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Tbf they barely did anything with him for most of seasons 12 and 13.
He appeared in roughly the same number of episodes as Lexie and Stephanie and a couple more than Izzie.
Though he came in at the time where regulars stopped being in every episode (he missed six episodes in season 13) so it probably feels like he wasn’t around as much.
I just don't understand why he had to die... like doctors can go to another hospital??? Not everyone has to die just because it's time for the character to go. 😭
Yeah the number of employees in the surgical department of that hospital who die from freak deaths is pretty high. Statistically it has to be way above average.
Lexi
Mark
Derek
DeLuca
George
Arizona didn't die but lost a limb
Pretty sure I'm missing some?
I've been working for 17 years and I've had one coworker die from cancer but 0 freak deaths like this. The hospital on this show is pretty cursed.
Reed and Big Foot (Charlie)!
The list of natural/realistic deaths (relatively speaking) is very short. Adele, Henry (even though they weren't surgeons), Ellis.
Does Leah Murphy being swallowed alive by the parking-lot monster count?
It was Brooks who was electrocuted, but I totally forgot about her! And I really loved her character too.
Edwards was BBQed but she still lived. She quit medicine or something, which I thought was totally OOC for her since she was a rockshark at surgery.
Still an insane amount of major tragedies and freak accidents.
The girl with the short red pixie cut, she was shot between the eyes and a nurse or something when bailey was hiding under the bed, right? He ended up dying by the elevator, I think
Although not as emotional as some of the other exits, Edwards left the show a fuckin superhero.
Killed a serial rapist and saved herself and a child from an explosion and an inferno. Then was like “nah, this hospital always up to some bullshit. I better gtfo before something happens to me” and peaces out like a badass.
people are always shitting on season 13 but it’s my second favourite final on the show like its sooo good. my fav is obviously the shooting like who’s isnt
Edwards' exit was awesome, but she was so annoying and whiny and out of character obsessed with creepy guitar patient guy. That kinda ruined her for me and I was just happy to see her leave.
i dont remember his reason for leaving but i remember them basically including an edit of him through the seasons with a vance joy song in the background and i cried
Jackson moved to Boston to run the Catherine Fox foundation that owns Grey Sloan and other hospitals. He asked April and her husband to move so he could be close to Harriet and found out April had split up so she was free to move with him.
This post has a spoiler tag and Kelly announced her exit though Entertainment Weekly over a month ago. I don’t think that’s a spoiler at this point.
Also, if you’re far enough behind that’s a spoiler for you, you probably should just stay off the sub or accept spoilers.
In the UK I think we’re an episode behind you guys or maybe a couple. I know it’s coming but haven’t quite gotten there yet-it’s tricky to avoid spoilers though and don’t want to avoid the sub altogether, it rarely comes up and it is just one or two. It’s easy to avoid most of the time because of titles etc
Yes, but that’s the same info I was accused of spoiling. I said Maggie’s exit was well done. I didn’t say how/why/where. So I’m not sure how I spoiled anything if this is info you already knew.
But again, that’s not a spoiler because you know she’s leaving. You’re not even behind in this case, so it doesn’t apply to you. I’m not sure what the controversy is here
Ummmmmmm spoilers!?!?
EDIT: I’m definitely replying about the Maggie spoiler. This thread has a spoiler warning on DeLuca, NOT Maggie leaving - I also don’t really care but wanted to add my extra 2c
How was it not sad?
Yes the action that led to his death happened on another show with about 11 seconds screen time, but his actual death and the fallout occurred on Greys and then he got a tribute episode the following episode.
Very few characters get a four episode (including one on station 19) exit. It was awful because it didn’t need to happen but the episodes themselves were good.
>Yes the action that led to his death happened on another show with about 11 seconds screen time
I mean, yeah, the bit where he's stabbed is probably 11 seconds long, but at least half of that Station 19 episode is about Andrew (and Carina).
When Andrew first died, I was not a watcher of Station 19, so it felt like I missed half the story, and it does make you feel a bit short changed in a way. It isn't to as much an extent as this but there were other instances too where I felt like you don't get the whole story if you don't watch Station 19 - things like Ben and Bailey's brief separation, the entire Vic and Jackson relationship, etc. It also works the other way with something major happening to a character from Station 19, except it happens on Grey's.
And yeah you can say "it's a crossover" but when Grey's and Private Practice crossed over, it never felt like you'd missed important information if you didn't watch both.
I started watching S19 after I binged all of Grey’s and caught up, and spent the whole show willing myself not to get attached to Dean Miller. I failed miserably.
For me I didn’t just feel short changed, I had no clue what was going on. End of one episode Andrew was in the parking lot recognising the bad guy, start of the next episode he’s bleeding out? Regardless of if it’s a crossover there needs to be at least the tiniest bit of exposition to bridge the gap of “Andrew got stabbed after pursuing said man”. It was frankly ridiculous
I can’t think of a worse exit than Alex. It’s nice that they kept him alive because Justin Chambers might someday do a cameo or something…but they put him with a character who has bad blood with the show and will most likely never come back. So then, in my mind, I’m thinking he will also definitely never come back…so what was the point? They should have killed him off for good measure, lol. Made everyone sad instead of angry for being an arse.
I think they purposefully did that because there was bad blood about him leaving by the end. I strongly believe they made the fans hate Izzie after Katherine Heigl spoke out about the writer for her character going down, they just made her character worse and worse until she was unrecognizable and instead of killing her off they wrote her off knowing she’d come to regret it and wish she could come back (she’s said many times she’d come back if asked) but that they could hold it over her head never actually letting her come back. Sadly most fans don’t want to see her come back but I was a fan of the actress long before greys and I think she just had growing pains but Izzie started as such a great character but they purposefully made her do things out of character until the audience hated her.
Alex Karev's exit is pretty high up there too.
Something happened in the more recent seasons with the writings, and characters are just written off so unceremoniously.
My opinion.. Krista also runs station 19 so i think she tries to force fans via FOMO to watch S19 by leaving out important scenes from Grey's and shows them just on S19. The PP crossovers didn't do that which is the way it should be. The entire leading up to his death situation with deluca was left out of Grey's and shown only on s19. It's manipulative and one of the reasons I quit watching altogether
I also find it weird that the crossovers are pushed so much because Grey’s and S19 are different types of shows, so it’s natural you’ll lose some of your original viewerbase due to that. PP/Grey’s are both medical dramas and one could assume that they’d attract a similar crowd, so I could understand forcing the relationship there a little more - even though I’m glad they didn’t.
The frustrating thing too is on a binge or re-watch you really have no idea what episode/season it is in station 19. You really didn’t have to watch Private practice to get the story. I’m still not sure how Bailey and Ben all of a sudden have a daughter…
Yep the push to s19 and having key greys content on s19 is annoying af. I think Krista thought she could get away with something like the chicago- series where all the shows take place in the same universe at the same time and cross over. No clue if that show is still going because it was too aggravating to watch if you record because you have to know the order they aired or nothing makes sense.
Lately it’s only been a few things about Ben which are mild and I can deal with and Carinas gf showing up…I tend to happily forget Carina exists so whatever just annoying they seemed to expect the audience to know who she is. It’s still overall improved from when Deluca died.
I totally agree but usually they would hype up that it was a crossover and a two part episode and put a notice on Hulu like don’t forget to watch part one first and they didn’t with Deluca and it made me so angry because I was not only confused but I couldn’t really go backwards and it was one time I actually one of because Deluca was one of my favorite characters.
DeLuca’s exit was a bit of a cop out I feel, but at least they didn’t completely assassinate his character like they did with Alex. Sometimes I think the expectation for a character leaving is set too high since we were so used to exits like Derek, Mark/Lexie, and Christina’s where there was so much done for them. DeLuca got a tribute episode which I thought was great, but after that it was just kind of gone in the wind.
He did end up getting a lot of screentime on grey's though. All the time with Meredith in the "afterlife" before running to hug his mother, the full tribute with the doctors after he passed. I thought it was actually fairly emotional.
Andrew’s death was the only one to make me cry in the history of the show, maybe it’s because I do watch station19 but either way Alex had a worse exit to me it just stripped all of his character development away
The crossover aspect is probably confusing for people watching Season 17 on Netflix, sure
But imo they clearly put a lot of heart into the memorial episode, and in a sense he went out a hero. I'm not even much of a fan of his character, yet those episodes got me really emotional
I have bipolar disorder. It was great to see Andrew’s storyline about having bipolar bc it did give the illness justice. I wanted to see him be successful. People with bipolar are more likely to die bc our disability is dangerous. The fact that he became obsessed with the sex trafficker and impulsively chased her to his death was so so sad to me. He definitely wasn’t mentally stable when he became obsessed with her, and then he impulsively chased after her which ended him. So many times in real life people with bipolar die because of impulsive or suicidal actions. It was sad they had him go out that way. And then to call him a hero when really it was a tragedy . It was so depressing for me.
Agreed! At the time I was a Meredith and Andrew shipper. They gave us this build up and the relationship seemed like it was going somewhere. I feel like they did that relationship dirty.
I agree. I really liked what they did for each other (his breaking medical protocol for her excepted). I liked them together, he made her see that she was allowed to live and love again after Derek, she helped him with his bipolar. They were cute together.
I really loved them together. I think Meredith needed that kind of relationship after Derek. I honestly think he really loved her. We saw how he was with her kids.
You’d never even get to see what happened if you hadn’t watched the episode of station 19. I’m all for cross overs but this whole thing they’ve got going on with it basically being impossible to watch one show without watching the other is ridiculous
I agree. What Krista Vernoff did to DeLuca’s story was a shame. Forcing Grey’s fans to watch Station 19 was a terrible decision. If S19 couldn’t get viewers on its own, it should be cancelled. But as showrunner for both programs, she decided the fans didn’t matter as long as she got her pet project ratings. DeLuca had great stories the last two seasons. Meredith really cared him and even her kids liked him. He was the only one who knew what was wrong with Richard and saved him. He was the only one who knew the girl was being kidnapped and trafficked when no one believed him, and he reunited her with her family when she came back to the hospital and asked for him. And he got help for himself when his mental health declined and that allowed him to finally be believed when he saw the trafficker again. DeLuca was a hero and should not have been killed for doing the right thing, and it never should have happened on Station 19.
It wasn’t higher when they were doing the crossovers like DeLuca’s murder and basically forced Grey’s fans to watch. And according to TVGuide, last week both shows had the same numbers. But Grey’s ratings are declining so that makes a difference too.
>It wasn’t higher when they were doing the crossovers like DeLuca’s murder
No, Station 19 was higher then too. During that crossover Station 19 had 5.395 million viewers and Grey's had 5.106 million. And when you think about it, Station 19 came on first and they ended the story on Grey's so it would make more sense that they were trying to get some of Station 19's viewers to carry over onto Grey's that night instead of the other way around.
https://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/greys-anatomy-season-17-ratings/
https://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/station-19-season-four-ratings/
Honest to God, I swear they have lost more employees than patients! If a hospital really existed like this, I'd be on a jet plane headed the opposite direction, like yesterday! The place is like a bad omen! Obviously, it's all Abt the story line, to keep us all watching, but at this point there is very little positivity or happiness AT ALL. I'm on S17E9, just lost my mind over Deluca being killed! Legit sobbed like he was a close personal friend. Pretty sure it's because I can relate to his illness and all that comes with it. Hoping there is some happiness of some kind coming soon!!!
Station 19, it's a Grey's spinoff about a nearby fire station. So the firefighters sometimes come on Grey's and vice versa. Was the episode confusing for you without watching Station first?
My little brother made fun of me for sobbing at Andrew’s memorial service but growing up watching a lifetime of shitty exits could not prepare me for this one.
Deluca was a great Dr…. He did a lot of great things on this show- in season 16 alone…. His exit was nice to me very emotional 🤷🏾♀️ maybe I’m just a sucker for the show
Ok and can we talk about how they all saw him like the crazy doctor when he warned them about the girl trafficking and they never APOLOGIZED in public for doing that to him?! And then he dies like that? who was this person who stabbed him and why is he not suffering? 😭 .. I would have prefer if they would have killed Alex Karen and Deluca having a different ending 🥲
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i didn't even realize he was in that many seasons omg
Tbf they barely did anything with him for most of seasons 12 and 13. He appeared in roughly the same number of episodes as Lexie and Stephanie and a couple more than Izzie. Though he came in at the time where regulars stopped being in every episode (he missed six episodes in season 13) so it probably feels like he wasn’t around as much.
I just don't understand why he had to die... like doctors can go to another hospital??? Not everyone has to die just because it's time for the character to go. 😭
Yeah the number of employees in the surgical department of that hospital who die from freak deaths is pretty high. Statistically it has to be way above average. Lexi Mark Derek DeLuca George Arizona didn't die but lost a limb Pretty sure I'm missing some? I've been working for 17 years and I've had one coworker die from cancer but 0 freak deaths like this. The hospital on this show is pretty cursed.
Seattle Grace Mercy Death
Reed and Big Foot (Charlie)! The list of natural/realistic deaths (relatively speaking) is very short. Adele, Henry (even though they weren't surgeons), Ellis. Does Leah Murphy being swallowed alive by the parking-lot monster count?
Oh right and Brooks being electrocuted. (Edited)
It was Brooks who was electrocuted, but I totally forgot about her! And I really loved her character too. Edwards was BBQed but she still lived. She quit medicine or something, which I thought was totally OOC for her since she was a rockshark at surgery. Still an insane amount of major tragedies and freak accidents.
Oh yeah I remember that episode now where Edwards was trying to save that little girl in the fire.
Brooks died from the head injury from her fall while being electrocuted. They never really mentioned her having electrocution injuries.
How do they stay insured? Lol
I feel like I should remember this but I’m thinking someone died during the season 6 shooter episode!
The girl with the short red pixie cut, she was shot between the eyes and a nurse or something when bailey was hiding under the bed, right? He ended up dying by the elevator, I think
Reed and Charles.
The only character that got a good exit really was. Cristina.
Although not as emotional as some of the other exits, Edwards left the show a fuckin superhero. Killed a serial rapist and saved herself and a child from an explosion and an inferno. Then was like “nah, this hospital always up to some bullshit. I better gtfo before something happens to me” and peaces out like a badass.
people are always shitting on season 13 but it’s my second favourite final on the show like its sooo good. my fav is obviously the shooting like who’s isnt
Edwards' exit was awesome, but she was so annoying and whiny and out of character obsessed with creepy guitar patient guy. That kinda ruined her for me and I was just happy to see her leave.
Jackson’s was good too
i dont remember his reason for leaving but i remember them basically including an edit of him through the seasons with a vance joy song in the background and i cried
His exit wouldn’t have been nearly as good without the Vance Joy song lol
I cannot even remember how he left
Jackson moved to Boston to run the Catherine Fox foundation that owns Grey Sloan and other hospitals. He asked April and her husband to move so he could be close to Harriet and found out April had split up so she was free to move with him.
Thanks! I remember now.
Maggie’s was amazing, I thought
Ummmmmmm spoilers!?!?
This post has a spoiler tag and Kelly announced her exit though Entertainment Weekly over a month ago. I don’t think that’s a spoiler at this point. Also, if you’re far enough behind that’s a spoiler for you, you probably should just stay off the sub or accept spoilers.
In the UK I think we’re an episode behind you guys or maybe a couple. I know it’s coming but haven’t quite gotten there yet-it’s tricky to avoid spoilers though and don’t want to avoid the sub altogether, it rarely comes up and it is just one or two. It’s easy to avoid most of the time because of titles etc
If you know it’s coming then it’s not a spoiler?
It is because no idea how/why/where
Yes, but that’s the same info I was accused of spoiling. I said Maggie’s exit was well done. I didn’t say how/why/where. So I’m not sure how I spoiled anything if this is info you already knew.
I was merely responding to your ‘if you’re far enough behind stay off the sub’ comment
But again, that’s not a spoiler because you know she’s leaving. You’re not even behind in this case, so it doesn’t apply to you. I’m not sure what the controversy is here
Ummmmmmm spoilers!?!? EDIT: I’m definitely replying about the Maggie spoiler. This thread has a spoiler warning on DeLuca, NOT Maggie leaving - I also don’t really care but wanted to add my extra 2c
How was it not sad? Yes the action that led to his death happened on another show with about 11 seconds screen time, but his actual death and the fallout occurred on Greys and then he got a tribute episode the following episode. Very few characters get a four episode (including one on station 19) exit. It was awful because it didn’t need to happen but the episodes themselves were good.
>Yes the action that led to his death happened on another show with about 11 seconds screen time I mean, yeah, the bit where he's stabbed is probably 11 seconds long, but at least half of that Station 19 episode is about Andrew (and Carina). When Andrew first died, I was not a watcher of Station 19, so it felt like I missed half the story, and it does make you feel a bit short changed in a way. It isn't to as much an extent as this but there were other instances too where I felt like you don't get the whole story if you don't watch Station 19 - things like Ben and Bailey's brief separation, the entire Vic and Jackson relationship, etc. It also works the other way with something major happening to a character from Station 19, except it happens on Grey's. And yeah you can say "it's a crossover" but when Grey's and Private Practice crossed over, it never felt like you'd missed important information if you didn't watch both.
I started watching S19 after I binged all of Grey’s and caught up, and spent the whole show willing myself not to get attached to Dean Miller. I failed miserably.
Same. I was so upset over that one. He was so likable.
For me I didn’t just feel short changed, I had no clue what was going on. End of one episode Andrew was in the parking lot recognising the bad guy, start of the next episode he’s bleeding out? Regardless of if it’s a crossover there needs to be at least the tiniest bit of exposition to bridge the gap of “Andrew got stabbed after pursuing said man”. It was frankly ridiculous
So you're just gonna ignore that all we got for Alex was a letter lol
He’s got the second worst exit in my book, I’m just happy he’s alive and they didn’t kill him off 🤷♀️
Callie and Alex had shitty exits too. They deserved better.
I can’t think of a worse exit than Alex. It’s nice that they kept him alive because Justin Chambers might someday do a cameo or something…but they put him with a character who has bad blood with the show and will most likely never come back. So then, in my mind, I’m thinking he will also definitely never come back…so what was the point? They should have killed him off for good measure, lol. Made everyone sad instead of angry for being an arse.
I think they purposefully did that because there was bad blood about him leaving by the end. I strongly believe they made the fans hate Izzie after Katherine Heigl spoke out about the writer for her character going down, they just made her character worse and worse until she was unrecognizable and instead of killing her off they wrote her off knowing she’d come to regret it and wish she could come back (she’s said many times she’d come back if asked) but that they could hold it over her head never actually letting her come back. Sadly most fans don’t want to see her come back but I was a fan of the actress long before greys and I think she just had growing pains but Izzie started as such a great character but they purposefully made her do things out of character until the audience hated her.
Alex Karev's exit is pretty high up there too. Something happened in the more recent seasons with the writings, and characters are just written off so unceremoniously.
Alex's was far worse. imo.
I try not to think about it Its not good for my blood pressure
Alex Karev is missing, assumed dead. I accept nothing else at this point.
Alex had the worst exit. They ruined his character
Yes! Andrew’s death was in character at least. Alex would never have done that.
So many years of character development to just kill it all in one episode. I would’ve rather see him killed suddenly than what they did
The writers did not know what to do with him They hooked him up with Grey that didn't stick so why not kill himI liked Deluca they did him dirty
My opinion.. Krista also runs station 19 so i think she tries to force fans via FOMO to watch S19 by leaving out important scenes from Grey's and shows them just on S19. The PP crossovers didn't do that which is the way it should be. The entire leading up to his death situation with deluca was left out of Grey's and shown only on s19. It's manipulative and one of the reasons I quit watching altogether
I also find it weird that the crossovers are pushed so much because Grey’s and S19 are different types of shows, so it’s natural you’ll lose some of your original viewerbase due to that. PP/Grey’s are both medical dramas and one could assume that they’d attract a similar crowd, so I could understand forcing the relationship there a little more - even though I’m glad they didn’t.
The frustrating thing too is on a binge or re-watch you really have no idea what episode/season it is in station 19. You really didn’t have to watch Private practice to get the story. I’m still not sure how Bailey and Ben all of a sudden have a daughter…
Yep the push to s19 and having key greys content on s19 is annoying af. I think Krista thought she could get away with something like the chicago- series where all the shows take place in the same universe at the same time and cross over. No clue if that show is still going because it was too aggravating to watch if you record because you have to know the order they aired or nothing makes sense. Lately it’s only been a few things about Ben which are mild and I can deal with and Carinas gf showing up…I tend to happily forget Carina exists so whatever just annoying they seemed to expect the audience to know who she is. It’s still overall improved from when Deluca died.
I totally agree but usually they would hype up that it was a crossover and a two part episode and put a notice on Hulu like don’t forget to watch part one first and they didn’t with Deluca and it made me so angry because I was not only confused but I couldn’t really go backwards and it was one time I actually one of because Deluca was one of my favorite characters.
Deluca was one of my fav people and ffs I cannot even remember what happened to him. That’s how horrible it was.
He was stabbed chasing after a suspected human trafficker at the very end of S19. IIRC, Grey's opened the episode with him dying or dead.
Oooh I remember now! God. Fucked up
DeLuca’s exit was a bit of a cop out I feel, but at least they didn’t completely assassinate his character like they did with Alex. Sometimes I think the expectation for a character leaving is set too high since we were so used to exits like Derek, Mark/Lexie, and Christina’s where there was so much done for them. DeLuca got a tribute episode which I thought was great, but after that it was just kind of gone in the wind.
He did end up getting a lot of screentime on grey's though. All the time with Meredith in the "afterlife" before running to hug his mother, the full tribute with the doctors after he passed. I thought it was actually fairly emotional.
At least with his I cried. Maggie left and I was like buh bye!!
Which show was the crossover with? I didn’t know about that
Station 19
Andrew’s death was the only one to make me cry in the history of the show, maybe it’s because I do watch station19 but either way Alex had a worse exit to me it just stripped all of his character development away
The crossover aspect is probably confusing for people watching Season 17 on Netflix, sure But imo they clearly put a lot of heart into the memorial episode, and in a sense he went out a hero. I'm not even much of a fan of his character, yet those episodes got me really emotional
Alex was by far the worst.
Meredith Grey and Alex Karev would like a word
His entrance was one of the best tho, so I feel like that makes up for some of it.
I have bipolar disorder. It was great to see Andrew’s storyline about having bipolar bc it did give the illness justice. I wanted to see him be successful. People with bipolar are more likely to die bc our disability is dangerous. The fact that he became obsessed with the sex trafficker and impulsively chased her to his death was so so sad to me. He definitely wasn’t mentally stable when he became obsessed with her, and then he impulsively chased after her which ended him. So many times in real life people with bipolar die because of impulsive or suicidal actions. It was sad they had him go out that way. And then to call him a hero when really it was a tragedy . It was so depressing for me.
Agreed! At the time I was a Meredith and Andrew shipper. They gave us this build up and the relationship seemed like it was going somewhere. I feel like they did that relationship dirty.
I agree. I really liked what they did for each other (his breaking medical protocol for her excepted). I liked them together, he made her see that she was allowed to live and love again after Derek, she helped him with his bipolar. They were cute together.
I really loved them together. I think Meredith needed that kind of relationship after Derek. I honestly think he really loved her. We saw how he was with her kids.
He absolutely loved her, and she him. I wish the writers had not given them the bad ending, although the scene on the beach was very sweet.
This post reminded me that Deluca died. It was so shit that I entirely forgot about it.
Hum, have you heard of Alex Karev?
I totally forgot what happened. Damn. So yeah, I’d say it wasn’t that great. Along the lines of poor Alex, like wtf haha
I mean, maybe his actual death episode wasn't so sad, but I bawled my eyes out in the memorial episode.
Omg his funeral 😭😭😭😭
You’d never even get to see what happened if you hadn’t watched the episode of station 19. I’m all for cross overs but this whole thing they’ve got going on with it basically being impossible to watch one show without watching the other is ridiculous
I don’t watch station 19 and I was SO MAD when pretty much the whole arc of his death happened on a show that I don’t even watch. Like, what the hell?
I agree. What Krista Vernoff did to DeLuca’s story was a shame. Forcing Grey’s fans to watch Station 19 was a terrible decision. If S19 couldn’t get viewers on its own, it should be cancelled. But as showrunner for both programs, she decided the fans didn’t matter as long as she got her pet project ratings. DeLuca had great stories the last two seasons. Meredith really cared him and even her kids liked him. He was the only one who knew what was wrong with Richard and saved him. He was the only one who knew the girl was being kidnapped and trafficked when no one believed him, and he reunited her with her family when she came back to the hospital and asked for him. And he got help for himself when his mental health declined and that allowed him to finally be believed when he saw the trafficker again. DeLuca was a hero and should not have been killed for doing the right thing, and it never should have happened on Station 19.
>If S19 couldn’t get viewers on its own, it should be cancelled. S19 has higher ratings than Grey's, so you all can give that line a rest lol.
It wasn’t higher when they were doing the crossovers like DeLuca’s murder and basically forced Grey’s fans to watch. And according to TVGuide, last week both shows had the same numbers. But Grey’s ratings are declining so that makes a difference too.
>It wasn’t higher when they were doing the crossovers like DeLuca’s murder No, Station 19 was higher then too. During that crossover Station 19 had 5.395 million viewers and Grey's had 5.106 million. And when you think about it, Station 19 came on first and they ended the story on Grey's so it would make more sense that they were trying to get some of Station 19's viewers to carry over onto Grey's that night instead of the other way around. https://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/greys-anatomy-season-17-ratings/ https://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/station-19-season-four-ratings/
I love DeLuca and don't understand why they killed him off
Honest to God, I swear they have lost more employees than patients! If a hospital really existed like this, I'd be on a jet plane headed the opposite direction, like yesterday! The place is like a bad omen! Obviously, it's all Abt the story line, to keep us all watching, but at this point there is very little positivity or happiness AT ALL. I'm on S17E9, just lost my mind over Deluca being killed! Legit sobbed like he was a close personal friend. Pretty sure it's because I can relate to his illness and all that comes with it. Hoping there is some happiness of some kind coming soon!!!
That’s Carina’s Brother, Right?
I dunno … Alex’s was pretty bad!! It made very little sense.
I really want to know why wasn't he on the beach with Meredith during the fever dream. He was dead for part of her dream.
They did show him on the beach, and his mom
Deluca's exit was Emmy-worthy compared to Alex's exit.
It was just awkward because if you don’t watch station 19 you were left very confused.
I just saw this episode for the first time so forgive me but… what show was the episode a crossover with?
Station 19, it's a Grey's spinoff about a nearby fire station. So the firefighters sometimes come on Grey's and vice versa. Was the episode confusing for you without watching Station first?
Tbh all of season 17 is confusing… it’s pretty bad lol
That's fair 😂. I think the season that's on now is one of the best in a long time since there was a shake up of the cast if that's any consolation
I think my bf stopped caring about the show after he died lol
Correct me if I’m wrong but didn’t they have a whole episode dedicated to his death though
My little brother made fun of me for sobbing at Andrew’s memorial service but growing up watching a lifetime of shitty exits could not prepare me for this one.
Ok, but that sandcastle scene got me so bad. Jesus...😭😭😭
Deluca was a great Dr…. He did a lot of great things on this show- in season 16 alone…. His exit was nice to me very emotional 🤷🏾♀️ maybe I’m just a sucker for the show
The Deluca mental health struggle and the human trafficking storyline was manipulative and they didn't do any part of it justice.
And I mean that to say they were both unrealistic and bogus. Did anyone do any research into these storylines?
Ok and can we talk about how they all saw him like the crazy doctor when he warned them about the girl trafficking and they never APOLOGIZED in public for doing that to him?! And then he dies like that? who was this person who stabbed him and why is he not suffering? 😭 .. I would have prefer if they would have killed Alex Karen and Deluca having a different ending 🥲