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'Grey's Anatomy''s 300th episode aired Thursday and THR spoke to writer and co-showrunner Krista Vernoff about season 14's nostalgic feel, her approach to the landmark episode and how next week's midseason finale will feel like a big event.

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00:00I am profoundly grateful for the lessons that I have learned from Meredith Grey.

00:06ABC and Shondaland's Grey's Anatomy is renowned for killing off cast members,

00:10making fans cry their eyes out and constantly reinventing itself.

00:14The show's 300th episode aired Thursday and The Hollywood Reporter spoke to writer

00:18and co-showrunner Krista Vernoff about season 14's nostalgic feel, her approach to the

00:23landmark episode and how next week's mid-season finale will feel like a big event.

00:28Spoiler alert ahead for Grey's Anatomy's 300th episode.

00:31The episode was a nod to the show's gone-but-never-forgotten original stars, including

00:35Izzy, played by Katherine Heigl, George, who was portrayed by T.R. Knight, and of course

00:40Sandra Oh's Christina. The episode saw its central character, Ellen Pompeo's Meredith,

00:44take home the Harper Avery Award, the show's fictional prize at her late mother

00:48Ellis, played by Kate Burton, who had a cameo, won twice.

00:52Vernoff, who returned to Grey's Anatomy after a six-year absence, revealed that she wanted

00:56to bring back one of the original series regulars, but wouldn't say whom, and also bring back

01:00the feel of the show's early days and create the feeling that a clip show would produce

01:04without actually using clips.

01:06The 300th episode was designed as nostalgia, Vernoff said.

01:09When I approach a script and think about the history of the character, the first place I go

01:13is to the years that I wrote. That's the nature of the beast.

01:16THR asked Vernoff what inspired her to make the homage to the past in the 300th episode, and she

01:20described the process as more like a hailstorm instead of a lightning bolt.

01:24We were talking about, can we get one of the originals? That's obviously where you start,

01:27she elaborated. Well, no you can't. You try, and you can't, and there are a million reasons

01:32why you can't. So, you move on. Then it becomes a conversation of how do we get the feeling of a

01:36visit from one of the originals without a visit from the originals? Referencing the Izzy,

01:41George and Christina look-alikes in the episode, Vernoff explained,

01:44Off her conversation with Rhymes about finding a way to achieve the clip show feeling, Vernoff said,

02:02Grace fans will be well aware that the show's mid-season finales always feature huge events,

02:13and next week's episode will be no different. Says Vernoff,

02:16Executive producer Bill Harper pitched me that episode as a mid-season finale, and my first

02:20reaction was, don't we do a giant event of some sort? And this is a giant event. The consequences

02:26are dire. It's an edge-of-your-seat action movie of a Grey's Anatomy episode.

02:30Grey's Anatomy airs Thursdays at 8 p.m. on ABC.

02:33To read THR's full interview with Grey's writer and co-showrunner Krista Vernoff, head to THR.com

02:38and tell us, what did you think of the show's 300th episode? In the comment section.

02:42For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Lyndsey Rodrigues.

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