After Station 19 season 7’s premiere focused a great deal on Jack’s health, ominously foreshadowing a future where he couldn’t be a firefighter anymore even if he woke up, Station 19 season 7, episode 2 had to deliver on that heartbreaking promise. Unlike other storylines that Station 19 season 7 will have to tackle, which were introduced in the firefighting drama’s earliest seasons, Jack’s health problems relating to confusion and bad falls that caused him to hit his head only appeared in Station 19 season 6. The repeated falls had to have consequences, especially after Station 19 season 6’s ending.
While Station 19 always highlighted how the firehouse and its firefighters were a family, even including those who joined after the show’s beginning, Jack was one of the characters counting the most on their peculiar bond. All had reasons to rejoice and count on each other as family, especially considering the difficulties and close quarters of the job, but Jack’s past in foster care made the firehouse feel even more like family and supremely important to him. Although Station 19 season 6 broadened Jack’s family with Marsha’s increased presence, and Brooke and Lila, the firehouse was always his first family.
Jack’s Last Firehouse Dinner In Station 19’s Final Season Reminds Him Of What He Lost
With Station 19 being his first family, Jack has much to grieve
One of Jack’s key tendencies saw him isolate himself and retreat when he believed someone might only be doing something out of obligation, and that would have made him avoid his final firehouse dinner if Andy hadn’t intervened. The final dinner in Station 19 season 7, episode 2 hurt Jack because it reminded him of what he lost in losing his job as a firefighter. However, the dinner was necessary because it also celebrated Jack’s career and his contribution to Station 19, for his work and the support he offered his teammates.
With Jack losing his firefighting job happening this early in Station 19 season 7, his struggles to acclimatize himself to a different life will surely be delved into by Station 19’s last season, hopefully leading to another job that fulfills him just the same. Andy’s meddling also reminded him that while things will undoubtedly change because he won’t be the whole time with them on shift, Jack will never be left alone by them. Station 19 season 7, episode 2’s dinner needed to stress that out for Jack, especially considering his issues with abandonment.
Group Scenes Signify Found Family In The Grey’s Anatomy Universe
Grey’s Anatomy season 2 & Station 19 season 2 feature them
Jack signing the firehouse table after the dinner also let Station 19 season 7, episode 2 take part in a cherished Grey’s Anatomy universe tradition, which Station 19 had already followed in season 2. Indeed, the shot from above overseeing Jack surrounded by his firefighting family as he breaks down, grieving the loss of his firefighting job and everything it entailed, mirrored a season 2 story. Then, Vic needed the others’ support after Lucas’s death in Station 19 season 2, episode 15, and the episode’s final shot from above saw her surrounded by them as they laid on the engine.
Vic and Jack felt their fellow firefighters’ support both times, as their firefighting family was with them in their pain. Station 19 often highlighting how the firehouse was like a family nonetheless embodied a feeling Grey’s Anatomy expressed in season 2’s holiday episode, “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer.” In the episode, Meredith and George joining Izzie under the tree after a difficult day as Meredith’s voiceover talked about family included the family of choice under the meaning of family, hinting at them having become one and presenting the found family trope Grey’s Anatomy like Station 19 employed repeatedly.