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Pretty sure Krista thinks she’s writing Jaggie as a great love story. She thought all their awkward moments last season were creating great build-up and anticipation, and that they really “earned” their relationship. I’m sure she thinks this storyline is really great angst and that they will be even stronger for it. I have no idea why, but she seems to see some sort of potential and chemistry in this couple that hardly anyone else sees.

It’s a new jack swing song, which was popular in the late 80s and early 90s. Bobby Brown is a good example of the genre, but it’s mere than just him - Boyz II Men and Bell Biv DeVoe were a couple other really popular new jack swing artists. The dance moves in Don’t Be A Lawyer were totally Bobby Brown, but the costumes were way more Boyz II Men.

I think it's pretty simple why April fans don't buy this ending for her - they didn't see how she got there. She gave up a surgical position that she had fought hard for, clawing her way back in after she was fired twice. She quickly fell in love with a man that had previously been just a placeholder for her. And the man she fell for? He had been publicly left by her at the altar and his wife had just died. And they didn't bother to show any of these huge twists on-screen. They were explained by other character in a few sentences of dialogue. You can "yada yada" minor details. You can't "yada yada" huge life changes for a character. Fans don't buy April's ending because Krista didn't bother to write the scenes that led up to it.

So no April and Arizona, and now a likely Teddy-Owen-Amelia triangle. Wow, Krista really wants me to stop watching Grey's. Okay, okay, Krista, I can take a hint.

Considering that this episode would’ve been written after public backlash to Sarah and Jessica’s firings, my guess is that Krista opted for a happy ending for April to try to appease fans. And since Krista is completely clueless about April’s character and has no desire to write for her, she went the easiest ending for that would make a sweet, Christian, country girl like April happy... marriage. Can you tell how much I hate April’s ending?

Yeah, who knows. It could’ve just been banter for this episode but I thought it was interesting they brought it up again. As to what holds him accountable, I figure it would be Jackson’s own sense of honor / superstition.

This is one of the only season 15 stories I’m actually interested in, just because it’s different than the average personal stories we’ve seen on Greys (which usually just involve falling in love, cheating, surprise pregnancies and sucky parents). We’ve seen Jackson reach out to God before - asking him to show up for April when they found out about Samuel - so it’s not entirely out of nowhere. And now as he sees it, he made this deal - April lives, he will believe. Jackson is a frustrating character to me at times, but one thing he tends to do is follow through, so I can see this spiritual quest actually turning into a real thing. It could be interesting.

The time elapsed can't be that great because April and Matthew reconnected AFTER the episode where Teddy and Owen hooked up and Teddy isn't showing at all.

As a big April fan, I’m so, so, so disappointed with this finale. Krista wasn’t around for April’s development into a complex character and apparently had no interest in learning about it. With this ending, she reduced her to the most simple version of herself - a sweet Christian girl who just wants to fall in love, get married and do good things - basically who she was when we were introduced to her. But simplicity is the exact opposite of what made April interesting. She moved away from home and became a kick-ass surgeon, a decision her mother couldn’t understand. She was a good girl who lost her virginity on a whim because she had desires she couldn’t fight. She was supposed to marry the sweet boy just like her, but selfishly ran off with the guy who was her opposite. She had big ambitions that showed themselves in stunted ways because she didn’t have the ego to claim her awesomeness. She could be selfish and erratic because she didn’t know how to assert her needs in a healthy way. She was a ball of contradictions and that made her so real and relatable. Krista decided to undo that with this ending. And worst of all, she just TOLD us this is who April is now because she couldn’t be bothered to write the relationships, interactions and insights that led to April reverting back to the girl her parents expected her to be. But hey, who cares because I guess she’s happy, right? At least that’s what we were told.

Hopefully the coroner’s office processed Karen’s death certificate quickly.

So who do you think will be more pissed about Matthew marrying April - his parents (who watched her ditch their son at the altar and run off with another guy) or Karen’s parents (whose daughter died a couple months ago)? What a garbage ending for April. Krista was so clueless about her character.

Eh, I can't imagine April's blink-and-you-missed-it, off-screen relationship with Matthew is going to deter Japril fans from hoping for a reunion. And I gotta say, if they are aware enough to believe that Jaggie's only hope for fan acceptance is to pair off/write out April, maybe they should consider for a moment that they haven't created that awesome of a couple.

Why are you so confused? It's obvious that Matthew and April exist on an alternate reality plane where they experience time differently than every other character on the show. I mean, duh. Really though, I'm not sure why they bothered with April having a time-bending, ham-fisted, under-developed reunion with Matthew. The woman just re-discovered her faith, survived a near-death experience and got Jackson to believe in God. That's a pretty good run as of late and plenty of reason why she might decide to take her life in a different direction. A poorly written, off-screen reunion with the guy she dumped at the altar actually detracts from her journey, and the episode overall, rather than enhancing it.

It's such a problematic relationship because of their terrible history, his newly dead wife and his newborn child. And they tried to fix all that with 30 seconds of exposition from Arizona. Just horrible, lazy writing.

Ugh, I would hate this. If I was Matthew's mom and he came to tell me that he got married a couple months after his wife died and his child was born (not to mention married to the woman that RAN OFF WITH ANOTHER GUY AT THEIR WEDDING), I would drag him to see a therapist immediately. It's just such lazy writing that has zero concern for their characters' history. If they wanted to re-build Mapril, that's fine. They should've started doing that six months ago rather than lazily doing an exposition relationship.