SPOILER ALERT: The following exposes significant plot points from ABC‘s Station 19 series ending.
It’s the end of an age for fans of ABC’s Station 19 and series showrunners Zoanne Clack and Peter Paige spoke to Deadline about all the choices that were made and the surprises that were exposed in “One Last Time.”
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DEADLINE: We have so much to talkabout however I should understand, was that truly Okieriete Onaodowan in the ending? I discussed really quickly if he was AI Dean?
PETER PAIGE: The disrespect of [using AI], we would neverever. He was truly there.
DEADLINE: How did you get him to come back?
ZOANNE CLACK: It was beautiful. We called him up and informed him we had this concept. It’s not gonna be like a huge thing, however it’s actually essential. And he was like, “Stop talking. Yes.” So, he flew in from New York and he did it for us. He simply understood the significance of [the scene] and how deep that went.
DEADLINE: I’m leaning into the stunning minutes right now. Andy and Jack? Are they endgame?
ZC: They’re endgame for her at that minute. So each character was in a dangerous circumstance when they had their flash forward and they saw what they required at that minute. They saw what they required to push on and relocation forward. He’s constantly been her rock and somebody for her to lean on. I believe in that minute, she was understanding, “Oh my God, it’s constantly been you.”
PP: In the present, you see he takes her hand and states, “You’ll neverever be alone.” And then at Vic’s going away celebration, you see these little minutes of casual intimacy inbetween them. I indicate, she states his chili is muchbetter than Dean’s. If you’re not sleeping with somebody, why would you state that? In my head, do we understand what it looks like? I wear’t understand. Are they each other’s individual? Probably.
DEADLINE: This is a firemen drama however at its heart, this is a program about love and household. Vic and Travis ended up with a love story for the ages. Why did you go the path you went with Travis leaving with her?
PP: That is precisely . It is a love story for the ages. I love that there are 4 love stories that the ending highlights. Andy and Jack, which is the traditional began at the start of the series and completed at the end, the heteronormative love. Then you have [Sullivan (Boris Kodjoe) and Ross (Merle Dandridge)] a Black power couple who discover their softness and their happiness and their sweettaste in each other. We have a queer couple [Maya (Danielle Savre) and Carina (Stefania Spampinato)] who have conquer generations of fucking damage to be able to pick each other and develop a life together. And then we have what I’ve been referring to as the platon-com, which is, that relationships are some of the biggest likes of our lives and they are not commemorated enough. Vic and Travis are each other’s individual and they can develop lives that assistance that and regard that and center that. It’s definitely every bit as legitimate of a life option as getting wed and putting a ring on it. Look, rom-com is a part of the Shondaland vocabulary and we desired to make sure we were honoring that in a method that felt fresh and special. This is my preferred minute in the entire ending.
ZC: At one point, there was a lot of description about what takesplace when finest buddies relocation apart like when they grow apart. But we understood that we didn’t requirement to state all of that since it was in their minutes, in their eyes and their actions. But that’s the truth; your finest goodfriends modification as you go through various phases. But this was such a strong bond and such an crucial relationship that they did not desire that to takeplace. And the method that they chose to not have that occur is to journey together.
DEADLINE: By that point, I comprehended why Theo and Vic weren’t suggested to be. Not because of Theo or her, however it felt like they achieved what they were expected to together and they launched one another to be pleased.
ZC: We love that that was a piece of your idea procedure duetothefactthat we attempted to lay in that maybe they may get together. Perhaps there may be something with his injury that draws her back or the time that they slept together and she pressed him away. But he was so unfortunate. As they state, individuals come for a factor, a season, or a lifetime.
DEADLINE: Ben (Jason George) makes a substantial and not unanticipated choice to return to his surgical residency. Can we anticipate to see him on Grey’s Anatomy?
PP: As you stated, I puton’t think anything else would’ve made sense for him. That’s all I’m stating.
ZC: For Ben, it felt like a natural development to what was going to be the end of the series. It wouldn’t have tookplace had we not had to go. But everybody had to relocation on and do various things. Push forward. And that felt like where he was going to push.
DEADLINE: We see Ben happy of his child Pruitt on lotsof events. Similar to his fate, she was predestined to be part of Station19 What can you share about that choice?
ZC: When we chose that the flash-forward would be [Ben and Miranda (Chandra Wilson)] looking at the various graduations for all their kids, it simply appeared like this gorgeous minute that Pruitt was going to follow in the steps of both her daddy’s. Bailey was not going to be that pleased about it however likewise comprehended.