Hey! :)

In all honesty, and I’m completely un-biased when I say this, I believe Jackson and April have the most interesting relationship/love story.

They have the whole friends-to-lovers aspect down, but it’s a lot more challenging than that.

(Skipping all those other ships…)

Yes, Alex and Jo both come from troubled backgrounds, but they’re too similar to one another for me to find it any sort of groundbreaking.

Callie and Arizona are losing my interest because they’ve been on a spin for ages and their storyline has never been that compelling to me.

Meredith and Derek had that will-they/won’t-they thing going on for quite some time but aside from that, their storyline isn’t actually all that fresh in my opinion. Guy cheats on wife because he got cheated on, and he falls in love with and marries his mistress. Not that great.

Owen and Cristina take second place for me because they already had baggage when they started. Cristina was still bruised from Burke’s brutal departure and Owen was suffering with PTSD. They were compelling because I wanted to watch them grow, and change, and adapt to one another because they wanted different things out of life. He wants a family, and kids, and a soccer mom as a wife while she wants a career and a safety net. They couldn’t be everything the other needed but they loved each other regardless.

But, yes, to me, Jackson and April have the most interesting romantic relationship.

They weren’t brought on as love interest for any of the characters, as plot devices for each other. They were there, around, being all friendly and occasionally flirty but they weren’t planned since their arrival on the show.

We watched them develop, and we learnt more about them, and only when it got to the point where they were accepted by the fandom, did the show decide “hmm, let’s see what happens if we put them together.”

The result: some great chemistry that had been building over a couple of seasons, an interesting relationship that went through its struggles at first, a love story that unfolded beautifully after started nowhere.

They challenge each other, which is one of the things that I look for in good relationships. They would be boring as hell if they were the same person, if they agreed on everything. No. They’re opposing. Watching an atheist love and cherish a christian is interesting, watching them have to adapt to fit each other that little bit more is entertaining. That’s a good story.

Watching two best friends fall in love and accept each other despite great differences and conflicting views on the world? That, to me, is the greatest love on this show.

Hope this answers your questions :)