While filming hasn't begun on season 9 of Grey's Anatomy, the show's creator Shonda Rhimes tweeted that writing for the upcoming season has started.
"Sitting in the PP writers room today! Was at GA yesterday and will be at Scandal tomorrow! Loving seasons 9, 6 and 2!"
So, the big question is, what will happen to the survivors (Yang, Grey, Shepherd, Robbins and Sloan) of the plane crash during the season 8 finale?
A sixth person, Lexie Grey, was on the plane, but she didn't survive and died about 20 minutes in the finale. While fans knew that someone was going to die, unless they didn't read anything about the show leading up to the finale, they were upset and angry which wasn't surprising since Lexie was a fan favorite. Two weeks after the finale episode aired, the actress who played Lexie, Chyler Leigh, released a statement about her departure from the show where she said it was her decision to leave.
"Earlier this year, I made the decision that Season eight would be my last on "Grey’s Anatomy." I met with Shonda and we worked together to give Lexie’s story appropriate closure. I am very lucky to have worked with this amazing cast and crew for five seasons. My experience on "Grey’s Anatomy" is something that I will treasure for the rest of my life. I want to take this time to say thank you to the fans. Your unconditional love and support have made these last five years very special for me. I look forward to my next chapter and I hope you will continue to follow me on my journey."
I think and hope that her statement helped some fans know that she made the decision to leave, but I know from what I've read on Twitter is that while they are okay with Leigh leaving the show, the problem they have is how Rhimes decided to kill off the character instead of just having her leave. I get that, but Rhimes made the decision for a reason and nothing can be done about it. It's just how it is.
On May 18th, Rhimes did an interview with E! From her interview, I'm going to give my predictions on what's going to happen in the season 9 premiere which I assume will air sometime in September. She didn't much away in the interview, but what she did give away wasn't good news.
A question she was asked was, "What kind of reaction have you seen today about the finale, and is it what you were expecting?" She answered the question, but the last thing she said which was, "Everyone is still so immersed in ‘Who died?' and no one is talking about the thing that I actually think is important and was the point of the episode." That prompted the interviewer to ask, "Which is?" and Rhimes' answer to that question shows that despite surviving the actual plane crash, the five who remain out there in the woods aren't safe.
"Which is they are still out there. They're still out there in the forest, and we don't know if they are going to be OK. We left it open for a reason because…I hate to say this, but just because you saw people alive at the end of the finale doesn't mean they're going to be alive when the season starts up. We are completely jumping off into the unknown next season."
I get what Rhimes is saying, but I have a feeling that if anyone dies, it won't be Shepherd, Grey or Yang. Why? The three actors (Patrick Dempsey, Ellen Pompeo and Sandra Oh) who portray those characters have signed on for two more seasons. They're not going anywhere and the same can be said for Chandra Wilson (Miranda Bailey), Justin Chambers (Alex Karev) and James Pickens, Jr. (Richard Webber) because they also signed contracts. So, by process of elimination, if anyone from the crash dies, it will either be Arizona Robbins or Mark Sloan. Both characters, played by Jessica Capshaw and Eric Dane, were in bad shape, so at this point, it's not looking good for either one of them.
In regards to Arizona, we last saw her with a bad leg injury (the bone was exposed) and coughing up blood. In the episode before that, she tells Callie to never leave her, so that has me thinking that it's possible that in the season 9 premiere Arizona will be the one to leave Callie by dying from her injuries. Then, in the finale, Callie kept talking about how wonderful her life was with Arizona and the baby. It's definitely not looking good for her. I hope I'm wrong, though!
With Mark, he had a gash on his chest and needed surgery to empty a pool of blood that was building up in his heart. Cristina and Meredith save his life, but his survival isn't guaranteed because at one point, he told Arizona to take care of their baby because Lexie was waiting for him. Arizona kept talking to him and told him to fight because Callie and their baby Sophia were waiting for both of them to come home.
However, what if a death in the season premiere happens to someone in Seattle and not any of the crash victims? There was lots of talk about the possibility of April Kepner, played by Sarah Drew, committing suicide. People came to that conclusion because she failed the boards and then had issues about not being a good Christian for losing her virginity before marriage. Is it possible that she somehow dies in season 9? I guess it's possible, but it's a far-fetched possibility.
Ok...let's get into my predictions for the season 9 premiere.
1) As much as I would hate for this to happen, I think that if anyone from the crash dies, it'll be Arizona.
2) Derek and Meredith stay in Seattle, but Derek won't be able to perform surgeries for a while due to his injury.
3) Cristina stays in Seattle and will work things out with Owen over the course of the season.
4) Whether Arizona lives or dies, Karev stays saying that he owes it to Arizona because it should've been him on the plane.
5) Mark lives.
My one hope for the premiere: no one dies!
Well, those are my early season 9 premiere predictions. I'm going to keep an eye out for contract news concerning the actors, especially when it comes to Capshaw and Dane because that would definitely help with trying to figure out what's going to happen to their characters.
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