Pinecone

It occurs to me that it’s a pity that DeLuca and Alex could never be friends—the parent with a severe mental illness and coping strategies could be a bonding point. I hope that the weird pop up of Helen Karev isn’t just to jumpstart the “Jo finds her parents” plot line. She should interact withOapa DeLuca while they are both in town and hanging around Grey Sloan.

Jo was involved with "Chest Peckwell," a OBGYN resident who hit her, she shoved him into a fireplace, and he had a subdue all hematoma. Yes, Alex hit George during a camping trip, Jackson hit first during their altercation, Alex has also been threatening towards patient family members. A storyline where they actual put him in therapy for aggression and anger issues and also examined his relationship with his father and men in contrast to his relationships with women would have been awesome.

I think she was briefly on Scandal.

We had Ben's brother who turned out to be a trans woman, appeared in one episode and never seen again. Alex's brother counts for his one episode of backstory dump. Other than that, I can't think of anyone else.

Lucy from ER, stabbed by a psychotic patient she was treating, along with Carter.

No, even if they've known logically she's dead it would still have an impact. It ties back to Owen's visualizing her during that surgery. Without formal closure he could have the emotional connection and imagine her giving him advice and being happy and snarky. With a body, and maybe details like "she didn't die in the crash, she was held for a time and moved around like Bowe Bergdahl" you move into tragic Amelia Earhart territory.

So, I would also like to see Jo, Arizona and Alex place a PICC line in a baby hippo, like the docs at Cincinnati Children's Hospital did for Baby Fiona the premature hippo. I'm just putting that out there, Shonda Claus. I've been bitterly disappointed, but that would be fun. Maybe an elephant?

If they can give me an evil ex who knows exactly who Alex is, what name Jo's been living under, and what she's been up to, I can start to forgive this mess of a storyline. Some actual menace to make Alex Karev pee himself, please. Otherwise, I can't with this milk toast show anymore.

I thought he'd been written out and we'd never see him again. I miss when the show had a cast of side faces who didn't need storylines but provided continuity.

See, I think it would only make sense if Jo were much younger when she married him, like say, 17 or 18 to the Big Bad Ex being in his late 29s or 30s. ( I read a lot of r/relationships, and there's a lot of stories of young women with abusive boyfriends 10 years or so older.) That way, once she fled she wouldn't have too much of a gap in her "plucky foster child goes to Princeton" narrative. And then he would stay a huge important, evil, monster in her mind while maybe everyone else would peg him as a creep.

Why would Jo's ex be a doctor, much less a surgeon? Wouldn't you do anything else to never possibly run into him again? Actually, if anyone else has been following the "Robert Evans" murder case out of Manchester, NH, that was the sort of background I wanted for Jo--she'd investigate her past and try to trace her origins, and wind up with a bombshell discovery. This case involves a woman who was abandoned at age 5, and now discovering she's the missing baby of a woman who disappeared in '83 with her boyfriend, who is linked to four bodies found in the woods in NH and died in prison after murdering another woman. This woman "Lisa" is a nice, stable woman with three kids of her own who was reunited with her mom's family through one of those test your DNA services, and now investigators are piecing things together.

I like the idea of Cristina coming back and straightening out all the stories! That was the best part of her character--she was so single minded, she could shortcut anything that wasn't surgery. "Yo, Pierce? Riggs isn't interested in you. He wants to bone your sister. Ask Kepner to help you write a dating profile." "Alex, did she say she wouldn't marry you or she couldn't marry you? There's a difference. Anyway get your lawyer to cut a deal; you're not a serial killer and you shouldn't have to go to jail." "Amelia, for Owen kids are nonnegotiable item, despite the fact he acts like he has all the time in the world to get one, but doesn't have the time to coach Little League. Anyway, go steal one from the daycare, their parents will never know they're gone." "Avery, Kepner--you're in each other's pockets in a gross codependent way anywY, just remarry for the kid keep the hate in the home." "Give me those chips, Wilson. All them."

Wind sprints, I totally agree with everything you just said. It's a shame that Shonda and the writers concentrate on plot, but are unable or unwilling to let the actors have the rich emotional material stemming from the plot to work with and let it play out. And it's a testament to the cast that they've managed to keep us hooked for years with what little they have to do. At this point, Grey's is really good fodder for fanfic being written(or thought out) by the viewers because the chances of it being on screen are nil. And that's a shame.

And I would love a long, thought out and plotted arc on Amelia's emotional issues re: dead child and moving on. And I don't even like Amelia! Emotion! Realism! Nothing getting tied up in two episodes and never mentioned again! This summer on r/relationships, there was a thread where someone who had received an organ transplant from a sister who was now getting a divorce because she'd aborted a pregnancy in order to donate. I know that place is fiction bait, but that was what came to mind with the Chelsea and Chandler situation.

The Avery Foundation put up at least half the money to buy the hospital. That's why Jackson is the head of the board. As for anything else about it, I think we're in Writer's Loophole.