I just... I cant take it anymore. I am a huge Alex fan who's basically loved him from the beginning and I also adore his relationship with Jo. Or maybe you could say adored because this season has been so awful for both of them and I don't even know if I'm still allowed to hope for a storyline or not. Ever since Cristina left Alex has been neglecting his girlfriend. Now I totally get why he wants to be there for Meredith and that he feels responsible for her etct. but he could do it in a less intense way. The Mer/Alex friendship always used to be my favorite but this season I can't enjoy them anymore. Mer is so needy and constantly demands his full attention 24/7 but when he needs her for something, be it help him with his speech for the board she doesn't give him anything back. Their relationship has become so one-sided and Meredith is constantly telling him that Cristina was better at this person thing than him. It is so tiring for me to watch their interactions anymore because most of the time she's nagging him about something. She's also being wxtremely cold and rude to Jo and Alex doesn't even say anything. We get it, she's your person now but that doesn't mean that you have to let her call your girlfriend a hoodlum. Why is Alex letting her say and do everything without even so much as a "stop"? The only times he appears to be annoyed is when Mer disturbs his sex life with Jo and I'm really not okay with that. The writers are doing a very good job with ruining Alex for me this season since he's not the snarky Evil Spawn anymore but his only purpose seems to be being Meredith's support system 24/7. He has no patients, no storylines (oh except having Bailey rob his seat), we barely see any scenes between him and Jo that are even remotely emotional or meaningful. He said last episode that he wants to marry her but the impression I have been having for 12 episodes was him putting everyone but her first. He even seems to be spending more time with his new "friends" Callie and Maggie than he spends with Jo. While I like Callie and am neutral about Maggie I don't like the dynamic of their weird friendship with Alex at all. That feels completely forced to me. Why would Alex spend more time with them all of a sudden than with Arizona or Jo? He doesn't fit into that little group of theirs and I absolutely HATE that his entire 1min screentime is being wasted on scenes with them. I miss Alex/Arizona scenes and I definitely more than anything miss Alex and Jo. The writers haven't given them a storyline as a couple since their love contract which was almost an entire season ago. I would totally understand if they were broken up and we wouldn't get to see them interact but THEY ARE IN A RELATIONSHIP and apparently Alex wants to take the next step within this relationship. Can't they just for once focus on them? I'm sick and tired of waiting every single week for a new scene or storyline between them and getting disappointed every time. Let's not even talk about the fact that Jo basically gets NOTHING just as much as Alex gets nothing. This is her 3rd season on the show and while I get that the newer characters like Maggie and Amelia needed their screentime to be integrated the writers are completely neglecting Jo and Stephanie. Just because they're not related to Meredith or Derek does that mean that they will never have a storyline? I honestly don't even care that much about Stephanie but Jo is dating Alex who is an original. The writers had spent so much time on developing Arizona and Owen when they were first brought in for Callie and Cristina. Jo doesn't get any storylines, she has no real friends except Stephanie, she never does have any surgical successes. All they're making her do is hold a suction for someone during surgery or run around naked in the house. She has a very interesting past and imo could be a very interesting character if they gave her at least a little bit more material.. I'm not even asking for a storyline that will require so much Jo that everyone will end up hating her for stealing screentime but it is more than necessary to develop her character more! If they are gonna stick with Alex and Jo as a couple (which I hope they will because finally after 11 seasons I love an Alex relationship) then the writers need to give them storylines!! I'm honestly more than annoyed by now and I hate being disappointed every single week that everyone except them seems to be getting storylines.
