Anonymous wrote:I stopped watching during season 2. Olivia became too much of the story, and despite all their efforts to convince us otherwise, she is a very weak protagonist.
+1 - another Shonda Rhimes hallmark along with unrealistic, stream-of-consciousness, over-emotional monologues. Olivia, Meredith, and Annalise on the unwatchable How to Get Away With Murder are all weak, boring protagonists. Fortunately for Grey's, there have been many excellent characters in the cast to make up for that shortcoming (most of whom are gone now, but fortunately Bailey remains, and there are several excellent male protagonists as well).
I feel like Rhimes saddles her female protagonists with so many flaws and insecurities to make them more "relatable," and to make them more human despite their allegedly supernatural professional abilities, that they end up neurotic, unlikable, and not believable as actual people.