Nova passed her first audition and to celebrate the guys hit the club.
Alvaro made a new werewolf friend and seemed utterly confused that the rest of his friends appeared to start performing an entire dance routine he was clearly unaware of.
Amity Park didn’t return to Illinois after they were transported to the ghost zone.
After all, the Zone is fickle even in transporting singular entities like the smallest blob ghost. How about an entire town, with all those people in it?
Instead of Illinois, they end up slightly off the coast of New Jersey, a long time before Amity Park, Illinois ever existed.
Fixing damages that happened to the town during the transfer is considered a total loss, so they scrap everything and rebuild. Since the ghost issue seems to not be going anywhere ever, the decision to lean into the aesthetic and embrace it instead of denying and fighting it is nearly unanimous (save for a few ghost hunters here and there, but they are the minority).
It’s easy to slide into their new existence. Things are very different from the modern life they’re all used to, but much is still the same.
Phantom is always there to protect.
Hauntings are a part of their very foundations.
Amity Park was always pretty isolated, all things considered. So they continue on.
Tucker later on becomes mayor of the new town Gotham (Sam has a heavy hand in convincing everyone to go along with the name). He holds his position much longer and with far higher approval ratings than his predecessor.
Sam eventually marries someone who moved to the newly established Gotham from the mainland, on a business venture, whose last name is Wayne.
Together, they inherit what’s left of the immense Manson wealth.
People from the mainland come and go, providing economy. Not a lot of them stick around, too uneasy of the supernaturally dreary atmosphere of Gotham Island and it’s frankly hostile architecture. The Amitians — Gothamites now — don’t really get it. What’s wrong with ghosts??
The original townspeople are so saturated with ectoplasm at this point that they’ve ceased aging. They die eventually, but immediately become ghosts and just make the trip through the portal to become citizens of Phantom’s kingdom in the Infinite Realms. All things considered, nothing much changes after death, either.
However, it’s soon decided that before any more new people can move to Gotham, the portal must be closed and locked for the safety of the regular humans who are not as immune to the influence of the Zone.
So the portal is buried and hidden, locked and guarded by the eternal soldiers of the Ghost King, the key safely kept on the King’s person at all times.
Life goes on. Years pass. The true origins of Gotham fall into the realm of the forgotten. Eventually, it becomes what it is today.
Batman and all.
The Batcave is more home to Bruce Wayne than even the manor that caps it. That’s because in the cave, he is a step closer to a portal to the Infinite Realms that has been locked and hidden deep underneath the land that once belonged to his ancestors, the Manson-Waynes.
As a direct descendant of one of the original Amity Park townspeople, and one who was (is) so closely tied to the haunt of the Ghost King himself, Bruce has always had a special and innate connection to the town and the land that his city is built on, but never really knew why.
He just thinks of it as his father Thomas explained it to him; the Manson-Waynes, later the Waynes, had been one of the founding families families of Gotham — alongside the Fenton, Baxter, and Sanchez families. Since the other families have long since died out, it’s up to the Waynes to uphold their legacy, and that duty falls to Bruce.
Or so that’s how Thomas, who knew nothing of Gotham’s ghostly, Amitian origins, understood it.
It’s not until Jason, back from the dead, becomes a regular part of the family again, that Bruce starts feeling as if something is different about the cave, and then later the city at large.
100 Episodes and Beyond: The Legacy of ‘Station 19’
What we’ll always take away from the landmark series even after it fades to black.
BY MALCOLM VENABLEPUBLISHED: APR 10, 2024
Station 19 is ending, sadly, but when it does make its final farewell this year, Shondaland’s ABC series will leave behind more than teary eyes and a legion of loyal fans not ready to say goodbye. Though on the surface Station 19 functions as a standard emergency services/rescue drama, it has so much more going on underneath its fireproof exterior. For seven seasons now, the Grey’s Anatomy spin-off has become a landmark TV show in its own right, leaving behind a lasting legacy.
On a recent visit to the Station 19 set, where Shondaland was on hand to celebrate the momentous achievement of Station 19 finishing its 100th episode, which airs Thursday, April 11, we caught up with its beloved stars to probe what the show means — and talk about some of the ways the show will live on forever.
First-responder life
Perhaps the biggest and most important legacy of Station 19 is the way it reveals the struggles, sacrifices, and everyday heroism of first responders. Statistics show that Americans make roughly 240 million 911 calls a year — that’s more than 600,000 emergency calls per day. If we’re lucky, we’ll never have to make such a call, making it easy to forget that on the other end of that line are real people who get up every day and put their own needs and lives aside to help us when we’re having the worst day ever.
Through all kinds of calamities, disasters, and unthinkable emergencies — gas leaks and bombs, medical scares and car crashes, and of course, fires — we’ve seen these fictional characters mirror the courage and heroism real first responders exhibit every day. “I think Station,” executive producer and co-showrunner Peter Paige says, “has this magical formula of great action, incredible characters, incredible human stories that model a better way to be in the world.” Amen to that!
Mental health
The flip side of those incredible acts of service on Station 19 is the toll such a job takes. Sure, fires and rescue scenes make really good TV, but what has made Station 19 so impactful is the way it shows the human cost of such work. The death of Rigo (played by Rigo Sanchez) in season three is a good example: The subsequent group therapy sessions, where Andy Herrera (Jaina Lee Ortiz) and the team confront their grief and loss, illustrated how the job doesn’t exist in a vacuum and even the world’s toughest people feel emotional pain. “The relationships and circumstances really resonate with the audience,” Ortiz says. “They cry with us and grieve with us.”
Representation
“I feel like we have a lot of good representation,” says Zoanne Clack, co-showrunner and executive producer. “A lot of people who don’t see themselves represented usually on network television see themselves on our show.” She couldn’t be more correct. Station 19 has been trailblazing for the way it depicts a number of underrepresented groups — most notably Latinos, who are vastly underrepresented on television — in lead roles, with Pruitt Herrera (Miguel Sandoval) and Andy Herrera (Jaina Lee Ortiz) in particular as standout examples. Showing them as captains has been quietly revolutionary, helping to undo persistent stereotypes that have Latinx people in service jobs or as criminals. LGBTQ characters get a lot of shine on Station 19 too; we see characters like Carina (Stefania Spampinato) and Maya (Danielle Savre) living out their lives, and not being held up as perfect aspirational models but as everyday people dealing with work, relationships, parenting, and the like — just like so many LGBTQ people the world over.
Family
“I think everybody sees the family they grew up in and the family they created — good, bad, and ugly,” says Jason George, otherwise known as Dr. Ben Warren. Indeed, Station 19’s 100 powerful episodes give us unflinching glimpses into what it looks like to be a pea in a pod, so to speak, and navigate the dynamics of being in a forced cluster — particularly accepting and supporting other people even if, in the moment, you’d really rather not. From courtships to breakups, baby making, and confronting the finality to death, the Station 19 family have endured it all together, and viewers have gone through it all alongside them. And that’s just one of the many reasons why its impact will stick inside the hearts of viewers for years to come.
For more on the legacy of Station 19, watch the video above from the series’ 100th episode celebration. And catch the final season of Station 19 on Thursdays on ABC, or stream episodes on Hulu.
Link: 100 Episodes and Beyond: The Legacy of ‘Station 19’ (shondaland.com)
This boy has been my favorite since his second line of dialogue. When the MC Stanford talks to him (mostly to cover for staring longingly into the cadet training group) Frank knows his name and responds kindly. Frank knows the first name of a member of janitorial staff and is on friendly terms with him. Frank is also shown to be friendly with his classmates and is supportive of Maya Sanchez (friend and eventual gf) when she worries about her odds of ranking high enough for a chance at a Robo. He didn't even sound competitive! For an opportunity he was also competing for!
After the competition, Olivia's poor sportsmanship leaves him in third and her in first, but he's the one chosen by the Robo. He doesn't rub it in or brag about it or even act smug at her. He only brings it up in relation to her lack of teamwork, but not in a mean way. More distrustful and maybe a little judgmental (but I'd call that one justified, given her certified dick move in the competition).
This boy would almost be too perfect. He's supportive, he can cook, he's good at teamwork, he's okay following someone else's lead, he is good at piloting and fighting. But the show does a good job showing us he's not as confident as he seems and he also needs support sometimes.
He takes (not terrible, but not good) advice from Adam on what kind of date to take Maya on. It takes a reminder from Olivia (you cannot convince me she hasn't been secretly shipping this the entire time they were all in the academy) for him to calm down and remember they like each other for who they are and they don't need to do what other people consider normal. Maya gets to be the one to support him later in the season, when he worries about having potentially made a mistake. He also reveals (to the audience and Stanford, his classmates seem to know) his mother is (was? I'm not getting active war hero vibes, more retired) a pilot - apparently a participant in a famous battle - and he worries about living up to her legacy. Even though she never pressured him, the expectations he has for himself are clearly high and he worries about meeting them. Frank is a capable person who needs support sometimes, but he's also a people pleaser, and he's put up with things he's uncomfortable with in order to not 'be difficult.'
Which brings me to this show's disability rep. I think the show did a great job, but I can't speak from a disabled perspective. Oakwyrm on youtube has a great video on that. I can only speak from an audience member's perspective.
Frank is an above the knee amputee (or has a limb-difference, I'm not clear on the preferred terminology). It affects the way he is treated and the expectations people have, but not his ability to be a pilot. Frank prefers his crutches to a prosthetic, they're more comfortable to him and he is a great athlete with them - he was training for the paralympic soccer team. But the academy wouldn't let him join unless he used their fancy high tech prosthetic. His mother didn't even argue for his right to do what he pleased with his body. So he put up with something he was uncomfortable with because they 'couldn't change the program just for one person, you understand?'
When their fancy prosthetic breaks (and we get a great scene of it being used as a weapon), Frank shows he's just as capable on his crutches, and is actually more confident, which makes all the difference. With seemingly minor mechanical adjustments (Ava Patel is the underappreciated hero of this show), he can continue to be a pilot without being made uncomfortable. As in, this could have been done earlier but they'd rather make him adjust to the standard than work with him so he could be at his best. And that is a very important experience to show kids.
Kids definitely need to see people like themselves on screen, and this show has pretty great rep. But I can only speak from an able-bodied perspective, and seeing people unlike yourself, learning about other perspectives, is super important and also a thing this show does. Frank helps teach the audience that people (especially disabled people) know their own capabilities best. They know what works best for them. It's better to work with them than expect them to conform to your idea of what they need. (I'm trying to express the difference between shows that have characters for representation, but often they're in the background or only the focus of one episode as a lesson for the main character/audience; and shows where a minority character gets to be a person outside of the representation they provide. Not sure how well I explained that.)
I also love that we never get an explanation for his leg. Because we don't need or deserve one. Frank just has a limb difference and it's no one's business how or why, unless he opts to tell them. I love that his backstory wasn't about the loss of a limb, it was about how people expect him to deal with it and getting the opportunity to be comfortable in his own skin. It ties into his tendency to be a people-pleaser and put up with things for the sake of others. In this case, putting up with an unwanted prosthetic shown to make him physically and mentally uncomfortable.
TLDR Frank Olivetti is a sweetheart who wants to live up to his mom's legacy and support his gf, and deserves people respecting his boundaries.