#5 McNirvana has been achieved
Derek dated this piece of craziness
and perhaps the most unfortunate moment of them all...
Fast forward....
May the house of candles burn forevermore
#4 Lady Karev is in Place. No, for real this time.
and you thought this was the end....mua ha ha ha
In walks this little peach...
Along with a rag-tag bunch of clueless interns and turns out to be Alex's soul mate right down to the foster care past and the capacity to make speeches in hoodies. In the last few moments of season 9 I fully expected her to be impaled the tree through the window so Alex could save her heroically, but with all entrails intact, I'd say we are all ready for Alex to stop pining after…whoever last left.
#3 Relationships Have Reached Peace
Barring Hurricane Calzona, the love lives of the ShondaLand subjects are going in the direction we all expected. Owen started to realize that Cristina saying "I don't want children" was not super smart surgeon code for "I want to quit heart surgery and stay home with your GI Joe babies." April's ridiculous outburst at Jackson who just recently exited an exploding bus will no doubt result in the dumping of McVirgin Matthew and a return to Jackson's "carnival" for keeps. As we have discussed, MerDer is solid as a rock, Bailey is married and Alex Karev has found his lady on a white horse.
This of course does leave Calzona. But I'd say it's nothing a good season, an even better crisis and some good old-fashioned "Hey I'm sorry I cheated on you after you saved my life" speeches won't fix.
#2 Antagonism Has Left the Building
So let's review: Seattle Grace Hospital stands alone under the rule of this steady hand (no pun intended) until this steadier hand but rockier heart threatens Dr. SexyHeart's pursuit of chiefdom. A few seasons later Seattle Grace joins forces with fictive rival Mercy West to become the FrankenHospital Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital, which has as many names as this lady
One shooting, one resignation, one GI Joe Chief and one aviary disaster later and a bloodsucking lawsuit and suddenly the lady from House of Cards is telling us we can't have a hospital anymore? Sold for parts? Have you no respect, Bangs McGee?
But then, in the very knick of time, the Harper Avery Foundation, lurking in the background for season upon season produces something ALMOST as delicious as Jackson Avery: a deal that will save Seattle Grace Mercy West from being sold off into chunks of dreams.
And a new era is born. Jackson proposes the hospital be named after Mark and Lexie, which makes everyone cry and then the Grey Sloan Seven take their place in the annals of history. They own the hospital. Red tape is no more. Budget cuts have dissolved into thin air. You know what else has dissolved? Conflict. There is nothing left to face. Sure, there are some small details of Arizona's Lezzy-fair and the life of Richard hanging in the electrical balance…but come on. There is no long-term threat to the now sleepy town of ShondaLand.
I know what you're thinking, and no I was not serious about the Zombie Apocalypse. Shonda Rimes, if you're reading this out here tanked for ideas, I AM KIDDING.
#1 The Journey Has Been Completed, So I Don’t Want to Start Again
We met our interns back in 200……uh….whenever Boston Legal tanked. We have watched the nervous appendectomies, the solo surgeries, the interns-turned-residents-torturing new interns, board exams, and fellowshipping. We know enough about the track of medical careers to sound very smart at parties. So forgive me if watching all of this AGAIN through the eyes and lives of these fresh young things is just a little teensy weensy bit redundant.
Don't get me wrong, they are super cute and peppy with clever dialogue and just the right amount of illicit relationships, but I personally am not up for Saved By the Bell: The New Class in the form of Grey's Anatomy: The New Interns. Besides, I certainly don't want to know who would be Screech.
Pretty much this...
So How Should it End?
Haters, please hear me out…
Picture this: It's the final episode of Grey's Anatomy (which in my fantasy is this May 2014), and final narrative words from Meredith Grey drift over time and space as subtext propel us to 2040 where an appropriately gorgeous Malawian young woman in a lab coat is thumbing the pages of a diary. As Meredith's words fade away, we see the woman rise to her feet and smooth her hair in the locker mirror and with a light smile touches the edge of a photograph of Derek, Meredith, Zola and baby Bailey, now worn with age. "Thank-you, Mom," she utters, and we realize that Zola Grey Shepherd is beginning her intern year at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital, and the narration over all these years has been Meredith speaking wisdom into her daughter's life before losing her memory to Alzheimer's.
COME ON!
Please don't let our show come to this....
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