How do you not expect death to happen when a.) the show is set in a hospital and b.) it's about these people's lives. In life people die all the time. For many reasons and every day. But most importantly this is a long running drama on network television. Of course the body count will be high.

Here's where I think "badly" is subjective. The deaths are meant to evoke emotion. Any emotion. You're meant to feel the loss and be sad, or angry, or happy, or all of the above. Anything but indifference. To me it's only done badly if the viewing audience is indifferent to the death. Indifference indicates no impact.…

agreeing with you.

This is a show in a hospital. You know what happens everyday in a hospital? People die.

I don't get it and I'm a rabid TGIT watcher. These are nighttime soaps doing what nighttime soaps do. Drama doesn't exist where everyone is happy and noone dies. Derek's death wasn't insignificant. Permanently, tragically, and suddenly removing such a major character forces ALL other characters into new spaces. No…

Are we pretending killing off loved characters is new? Someone let me know what I'm supposed to blame Shonda for.

It's like we live in a world where Game of Thrones, Walking Dead, Breaking Bad, and countless daytime soap operas don't exist. Only Shonda is the character killer because NONE of those other shows exist.