Krista Vernoff on Last Night's Grey's Anatomy

Grey's Anatomy producer / writer Krista Vernoff, who authored last night's episode, posted some thoughts on last night's "Here Comes the Flood" on the writers' blog. Below are some excerpts about a pivotal scene, with a link to her full column at the end ...

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... I love therapy and I love what’s it done for Meredith in the short amount of time she’s gone ... I’m proud of Meredith that she got as far as she did. And I love that last scene where she stands up to Derek. She doesn’t get drunk. She doesn’t freak out. She doesn’t walk away. She doesn’t ignore him. She doesn’t leave him. She just stands there and tells him her truth.

And that is so so so hard and so so so scary for her (as it is for a lot of us.) And what I love most is the look of shock on her face when it works. It’s so hard to change. For everyone I know, change and growth are deeply difficult tasks. And so it makes me happy for Meredith and Derek that they are taking baby steps toward happiness and function.

When we were shooting that scene, Ellen Pompeo (Meredith) expressed concern to me about her question to Derek at the end. “You still love me?”

She was concerned that it sent a message to the girls and women who watch our show that a man’s love is the thing that matters most.

But she didn’t say the girls and women who watch our show.

She said “the future Coco’s of the world.” Cause Coco’s my daughter, and Ellen’s no dummy, she knows how to get a writer to listen!) But my feeling is this: I was not trying to say that a man’s love is what matters most. I was trying to say that the ability to know and trust that you (and by you I mean, me, Meredith, all of us) are lovable.

Continue reading Krista's column on the show's writers' blog ...