Spoiler alert! This story accommodates spoilers for Gray’s Anatomy’s Season 19 midseason premiere, “I’ll Comply with the Solar,” which aired February 23. Proceed with warning in case you’re not caught up!
Meredith mentioned goodbye to Seattle on Gray’s Anatomy’s Season 19 midseason premiere, transferring her household to Boston to ensure that her daughter Zola to attend a gifted college. “I’ll Comply with the Solar” wasn’t stuffed with flashbacks from Ellen Pompeo’s largest moments from her 18 years as Meredith Gray, and the emotional speeches had been minimal. Nevertheless it wouldn’t have completed the character justice with out a trace at her previous, and this episode fantastically wove in Cristina Yang and Derek “McDreamy” Shepherd in delicate ways in which proved our hero goes to be simply high quality.
With Ellen Pompeo leaving as a sequence common, one large query going into the remainder of Season 19 was whether or not or not Nick Marsh (Scott Speedman) would comply with her to Boston. It’s solely becoming that Meredith’s closing episode would have echoes of the final time we noticed her twisted sister Cristina (Sandra Oh). Within the Season 10 finale, “Worry (Of the Unknown),” Derek (Patrick Dempsey) was making an attempt to persuade Meredith that they need to transfer to Washington, D.C., and earlier than Cristina left for Zurich, she informed Meredith:
He is very dreamy. However he’s not the solar. You might be.
The title of the Season 19 midseason premiere, “I’ll Comply with the Solar,” appeared to reference that sentiment, and probably point out that Nick would transfer but once more to be with Meredith. The couple’s relationship had been rocky because the finish of Season 18, although, and with a lot of Meredith’s focus (rightfully) on her daughter, the 2 had bother staying on the identical web page within the first handful of episodes this season.
They continued to struggle on Meredith’s final day about what each of them needed, and feelings ran excessive following the dying of writer Tessa Hobbes (Patricia Richardson) on the working desk. Meredith confirmed simply how robust her character has turn out to be through the years, when she informed Nick:
I’m a grown girl with a giant life and a giant profession and three children, and this transfer is what my daughter wants. I need you in my life if you wish to be in my life. But when I’ve to decide on, I’m going to select me, I decide my children, and I decide what’s finest for us. And I’m not going to beg you to like me.
How far we’ve come from “Choose me. Select me. Love me.” These had been Meredith’s phrases to McDreamy in Season 2’s “Convey the Ache,” and though that has turn out to be certainly one of Gray’s Anatomy’s most well-known strains, Ellen Pompeo has mentioned she was “horrified” when she learn the script that her character would beg a person to like her. And on this night time, she didn’t.
In the long run, Meredith set off for Boston not beholden to a person. Nick made an effort at a dramatic airport scene, however his “I like you” telephone name was too little too late, and he or she pretended she couldn’t hear him earlier than hanging up.
Meredith’s episode-ending narration drove house that the character goes to be simply high quality, as she reads from Tessa Hobbes’ closing guide, saying that she’s saved lives and had her life saved. She’s survived “damaged bones and a damaged house and the dying of individuals I like.” And there’s no such factor as fortunately ever after, except that merely means we’re nonetheless alive. Her closing phrases on “I’ll Comply with the Solar”:
So long as the solar rises in your life, there will probably be new dragons to slay. So the top of my story isn’t any sort of ever after, as a result of I’m nonetheless alive. I’m nonetheless right here. And the solar nonetheless rises on my life.
Meredith. Is. The. Solar.
Gray’s Anatomy will proceed (sans Ellen Pompeo) at 9 p.m. ET subsequent Thursday, March 2, on ABC. Season 19 episodes can be found to stream the subsequent day with a Hulu subscription, and you may relive all of Meredith’s glory days, with the primary 18 seasons obtainable to Netflix subscription holders.
