RIP Derek Shepherd

So I was away for 5.5 weeks in April/May....so I missed all the season finales. I have spent this whole week catching up on TV, and am still behind. For the most part I stayed spoiler free, except for the death of Derek Shepherd on Grey's Anatomy.  Although, I did not know any of the specifics, what episode number, or the plot of the episode. But I watched all the episodes, and I am still mad.

I am mad because of all the years we have spent caring about Derek and Meredith. I am mad because in my mind they should have been able to be happy forever. Meredith has lost SO many people over the years. (which they didn't reference at all, which I felt was a mistake. I did not think it had to be all about her Mother). I am mad because Patrick Dempsey decided to leave the show, and killing Derek was really the only way to do that. I'm not mad at him, its been 11 years. If they had ended the show a few years ago I could have had my happy ending for them, which Meredith really deserved after all her dark and twisty years. 

I'm also sad. I'm sad to lose Derek. I'm sad for Meredith. My props to Ellen Pompeo. She was fantastic. I'm sad for Amelia. I'm sad that all the good characters/actors are leaving one by one and I don't like the new ones. (not including Amelia)
I hope they end Grey's Anatomy next season. Just so that we can wrap up and say goodbye to all the characters before it goes too far and we lose more good ones.
From the original cast we have Alex, Meredith, Bailey and Weber left now. I miss George, I miss Lexie and Sloan, I even miss Christina. I miss Addison and the rest of the PPP crew. This is not helped by having Amelia around. I love her (and Caterina Scorsone) so much, but I miss her friends from LA. I still love Arizona. I don't really care about Jackson, April, the new people (although Jo is growing on me), I don't even like Callie that much anymore. I have deal with Meredith's new sister, but please let this be the last one.

The had some great episodes this season. They have done good stories with the characters I still care about. I love the Alex stuff. While I don't like Hunt, I like Amelia having somebody. The plane crash ep was great, with Mere and Arizona trying to deal. The season finale was good. We got through the Derek stuff, I kinda like that Mere has a new baby. I liked the flashbacks, and the music from the early (good) years. I like that things ended in a good place for once. There is promise for next season. But I hope its the last.

I'm done. I've spent 11 years with these characters, and I'm ready to move on. But as long as the show keeps going, I will continue to watch, because I've already invested 11 years and I'm invested in these characters. Please let it go. Its time to move on, while its still decent and there is time to wrap it up properly. It will never be as good as the early years, its become too messy. For me Grey's went downhill after season 3, and only got back up to the good places a few times throughout the seasons since. I never in a million years expected it to go 11 seasons. Shows like Grey's just don't do that. ER had 15, but the cast changed over so much, because it was about the ER. Grey's at the end of the day is about Meredith.

Its time to let go.

-Carlie

Grey's Anatomy Musical

On first viewing, I was not completely sure what to make of the Grey's Anatomy Music Event. It wasn't amazing...it wasn't terrible. It was weird...I think that's all I can say...it was different....
2nd viewing...SERIOUSLY?! Gotta use the Grey's catch phrase here...cause while I really enjoyed the songs and stuff...a lot of it was hard to take seriously.


-Love the songs....and I love that they got to show off the extra talents of some of their cast...particularly Sara, Chandra, and Kevin. I was also really surprised by the voices of the others, particularly Chyler! She was great!
-Not entirely sure why Addison HAD to be there...she barely did anything, and didn't end up being the one to save the baby. She barely sang too (I couldn't even pick her voice out)...it just seemed a little like a waste. And then she was missing for the whole of PPP...which wasn't the worst thing, but 2 eps in 1 season without Kate Walsh seemed wrong.
-the same goes for Scott Foley....really really pointless having him there for 1 scene, except for the fact that he can sing I guess...
-The whole Callie out of body thing was okay...'cept at some times the staring straight into the camera was weird...and it didn't make sense when people were singing when they were not anywhere near Callie....like Alex in his trailer....or Lexie walking around singing 'Breathe' -love the song, she sounded great, but it was ridiculous the way she went from talking to singing...far far away from Callie...and then being heard in the background. It made me laugh...in a bad way. Might be my least fave number for this reason. But I still love the song as a song.
-loved Alex's 'Seattle Grace Mercy Death' thing...he's got a point!
-SOOOO glad Dempsey didn't sing!
-Poor Teddy, even if she was wrong...Cristina really doesn't give her a whole ton of respect...I hope Kim's not leaving...not that I'd be crushed, but I do like her.
-I loved Sara singing 'The Story', but Callie's little music video was a little weird. It was a little hard to take seriously.


Random thoughts - It was a little weird seeing Kate Walsh in scenes with Sarah Drew, having just watched her episodes of Private Practice where she plays a different character...but anyways...
-I was also having a little PTSD with car crashes, after watching the season 3 finale of PPP on Friday...I was worried that something would happen to Arizona...I knew it wouldn't, but PPP made me stressed.

Overall, I was impressed with Ellen Pompeo's voice...and Jessica tried...but she really isn't anywhere near Sara's league when it comes to singing...I mean...she's got a Tony! lol..



I gotta also comment on Paul Adelstein's directorial debut with this week's ep of Private Practice. He did a good job, it was a good ep - with a few strange angles and what not....but he said he'll be directing again next season which will be fun. It was weird to have an ep of PPP without Kate AND Audra...but it was still good, but in a way it is kinda sad that it doesn't suffer from not having those 2 in it at the same time. I think that leaves Paul, Taye, KaDee and Tim as the only ones who have been in every ep.
Alex Kingston was back with her weird American accent....but at least Sheldon got to have some fun...he seriously needs a girlfriend that doesn't work in that building! (not that Charlotte was his girlfriend...but close enough). I really liked what they did with the counselling storyline, with Violet and Sheldon and the girls. I liked how they brought up issues of having a therapist publishing her life story and her patients being aware of it all. They brought back/killed off Pete's mother...that was kinda sad. Pete has a weird and depressing background. I LOVED that Charlotte got Cooper a piano, and it was very cute when Paul showed off his musical talents.
-I loved that they made another reference to Cooper's fave tv show American Bake-Off.
-I also noticed that they got new mugs at the OWG. The new ones are green with white logo, it used to be the reverse....the things you notice when you watch a few seasons together.
-it was weird to hear a Sarah McLachlan song in PPP, it's been a long time since one of her songs has popped up in something.
-Sheldon finally got his own place! ...well we finally got to see it. Maybe next year we'll find out where Amelia lives.
-Sam was also barely there too..he had nothing going on with his 2 women out of town....Sam needs to get a new storyline, something more interesting...I still don't care about the Addisam.


Okay well that's my wrap up of the Shonda shows for this week....they're not on next week...its gonna be a really dark week for tv. They might not even be coming back till the end of April. Oh well I'm looking forward to ep 20 on May 5th...Charlotte and Cooper's wedding will be interesting. Then it should be straight through to the finale.