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• Confirmed: Grey's Anatomy to Return April 24 (2/21/2008)

  I think the writers consistent storyline that makes Meredith a perpetual victim of "worst case scenarios" is going to eventually backfire and very quickly. Viewers are not only forgiving of characters that constantly screw up their lives with poor decisions or commit adultery, betray their friends and family, surrender their integrity for lust and greed and stabbing their friends in the back for their own personal gain, but they thrive on those storylines. Those are realistic and believable storylines for a primetime weekly drama. What is not believable or even likeable is current direction the writers are taking with Meredith. • Her father abandoned her after her parents divorced. • Her mother was a self-centered bitch who not only felt but voiced to Meredith she was a burden to her and was the reason the love of her life wouldn't leave his wife to be with her. • She has the classic commitment issues because her father abandoned her, i.e. the on vs. off cycle of Meredith and Derek. • Just beginning to get reacquainted with her dad and beginning to learn and enjoy the comforting, over protecting and supportive mom from her stepmother who suddenly dies of some ridiculous and absurd complication from hiccups. Seriously! • Then of course her father once again rejects her and blames her for her stepmother's death. • Her stepsister not only chooses the same hospital to do her residency in she choose the same program. • Oh, and she drowns and has some death experience. Which is almost believable because it was a cold water drowning, but just barely. But then her mom dies at the exact same time she begins to come back because it was suggested that her mom died to go and save her. • Oh, (again) she was involved in an explosion that killed three people that were less than twenty feet away from her BUT knocked her probably twenty feet but she didn't sustain any cuts, bruises, burns or broken bones. • Oh, (again) her dogs dies from cancer. All these tragic things happening to a person over and over again is just not believable and if we wanted to watch a storyline like that we could just watch Days of Our Lives. Her mother was this great surgeon but her surgical skills and ability is never discussed, nor is her interest in a particular specialty ever mentioned, but we do know she likes tequila shots and since this is a show about medicine knowing more about her tequila preference is probably more important than knowing about her surgery skills. So, inclusion, Meredith's stringy hair really matches her worst case scenario tragic life.