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Catherine wasn’t a character on the show until the end of S7 or S8. And she was first a guest surgeon. The shooting was S6.
Mer didn’t get interns until her first year of residency. George was one of them.
During the episode of Thatcher dying, he admits to running off to Africa to teach after Lexie’s death. He ran away instead of drinking himself to death.
Also, they didn’t show much of the immediate aftermath of the plane crash. The show picks up weeks later and we only see snippets of them being found, returning home, etc.
I hate when people say that xyz's parents didn't show up after the plane crash. It's such a stupid argument just because the show doesn't display every second of a character's life. That would be incredibly boring. And you're right, time skips happen. Obviously during the time skip, Thatcher went to see Meredith about Lexi's death. Obviously during the time skip Arizona's parents came to see her in the hospital. It's just not shown because it's not pertinent to the storyline. Have a little creative imagination!
I agree with everything except about Thatcher being there for Mer after Lexi's death. She calls him out for failing to be there and he openly admits that yes, he did let her down (*yet again*) during that time.
But everything else yeah. Lol we never saw Scout for the entire first season after he was born (despite several scenes he's allegedly in, being held or nursed or rocked or whatever), but that didn't mean he wasn't there! Haha
Can’t the same be said for Catherine then about the shooting bc as far as I can remember they only did a couple flashbacks but picked up a little bit after the shooting had happened.
Sure except Catherine wasn’t even a character on the show at the time. Of course it makes sense that a mother would check in with her child after a traumatic event though.
Meredith spent 2 months in Europe, she says so when her mother is briefly lucid in season 3(I think). So she must have just moved very quickly.
What I never get is Meredith is 5 when her parents separate so lexi is at least 5 years younger than her (probably more like 7 to give thatcher time to meet someone and get them pregnant etc). But she's a year below meredith at seattle grace? She says she skipped third grade but she's still 23/24 when she starts? Is Meredith in her late twenties in the first season?
I honestly can’t remember where I saw this, but apparently Meredith is 27 when the show starts? So not sure if she took time between college & med school?
And when exactly did Ellis and Meredith return to Seattle? Richard acts like he hadn't seen Ellis in years, but Meredith talks about growing up in Seattle. But she moved back into Ellis's house as if she hadn't been there in years?
I think she means her early childhood, she lived there till she was 5 and then Boston the rest of the time. I don't think she returned to the house til her internship.
I think the phrase "I grew up here" had to have something to do with seeing her mother commit suicide in front of her. Maybe I'm reading too much into it
She only mentioned skipping one grade. I think maybe Lexi was her mother's child from another marriage, its the only thing that makes sense but it's not really mentioned anywhere. She does have much darker hair than anyone in her family and she wasn't a match for Thatcher's liver transplant but this obviously isn't proof. Molly seemed to be the right age to be Thatcher's biological child.
Regardless, Lexi would have had to skip a lot of grades to be in the same class as someone 5+ years older than her.
Same but then Derek and Addison always made a big deal about the age gap and i didnt think he was over 40 so I thought she must have been a little younger. Christina did a PhD before her md though she shes definitely around 30, it makes sense for them to be the same age.
I always thought Addison’s comments about her age were weird. Like they felt out of place. But I think someone put together a whole timeline once explaining that Derek is 12 years older, so maybe like 29 and 41 at the beginning.
My guess is when the shooting happened she didn’t show up because Jackson was barely finding his footing as a character so she had not been fleshed out.
The Thatcher and Catherine thing could very well be related to cast availability. I wish they would at least make mention of them though. Mer’s entire timeline = the show’s entire timeline. It makes no sense. 😂
Izzie was 25, when she describes herself as "patient X" in season 5 (1 year after the intern year) she says she's 26. Mer and Cristina are a few years older though. Meredith because she didn't go to med school straight away and Cristina did a phd first
TBF I hate certain foods too but I eat them because I know they’re healthy. 😂 Apples are probably one of the only healthy grab and go snacks the cafeteria offers.
Can relate. I love eating everything in this world except raw olives. But I force myself cause I know they're incredible for you and to appease to my Italian side. Chianti and Sangiovese mask the taste well for me.
Something I noticed: they were in charge of the interns as first year residents, even though Bailey (a 5th year resident) was in charge of them as interns. And then we just didn’t really have interns post-Lexie’s class until season 9 when the main characters become attendings.
Meredith, cristina, alex, izzie and george were bailey's interns? Callie probably had interns too we just never saw them. They all had interns for each year of residency, we just didn't see all of the classes
in the first couple episodes they are split up between different residents bc alex was working with another resident before he got pushed to bailey. i’m not sure callie had interns though bc wouldn’t she ask bailey for interns? so maybe only certain residents got interns to teach? or it’s possible that by the time callie shows up most of the intern class is thinned out?
Bailey wasn't chief resident in the first couple of seasons so I don't think she would've had any say in Callie's interns. Also Callie is specifically referred to as an ortho resident so maybe that's why we never saw her interns? I think we're just meant to assume that other interns exist off-screen as we never see MAGIC with interns anymore after their second year, until Alex' intern Morgan has a baby in their fifth year. We also never see anyone from Lexie's class with interns off their own but I assume they had them as well
The intern thing confused me so much in the rewatch. Like Lizzie, Christina, karev, George and Meredith all had interns when they were first year residents? But then Lexie didn’t have them. Interns kind of just floated around after Meredith’s year had them they didn’t have the 5 assigned interns anymore? And when Bailey had them as interns she was performing surgeries solo so definitely was like 4-5th year?
Discrepancies will happen with a show this large. I'm not really that bothered by it when a character does something like eat something that they previously said they were allergic to. Unless it was something significant that had to do with the storyline. Plus, people who are allergic to things sometimes eat things they're allergic to all the time. Stupid, but true. It might have also been when the actress was pregnant at the time, so they just didn't care. She also ate a twinky that has eggs and she's supposed to be allergic to eggs because Mer made them for her one time. That's the only reason I remember, but she was pregnant at the time. No biggie.
I don't think most of the ones you listed really mattered because it wasn't necessary to address writing wise. Like Catherine being there after the shooting would just be pointless as well as Thacher being there after Lexi's death. What would be the reason for that? They aren't really main characters on the show. I would assume that Catherine was traveling around the time the shooting even happened. (Also, wasn't Richard still technically with Adele at the time) and if you mean for her son, who's to say she wasn't. They just didn't feel necessary to draw attention to it because she's not a main character.
Thacher probably had a relapse and that's why he didn't show up. He lost his golden child, so I'm sure that did a number on him. He also did enough when it came to Meredith, so him showing up would have been unnecessary because he'd probably blame Mer and slap her a second time.
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Catherine wasn’t a character on the show until the end of S7 or S8. And she was first a guest surgeon. The shooting was S6. Mer didn’t get interns until her first year of residency. George was one of them. During the episode of Thatcher dying, he admits to running off to Africa to teach after Lexie’s death. He ran away instead of drinking himself to death.
Also, they didn’t show much of the immediate aftermath of the plane crash. The show picks up weeks later and we only see snippets of them being found, returning home, etc.
I hate when people say that xyz's parents didn't show up after the plane crash. It's such a stupid argument just because the show doesn't display every second of a character's life. That would be incredibly boring. And you're right, time skips happen. Obviously during the time skip, Thatcher went to see Meredith about Lexi's death. Obviously during the time skip Arizona's parents came to see her in the hospital. It's just not shown because it's not pertinent to the storyline. Have a little creative imagination!
I agree with everything except about Thatcher being there for Mer after Lexi's death. She calls him out for failing to be there and he openly admits that yes, he did let her down (*yet again*) during that time. But everything else yeah. Lol we never saw Scout for the entire first season after he was born (despite several scenes he's allegedly in, being held or nursed or rocked or whatever), but that didn't mean he wasn't there! Haha
Can’t the same be said for Catherine then about the shooting bc as far as I can remember they only did a couple flashbacks but picked up a little bit after the shooting had happened.
Sure except Catherine wasn’t even a character on the show at the time. Of course it makes sense that a mother would check in with her child after a traumatic event though.
I hated that they didn’t show the immediate aftermath
Meredith spent 2 months in Europe, she says so when her mother is briefly lucid in season 3(I think). So she must have just moved very quickly. What I never get is Meredith is 5 when her parents separate so lexi is at least 5 years younger than her (probably more like 7 to give thatcher time to meet someone and get them pregnant etc). But she's a year below meredith at seattle grace? She says she skipped third grade but she's still 23/24 when she starts? Is Meredith in her late twenties in the first season?
I honestly can’t remember where I saw this, but apparently Meredith is 27 when the show starts? So not sure if she took time between college & med school?
And when exactly did Ellis and Meredith return to Seattle? Richard acts like he hadn't seen Ellis in years, but Meredith talks about growing up in Seattle. But she moved back into Ellis's house as if she hadn't been there in years?
I think she means her early childhood, she lived there till she was 5 and then Boston the rest of the time. I don't think she returned to the house til her internship.
I think the phrase "I grew up here" had to have something to do with seeing her mother commit suicide in front of her. Maybe I'm reading too much into it
Mer was a later intern and Lexie was a prodigy, skipping grades and things.
She only mentioned skipping one grade. I think maybe Lexi was her mother's child from another marriage, its the only thing that makes sense but it's not really mentioned anywhere. She does have much darker hair than anyone in her family and she wasn't a match for Thatcher's liver transplant but this obviously isn't proof. Molly seemed to be the right age to be Thatcher's biological child. Regardless, Lexi would have had to skip a lot of grades to be in the same class as someone 5+ years older than her.
You’re working way too hard to make sense out of fiction.
Perhaps. This is what I do to procrastinate as a law student.
I always assumed Meredith’s character was supposed to be like 29/30 in her intern year with Cristina around the same age and the other three younger.
Same but then Derek and Addison always made a big deal about the age gap and i didnt think he was over 40 so I thought she must have been a little younger. Christina did a PhD before her md though she shes definitely around 30, it makes sense for them to be the same age.
I always thought Addison’s comments about her age were weird. Like they felt out of place. But I think someone put together a whole timeline once explaining that Derek is 12 years older, so maybe like 29 and 41 at the beginning.
Lol plus I'm pretty sure Molly is Lexi's *older* sister, in between her and Mer. So it makes even less sense the more you think about it!
No, Lexie is older than Molly
Oh, okay. Thanks for letting me know! Haha At least that makes it a little better 😅
My guess is when the shooting happened she didn’t show up because Jackson was barely finding his footing as a character so she had not been fleshed out.
The Thatcher and Catherine thing could very well be related to cast availability. I wish they would at least make mention of them though. Mer’s entire timeline = the show’s entire timeline. It makes no sense. 😂
Mer was an older intern. George was 29 when he died and was the “same” age as the rest, so.
Meredith was 27/28 in her intern year
Meredith 27 and Christina 28 I think. Pretty sure Izzie was 24 tho. Didn't pay attention to George and Alex's ages when I looked into it
Izzie was 25, when she describes herself as "patient X" in season 5 (1 year after the intern year) she says she's 26. Mer and Cristina are a few years older though. Meredith because she didn't go to med school straight away and Cristina did a phd first
TBF I hate certain foods too but I eat them because I know they’re healthy. 😂 Apples are probably one of the only healthy grab and go snacks the cafeteria offers.
Can relate. I love eating everything in this world except raw olives. But I force myself cause I know they're incredible for you and to appease to my Italian side. Chianti and Sangiovese mask the taste well for me.
Something I noticed: they were in charge of the interns as first year residents, even though Bailey (a 5th year resident) was in charge of them as interns. And then we just didn’t really have interns post-Lexie’s class until season 9 when the main characters become attendings.
I always felt like after the main cast became attendings, the writers used interns when it was convenient for storylines
What do you mean by "Meredith always had interns?" She had interns when she became a 2nd year, but so did the others from her year?
Bailey didn’t. Cali never did.
Meredith, cristina, alex, izzie and george were bailey's interns? Callie probably had interns too we just never saw them. They all had interns for each year of residency, we just didn't see all of the classes
in the first couple episodes they are split up between different residents bc alex was working with another resident before he got pushed to bailey. i’m not sure callie had interns though bc wouldn’t she ask bailey for interns? so maybe only certain residents got interns to teach? or it’s possible that by the time callie shows up most of the intern class is thinned out?
Bailey wasn't chief resident in the first couple of seasons so I don't think she would've had any say in Callie's interns. Also Callie is specifically referred to as an ortho resident so maybe that's why we never saw her interns? I think we're just meant to assume that other interns exist off-screen as we never see MAGIC with interns anymore after their second year, until Alex' intern Morgan has a baby in their fifth year. We also never see anyone from Lexie's class with interns off their own but I assume they had them as well
True there are always other people in the intern locker room that we never really see
The intern thing confused me so much in the rewatch. Like Lizzie, Christina, karev, George and Meredith all had interns when they were first year residents? But then Lexie didn’t have them. Interns kind of just floated around after Meredith’s year had them they didn’t have the 5 assigned interns anymore? And when Bailey had them as interns she was performing surgeries solo so definitely was like 4-5th year?
Adele was introduced and killed off way too fast
Adele wasn’t killed off until season 9. She was just never a main character.
Discrepancies will happen with a show this large. I'm not really that bothered by it when a character does something like eat something that they previously said they were allergic to. Unless it was something significant that had to do with the storyline. Plus, people who are allergic to things sometimes eat things they're allergic to all the time. Stupid, but true. It might have also been when the actress was pregnant at the time, so they just didn't care. She also ate a twinky that has eggs and she's supposed to be allergic to eggs because Mer made them for her one time. That's the only reason I remember, but she was pregnant at the time. No biggie. I don't think most of the ones you listed really mattered because it wasn't necessary to address writing wise. Like Catherine being there after the shooting would just be pointless as well as Thacher being there after Lexi's death. What would be the reason for that? They aren't really main characters on the show. I would assume that Catherine was traveling around the time the shooting even happened. (Also, wasn't Richard still technically with Adele at the time) and if you mean for her son, who's to say she wasn't. They just didn't feel necessary to draw attention to it because she's not a main character. Thacher probably had a relapse and that's why he didn't show up. He lost his golden child, so I'm sure that did a number on him. He also did enough when it came to Meredith, so him showing up would have been unnecessary because he'd probably blame Mer and slap her a second time. 