What the pattern tells you
Better Question: What’s the standard?
“I’m calling Post-it.”
Derek Shepherd stands in the living room of the house he built for Meredith. He knows he screwed up while he was in Boston, putting his marriage on shaky ground. Calling Post-it is his way of invoking their vows and their commitment to each other.
He asserts his position: “I love you. I’m not going to stop loving you. Meredith, I can’t live without you. I don’t wanna live without you.”
Meredith responds, “I can live without you. (*pause for dramatic effect*) But I don’t want to. I don’t ever want to.”
If this were the first episode of Grey’s Anatomy you’d ever watched, you might be lulled into thinking that this was the beginning of a stronger relationship for these two. He’ll come back to Seattle, they’ll grow closer, and it will always be a beautiful day to save lives.
But if you’d watched the 236 episodes that preceded this one, you would know better.
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