Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-186.91.159.15-20140728161236/@comment-24386552-20140809165740

Hey if the characters didn't grow, Grey's wouldn't be a show. It would be a comedy or a farce. If Alex and Meredith never really grew up, their characters would be useless. If Alex never got over his ass attitude and Meredith never getting over her woe-is-me stuff, then their characters should be killed off. If T.R Knight had chosen to continue on the show, that would have been amazing. It very often mentioned by Alex (surprisingly) that George would have been a greater surgeon than all of the residents combined. Minus Cristina that is. Plus Cristina has grown a lot since the beginning. She still isn't the best with bed-side manner, but grew to be an out-of-this world surgeon, maybe even better than Erica Hahn and Dr. Altman. Yes, there was a lot of things she survived. In 1.04, she had learned to let go and not get too personally involved in cases. In 2.02 she wasn't personally involved, but her opinion on what to do, went off of facts. Like that the Mom was abused. In 3.25 and all of the fourth season, she was working on getting herself back after Burke left. She was in a dark place. It was the big reason she wasn't willing to get too close to Owen. S8 she struggled personally, but pulled through professionally. She learned some more things in S9 and by S10 she had become an astounding surgeon. Where she would've won a Harper Avery (Minus connections to the foundation), something she obsessed about during her resident years. However I wish that Derek would have more character development. Because from the looks of it, not much has really changed. He is still putting Meredith and others second, he still is a bit harsh over some things, and he also isn't so emotionally expressive. Only anger and anguish (In 3.16 and 3.17) have really been shown besides happiness.