ooooh weddings!

Last night's episode was pretty excellent.  I laughed, I cried, Bailey's hair was pretty, I got to look at wedding dresses.  All good things.  I even started to consider typing 'Arizona' without quotes (I'm not quite ready yet).

Hector Elizondo should be a guest star more often.  I love the way Callie and her dad interact with each other, especially when they're yelling at each other in Spanish.  He was great throwing George and Mark against the walls, bring him back!  Too bad he had to be cut off, but I doubt that'll last.  This is a guy who is crazy about his daughter... but then again, people have issues.  Callie and 'Arizona' are a pretty good thing, I like it and I think she was right to cut her dad off.

Speaking of which, Dr. Robbins' (see what I did there?) chats with Bailey about the peds fellowship are contributing a lot toward making me like her.  Also the fact that she wasn't shoe skating down the hall in this episode.  I think she could be a good friend for Bailey once she finally tells Tucker about the fellowship and he inevitably freaks out (speaking of which, last week I was sick and I rewatched season 4 on DVD... I have come to the conclusion that I really don't like Bailey's husband.  He needs to man up about the fact that his wife is a kickass surgeon and he gets to stay home with his baby).  That dying kid was so sad... but I admit that I was a little psyched that her dad was played by Fulton from The Mighty Ducks.

Lexie's stress eating because of Derek and Mark's fight was quite funny.  I am enjoying the fact that she lives with Meredith now and they have an actual relationship now.  She was so cute when Mer told her she was going to be a bridesmaid... "Lexie, you're my sister.  You're IN the wedding."  Oh, how far we've come.  The confrontation in the scrub room was pretty great.  "Look at her face!  She's breaking out!  Look at her ass!  It's huge!" (Chyler Leigh is pregnant in real life because there's a pregnancy epidemic going around, hence the closeups and her always being behind stuff) :)


I do not blame Meredith for being upset that Derek was making the Chief his best man.  There's no way I'd let that guy take part in my wedding, he'd be lucky if he got an invitation!  You know, if I was Meredith and he had an affair with my mom and ruined my childhood and all that.

Though this has sort of led to the question of who is going to walk Meredith down the aisle?  I hope they don't go for a kind of cop out and have her dad come back and do it.  It would be better if she just did it alone.  Though I'm pretty sure this wedding isn't actually going to take place.

Izzie planning the wedding was super cute.  I love how she got the bridal shop to deliver the dresses to her room.  I'm even more glad that they didn't go for a 'boy who cried wolf' situation when she actually got sick after all her fake outs.  Turning on the tears for Derek to make sure that he understands that "a morning jacket is non-negotiable, and we need to find time for ballroom dancing lessons" was priceless.

And now let me please give a PSA about wedding dresses.  Please for all things good and nice, STOP promoting the drop waist wedding dress as a good thing!  The drop waist is scary, unflattering, and just plain wrong.  9 out of 10 people do not look good in that style dress.  Even Ellen Pompeo didn't look that great in it and it's pretty much impossible to have less body fat than she does.  Why why would you buy a dress that puts greater emphasis on your hips and ass?  Why is that a good look?  Someone please explain it to me because I will never understand.  Every episode of Say Yes to the Dress on TLC finds me sitting in front of my TV saying, "no!  don't do it!  noooooooooooo!"  They just don't get it!  Ok, I've had my say.

So because I don't think that Meredith and Derek are actually getting married at this big fancy wedding Izzie is planning, I'll tell you who I do think it is.  It's got to be Izzie and Alex.  She's planning what's basically her dream wedding, he is scared out of his mind that he won't do right by her because he's not good under pressure, George was starting to be relatively supportive once Alex stopped treating him like crap, Alex will come around and  they'll totally get married.  He's going to marry her because he loves her and he knows she's going to die and to make up for the fact that Denny died before they got their chance and he wouldn't want the same thing to happen to her a second time (though granted, it's a little different in that she's the one that's dying this time).  Anyway that's what I think.