Fans checking back into Grey's Anatomy season 19 are still recovering from Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo) leaving Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital. Throughout the character's 19 years working at the medical center, she slowly advanced from an intern to becoming chief of surgery. But viewers know her journey came with many heartbreaks, even through the end of her tenure.
From the beginning of the season, viewers saw Meredith navigate a rekindled romance with Nick Marsh (Scott Speedman). In between declarations of love, they faced Meredith choosing to relocate her family to Boston for an Alzheimer's research position and to help her daughter Zola (Aniela Gumbs)'s heightened anxiety. But her decision didn't sit well with Nick, who confronted his girlfriend about not telling him about the move. This led to him storming out on Meredith and accusing her of not wanting to make their love last from opposite ends of the country.
But when Nick later pulled her aside to discuss what happened, she had a blunt message for him. "I'm a grown woman with a big life and a big career and three kids. This move is what my daughter needs," she said. "I want you in my life, if you want to be in my life. But if I have to choose, I'm going to pick me. I pick my kids and I pick what's best for us. I am not going to beg you to love me."
Sound familiar? When longtime viewers witnessed the moment, it led many of them to instantly think of how Meredith used to beg a certain someone to love her. Folks may remember how in the fifth episode of season 2, the then-intern found herself romantically entangled with Derek Shepherd (Patrick Dempsey). At the time, he had to make the decision to start a new life with Meredith or repair his marriage with Addison Montgomery (Kate Walsh). As the two scrubbed up for a surgery, Meredith delivered a speech about why Derek should be with her.
"I'm not out of this relationship. I'm in. I'm so in, it's humiliating because here I am, begging," she tearfully tells him. "Here it is. Your choice, it's simple: her or me. I'm sure she's really great, but Derek, I love you ... So pick me. Choose me. Love me."
Given how one of Meredith's pivotal moments with Nick closely mirrors the beginning of her major love story, some felt the need to call out the moment on Twitter.
"The parallel of Meredith telling nick that she’s not going to beg him to love her when she asked and begged Derek to love her in a very similar scrub room," one person wrote. "The juxtaposition of Meredith saying 'I'm going to pick me. I pick my kids, and I pick what’s best for us. And I am not going to beg you to love me.' in the scrub room with Nick vs 'Pick me. Choose me. Love me' in the scrub room with Derek," another added. "Meredith telling nick she’s not going to beg him to love her IN THE SAME PLACE SHE BEGGED DEREK 18 YEARS AGO ?????" a different user screamed.
While fans don't know whether Meredith and Nick's love will end, it's nice to see her confidence and self love grow on Grey's Anatomy. Guess we'll have to wait until the next episode to see the aftermath.
