Posted by Dustin on 01.23.2010 at 6:59 pm

Just my random thoughts on this week’s “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Private Practice.”

So there were a lot of fall-outs this week based on last week’s show. The first was between Christina, Teddy and Owen. Teddy had to stick around and finish out her contract, and while Christina said she didn’t mean what she said when she offered Owen to her, Teddy wasted little time telling Owen. While Owen remained committed to Christina, man is this going to make work a bitch! Once again Christina is probably going to get screwed by her mentor/teacher. I still expect something to happen at some point between her and the other Mercy West doctor.

Derek and Meredith argued most of this episode over the Chief, who Derek wanted to turn in for drinking again. Meredith knew he just wanted the Chief’s job. Meredith kept trying to claim their post-it note marriage as to why he couldn’t betray her confidence. I thought these two were supposed to get married for real at some point. Based on the upcoming spoiler releases, it looks like Meredith might end up in trouble after a botched surgery. A post-it note marriage won’t help her out there if Derek has to testify against her!

We saw Izzie’s brief return, and while she wanted to try and find a way to stay in town and work things out with Alex, he told her to go and take another job elsewhere. Ouch! I get the bad feeling that the show might not bring Izzie back honestly. It seems like they are trying to write her out. The actress was on leave to film a movie then on maternity leave. She’s been gone so long now I’m worried the show is going to just leave it that way.

Mark returned and both he and Lexie confessed their indiscretions. My mouth hit the floor when he was hurt and shocked that Lexie would sleep with Alex while he was hurting and worried about his daughter. Good for her pointing out it didn’t stop him from sleeping with Addison (which by the way he did over and over and over again and was ready to make a life with her in LA, something he didn’t tell Lexie!). No Mark, you don’t get to be the victim. What a jerk! While I liked him and Lexie together, now I feel he doesn’t deserve her.

Over to “Practice” where the main story was the fallout of Maya revealing she was pregnant. Naomi wasted no time in demanding she get an abortion, which was even more shocking than Maya being pregnant. Naomi doesn’t believe in abortion! I think though it was a good story, as it shows how quickly ones beliefs about such touchy subjects can change when you find yourself faced with the issue head on. Of course in the end, Maya didn’t go through with it. Again I think this will bring Sam and Naomi back together as they have to help Maya with her pregnancy. I did love Sam blowing up and saying “How could you get pregnant given what your parents do for a living!”

Violet ended up bonding with a man who lost a child his wife, and she let him believe she’s lost her child. At the very end of the show though she broke down, realizing she hadn’t lost a child, that she was letting a complete stranger think her baby was dead. I think this was a real turning point for her. Is she finally healing? Will she finally begin to bond with her son and allow herself to love him and be his mother? I hope so, as I think we’ve been waiting far too long for that to happen.

Charlotte and Cooper’s relationship continued to be in a bad way, with Cooper telling Charlotte to move out and leave the practice. I loved that Violet invited Charlotte to live with her, saying it was only because she missed her martinis. I think these two can be really good friends, and perhaps Violet may be the only hope for helping fix Cooper and Charlotte.