One Grey's Anatomy Death Was So Pointless, It Should Be Ruled Non-Canon

Sometimes, a character simply needs to get killed off because it drives the story forward and makes sense plot-wise. Other times, it's something like George O'Malley's exit from Grey's Anatomy in Season 6.

Many fans believe to this day that Shonda Rhimes did not need to get rid of him like that, and George's death was utterly pointless. According to Reddit, George could have easily been written off by joining the army, but no, the show needed to do him dirty for some reason.

"I would have preferred him being a soldier and that way he would have met April and learn more from Owen, imagine that when April and Owen returned from Iraq [and] said they saw George and that he is a great surgeon, that would have been better," Redditor Ok-Marsupial-4433 shared an opinion.

This alternate ending, fans believe, would have been so much better than just killing the character off like Rhimes did.

Some fans, however, are okay with the way things worked out for George in the show.

"George was the first death, the first one in the group and his death was perfectly designed for a shocking TV moment," Redditor linaknowwhatsgood said. "That idea is good, but eventually someone would have to died and honestly George as a character was going downhill, so this and tied to Izzie and the elevator-dream scene [...] everything was done so well."

George was last seen in season 17 episode 4, titled You'll Never Walk Alone, which aired on December 3, 2020.