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Fans of Grey's Anatomy's grand Meredith-Derek romance need to know — in the wake of the unsettling events of Thursday night’s season finale — that series creator Shonda Rhimes aims to have the end justify the means, as the ABC drama enters what may be the final season for Ellen Pompeo and Patrick Dempsey, whose deals expire in a year.
TVLine spoke with Rhimes the morning after the assorted emotional bombshells were dropped, solidly rattling Meredith's newly official marriage, Cristina's future with Owen, and Alex's latest (and failed) bid to move past Izzy.
Question: Do you think you steeled yourself enough for the blowback from Meredith/Derek fans? Or did you feel you had some "capital" to spend, having just given them a wedding?
Shonda Rhimes: I don’t know if I steeled myself for the blowback. I'm sure there's going to be some, but I'm not even sure I thought about it. I was busy thinking about setting us up for next season, which might be the final season for the [original cast members]. I wanted to spend next season doing nothing but telling stories about the originals, and I felt like in order to do that, we wanted to put everybody in a place where the focus was squarely on Meredith and Derek, Cristina, Alex….
Question: Do you appreciate that the ABC promo department at least gave people a heads up of what was to come?
Shonda Rhimes: I'm at a place with promos where I sort of say, "Do what you guys do best." I remember feeling very panicked about the way they were going to promote last season's finale and they did an amazing job, so finally I decided that I can’t keep spoilers from getting out. Do it how you want to do it.
Question: Tell us about the discussion about whether Meredith would actually do what she did, tampering with Derek's Alzheimer’s drug trial.
Shonda Rhimes: Here's what I think is interesting about that, because I’ve heard a number of people say, "I don’t think Meredith would do that." Meredith is the girl who put her hand on a bomb in a body cavity. Meredith is the girl who tried to help a serial killer kill himself, so that he could donate his organs. Meredith — and this is obvious – has a compass that has always led her to shades of grey. She does not believe in black-and-white, she does not believe in good or bad, she does what she thinks is right. It's funny, when we first pitched this storyline to Ellen, the first thing she said before we got to the end was, "But I give Adele the drug, right? I definitely give Adele the drug [versus the placebo]." We said yeah, because that's who Meredith is. And Derek has always been a person who believes in right or wrong, and that has been the fundamental argument of their relationship. I also feel like it’s important to say that Meredith and Derek aren't getting a divorce; their marriage is in trouble.
Question: But for TVLine's season finale scorecard, do we count this as a "Break-Up"?
Shonda Rhimes: No.
Question: As we left Meredith in her house with little Zola, what percentage of her is feeling undeservedly deserted, and what percent accepts some responsibility for pushing Derek away?
Shonda Rhimes: I don't know. Maybe 50-50? She made a choice but she knew she made a choice. It wasn't a simple choice to make, but it was the only choice for her to make. As a woman who would tell a gunman to shoot her [n the Season 6 finale], that's who she is. She deals with consequences later. I know that she feels justified, but I also think she knows she made her own bed.
Question: And what is going on in Derek's mind as he camps out there in the frame of the unfinished dream house?
Shonda Rhimes: He just needed his space. The work of his life, which was him basically trying to cure the disease that Meredith eventually will likely suffer from, has been ruined. If he knew about the baby [Zola], things might be different, but he doesn’t. Right now he’s just angry and he needs a chance to get over it.
Question: You've previously told us that Meredith and Derek are destined to be "together forever." Do you feel that undercuts the drama when you do a finale like this? Or does it in fact amp things up, leaving us to wonder how on Earth they come back from such a deficit?
Shonda Rhimes: I feel like Meredith and Derek are meant to be together forever, and we're going to make sure that in the end they end up together, one would hope – unless one of them dies or something. So, no, I don't think it undercuts the drama. I think how we get there is the journey.
Question: I was going
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