Picspam: Grey's Anatomy Season 6 Finale
"For most people, the hospital is a scary place. A hostile place. A place where bad things happen. Most people would prefer church, or school, or home, but I grew up here. While my mom was on rounds, I learned to read in the OR gallery, I played in the morgue, I colored with crayons on old ER charts. Hospital was my church, my school, my home; hospital was my safe place, my sanctuary. I love it here. Correction: loved it here."
Happy Mer = happy me. Too bad the happiness wouldn't last too long...
Their discussion was so funny/cute, and it almost feels kinda weird seeing them so happy about it. This would have been so different if Mer was pregnant a couple seasons ago.
I remember watching the 10 minute preview, and I wasn't expecting the shooting to start so soon, so that obviously meant that the really crazy stuff hasn't even started yet. Of course Alex gets shot just when I start to love him again, and I never cared about Reed, but she definitely didn't deserve to go out like that. You know something's not right when you feel bad for characters you hated. I still remember when all of the Mercy West people pissed me off so much at first, and I wished they would just disappear. Guess I kinda got my wish.
And this was the part where I really started to freak out. Cristina is one of my top favorite characters, so when we saw him in the elevator with her, I literally shouted, "DON'T YOU FUCKING SHOOT HER TOO." Since everyone else was being rude to him, I expected Cristina to be even ruder, but she surprised me and was actually polite and helped him out, which probably saved her life. Now if only I knew he would be pointing a gun at her head an hour later...
Thank god Alex was able to get into the elevator, and was found by someone. I was afraid he would bleed to death and someone would find him too late.
Derek. )':
As Shonda put it:
"And here's the thing you need to know: in my first draft of Part 1, Gary Clark shot Bailey. Bailey. He shot her. And I wrote it and then I couldn't sleep, for days and days, I could not sleep and I had to remove it from the script. Bailey getting shot was just too much for me. She's our anchor. She's the soul. Mer is the heart but Bailey is the soul and so I had to delete it because there was no way I could go on if Bailey had a bullet wound. The world would just be too broken. Derek was devastating enough but both Derek and Bailey it meant I couldn't go on."
I don't know why, but seeing Bailey get shot would have been even worse than seeing Cristina get shot. I still like thinking of Bailey as "The Nazi" that every intern was afraid of, so seeing her so terrified and afraid to even admit she's a surgeon felt so weird to me. I can't even describe how nervous I was.
This is where I just wanted to start screaming as much as Meredith did. I knew he was gonna get shot, but was hoping there was a slight chance he wouldn't, especially when it looked like he convinced Clark to not shoot him, and then April walks in, ugh.
"Yes or no. In or out. Up or down. Live or die. Hero or coward. Fight or give in. I'll say it again to make sure you hear me. The human life is made up of choices. Live or die. That's the important choice. And it's not always in our hands."
SWAT team to the rescue! Not really.
When Meredith pushed Cristina out of the way, I was surprised and a little happy. It just showed how badly she wanted to help Derek.
I pick you. I choose you. You don't get to die on me.
I didn't love Lexie that much this season either, but I was still scared for her; and SWAT actually did something. Too bad it didn't do much except save Lexie.
Moving on to the next victims...
I don't know what was worse -- that Callie helped him, or that she didn't take the gun. It was almost like he wanted her to. This episode also made me start to love Callie/Arizona.
No MD fan should ever have to go through this again. Seriously. ):
You can't be in there. I can't do this if you're in there staring at me with big, sad, don't kill McDreamy eyes.
This just killed me, and just made me wonder even more what the episode would have been like if Izzie was there. I don't really care about this triangle that much, since I'm not a Mark/Lexie fan and was just starting to get used to Alex/Lexie. I'm glad Alex survived this at least.
Teddy made me like her a lot after this. The only thing that ever bugged me about her was that she was getting in the way of Owen/Cristina, so I was pretty happy when she let Owen go save her. Hopefully if Shonda doesn't fool us again, this love triangle between them is finally over.
MEREDITH: Stop crying. Look, it took me a long time to find him. A long time. And even then it took me a long time to even know that I wanted him. To be married. To be his wife. To have his kids. And now that I realize that, he's lying on a table in there and my best friend's hands are inside his chest. You don't get to cry about that.
APRIL: Reed was my best friend. She died today.
This was the most difficult scene for me to watch. When Bailey started crying because she knew Charles was gonna die, and all she could do was watch just broke my heart. The funny part is that Charles was my least favorite from Mercy West, and the part that hurt me the most was when he started talking about Reed.
CHARLES: Can you do something for me? Can you find Reed when this is over? I always- I always had a crush on her. I don't think she knows.
MARY: She knows. Girls always know.
CHARLES: Yeah?
MARY: Yeah.
CHARLES: Can you tell her anyway? Can you find her and tell her I loved her? I loved her so much.
SHONDA:
"Cristina. This finale, especially the second half, belongs to Cristina. Owen chooses her, did you see that? Owen, faced with life or death, knows what he wants and what he wants is some Cristina Yang. But more importantly, Cristina truly comes into her own as a heart surgeon. She’s had numerous teachers, all kinds of setbacks but she finally had the right teacher, she had Teddy, and when she says to herself “pig or cow, Cristina” as she stands over Derek’s chest cavity…that was her graduation. When she refuses to stop operating with a gun literally pressed to her head, that was her commencement. Another part of her graduation? The girl who always had a hard time giving of herself emotionally gives like crazy in this episode. She is willing to die to save Derek because she loves Meredith so much and she promised Mer that she would do her very best work. Cristina Yang graduated tonight. Toss your caps in her honor."
My love for Cristina/Owen grew even more after this. I was a little worried about them thanks to Teddy, but when Owen came into the OR to try to save her, I was so happy and scared shitless, of course, especially when he got shot. Meredith trying to risk her life didn't help either.
I can't talk right now I'm trying to save your guy. Now please go try save mine.
I loved how Cristina and Avery fooled Clark into thinking Derek was dead, and now I actually have a reason for loving Avery other than the fact that he's hot.lol
I knew Meredith having a baby was too good to be true. =\ At least now Shonda isn't completely against MD having a baby, so hopefully if Meredith's ever pregnant again it will be a little more cheerful. And one again, we saw how awesome Meredith can be. Even when she knew she was having a miscarriage, the woman was still able to focus and helped Owen.
Richard: I've lived. I've really really lived. I've failed. I've been devastated. I've been broken. I've gone to hell and back. And I've also known joy. And passion. And I've had a great love. See death for me is not justice. It's a ... end of a beautiful journey. And I'm not afraid to die. The question is, are you? A life in prison or an afterlife ... with your wife. Me or you? Your choice.
I was so proud of Richard in this scene. :')
Yay for Callie/Arizona! Just no more baby drama, please; and Derek is safe! I can breathe again.
