What should happen to Mark now?
[Obviously Spoilers for the Season Finale]
Heya...
I've thought about this for the last couple of days and well... decided to make a post to hear other people's opinions... I've read lots of opinions on sites as tvline and such and most people think, now that Lexie is dead, Mark's story is told and he should die, too! An option Shonda left open...
It's not sure if he comes back at all, and in a recent Interview Shonda said, that she doesn't know who WILL be back next Season and if everyone on the plane crash will survive (everone of the "left 5"), so Arizona and Mark - who are obviously hurt worst - are still an option to die... but maybe she "just" tries to mess with us... and there are others that could still be gone by the start of next season as well... such as April and Avery... because most of the others with "options" to go are already confirmed to come back (such as Bailey, Richard, Derek, Cristina, Meredith and Alex), so the should COULD start without Avery, Kepner and maybe even Mark and/or Arizona...
The point is... I know there are LOTS of Mark/Lexie shippers... what would YOU want to happen to Mark? Should he die as well? And why? To be "reunited" with Lexie and have an end to their story, even if it's heartbreaking? (Okay, it already was when Lexie died, but... you get my point...)
I mean, I definitely see the point in saying "there is nothing left for him"... even though he has a family with Sofia and Callie (and Arizona), and I don't know how Shonda could ever "make that up" again by giving him a new love interest...
That was the "problem" Marc Cherry had with Desperate Housewives when he killed one of the husbands, and my guess is, that's the reason he NEVER showed how Susan was doing in the future, unlike ALL The others... we saw "fast forwards" of the other housewives but not of Susan, because he would have pissed off either the Susan/Mike fans by giving her a new man in her live, or the others by showing something like "You lost the love of your life, you can't be happy ever again, deal with it" and such...
And I think with Mark connected to Lexie THIS much... with them dancing around each other the whole time and this last speech about "meant to be" and having kids and getting married and such, I don't see how Mark can get over the loss of this so easy... (it's like Teddy said, something like "They told you it gets better, but it doesn't" and such)
The thing is: Mark is my very favourite character in the show, I don'T care much for Derek or Meredit or Cristina or such, but I love Mark and if he would die, I don't know if I would want to go on watching at all, but if he lives, it will be very painful for me to watch him suffer through maybe the whole Season...
And IF he survives, what do you think is gonna happen to him? What do you want to happen to him?
Some people said he might become a drunk (but we had this "theme" with Richard, so I don't know)... I think, he could "go back" to being the playboy he used to be after a while, like "drowning his pain" with Sex... but I don't know if that's still him, because he has grown so much in the past Seasons and he seems to be at a state now where he wants to have a real family, a real relationship...
I would LOVE to see a lot of hurt/comfort scenes between Avery and Mark (if Jesse comes back), since I think, Callie will be busy to be there for Arizona and Derek might be busy being there for his wife, but I don't know if Shonda will give me that... I want Mark and Jackson to get even closer and I want Shonda to show them "growing together" becaues they share a "similiar" kind of pain. I know itr's maybe not to compare, but Jackson DID love Lexie, and it must be a shock for him to find out she's dead as well, and I think, those 2 men MIGHT be able to spend each other some comfort...
But maybe that's just the "romantic sappy me" that wants to see a lot more Mark/Jackson (and since I know it won't ever be "more" than that, at least in a friendshippy way :P)... so yeah...
I wanna see Mark deal with the pain and at some point REALLY getting over it and starting to live again... With or without a new woman in his life, because I don't think Lexie would have wanted him to be unhappy for the rest of his life...
Personally I don't want him to die, but maybe that's an egoistic thought ;-)