Runaway Groom
"I'm free!" she shouted, as her best friend clutched her from behind, she writhed in a stunning white strapless gown. She stood in Burke's apartment, abandoned and broken by the one man she truly let in. He was the one man that made her believe she could be compassionate. Now, as she looked around his apartment, once filled with meticulous items, it was now barren. No trumpet in the corner, no medical journals, not even Grand-Mama's picture on the nightstand. Burke was gone, and Yang was free? Then why all the hysterics? The question on her mind was the same one on ours. Is he coming back? Because she's so devastatingly free right now that it's hard to breathe. She's the kind of free that makes her think she doesn't really want to be this free. She wants to be who she is with Burke, who she's become because of him. She wants to be the obsessively perfect surgeon with a heart. A heart surgeon with a heart of gold if I may pun. One could almost feel a kinship with Christina Yang, because as she was being cut out of that wedding dress, and suffocated by that choker her situation resonated with viewers. We wait painstakingly every week for a show we've grown to love and hate at times. This season has been tough. We had all summer to grieve for Denny, but come to find more deaths ahead of us. This includes the major three part arc where Meredith's nearly goes asystolic on us from drowning. Many things don't make sense to us by the closing of Grey's, and even make us angry.
Why is Meredith so verbally inept when it comes to Derek? Why is Derek being McAsshole? Why is Izzy in love with George? Why are there the multiple deaths of so many parents like Mr. O'Malley, Ellis & Susan Grey. With the season finale, all the emotional trials we have been put through this season, a viewer can relate to Christina. We're freakin' there. I'm talking Carrie, at the prom, with the pigs blood horrified. But we're free right? We're free to have our Thursday night back without the onslaught of juicy entertainment, utter shock and sometimes even despair and disbelief. We're free, and we couldn't be more hurt that they set us free with so many questions. I finished reading the official Blog for Grey's and it gave some insight to what I already knew about Alex mirroring Meredith and how they're both too emotionally damaged to find happiness. They sort of connect on this almost really sad level.Also resonated on that Izzy, George, Callie triangle. But if you wanna read it, here is the link. http://www.greyswriters.com/. I want to have my own thoughts, cuz I'm aloud. Read them both if you'd like.
When I talk about Grey's it's an emotional experience. I pour my heart out. I'm crying as I type this. I'm actually not crying, but I probably would be if I weren't at work. So I'm going to attempt to glaze over whatever topics bore me, and call attention to the ones that matter. Let's begin with something I know you're all pissed and confused about: Isobel and George.
When Izzy met Georgie
All right, I know many of you are struggling with this. And this is very left field for us. Izzy is "in love," with George? After all her disastrous relationships: the hockey player boyfriend back home who didn't understand her as a doctor (only as a model). Then Alex, the emotional criple who couldn't be honest that he failed his board exams and then cheated with the syphilis nurse Olivia. Finally Denny Duquette, the guy with the large failing heart who won our hearts. Why George O'Malley you make ask. She's treated him like a little brother since the first season. "I don't care George, look at me in my underwear, it's fine, it really doesn't bother me." He even went so far as to not buy tampons when they were needed most, and defending his masculinity by announcing in the shower, "I am not your sister!"
Side note: My favorite Izzy moment is when Meredith is writing the check out to the nursing home for her mother and Izzy walks by with coffee or something. When she walks away, Meredith jovially replies, "Hello Kitty," The show has had its fun moments, and it continues to do so.
But, for many viewers Izzy and George is no fun. Why? Because though they have been playing this cat and mouse best-buddy type relationship we never really expected it to evolve into full blown sex. (It was apparently really good sex in those flashbacks George had while talking to Callie's father). I mean when the sex happened between Meredith and George, the horror was at least shared by the rest of the interns who knew. But as Karev would say, "So you slept with O'Malley. You're the girl who gets drunk and sleeps with inappropriate men. It's your thing."
But Izzy? Izzy's the girl that you settle down with. But people let's pay attention here? When has Izzy ever made sense to us? We think we know this girl, and she's lived in a trailer park, modeled underwear, had a kid, cut her fiancé's L-Vad wire. You think we know this girl? I think, we think that we know this girl. But she's a tortured and a little dark and twisty. I mean, maybe even as much if not more than Meredith. I think what we note is her vibrant optimism. We're fond of her feminine charms and Martha Stewart meets Pamela Anderson combination. So it doesn't surprise me she's confused and thinks she should belong with George. She's clingy, she needs people to see her, beyond this physical beauty. And when she feels like people do, like Denny and George she gravitates toward them strongly. We're talking, there's the cliff, and there she is jumping off of it. She's had to make some hard choices, and we don't know her entirely, not yet at least. We haven't seen her happy in a long-term stable relationship. And this subplot is just inevitable to me. They needed something, and it's going to play out. It kind of feels like they're grasping at straws, but it's Grey's. There's a spin-off in the works, we're going to forgive the madness that is Izzy and George. And in the show's defense they did give subtle clues when Izzy was so clearly jealous of Callie from the beginning. It could just be that she might not really want George, but she doesn't want anybody else to have him.
Meredith and Derek no more?
Where they go from here? Who knows? Of course we all want them to end up together. He loves ferryboats, she loves Tequila. It's a match made in heaven right? Wrong! We only think so because we fell in love with them as they fell in love with each other. But no matter how bad they are for each other right now, we want them to find happiness. (TOGETHER of course.) Sometimes I just want to shake Meredith and ask her why she can't just surrender and be happy with Derek! But for now it's over, it's so over. If McDreamy starts dating her sister, I am just going to shoot myself. She's might be the younger, less dark and twisty, quasi-gorgeous Grey, but she's not our girl. If she narrates an episode I will cuss to high hell. No way! I can't have it. You do not get to move in on our turf and take our McLife right out from under us. I'm not saying I will hate the girl. But it might be nice to see some new faces. Everybody's single now almost. Let's break out Meredith's mom's surgery tapes and have a go at it. There's nothing wrong with opening up your social circle as long as we stay loyal to the people we love the most and who have put in the work.
The Chief starting over?
Speaking of voiceover work. The Chief was running this episode, aptly titled "Didn't we almost have it all." Oh don't you remember pre-crack Whitney? She was crazy back then too, we just didn't know it. But the Chief has some unknown territory ahead of him. I mean on the one hand he has all this experience that will help him do the job better. But the bottom line is, he is only one man. Will he be able to balance work and family? Will Adele stay with him? Will they be jonesing for a baby like Callie O'Malley. I'm sure they worked out the time table of he being pregnant by him. But who was that man in HIS house making dents in his baby's head? Grossness. I don't even want to sort that laundry. But it will be nice to see the chief get a verbal lashing from Bailey once his situation settles. Because we all know it's coming.
McChump!
Alex always loses out. We've fallen for his fatherly turnaround this season, but like Addison we sort of hate him for not really owning up to anything. He's so in love with Ava and he let her go. He was really into Izzy and let her go, I mean cheated on her, but he sabotaged himself. He had her and then couldn't perform! Alex you suck, Addison was right. You're scared, and you always hesitate and reject anything good for you! MAN UP BITCH! MAN UP! That goes for Meredith too. I think Alex and Mer were just lost at birth and might be related. Lol. Or they're just creepy Soul Mates. Something in my head is exploring the idea of Alex and Meredith dating, and trying to fix the emotional instability in one another. Weird, but you never know.
Callie a MILF?
Not to me anyway. A few people I know think she's cute. But I still think she has drag queen hair sometimes. And I don't like the stank look she gives Izzy. I mean if this were a sides thing, I'd be team Izzy all the way, but that's just because I've watched her in so many other things, Roswell, Valentine, to Wish Upon a Star, and other misc. stuff I can't remember the names of. I love the girl, she's got spunk and personality. But Callie's aight...for all other purposes. And she's everyone's Boss next season. How will that go over with Iz and the gang?
Addison Gone Bye-Bye.
Grey's, the spin off? I will write a whole other blog devoted to the "Private Practice," fans. It definitively had its moments and has room to grow. But I don't know about this Taye Diggs curse. Kevin Hill, Daybreak, even the end of Will & Grace. He's a good actor but I think he needs to step it up for TV. You can't rest on your Brown Suga' performance for the rest of ya life bro. Look at Sanaa Lathan on Nip/Tuck, she played someone way off base and drove it home. And let's take a moment to admire Addison's Anatomy. That woman is gorgeous, lovable, and sultry. She's got Bette Davis eyes. Ok, enough said for now. Oh and she's engaged in real life, best of luck with that. She's known him only a few months. But hopefully when it's love, it's love. She's getting a new job and a new life. Thanks Chief.
Bailey Backlash?
Ok, she's been working her butt off. She's been put through the ringer with these lovable yet troublesome set of interns. She's Bailey. We love, trust, respect, fear, and sometimes, wanna hug the Miranda Monster that is Dr. Bailey. Why didn't she get promoted? Well, it's her family. She needs to spend time, not only with her son, but her husband too. She's been neglecting them, especially her husband the Thanksgiving before the baby came. She was at the hospital fishing chicken bones out of people's esophagus. And come on, singing her baby tro sleep over the phone. Come on now, she needs to be home more for special moments. She's the overachiever who can't do it all and is pushing herself too hard. That's why she sent that guy back that had that never ending cold at the clinic. Turns out his brian was sinking and that's a horrible thing, you want your brain in the position it's suppose to be in. She misdiagnosed him because she's spread herself too thin with this clinic. Granted, the time for the clinic was opportune it has taken a lot of her stamina away as a surgeon. But now that Callie is Chief Resident, the pressure will be off of Bailey, and she can regain her momentum.
And I predict Callie messing up as CR and Bailey having to step in and save her ass. It's not that I'm against Callie, it's just that I'm for Izzy. But for some strange reason I still like her and George together. Izzy just needs a new love interest. I think they tried to go somewhere we didn't expect them to and got caught up. Because, who else was secretly fantasizing about the McSteamy/McIzzy love scene? Lmao, my favorite comical sex scene is when Addison is having sex with Sloane, and picturing Alex. She even tells Sloane as she's "arriving" (inside joke). Whit reminds me, Mark will have to stand on his own next season. No sexual interests to speak of, or at least none that will pay his manwhoring behind any attention. I mean we're thinking about Meredith taking that route, but would she really be that spiteful? It could happen if Derek starts to date her sister. It's just so funny to think of all these characters that you know they will eventually bring in. I been thinking about Lexy Grey since last season. Seriously. It's just so dann intricate I tell you. And what if McSteamy dates Lexy Grey. Whoa...oh the implications. There's just so much room for madness.
Ok, so back onto Cristina and Burke. I couldn't call what they have in store for next season. Is Burke going to leave Seattle Grace? Will he be the new Cardio-Thoracic surgeon at Mercy West? Will George start over his internship with the new Grey? Will Cristina be more emotionally stunted from being left at the alter. And how dramatic was her standing there in that dress. It was so, Stepmom meets Beaches. The Grey's Finale's always make you want to cry. Watch the one with Denny and see if you don't cry. And though we are mad at Burke we will get over it. He didn't want to force Cristina into something she's been complaining about since the beginning. I mean little things like when they picked the same cake gave us hope, but you can't rest your life on cake. And although I do think that Cristina could have been happy being married, once all the getting married was done, I'm not sure it would have lasted. She's a completely different person than Burke. We knew this from the beginning. Though their medical mindsets we in tune their personalities weren't. She's given up a lot of herself to be with Burke. She said it herself when she was pregnant, "He's turned me into this stupid fat girl, who cares!" However, had Cristina just walked down that aisle sooner, she might not have been walked out on. Because did you hear his vows. The man was serious. Those were some romantic sexy vows. They gave me chills. It was a classic Grey's speech and they needed a good one. And I love how Addison said, "Dump Yang and marry me." That was so funny. I think Addison will do well on her own. Or come crashing and crying back to Grey's. I leave you with those vows, and advise you to bitch at me about what I didn't cover, or what I should cover.
Oh and the climber story I thought was weak. Didn't do much for me...I've seen better acting and plot. They try to do what they always do which is having the patients mirror the struggle within the characters. It didn't mesh for me. You can tell Shonda didn't write much of that. Also the Gay Bar-Owning parents. Haha, such a weird couple Joe and Gaysian but they might have twins. So wow...Miranda will have to be setting up play dates with her son. And that's it for now, check back...maybe later. I might write my own Grey's script of the next show. Haha. I love doing that. So here are the vows I promied you:
"Cristina, I could promise to hold you and to cherish you. I could promise to be there in sickness and in health. I could say till death do us part. But I won't. Those vows are for optimistic couples, the ones full of hope. And I do not stand here on my wedding day hopeful and optimistic. I am not optimistic, I am not hopeful. I am sure. I am steady and I know. I am a heart man. I take them apart and put them back together. I hold them in my hands. I am a heart man. So this I am sure you are my partner, my lover, my very best friend. My heart, my heart beats for you. And on this day, the day of our wedding, I promise you this. I promise you to lay my heart in the palm of your hands. I promise you me."
(I typed this verbatim for you all. So feel special. It still gets me when I read it.)
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