Grey's - The Finale.\u00a0 Happy and sad and puzzling all rolled up into a two hour teaser to keep viewers wondering until next season.\u00a0 I'll leave the pondering of Izzie and George's fates to others.\u00a0 That's not what started me asking about the rest of the story. 'Twas the post-it vows and Shonda Sunshine's tease that did that.\u00a0<\/p>\n
As you surely know, instead of making a trip to City Hall on a day when two friends' lives hung in the balance\u00a0 -\u00a0even if they didn't know about George yet - Mer\/Der decided to get married by writing vows on a post-it note. Mer had suggested the quick trip to City Hall because she couldn't live another day without being married to Der.\u00a0 He agreed, but later, it was Derek who came up with the idea that they'd write down the vows they wanted to make to each other on a post it note.\u00a0 Then, he said, they'd be married.<\/p>\n
They decided to vow:\u00a0 (1) they would love each other even when they hated each other; (2)\u00a0no one could leave or run away; and (3) they'd take care of each other\u00a0when they were old and senile.\u00a0 Kiss and tender moment and they\u00a0left and proclaimed themselves married.\u00a0 But of course, they aren't. I'm sitting in South Carolina\u00a0where we have common law marriage where they could proclaim themselves publicly married and make it so.\u00a0 Grey's is situated in the state of Washington where there is no such thing.\u00a0 Mer and Der proclaiming themselves married does not make it so.<\/p>\n
In an interesting interview\u00a0with Ausiello of TV Guide, Shonda \u00a0Rhimes says that the post it\u00a0wedding \"will have big reverberations next season.\"\u00a0 Now there, romance fans, is a REST OF THE STORY CHALLENGE.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Anytime a man you want to marry suggests a post-it wedding, you should worry.\u00a0 There are lots of shoes left to drop here. One is what they didn't vow - fidelity.\u00a0 If Izzie and George do go off into the great beyond, likely more doctors will be brought into the mix.\u00a0 They'd provide potential romantic threats for Mer\/Der's unorthodox coupling.\u00a0 There's the nurse Der slept with a couple of times - what if she was pregnant?\u00a0 There's Der's ex off on another show that lots of folks think should return to this one.\u00a0 On Private Practice, Addison has been flirting with a romance with a married man.\u00a0 What if she returns to Seattle determined to get her man back and give marriage another try?\u00a0 In real life, Ellen Pompeo is pregnant and if her character gets pregnant, there would be a lot of social pressure for a wedding and some issues for the couple to deal with like, whose last name would the baby have.\u00a0 There will surely be pressure from staff and friends to make the marriage real which is likely to cause Mer to bow up, refuse and stir the pot some more.\u00a0 Little issues, like last\u00a0names on medical licenses loom as well.\u00a0 What if there's another lawsuit or a trial with the one filed last season?\u00a0 Mer couldn't claim marital privilege based on a post-it wedding.\u00a0<\/p>\n
How would I write the rest of the story?\u00a0 Der's Mom gave the couple her seal of approval and even passed along the engagement ring she'd never allowed Addison to wear.\u00a0 But Mer (which\u00a0I just do not find realistic) proclaims herself not a ring kind of gal. She's not wearing the precious heirloom.\u00a0 Der's sisters don't like Mer anyway and once they find out\u00a0she's not even wearing the ring - they may change Mom's mind too.\u00a0 Implications?\u00a0 Obvious and many.\u00a0 The family may bring in some of Der's old girlfriends.\u00a0 They may conspire to show Mer in a bad light.\u00a0 They may push Der to demand a formal wedding which Mer's decided she doesn't want because they're already married.\u00a0 I suspect the social pressure from the hospital will play a part along with some snide comments from Mark.\u00a0 Insecurity on both sides will rear its ugly head because they don't really have papers on each other.\u00a0 If Mer won't wear an engagement ring, will either she or Der wear a wedding ring?\u00a0 That's bound to cause some internal friction between the couple.\u00a0 I can see\u00a0Der not telling his family about the \"wedding\" and Mer not understanding.\u00a0 I can imagine his family's reaction when he does tell them.\u00a0 Der's family is\u00a0much more\u00a0traditional.\u00a0 A post it wedding?\u00a0 Get real.\u00a0 Clearly, they would say, he\u00a0staged the farce because deep down, he didn't want to marry her at all.\u00a0 Deep down, they'd say, he still considers himself wed to Addison, or wed not at all. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Where's it all headed?\u00a0 One possibility is that Mer will be pregnant on the show and it won't be a stable pregnancy - which would fit the character.\u00a0 The medical challenges might bring Addison in for a consult and possibly even some of the temptation for Der I was discussing earlier.\u00a0 Reunion sex is even a possibility given that a pregnant Mer would be moodier than a non-pregnant Mer and Der would likely spend most of his time reminding himself he promised to love her even if he hated her.\u00a0 If Der's not the husband then Mer would call the shots with treatment.\u00a0 And if it culminated in a life or death decision, then Der wouldn't have any legal right to tell the medical team to save Mer before the baby.\u00a0 The one with the legal right to call the shots\u00a0would be the next of kin,\u00a0Mer's sister, or her designated \"person\" Christina or even Mer's Father.\u00a0 Dramatic implications in that struggle are obvious.\u00a0 It could end with a life or death scenario, with Derrick demanding one thing and the others demanding another.<\/p>\n
The medical scenario works the same\u00a0even if Derrick is in a life or death crisis.\u00a0 His next of kin would be Mom, influenced by his sisters.\u00a0 They'd have already had the tug of war - was there or wasn't there a wedding?\u00a0 No priest or reverend, no license, no marriage Der's family would conclude.\u00a0\u00a0 In Der's case, he could be lingering in some unconscious state for which his family blamed Mer.\u00a0 They might forbid her from even seeing him, calling for some in the staff to break the rules to get her into his room.\u00a0<\/p>\n
With either scenario,\u00a0 but especially with Derrick lying ill and near death, I can imagine a court battle between either Mer\/Der and the family\/friends over the wedding that wasn't.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Shonda Sunshine says the post it wedding will cause big reverberations next season.\u00a0 Now if that doesn't get your writer's imagination churning, I recommend a long vacation somewhere tropical with moonlight walks on the surf that end in some grown up games with waves lapping at your legs.\u00a0 And other body parts.\u00a0<\/p>\n
How would you write the rest of the story?\u00a0 Game on, Grey's fans!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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