Yeah, actually, you’re right, so maybe that isn’t really a sign of growth, heh, though it’s a…nice thing in itself, I guess.
Now that I think about it, that’s effectively been their whole relationship, Maya reacts badly to something, Carina calls it out, Maya apologizes, Carina accepts, they make out. I wish Carina had the space to react badly, the screentime and plot arc, really, like, I’ve said this before–or maybe I said it’s easy to love a character who’s only allowed to be perfect, but in the same vein, it’s easy to be perfect when you don’t get the opportunity to be anything else.
To be clear, I love her, I love her kindness and goodness and willingness to forgive and fight for those she loves, but she’s not really making the CHOICE to do so, right? Doing anything else would require them to actually give her that screentime. Like in this last ep, she’s just like, don’t be sorry. Why not?? But if she had the time and was still like, nope, I get that you react like this for a reason and that you regret it so I’ll move past it and instead am going to focus on this other stuff, that’d be quite different, right. Versus just, welp, my minute for this ep is up, we gotta resolve this and move on.
And yes, lol, 100% Maya should be going to therapy! I know this show loves doing exposition drops through friends ranting to each other, but as that one post said, therapy isn’t just talking. Your friends can’t provide you everything that therapy does, and like, you don’t need to have severe issues to go, you can be fine and go to get in the habit of talking things out and figuring out coping methods and basically to stay fine, but Maya’s issues ARE severe! Her friends and partner can’t give her what she needs for figuring how to unlearn her whole LIFE before now, there’s so much she has to deal with. And abuse like that doesn’t affect just one thing, it’s not just one area of her life, it’s who she is as a person, there’s nothing left untouched that’s her alone. She absolutely should be going, yes.
