oh george!

sorry for the delay in posting about this week's grey's anatomy lesson, i am now watching the repeat episode on friday evenings since i have class on thursday nights. bless you, american broadcasting company!

okay, this week's lesson is about family -- as in how to be part of one, how to create your own family, and when to let go. *spoiler alert*

how to be part of one
oh georgey! we finally see you step up in the eyes of your rambunctious brothers and your mother when they tearfully ask you what should happen with your father. your father told you "you were a good boy, georgey" before the surgery and now, in the scene where you shave your father and confess your childhood disgression, well, it had me close to tears listening to you talk with pride in how your dad and your brothers took up the battle and defended you against the neighborhood bully.

meredith, however, was more upset in realizing her relationship to the bumbling man who shared half of her chromosomes. (something i can wholeheartedly relate to.) both she and mcsteamy, the dirty mistresses are loners, not feeling the connection to a family, or really, even the need for one.

how to create your own
by now, everyone at seattle grace must be aware of the simmering competition between burke and christina in getting the other one to speak first. everyone knows the game and continues to refuse to play along in passing information about one of them to the other. christina in this episode goes so far as to try to withhold burkes' food until a nurse steps in to ask if she should alert security. as petty and childish as it may seem to outsiders, this is burke's and christina's relationship to the core - competitive and passionate. anyone else would have booted to the door with that behavior.

and izzie! poor izzie, i should stop calling her that now that she has deposited the $8.7 million dollar check denny left her in the bank (which was a great scene in part one). izzie is still searching for her family -- not literally, mind you -- but in terms of where she fits in. she is the den mother of the house with the baking and scrubbing of the bathroom floor just in case george needs to lie on it. her moment when she tells bailey that she is both, a surgeon and someone who will get involved with her patients, my heart beamed. i've always loved izzie for her strength and ability to stand up and fight. in some ways, she's a symbol of the new feminist - smart, beautiful, tough. go izzie!

when to let go
addison dropped a bomb in this episode, telling callie she aborted mcsteamy's baby and that this would have been her due date. (on a sidenote, i really like that callie is getting more story lines than simply being the dark, sexy chick who dances in her underwear.) addison knew that she wanted a baby but she also realized all the things wrong in her situation -- mark would be a horrible father, her child would only be a source of competition between mcsteamy and mcdreamy, and she didn't want to go it alone. yes, she wanted a baby, but she wanted it with derek in her old live. and that folks, takes guts to realize.

of course this post needs to wrap up with george, this was his episode all along. at the table in the conference room, we saw george step up and be the source fo strength his family needed. this time, he was the one to help rally his family in helping them realize that the man laying in the hospital bed with tubes, that wasn't their dad. the spirited man they knew and loved wasn't going to recover and it was time to let him.

goddess, i love this show. even if i have to watch it as a repeat and pray i don't get snippets of what happened before i can sit down and watch. this is not masterpiece theatre, you can guesss what's going to happen moreorless in each episode that's not the point of the show. the show is about how the characters relate more so than the actual plotlines. still if mam drops a plotline bomb on me again, i swear i will cut out his tongue.