Grey's Anatomy 6.05 "Invasion"

The "invasion" of Mercy West peeps was really over done, but I guess that is to be expected, but it really didn't affect me the way that they seemed to build up in the promos. Karev and Reed reminded me of Cristina and Alex in the first couple seasons, that dynamic has changed of course, but I didn't really enjoy the scene, it reminded me of Owen's vulture speech from last season--recycled? Although I am kind of loving the Everwood love fest on GA lately.

I never really liked Izzie, she is like dramazilla most of the time, and since she has been ill, it has magnified obviously. I agree with the staff and the chief that she is too emotional to be practicing and I thought that her lay off was well founded. I did feel sorry for Alex, I wonder how he will come back from it, if she returns. Cristina's reaction to him was interesting though not out of character, she's come a long way with Owen but in terms of everyone else, still has a lot of muck to get throguh.

I love how everyone migrates to Mer's room. Not only were the residents there, but even their interns who are now residents. I love Cristina's point about how she doesn't know what she's fighting for because she really doesn't. Out of all the residents, she is the most lost, she has no attending to keep her in check with cardio and is freaking out about it.

As for Owen, the showdown with Owen was unavoidable. I mentioned in another post how I think Owen is failing at being a teacher to Cristina, and tonight kind of proved my point. Even though cardio is her area, she still has to learn all areas of surgery and Owen giving her surgery to the MW Hot Eyes was kind of lame even for Owen. Emotionally, Owen is kind of bad at knowing when Cristina really needs him, he can't read her yet, as far as he knew, Cristina was being just competitive about surgeries, he was in professional mode, he doesn't seem to realize how her education is being tortured by having no guidance. I think part of it is that Owen wasn't really an academic per se, in the same way that Cristina and some of the other SGH people are, so perhaps its just a army mentality with him. Who knows. But I was glad she got up in his face, but since she really didn't tell him anything, he has to figure it out himself. Cristina is super depressed, I just wish Owen would take off his Mercy West blinders to see it. I am finding this whole aspect boring, its such a waste of screen time.

One good thing to come of it was Cristina's break down. For her to say she missed Burke is huge, but I'm glad she said that it wasn't the relationship she missed. You knew then that she was talking about professional aspects and learning. Someone like Cristina who is the best at everything she does is not feeling challenged at all and feels like a 'ghost' as she said to Mer. The whole thing reminded me of when she finally broke down after the miscarriage. I Love sandra oh for scenes like these, she makes up for there being hardly any Owen time in the entire episode. I have been in her situation of not being challenged enough by a job that you love and being torn by what you should do. It sucks, especially when everything seems like it should be working out.

Derek was completely boring, I find Lexie being threatened by someone hilarious, and its amazing there were no Lexie tears in this episode. I may have to write the date down.

The stuff with Callie/Mr. Torres/AZ was good, finally seeing how they can work as a couple.

So not the best episode, i.e. too much of a lack of Owen and Cristina time..

6.04: "Tainted Obligation" Grey's Anatomy

Good Things: Alex and Cristina. They totally brought on the comic relief tonight. It reminded me a lot of Alex and Cristina from earlier seasons. I love how Alex is still trying to support Izzie in spite of his own hatred for roughing it. 

Cristina is still on the competitive war path, but she has a right to be freaking out. No attending is employed for her specialty and everyone keeps telling her she's a rock star, but if rock stars don't practice, they suck. And that was her main point to the chief. Regardless, I loved all the comic relief of her pimping herself out for surgeries and Owen catching her, the boys tricking her into the thingy surgery was hilarious of course it reminded me of when Derek tried to get Mark to hit on Cristina. I wanted to see Owen get paid back for that, I guess there was no time, again.. 

Mark was awesome in this episode. I thought we could really see how he has changed from being with Lexie. His whole outlook is different. He could totally relate to Walton. On a side note Walton's son played by Tom Amandes was Debra Mooney's son on Everwood, and Debra Mooney played Owen's mom LOL That aside, I loved how Mark just accepted this guy's issues and wanted to do what his patient wanted rather than what was best, or to make the family happy. I also love his speech to the family, they were control freaks that just didn't want to acknowledge their dad has a sex life and were really just interested in his money. I also think part of it was Mark finally admitting he wasn't getting any younger. 

Glad Callie got what she deserved to be an attending  

Merediths stuff was great tonight but i think given the content of this episode, it should have been two parts. I always love Ellen's scenes with Jeffery Perry, he's one of my favorite character actors. That being said I like that this episode tackled the Mer/Thatcher story, but I felt it was kind of sugar coated too much. This reminded me of an episode in the 3rd season when a kid was asked to be a donor for his dad who was beating his mom on a daily basis and Alex talked the kid into it because it had happened to him. I did love that Derek was supportive of whatever decision Meredith wanted to make, though he was still watchful of her . 

Owen/Izzie-thought the pairing was good, and like that Owen gave izzie the chance to prove herself in the OR again, even if it means at Cristina's expense. At the same time, Owen was the only one who WOULD have taken a chance on Izzie because he doesn't know her past with Denny, etc. And this was a case of her relating too much to the patient which in the end cost him his life. I also think part of what influenced his decision was when Izzie said the line about how she wouldn't be alive if Cristina hadn't fought for her surgery, I think in that instance, Owen was sympathetic because Cristina had fought for his life as well. 

The Chief I think is going to do a complete turnaround, he realized he wasn't doing his job he was trying too hard to make the board happy, but after the amazing speech Cristina gave him, he realized that he was failing his students which in dthe long run fails the patients and the hospital. I think he's finally getting his head out of his arse and will shake things up some more at SGH. 

Bad: 

Ok first I really like Chyler Leigh and I like the character Lexie, but she has been crying in every episode so far this season. It was fine in the premiere I expected it, but last week was a bit too much, and I found her too hysterical this week, so it didn't have as much of an impact as it should have. Although Mark was right to chastise her about talking it over with him before giving the green light for a surgery on herself I think she is more like Cristina in terms of relationships, she is still very disconnected and doesn't think about certain things because she's so used to being independent. 

I think its kind of lame we are supposed to believe Callie and AZ have this deep, meaningful relationship now. I like them as a couple, but the writing is very inconsistent and I think I need more scenes to be able to buy them as a couple 

All in all the episode was much better than last week, more well rounded, but again there was a huge lack of OC time which needs to be brought back around soon. 3 stars.