The whole episode is based off of Meredith's life if Ellis never got sick and if she and Richard never broke up. It should have stuck with Meredith and how *her* life would be different. And they changed some lives, but not all of them. Why is Callie all of a sudden a fancy prissy overly make-uped Cardio surgeon, but Arizona is still in peds? I guess she and Owen could possibly work, but why change Callie's specialty? I think it would have made her and Owen's relationship a bit more believable is she was the same. He certainly was. And why was Alex Karev a suck-up brown nosing nerd? We already see the amazing man that Alex turns into. Why would dating Meredith instead of Izzie lobotomize his personality?
I also call bs on Lexie being a druggie. She grew up with a real family, complete with smiley face posters on the walls. Meredith tracked down Thatcher in season 1 to find out why he ditched. But she's Meredith Webber, not Meredith Grey. She wouldn't care about Thatcher. Susan and Thatcher went to Seattle Grace, because of Meredith. Who's to say she would have gotten bacterial endocarditis at Mercy West or Pac North? Plus she was already finishing up med school the season before she started her intern year at SG. How does she get from there to a pierced out tattooed pink haired drug addict? Because of her mom dying? She dug up her mom's dead, decaying cat from its little grave and buried her next to her mom! That girl is *not* going down the rabbit hole.
Some it really works, and those are the people that are directly affected from Meredith not being Meredith. Take Cristina. There's no "Twisted Sisters" without her. By Meredith being bright and shiny instead of dark and twisty, she and Cristina never bond. Cristina stays a hard-core cardio robot and never grows into the Cristina we know and love. The absolute *best* part was a miserable Derek and Addison, because it was perfect. Addison cheats. Derek goes to Seattle as planned. Buuut because Meredith doesn't "screw boys like whores on tequila" (love that line,) because she's happy, Derek *doesn't" meet and subsequent fall in love with Meredith aka "The girl in the bar." And then when Addison follows Derek to Seattle to win him back, there's no Meredith in the way, so they get back together. I think if they insisted on making it an hour long dream sequence, they should have stuck with Meredith.Could have worked, but didn't
I also call bs on Lexie being a druggie. She grew up with a real family, complete with smiley face posters on the walls. Meredith tracked down Thatcher in season 1 to find out why he ditched. But she's Meredith Webber, not Meredith Grey. She wouldn't care about Thatcher. Susan and Thatcher went to Seattle Grace, because of Meredith. Who's to say she would have gotten bacterial endocarditis at Mercy West or Pac North? Plus she was already finishing up med school the season before she started her intern year at SG. How does she get from there to a pierced out tattooed pink haired drug addict? Because of her mom dying? She dug up her mom's dead, decaying cat from its little grave and buried her next to her mom! That girl is *not* going down the rabbit hole.
Some it really works, and those are the people that are directly affected from Meredith not being Meredith. Take Cristina. There's no "Twisted Sisters" without her. By Meredith being bright and shiny instead of dark and twisty, she and Cristina never bond. Cristina stays a hard-core cardio robot and never grows into the Cristina we know and love. The absolute *best* part was a miserable Derek and Addison, because it was perfect. Addison cheats. Derek goes to Seattle as planned. Buuut because Meredith doesn't "screw boys like whores on tequila" (love that line,) because she's happy, Derek *doesn't" meet and subsequent fall in love with Meredith aka "The girl in the bar." And then when Addison follows Derek to Seattle to win him back, there's no Meredith in the way, so they get back together. I think if they insisted on making it an hour long dream sequence, they should have stuck with Meredith.Could have worked, but didn't