Yep, this return to theGrey’sworld felt so different that it was reminiscent of the feeling that episode exuded.
So many things were weird: Lexie was dead!
There were new interns and residents!
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Cristina was away working in Minnesota!
Karev was headed to Johns Hopkins!
There was no sign of Kepner or Arizona!
Bailey (Chandra Wilson) was deliriously happy!
Derek (Patrick Dempsey) and Callie were shattered with grief!
Meredith was tearing around the hospital as the new Bailey/Nazi, nicknamed “Medusa”!
Sloan was laying there on life support!
Nope, not exactlyin fact, not at all.
Clearly, lots had changed, making this an intriguing hour of television.
Like, say, how Meredith opened the hour with her patented monologue that cutrightto the chase.
“Dying changes everything,” Meredith began, foreshadowing the grim hour to come.
“The world just keeps on going…without you.”
And that’s probably where we should start.
And then he added: “That’s all we’re doing.
Honoring his wish.”
So his internal injuries must have gotten worse from what we’d seen in the finale?
What happened out there in the wilds after last May’s finale cut off?
“I keep thinking if I say something big enough or shocking enough he’ll open his eyes.”
“I think I’m going to take off my shirt.
Oh yeah, that’s betterit’s so much cooler with my boobs out.”
Sloan’s impending death infected the entire episodeand nearly every character.
However, again, the march toward death was unwavering, as Avery said goodbye in his own way.
In a way, it signaled a passing of the baton, from Sloan to Avery.
His final request was that only comfort care be given to him in his final moments.
Once the port is removed, he may only hold on for a few minutes.
Or the process could take hours.
I’m turning the ventilator off."
The song that played as Sloan passed away was killer.
“How’s my heart supposed to be?”
“How’s my heart supposed to be without you?”
So killer, and so fitting.
At first, I was mad at theGrey’s Anatomywriters, for killing off yet another beloved character.
Honestly, the finale saw Lexie (Chyler Leigh) go, and now her one true love?
It’s not the same, but in a way, it has the trappings of Romeo & Juliet.
At least they’re together in the afterlife?
Despite seeming otherwise, a few other notable things happened last night.
Yes, “Booty Call Bailey”!
Speaking of Karev and his exit, that never happened.
Which wasn’t shocking.
Has there been a scrap of news about Justin Chambers leaving the show?
The two doctors she came up againstRex fromDesperate Housewivesand Mr. Feeny fromBoy Meets Worldweren’t big fans.
By the end of the episode, Rex was telling her to take some time off.
“It’s mandatory, Yang, starting now!”
The question is: How long before she’s back in Seattle permanently?
I’d guess by mid-season she’ll be back with Meredith.
“Nothing is the same over there.
It’s all…I keep trying to think of ways I could have done things differently.
I keep looking for the do-overs.
I should never have taken your job from you.
You don’t belong out here on a farm.
You belong in Seattle, saving lives.
Now come home!”
She no doubt will, which will lessen the alterna-Grey’svibe.
I’m talking about what happened to Arizona, who was largely MIA during the episode.
That reads dead to me.
“How am I supposed to snap out of this when you cut off my leg?”
she screamed at Callie, near the end of the episode when she finally turned up.
Why was Arizona’s leg cut off?
What happened to everyone else out there?
How did Kepner end up back on her parents' farm?
Will Cristina be headed back to Seattle Grace?
“You never really stop feeling the loss,” she told us.
“It’s what makes things so bittersweet.
We leave little bits of ourselves behind.
Little reminders, a lifetime of memories, photos, trinkets.
Things to remember us by, even when we’re gone.”
And then we saw a flash on the screen, simply: Mark Sloan, 19682012.
