She had no problem working with Santos, despite having to put her foot down once when Santos made some unnecessary snarky comments. Gradually, Carina became a mentor figure to Santos- guiding her to drop the harsh exterior she used with patients and colleagues even though Carina was an OB-GYN and Santos worked in the ER.

Carina just couldn’t help herself when it came to taking in misunderstood, frightened strays.

Santos would be so stubborn and reluctant to change at times, but Carina was not one to give up on a person like her- she eventually invited her to dinner at the DeLuca-Bishop household to introduce her to her wife, Maya. She hoped Maya, a woman with her own past trauma who had also been misunderstood and punished for her ambition and mistakes by a white male superior at work, could help guide Santos through the maze.

Pluribus x The 100 Season 3 the City of Light

Carol Sturka x Clarke Griffin

Zosia & us x Lexa-ALIE 2.0

🤯

Looking at how some people are judging and criticizing Carol now, it honestly reminded me of how people online and in-show used to see Clarke back then.

Do they really have that many problems and/or done the unimaginable harms? They’re both just trying to survive, and then the plot/the people around them somehow pushed them to the position to “save” everyone. At the same time, they were asked (by characters on the show and some people online) to suppress their own personal emotions while still taking on responsibility to care for ALL but themselves.

My two tortured babies 🥲 Carol Sturka, a traumatized lesbian who’s just lost her wife, and a closeted writer who writes sci-fi romance for the heterosexuals due to her own conversion camp trauma; the other, Clarke Griffin, a bisexual underage girl who loves drawing and knows a little about medicine who’s just lost her father, got sent to prison by her mom, and then was exiled to Earth as a lab rat. They both cared deeply about humanity and individuality, and they are doing their best and in my opinion, their trying best wasn’t bad at all.

My Carol 🤝 Clarke agenda

Swap the genders, and a whole wave of people would already be lining up to kiss their asses…

And in my view, both shows have male characters who are similar to the female leads, or even more extreme in personality or actions- Manousos & Bellamy. Yet comparatively, the male versions were never subjected to the same scale of moral trials or nitpicky criticism at all. 🙄

However, I am now really moved by their relationship thanks to the way the writers have incorporated Helen and their relationship into the story… Helen and the marriage were not on the screen much, but with all the little details, the one liner dialogue, how Carol falters every time Helen’s name’s mentioned… you get to see that Helen was real, and the marriage was REAL. Yes, they are imperfect, and their marriage was imperfect. They had arguments and differences, but they make it all so real, and exactly so HUMAN- despite being imperfect and different, they tried to make things work with each other because they truly love and care about each other.

Lastly, call me childish all you want, but personally I physically cannot stand seeing men who directly hurt Maya (and Carina), giving advice to Maya, especially on their baby-making journey. It’s disgusting and unfortunate to me that the writers cannot figure out a way to redeem their beloved men without inserting them again and again to Maya x Carina’s storyline.

How I interpreted Rebecca’s “obsession” with telling Warren’s story, make sure everybody “knows his heart” seems to align with what the show’s trying to get at- Yes, Warren is a boy who’s had a quiet yet unfortunate life, but he is not Gabe. He is Rebecca. A kid who didn’t know better and did/said horrible things in the heat of the moment that had a much bigger consequene than they could possibly comprehend even afterwards.

It seems to me that Rebecca (the show character) also didn’t fully understand or maybe didn’t want to admit why she so desperately wanted and needed to tell everyone Warren’s heart- She wanted to convince or prove to “the world”- to herself really (and maybe Cam)- that she did monsterous things (bullied her brother, shouted horrible things at him) but she’s not a monster.

Again, I am not passing judgment or taking sides on the true case and real people involved in the case. I am only focusing on the characters and the show’s artistic choices to tell the story from the book. I think the show did a good job capturing the book, aka the real Rebecca’s perspective of the stories around the case, and added more-

1) When Rebecca’s dad read the draft, he brought up that in the story about Reena Virk’s case, she’s everywhere, but yet she is no where to be found in Rebecca’s book. Why is that? What is she afraid of?

2) Suman stared right into Rebecca’s eyes and said Warren saw someone who’s weaker so he did what he did. Then, questioned her if Reena looked like her, do you think he’d still do what he did?! The book in my opinion did not really touched on the racial aspect of the discussion, maybe it only implied or vaguely hinted at, but I like how the show directly point it out. I can’t quite put this into words, but I also felt that what Suman said about Warren in that moment did not see Reena as a person has a slightly different meaning from when the same statement was made during court when they tried to pin Warren for the murder.

3) Similar to the point above, I am not sure if this is intentional on the director/show-creator’s part, but I found it interesting that while the connection between Rebecca and Warren was forming, the show also established a mirror connection between Cam and Dusty 👀 I personally see it as mirroring in terms of race ethnicity but also a mirror comparison in their childhood experience aka the role they both played in the case of Gabe and Reena. Besides wanting to see them continuously showcasing the true case progress, I can’t wait to see if the show will tell us what did happen with Gabe in the last episode? We seem to know the role Dusty/Cam played in the case. We know Warren/Rebecca think they contributed 3/10 parts to Gabe/Reena’s death. We know that Kelly owed 7/10 parts to Reena’s death, then what’s the 7/10 parts to Gabe’s death?! Was it truly an accident or was there something more?

Lastly, the scene between Rebecca x Cam in the bedroom… such wonderful acting by Riley and Lily 🥲

Stefania x Danielle 🥲

Kill me, why don’t you.

After finishing the book (actually finished listening to the audible), I also listened to the additional hour-long segment interview with the author. And now I'm curious about how the last two episodes of the series will present the story author Rebecca Godfrey chose to tell in the latter part of her book... Certain part of those stories (especially knowing they truly happened) really gave me some strong emotions… Her writing succeeded in immersing readers in the situation at the time, evoking empathy from readers for both the teenagers and adults involved in the case.

Looking back on Rebecca in the series after listening to the author’s interview, I feel that the character is pretty true to the actual Rebecca. Obviously it’s not a 1:1 replica, but the show captured the essence of the author- I think the portrayal of this character Rebecca did a good job explaining some of the reasons behind the author Rebecca's choice to tell this story (not quite as dramatic for sure), especially the thoughts going into why she decided to approach the case in this particular angle: tell the stories of the kids involved in this cruel and complex case from their perspective and then following onward in this way. Along with the added dramatic artistic decisions, it makes me appreciate even more turning the original author into one of the story's characters and combines it with the author's own experiences to tell the story. Like I said before, if the case of Reena Virk itself is the show’s main focus, then Rebecca and Cam are like the messy adults these kids might turn into in ten years if their issues are left unaddressed properly... The author wanted to convey the complexity of this true case- to tell the stories of teenagers involved in the event whose emotions are often times overlooked and ignored, while also trying to expose the injustice in the justice system. I think adding Cam and Rebecca into the show definitely hone down on these points and made the storytelling more compelling.

Then and Now.

Rebecca Godfrey x Cam Bentland

Okay tell me if I’m reaching… but it sounds to me that Shondaland has no intention to continu Station 19 elsewhere?