r/greysanatomy • u/goldengoldengoose • 1d ago
How Garbage Are Your “Grey’s Anatomy” Opinions?
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u/No_Solution5351 1d ago
Not every long lost friend and or relative has to be a damn surgeon
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u/deemmmvee 49m ago
Yeah and it’s so weird we rarely see just regular doctors in SG/GSM… it’s literally just nurses and surgeons; no inbetween. Could’ve given them way more B plot material at best.
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u/Only-String2883 1d ago
We had like 3 episodes about people grieving george while everyone else (besides Derek ofc) were treated like a 1 time come and go. I want fucking funerals, people grieving and struggling to get back to normal life not some "WELP SHE DEAD.. NEXT" bs
You wanna make a death impactful in the show not just brush it off and forget about it
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u/nothxxmagnum 1d ago
This is one thing that has repeatedly bothered me. They almost always go back to “status quo” the episode after any major death or disaster. Some of my favorite moments have been when they actually show characters having to work through the trauma and ptsd of all the shit that happens to them.
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u/Jaxnsmama72 1d ago
Agreed. Lexie’s unhinged behavior after the shooting spree was realistic & made me fall in love with her character. Her death was so tragic. She was young, beautiful & brilliant. She would have been an amazing surgeon & I really enjoyed how Meredith became a loving sister to her.
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u/Nels2121 19h ago
The whole aftermath of the shooting was fantastic and I’m glad that it took them so long to recover. I also joined the fake documentary episode they did on the shooting.
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u/BhadKat420 Evil Spawn 😈 11h ago
One of my favorite episodes honestly!! I love documentary style filming
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u/Karena2020 9h ago
This. Any deaths or disasters on the show now just dont have the emotional impact that they should
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u/sucksfor_you 16h ago
On the same line of thought, I want a big death without a time jump over the worst of the grief!
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u/ArcticFire145 Not This Week 15h ago
Charles Percy kinda had it too, with Jackson waking up screaming his name and Bailey calling a patient his name in surgery, but yeah. It make sense the writers want to move on with the story but it shouldn't be too the extent that a character spending over a decade on screen is brushed over.
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u/PlayfulAd7835 10h ago
This! I wish we’d seen more of Derek grieving Mark. I know we had moments here and there like when Derek tears up talking about Mark to Owen but Mark was his brother and he’d known Derek since childhood. No visits to the grave, nothing? He talked about Mark buying his house and sharing the same dreams as him the day before he died! Come on.
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u/deemmmvee 48m ago
I’m mad that Lexi got literally eaten by wolves and then… no funeral?! At least Mark got a title card memorializing him. (RIP Eric Dane irl)
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u/goldengoldengoose 1d ago
Meredith and Derek are iconic, but they were not relationship goals.
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u/CorrectAir815 1d ago
That's exactly it. The candle house? Obsessed. The actual relationship? A mess.
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u/Arejhey311 1d ago
100% They would not still be together if he hadn’t died
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u/ColdForm7729 ♥️ Maddison ♥️ 1d ago
When he died, they were repairing their relationship. He had given up DC. He was coming home to be with the family. They were taking about another baby, who became Ellis. Why do you think they wouldn't be together?
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u/OurBlueDuchess1 1d ago
Because he would have used the "i gave up DC and working for the president for you" during every fight with Meredith.
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u/rocketbewts 1d ago
Just because of how the show goes 💔 you think they were gonna allow Meredith to be happy?
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u/ColdForm7729 ♥️ Maddison ♥️ 1d ago
Without Meredith and Derek as the foundation, there is no Grey's Anatomy.
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u/deemmmvee 47m ago
She literally did the exact opposite of what her mom tried drilling into her… he made her ordinary and everytime I rewatch I hate him more.
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u/More-Expression-6622 1d ago edited 22h ago
The amount of times Ben Warren messes up is just flat out annoying at this point. He needs to get it together this next season, especially if he’s supposed to hold down the fort while Miranda gets her MPH
ETA: I also feel like his character could be so cool if the writers stopped making him into “dumb guy who inevitably messes things up 24/7” like there’s so much more to him but that’s hardly ever shown nowadays.
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u/ExtremeComedian4027 Evil Spawn 😈 18h ago
Ben was so sharp as an anaesthesiologist and they completely ruined him by making him this super fickle mess. He gets on my nerves and I don't understand how Bailey has to dumb herself down each time he makes a pigheaded mess.
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u/kulmakarvamato 21h ago
Oh my fucking god, i am at the aftermath of the lockdown c-section and he is insufferable already
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u/LeFrenchRaven 17h ago
I genuinely hate this character since a few seasons now. He is soooo entitled and acts like he's always right. He messes up, does things he's not supposed to be and always so pissed when he gets punish for it.
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u/Silent_Ad1488 Booty Call Bailey ☎️ 13h ago
Ben going rogue every time the light turns green irritates me.
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u/Environmental-Edge45 1d ago
I hate that everyone has to have kids with everyone. At this point, the whole hospital is somehow related.
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u/goldengoldengoose 1d ago
The hospital should've been shut down years ago based on the number of disasters alone. 💀
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u/PennyPick 1d ago
The HIPAA violations and reckless practice would have had TJC there shutting it down quick.
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u/Amataj 23h ago
Can you imagine if the show ends where the hospital gets shut down? 😵
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u/tvcriticgirlxo 20h ago
Well...then Richard finally gets to retire
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u/Amataj 17h ago
I mean, I get that it’ll be such a sad ending but at least they can send off people to wherever.
Miranda focuses on the clinic or other voluntary / mission-type of work
Grey is happy and focuses on research and gets a breakthrough with Amelia. Children are happy and thriving. None of the kids enter medicine please.
Richard is retired and happy with Catherine running the foundation
The interns are in shock but they’re fine. They find new hospitals to intern in.
Everyone finds their own path that’s kinda related to their current storylines. Everyone processes everything through mandated counselling. Etc etc
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u/Available-Bison-9222 1d ago edited 16h ago
The acting is terrible in the current season of GA, especially Ben, Miranda, Chief Webber, Jo, Link and Meredith. The dialogue is extremely clunky. They have ruined Bailey. What happened to the Bailey who wouldn't take anyone's shit? Adams is constantly complaining and she just takes it. He need a good Bailey mouthful.
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u/Accurate_Boat1724 1d ago
Per usual. They need to put the show down like a horse with a broken ankle!!
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u/JoeBethersontonFargo 13h ago
I can’t stand bad dialogue, and I can’t even watch the show anymore. It’s like a parody of itself, and all the rhythm/pitter patter of the dialogue that made it good is gone.
I feel like the acting has gotten so boxed in and cliche too- like there’s ‘Disney’ acting, and now there’s ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ acting. The cast just all do the same thing.
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u/Available-Bison-9222 12h ago
And the outdoor sets are like a bad B movie. The bridge collapse was cringe because the set was so bad.
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u/romahazz 1d ago
…I unironically like the musical episode.
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u/OurBlueDuchess1 1d ago
If people would understand that the musical episode is basically the out of body experience that coma patients tend to talk about after they wake up, they wouldn't hate on it as much. Callie literally said "Calliope means music" right before she lost consciousness. That is why it was a musical episode and it is one of my favorite episodes.
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u/Unique_Persimmon9454 Dirty Mistress 11h ago
Just because one understands doesn’t mean they have to enjoy it
Example: so many people hate Meredith even though her character makes so much sense
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u/Trollaxinumad 1d ago
It’s one of my favorite episodes! Callie’s voice is incredible. When she sings The Story, it gives me chills the whole time
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u/knockingfae Heart In A Box ❤️ 1d ago
same here. I do think it takes away the severity of what happened, but I als don’t know if I could stomach such an awful near fatal car accident without the comedic buffer. it’s a plus that Sara is an incredible singer.
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u/corri-in-wonderland 21h ago
Sara killed it in that episode. The singing, the acting... some of the songs weren't great ngl, but Sara's performances were incredible. I love the episode for them alone.
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u/ExtremeComedian4027 Evil Spawn 😈 18h ago
I liked it till Owen started singing. Then I wanted everything to implode.
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u/SufficientBox3389 19h ago
same! some of the singing and song choices are terrible but i think it’s just light hearted and fun
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u/JustAnotherGoddess Booty Call Bailey ☎️ 1d ago
I only like it because of Sara. Her singing is marvelous
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u/DBrennan13459 Amelia and Jules Stan 🥰 1d ago
Bailey gets way too much hate for being the most normal person in that damn hospital.
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u/giftopherz 1d ago edited 1d ago
Hon, that's life...
Try and be a voice of reason and people will come
toafter youEDIT: Grammar
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u/Awes567 1d ago
I thought so too until the gene therapy incident... that tainted the character so much for me because it seemed like the opposite of what normal Bailey would do.
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u/javaverses 23h ago
What gets me is how the show goes back to acting like Bailey does no wrong with in a few episodes. Then how high and mighty Bailey later acted after Meredith committed insurance fraud.
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u/rocketbewts 1d ago
I truly genuinely cannot STAND Jo and I don't think I can reasonably explain it. She rubbed me the wrong way as an intern, and her vibes were rancid. I think I actually stopped watching around the time she became resident? I don't know, she felt like a character I would've written into a Grey's Anatomy fanfiction when I was 11 years old.
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u/danielinthedenn 14h ago
I understand she had a difficult childhood and all but I hated the way she was introduced and it became like a competition with Alex of "whose childhood was worse" and she cries about it all the time, it just immediately made her seem like a very selfish person
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u/PlayfulAd7835 10h ago
Jackson’s father abandoned him. Cristina’s father died. Izzie was born in a trailer park. Alex’s father was abusive. Meredith’s father abandoned her. Derek and Amelia’s father was murdered. Owen’s father died young. Both of the loves of Webber’s life died from Alzheimer’s. George grew up with normality only for them to kill his dad off. Jo grew up homeless.
April…grew up on a farm!
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u/ColdForm7729 ♥️ Maddison ♥️ 1d ago
Mark and Lexie wouldn't have lasted long term. People only romanticize their relationship because they died.
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u/tvcriticgirlxo 1d ago
I think people mainly romanticized because they liked Mark and his growth. They weren't a good couple. They were barely a couple
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u/giftopherz 1d ago
...and they're hot...
Mid-looking people would've gotten roasted as toxic and abusive for "behaving" like that
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u/IWasGoatbeardFirst 1d ago
Their age difference skeeved me out. I’m sorry. I understand that Lexie was legally an adult, but ew.
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u/outragerorius 1h ago
Right! She was 27 and Mark was 44 when they died. 17 years difference!! So weird
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u/dreamybubbleteax 1d ago
Louder for the people in the back! She is practically the only sane person left trying to manage an entire hospital full of chaotic, boundary-crossing surgeons who treat HR violations like a sport.
If anyone else had to deal with the absolute madness she tackles on a daily basis, they would have snapped and fired everyone years ago.
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u/fineimonreddit 1d ago
Mark had grown as a person and Lexie always gave settle down young vibes so I actually think they would have made it
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u/ColdForm7729 ♥️ Maddison ♥️ 1d ago
They were in two completely different places in life and wanted different things. That kind of difference doesn't just go away.
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u/2Busy2slowdown 1d ago
From my understanding, that was the point of the writer killing off Mark‘s character; In a sense to “keep them together forever”. I guess it worked.
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u/ColdForm7729 ♥️ Maddison ♥️ 1d ago
Mark was killed off because Eric had an addiction to pills and had to go into rehab. I don't think it had anything to do with keeping them together forever.
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u/birdie_time127 1d ago
I like Owen and feel bad for him for his PTSD and stuff but I don’t excuse his behavior. And I like Teddy with Henry but you know <\3
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u/knockingfae Heart In A Box ❤️ 1d ago
the show handles ptsd very well between him and jo
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u/birdie_time127 1d ago
Yes that’s true. Jo’s depression seemed real to me. (I’ve had major depression when I was 16).
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u/knockingfae Heart In A Box ❤️ 1d ago
as someone whose biggest fear is an old abuser following me, watching the stadler arc was horrifying with how real it felt. had nightmares after the episode he showed up at the hospital
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u/birdie_time127 1d ago
Oh no I’m sorry that happened. Hugs 🫂. Greys anatomy is good at the dramatic effects like how you said.
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u/Sparkplug0614 1d ago
The love for Jolex is too high. Very little chemistry and shouldnt have lasted as long as it did.
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u/Alternative-Ad-2853 17h ago
Fr I never get the hype. It was so forced and the writing was very bad, there were no emotional scenes or real couple conflicts. It felt like they were shoving them down our throats because the actors had zero storylines left apart from being together
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u/Witty-Stock-4913 21h ago
I hate the whole Owen/Cristina abortion storyline. I know the showrunners really wanted to incorporate an abortion into the show, but the idea that two grown people who'd been dating as long as they had, who were medical professionals and who had joint counseling sessions wouldn't have talked about kids is ludicrous. The idea that Cristina would have gotten accidentally pregnant twice knowing full well she would never have had a child is also ludicrous. She's have had her tubes tied the second she got pregnant the first time.
If they wanted to show a strong, independent woman climbing the career ladder without a man, then do that. Throwing failed toxicity isn't showing that a woman can make a conscious choice to focus on her career and be happy.
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u/danielinthedenn 14h ago
I hated that Christina was constantly being held back by such toxic men, she really deserved better
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u/JoeBethersontonFargo 13h ago
This! They only made Owen toxic at first, so they could have Cristina be strong. It got so repetitive, to have her constantly arguing about the kid thing. It would have been more progressive to just have it be accepted and understood, leading to an amicable breakup, instead of the abortion fighting.
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u/snakey_nurse 1d ago
Mousy is only well loved because she was only around for like a season as an unproblematic quirky funny side character, which escalates people to say Shane should have died instead. Don't get me wrong, I didn't mind her, but people put her on this holy do-no-wrong pedestal.
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u/itsascreambaby96 1d ago
Callie was just as bad in her relationship with George and she was a pick me
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u/greg-drunk that ✨McBastard✨ 1d ago
I love that she explained to Finn that interns are socially inept little babies who are learning how to date and then she gets mad at her intern boyfriend because he doesn’t set boundaries and he wasn’t ready to say I Love You after like two weeks…girl lmao
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u/Sparkplug0614 1d ago
The love for Callie is too strong. She acted all weird walking around Meredith’s house half naked and peeing in front of people she met once, then was offended when they treated her like weirdo she was acting like. Her boo-hooing over Hahn was too extreme for how little they were actually dating. Her reaction to Arizona going to Africa was over the top, as was her insistence that the plane crash was just as traumatizing for her as it was for the people on the plane. And her relationship with Penny was hard to watch.
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u/itsascreambaby96 1d ago
Also George and Izzie were best friends and Callie was forcing him to choose
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u/4GetAbtIt-Cuh 1d ago
I literally can’t stand her character omg. If she was a male character I feel like she’d be just as hated as Owen lowkey!
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u/Environmental-Edge45 16h ago
I hate her during that time. She was constantly jealous and would not see that her and George were a terrible couple. I think there wasn't one moment of their relationship where they weren't fighting or mad at each other.
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u/Upstairs_Speaker_476 21h ago
The show should have ended around season 14 max. Nearly all original characters have left, and the storylines just lost creativity after a certain point. It's always the same formula, two characters are now in love, someone's cheating, someone died or the hospital is on fire again.
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u/KittyKatzza 20h ago
Honestly, every character becomes unlikable at some point, then they do something that redeems them, and I end up liking them again.
I’m so over Teddy and Owen, though—they’ve definitely overstayed their welcome.
I also think the post-COVID seasons have been okay. Not great, not terrible. They just don’t have that urgent, messy, fun drama that made me care about every storyline.
My favorite storyline will always be Denny Duquette’s. Nothing has hit quite the same emotionally since then.
Hot take: Meredith and Derek are iconic, but Cristina and Meredith were the real love story of the series.
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u/BoiledChicken653 18h ago
Lol, how about a goggle of surgeons turning up everytime an ambulance comes in? 🤭
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u/goldengoldengoose 1d ago
George is loved mostly because he died.
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u/ExtremeComedian4027 Evil Spawn 😈 1d ago
George had his awful moments but I loved how he flew solo, stood up to Ellis Grey and held the nurses’ picket line so well that they themselves sent him back in to take care of his patients.
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u/WDTHTDWA-BITCH 1d ago
Japril are my favourite (them running away together while leaving Matthew at the altar was high key one of the most romantic moments of the entire show).
I love love love dark and twisty! Meredith. She’s a tv icon for a reason and I’m obsessed with the way she constantly has one foot in the other side of the veil, which means she regularly sees ghosts??? Love that for her in this otherwise realistic medical soap.
I don’t get the hype behind Cristina. I always thought she’d be a stronger character without every single one of her love interests. They were all holding her back.
I never liked Derek and actually find Nick quite compelling. I don’t need him and Mer to have constant drama because she’s already got her happy ending and she’s just around still cuz Ellen won’t leave. I’m happy to see them in their well-adjusted life with her kids.
I actually think Catherine is a Boss Ass Bitch, and she’s entitled to changing allegiances on a dime depending on what suits her best. Go off, self-interested, morally ambiguous queen!
I was in the subreddit while watching the second half of the seasons for the first time, so I was spoiled when it came to Alex’s ending, but I don’t actually think they dropped his running back to Izzy completely out of nowhere. The foreshadowing was there, especially when it came to his giving her permission to use his sperm in the future. That was bound to come full circle eventually. It just wasn’t set up properly for a satisfying conclusion, given the Jo of it all. But it does make perfect sense to me.
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u/IntelligentPumpkin74 1d ago
- I think Cristina wanted her first baby/pregnancy. The way the storyline plays out Cristina only she couldn't have the baby (not that she didn't want them) because she thought she'd have to switch out of the surgery program and because Burke was only someone she was casually sleeping with and she doesn't know him well. She also only drinks water while at Joe's bar instead of alcohol. She had the breakdown when she lost the baby, and later Bailey realises Cristina wants to know if she ever considered not keeping her baby when she's pregnant with Tuck and when Bailey says yes and that's okay Cristina was relieved so it shows she wasn't completely firm in her decision.
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u/PlayfulAd7835 1d ago
Cristina booked an abortion the day after she found out, which is why she told Meredith. She had a breakdown after the surgery because she was hormonal and her mother was doing her head in.
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u/IntelligentPumpkin74 1d ago edited 1d ago
True but Cristina only gave reasons that indicated she felt she couldn't have the baby rather than she didn't want them, things were still semi in flux especially since she also planned on telling Burke that she's pregnant until he broke up with her. I think the hormones and her mother/almost dying were a big part of the breakdown but really it was because Cristina was ignoring her feelings- she put her mind towards finding out what's wrong with a patient to distract herself and that's why when she figured it out and Izzie told her she was right she broke down because now she has an answer it didn't work as a distraction anymore.
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u/m_a_gxoxo 1d ago
Tbh, I think she had the breakdown because of the stress and hormones. Surgery puts a lot of stress onto the body. She was working as hell, so she definitely lacked sleep. And she is like me: the kind of person who processes things way later.
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u/otomennn I know you don't understand me. Even I don't understand me. 1d ago
Izzie and George is the best character in the first 5 seasons
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u/Alternative-Ad-2853 17h ago
I liked Alex's ending; I was actually hoping for it, but I didn’t like how it was executed.
I wanted Callie and Mark to end up together and raise their kid as a family. He was the only one who never hurt her.
The airplane crash episode is highly overrated, and it wasn’t good. Just rewatch the shooting episode and the aftermath to see how big the difference is.
The writers clearly have favorites. This is the only explanation for why they gave some weak actors big storylines, while others with real talent got very little.
Christiana and Meredith wouldn’t have stayed close if Christiana hadn't left. Alex was less competitive, and surgery was just a job for him. He wanted the same life as Meredith, which is why they were close and found their bond after Christiana left.
The show stopped being good after season 8. They got rid of three big names with real talent and replaced them with a bunch of less talented actors, just making them accessories for the big names with no real storylines.
Owen was only at fault in his first marriage to Christiana. The other two yh he made mistakes but his partners actually made more but people ignored it.
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u/solar_powerr 1d ago
Amelia and Arizona are my favorite characters 🫣
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u/4GetAbtIt-Cuh 1d ago
Omg me too!!! The hate for them both made me realize that people cannot handle complex female characters. They’re the most interesting to watch and Caterina Scorsone is one of the best actresses on Greys!
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u/wtfistheactualpoint 1d ago
People hate Amelia?? 😭 she’s my favourite and the main reason I rewatch private practice at all lol. Hell my current rewatch of PP and greys was “let’s just start at the Amelia seasons and go from there” for both lol
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u/CLEf11 1d ago
Owen is over hated and isn't always "the problem" in his relationships even with Cristina
Arizona, izzie, and George deserve way more hate than Owen
Callie is the best character who imo has done the least wrong (with the exception of her final season but even that I still don't think she was the only problem
Meredith was kind of annoying and hard to root for
Cristina is pretty great but put way up on a pedestal and worshipped by fans and treated as someone who could do no wrong and thats simply not true
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u/Vegetable_Ad_5112 23h ago
Meredith is and has always been annoying. Couldn’t stand her. Especially her fake terrible crying.
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u/ardent__ly 1d ago edited 22h ago
Owen shacked up with, and married multiple women, way too quickly; Cristina so quickly that he didn't even know if she wanted kids or not– and he REALLY wanted kids, AND is a doctor, so he absolutely knew better (as did she, but she thought he knew that about her) I'm just saying he was very much more of the problem.
He also dipped on his fiancée, before coming to GSM, who thought he was dead.
He also took out his problems on everyone, at work, EVERY time there was one.
ALSO potential SPOILER he went to Teddy to proclaim his love, literally double dipping within a days time...
Izzie, Arizona, and George can be hated equally for their cheating crap, but Izzie for more cause she went/was nuts... I think Izzie and Owen hate is pretty equal and fair. They both are SO self-concerned and impulsive.
Callie was a stubborn, and naive and emotionally immature pusher (coming from a once emotionally immature person)– with George, after dating MAYBE a couple weeks? With Arizona for a baby, and also her suddenly deciding she's moving her and Sophia to NY? With no conversation? And for someone again, that she'd been dating a couple months maybe. And also with George, she knew something was off with them, but kept being desperate for affection and ignoring reality (not saying he wasn't just as much responsible)
Meredith SPOILER I cannot see what was "annoying" about her save for the couple times she did literal illegal things medically (to save lives); or maybe her leaving town and leaving everyone hanging and having a whole baby... but... her husband died... and she was pregnant... Annoying though, I dunno... To each their own!
Cristina did no wrong. Unless I'm spacing something.
(this reply was for pure banter btw no shade)
Edit to add "spoiler" note
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u/jenguinaf 1d ago
On the Owen part I also thing he’s overly hated. He AND Christina are to blame for their eventual issues like did neither of you discuss what you wanted out of a marriage first? Not excusing him but dude if you know you are child free ever consider mentioning that?
Also him losing it with Amelia was kinda justifiable. Yeah she had a tumor but she talking all about wanting to have a big family with all the kids, they get married and she’s like actually I’m never gonna gave a kid like wtf.
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u/Impressive_Volume_23 21h ago
Should’ve killed Mer when they had a chance. Or multiple. Idc her name’s on that damn building or the title. In loving memory of Dr.Grey. 🫡💀
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u/ghettoassbitch 20h ago
People usually hate that I feel like Meredith was way more in the wrong during her season 10 fight with Cristina.
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u/Ornery_Somewhere_800 Jo Reminding Us She Lived In A Car 18h ago
Too many untimely pregnancies (re: Teddy giving birth, while Amelia doesn’t know she’s pregnant yet).
Also, too many screaming kids & babies.
https://giphy.com/gifs/HFxsc1xXdUzcs
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u/danielinthedenn 14h ago edited 14h ago
I hate Arizona, yes what happened to her leg was horrible but she took it all out on Callie and she ruined the whole relationship because of it.
Callie is such a weird character, I'm rewatching right now and she overreacts and acts like such a main character. Yeah it was bloody WEIRD that she just went into the bathroom with 2 women she barely knew and used the loo in front of them but then that whole drama with her not washing her hands and getting mad with George because of it was so unnecessary. And the fact that George prioritises his grieving friend over her but she acts so upset and like a pick me!
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u/greg-drunk that ✨McBastard✨ 37m ago
Dude Callie gets a pass from people because of the cheating but it’s crazy that she was so pushy with him and constantly assumed the worst intentions of him and yet continued to date him, it’s hard to feel bad for her 90% of the time
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u/AverageOverReaction 1d ago
Sloan was a creep, his relationship with Lexie was genuinely disgusting, Maggie is a truly awful character, Rose deserved better, Arizona was also terrible, truthfully the amount of “good morals” characters can be listed on like one hand
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u/117pepper 1d ago
I've hated Kepner since the boards episode, I get annoyed everytime I see her on screen. What she did in that room showed such flawed judgement and a lack of chatacter that should have excluded her from the profession. She belonged back on the farm permanently and failing that not at a top level teaching hospital.
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u/guitar0707 15h ago edited 15h ago
The reason that Izzie and George are judged more harshly and are more hated than others isn’t their actual actions. Many characters have done the same or worse. It’s the fact that their actions affected fan favorites, whereas the characters whose actions are constantly excused bullied hated characters. For example, Izzie and George’s actions affected Callie and Alex. Therefore, very thing they did is considered unforgivable. Whereas characters like Alex and Cristina bullied Izzie, George, April, and characters that fans don’t like and enjoy getting bullied. So, everything can be brushed off and excused. If Izzie would have been rallying the troops to make fun of April for being a virgin and telling Alex to go deflower her, there would have been never ending “she’s not a girl’s girl” comments. If George had hung up pictures of Meredith or Cristina in their underwear, or called either of them “stupid b*tch”, no amount of being nice to kids would have vindicated him.
Even if Izzie hadn’t been fired and run off when she did, Izzie and Alex’s relationship would not have lasted much longer. Whether he meant it or not, the marriage probably doesn’t survive the “I only married you because I thought you’d be dead in a week” admission. It’s essentially an admission that Alex doesn’t love her and didn’t actually want to be married to her. It would be lingering there constantly. Every time they had a fight, every time a beautiful woman was there, if they had trouble using the embryos, any time Izzie made a mistake, etc…. the fact that Alex didn’t want the marriage to begin with would be the elephant in the room between them. That’s one of the things that, once verbalized, places the relationship on borrowed time on both ends. It places Izzie in a a position where she knows that Alex resents her and once Alex lets himself think those thoughts, it opens him up to blaming Izzie for everything and looking at her negatively.
Cristina’s personal relationships helping the trajectory of her career made her entitled. At every level, she was benefitting from personal relationships with people in charge. So, any time she was treated like a regular person, and wasn’t getting special treatment, she thought she was being treated badly. The hospital was a teaching hospital, where the Interns/Residents were supposed to be getting training in every specialty. Yet, if someone else was doing a stint in cardio and she was supposed to be somewhere else, she made a big deal as if she was the only one that was supposed to be taught anything.
George was the most well-rounded doctor of MAGIC.
I don’t get the excitement of Jo. So often I see people say that Alex would never have left Jo and find myself thinking “Why not? He screwed over about twenty other women. How is Jo so different?” I just don’t get the greatness of her and the idea that she was so amazing that someone couldn’t possibly break up with her.
Richard is the true villain of the series. He created an environment where you had to have personal relationships with people in power in order to be taught. His favoritism towards Meredith was over-the-top. He treated his wife like trash. He was operating drunk and making mistakes, while firing anyone else who made a mistake, in a sloppy attempt to keep his own job. He completely mismanaged the merger, which saw dozens of people lose their job. He meddled into people’s personal lives- Meredith/Lexie with Thatcher and Alex/Izzie with the embryos.
Every character is a perfect character or had tons of growth if every time they mess up, you just blame the writers or call it “out-of-character”.
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u/throwingthisaway0098 15h ago
I thought Karev’s exit was fine and suited his character perfectly.
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u/time-watertraveler 1d ago
Lexi was not hot, she was not a good match for Mark, he only liked her because she was an "ingenue", they were definitely not going to last
Maggie is annoying and rude. I disliked the whole "sisters" with her and Lexi. Meredith didn't need the forced "blood family", when up to their introductions it was all about the chosen family.
Amelia has shown so much growth as an individual, I'm tired of her being forced into this romantic storylines that always end up in chaos. Give it a break. She can be happy alone.
Jo and Link have so much potential as comedic relief on the show, yet they keep torturing them with sad and awful storylines that don't match their personality.
I hate Warren being back. I love him but I hate him on Grey's. Bring station 19 back! He should have been chief.
Richard needs to go. He's been 'retiring' since season 1.
Catherine is awful.
Give the old cast less screen time or stop introducing new interns that never stick around or grow on the show. Let the new cast take over, make us care for them like we did for Mer. Why introduce another Shepherd if he's barely featured?
Simone's hair needs to be tied back. She's an intern, which means she's constantly attending patients. Remember how Christina, Meredith and Izzy always had their hair pulled back when they were working? I clearly remember seeing Meredith tying her hair back before entering a room to see a patient.
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u/forever87 Dr Tenaya Millin 19h ago
> Lexi was not hot
https://giphy.com/gifs/pXJIGsFbdZiJa
especially with glasses, ponytail, and paint covered overalls. no way
Jake WylerChris EvansMark Sloan could ever make her prom queen1
u/Ornery_Somewhere_800 Jo Reminding Us She Lived In A Car 18h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/IhyGL914g9ShHdHVFy
I can’t breathe 😂☠️
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u/meinershagenvenancia 21h ago
My Grey’s Anatomy opinions are so garbage they’d get a full-season arc, three love triangles, and somehow still become Chief of Surgery.
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u/Rev00James 14h ago
After season 8 it got harder and harder to watch. Now I just wait for the seasons to drop on streaming services and watch on 1.25 speed while doing chores…..
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u/Level-Mud1662 13h ago
Why is every new female doctor bi or lesbian? No, I’m NOT against LBGTQ. It’s just a highly tired narrative and not even unique or surprising anymore. It’s diluting the unique characteristics of the ones who are or have been.
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u/balthazar_edison 1d ago
How Garbage Are Your “Grey’s Anatomy” Opinions?
this is what I'm seeing as the prompt for this post. I'm getting the sense people are taking this to mean: "What are your unpopular opinions about the series?" and that's not at all what this question means.
In other words: I am confusion.
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u/wtfistheactualpoint 1d ago
Then what does the question mean?
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u/balthazar_edison 1d ago
It literally means what it says. Haw garbage are your opinions about the show? As in: how terrible do you think your opinions about the series are? … which is a ludicrous question like who is going to admit they have bad opinions.
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u/wtfistheactualpoint 1d ago
answering “I have 9/10 the most garbage opinion” without elaborating would make for a boring thread though.
Would be funny if the OP was rating everyone’s garbage opinions tho
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u/balthazar_edison 1d ago
Regardless of whether it would have made for a boring thread that’s literally and figuratively what the prompt is.
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u/giftopherz 1d ago
The fandom love for Burke is proof that your allyship for LGBTQ+ people is performative.
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u/Blind_Nerd 1d ago
Wait but you can like the character and seperate them from the actor tho
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u/OurBlueDuchess1 1d ago
I always get flamed for it but here is my most garbage opinion(if im even answering this right: Owen was actually a very well written character until Shonda left in season 12. The problem is that people dont want to see or acknowledge a military war time vet with severe PTSD and instead, they immediately equate his actions with a normal guy off the street. It is something that happens every day in real life and people translate that to fictional characters too, including Owen. Instead of seeing PTSD on TV, they want to see hot, rugged sexy military hero with 0 issues amd that just isnt realistic for wartime vets.
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u/Carinne89 1d ago
That new guy that’s supposed to be Derek’s nephew is awful and makes irrationally angry.
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u/ChampionshipLocal297 18h ago
Most of the characters storyline is cringe at best..
(I'm not even halfway through the series so if you think is wrong a little bit premature, I'd agree)
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u/Silent_Ad1488 Booty Call Bailey ☎️ 13h ago
It irritates me that every time there’s a medical emergency one of the doctors will say “we don’t have time!” because the doctor they need is off/in another surgery/five minutes away and do a procedure that should be done in the OR.
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u/ManiacTiktoker_ 12h ago
1st time watcher here! I honestly dont think anything will ever top the hospital sh00ting. Im on season 9 and the plan crash was sad but wasn’t nearly as exhausting as the season with the shooting/! I have a long way to go and im hoping that something else will have me on the edge of my seat.
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u/retailhellgirl Dirty Mistress 11h ago
I’m kinda gonna miss Owen. He was a mess and a hypocrite but I’ll miss him a little bit
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u/Xxxpeaches1 7h ago
1.I will always be an Arizona hater.
2. Fuck Izzy and them kids.
3. Naggie Maggie was one of the worst people on the show and what she did to Winston was awful.
4.Meredith had every right to grieve Derek the way she wanted to.
5.Derek sucked as a partner
6. Team tom and teddy forever
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u/Calm_Nothing3497 3h ago
Merideth should have died during the covid season. She seems tired and honestly they put her through too much for a single doctor.
They shouldl also go back to how the first season treated the cast; giving them calm scenes that really showed them growing closer and their relationships. Not just romantic relationships or bonding through trauma.
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u/Electrical_Wing_4442 2h ago
i’d never condone cheating ever, but the arizona cheating story line actually made sense to me. she’d lost a whole limb, a part of herself. she says multiple times she doesn’t feel fun or sexy anymore and then in comes a woman who had never seen pre plane arizona and was still all up in her business and she felt desired and sexy for the first time and she took the opportunity. it was absolutely not right but it absolutely made sense for the storyline
callie was one of the most annoying characters on the show, she’d become immature and childish when things didn’t go her way (africa, she invited herself and then bitched about it the entire time as if arizona wasn’t introduced as the peds surgeon that lived to help kids)
she refused to see meredith’s or even pennys pov at all throughout that whole storyline which made her even more unlikeable to me. she made mistakes as a doctor and never really took actual accountability for them. she had a giant ego.
making cristina so different during her problems with owen made no sense to me at all, she’s naturally cold and an overachiever and she was taking sick days because of owen?? it just didn’t make sense with how they built her character to me.
jackson was point blank rude to april about her faith more often than not.
arizona switching to fetal surgery wasn’t enjoyable for me, she was always the super cool peds surgeon and i feel like after herman left it just got boring
meredith was often unnecessarily mean to the interns (levi when he gave blood to the woman in surgery)
lexi honestly was a bit of a bitch, when meredith was talking to april about her baby stuff and lexi was a bitch to april over it and then blamed meredith?? like what?
karev and bailey should have become a kickass duo, i always sensed a soft spot for alex from bailey (her removing the bullet, refusing to fire him etc ) and i wish we saw more of their relationship inside the OR
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u/Traditional-Cat7487 1h ago
I realizing that I don’t like that they make it seem like non-grey doctors aren’t amazing doctors as well. Not every doctor at greys is the best doctor either
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u/SLTW3080 1h ago
I started watching the series for the first time recently and was really looking forward to it. However, by the middle of the 3rd season I gave up. I had had enough of those horrible characters. What awful people. I was disappointed but didn’t want to waste anymore time with it.
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u/deemmmvee 51m ago
I think Meredith is truly just ordinary; BECAUSE she did exactly what her mom told her not to do and she let Derek overshadow her. If she chose Finn I feel like she would have been a way better surgeon.
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u/HGSmiles 30m ago
How Pac-North story line was probably the best idea they had at that point- two hospitals To give it a fresh vibe, possibly for more and new characters and new story lines could of even split into two different programs with interactions like holby and casualty And some how managed to trashed it And trashed it in the worst way
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