Ok one more thing. Shonda wasn't sure who (from the original cast) was coming back and she kills Lexie..... who is the only Grey left if Ellen didn't come back. Makes total sense.
Trisha
May 18th, 2012 9:21 AM
I for one loved and hated this finale. I cried through the whole thing it was heart wrenching. Which tells me that the writing was excellent; I was, am invested in this show. I love that this show doesn't forget it own history. Seriously George's death was mentioned twice to remind us of the characters that we have lost and survived. Remember that Teddy started working at Seattle Grace as a favor to Owen for Christina. Sure they had a rough year but they have a deep history, so it came as no surprise that she would want to stay or that Owen would want her to go on to be great. I am excited for Season 9. I hope everyone makes it through the night I don't want to lose anyone else. To Shonda Rimes and all of the rest of the writers, Thank you.
Paula Gohl
May 18th, 2012 9:19 AM
The only reason I watched this season was the hope that Mark and Lexy would get back together. Everything else was completely boring and overdone. Meridith and Derek together fine, but its boring. Arizona and Callie..boring..And what else really happened? Richard and Jackson's mom..did they really have to show two old people having sex? This is terrible, Lexy was freaking awesome, and how can they possibly try and put Mark with anyone else? I will not be watching next season, as I am sure after this horrific finale, will be its final season.
Dianna
May 18th, 2012 9:19 AM
I hated it. I loved Lexie, she was amazing. I'm not sure I'm gonna watch Grey with so much interest anymore because every great character I like ends up dying or hurting (i.e. Lexie, Mark and Cristina).
YES, I've heard of DVR's, TiVo, etc., but watching in real time was BRUTAL with every kind of buy this NOW that totally required hitting the RECORD button and walking away!!
Finally, I'm definitely not a script writer and give enormous kudos to Ms.Rhymes and the entire ensemble cast, however, a rescue conclusion would have left substantial ties to building new threads of existing character lives and new ones. This finale was definitely not their finest hour but like DH, I've been hooked for years and THANK GOD FOR DVR's!!! I don't want to buy a new car every 6 1/2 minutes, nor do I want to hear how you want to be ready when the 'moment' is right with Cialis ads, or the entire range of ads! WAY WAY TOO MUCH!!!
samiam
May 18th, 2012 9:17 AM
where's my shoe???? classic. I don't see how Sandra Oh hasn't won any awards, she's priceless. When she told Arizona to "shut up!"... lol... I still miss lil grey. Shonda did her job, that's all were talking about. We should have saw this coming, her screen time was like George and they didn't have a real concrete story for her. If this was dream (and it wasn't) I'll be pissed. Okay, time for True Blood... lol... love y'all...
Izzy
May 18th, 2012 9:13 AM
Ok i'm not happy, Lexie dying jusy ripped my heart out..ugh. but..it got me to wondering too, she dies like in the first 24 minutes which I found odd,so i'm wondering if this is going to be one of those dream sequences fo Merideth's that goes back to her laying there and staring up at the sky..who knows..maybe not. I heard Chyler wasnted out of her contract and she's had less screnn time this season maybe to prepare us but kill her off...c'mon
Jen
May 18th, 2012 9:10 AM
Got cut off.........looked forward to watching it . we use these shows to escape our lives for and hour and get caught up in our favorite characters but i can't do that when they keep KILLING them. It's sad Lexie is gone but for me its sadder that i lost my little Thursday escape.
samiam
May 18th, 2012 9:07 AM
if you liked George (we all did) and you came back to the show, this too will pass. remember Sloan sat slumped and Christina yelled at him, natural reaction, Lexie will definitely be missed but when new actors hit the show, it's usually a hit (Callie, Avery, Sloan, Arizona, Ben, etc, etc) season 9 will be off the chain. thanks Shonda for not doing what we as fans want. They set the bar high.... I'll miss Lexie don't get me wrong, but the show isn't real y'all. I love y'all passion. we have at-least two seasons left...
... and for you April haters, she and Avery make an interesting couple. Look at the sceen where Mer is crying when she found out about Lexie, Priceless. You guys and girls enjoy your day....
"Seriously" People... the WORST part of this finale was the #$#@$#@$@#$@$ COMMERCIALS!!! YES-
Pipit
May 18th, 2012 9:05 AM
Am I alone here? I was more upset at the fact that there seemed to be 5 minutes of commercials and promos for every 2 minutes of the actual show. It was TORTUROUS!
luvalex
May 18th, 2012 9:04 AM
Lol. For all of you who are "threatening" to stop watching the show, first of all, nobody believes you will not watch the next episode in the fall, please! Second, even if you stopped watching it, Shonda probably doesn't give a rat's toe nail. And third, quit being so dramatic. You know yoi can't stop watching. LOL silly people.
suzanne
May 18th, 2012 9:04 AM
i can't believe lexie died.she is going to be missed.i thought for sure that it was going to be arizona.now i am dying in suspense to know how they are going to be rescued and what is going to happen to derricks hand.he needs his hand to operate.i think it was an excellent episode.except for lexie dying.her and mark belong together.i was crying when he was holding her hand.
Jen
May 18th, 2012 9:03 AM
I've watched this show every thursday for the last 8 seasons. Yes there have been deaths and yes some have been unexpected. Everyone knew George was leaving so even though the death was shocking we knew we wouldn't see him anymore but this was just STUPID!!!!!
Some of us have waited 3 seasons to see Mark and Lexie back together and this is the way you pull that off????
NO. NO. NO.
This is how they were meant to be. Come on
This is something shonda and Chyler agreed would be the best thing for her when only a few months ago she said she loved this show and wasn't going anywhere.
The show was getting too crowded and they keep April?
This was just done wrong. She finally spills her guts to Mark and we finally have hope and now this.
No hope, none at all. Watch out Callie and Arizona fans next time she needs a shocking finale guess who's gone next
This finale felt forced. Like she used up all her ideas and came up with this crappy one.
This used to be such a cool show and one I l
luvalex
May 18th, 2012 9:00 AM
Ok,lots of you are upset that the writing was horrible because too many things were so unrealistic. Then you complain that Lexie died in less than 20 minutes. Hello, she was crushed by a plane. Of course she's not gonna last the whole hour. If anything, her dying in twenty minutes is very real
Also, can April still stay on the show after getting fired??
samiam
May 18th, 2012 8:59 AM
poor lexie....
Anna
May 18th, 2012 8:56 AM
I don’t understand why. We knew that Lexie’s death was a possibility, a chance, but seriously? Less than 20 minutes? It wasn’t memorable at all. For me it was disgusting. Good interpretation for Chyler and Eric, but too short and dialogues wasn’t good enough for a finale. We said goodbye to a very good character: funny, pretty, and enjoyable. We cried, we laughed, we loved, we hated. We almost did everything with her. And it was so amazing the relationship with Meredith and, of course, awesome the chemistry between Little Grey and Sloan. I’m not sure about what is going to happen in season 9. But one thing I’m sure, I’m going to miss Lexie, a lot.
Ariana
May 18th, 2012 8:51 AM
HORRIBLE WRITING. Lexie and Mark were one of the best most watched couples on that show. Now, NOTHING..... You have just lost another viewer Shonda, PROMISE. I WILL NEVER WATCH GREYS ANATOMY AGAIN. Shonda has made this show deteriorate since they brought that girl Sloane in and had her stir the pot. I repeat, I WILL NEVER WATCH THIS SHOW AGAIN. Thank you for your time.
Sa'ad702 Rank: Regular Character
May 18th, 2012 8:49 AM
Miss Lexie, Mourn for the death of a FICTIONAL character but don't go all crazy. You will be back next season. The fact that any of yÓu reacted so badly to her death shows how much yÓu care for the show!!!
Sa'ad702 Rank: Regular Character
May 18th, 2012 8:47 AM
For the last time TR Knight WANTED to leave becuz he was being a byotch!!!! Shonda had to get new characters and Jackson was a hit!!! April not so much, and I'm with everyone who wants her dead. And again IT WASN'T an easy decision for Shonda to make but something BIG HAD TO HAPPEN to propel the show into the next season(s). Lexie will be missed, she became so deeply ingrained in the show that without her, it would be different and not the same. Which is the point, having the same thing week after week will be boring and people with bitch about that too. The aftermath of Lexie's death, Derek's hand, Arizonas leg will give the show new things to explore in season 9. Its amazing in a way. I cried so bad when she died, but its part of life. Things happen in a flash, just like that.
ALSO this isn't much different from ER when Mark Green died! Mark was the first person we saw in the first ep or ER. He was beloved, he died tragically and the show survived.
Miss Lexie, Mourn for the death
Amy
May 18th, 2012 8:43 AM
Also - wasn't Alex supposed to be on the plane?
I could have sworn that at the end of the last episode he was with the others waiting for the plane with his overnight bag and Arizona started yelling at him about leaving and he said 'can't we talk about this after I get back?'So what happened there?
Also - the part I found very sloppy was that a group of the best surgeons in the world are being flown 1 hour long flight to do a lifesaving operation and no one misses them when they just don't arrive?! Those 3 voice mails weren't realistic at all. The hospital expecting them would have been ringing constantly to find out where they were - I just find it incredibly unlikely that no one would they hadn't arrived until the middle of the night way after the time they were due back.
gladys
May 18th, 2012 8:40 AM
i love the show but i didn't like the fact that you kill lexi, pleases fix it!!! i want lexie with mark
rheanne
May 18th, 2012 8:38 AM
LEXI c'mon why lexi was my fav darn. that was a good episode apart from Lexi DYING That was awful
Avaya
May 18th, 2012 8:37 AM
Lexi's death is not what ruined this episode....bad writing did!
-Teddy and Owen have been at each others throats and it was literally 3 weeks ago that he was screaming in her face "I am NOT your friend!". And out of nowhere she loves him enough to turn down a life changing job? Riiight.
-The Docs take a 45 minute-1 hour plane ride at around midnight and no one notices that they haven't made contact until dark the next day? The chief of surgery lets every call go to voicemail? Some of the best doctors in the country don't know how to keep a fire going? Why was there so much luggage for a less that one-day trip? How the hell would Derek's hand go through a metal plane part? Arizona wouldn't tell anyone she was spitting up blood? COME ON.
-Thank for the tweet, Shonda. We know that life "changes on a dime" but that is no reason to keep killing off the favorites without doing their characters justice. Killing her in the first 20 minuites? Who even cared after that?
Unbelievable
Yas
May 18th, 2012 8:29 AM
For me, this was the cherry on the cake...beginning of season 8 Derek and Mer's relationship was on a tight line and that is NOT ok. Second, this is just a repetition of George's death and killing Lexie is a bad bad move. It wasn't the end of the character and what's Mark going to do now? Marry Julia? I don't think he'd be able to do that. I'm sorry but the show lost it's magic after George died. Shonda tried to arrange her mistake by bringing in new characters but she failed. MISERABLY. It's just not the same now without Lexie so, Goodbye Grey's Anatomy
Meredith: People change, but they don't change.
May 18th, 2012 9:21 AM
Ok one more thing. Shonda wasn't sure who (from the original cast) was coming back and she kills Lexie..... who is the only Grey left if Ellen didn't come back. Makes total sense.
May 18th, 2012 9:21 AM
I for one loved and hated this finale. I cried through the whole thing it was heart wrenching. Which tells me that the writing was excellent; I was, am invested in this show. I love that this show doesn't forget it own history. Seriously George's death was mentioned twice to remind us of the characters that we have lost and survived. Remember that Teddy started working at Seattle Grace as a favor to Owen for Christina. Sure they had a rough year but they have a deep history, so it came as no surprise that she would want to stay or that Owen would want her to go on to be great. I am excited for Season 9. I hope everyone makes it through the night I don't want to lose anyone else. To Shonda Rimes and all of the rest of the writers, Thank you.
May 18th, 2012 9:19 AM
The only reason I watched this season was the hope that Mark and Lexy would get back together. Everything else was completely boring and overdone. Meridith and Derek together fine, but its boring. Arizona and Callie..boring..And what else really happened? Richard and Jackson's mom..did they really have to show two old people having sex? This is terrible, Lexy was freaking awesome, and how can they possibly try and put Mark with anyone else? I will not be watching next season, as I am sure after this horrific finale, will be its final season.
May 18th, 2012 9:19 AM
I hated it. I loved Lexie, she was amazing. I'm not sure I'm gonna watch Grey with so much interest anymore because every great character I like ends up dying or hurting (i.e. Lexie, Mark and Cristina).
Rank: New User
May 18th, 2012 9:17 AM
YES, I've heard of DVR's, TiVo, etc., but watching in real time was BRUTAL with every kind of buy this NOW that totally required hitting the RECORD button and walking away!!
Finally, I'm definitely not a script writer and give enormous kudos to Ms.Rhymes and the entire ensemble cast, however, a rescue conclusion would have left substantial ties to building new threads of existing character lives and new ones. This finale was definitely not their finest hour but like DH, I've been hooked for years and THANK GOD FOR DVR's!!! I don't want to buy a new car every 6 1/2 minutes, nor do I want to hear how you want to be ready when the 'moment' is right with Cialis ads, or the entire range of ads! WAY WAY TOO MUCH!!!
May 18th, 2012 9:17 AM
where's my shoe???? classic. I don't see how Sandra Oh hasn't won any awards, she's priceless. When she told Arizona to "shut up!"... lol... I still miss lil grey. Shonda did her job, that's all were talking about. We should have saw this coming, her screen time was like George and they didn't have a real concrete story for her. If this was dream (and it wasn't) I'll be pissed. Okay, time for True Blood... lol... love y'all...
May 18th, 2012 9:13 AM
Ok i'm not happy, Lexie dying jusy ripped my heart out..ugh. but..it got me to wondering too, she dies like in the first 24 minutes which I found odd,so i'm wondering if this is going to be one of those dream sequences fo Merideth's that goes back to her laying there and staring up at the sky..who knows..maybe not. I heard Chyler wasnted out of her contract and she's had less screnn time this season maybe to prepare us but kill her off...c'mon
May 18th, 2012 9:10 AM
Got cut off.........looked forward to watching it . we use these shows to escape our lives for and hour and get caught up in our favorite characters but i can't do that when they keep KILLING them. It's sad Lexie is gone but for me its sadder that i lost my little Thursday escape.
May 18th, 2012 9:07 AM
if you liked George (we all did) and you came back to the show, this too will pass. remember Sloan sat slumped and Christina yelled at him, natural reaction, Lexie will definitely be missed but when new actors hit the show, it's usually a hit (Callie, Avery, Sloan, Arizona, Ben, etc, etc) season 9 will be off the chain. thanks Shonda for not doing what we as fans want. They set the bar high.... I'll miss Lexie don't get me wrong, but the show isn't real y'all. I love y'all passion. we have at-least two seasons left...
... and for you April haters, she and Avery make an interesting couple. Look at the sceen where Mer is crying when she found out about Lexie, Priceless. You guys and girls enjoy your day....
Rank: New User
May 18th, 2012 9:06 AM
"Seriously" People... the WORST part of this finale was the #$#@$#@$@#$@$ COMMERCIALS!!! YES-
May 18th, 2012 9:05 AM
Am I alone here? I was more upset at the fact that there seemed to be 5 minutes of commercials and promos for every 2 minutes of the actual show. It was TORTUROUS!
May 18th, 2012 9:04 AM
Lol. For all of you who are "threatening" to stop watching the show, first of all, nobody believes you will not watch the next episode in the fall, please! Second, even if you stopped watching it, Shonda probably doesn't give a rat's toe nail. And third, quit being so dramatic. You know yoi can't stop watching. LOL silly people.
May 18th, 2012 9:04 AM
i can't believe lexie died.she is going to be missed.i thought for sure that it was going to be arizona.now i am dying in suspense to know how they are going to be rescued and what is going to happen to derricks hand.he needs his hand to operate.i think it was an excellent episode.except for lexie dying.her and mark belong together.i was crying when he was holding her hand.
May 18th, 2012 9:03 AM
I've watched this show every thursday for the last 8 seasons. Yes there have been deaths and yes some have been unexpected. Everyone knew George was leaving so even though the death was shocking we knew we wouldn't see him anymore but this was just STUPID!!!!!
Some of us have waited 3 seasons to see Mark and Lexie back together and this is the way you pull that off????
NO. NO. NO.
This is how they were meant to be. Come on
This is something shonda and Chyler agreed would be the best thing for her when only a few months ago she said she loved this show and wasn't going anywhere.
The show was getting too crowded and they keep April?
This was just done wrong. She finally spills her guts to Mark and we finally have hope and now this.
No hope, none at all. Watch out Callie and Arizona fans next time she needs a shocking finale guess who's gone next
This finale felt forced. Like she used up all her ideas and came up with this crappy one.
This used to be such a cool show and one I l
May 18th, 2012 9:00 AM
Ok,lots of you are upset that the writing was horrible because too many things were so unrealistic. Then you complain that Lexie died in less than 20 minutes. Hello, she was crushed by a plane. Of course she's not gonna last the whole hour. If anything, her dying in twenty minutes is very real
Also, can April still stay on the show after getting fired??
May 18th, 2012 8:59 AM
poor lexie....
May 18th, 2012 8:56 AM
I don’t understand why. We knew that Lexie’s death was a possibility, a chance, but seriously? Less than 20 minutes? It wasn’t memorable at all. For me it was disgusting. Good interpretation for Chyler and Eric, but too short and dialogues wasn’t good enough for a finale. We said goodbye to a very good character: funny, pretty, and enjoyable. We cried, we laughed, we loved, we hated. We almost did everything with her. And it was so amazing the relationship with Meredith and, of course, awesome the chemistry between Little Grey and Sloan. I’m not sure about what is going to happen in season 9. But one thing I’m sure, I’m going to miss Lexie, a lot.
May 18th, 2012 8:51 AM
HORRIBLE WRITING. Lexie and Mark were one of the best most watched couples on that show. Now, NOTHING..... You have just lost another viewer Shonda, PROMISE. I WILL NEVER WATCH GREYS ANATOMY AGAIN. Shonda has made this show deteriorate since they brought that girl Sloane in and had her stir the pot. I repeat, I WILL NEVER WATCH THIS SHOW AGAIN. Thank you for your time.
Rank: Regular Character
May 18th, 2012 8:49 AM
Miss Lexie, Mourn for the death of a FICTIONAL character but don't go all crazy. You will be back next season. The fact that any of yÓu reacted so badly to her death shows how much yÓu care for the show!!!
Rank: Regular Character
May 18th, 2012 8:47 AM
For the last time TR Knight WANTED to leave becuz he was being a byotch!!!! Shonda had to get new characters and Jackson was a hit!!! April not so much, and I'm with everyone who wants her dead. And again IT WASN'T an easy decision for Shonda to make but something BIG HAD TO HAPPEN to propel the show into the next season(s). Lexie will be missed, she became so deeply ingrained in the show that without her, it would be different and not the same. Which is the point, having the same thing week after week will be boring and people with bitch about that too. The aftermath of Lexie's death, Derek's hand, Arizonas leg will give the show new things to explore in season 9. Its amazing in a way. I cried so bad when she died, but its part of life. Things happen in a flash, just like that.
ALSO this isn't much different from ER when Mark Green died! Mark was the first person we saw in the first ep or ER. He was beloved, he died tragically and the show survived.
Miss Lexie, Mourn for the death
May 18th, 2012 8:43 AM
Also - wasn't Alex supposed to be on the plane?
I could have sworn that at the end of the last episode he was with the others waiting for the plane with his overnight bag and Arizona started yelling at him about leaving and he said 'can't we talk about this after I get back?'So what happened there?
Also - the part I found very sloppy was that a group of the best surgeons in the world are being flown 1 hour long flight to do a lifesaving operation and no one misses them when they just don't arrive?! Those 3 voice mails weren't realistic at all. The hospital expecting them would have been ringing constantly to find out where they were - I just find it incredibly unlikely that no one would they hadn't arrived until the middle of the night way after the time they were due back.
May 18th, 2012 8:40 AM
i love the show but i didn't like the fact that you kill lexi, pleases fix it!!! i want lexie with mark
May 18th, 2012 8:38 AM
LEXI c'mon why lexi was my fav darn. that was a good episode apart from Lexi DYING That was awful
May 18th, 2012 8:37 AM
Lexi's death is not what ruined this episode....bad writing did!
-Teddy and Owen have been at each others throats and it was literally 3 weeks ago that he was screaming in her face "I am NOT your friend!". And out of nowhere she loves him enough to turn down a life changing job? Riiight.
-The Docs take a 45 minute-1 hour plane ride at around midnight and no one notices that they haven't made contact until dark the next day? The chief of surgery lets every call go to voicemail? Some of the best doctors in the country don't know how to keep a fire going? Why was there so much luggage for a less that one-day trip? How the hell would Derek's hand go through a metal plane part? Arizona wouldn't tell anyone she was spitting up blood? COME ON.
-Thank for the tweet, Shonda. We know that life "changes on a dime" but that is no reason to keep killing off the favorites without doing their characters justice. Killing her in the first 20 minuites? Who even cared after that?
Unbelievable
May 18th, 2012 8:29 AM
For me, this was the cherry on the cake...beginning of season 8 Derek and Mer's relationship was on a tight line and that is NOT ok. Second, this is just a repetition of George's death and killing Lexie is a bad bad move. It wasn't the end of the character and what's Mark going to do now? Marry Julia? I don't think he'd be able to do that. I'm sorry but the show lost it's magic after George died. Shonda tried to arrange her mistake by bringing in new characters but she failed. MISERABLY. It's just not the same now without Lexie so, Goodbye Grey's Anatomy