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Bring back McDreamy! Grey’s Anatomy fans start petition to resurrect Dr Derek Shepherd after shock exit
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It hasn't even been a week since Dr Derek Shepherd’s final Grey’s Anatomy episode aired in the US, but fans of the medical drama are already campaigning to bring him back.
In one of the show’s most shocking episodes ever, Derek’s wife Meredith was seen taking the heartbreaking decision to turn off his life support machine after he was involved in a catastrophic car crash.
Viewers were horrified by the turn of events, particularly as Derek, who is known as McDreamy, is one of the show’s most loved characters.
One dedicated fan was so incensed that she starting a petition to bring the doctor back from the dead and it’s already received over 15,000 signatures.
The petition, which was set up on Change.org, asks the show’s creator Shonda Rhimes to re-write the event as a dream or hallucination.
‘Why Shonda, why?’ writes a very angry Courtney Williams. ‘You cannot have people invest a DECADE into a character and then you just terminate them like that!’
‘You’ve destroyed us. COMPLETELY! Why would you do us like this? Dedicated and die-hard fans! We DO NOT deserve this!’
Courtney even asks 45-year-old Shonda how she sleeps at night.
Yikes, we wonder if she was expecting quite such a strong backlash?
Patrick, who starred on Grey’s Anatomy for 11 years, recently admitted that the executive producer was concerned about how fans would respond to Derek’s exit.
‘The fans care deeply,’ he told Entertainment Weekly. ‘I think Shonda cares deeply about the fans and how they will react.
‘Shepherd is a beloved character. People don’t want to lose him. He’s been in their lives for over 10 years.’
Judging by the amount of signatures on the petition, there are many fans who aren’t ready to let go of him just yet.
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Grey’s Anatomy killed off Patrick Dempsey’s Derek Shepherd on Thursday night, and one fan launched a petition on Change.org in an effort to bring McDreamy back. “It’s like you’ve killed the President of Grey’s Anatomy!” petition creator Courtney Williams wrote. “YOU HAVE TO BRING DEREK BACK! NOW! IMMEDIATELY!”
Bad news for Williams and the 4,268 (and counting) who’ve signed the petition: He’s not coming back—but Dempsey, who spoke to EW about leaving the show, understands why the fans are upset. “I think any time an original cast member has left, there’s always a void that will never be filled,” he said. “Shepherd is a beloved character. People don’t want to lose him. He’s been in their lives for over 10 years. But it goes on, and it will evolve.”
The petition writer suggests showrunner Shonda Rhimes make the episode where he dies a “dreamt one” or “a hallucination.” “You do NOT get to toy with our lives and emotions like this Shonda, NO! That is NOT RIGHT! How do you sleep at night?!?!!”
Read the whole petition over at Change.org, and tune in to Grey’s Anatomy on Thursday at 8 p.m. on ABC to watch how the doctors of Grey Sloan Memorial grieve.
And more: CBC News Posted: Apr 28, 2015 11:31 AM ET
Grey's Anatomy fans launch petition to bring Dr. McDreamy back
Change.org petition nearing goal of 75,000 signatures
Dr. Derek "McDreamy" Shepherd won't rest in peace if die-hard Grey's Anatomy fans have their way.
More than 70,000 viewers have signed a Change.org petition to have writers of ABC's medical drama bring back Patrick Dempsey's beloved character who was killed off in a stunning episode last Thursday night.
"You cannot have people invest a decade into a character and then you just terminate them like that!" writes petition creator Courtney Williams in an open letter to Grey's Anatomy showrunner and writer Shonda Rhimes.
"Why would you do us like this? Dedicated and die-hard fans! We DO NOT deserve this!"
Williams's comments echo the feelings of thousands of fans who turned to ABC's official Grey's Anatomy Facebook page to express their rage after Shepard died after being blindsided by a truck.
It happened after the heroic physician stopped to care for victims of a horrific car crash.
The poetic irony surrounding his death seems to have further enraged fans.
"You bring back his infamous words, 'It's a beautiful day to save lives,' have him wrap a girl's intestines in dry cleaning wrap then kill him off like that!" rants Williams. "You do not DO THIS TO LOYAL FANS!" she added.
Rhimes hints at more surprises
Williams suggests that Grey's Anatomy's "brilliant" writers could right the situation by making the pivotal events of the episode all a dream.
Shonda Rhimes
Grey's Anatomy showrunner Shonda Rhimes created the popular medical drama in 2005.
Rhimes, who created the show in 2005, hasn't publicly responded to demands to bring Dr. McDreamy back to life. But in a statement published by the Hollywood Reporter, Rhimes hinted that there would be more surprises in the show's upcoming episodes.
"The possibilities for what may come are endless," she wrote.
As for Dempsey, the American actor and race car driver who inhabited the character for 11 seasons, he still had one season left on his contract when Derek was killed off.
McDreamy's death seems to have come as a bit of a surprise to the 49-year-old actor.
"It just kind of happened," Dempsey told Entertainment Weekly. "[Being written off] was something that was kind of surprising and uh, just naturally came to be."
"I like the way it has all played out," he added.
There were rumours that Dempsey, who had recently taken a six month hiatus from the show, was written off over friction with Rhimes, but Dempsey said he was leaving the show in a good place with his fellow actors.
When asked specifically if that was also true with Rhimes, Dempsey simply said "Yes."
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