#greys anatomy season 1

[underrtheskinn]

GREY'S ANATOMY: PILOT

S01E01

[sankta-wraith]

Season 1 MerDer come back to me

[that-anxious-enby]

ive never really watched greys anatomy, i tried a few years ago (like pre covid era) but i just couldn't get past like episode 4, and for some reason i hated Derek?

im trying the show again and holy shit why??? I'm only on season one so who knows where his character goes but why did i hate this man??? hes so funny to me for no reason??? the way he delivers some of his lines (which would not even be funny on their own) makes me laugh so much?? i dont know what it is but every time he flirts with Meredith everything he says is so silly goofy and i dont get it but i honestly love him for it?? help 😭

[slf-cntrl]

ONE OF THE MOST ICONIC SCENES…

there’s just too much going on lol

[renegadesstuff]

CHENFORD x MERDER 😍

[saturnvs]

sooo i’m rewatching grey’s anatomy

[lillefrknorge]

You never think that the last time is the last time. You think there will be more. You think you have forever, but you don’t. - Meredith Grey

[pansysgothgf]

Okay, here’s my unpopular opinion: even if Buddie gets completely debunked and we never get it as a canon ship, I’m not going to stop shipping it. I like shipping these characters, I enjoy their dynamic and I feel inspired to write when I’m writing about them. I don’t need my ship to be canon and even if it never goes there I think they’ll handle it with grace (personally if it’s ever one sided I hope they deal with it the way they dealt with the confession in Dead Boy Detectives). Idk, maybe this isn’t unpopular at all but I just enjoy the ship and I’ve had as much fun watching them now that there’s more hope than ever for the ship as I did when we were in the s5&6 trenches :)

[greysanatomy-bts]

[babyjapril]

♡happy valentines day♡

[an-over-educated-woman]

tv casts that basically raised me (pt. 5)

Grey's Anatomy (since 2005)

[sankta-wraith]

I love how in episode one Meredith tells Derek "I'm not the girl in the bar anymore," and then as the show progresses the one thing it keeps coming back to is that she is the girl in the bar. She'll always be the girl in the bar. It doesn't matter how many seasons have passed and how much she's changed; a part of Meredith will always be the girl in the bar. Derek is a part of her, and a fundamental one at that. The moment they met is imprinted on her forever. A piece of her lives in that point of time. In fact, there's a piece of her that lives in all the moments she had with Derek. Parts of her are scattered through time, forever frozen with the love of her life. And time will go on and on, and those pieces will get farther away, but Meredith will never truly stop being the girl in the bar.

[that-anxious-enby]

THEY USE GLOW IN THE DARK CONDOMS OH MY GOD IM DYING I LOVE THAT 😭😭😭😭

[inawickedlittletown]

One thing I will say for having Doctor Odyssey sandwiched between 9-1-1 and Grey's is that I will keep it on while I deal with all my flailing and emotions for 9-1-1 and actually be at a good state to pay attention when Grey's is on.

[jmflowers]

From a filmmaking standpoint do you think Greys is better than Station 19? You can split greys up into the first 10 seasons if you want because 20 years is a lot lol. I liked Station better in the first 3 years when it started compared to Greys at the time, but the first 11 seasons of Grace are so much more compelling to me than Station 19 overall from a writing and acting standpoint. But I always wanted to know what someone in the industry thought 

I meant to answer this like a week ago, and thus had to scroll soooooo far to re-find the posts I've made in the past talking about Grey's Anatomy and Station 19 from a 'film standpoint'.

A previous post about my opinion on the differences between the productions from a technical standpoint can be found here. My answer to an ask about whether Grey's will ever end is here. And, my thoughts on the changes in Station from season 1/2 to 3 are here.

Onto your question... is one better than the other? God, art is so subjective (and TV is art) so I'm very, very glad you asked for my answer to this from a film-making standpoint.

Grey's has survived as long as it has because the formula is so solid. The sets are consistent and always will be. There aren't a lot of really elaborate stunts, save for a couple of big episodes every season. A large amount of the actors held on for a really long time (in production years), garnering a lot of love from fans. Like, it came into the world at the precise right time to be really, really successful, and it has maintained the quality without needing to have the massive production budget that we're seeing in many other shows these days.

Station, on the other hand, was birthed as a spin-off. That, in itself, is a challenge: it was forced to draw viewers from Grey's with its connection while also trying to be somewhat of a standalone in its own right. We've all talked about how that changed things from season 1/2 to 3, when it swapped showrunner hands. The formula altered at that time and it wasn't necessarily for the better.

What made Grey's strong in the beginning was the love story of Meredith and Derek. Say what you will about that relationship, it was the heart of the show. And a lot of shows from that era had that precise concoction that pulled fans back in: the desire to see the characters they loved, who loved each other, finally end up together.

I think where Station faltered is... they never had that. There was never a core relationship that you were rooting for, because the show was centred around Ben starting a new career, and him and Miranda Bailey were already together. Sure, we ended up with great couples like Maya and Carina, who were ultimately endgame, but if the arc of the series had been Jack trying to win Andy back after her rebuttal of his proposal in the pilot, or Ryan and Andy finally falling in love and being together... it would've been a very different show.

Grey's was able to hook an audience from the get-go with fans rooting for Meredith. And she stuck it out for so, so long that I think many fans, at this point, will remain for eternity out of loyalty to her. (Even if a lot did jump ship when (spoilers!) Derek died. Just as plenty stopped watching when various other characters were offed.) Her longevity, and the longevity of so many of the other original characters, is a really defining factor of the show's success.

And sure, Station had probably an equivalent number of deaths in their time as Grey's did from their core cast... but they occurred so much earlier in the show's run. It was season two that we were watching Vic's great love story, only for Chief Ripley to be dead just a few episodes later. Grey's had similar with Denny, also in season two, but the first core character death on Grey's was George in the premiere of season six. (And then like 10 million more characters by the end of that season...) The first core character death on Station 19? Ryan Tanner in season three. There were two more deaths that season, too, one of which was Captain Pruitt Herrera. Just imagine how different Grey's would feel if one of the core 5 from the pilot had been dead by season three. There would've been riots in the street.

In so many ways, Station 19 was doomed from the start. Just from a cost standpoint, fire on a set is expensive to do. And ultimately, that would've been a huge factor in cancelling it. They needed elaborate stunts to continue being viable to audiences and there is no network on earth that wants to throw as much money at a production as they need to function. Especially in this day and age.

Grey's has always been the spark that lit a fire. Shonda Rhimes knew from the get-go what she wanted and the show being entrusted to her showrunning until 2015 is what made it what it is. Honestly, I think it's really important to have the creator of a piece stay on it as long as possible. (Just look at Gilmore Girls and how it faltered when they tried to function without Amy Sherman-Palladino.) Shonda birthed something that was extremely viable, that was relatively cheap to make, that was easy to consume and love, and which had the space within itself to grow and evolve as the times did.

And if you want to see for yourself how solid Shonda's voice was from the very beginning, have a look at the pilot script of Grey's and compare it to literally any other pilot script. The first scene of any show should set the entire thing up - and like I said above, the heart of it has always been Meredith and Derek. Grey's Anatomy set that stage from the get-go and it's tight, it's compelling, and it works.

There may never again be anything quite like Grey's.

[dumbs0ckss]

no one will ever understand him like I do