Grey's Finale

As I was watching last night's episode(s), I did a bit of a running commentary so I wouldn't forget anything.  I think I'm just going to expand on that, so it may be a little choppy (partially due to the couple glasses of wine I'd consumed by the time the show aired yesterday).  Running commentary will be the part in brackets and allow me to warn you that toward the end of the show they make less and less sense as I get more and more agitated about what's going to happen.


[I want a wedding where drinks are allowed during the ceremony] - this was my thought when Derek was talking about going to the Caribbean, even though I knew that wasn't going to happen.


[We officially have the second guy on this show who wants his leg cut off...] remember the guy last season who came into the clinic and then ended up chopping off his own foot with a chain saw?  This was less ridiculous than that, but still pretty weird.




[those surgery machines the chief bought were really creepy, but i like how he's trying to buy bailey] seriously that one looked like Doc Oc's creepy machine arm things from Spiderman 2


[mark. is. adorable.] I love how he tried to ask Lexie to move in with him but failed spectacularly.  Kind of like all the times he tried to tell Derek about Lexie but failed miserably and just ended up being cute.


[katherine heigl looks ridiculously skinny and denny looks really old.] ok, is it just me or in the beach scenes did she not look really REALLY skinny?  Not that she was ever not skinny, but this is just getting ridiculous and Denny looked rougher last night than he did when he was actually dying.



[second season finale in a row where bailey makes star wars references] the light saber noises she made while using the new machines made me smile and them a little less scary


[scary brain test on izzie = very sad] it was hard to watch when she stopped being able to speak and she didn't know Meredith or Alex or anything, but it was funny before that when she was trying to memorize 'shnauzer, 747, Victorian' instead of 'dog, plane, house.'


[i heart alex karev...he gives a good speech, that one] His impassioned speeches about not knowing what to do for Izzie and that her happiness is on him are always excellent, even if there were like 12 of them in this episode.


[derek is dumb sometimes, stupid telling alex to make izzie have the surgery] At this point I was 100% against the surgery so I was pretty mad at Derek for saying she should have it.  Did he learn nothing from pregnant aneurysm lady?  I came around in the end (sort of), but at this point I was mad.



[soldier boy needs a psych consult] see, if I was his doctor instead of Callie, his pleading to take his leg so that he could go back to where he fits in would probably not have had the desired effect.  Instead of deciding that he's just a guy who knows what he wants and that's what I should do, I'd probably get a shrink in there for a consult to make sure there weren't deeper issues.  Of course, that doesn't really advance plot so I'm willing to overlook it.


[little kids are not as fun as robots, or as shiny or as new, and they don't have things coming out of their belly buttons.  just so you know.] It was hilarious when Dr. Robbins said this to the Chief through her tears.  Which I can relate to, because I am kind of the same way (crying when I get mad at authority figures.  Or just all the time).



[dr. robbins vs the chief!  showdown!] I thought this could have been way funnier for a little while, especially given how serious the rest of the show was, but it was still pretty cute.  I love it when the Chief plays innocent.


[paris dying is sad and ultimately the catalyst for izzie having a) magical saving surgery or b) tragic death surgery] This is what I thought when Paris/Allison (the girl was Paris from Gilmore Girls) was coding, I thought she was definitely gonna die.  I also thought that Izzie was either going to die on the table or come out wonderfully healed.  This just goes to show you I have no inside information whatsoever.


[mark and lexie's conflicting timelines are pretty cute] He wants to move in now, she wants to wait 10 years (wouldn't that put him in his 50's?  Yikes), he wants to compromise on 5 years, she's willing to go to 7, then he walks away and asks the bus girl for advice while he's fixing her stitches.  I like that he embraced that he was the girl and decided to buy a house on his own.



[DNR are very scary letters together...I'm so nervous about what's going to happen with izzie in the next hour and 15 minutes!  I keep alternating between sure she's going to die and sure she's going to live.  I can't take the suspense!] I was pretty much having an anxiety attack at this point, as evidenced by:


[oh god this goodbye kiss between alex and izzie is totally killing me.  why does grey's have to make me cry ALL THE TIME?]


[city hall weddings are good.  i would totally get married at city hall if i couldn't have a wedding where drinks were allowed during the ceremony] No muss, no fuss.  Especially for a couple like Meredith and Derek.


[I don't want Georgie to go in the army and die!  I don't want any of them to die!] He is an easily influenced dude, that George.  Even though I knew it was coming I was still upset when it was him in the recruiter's office.  I'm glad Christina finally made Owen go see his mom so he wouldn't go back to Iraq.



[NO WHEELY SNEAKS FOR BAILEY.  YOU KEEP YOUR DAMN WHEELY SNEAKS TO YOURSELF, 'ARIZONA'!] and then some.  It was funny when she said it as though that were the special prize for getting the peds fellowship, but still.  Bailey is NOT a wheely-sneaks lady.  And that is why I love her.


[I like that christina and meredith don't hug] and later on, when they did hug, it was just as strange and awkward as I imagined it would be.  I liked the Post-Its and the pen Christina gave her as the old, new, borrowed, blue



[are we gonna do the short term memory loss thing again?  this was in the season premier!  nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!  WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO ME, SHONDA RHIMES?!?!  Either kill her or let her be ok but do not do this!] Yea...I'm not sure what the deal is with the repeating medical issues, but it was kind of freaking me out.  Thank goodness for Alex calling it out though, because to ignore the lady who couldn't remember her husband had died would have been wrong.


[damn right everyone turned on owen for convincing george to go to iraq.  stupid owen stupid ptsd nightmares.  what is george thinking?  stupid tr knight being unhappy with crappy storylines this season] I get kind of unreasonably upset with fictional characters sometimes.  But I was enjoying everyone's reactions as they were first finding out about the enlisting.

[i love the george intervention plan with everyone having their different parts] Alex got maybe a little more excited than necessary about his job being to kick the crap out of O'Malley if he wouldn't listen to everyone else.  And I want Izzie to stay around so she can keep using her 'sad, cancer eyes' to get things.


[Ok, Arizona gets the quotes taken away for making fun of her own name.  I like her and I am willing to ignore the fact that she doesn't like sandwiches from this point forward]  It's true, I'm ok with calling her just plain Arizona from now on, because at least she knows her name is ridiculous.



[I KNEW I DIDN'T LIKE BAILEY'S HUSBAND.  But she should probably be married to a doctor who would understand better.  I would kind of like to see what single bailey is like, though.  would she have funny sexcapades in the on call room?  probably not, but it would still be interesting to see] I'm glad she's leaving her husband anyway, he's lame.  Weak is absolutely the right way to describe him.  I love Miranda Bailey.  I want to put her in my pocket.


[alex is so intense!  I'm completely on edge!  i now have a sinking suspicion that nothing will be resolved by 11:00.  and then i will have to wait until SEPTEMBER.  oh please let one story come to some kind of terms!] Yea, I'm still not totally over this.  I wanted SOMETHING to have an answer!  And now the waiting!  But really it's pretty genius to make everyone so excited for the premier this way.  I'm still allowed to be bitter about it for a little while though.




[owen and christina - love love love] The two of them in the steam room is always great, and I've been pretty clear on how I feel about Sandra Oh's acting, that was perfect.  "I can't breathe without you!" *sigh


[alex's unleashing was good, and clearly she's going to remember it which will be good because if she comes back next season they can deal with the fallout from that and actually being married.  if she doesn't die, oh man the last 15 minutes are going to be crazy] My anxiety level was at approximately 9.5 by this point and it just kept going up.



[bailey's right.  tucker is weak] Bailey is such a hip, hip lady, it really bums me out that her husband turned out to be such a bum.  Remember when she was so happy like 3 seasons ago to be going out for her 10th wedding anniversary or whatever? 


[getting married on a post it is NOT cool and I would not be ok with that] I feel like this was a cop out a little, and I feel like they're never going to actually go to city hall now because they're weird and they think a post-it is the same.  The vows were cute though.



[HOLY LORD I CAN'T BELIEVE GEORGE IS THE BUS GUY.  THAT IS SO FREAKING WHAT THE EFF IZZIE]  This all happened so fast (or my reflexes were really slow).  Meredith's reaction to the realization that George was the one dragged by the bus was positively heartbreaking and made the whole episode to this point sadder because every time they were talking about George going into the Army where he was probably going to die they didn't realize they were actually working on him and he was already dying!  I'm seriously traumatized from it and a lot of the next couple minutes are a total blur because I was so in shock.  And then Izzie and Alex were making up and she coded and he was doing compressions and the Chief decided to bail on the DNR and there were just too many emotions!


[HOW ARE THEY BOTH GOING TO DIE THE BASTARDS!!!] OK, by the time the 'hospital as heaven' thing came back I was just sitting in my living room, trying to plead with the tv to make it  not so.  Izzie back in her prom dress (seriously, that dress has to be like two sizes smaller than the one she wore at the time, she's so skinny!) and George in his Army uniform that he never actually wore (but looked very good in) was TOO MUCH SADNESS FOR ME.  If I'm going to read into things (which is what I do) I'm going to say that the fact that George was already in there does not bode well for his chances.  Izzie still being in the elevator and looking like something was not quite right (when they started with the paddles) makes me think she has a chance. 



[gd freaking cliffhangers] Seriously, I can't believe we have to wait until September.  So good though!  I think I need to watch it again now that I feel more prepared to handle it..sort of.