I don’t know if this has been discussed before, I know it’s old news, but it was what officially turned me off greys.
Why on earth, when Meredith was critically ill with covid in S17, did she see Derek and George…on a beach?
This absolutely drives me crazy.
Firstly, the beach was never a particularly important place to any of them. I would have forgiven the show, for instance, if they were on a ferry boat. Some place that held meaning to the characters and symbolism for a liminal space between life and death. But… a beach?
Secondly, we have precedent in S3.17 in Some Kind of Miracle that the afterlife limbo is depicted as the hospital/OR.
Likewise, when Izzie has her near death experience, she sees George in the elevator of the hospital.
These near death visions always centre on the hospital as that liminal space.
And would it not have been more impactful for covid infected Meredith to “wake up” feeling well in an empty hospital, wander the halls to the OR gallery and see… Derek operating on someone? Saying “it’s a beautiful day to save lives?”
Idk it just feels like such a missed opportunity and extremely lazy to set these massive episodes where both Derek and George featured after years of being off the show on a beach.
Am I the only one that feels this way?