Can you believe it's already been a year since Derek's death? To me, it only feels like two weeks; two weeks and 102,874 supporters (as of when I started this article) of a petition demanding that Shonda Rhimes "Bring Dr. Derek "McDreamy" Shepherd BACK!!!" I'm sorry, but do any of them realize that that's a psychotic request for a MEDICAL-based drama? So what's happening to the remaining living members of our meh-inspiring evening drama? A lot, and may I add that a good chunk of it was actually interesting?
Meredith considered selling the house she shared with Derek and their invisible children. Richard and Catherine were scheduled to get married. Owen no longer wanted to be Chief. Stephanie got her own group of wide eyed, lab coat-wearing underlings. Jo sported really cute hair, and tried to convince Alex to run off to the army with her.
There was a catastrophe. All hands on deck! Ambulances brought some of the victims to the hospital, but they were already dead. Weren't there medics in the back of the ambulances? Did they not realize their victims had died? Alex whipped off his special yellow emergency smock thing, because ain't nobody got time for dead folk.
Catherine and Richard's romance hit a wall, as most do on this show. Granted, they're both alive, so that's something. Owen suggested a risky procedure (suspended animation through induced hypothermia of course) to save a young guy; something that had only been tested on animals, but he omitted that fact. Jackson and Catherine were not having it, butt Owen only needed two other doctors' consent to veto their decision. Enter Richard and Alex: Team Ginger.
Despite the fact that after a dramatic pause, the procedure was a success, Catherine was not happy about Richard going against her. She told him, "I need you to follow orders " and his face went very Angela Bassett in WAITING TO EXHALE. I see a burning car in their future; scrubs all over the lush front lawn. He pulled the "Chief" card to which she replied that he was only "Interim Chief," and that's where is reign would end. It was an awkward pre-wedding exchange.
A woman who got pregnant on a first date was in distress. Let's call her Joan, because that's the name I heard someone say in her general vicinity. IMDB was no help. One of the underlings asked a stupid question in front of her; something that would only induce panic in a soon-to-be mother. The underlings were proving to be stupid. Later in the episode, one of the underlings almost paralyzed "Joan." This was after the other idiot he was with made a series of insensitive comments about how rad, and off the chain all this carnage was on their first day.*
April, Amelia, Maggie, and Meredith were dispatched to the scene, where we met Keith, the virile man who impregnated "Joan." He was trapped in a car that looked like it had been crushed by the hammer of Thor. The four tried to save Keith, but he was pinned in a nook of the car, and they couldn't safely get to him. April told them that she'd stay with him, and that they should go help people who could actually be saved.
During an awkward drive back to the hospital, Maggie was visibly troubled by the fact that they couldn't save Keith. Meredith tried to make her feel better by commenting that there was nothing they could've done, and Amelia scoffed. Back on hospital grounds, Amelia had a mini freak out on Meredith; demanding to know when exactly was the point that you just give up on someone. She unloaded on Meredith again in a supply closet or somewhere similar. Meredith, self-involved as she can be, thought Amelia was angry because she didn't discuss selling the house with her, and because she vanished for a year without calling. Cue reality check. Amelia was pissed because she imagined that Meredith had had several opportunities to call her while Derek was dying. She felt she could've carried out a miracle. "I have proven that I can reverse the impossible." She's a God or something. The best (read: most punch-you-in-the-gut awful) moment was when she said, "I didn't get to tell him goodbye, because of you." And I cheered, because it was hurtful and read and hinted at the Grey's of yesteryear. Meredith wept briefly and it was beautiful.
Joan had her baby and cried because it was the Worst. Birth. Story. EVER. Evidently the accident, death of her boyfriend, potential paralysis, and uber painful birth were not part of her plan.
Alex told Jo he had no intention of running off to the army with her, but she was free to be all that she could be on her own. Jo seemed a little taken aback; she had only been suggesting something they could do together. You know, like arts and crafts. Not to worry, Alex won't be lonely if Jo leaves, because he agreed to let Meredith and the kids move in with him.
At the episode's end, April appeared standing atop a demolished car with a living Keith still trapped inside. April joined the army and came back a superhero.
So what did you think of tonight's episode? Did you feel a resurgence of early Grey's as I did? Perhaps they're slowly getting back to basics, and learning how to pen a proper story. Will any of the relationships survive the upcoming season finale? Tell us in the comments below.
*Full disclosure: no one used "rad" or "off the chain"
Photo Credit: ABC
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