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Don’t get married.  Don’t have babies. On Grey’s Anatomy, the rule is, only one half of a couple can want a baby.  If both want it, somebody (baby or child) is going to be in surgery soon. Also, it isn’t true love until you renounce each other or kick someone out.

At the 7th season’s end, Derek is sleeping in the unfinished house; Owen’s kicked Cristina out;  and Teddy has abandoned Andrew for the husband who married her for insurance (Henry, otherwise known as Denny 2.0.).  Meredith has Malawi Baby Zola, and Cristina’s planning an abortion (let’s take bets now on whether she goes through with it).

Lexi and Sloan declare their vows to not get back together (more bets); Bailey and Jackson are there for each other (they are not married).  In other news, April is made Chief Resident, and Meredith’s in deep doo doo because she fudged the Alzheimer trials to give the drug to Adele.  A 757 goes down in the Sound.  Well- at least nobody sang. Nobody did any interesting surgeries, either.

The show opens with mountains and the glorious views of the state of Washington. Close up on the frame of the Mer-Der house going up.  Wait, a frame?  Wasn’t he picking out tiles at the beginning of the season?  He was talking about tub placement.  Why are there no walls?  I know it rains a lot in Seattle, but come on.

The Meredith voice-over tells us about how when she was little she thought she’d always want to be alone, and how having someone in your life all the time would be more trouble than it’s worth.   Derek draws with chalk where a crib and changing table will be.  Meredith says, nonsensically, that you can’t plan a baby room before you have a baby.  They have to figure this out because Janet, the social worker, wants to see where they live.  Apparently, she doesn’t read blueprints.

At the hospital, Meredith snippily tells Derek “On the trial, I’m a colleague.” (not a wife).

Hunt pulls Derek aside to talk about the trial.  He wants to talk about the leak that Alex made last week that Meredith fudged the trial.

Teddy and her legal husband Henry say goodbye as she’s going with Andrew to Germany.  Although she’s his best friend and he’ll miss her, he says “go be happy. With Andrew.”

There is an announcement that a 757 went down in the sound. The Sound is approaching Bermuda Triangle status (remember the Ferr?).

Owen tells Cristina that  Meredith tampered with the results (the ethics of that disclosure don’t trouble him).  Cristina confronts Karev about destroying Meredith’s career, and “she’s the only one who ever gave a rat’s ass about you.” When she coaxes a patient to remember her last period, was it St. Patrick’s day—she realizes she’s talking about herself.

Lucy, the blonde pediatrician, does an ultrasound on Cristina, who is six weeks along.  Because, although Cristina’s a doctor, she couldn’t figure out how to not get pregnant (pill? IUD?  Foam?).  And because, since she doesn’t want children, and Owen does, and has only one fallopian tube, this is Grey’s, so she gets one.

The doctors wait around for the victims of the crash to be pulled by the water.  Karev flicks cards, and Sloan plays Angry Birds (there are way too many shout-outs to this stupid game on TV.  What about Plants Vs. Zombies?).   Callie  reads a parenting magazine.

Sloan tells Avery he’s a good man.  “Lexi’s yours, take care of her.”

Cristina tells Hunt about the preganancy and they argue. “I.  don’t.  Want one.” Cristina’s close up face emotes.

He asks her to think about it.  As she walks off, thinking, she sees through the conference room window the chief grilling Meredith.  Because nobody pulls blinds, ever.  The argument is going badly, and Meredith’s job is on the rocks, when a knock comes on the door—Karev, with the envelope of evidence.  That’s when the chief learns Meredith fudged the trial for Adele (her motives were pure).

Back in the crisis center, the doctors realize that if it’s taking so long to pull survivors out of the water, nobody has survived.  OK, so it’s not exactly like the Ferry.

In the conference room Derek says the protocol is clear.  But the chief just suspends Meredith.  After Derek storms out, he says “Meredith, I don’t know how to…” “I know,” she says.   It’s Adele, so he’s not mad anymore.

Hunt posts the notice of Chief Resident:  April.  Because Head Pediatrician hinted that she made corn pone for Malawi child?  It was nice that she did, but, you know, it’s cooking (OK, it’s consideration).

Karev thinks this too and yells at Hunt that “it was supposed to be me or Gray.” Sloan retorts that after what he did to Meredith nobody would trust him.  At Seattle Grace Mercy West, tampering with a trial is bad, but ratting out your friend is worse.  Especially if the snitchee has something to gain.

Back in the Cafeteria the doctors call out names. Each person looks hopeful, because they think they’re being called to see their relatives in surgery. “This is a nightmare,” says Lexi.  Because you know it’s all about them.  Wouldn’t it make more sense to issue a blanket announcement, “ladies and gentlemen, there are no survivors, but we need to call you individually to identify the bodies?”

Teddy goes to  see Henry again because she feels down, after a hard day of torturing the grieving. This time he orders her to Get out!   He’s in love with her and this is harder than surgery.  Her eyes leak. He made her cry, so she must be in love with him.

Then April announces:  there’s a survivor.

Derek tells Meredith she doesn’t know right from wrong, and she might be a bad mother after all.  He needs space. Janet the social worker texts Meredith.  It seems she doesn’t text Derek.

The survivor is an unaccompanied minor who was flying alone.

April enters and calls the name of the Gordons.  But, irony, although they would actually have a survivor to go see, they aren’t there.  Oh no!  when the little girl wakes up nobody will be there!  “I’m Spartacus” the grieving think as one, as they all sit down again, led by Nice Black Woman Mrs. Ruiz. Oh all right it’s kind of touching.   Sensitive piano music underneath.

Andrew comes to see Teddy, because “when something like this happens you just want to be with someone that you love.” For Mer, that means looking at cutest baby in the world, Malawi Zola.  She leaves Derek a voicemail, but forgets to add the words “we got Zola!”

Mrs. Gordon shows up in the Spartacus Cafeteria and all the people take care of her.  They offer her coffee, and tell her how that nice doctor came in every half hour to update them.

Ooooh, Malawi Zola is sooooo cute.  A sweet, fat nurse gives Meredith gear, because when parents have babies that die they just leave the gear around.

Mrs. Ruiz lies about her son being OK when Mrs. Gordon asks, so Mrs. Gordon can keep feeling good.  After she leaves, the Spartacus bereaved make eye contact and begin getting their things together.  Mrs. Ruiz breaks down.

Teddy returns to Henry.  There’s guitar music underneath so we know it’s going to be all right.  She tells him to stand up, and she kisses him. “You’re my husband.  And I think I’m falling in love with you.”

Lexi confronts Sloan and tells him Jackson makes her happy, and asks him not to pull at her.  He asks if Avery let her know about his letting her go.    “ “Yes, it’s paternalistic and weird,” she replies (one of the two best lines in the show, along with Avery’s ‘I think I owe him a goat’ when he told Lexi about it).  She walks away.

Meredith brings Zola back to the house in a baby sling.  Nobody is home. Alex’s room is cleaned out.  Derek has gone.   But she seems to be taking it in stride as she tells Zola, “we’ll figure everything out.”

Cristina tells Owen she made an appointment to terminate the pregnancy.  Owen is furious. “This is a marriage, I tied my life to you.”  Then he says “Get out!”

Wait—didn’t he just say “I tied my life to you?”  Neither remember that Cristina picked out and buy the house.

Hottie Jackson wants to spend time with Bailey because that’s what people want to do when they’re upset. She puts him off because she has her son but when he gets upset about that, she—agrees.  They are not married.

Cristina shows up at Meredith’s.  Meredith says, “He took off, and they gave me a baby, and she’s upstairs sleeping in some dead kid’s portacrib.”

Cristina replies, “I’m getting an abortion and Owen’s kicking me out of the house.”

Back to the Mer voiceover, where she realizes that she wanted to be alone because she was afraid of what would happen if she loved someone and it fell apart.

Lucy the blonde pediatrician tells Karev at  the bar, “Tell me not to go to Africa.” (There was a variant of this line in the Good Wife finale, too). “Go to hell,” he answers.

As Mer ponders what happens when you discover you need love, Callie rocks her baby.  Derek deletes Meredith’s message, and gets into a sleeping bag under the open sky, in the unfinished house.  He sees the word CRIB written on the floor.

And the season ends.

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Comments (5 of 40)View all Comments »
3:07 pm September 5, 2011
jack wrote:
well i really just think that nobody should leave and thaty every thing will work out OWEN and CHRISTINA will stat together not so sure about the baby CHRISTINA really has strong feeling she will be a bad parent ithink maybe she would be a good paret maybe. MER and MCDREAMY are to much in love and will get right back to being in a MCHOT,MCSTEAMY,MCNASTY DREAM. They r so cute and then MCSTEAMY AND LEXI will stick like glue and will be but i think maybe it will all come to be the best

8:37 am August 27, 2011
Lora wrote:
For god’s sake, do you have to be so cynical about the show? Clearly you don’t like it, but some people out here do. Grey’s Anatomy is a really genuinely good show – yeah, the story lines are a bit over the top now but so what? It’s a TV show, it’s used to bring in numbers. If all TV shows kept going the way they started off then how boring would that be?! Grey’s will never be a soap opera, nor should it be reviewed like one.

11:07 pm August 19, 2011
Allie wrote:
It wasn’t Callie rocking her baby it was Mer rocking Zola.

5:51 am August 14, 2011
Ani wrote:
I love grey’s Anatomy. My best seris ever!!! The best series ever!!!

2:08 pm August 7, 2011
Mayda Garcia wrote:
I loved E>R> and now love Grays Anatomy, missed the last episode just read it, plese make many many more it the best oin TV, together with the Good Wife and a few others


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