Spoilers for Hearth Nation Season 3, Episode 7 are forward! If you happen to haven’t seen it but, you’ll be able to stream it with a Paramount+ subscription.
When Hearth Nation’s newest episode on the 2024 TV schedule dropped, a serious game-changing alternative was made. I’m, in fact, speaking about Gabriela and Jake hooking up within the ultimate moments of the episode, as a result of it’s clear as day that it will trigger some chaos in Station 42. Now, as followers reel with this improvement, Stephanie Arcila broke down why her character did this and why she’s “actually grateful” for this improvement.
I had the prospect to speak with Arcila about Episode 7 particularly, and our dialog started with me noting my shock about Gabriela and Jake reigniting their long-put-out romantic flame. She mentioned she was shocked by it too, and he or she didn’t understand it was coming:
No, I had no concept. I used to be simply as shocked as all of you after I learn it. Yeah, it was surprising. However it additionally reveals what state Gabriela is [in], proper? It is spiraling and regarding and in addition to only a cry for love and assist, proper?
She makes a very good level right here, after Bode broke issues off along with her, a semi-questionable evening with Camden, and Gabriela closing herself off, it’s clear that she’s spiraling. As Arcila mentioned, it’s a “cry for love and assist,” and hopefully she’ll get that within the coming episodes.
Jake is in an analogous boat, as he’s nonetheless grieving Cara and coping with Gen wanting to stick with her organic father. So they’re each in want of an outlet for his or her pent-up struggles and feelings. Nonetheless, whereas they each wanted that, their hooking up was sudden.
Noting that each she and Jordan Calloway (who performs Jake) had been in “shock” after they learn the script and that final scene, in addition they rapidly realized the objective of this story. Arcila informed me:
I do know lots of people are pissed, however I do know we’re actually grateful that we’re not good, they usually’re humanizing us. And other people make errors, and other people, you realize, make choices primarily based on the place they’re at, emotionally and mentally. I believe the surprising facet of it’s good, and there must be battle for therapeutic, proper? With out battle, we do not know what we would like. With out battle, we do not know the place we’re at, what we do not need and what we would like. Battle is just not all the time a nasty factor.
Gabriela has actually been by it. She didn’t say “I do” at her marriage ceremony, Diego confronted her about Bode, she and Bode had a short fling, after which he (rightfully) broke issues off along with her. She’s clearly in want of assist and, actually, a very good cry.
As Arcila defined throughout our interview, Gabriela is a “steaming pot” with a lid on it, and finally, that has to “pop.” It looks like her reigniting her relationship with Jake might result in that, which, regardless of followers’ fear, might be a very good factor, because the actress defined:
I believe followers love Bode and Gabriela on the finish of the day. So followers have numerous questions and are usually not ecstatic. However I believe, on the finish of the day, I am actually grateful that they’ve proven that Gabriela is just not good, that Gabriela does undergo stuff, and that Gabriela has had a lid on her. What folks have thought is ideal has actually been only a lid on a steaming pot able to pop finally.
She then went on to elucidate that over these three seasons, Gabriela has needed to cope with a lot upheaval and alter. She’s misplaced her father and Bode. Additionally, it is necessary to do not forget that she actually hasn’t been in Edgewater for that lengthy, that means she’s nonetheless determining her place in her new dwelling. Total, her life has modified dramatically in a brief time frame, and he or she’s in want of a brand new outlet for her feelings that isn’t work.
To that time, the Gabriela performer mentioned that this second with Jake might emphasize the necessity for her character to course of every little thing she’s been by in a extra full means:
Whether or not a life modifications for the great or the dangerous, there’s nonetheless a course of that has to occur mentally. There’s nonetheless an adjustment of attending to know your self and these new dynamics and new circumstances. And if you happen to do not undergo these processes, your thoughts finally, mentally, is gonna explode.
So, yeah, I used to be shocked by Gabriela and Jake getting collectively, and it appeared like a really dangerous resolution. Nonetheless, it additionally feels prefer it might be the impotence that forces each of them to essentially look inward and begin the method of therapeutic.
They’ve each confronted numerous tragedy and loss, now they really want to work on themselves. Arcila made that time clear, and now will probably be fascinating to see if that begins taking place when Hearth Nation returns to CBS this Friday at 9 p.m. ET.