No welcome back like they had for Jack.
Then we have to listen to Maya continue to beat herself up. And the best part is we have to listen to her blame herself for Beckett's alcoholism. And only Ben is there to tell her that she isn't a monster.
And where is Carina? Whining about signing up for more pain. This storyline is toxic for mental health because Maya has no support and is doing this all alone. This would have made sense after the cheating not after a mental health crisis. Carina clearly doesn't love Maya enough to be there for her. Does love her enough to support her? All she does is yell cruel things at her, keep walking away, not respond to many of her text messages, not wear her ring, and keep telling Maya through words and actions that she is too broken to love.
This storyline is just dragging on for too long and is making Carina look toxic. We need our fantastic, force of nature Maya back ASAP!
Station 19: Come as You Are (2023)
Is it ever going to get better?
And now we see just how terrible this show is handling the mental health storyline. Episode after episode Maya was abandoned and talked about and allowed to be bullied and lose her job to misogyny. The same repetitive comments were made by everyone, Maya is so difficult and impossible. Just ignore her or yell at her.
Now that she has hit rock bottom. Let's have her sit in an apartment by herself because everyone has truly abandoned her. So I guess the message is be careful because if your mental health makes you too broken or damaged or difficult, everyone will leave you. If you can "fix" yourself by yourself and beg, maybe they will take you back ... maybe. But remember it was so easy for them to leave you, so if you get too broken or damaged or difficult again, they will leave you again. That is just so toxic and does nothing to destigmatize mental health.
Now I'm just waiting for them to continue the toxic misogyny and mental health nightmare by making Maya give up her career goals cause clearly women can't have a career and family and even less severe mental health issues like Maya's responses to childhood trauma should of course preclude her from having ambitions and going for promotions.
This is just toxic. Shame on you Station 19 writers.
Station 19: We Build Then We Break (2023)
Absolutely terrible
That was such a manipulative terrible mental health storyline. A spouse, even a medical doctor, cannot order a psych hold. They can request an evaluation. No spouse would have been in the room to make the threat. And no medical professional would threaten a patient with stay or else then immediately threaten restraints.
Maya has always been my favorite, but this show has dragged her through one misogynistic, abusive storyline after another. And now started on an absolutely toxic storyline that does nothing to destigmatize mental health. In a show that promotes strong female characters, how have they allowed a misogynistic demotion and no hearing and bullying and abusive behavior against a female character to last for a season and a half.
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Misogynistic crap that has 1 positive, no longer wasting time on Marvel
I stuck with Marvel for way longer than I should have. Kept thinking that eventually Kevin Feige would stop being a misogynistic ass. When he handed the reins to the Russo brothers, I should have known it was not going to get better. Ignore the ridiculous way this played out just so that they would lose in IW and kill people in EG. The treatment of Black Widow was just the last straw for me. Nat, not Tony or Steve or Bruce or Thor or Clint, held what is left of the Avengers together and kept fighting. Nat held it all together. Nat showed all the strength that a leader should have. Nat is a good person who keeps fighting. With Chris Evans and RDJ leaving, the stage was set to let Black Widow shine. Instead, it is a stupid, contrived, pointless death that in an interview the Russo brothers said that they needed something to motivate the men. Are you f#%*%#* kidding me?! Killing the little lady to motivate her man one of the oldest most misogynistic pieces of crap. Nat was motivated already. She didn't need some pointless death to convince her to fight. And then to sit by the lake for a minute and ask if she had family and then what? Nothing. Then to make matters worse, some big hero's sendoff for Tony but nothing for Nat. Utter misogynistic BS!
And just wow, what a depressing arc for your main female. We know that she never felt like she did enough good, never really believed that she was a good person. And AoU made sure to call her a monster for not being able to have children. Tony is forgiven for all his sins, of which there are many, finds love and is a hero. Steve literally messes with time to get his love. The world be damned. Clint is apparently forgiven for being a mass murdering vigilante, so he can go back to his family and suffer no consequences. But not Nat, she never feels forgiven or good enough or that she deserves love or even to live. And I guess the lesson is that the men can be forgiven for all their crimes and sins, one's they did of their own free choice, but the women cannot. But hey, as long as her death motivates the boys to fight. Wtf!
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Meet the New Boss (2016)
Scene with Daisy and Fitz
This scene has bothered me for years. Rewatching the series did not make that scene any better. First, Daisy did not turn her back on them. When Coulson says he needs her help, she stays. Second, Daisy doesn't have to handle her grief and guilt as Fitz sees fit. She doesn't have to let him fix her or tell her how to handle it. He doesn't get to judge how someone else handles their grief and guilt and yell at her that she should have let him fix it.
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: New Life (2019)
Where did the show I love go?
I love the first 4.5 seasons. While the second half of season 5 was rough, this season finale was just a mess. First, what was the point of all of Coulson's memories? It would appear that the only point was so that Mack could pull one of his holier than thou moments and rant about one god and the devil did it. Seriously?! In a show about aliens and otherworldly villains, how can a man that is that narrow-minded be allowed to lead the team?! Second, I am growing weary of the need to diminish Daisy as a plot device or just plain old misogyny. The show created a rich, strong and real character (beautifully played by Chloe Bennet) and now seems to enjoy knocking her down and putting her in her place. She has sent a man into orbit, destroyed Kree warriors, disintegrated birds and broken bones ... but she is gonna run from zombies?!?! Then in the final fight scene, am I really supposed to believe that May can defeat Izel and Mack can hold his own against Sarge? The same Sarge that was seemingly unaffected by Daisy's powers? Daisy has shown that she can take a beating and still save the day, but one hit from Sarge leaves her dazed. And Mack has no problem?! Wait, Mack is big ... apparently that is all that a man needs to be. I know that when I rewatch the series I will be watching the fun in space and some of the fab 5 at the lighthouse. I just wish that they had not felt the need to add so many characters and stick to the 5 that started it all: Coulson, Daisy, May and Fitzsimmons.