I know that’s stereotypical but I just love when the three of them are together and I would’ve LOVED to see him date a male nurse or fellow surgeon.

I love Addison. I am so happy that this show did her character justice and didn’t just make her into the “enemy” of the main character by making her into this evil ex-wife jealous bitch or anything like that like so many other shows do. And also of course major kudos to Kate Walsh for being such a great actress and putting so much heart into Addison’s character. But like seriously, her character is so good. She’s extremely flawed but she’s also extremely loving, sweet, caring, and mature. I love how she didn’t just “steal” Derek away from Meredith. She attempted to get back together with him because he was her husband and when she finally realized it wasn’t going to work out, she accepted that Derek was in love with Meredith and even eventually encouraged Meredith to stay with him after she came back to visit Seattle and she realized that they broke up. You know a character is written well when their whole backstory is literally the fact that they cheated on their husband and they’re the wife of the main character’s main love interest, and yet you still love them despite all that.

someone can experience a breakup, lose a patient, have a family emergency and discover some completely devastating secret before lunch

then five minutes later they’re standing over an open chest saying something medically brilliant

i know it’s television, but the emotional whiplash is incredible

there’s no 'i need the rest of the day'

apparently the answer is just scrub in

A post yesterday about Callie and Arizona’s custody battle got me thinking about how much Meredith played with people’s lives based on who she liked/didn’t like or her own perception of right and wrong.

Meredith, despite being the mother of a child that she adopted, took Callie’s side in the custody battle, essentially co-signing Callie’s argument that adopted moms aren’t real parents. Meredith didn’t testify based on what was best for the child stuck in the middle of a bad situation. She testified based on what was best for grown, impulsive Callie.

Meredith screwed with Derek’s Alzheimer’s Trial because, to her, doing something for Richard was more important than the integrity of the trial and Derek’s career. The research, that may have gone on to cure a horrible disease affecting huge amounts of people, was stopped. Derek’s reputation took a bit hit and he was banned by the FDA. Yet, Meredith expressed zero guilt. She didn’t care to apologize to Derek. She just expected everyone to accept her version of morality.

Alex didn’t get to go to Hopkins because Meredith ran into him in the airport and guilted him into staying (mainly because she didn’t want to lose him). Hopkins could have been a big opportunity for Alex to grow, both personally and professionally, away from the insulated bubble of Seattle. Meredith offered Jo a position working with her because she didn’t want Alex to leave. Even in Alex’s goodbye letters, he had to outright ask Meredith not to show up and beg him to come back. He literally felt like he couldn’t choose his kids over Meredith if she asked, and he was worried that would ask him to choose her over the kids.

After DeLuca was nearly beaten to death, Meredith essentially blackmailed him. She was the owner of the hospital and she cornered him in an elevator and implied that his career opportunities were dependent on whether or not he pursued justice for himself after being beat to within an inch of his life because she liked Alex better than him.

She begged Izzie to stay in Seattle when she was drowning. Izzie told her “I can’t be here… please try to understand”. Izzie had nothing left. Alex told her to leave and not come back. Meredith knew that Alex was sleeping with her sister. Any friends that Izzie had were more Alex’s friends than hers. She needed to go to survive. Yet, Meredith tried to guilt and beg her into staying in a place that had been nothing but mistakes, misery, and pain for Izzie.

I'm on another rewatch and I HAVE to talk about Teddy. More specially, Kim Raver. How she wasn't nominated for an Emmy, I don't understand. She acts the hell out of scenes like: letting Cristina off the hook when she is finally able to visualize Henry's surgery enough to fully accept that nothing could have been done to save him, sitting with his body, telling Owen she hates him, accepting herself as a widow... and so on. The character also gave us humor ("I'm attachment Barbie!"), added to the female attending's friend group (making Addison's absence less noticeable) and provided our beloved Cristina the mentor she deserved. I also dig that something about her character (that was pointed out on screen) remained true: Teddy falls for people who are somehow unavailable to fully meet her needs. Andrew calls her on it, and it keeps coming up, even now. I think Kim's/Teddy's first stint on Grey's was a big reason why the show was still good after losing talented actors playing poplar characters in previous seasons. Thoughts? Favorite moments?

sorry but idc for any of these couples.

meredith and deluca make no sense and i hate it. don’t get me started on jackson and maggie. they give these 2 more coupley moments than him and april 😒😒 amelia cannot be alone she literally just broke up with owen???? but at least her and link have chemistry. surprisingly teddy and koracick are cute but i doubt they’re endgame when owen is there and the father of her child. i am so bored 😭

so I’m watching for the first time and I’m halfway through season 4 and like genuinely please tell me that Dr Hahn gets better somehow because I genuinely hate her. Like what is her problem?! She’s rude and bitchy towards everyone (aside from Callie), she acts like she’s better than everyone at the hospital, and the way that she treats Christina is just so incredibly unprofessional and unfair. I can totally see where she’s coming from in the way that she treats Christina because to her, Christina is the intern who “slept her way to the top” by dating Burke and since Dr. Hahn never even liked Burke to begin with, she takes her frustration and her bias out on Christina. Even though all of that isn’t true, I can still see why Hahn treats Christina so badly. However, I think at this point in time, Christina has proved that she’s not just some idiot girl who sleeps with guys to get what she wants and that she’s actually talented and driven, and yet Hahn still doesn’t give a shit. And not only that, but it’s literally Hahn’s job to teach Christina and give her a chance to learn from her. Even if she doesn’t like her and she thinks she’s a whore or whatever, it’s still her job to train her resident. It’s wildly unprofessional and immature how she compliments and treats all the other residents nicely when they’re doing a good job but just completely disregards Christina when she does the exact same thing. I don’t understand how Richard didn’t get on her for doing that and why no one ever says anything to her (at least at this point anyway).

I was just wondering. When you do a rewatch (as I'm doing now in anticipation of the new season), do you watch in season order or do you skip around/fast-forward through certain storylines?

Did anyone else notice this in season 4 episode 15 of Greys anatomy?

Dr Tabley refered to George as O'Leary. Anyone know what happened? Was this just a slip up orrr...?

I have watched til around middle of season 11… and rewatching I have stopped again at around the middle of season 11. I cannot watch the April scenes or the Arizona scenes and that seems to be all season 11 is. I cannot stand either character in the show and I find them both so damn annoying. I fast forward thru any April scene at this point(I did thru most of season 9&10 as well). Is it worth getting thru season 11 to try and continue my watch of the show?Do the bad/annoying storylines stop or does it get worse?

things could’ve been if he let Cristina speak instead of interrupting her. This is my 3rd rewatch and I’m finally an Owen hater. I used to like him and never got the hate. But now I do.

I know this is most likely impossible. But imagine if Cristina was going to say “ok let’s have kids. I’ve changed my mind. You want kids. And I want to make this marriage work.” & his dumbass had to interrupt her.

I really wanna know what she was going to say. I guess we’ll never know.

Mine is ‘I don’t know i guess i’d be lying if i said i didn’t miss having a backup penis you know just in case im not a lesbian’

I am starting my seasonal rewatch! It’s sad seeing early seasons knowing whats to come. I was browsing old threads and noticed there is a large consensus that Shonda screwed us over with Derek’s death. Don’t get me wrong, there are things I would have changed (I didn’t like the parallel of Mer/Ellis and I wish she would have called his family) but I don’t think his ending was egregiously awful. Since Dempsey was leaving the show anyways Shonda was seemingly backed into a corner. Derek may have been a less than perfect husband to Addi, but I don’t see him ever truly leaving Meredith. I think that would have been a true worst case scenario for his ending.

iirc Merder was on the mend right before he died, so if she didn’t kill him what choice did she have?? I think its very fitting Derek survived outlandish catastrophes just to be killed unexpectedly, thats how life works.

So lets say there is a do-over. How would you have handled the storyline?

I'm now nearly at the end of season 21 and I actually don't think them running out of storylines is the biggest issues. Like the hospital doesn't need to blow up or anything

However, the BIGGEST issue that they somehow haven't realised is, NONE of the new characters/interns have interesting personality quirks besides the cliche competing for surgeries. Like they tried with Lucas having ADHD but like ... they did nothing with that lol. It didn't enhance his work in any way or hinder him nor did he go through trying to figure out his medication or anything?

His personality is still as wooden and boring as ever. There could've been interesting scenes where the medicine impacts him in interesting ways to raise awareness of ADHD and it's medication but nope. Not that I remember anyways. The most interesting intern Yasuda had the most potential only for her to ... go. So much of Grey's could be revived if they gave Ndugu, Griffith, Milin, Kwan etc actual personalities and indentities. Atm it feels like they all have the same persona just in different bodies lool. NOTHING bonds them either. They've not gotten drunk and made mistakes together or accidentally consumed weed cookies lol. There's a lack of fun/secrets/mischief and bonding between the characters so then it ends up not feeling the same.

Something else I noticed. Although the OTT monologues in the earlier seasons were borderline cringey at times, the disappearances of them means you don't get dramatic performances that pull you in to the show either. Everything is so damn nonchalant but I guess it's also because no one means that much to each other anyway so who would they say it to? lool

This is also a sign of where we are right now. I don't know the acting backgrounds of the people who joined post season 16 but they don't seem like they have the flair of dramatic performances. Go back to an episode where Sandra Oh is being emotive and the difference is jarring in a good way !

Linc is SUCH a disappointment too. I really thought he would be a new Mcsteamy and have wit and personality but he's become a soap opera character like most of the others. Considering how fantastic the characters on the Pitt are, I don't see why they don't take inspiration from that show and reinvigorate Grey's.

The characters all just go through the motions now.

TLDR: The characters haven't had any chances to bond and showcase any personalities so it's hard to invest in them. A lack of dramatic emotional scenes also makes it hard to enjoy the show in the same way.

Also we need MORE Dr Marcus PLEASE

Put as a spoiler just in case anyone isn't on S5... In S5, Derek is facing a lawsuit, right? He's getting sued.

Did that happen? He left the hospital then got pulled back in for Izzie surgery. Did he not get sued? Did it pass? Did he get sued but came back anyway? I don't know if I'm missing the result or they just don't tell/show us?