Didn't we almost have it all (first post, there will be more)
I think I'm the only one who finished watching last night pissed off at Derek. I think I'm the only one who finished last night hopeful for Season 4.
I'm not the only one who is mad at Shonda, though. That's pretty much across the board.
My problem with Derek's "you're the love of my life" speech is that it came right after the "yeah, you should be worried" as he walked away speech. The one that makes me want to tell him that there is a land called Passive Aggressiva, and he is their king. My problem with Derek at the end is that he does nothing to acknowledge the pain he has caused Meredith. He has never taken responsibility for any of his own actions, not for any of her pain. And he throws her friends up at her? That she lets her friends in? McNarcissus, let me inform you. She doesn't let her friends in. They bludgeon their way in. Richard as well.
Izzie: We'll be waiting for you right outside.
Mer: You don't need to.
Izzie: Shut up.
That's how her friends get let in. They show up. Always. If you'd shown up with dinner that night, you'd have been let in as well.
I am so frustrated with the show and, honestly, with the fan base that currently loves McDreamy and hates Meredith. All he did was come say some pretty words to her. Pretty words, and he said them well, I'll grant you, but just words nonetheless. But because the words were there, and there was some smiling and a tilted head and maybe a lean, and the hair. . .all of the sudden people are saying McDreamy is back?
Yes, I'll agree, Meredith should have responded to him better. But I'll argue that for her not to respond to him was completely in character. And she shouldn't leap back into his arms, not just on the basis of some pretty words. Back those words up with some actions, something to show Meredith that the next time she gets withdrawn (and not just from you, but from everyone) you won't be nasty, then we can talk about McDreamy being back. But for me, he's not.
Meredith is showing growth, real growth. She keeps trying, she keeps kicking, even when she has her legs cut out from her because the writer's room wants to pull some amazing! epic! plotline. Even last night, she chased Derek down the hall to talk, while he was trying to get away.
If McDreamy is back, McDreamy is only skin deep.
To be continued.