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SPOILER ALERT!! Alternate Reality Grey’s Anatomy style!

by Jenny Aluning on February 3rd, 2012 · posted in Television · No Comments

Ever wonder what a “bright and shiny” Meredith would look like?

The Feb. 2 episode (aired in the US) of Grey’s Anatomy will feature an alternate reality where Ellis Grey (Kate Burton) was never stricken with Alzheimer’s, leading to a very different upbringing for Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo). The once dark and twisty doc is now happily… engaged to Alex Karev (Justin Chambers)?! The bad news? Derek (Patrick Dempsey) and Addison (Kate Walsh) are also still married… and she’s pregnant!

Where does this alternate reality leave the other docs? Check out the photos below to find out:

Since Ellis was never diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's, she was able to stay at Seattle Grace and move up in the ranks. "She's such a huge name in the medical profession," Chandra Wilson explains. "She runs that hospital with an iron fist, so you have to be at the top of your game when you're dealing with her."

Meredith is pretty in pink: "She wears a lot of pink, and she's in love with Alex Karev," Pompeo explains of this very different, very happy Meredith. "They're like the perfect, preppy, yuppie couple. She's also still always trying to please her mother and she's vying for her approval all the time."

Derek is grumpy smurf: Without Mer in his life, Derek is still unhappily married to Addison, which has greatly affected his personality. "We call him McDreary," Pompeo says. "He's a grumpy guy in the hospital, nobody likes him and nobody talks to him."

Congratulations are in order for Meredith and…Dr Charles Percy is still alive!

Cristina is flying solo: Without Meredith as her person, Cristina (Sandra Oh) has become a very stern, lonely, serious doctor. "For me, my inspiration was Emily the Strange and Wednesday Adams," Oh says of playing the new Cris.

Owen is married to Callie: "Callie (Sara Ramirez) being with Owen (Kevin McKidd) is the largest mistake of both of their lives," executive producer Shonda Rhimes says. "It's very funny because they so have no business being together. She's so pining for this peds surgeon and she doesn't know why. It's because she never had Mark Sloan (Eric Dane) there and Erica Hahn (Brooke Smith) never came because Callie was the heart surgeon. She never had her first experience with a woman." (To note: Kim Raver's Teddy is still in Iraq, though she and Owen keep in touch.)

Callie is head of Cardio: "This Callie is a cardio surgeon," Ramirez explains. "She's close with Ellis Grey, who heavily mentored Callie. The result of Ellis Grey having mentored Callie really influenced the direction she took so Callie is really at the top of her game in this reality."

Talk about an upside-down reality!

Miranda is "Mandy": As we saw in the flashback episode in Season 6, Bailey used to be a shy intern who went by the nickname Mandy. "We're revisiting Mandy," Wilson says. "She kind of got stunted right there at Mandy since the Chief wasn't able to mentor her the way we know that he had. She's just as smart, just as competent, but hasn't gotten to the place where we know Bailey will just go off on you in a minute. She had to keep it in check with Ellis Grey being in charge."

The docs look way too well-behaved in this reality!

Bonus Scoop:

Addison is still around: Since Mer never got in between Derek and Addison’s failing marriage, Addison never left Seattle. Instead, “she’s majorly in denial,” Walsh says. “She’s a little different, not as bitchy, but still bitchy. It’s a nice surprise for the ‘Addek’ fans, to see one take of what they would’ve been like if they were together. It’s not necessarily so pretty.”

Richard is with Ellis: In this reality, Richard Webber (James Pickens Jr.) finally got up the nerve to leave his wife Adele to be with Ellis. “We see a Richard who is very much in love with Ellis,” Pickens says, “but he’s also concerned that she has alienated her daughter. We finally see him take a stand and tell Ellis that she’s subverting this girl’s ambitions. Ellis understands it, but she also knows how to work Richard as well and she has a way of manipulating the situation and getting him to align with her.”

Arizona is … still looking good to Callie: “Arizona is much more sophisticated and polished. Everything about her is ambiguous; she’s not with anyone, male or female,” says Jessica Capshaw. But even in the alt-reality world, Calzona is meant to be. “You start to see Callie questioning what would have happened had she made a different decision, and that is inspired by a certain pediatric surgeon,” Ramirez adds.

* Pompeo and Chambers, who might just be the only Seattle Grace characters who haven’t hooked up, will be smooching. “Oh my god,” Pompeo says of her reaction to reading the script. “You have to understand, Justin is like my brother. I was so not into kissing him. I love him, and I think he’s one of the hottest guys on the planet for the record, but yeah, it’s like kissing your brother.”

Article and photos source: TV Guide