Spoilers for Greys Anatomy season 16 ahead.

Grey Sloan Hospital is not the hospital you want to go to in an emergency. Yes, the doctors are world-class and very, very hot, but that hospital is the breeding ground for anything bad that happens in Seattle. Plane crashes, mass shootings, huge storms, ferry boat crashes, flipped-over ambulances what do they all have in common? They all happened at Grey Sloan, aka Seattle Grace, aka, as Cristina Yang once put it, Seattle Grace Mercy Death. Season 16 of Greys Anatomy fell away from the natural and mechanical disasters in favor of straight-up personal disasters, but when Greys Anatomy comes back in 2020 (which is Thursday, January 23 at 9 p.m., according to ABC), it needs to get back in with the high-stakes drama. Im just going to say it it needs some kind of highly communicable disease that will wipe out half the cast. (More on that in a paragraph or two.)

One thing you may have noticed is that Greys Anatomy is moving back an hour to be at 9:00PM, not 8:00PM. Showrunner Krista Vernoff told TVLine that the move is so that Greys can be McSexy again. There are different rules for a 9:00PM show than there are for an 8 pm show, and we hope to take advantage of those rules, Vernoff she said. Greys was definitely allowed to be a sexier show when it was on at 9[pm]. So we are excited by the change back to our [previous Thursday] time slot.

That may be true, and some more, good, old-fashioned bubble-bath-and-boning may be what Meredith needs, but from my view, this move is to both make Greys Anatomy sexier and to force people to watch Greys Anatomy firefighter spinoff Station 19, which is now the lead-in to Greys. But Station 19 is like fetch not going to happen. You cant make me watch it, Vernoff. Im onto you.

You have about eight weeks until Greys Anatomy Season 16 comes back with new episodes, so in the meantime, ponder these questions.

Greys Anatomy has always had a huge ensemble cast, with a focus on the main core interns. Obviously, the interns grew up, saw ghosts (Izzy), became roadkill (George), and moved to the Alps (Cristina), so things have changed. But at this point, the show needs to cut its dead weight. In the final seconds of the Season 16 mid-season finale, a car careened through Joes, the bar where all the hospital folk hang out. (It actually came in from the ceiling, which, is Joes a basement bar? Is this something we didnt know in 16 seasons?) Lets crush a majority of the patrons and doctors under the smoking wreckage, make an episode about the dramatic-yet-ill-fated rescues, and move on. I say Good day to Maggie, Jackson, Koracick, Hunt, and Teddy, especially.

Maybe this switch to sexy-time 9:00PM will perk up Merediths love life, but right now, shes in no-man's land. Literally. Deluca, aka, a sad puppy, dumped her when she wanted to be a surgeon first and bang later, and now, she seems like shes making eyes at the hot new Irish doc, or as Cristina says, McWidow. Im all for bringing back the Mc nicknames, and Im also all for letting Meredith get laid. But like, the love kind of sex. Derek is dead, and while no one will replace him, there are plenty of people who have loved ones die and go on to new relationships. Why is Meredith like an old sea widow, gazing at the ocean and hoping hell return? Move on.

Miranda Bailey is a saint. She has overcome so much. Shes been overlooked and overworked and undervalued during her entire time at Grey Sloan, because people like Miranda Bailey arent showy. They put the hard work in and dont peacock about it because they know it needs to get done. Miranda Bailey for President. Miranda Bailey for Queen. Miranda Bailey for everything. So, after a hard season or two, Greys Anatomy decides to give Bailey another baby and then take. That. Baby. Away. I know that miscarriages happen naturally all the time, but Bailey cant catch a break. Does Chandra Wilson, who plays Bailey, take all the good bagels first from craft services on Greys Anatomy bagel day? I mean damn, writers. What did she do to you?

Maggie is having a breakdown because she killed the cousin she didnt know she had. Jo is having a breakdown and stole a baby because she volunteered at a safe haven drop off because she was a dropped-off baby. I will not downplay the distinct emotional issues that these women are having, because thats some tough shit to go through. But Greys Anatomys characters like to dive in first, go to therapy later. While it might not make for the best TV, it would mean a lot to millions of viewers to watch Maggie and Jo both attend some sort of counseling to work on their respective issues while not killing more patients or endangering the welfare of a helpless newborn. Just a thought.

Yeah, we needed some place for Alex and Richard to go, so theyre at Pac North, the neer-do-well hospital down the street. But splitting the doctors up works in theory as a plot device, but not in practice. All the doctors are going back and forth and visiting Pac North on a field trip are they doing any actual doctoring? Lets reunite the Karevs, let Richard fix his marriage, and push Pac North on a barge, out to sea. (With Owen on it. Because hes the worst.)

Greys Anatomy fans: Stay strong. January is...relatively soon, right?

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