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Can't stand Amelia

posted 8 years ago by ciara99
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She is such a woe is me character, I hate it. It seems like every opportunity she gets she's telling some sob story or another. Last episode Owen and her were just lying in bed and she blurts out the story about her junkie ex who she only dated for a month or two if memory serves.

And don't get me started on the way she treated Mer after Derek died and the fact that she thought she should be there before Mer pulled the plug (or something along those lines). Pretty sure the spouse has final say, and if there is no spouse the parents would. The sibling would never have say unless all three of the previous parties are gone.

Obviously if my sibling died I'd be distraught, but I'd never try to act like my grief was greater than his widow's grief, who now has 3 kids to take care of and had to watch her husband die senselessly.

I liked her when she first showed up, but it seems like they just cannot let the whole addiction, pity me storyline go, they try to bring it up at every chance, and the more it's brought up the less impactful it is.

[–] eileen-guthrie555 8 years ago

And don't get me started on the way she treated Mer after Derek died and the fact that she thought she should be there before Mer pulled the plug (or something along those lines). Pretty sure the spouse has final say, and if there is no spouse the parents would. The sibling would never have say unless all three of the previous parties are gone.

Obviously if my sibling died I'd be distraught, but I'd never try to act like my grief was greater than his widow's grief, who now has 3 kids to take care of and had to watch her husband die senselessly.

Well, I read her reaction to Derek's death a bit differently. She's a neurosurgeon and believed she could've saved him. Unfortunately, the hospital was too small and didn't have a on call neurosurgeon. He died from the brain swelling pushing against his skull, they needed to relieve the pressure. I don't think he would've survived even if he was airlifted to another hospital. I think Amelia thought she could save him, I think that was her grief, she felt helpless, she has the skill and knowledge to fix him. Meredith knew it was too late by the time she got there. He was already brain dead by that time. I just thought Amelia was so frustrated by his senseless death, both neurosurgeons and nothing either one of them could do.

What I never understood was why the doctors in the emergency room didn't find another neurosurgeon, pick the phone up, call another hospital and have him/her give directions over the phone on how to relieve the swelling. They just stood there. It would have given him more time while waiting for the surgeon to show up.