"Very Big" Meredith-Derek Story Coming Up on Grey's Anatomy This Spring
Want more Meredith and Derek, Grey's Anatomy fans? You're in luck.
The Alzheimer's clinical trial, which the golden couple has been laboring over this season, will soon become the catalyst for a new storyline, according to TV Guide.
"We've been using the clinical trial for a while and it's going to launch into a very big story about them as we head towards the end of the season," Shonda Rhimes says.
Any theories on what that might entail? A legal wedding, perhaps?
Meredith and Derek have been on the back burner at times this season.
Cristina and her PTSD. Lexie and Mark's relationship. Callie's pregnancy and tribulations with Arizona. All of this has been great, but left some yearning for more MerDer.
This season has been especially unfortunate for Mer, who tragically suffered a miscarriage in the Season 6 finale, then took fertility drugs that left her temporarily blind.
"Meredith and Derek have been dealing with infertility, and it's starting to be a really sore point," Rhimes said, hinting that the pregnancies around her haven't helped.
"Part of [the musical episode] is about really bringing up how painful it is for Meredith watching other people get pregnant, have babies and deal with that other stuff."
Think it'll happen for them this spring? Sound off below.
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March 29th, 2011 5:07 PM
No Adele as the Alzheimers and it is going to progress and she will be in the trail and they will save her. Mer and Der will adopt and then they will found out she is pregant. I hope I am tried of hearing about Alzheimers it is getting really old. I also want to see them in their own house in the woods.
March 22nd, 2011 6:03 AM
Cant agree more..!!
this season is more like Torres anatomy..
I like Calizona..I really am...BUT JUST GIVE US MORE MERDER!!!!!!!!!!
the storyline of Merder in this season really doesnt work well ...
we need Mcbaby..or whatever please give us more merder time...not seperately mere and derek...but more Merder together!!!!!!!!!
March 22nd, 2011 5:46 AM
i love meredith i REALLY hope she doesn't get alzheimers and goes crazy like izze, i would stop watching grey's anatomy and im pretty sure so will A LOT of other people. they should keep ellen poepom and patrick dempesy till it ends and lexie and mark
March 20th, 2011 10:30 PM
PLEASE CAN" T they just have a baby? y this adoption and Alzheimer's problems?
March 19th, 2011 6:43 AM
MerDer seem pretty solid in their marriage. Meredith has become so absorbed in wanting a baby, that the lack of a baby after what is only months of trying, is becoming a huge issue for MerDer. Maybe the baby issue won't get resolved before 7.22. But I hope we're being misdirected in an effort to drop the news of a pregnancy for Mer as a shock end of season plot /or/ in episode 150 in S8??????
March 18th, 2011 6:58 PM
There are SO many things that could go wrong here.
Meredith could have Alzheimer's. That would be a way to kill this show for good. I mean, there's no going back if you give her the gene, Shonda.
Meredith and Derek adopt. I know it wouldn't be THAT horrible, except, PLEASE, just for once, let Mer and Der have it the easy way.
Third, Meredith and Derek could end up giving their new wedding to Calzona. Or lets just say Mark and Arizona to make that storyline a little more stupid.
Let's just say, I won't believe in the M/D wedding till I see it.
I hope it's that the ones who talk about a trial patient opening their eyes are right.
March 18th, 2011 5:19 PM
I'm going to guess that they encounter a couple in the clinic trial who are not married. The person who has Alzheimer will have an issue that requires a guardianship decision. Their partner will not be able to make the decision because they are not legally married. This will force Mer and Der to rethink the post-it.
March 18th, 2011 1:34 PM
Love MerDer, and to see more than a couple of scenes of them together will be fantastic.
My guess, Mer won't be able to get pregnant, and they consider adopting, hence the need to make their marriage legal. Not sure adopting is gonna be any easier on MerDer. Would they need to prove they had no medical conditions? Would Mer have to find out whether she has the Altzhiemer's gene??????
March 18th, 2011 3:37 AM
7.21 sides indicate MerDer are surly adopting i guess THIS is their big SL which stems form Alz Mer might fear passing on the gene to the baby and they decide for adoption? I dunno can't wrap my mind around all of thats being indicated in the sides. IF MD r getting married then they shouldn't do it for adoption coz you don't need legal marriage to adopt that would be misrepresentation However if they do it coz the fear Mer might get Alz and Der needs to be in a position to make decisions for her then its absolutel BANG ON
I dunno what i feel abt all this If they are going into adoption i just HOPE its done damn well and not in 20s bookend scenes FOR GOD'S SAKE and I HOPE Der is part of the whole process and its not just Mer or Mer with Cris Alex PLEASE its a life changing decision and Derek HAS to be a part of every freaking step towards it
March 17th, 2011 5:50 PM
hmmm i just assumed the boring paperwork that legalized the two was handled which is why everyone was comfortable with the whole 'mrs. shepherd' dialogue and her bailing him out of jail scenes. though anybody can bail you out of jail i guess. still. whether you get married in a church or on a post-it isn't what actually makes it official. it's the paperwork. i just figured they did all that offline. but i guess if they didn't it will all come up again won't it? lol