Grey's Anatomy: Jo & Alex - "What About Us" (through ep 16x16)

Hi everyone! Note I've seen 16x17 (the newest episode) now too so feel free to mention it in the comments. I've caught up! I'll also transcribe all the voiceovers for this vid Saturday but if you have a question about a line or two feel free to ask and I'll tell you sooner! So anyway...

I think the episode to say goodbye to Alex Karev was amazingly well done, considering they chose to write such an AWFUL thing that hurts all of us so much. Especially those of us still watching the show and at all invested in Jo's storyline, because they've made such a huge deal over the course of her entire arc but especially this past season with her needing to go into inpatient psychiatric care, that abandonment is the source of her core extreme trauma. To make all the viewers of the show as well as Alex Karev so aware of how deeply abandonment would hurt Jo, and then have Alex literally just abandon her... I can't even. Anyway.

I was very inspired to make my first ever Jo/Alex vid and now that I have, I hope it won't be my last! I actually asked that someone vid Jo/Alex for me for Vidders4ACause in the summer of 2013:    • ► Alex & Jo | ... like I've never bee...   - I've loved the ship for quite a long while, I must say. I don't hear the ship name Jolex much but I guess it's theirs, and I'm newly re-obsessed with them now that I've spent the past week working on this, starting Saturday.

I really wish Justin Chambers hadn't had to leave the show, and I almost wish if Alex had to be off the show, that they wrote Jo off with him just to not ruin the ship. Like Lucas/Peyton leaving One Tree Hill or Abby/Luka on ER driving off to Boston. Like I am excited to see what Jo has next in her storyline and I have been loving her more than Alex for the past couple seasons I think, but also... this pain... I feel it vicariously or something. I can't get over how extremely traumatic this would be for Jo and even if they don't write it that way, I can't shake how awful it is for the writing to have done this to Jo.

I made a mistake in the end credits because I forgot the two Izzie scenes I used were from seasons 2 and 5, so i didn't only use seasons 6-16. Whoops. I also accidentally used my luvtheheaven5 watermark I only use on collabs instead of just writing luvtheheaven in my watermark. I never do this but apparently I vid my own non-collab vids so rarely these days that I forgot!!

I had to render this vid in 2 parts then splice the parts together, because Vegas kept crashing on me but I think it turned out seamless in the end. I'm pretty proud of how this turned out! I kept tweaking it, taking into account my partner's advice too who I kept asking to watch test renders of portions of the vid, until I was satisfied!

When did I pass 5,000 subscribers?! Awesome. Thank you all of you! That's such a huge honor. I don't feel like I deserve so many of you. I appreciate all of you, although sometimes I find it hard to believe more than a handful of people like my videos when most of them don't get more than a few hundred views and like 10 comments... I think one of my goals with this vid was to hopefully post it while feelings about all this are strong enough that it'll get more views and more comments... ;)

I have a playlist of Grey's Anatomy vidding of mine if anyone is interested in seeing my other GA vidding. Just ask if you can't find it on my channel.

Anyway. I really hope you like my video! Please let me know what you think in the comments below!