Posted by Dustin on 03.29.2009 at 2:28 pm

So the latest episode of “Grey’s” began with Derek’s crappy, no words proposal, just handing the ring to Meredith. She said no, she wouldn’t say yes like this, or if he was just proposing so that if Izzie died things would be okay.

Meanwhile Christina and Owen were sleeping together, just sleeping, when he had a nightmare and began choking her in her sleep! She hit him on the head to stop him, and afterward he was devastated. Christina assured him she was fine. Callie and Meredith were not convinced Owen was okay and shielded Christina from him throughout the episode.

Izzie meanwhile was checked in and sat in her room knitting until her first of many many surgeries they had outlined for her. The first would be to address the tumor in her brain. All her friends seemed afraid to visit her, making themselves busy. Bailey was not pleased by this! Alex meanwhile was dropping off a sperm sample to fertilize and freeze some of Izzie’s eggs, just as a precaution. Apparently fertilized eggs are more successfully implanted rather than unfertilized ones.

Derek made his return to the hospital and performed surgery on Izzie. She survived, they seemed to have gotten the tumor out. Still there were other surgeries that had to be done to address issues elsewhere in her body where cancer had taken hold. Bailey ended up lecturing everyone on not visiting with Izzie.

Alex learned this lesson the hard way through another patient in the hospital, an old woman who had been on her death bed for years. Every time doctors thought she’d die, her family came. They were getting tired of this, as she had been here many times before. They came across hard and uncaring, having things to do and places to be, but in the end they revealed they were devastated the first and second times, now it’s just become a ritual and they didn’t expect her to die. Basically they were guarding themselves. When she did die, they grieved. Before going the old lady told Alex that even though her relatives seemed hard and uncaring, they were her people, people are better than no people.

George and Callie meanwhile had their own issues with Izzie’s illness. Callie had wished Izzie dead after the breakup of her marriage, now she was feeling guilty. George meanwhile was angry that Izzie turned to Christina and not him. They comforted each other while they waited for the news.

Derek ended up giving Meredith a proper proposal, in the hospital elevator. He decorated it with Xrays and charts from all their surgeries together and important moments. She said yes.

At the end Christina and Owen finally made love. However she found herself unable to sleep in his arms, she was afraid. She thought she could do this, she couldn’t, and she dumped him. Owen asked Derek to give him a CT scan and check out his brain to see what was going on.

My Thoughts
I thought this was a really awesome episode. If “Grey’s” keeps this up, they’ll be back to the show they originally were, the show you can’t wait to watch every week.

The Christina and Owen story was by far my favorite this week. Owen CLEARLY has some issues he has to deal with. Why did he undergo a CT scan? Expecting something abnormal causing this behavior? I think he needs to see a shrink, it’s clearly post-traumatic stress syndrome! Will he and Christina work this out? Of course! They are the new hot couple.

I loved seeing George have more of a part in this episode, and him and Callie coming together over Izzie was great. It was like closure to their failed marriage.

The whole thing with Alex’s sample and fertilizing the eggs was funny, but odd. They haven’t really been together all that long (well they were in the first season too). It just seemed odd, what if they broke up and she was stuck with his junk so to speak! I guess if she had to use them though, a baby is better than no baby.

Bailey was awesome as usual, especially when she lectured Izzie’s friends about doing better.

Of course Izzie survived, but she’s not out of the woods yet. Will they kill her? It would be shocking, and I think it will be the cliff-hanger of this season. I think we’ll end with her flat lining and being shocked. Next season she’ll either be alive, or it will be months after her death.