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| Don't do me like this, man! |
Naturally, I'm accustomed to the highly charged emotional atmosphere that is a Grey's Anatomy season finale. I've come to expect over-the-top shit. But to be done so shockingly dirty... All that blood, all that crying and screaming; all that time gone by and no one came for them...
And Lexie! How are you gonna do me like that Shonda?
I love(d) this show. How do you spend a season giving me a stuttering, blubbering Lexie who finds a nice little home in Neuro, begins to bond with her brother-in-law, finally balls-up and confesses her love for Mark, and then you kill her? How do you do that to me?
Where the hell do we go from there? How is Mark supposed to bounce back from this? And you left them there all episode. They're trapped in the mountains and the last match has gone out. They're going to be there all summer! How could you do this to me? How do you expect me to love you now?
And Owen Hunt. You've made me hate this man, and it takes a lot to make me hate a ginger.At first, with the whole Henry thing...you know I let that go. He was just being chief, and he made a terrible judgement call. I felt Teddy's pain, and I felt Owen's. And, of course I felt Yang's because that's my girl, and who wants to be put in the middle?
But then you know, it went too far. Owen is mad at Yang for not talking to him and siding with Teddy, so he brings up the abortion? Not. Cool. Bro. They go to counseling and he's being a whiny baby about everything, till he effectively manages to flip the entire script - just like a tool - to the point where Yang forgets she was mad at him to begin with and is now insecure in their union. And boom, he confesses he's cheated on her. Major dick move.
You do not cheat on your wife because she had an abortion, and because of that one time she stopped speaking to you at work because you made her operate on her mentor's husband without telling her who the patient was, and then you made her not tell her mentor until after the woman finished her own surgery. You don't get to cheat on Yang because you suck at life.
And after everything, after Yang decides to leave and Teddy forgives him, he fucking fires Teddy! Like seriously bro? You fought in a war with this woman; this woman's loved, hated, and forgiven you. She's displayed true loyalty to you and you fire her - citing insubordination after the fact that you kept her husband's death a secret! Nerve, bro. Nerve.
But no one has more nerve here than Shonda. I am not cool with this finale. I hated it.
I spent the whole hour covering my eyes, holding my head, rocking back and forth, worrying. Sure, if I remove my emotions it's easy to see this was good television - a bit on the gory side for my tastes - but absolutely riveting, edge-of-the-seat entertainment. The actors did great work. I felt the agony, I felt the despair, I felt the confusion the whole way through. Which is all good, except that by the end of the whole thing - when the last match blew out - I mostly just felt wronged.
The 9th season of Grey's Anatomy returns Thursday September 27, at 9pm on ABC.
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