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 .
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.
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