It’s now common knowledge
that T.R. Knight declined Grey’s Anatomy boss Shonda Rhimes’ request to briefly
return in season 6 to give his terminal George some closure. “I kind of get it,”
the series’ creator says in this week’s Entertainment Weekly cover story. “[He’d]
emotionally walked away.” Fans, however, may not be quite as chill when
they hear the killer story she had planned for him. Exclusive details about
George O’Malley’s lost Grey’s Anatomy episode can be found after the jump…
In this fall’s season premiere, George will succumb to the injuries he sustained after getting mowed down by that bus in last May’s finale. But that wasn’t supposed to be the last we saw of him. Says Rhimes, the episode was then going to flash back to the hours during which George was missing, from when he left the hospital to when he returned later on as a disfigured John Doe.
“I wanted to see his last day [alive] really badly,” she says. “What I thought was interesting was the idea of, we now know it’s the last day of someone’s life, [so we’re] looking at it differently than [we] would any other time.”
Viewers would have also seen firsthand how George’s split-second decision to save that girl’s life cost him his own. “I wanted to see the moment he leapt in front of the bus,” Rhimes confirms. “I wanted to bookend the episode [so that] the first time you see him leap in front of the bus, it’s really scary. But the second time you see it, he’s a hero.
“I thought it would have been a beautiful episode,” she continues, adding that, had we seen those missing hours, “We might have learned something new about George.”
Although disappointed she wasn’t able to tell that story, Rhimes insists she’s content with how George’s five-year arc concluded. “We really got to see him grow up,” she says. “It really does feel like we watched a full evolution of a character, and I feel good about that.”
Still, I would’ve loved to have seen those flashbacks. What about you? Do you wish Knight had stuck around a little longer to give us George’s last day? Or do you agree with him that the final shot of his character standing outside the elevator was “the best way to leave
it”? Comment away below!
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He should of returned for one final episode. He’s disappointing his fans, so we’re supposed to follow and support him in his future endeavors? I get why he wanted to leave the show, but it’s the fans that lose out in this, not Rhimes.
I could not take more sadness. So is better to live it the way it ended. I had hope that he was coming back. I liked seeing George and I am going to miss him dearly. I wish T.R. Knight the best and hope to see him in other TV shows.
I would have liked to see it but I also feel the finale was a good ending.
I do not believe one word of that! Why would she throw someone under a bus (litterly!), then want to relive his day in a flash-back? Not only that sounds awful, this isn’t LOST!
And do we really buy she wanted to tell his story? I mean…he has had a GREAT story these past few seasons..right?
I call B.S.
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The show has gone so far down hill anyway. I half thought they’d bring in another actor and explain the looks/personality change due to the accident. At least they are killing off George.
I would have loved to see George’s last day, but I respect his decision. I do think it is a little tacky for Shonda to be like “this is what could have been, but TR cheated all of you out of it”. Ok, she didn’t exactly say that, but it is kind of implied. She’s also kind of saying, “if you had waited just a BIT longer you would have had a whole episode to yourself”, which i also think is a little twisted. I feel like they are definitely having a calm media war. There is a land called Passive Aggressiva, and TR and Shonda are King and Queen.
Even if I would have liked to see it. I think it’s best we don’t see more of it. I’m not sure that the first episode of season 6 would have worked as a George’s character centered episode. We now need to see how it’s gonna affect the rest of Seattle Grace.
A little flash back of how he decide to serve army and the accident heroic action would make people remember more about him.
I would’ve tuned out for that episode. I really can’t stand George so I’m not feeling sad over the fact that he’s going to be killed off. In fact, good riddance.
That would have been really cool to see. Shonda needs to do a death/life-or-death scene right – there are fans who stuck with her during the ferryboat debacle!
This sounds like a great episode, but I’d be willing to bet that Shonda only came up with the idea to make TR Knight look bad AFTER he decided to leave. She seems like an incredibly manipulative person.
Bean, 100% agree! Sounds like she’s putting this all on him…telling the fans, “look what he prevented you to see”
I agree, like I said, I don’t believe one word out of her mouth.
Shonda finally decides to do a George centric episode AFTER he leaves the show? Up until the final ep she gave him all of 17 words to say all season. please, she really is just tryng to make TR look bad.
Yeah, they ignore the character all season, looks like he is finally starting to get a story line and they kill him? Please!
I think it speaks a lot also that instead of just letting George go off to the army, they kill him altogether. No chance of maybe coming back even if just a guest appearence.
Pathetic treatment for someone who’s been there from the beginning.
SR is full of BS. I stopped believing anything coming out of her mouth during S3. I am so done with this show.
I think it would have been an amazing, touching episode, and I’m sad T.R. decided not to come back. Hopefully, there will still be some closure.
I don’t blame him for not wanting to return…if my employer had treated me as poorly and as dishonestly as Shonda treated TR, I wouldn’t go out of my way to do them any favors.
The less George the better so I’m happy the season premiere isn’t going to be watching George’s last day alive. He’s dead. Why would I want to watch a bus run him over? We know how it all happened through the girl, there’s no need to waste screentime on that. What matters now are the characters who are still alive and those are the ones I want to see.
Maybe if Shonda had sat down with him and discussed what she had planned he might have been willing to play that out. Clearly, the lack of communication was a factor in his desire to leave.
I’m kinda mad that T.R. didn’t stick around for the episode. I think it would have been amazing!
Would’ve loved to have seen that episode Shonda had in mind… however… I think she was really euphemistic saying TR had emotionally disengaged. Seems to me that TR had had enough of Shonda and how she was treating him.
I never believe a word out of Shonda’s mouth. She is a liar and a manipulator. Had T.R. agreed to come back it probably would have been a two minute flash back and one minute would have been dedicated to him getting the chief coffee!
TR had to do what was right for him, and we’ll never know what really happened inside GA, but MAN, would I have loved to see that episode as described by Shonda!! I think it would have been a sure Emmy nod for TR, too.
Oh please. She’s such a manipulator. She had all season to tell his story and she ddin’t. She knew months in advance he was leaving, but she only gave him an episode afetr he died? How t=wisted is that?
FGeorge was my favorite character, and TR uis my favorite actor.
I really resent her erasing him all season and then trying to msake TR the bad guy when she was.
I am glad we aren’t gonna be re-hashing his death. I am also hoping the show doesn’t turn into a 4 week long MOPEFEST at the start of the season. Yuck. I was really happy when the obviously uncomfortable George and Izzy storyline was halted, and even happier when Little Grey didn’t end up with him. I thought his best moments in the series were when he was proving himself…to his family, to the chief, to his peers, and then to all of us with his heroism at the end. But as a romantic lead, he was horrible..and it made us all uncomfortable for him.
In the upcoming season I would like A) minimal moping B)Izzy story line without odd crappola in it. (ex. saving Deer, Many unexplained weeks of uncomfortable dead people making love to her etc.) Just let her be REAL for once.
Thanks..
I agree with most people saying that Shonda is full of it. For the past 2 or 3 seasons, all she’s done is lie about what she has in store for the characters, only to ruin their storylines, like George for example. After giving TR such great material with the storyline with George’s father, and TR getting an Emmy nod, she wrecked the character with having him sleep with Izzie and then just disappear for the majority of this season. George has always been my favorite character and while I would have loved a George-centric episode, after what we’ve seen from Shonda, I doubt it would have acctually happened. After reading this past EW, I have much more respect for TR Knight, and I’m glad he’s moving on without dwelling.
T.R. is a whiny little brat who’s just killed his career. Shonda was gracious enough to let him out of his contract when she could have amended it and FORCED him to return for an extra episode and this is what he does?
Enjoy Broadway and then off-Broadway, T.R. In a couple of years you’ll lose your house just like Isiah Washington lost his. Let’s see how “fulfilled” you are then.
It just would’ve made me even more mad watching that to know that she drove him off the show. Make him a hero so I can miss him even more? No thanks. I’m so over Shonda.
And way to go, Shonda, throwing him under a bus AGAIN! Team T.R.
Clearly, that woman thinks we are a bunch of idiots to believe anything that comes out of her mouth. She ruined her own show and now is trying to make it seem like she cares about the actors and the storylines. Please!
george is such a good character in he show i would of loved to see him save the child from the bus, i don’t like it when stories are just dropped and only talked about later i wish he would of decided to stay for the one episode for it to feel more complete.
He warned her a long time in advance she was elaving and she couldn’t make him shoot those scenes before the end of the seasdon. He had 30 seconds per episode. It wasn’t as he was too busy.
She had months to give George a proper closure. She didn’t do it. How dare she blame him for that?
It really makes me mad. She is the one who let us George fans down, not him.
I love George and TR, and I’m furious she is trying to make him look bad.
It won’t work. We know who’s the bad guy here, and it’s not TR.