Grey’s Anatomy 5x11 Review
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- Aw – Mere wants to stay in bed so she doesn’t have to face Cristina and her ‘mean’ face.
- It’s just... wrong. Meredith and Cristina, walking down the hall side-by-side but not looking at each other (very purposefully not looking at each other) and not talking and then standing on opposite sides of the room from each other. Wrong. It’s making me think back to Junior High and the time Gillian and I sat at different tables during math while ‘disagreeing’ over where to sit and a teacher walked by and actually stopped to ask if we were okay/were we fighting. I wonder if this is what it looked/felt like for him then – to see us separate when he expected us to be together because we always were.
- “They’re all silent ragey.” – Izzie. So true. And kind of inexplicable. If they were going to have this large a break-up then I would have liked a hell of a lot more basis for it. Sereiously – what is going on? Why is this still dragging out?
- So with the top secret patient that no one is to know about and that no interns are allowed to be around we have Owen, Derek, Meredith and Cristina. Owen is the trauma surgeon (and a soldier!) so he’s obvious but I’m curious about why Derek is there. The prisoner was stabbed and there doesn’t appear to be any head injury. What I find most interesting is that Richard specifically chose Meredith and Cristina out of all the interns to be on this case. Why them? I can see Cristina – she’s clearly one of, if not the, best and she’s pretty tough. But I’m surprised that he would pick Meredith too.
- Oh, I can’t believe it. They finally give us another doctor – Jordan Kenley – only to kill him off?! Yeesh. But then they turn around and actually use it to introduce a new doctor so okay then. Arizona Robbins on first impression I wasn’t sure. She was pretty cheerful which is kind of rare in this hospital but by the end of the episode I’d warmed up to her. I quite like her. I like that she was so patient with Bailey, that she didn’t freak out at Bailey questioning her. I like that she is rather positive and pleasant person but also professional and calm and patient. She’s interesting.
- So Derek supports the death penalty and it appears Owen doesn’t. Or at least he was surprised that Derek does. Meredith doesn’t appear to and Cristina does.
- Meredith: Good people do bad things. People screw up. (Cristina rolls her eyes) He’s still a person. We don’t know what he did.
Cristina: Oh, maybe he killed a cop. So saving for the cop killer.
Meredith: We don’t know what he did. We can’t judge.
Cristina: No. But a jury can.
I loved Owen’s back-and-forth eyes and expression during Meredith and Cristina’s ‘discussion’ about William and then as they leave the room. I was very amused.
- Owen: I thought that they were friends?
Derek: They were.
Owen: And now?
Derek: And now you and I are in for a very, very long day.
Clearly this is a case of being careful about what you wish for. Derek wanted Meredith and Cristina to be less in each other’s pockets and now he’s got it and it’s so much worse than he could have imagined and he’s clearly regretting it and continues to throughout the episode. I want to see how relieved he is when they do make up.
- I liked Alex and Izzie gossiping about Mere and Cristina and that Alex finds it so weird.
- “When you kill her is it going to be a crime of passion?” – Izzie, Meredith laughs. I got caught for a moment on ‘crime of passion’ which is usually used for lovers and it amused me. I really liked the Izzie/Meredith interactions at lunch – they maintained a lot of eye contact (more with each other than anyone else the whole time) and there were several shared grins/smiles and they were just all giggly together. It was nice. They need more friendship moments.
- “You want to know what I think?” – Sadie
“(smiling) Not really.” – Meredith
Huh. I find it interesting the way Mere just totally shut Sadie down with a smile. Sadie didn’t seem overly bothered by it but it made me blink. I thought they were supposed to be close?
- Oh, poor Cristina, trying to use Owen as a substitute Meredith and it just not working at all. Him just completely shutting her down. I don’t think he meant to at all. He heard her gossiping and isn’t interested in that at all or was only paying attention to his papers and he just didn’t realise that for Cristina this was opening up, trying to connect. They were an interesting mess of crossed purposes this episode. His trying to be nice with the coffee, which was sweet. Then his trying again with asking her out for a drink and then just being smacked down hard and being so bewildered by it. Hopefully the next episode will bring some understanding between them because Cristina needs someone too.
- “Well for some of us surgery comes naturally. Others (looks at Cristina) have to practice.” – Meredith. Ouch. Yikes. Okay that’s too far. Cristina looked so hurt. That was mean.
- The Izzie/Alex scenes keep blinking ‘train wreck, train wreck’. I just know that once Izzie ends up crashing or whatever Alex is going to be all angsting because he knew about her seeing Denny and hadn’t understood, and hadn’t thought about it enough as a doctor. Sigh.
- Sadie: You and I had a fight like this once. Amsterdam. We used to be as close as you and Cristina and then Amsterdam happened and you shut me down and we never got past it. We still hung out but not like before. We’d go dancing; go someplace loud where we didn’t have to talk. And that’s okay. I’m a rolling stone, I bounce. But you’re about to do the same thing to Cristina and that girl mates for life. If you don’t make it right she’ll never talk to you again.
Meredith: I apologised. To Cristina.
Sadie: Like you meant it? Like you could imagine she had a point? (pause) I miss you. As my friend I miss you.
This was the first time I really like Sadie. And I did – really like her. I felt for her in this scene especially in her last sentence. I loved her initiating this conversation with Meredith. I liked that she is being there as a good friend for Meredith. She knows how much Cristina means to Meredith, she sees what happened to them playing out again and she gently let Meredith know that she was on the verge of destroying their relationship. The whole scene made me very impressed with her.
- Okay, what the hell is up with George? I mean not George himself but the lack of screen time and/or storyline that he’s not getting? For the last couple episodes he’s got nothing. No real scenes with any of his fellow residents – no bonding or just chatting for awhile or being friends or arguing, which is especially noticeable with Izzie – no scenes with Lexie at all, nothing really with the residents. He’s suddenly morphed into this background character and it’s weird and confusing and kind of off putting. The lunch room scene kind of feels like it encapsulates him right now – he’s there for a bit but not really interacting meaningfully or connecting and then he ends up leaving. Why was it necessary for him to leave? Sure there were only four chairs but that was a conscious decision on the part of the writers, they could have just as easily made it five and had all five of them there. So why didn’t they?
- I found the lack of acknowledgement of Izzie’s birthday weird. We had George quietly wish her happy birthday and then trying to get Alex to do something for her but that’s it. Nothing from Meredith and Cristina, which mostly sticks out with Mere. How hard is a quick ‘happy birthday’ like George gave? And then Alex baking Izzie a cake and them having a private celebration. It was just too weird. Why no birthday dinner or cake in the kitchen or drinks at Joe’s? Aren’t these people supposed to be friends?
- So as usual I really enjoyed the Callie/Mark scenes. They continue to be amusing and excellent as BFFs. I do love then. They are so great together. Callie hiding behind Mark as they commiserated about interns and watched Lexie and Sadie made me giggle. Their one-step program discussion was also really amusing. I didn’t like however them kissing and feeling nothing at all. They don’t need to be suddenly un-attracted to each other to prop their new love interests. That kind of irritated me.
- The Derek/Meredith scene at the end was... mostly it was sweet. I actually really enjoyed both it and Derek. Derek was really sweet with wanting to help Meredith and asking what Cristina would do and then getting up and being a dork to convince her to dance it out. He was just really adorable and compassionate. He was likable. It was nice. I also liked him opening up to Mere about his dad and I wish she’d done more with that. That she’d at least given him a hug along with her ‘sorry’. The only thing about that scene is that I did get a little twinge because dancing it out is Cristina and Meredith’s thing. Except I guess not really – first we had Burke and Cristina and then Lexie, Izzie and George with the girls. Huh. It’s spreading.
- I really liked the ending with Izzie blowing out her candle and the screen going black as she does it leaving for a moment to curling smoke on a black background. Nice.
- Aw – Mere wants to stay in bed so she doesn’t have to face Cristina and her ‘mean’ face.
- It’s just... wrong. Meredith and Cristina, walking down the hall side-by-side but not looking at each other (very purposefully not looking at each other) and not talking and then standing on opposite sides of the room from each other. Wrong. It’s making me think back to Junior High and the time Gillian and I sat at different tables during math while ‘disagreeing’ over where to sit and a teacher walked by and actually stopped to ask if we were okay/were we fighting. I wonder if this is what it looked/felt like for him then – to see us separate when he expected us to be together because we always were.
- “They’re all silent ragey.” – Izzie. So true. And kind of inexplicable. If they were going to have this large a break-up then I would have liked a hell of a lot more basis for it. Sereiously – what is going on? Why is this still dragging out?
- So with the top secret patient that no one is to know about and that no interns are allowed to be around we have Owen, Derek, Meredith and Cristina. Owen is the trauma surgeon (and a soldier!) so he’s obvious but I’m curious about why Derek is there. The prisoner was stabbed and there doesn’t appear to be any head injury. What I find most interesting is that Richard specifically chose Meredith and Cristina out of all the interns to be on this case. Why them? I can see Cristina – she’s clearly one of, if not the, best and she’s pretty tough. But I’m surprised that he would pick Meredith too.
- Oh, I can’t believe it. They finally give us another doctor – Jordan Kenley – only to kill him off?! Yeesh. But then they turn around and actually use it to introduce a new doctor so okay then. Arizona Robbins on first impression I wasn’t sure. She was pretty cheerful which is kind of rare in this hospital but by the end of the episode I’d warmed up to her. I quite like her. I like that she was so patient with Bailey, that she didn’t freak out at Bailey questioning her. I like that she is rather positive and pleasant person but also professional and calm and patient. She’s interesting.
- So Derek supports the death penalty and it appears Owen doesn’t. Or at least he was surprised that Derek does. Meredith doesn’t appear to and Cristina does.
- Meredith: Good people do bad things. People screw up. (Cristina rolls her eyes) He’s still a person. We don’t know what he did.
Cristina: Oh, maybe he killed a cop. So saving for the cop killer.
Meredith: We don’t know what he did. We can’t judge.
Cristina: No. But a jury can.
I loved Owen’s back-and-forth eyes and expression during Meredith and Cristina’s ‘discussion’ about William and then as they leave the room. I was very amused.
- Owen: I thought that they were friends?
Derek: They were.
Owen: And now?
Derek: And now you and I are in for a very, very long day.
Clearly this is a case of being careful about what you wish for. Derek wanted Meredith and Cristina to be less in each other’s pockets and now he’s got it and it’s so much worse than he could have imagined and he’s clearly regretting it and continues to throughout the episode. I want to see how relieved he is when they do make up.
- I liked Alex and Izzie gossiping about Mere and Cristina and that Alex finds it so weird.
- “When you kill her is it going to be a crime of passion?” – Izzie, Meredith laughs. I got caught for a moment on ‘crime of passion’ which is usually used for lovers and it amused me. I really liked the Izzie/Meredith interactions at lunch – they maintained a lot of eye contact (more with each other than anyone else the whole time) and there were several shared grins/smiles and they were just all giggly together. It was nice. They need more friendship moments.
- “You want to know what I think?” – Sadie
“(smiling) Not really.” – Meredith
Huh. I find it interesting the way Mere just totally shut Sadie down with a smile. Sadie didn’t seem overly bothered by it but it made me blink. I thought they were supposed to be close?
- Oh, poor Cristina, trying to use Owen as a substitute Meredith and it just not working at all. Him just completely shutting her down. I don’t think he meant to at all. He heard her gossiping and isn’t interested in that at all or was only paying attention to his papers and he just didn’t realise that for Cristina this was opening up, trying to connect. They were an interesting mess of crossed purposes this episode. His trying to be nice with the coffee, which was sweet. Then his trying again with asking her out for a drink and then just being smacked down hard and being so bewildered by it. Hopefully the next episode will bring some understanding between them because Cristina needs someone too.
- “Well for some of us surgery comes naturally. Others (looks at Cristina) have to practice.” – Meredith. Ouch. Yikes. Okay that’s too far. Cristina looked so hurt. That was mean.
- The Izzie/Alex scenes keep blinking ‘train wreck, train wreck’. I just know that once Izzie ends up crashing or whatever Alex is going to be all angsting because he knew about her seeing Denny and hadn’t understood, and hadn’t thought about it enough as a doctor. Sigh.
- Sadie: You and I had a fight like this once. Amsterdam. We used to be as close as you and Cristina and then Amsterdam happened and you shut me down and we never got past it. We still hung out but not like before. We’d go dancing; go someplace loud where we didn’t have to talk. And that’s okay. I’m a rolling stone, I bounce. But you’re about to do the same thing to Cristina and that girl mates for life. If you don’t make it right she’ll never talk to you again.
Meredith: I apologised. To Cristina.
Sadie: Like you meant it? Like you could imagine she had a point? (pause) I miss you. As my friend I miss you.
This was the first time I really like Sadie. And I did – really like her. I felt for her in this scene especially in her last sentence. I loved her initiating this conversation with Meredith. I liked that she is being there as a good friend for Meredith. She knows how much Cristina means to Meredith, she sees what happened to them playing out again and she gently let Meredith know that she was on the verge of destroying their relationship. The whole scene made me very impressed with her.
- Okay, what the hell is up with George? I mean not George himself but the lack of screen time and/or storyline that he’s not getting? For the last couple episodes he’s got nothing. No real scenes with any of his fellow residents – no bonding or just chatting for awhile or being friends or arguing, which is especially noticeable with Izzie – no scenes with Lexie at all, nothing really with the residents. He’s suddenly morphed into this background character and it’s weird and confusing and kind of off putting. The lunch room scene kind of feels like it encapsulates him right now – he’s there for a bit but not really interacting meaningfully or connecting and then he ends up leaving. Why was it necessary for him to leave? Sure there were only four chairs but that was a conscious decision on the part of the writers, they could have just as easily made it five and had all five of them there. So why didn’t they?
- I found the lack of acknowledgement of Izzie’s birthday weird. We had George quietly wish her happy birthday and then trying to get Alex to do something for her but that’s it. Nothing from Meredith and Cristina, which mostly sticks out with Mere. How hard is a quick ‘happy birthday’ like George gave? And then Alex baking Izzie a cake and them having a private celebration. It was just too weird. Why no birthday dinner or cake in the kitchen or drinks at Joe’s? Aren’t these people supposed to be friends?
- So as usual I really enjoyed the Callie/Mark scenes. They continue to be amusing and excellent as BFFs. I do love then. They are so great together. Callie hiding behind Mark as they commiserated about interns and watched Lexie and Sadie made me giggle. Their one-step program discussion was also really amusing. I didn’t like however them kissing and feeling nothing at all. They don’t need to be suddenly un-attracted to each other to prop their new love interests. That kind of irritated me.
- The Derek/Meredith scene at the end was... mostly it was sweet. I actually really enjoyed both it and Derek. Derek was really sweet with wanting to help Meredith and asking what Cristina would do and then getting up and being a dork to convince her to dance it out. He was just really adorable and compassionate. He was likable. It was nice. I also liked him opening up to Mere about his dad and I wish she’d done more with that. That she’d at least given him a hug along with her ‘sorry’. The only thing about that scene is that I did get a little twinge because dancing it out is Cristina and Meredith’s thing. Except I guess not really – first we had Burke and Cristina and then Lexie, Izzie and George with the girls. Huh. It’s spreading.
- I really liked the ending with Izzie blowing out her candle and the screen going black as she does it leaving for a moment to curling smoke on a black background. Nice.
