Grey's Anatomy rewatch

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Will have spoilers below!

Have loved GA since it was first broadcast although don't think it's anywhere near as good as it used to be, so have been re-watching since the start.

I now can pinpoint its demise - season 6!

Starts with George's funeral, then the merger with the horrible people from Mercy West, Izzy leaving, the Chief drinking, Teddy arriving and all the angst with the Owen & Teddy! Too much change and too many new characters in a short period!

Before this, it was practically perfect & then season 6 onward is downhill all the way (with a few amazing bursts - the shooting episode; the musical episode - can't remember others right now but no doubt there will have been a few more to keep me watching).

Anyone else agree or think otherwise?

But didn’t Alex leave her everything so maybe that was possible?

Regarding Justin Chambers, I can’t remember if I read or was speculating myself that maybe it was rehab? I do remember watching his final season and he did look “puffier” than usual (sorry sorry, that’s an awful thing to say!). I actually think they wrote his exit so he had a chance to return… I hope so anyways

I have said this for ages. Why is the foetal surgeon always delivering babies?
Why are the surgeons running around searching for a diagnosis? Why are there no Medicine doctors? Even stuff that isn't surgery like baileys HIV experiment. It really bugs me.

@whosaidtha oh, absolutely

the answer is dramatic license, of course. But all these surgeons who are head of ortho etc don’t have any attendings report, or maybe just one!

@Jumpitha ah yes, I did forget that, and then she sold them to Tom K

I would like to flag that I’m pretty sure all these people giving their shares to each other Willy billy would have some obligation to offer them to the rest of the board or to the foundation first…

The management structure of the hospital makes 0 sense. Is the Chief of Surgery in charge of the entire hospital? We know they have a fancy dermo ward so somebody must be running that.

I do just treat it like a ridiculous soap so l don't have to think about that too much.

The buying of the hospital in the first place was a highly dubious bit of business. I like how they completely stopped having board meetings once they got bored (heh) of the storyline.

Not only does the chief of surgery run the entire hospital, they are responsible for place contracts (procurment surely), mending various bits of electrical equipment and moving beds around - there's never a porter to be seen

Also the way they run medical trials. Yeesh. Just Derek and Meredith running the Alzheimer's study, making it easy for her to fix it. Never mind all the cutting edge research they somehow fit in. The Parkinson's study storyline is another reason why I'm hating season 18.

I forgot THAT

And nurses are never around, making it very easy for interns to pull stupid stunts. Oh and interns can operate on each other and nobody gets fired.

Hell, yes.

The whole “Callie takes a demotion to che Penny to New York even though Penny is supposedly only on a one year fellowship” was ludicrous enough around her career and Co parenting Sofia. If you factor in that she was on the board to vote Mark’s shares on behalf of Sofia, it gets even more bollocks!

(this exit REALLY annoyed me)

It's tempting to compile a list of the most ridiculous storylines.

The interns operate on each other.
The plane crash and everything after it.
The Alzheimer's study
Denny. All of it.
Karev leaving.

No, Qureishi got fired for being a bit grumpy to Bailey about the programme.

But cut an LVAD, and your job is just fine…

Oh god the Penny storyline was NUTS @SheilaFentiman. Every second of it. I also raged over Arizona coming back from Africa.

Maggie killing her cousin because she didn’t ask for the clotting factor in an unfamiliar hospital.

Maggie. Hyper prepared, hyper focussed Maggie. Really?

I would buy it from Koracick, say. But Maggie?!

Yes! And like the person monitoring it wouldn't have mentioned there was an issue because they're just a nurse or whatever and too stupid to understand the importance.

Indeed!!

@SheilaFentiman Callie's exit wasn't meant to be an exit. The storyline was supposed to happen (which I know is still absurd, why would she ever want to go to NY for a year and take her daughter for some woman she's been with about 2 seconds??) but she was meant to come back. The actress then decided to leave after they filmed it. That's why it's a bit more of a low key exit than other significant characters.

I always loved how great the nurses in ER were, so much more realistic. They knew what to do just from having been around ages and seeing it happen again and again. All the non surgical staff in Grey's are nobodies. I think they'd really benefit from some good supporting non surgical characters.

Ohhh! Ok, thanks.

Though I think a more consistent storyline would have been Callie getting some kick ass research or other one year job in NY and agonising over Sofia, and Arizona encouraging her to go and letting Sofia stay every holiday with her or whatever. Sofia was barely on screen so it would have been quite believable!

I honestly can't believe Arizona went through all that custody battle stuff and then just let Sofia go. And Sofia was ok with it too.

No. I loved the plane crash. And the Denny stuff before the sex hallucinations.
Most absurd:
Karevs exit,
interns operating on each other,
bomb in the chest- and they still managed to save the guy?
Jo just adopting a random baby
the whole of Maggie and Jackson's relationship.

And the entire thing with hunt and that teenager

@whosaidtha I still love some of the absurd storylines, but they were ridiculous.