The Hidden Dangers of Station 19 and Grey’s Anatomy Colliding

Krista Vernoff also noted that she did go back and edit some Grey’s Anatomy content out of the final episodes of Station 19 Season 3 to minimize spoilers, so steps are being taken to make sense of the situation. Given that most of the Station 19/Grey’s Anatomy crossovers are on a smaller scale than the two-parter that kicked off Station 19‘s third season, fixing the issues might be as simple as Grey’s eventually reverse engineering early Season 17 to fit Station 19‘s final Season 3 episodes.

The bigger problem, as I see it, is whether there were storylines from Grey’s Anatomy that were intended to bleed over into Station 19 and impact the crew there. Since Grey’s aired after Station 19 before its Season 16 finale, it was usually Station 19 cases bleeding into Grey’s, which worked in cases like the arguably shark-jumping bear attack, although I still think it was pretty messed up that a Station 19 death wasn’t explained until Grey‘s.

That said, rumor has it (via TVLine) that the original Grey’s finale was going to involve an explosion that resulted in the death of a major character. If that was going to be the case, I could see an explosion happening at the end of the planned penultimate episode of Grey’s Anatomy Season 16, bleeding into the next episode of Station 19, and then being resolved on Grey’s.

If this, or any other kind of scenario involving Grey’s plots impacting Station 19, was planned then major problems could be in store. While obviously nobody could have guessed that a pandemic would force the entertainment industry to a stop, I do wonder if this could change how Grey’s Anatomy and Station 19 will handle their crossovers in the future.