Thread:123qazqaz/@comment-4884910-20140228032119/@comment-5278765-20140302222838

I didn't necessarily like the merger, but it did provide two characters to kill off before people got super attached to them. And they were eased in much more naturally than the interns, who were just shoved down our throats in season nine (and even into season ten).

I don't know much about Sarah Drew, but April has grown on me a lot, especially this season. Tuck is still around. He was even mentioned in Take It Back. But he has a parent who isn't a doctor, so that's a quick excuse for why he's not around and he's old enough to go to school, so that accounts for some other things. Zola, Sofia, and Bailey have all their parents as doctors working at the same hospital and their home lives are shown more, so we see those kids more.