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I got the impression the Addison story arc is still up in the air. If the rumors of Kate Walsh rejoining and not just guest starring are true, I think they are trying to figure out a way to bring her back. Oh yeah, that's right. This is the misfit match class. That just makes the whole secret nephew story even dumber. You bring on the misfit who is related to the chef and 1 of the surgeons, but want to keep it secret? Was everyone tripping on shrooms or something? What sane person would think that would work?

My memory fails me, but wouldn't that taint her credibility on working on any Alzheimer related study? I mean, I know Grey's isn't anything close to real life, but they couldn't find a better excuse for EP to exit the show? Ellis is pretty young, but IIRC Bailey is maybe a year or 2 younger than Zola. Anyway, the entire story arc developed for EP's exit is just sloppy. Just go already. I did enjoy Bailey & Addison. As heavy handed as the storyline was, I didn't mind it. It's reality for far too many people with uterus now. HATE revisiting the Catherine hiding her medical issues from her family storyline again. Also hating the Lucas/Amelia storyline. Unless he was going to be completely no contact with his family, he should have tried to match elsewhere. So Amelia is wrong and so is Lucas. It's just dumb all all-round. Some clean and deal with the nepotism accusations. Best part of this episode was no Owen & Teddy.

I haven't like their relationship since they brought her back. I mean Teddy's pregnancy was the result of Owen rebounding & flying to Germany (?) for a long distance booty call. Why she would follow him back to the states after that and then proceed to build a relationship from that is gross. I hate they the show tried to make them the measuring stick of a successful relationship for Maggie/Winston or Linc/Jo is insane. I liked Maggie/Winston before this season and I have no idea why they didn't let Jo/Linc connect last season. They definitely are but it's being done so heavy handed, that it's insufferable. Also the whole genius Zola thing makes no sense. Especially when it's clear the main issues are more MH. I realize many extremely smart kids can also have MH issues, but the way they are writing this, they are muddling the 2. I dunno, this week wasn't as enjoyable. It felt very heavy handed. They are clearly moving the characters around to prepare for Meredith's departure, but it's super clunky writing.

YMMV but in terms of "teaching high school students" it makes sense to me. Sex education and teaching young people about their bodies is still community outreach. A hospital is perfectly capable of functioning without interns for 1 day, Even one as dysfunctional as Grey Sloan.

In real life interns actually are actually required to participate in things not directly surgical related, but medically adjacent. For example, I worked as a Certified Child Life Specialist. Interns had to spend a certain amount of hours working with us. It wasn't a long period of time, I think it was 2 weeks. I also know not every hospital had that requirement, but the goal was to have a more well rounded doctor. One that could treat the whole patient and not just the illness.

They definitely picked one or 2 to give actual story arcs and personalities, just not entire classes. The frustrating part was many of them did have potential. Casey, Qadri both had potential. Helms didn't really have a personality outside of being Levi's BFF and having a crush on Grey. Just so many missed opportunities.

For a while they were doing just that. After Jo's class they stopped making the interns actual people and other than Schmitt, didn't actually give them story arcs or personalities.

I guess it depends. We have a lot of hospitals in my city and they limit how far back they go to convert records to digital and the rest are archived. I *think* the limit was 20 years. I guess if they converted all the old Seattle Grace records to digital, retrieval would be that easy.

I would absolutely expect Addison to know Lucas. She would have been married to Derek when he was born and if she kept in touch with his mother after she and Derek broke up, it makes perfect sense. If they are continuing to mirror the original interns, then I can absolutely see at the very least a pregnancy scare. Simone was born in Seattle Grace. What is now Grey Sloan has been renovated several times. I would think between it would be archived off site. I don't mind Amelia being bi. It tracks for the character. I just don't see any chemistry between the 2 actors. I also don't care one bit about Owen & Teddy.

The Teddy & Owen plot was stupid. You would have thought they would have taken into consideration Owen couldn't actually teach in the ER under the circumstances of his probation. He should have been put in a lecture/classroom status from jump. Speaking of Owen. Did they jettison Megan & Farouk along with the other surgical residents?

The roommates genuinely seemed like just roomies to me. I think the guy was a little emotional because he was so socially awkward and his roommate really helped. I never got a romance vibe. Helm really did have a crush on Grey. The thing was she knew it was a crush but sometimes it takes a minute to outgrown that crush. That said, since Helms is back, please give her an actual storyline. Let her go on dates. Are she & Schmitt still living in Jo's old apartment? I think Zola's at the age where she can truly comprehend what Ellis having Alzheimer's means. Compounded with the losses she has already experienced, I can definitely see it hitting her hard. In the beginning I liked Nico/Schmitt, but as time went on they basically made Nico a meat stick for Schimtt. The constant break ups and getting back together and yet neither one shows a lick of personal growth. Nico's whole family backstory dropped and unresolved. Nico asking Schmitt to move in with him dropped so that he can move in with Helm. If Nico is back, pair him with someone else. I'm over Schmico. Yes Helm was indeed infatuated with Meredith. It's nice to see the character even stating it. I just hope they can show her moving on and actually having a normal dating life. She's in a new series on Hulu.

Not exactly. The surgical residency program was shut down. That's how Schmidt got to stay, by switching to OB which apparently kept their residency program. The solution was a lot of upgrades in terms of tech and agreeing to take the bottom of the barrel residents. These are all doctors who would not have matched with any other program. So what is happening is Schmitt will transfer back to being a surgery resident and as the only senior surgery resident at the hospital, he will be chef resident over the misfits.

Lucas is the one who told the wrong parent. Fun fact, the actor playing Lucas was Jake (aka Schmidt) love interest in the movie "There's Something about Harry."

Now that's a definite possibility.

I agree, this wasn't a bad season intro. I think they realized they needed to go back and give the residents actual personalities and backstories in order for us to care. I think Lucas will be part George (the bumbling) and part Jackson Avery (high connected/nepotism baby). It will be interesting how they make this work. I'm over Teddy/Owen. If they had never retruned, I would have been 100% okay with it. Overall, decent job of wrapping up all the cliff hangers. Simone is too young for her death to be a result of Ellis mistake. Interns are 25/26, show is 19 seasons along, wonky timelines considered Ellis was either in Boston and/or already suffering from dementia. Either way she was no longer at Seattle Grace. There's a slim chance the writers could make Richard be involved, but when the show started he was Chef. Hopefully they don't have him have somehow been involved. It would be nice if that's the end of Simone's tragic backstory; that her mother died in child birth at this hospital. Anyway, this was a decent season opener.

The main problem I have with this latest bunch of residents is they never actually gave them personalities. Except for Schmitt we know nothing about their lives outside the hospital or their personalities. They are mostly just the butt of jokes. This show started following Grey and her fellow interns. We knew all about their backgrounds & families. We barely know last names for half this bunch.

This past season was truly awful. I didn't care one bit about any of the Minneapolis folks. Teddy/Owen are insufferable. Nico/Levi need to realize they just aren't right for each other. I was hopeful at the end of the previous season, but then this season happened and they broke up AGAIN. Just give them other love interest and let them move on. Please give the new interns actual storylines & backstories. I have to admit, I'm a Harry Shum Jr fan so I hope he gets an actual storyline. Sorta, kinda explains how they get the residency program back. Sounds like an experimental program to take residents that may not have matched elsewhere. https://www.instagram.com/tv/CiLEpblhfgW/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

There's a promo out that sort of explains how it will happen. Gonna post a link in the spoilers thread

I'm sure they'll be a magical handwave and the residency program be restored in the first episode.

They missed a chance years ago to focus on the rest of the hospital and less on Ellen. I agree Ellen seems over it, but I also think she knows deep down she'll never get another opportunity like Grey's. I think it's pretty clear that the show is trying to limp on until season 20 and then it's a wrap.

This past season was truly awful. I didn't care one bit about any of the Minneapolis folks. Teddy/Owen are insufferable. Nico/Levi need to realize they just aren't right for each other. I was hopeful at the end of the previous season, but then this season happened and they broke up AGAIN. Just give them other love interest and let them move on. Please give the new interns actual storylines & backstories. I have to admit, I'm a Harry Shum Jr fan so I hope he gets an actual storyline.

The tether was to help keep them in range of getting a signal to transmit. They could have kept holo Stamets, but he should have glitched in and out more. I saw him glitch once or twice, but it's blink and you miss it. Then saying the signal wasn't strong enough to trasmit would make more sense.

I like Saru as Michael's number 1, more than I liked Michael as Saru's number 1. He balances her out much better. I also think Saru's skill lie more as advisor or counselor of sort. I know he is on the counsel for Kaminar, but before the season premiered, I imagined him as an Ambassador housed on Disco.

The tether was ship to ship, not ship to person. It was a literal "rope" attaching Book's ship to Disco. Stamets could send the data back because the connection was only strong enough to maintain his holo, it couldn't take the added data.

I'm not surprised that Megan insisted on holding Farouk's hand during surgery. Yes it seems wildly inappropriate, but I worked in a Peds ER and witnessed doctors being just that insistent in the middle of a trauma when it was their own kid. I sensed immediately that the actor was non binary. Since Kai is fairly well established in the medical community, I assume Amelia would know they are non binary. As was mentioned Levi slept with Jo. When he and Nico got together he admitted he didn't realize he was gay until Nico kissed him. I will concede, however that the show tends to write more female presenting characters who are gender fluid than male presenting one. ***** As for the episode: The entire Minnesota storyline is a big snoozefest. I do not care one bit about the romance of Meredith and Dr. Marsh. Not even slightly interested in Amelia & Kai hooking up. The most interesting bit of that story arc was Koracick showing up. I almost feel like they are testing the waters for a Grey's spin off. I watch and like Station 19 and even I'm sick of the many crossovers. Speaking of which, I find it a bit unbelievable that Miller, knowing how his parents are, meeting JJ's equally pushy parents, being a former finance guy, having had conversations with Pruitt & the old head gang and being told to write up a will/make a plan for Pru AND having 2 separate conversations with Ben, would not have put something in writing about Pru's future. Miranda & Ben springing kids on each other is their love language. I don't care if Ben didn't talk to her. I just want Grey's to focus on Greys. Give the new residents some actual storylines. Make them fully fleshed out characters instead of punch lines so we actually care about them. Give Nico an actual storyline instead of him being Levi's meat stick.