Gabriela’s Exit Focusing On Bode Has Fire Country Season 4 Fail Gabriela

Fire Country season 4’s trailer solely highlighted one story in relation to Gabriela, failing her as a personality even in her final storyline for a while within the firefighting drama. Following Fire Country season 3’s cliffhanger finale, it is sensible for season 4’s trailer to concentrate on its aftermath, confirming the sufferer of the Zabel Ridge fireplace.

Hearth Nation season 4’s premiere episode updates nonetheless established it as Gabriela’s final, making it crucial that it units up her departure. Hearth Nation season 3 gave Gabriela loads of causes to search for a recent begin away from Edgewater, however Fire Country season 4’s trailer seemingly factors to a different cause altogether, one having extra intently to do with Bode.

Gabriela’s Confession In Hearth Nation Season 4’s Trailer Does not Do Justice To The Character

Hearth Nation showrunner Tia Napolitano informed TV Insider how season 4’s premiere works as a love letter to Gabriela that additionally options glimpses of Bode and Gabriela, likening it to “actual fan sweet.” This already places the main target of Gabriela’s exit episode to revolve round Bode. Nonetheless, Gabriela’s confession to Bode in Hearth Nation season 4’s trailer successfully confirms that.

Gabriela’s introduction in Hearth Nation didn’t enable her to be developed as a personality in her personal proper, along with her position all the time being related to Bode, even when she dated Jake. Whether or not they had been collectively or not, Gabriela functioned as a prop for Bode’s growth, with the promise of their future working as Bode’s guiding gentle till he moved on.

Gabriela admitting she nonetheless loves Bode in Hearth Nation season 4’s trailer definitively hyperlinks her departure to Bode and Gabriela’s relationship, as an alternative of utilizing the numerous tragedies that befell Gabriela personally and the Edgewater neighborhood to supply her a method out. This reduces Gabriela’s position to nothing greater than Bode’s love curiosity, undeserving of her story being the main target.

Hearth Nation season 3 already highlighted such horrible dealing with of Gabriela. Not wanting a relationship like Bode did may have led to the firefighting drama giving a nuanced portrayal of her issues. As a substitute, Gabriela’s scenario was magically solved by her speaking once more along with her father, losing her story’s potential that would have made Gabriela three-dimensional and greater than Bode’s soulmate.

Gabriela’s Exit Involving Bode Units Up A Grim Blueprint For Her Potential Return

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Gabriela seeing her emotions for Bode as a sufficiently big cause to take away herself from the scenario diminishes the intense struggles she confronted in Fire Country season 3, which might have been cause sufficient for her departure. Reflecting on these reiterates Gabriela’s connection to Bode on the detriment of her personal growth, freezing her in time as Bode’s love curiosity.

It additionally establishes the one good cause for Gabriela to return to Hearth Nation’s future as having to do with Bode. If the rationale for her departure is her love for Bode and off-screen discussions emphasised desirous to proceed the story of Bode and Gabriela, it might be incongruous for Gabriela to return and never tackle her and Bode’s relationship.

Banking on that doesn’t think about how Bode may change, nevertheless it additionally doesn’t do justice to Gabriela, persevering with to see her as an extension of Bode’s storyline even past Hearth Nation’s attain. This can’t assist however spotlight how Hearth Nation by no means noticed Gabriela as greater than a way to an finish by solely addressing her relationship with Bode.

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Supply: TV Insider

Launch Date

October 7, 2022

Showrunner

Tia Napolitano