Warning! SPOILERS about Grey’s Anatomy season 21, episode 10 ahead.

The new intern class went through seismic changes in Mika leaving hurriedly in Grey’s Anatomy season 21’s winter finale and the spring premiere focusing on the convenience store shooting’s aftermath, the interns could only start to deal with their new group dynamics without Mika in Grey’s Anatomy season 21, episode 10. This was the case even as the previous episode showed glimpses of their group feeling broken.

Ever since ing Lucas and Simone in Meredith’s house, Mika was the glue of the intern group. This became especially true after she stopped keeping another job just to pay her student debt, giving her a chance to focus solely on her internship and whom she shared that with. Whether she went out drinking and commiserating with Blue and Jules or bridged the gap between Lucas and the other interns after his decision forced them out of the OR, Mika was the center of the intern group, making her hasty departure in Grey’s Anatomy season 21 inevitably change their dynamics.

Mika's Exit Made The New Interns More Similar To MAGIC In Grey's Anatomy Season 21

Without Mika, They Have To Learn How To Be A Group

Mika’s departure threatened the group’s unity because of Jules falling apart and not being able to rely on the others, but Mika acting as glue among the interns risked them forming bonds because they were friendly with one another instead of out of need to survive the intern year. While affinity led to many friendships among interns through the years, it’s not because of interns liking one another that lifelong bonds were created, and this couldn’t be more evident than with MAGIC. Indeed, Izzie, Meredith and George’s physical closeness made them allies, and Cristina becoming Meredith’s person inevitably involved her.

Despite not necessarily liking one another, Izzie, Meredith, Cristina and George helped each other, doing so with Alex too, despite despising him at the beginning, because they felt it was their responsibility to help him the intern year exam if they could. Nobody among MAGIC went to Seattle Grace to make friends, just like the new intern class. However, the core alliance among them was never challenged. The new interns learning to be allies before anything else in Grey’s Anatomy season 21 can finally create a stable base for potential friendships to have the chance to develop.

How Grey's Anatomy Season 21 Can Cement The New Interns' Bonds

A Grey Sloan Disaster Can Make Their Relationships Stronger

MAGIC all formed different kinds of friendships after becoming allies, but that solidified only through the worst disasters Grey’s Anatomy could throw at them in its most shocking episodes. Meredith and Cristina’s bond formed after Cristina needed someone to be her emergency to go through with her abortion. Similarly, Cristina and George’s friendship progressed only after George’s father dying at Seattle Grace led Cristina to share about her witnessing her father’s death. The four stood by together as Izzie cut Denny’s LVAD wire, despite not agreeing with her, but ing Izzie in keeping him alive.

Whether having to help one another after someone made a terrible mistake with a patient or surviving together a major horrifying event, going through something like that together can strengthen their bonds as a group.

Although Mika almost died in the car crash and Lucas was grazed in the convenience store robbery, the group of interns has yet to go through a major Grey Sloan Memorial-style disaster together. Whether having to help one another after someone made a terrible mistake with a patient or surviving together a major horrifying event, going through something like that together, relying on each other, can strengthen their bonds as a group, pushing them as close as previous groups of interns on Grey’s Anatomy were.

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Grey’s Anatomy season 21 airs new episodes every Thursday at 10pm on ABC.