Grey’s Anatomy
It all start with two unknown in a bar . Eleven years ( and twelve season ) ago , Meredith Grey ( Ellen Pompeo ) begin her surgical internship at Seattle Grace hospital , the day after unwittingly having a one nighttime stand with one of the new serve Dr. , Derek Shepherd ( Patrick Dempsey ) – a neurosurgery god , accurately dubbed “ McDreamy . ” Since then we have followed an ever evolve cast of character through the unambiguous peaks and the gutting lows of their personal living and life history – and it ’s been a heck of a ride . One of the most binge - desirable show around , it had it all – humor , loveable characters , nail - biting eddy and ticker - breaking storylines - and , in true medical drama fashion , plenteousness of bizarre surgeries .
But hasGrey ’s Anatomysurpassed its skilful eld ? Is it at long last time for Shonda Rhimes to hang up the stethoscope and rent our darling characters rest before she makes any more of a mess ?
Here ’s Screen Rant ’s leaning of11 Reasons Grey ’s Anatomy Must End . Of course , there will beSPOILERSahead for anyone uninitiated into Seattle Grace ’s ongoing drama .
11. The original cast is all but gone
While it ’s natural for a show to evolve as its characters and plot do , as well as its actors ’ careers , it is still moderately tricky to keep a show as lovable as it once was when the bulk of its leading faces are no longer on the sieve .
From the original nine or so main characters , we ’re left with just four – Meredith , Richard Webber ( James Pickens Jr. ) , Alex Karev ( Justin Chambers ) and Miranda Bailey ( Chandra Wilson ) . We ’ve seen two separate new classes of interns – which makes sense in terms of floor - notification , but is quite grating when each group is jostle under our noses as the newest harvest of protagonists .
10. They’re running out of ways to almost-kill Meredith
It seems to be Shonda Rhimes ’ go - to storyline . So far , Meredith has been adhere in a body cavity holding a bomb , almost drown by falling off a loading dock , stood up to an armed gunman ( where she even sound out the phrasal idiom “ pullulate me ” ) , been peril to toxic rake , been in a plane clang , had a C - department in a big businessman outage , and , most recently , she was savagely beat by a mentally inauspicious patient .
It ’s convey to the spot where every major plot item surrounds a character – usually Meredith – in some sort of near - destruction situation . It ’s not only emotionally exhausting ; it ’s also getting honest-to-goodness .
9. The relationships are no longer believable
Much akin to the last ofHow I Met Your Mother , the new plotlines are destroying friendships in which viewers have invested literally long time of their lives . The main squawk here is with Cristina Yang ( Sandra Oh ) , who – free-base on Meredith being the " sexual love of her biography , " would utterly and immediately have rush along to Meredith ’s side upon hearing that her married man had died .
Due to Oh ’s inability to return to the show , however , this did n’t find , and it was totally unlikely . Instead , Meredith catch to live the high life story in Zurich , where the show ’s writers transport her wadding at the end of the 10th time of year .
8. All the best couples have broken up
After spending several season shipping a particular couple and feel every braid and go of the break way of life that lead them to each other , it ’s understandable to feel a recondite connection with a relationship – even a fictional one . While Cristina and Burke ( Isaiah Washington ) were gentle to move on from , relationships like Meredith and Derek , Cristina and Owen ( Kevin McKidd ) and Callie ( Sara Ramirez ) and Arizona ( Jessica Capshaw ) are all exercise of couples we adore , who were rive from each other – and ever since , no one else will be good enough .
But in all of these case , they appear to have been part up so ruthlessly that there is no Leslie Townes Hope of rapprochement , which makes it desperately painful to catch .
7. The characters are getting less likable
This decimal point especially relates to our narrator and champion , Meredith . When the serial publication began she was damage and awkward , or as she put it,“dark and twisty ” – which made her totally relatable . She was reasonably much all of us at one point or another , and it made her a great case to find out . What also made her grapheme perfect was the fashion she bounced off of her polar - opposite Friend – the ever bubbly Izzy ( Katherine Heigl ) and the adorable George ( T.R. Knight ) , for example .
These solar day , she ’s just whiney and arrogant – avowedly , we credibly would be too if we ’d been through ( and overpower ) what she ’s been through , but that ’s not what the audience wants to see . It ’s not fun to take in anymore , and it has overthrow the delicate drama / comedy balance that the show had in its golden years .
6. It’s too difficult to keep the plot fresh
When a show has been running for as long asGrey’shas , it ’s easy for the writers to run out of ideas . Whereas in real life , drama occur sporadically , TV series have to keep it hang , or they wo n’t be a good sentry . When the show is following an teemingness of characters , there ’s really only so much earth to cover before the show get down repeating itself .
As well as being tiresome for the viewer , it ’s also exhausting to see the characters go through so much without letting up – it ’s pretty clear that Shonda is the form of person to take the ladder out of the swim kitty onThe Sims . The only opportunity we do get to see our favorite characters happy is right before something horrific materialize to them …
5. McDreamy
have ’s face it ; there is noGrey ’s Anatomywithout Derek " McDreamy " Shepherd . We ’ve come across him from the very beginning ; we come down in dearest with him right alongside Meredith . We escort his initial divorcement , his bud romance with Meredith , the post - it wedding ceremony , his very own confrontation with death – and he was ripped aside from us - and so very artlessly .
aboveboard , if you start to look back over the MerDer relationship , the grief is almost unendurable . It ’s understandable that sometimes actors leave , and Shonda has stated that his death was the only way to go as he never would have lead Meredith voluntarily – but he deserved so much more , and since he ’s been gone , the show has mat completely empty .
It was the straw that broke the camel ’s back forGrey ’s Anatomy , when we were still so emotionally flimsy from the loss of Mark ( Eric Dane ) and Lexie ( Chyler Leigh ) – yes , it still hurts .
4. It’s being written like a Soap Opera
WhenGrey ’s Anatomyfirst start , it was a perfect balance of shocking and funny . Much likeERandHouse , it found a sweet spot somewhere in the Venn diagram of aesculapian intrigue , relationship and relatability .
But that dynamic has lurch dramatically over the past few season , ascertain far more focal point on the less - interesting kinship - i.e. Dr Webber and Catherine Avery ( Debbie Allen ) – as well as random case of casual sexual practice and increasingly over - the - top storyline . It ’s starting to feel more like a day clip soap than a prime time drama . Where ’s the grit ?
3. The characters are inconsistent
Originally dub " The Nazi , " Dr. Miranda Bailey is one of the few characters to have survived the plethora of plagues , terrorism and natural disasters to rack up Seattle Grace / Seattle Grace Mercy West / Grey Sloane Memorial . Despite opening a clinic which soon disappeared from the script ( is it still unresolved ? Who knows ! ) , Bailey has still found clip to be a mentor to the occupier . However , a recent time of year get a line her suddenly struggling with OCD after a patient fell ill under her maintenance . Not that OCD is n’t a literal and often lay waste to mental illness , and of form mental illness can affect anyone , but its onset was so sudden and such a Brobdingnagian reaction to something that Bailey would have been prepared for , that it was just completely out of part .
It was the sort of affair that she would have pulled her houseman up on – one potential mistake in hundred of surgeries . In increase to this , Arizona cheat on Callie was a huge braid in her personality – she had always been trustworthy and brutally honest about everything , and her cheating – and in such a thoughtless way – was all contrary to the Arizona Robbins we knew .
2. April Kepner is literally just the worst
When April Kepner ( Sarah Drew ) first showed up inGrey’sit was easy to find sympathy for her . She had the " small female child " persona of someone who was n’t certain how the openhanded wide world worked . She was mock for her extremist - Christian opinion ( including abstinence until marriage ) but she stuck by them anyway , and that was admirable .
That was , until she begin making a huge fuss over observe Jackson ( Jesse Williams ) attractive and finally losing her virginity to him . And this was despite managing to find a super gracious paramedical whoalsowanted to remain abstentious until marriage , who just so happened to work for the same hospital ( what are the luck ! ? ) ! sure enough , everyone makes mistake , but the mess she managed to make out of it was infuriating . On top of that , her " wide - eyed , innocent small young lady " persona very quickly turn in to an " title , needy little girl " image . She is just the worst .
