Grey's Anatomy: Cristina's Role In The Alternative Reality Episode

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Grey's Anatomy: Cristina's Role In The Alternative Reality Episode

Grey's boss Shonda Rhimes has revealed to TV Guide how Cristina Yang will be changed in the much talked about alternative reality episode of Grey's:

How will Owen and Cristina be changed in Grey's Anatomy's alternate universe? — Vanessa

NATALIE: For one, they're not together. Owen is actually with Callie (!?), and executive producer Shonda Rhimes calls that relationship "the largest mistake of both of their lives."

As for Cristina, well...

"It's the idea that without Meredith to be her ally in anything, and if Meredith hadn't been there to cut her out of that wedding dress, who would Cristina have been?" Rhimes asks. "She's just a fundamentally different person, and, I think, a lonely one."

Yay or nay?

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Elizabeth · 690 weeks ago

As far as I'm concerned if Meredith is her only relationship, she's is a lonely person alternate reality or not. Ugh, it never stops. I can guarantee that Meredith's alternate reality won't have jack to do with what if Cristina were not in her life how lonely she would have been, eye roll.

This is exactly why I can't get Cristina fans who love this frienship so much. It's always written as Meredith is the most important relationship for Cristina but not the other way around and that little spoiler proves my point once again. Meanwhile Meredith's outcome will more be about her relationship with Ellis, Cristina's is about freaking Meredith being there to cut her out of a dress, seriously? Like Cristina did not have a monumental experience growing up that made her so obsessive and driven to be a heart surgeon. You mean to tell me that Meredith Grey should have more of an affect on Cristina than the father that she watched die, possibly surviving?

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Lily · 690 weeks ago

You made some good points in this post. That's exactly why I don't like Meredith/Cristina friendship..It's very unhealthy for Cristina as long as she stays around Meredith.. She doesn't have not only any lack of respect for Cristina as an individual, but also no respect at all for Cristina's husband and their marriage..

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Nina · 689 weeks ago

OMG! You took the words out of my mouth! Meredith has absolutely NO respect for Cristina as individual nor for her husband and their marriage. I mean: Telling him not to force her to have the baby because she wouldnt be able to love it! What a manufactured lie! Just because she had a crappy childhood. This was the most barefaced thing she ever did. Telling him and interfering in the most impertinet way. Shonda Rhimes said that it was OWEN who made a concession and Cristina hasn't made any at all since that. Therefore its her turn now. Because Owen made the biggest sacrifice of all. And I am afraid she has no idea how it really affected him. Because MEredith is happy now. Husband, Job, Baby. And what does she have? The promo looks like he will fire her. So: no job, no husband. congratulations!

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Elizabeth · 690 weeks ago

That's not my issue, really. My issue is Shonda not caring about Cristina, she doesn't. Correction she does care as far as she is needed to be Meredith's best friend, the one who is always there and puts no man before Meredith and really does not want a man or a family of her own so he's always third. No, all Cristina needs is Meredith, while Meredith need Derek, Cristina would never be enough, that's how it's always been written from my perspective. So she does care about her, she simply does not truly love the character she just loves to use her for the real character she identifies with and loves.

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Elizabeth · 690 weeks ago

I never could get how in the hell Cristina gets left at the altar yet we NEVER see her mother comfort her, or even berate her, some kind of scene is warranted from a family member, like a mother, when she witnesses you gettting left at the altar. In the same eppy she tells Cristina how proud she is of her, yet the first time we meet that mother she does not seem very proud of all her daughter has accomplished professionally. Yeah, I agree with her that all work is not a healthy life, but when you never show your children that you are proud of what they HAVE accomplished then I don't see why they should care after a while what you think is important. Yet this is never explored,but Meredith's parent issues are explored at nauseum.

The problem for me is not Meredith really, because Meredith is a character, Shonda and her writers control what she does and does not do. They show on screen what is important to them and Crisitna clearly is only important to bring the angst to the show and to play off of Meredith.

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Elizabeth · 690 weeks ago

I don't see how you can create characters you claim to care about, one that has been on this show from the beginning and yet spend more time on only one characters family background. I don't get it at all. When I love a character I want to know where they have been, how they grew up. I want to see interaction between them and the people in their past and the family members in the present, who they don't get to see that often. "ER" did a good job of that, you definitely got a better glimpse into the important people in their characters' past, it was awesome and added so much to show. To see sister, mothers, fathers, every now and again to remind us that these character had lives and people in those lives, that they came from somewhere before the writers actually placed them on the page in that hospital.

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Elizabeth · 690 weeks ago

I knew she would have absolutely nothing to do in this episode and that nothing, I mean nothing would be different. Note to Shonda, I see Cristina as lonely right now so nothing will new in this episode. Watching Cristina in pain and drifting apart from her husband, yet another man it seems that she is so fundamentally different from, just like Burke, and the ongoing conflicts that happen between or surrounding her mentors.....ugh, she's been a truly lonely character for some seasons now. The only reason she may not have appeared lonely was when she was kicking ass in an OR or cracking some joke with that dry humor of hers, but otherwise she was still lonely.
Please... I can't stand this relationship anymore because while they can view Meredith outside of her relationship with Cristina enough to give her a decent AR storyline that has nothing to do with Cristina, they can't do the same for Cristina.

This is why that true love story bullshit and soulmate stuff that Shonda pedals with this friendship is total bullshit.

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