Beautiful Doom Was One Of My Favourite Grey's Anatomy Episodes For Season Nine
Some
Grey's Anatomy fans have had enough of Meredith and Cristina's
soul-mate relationship; whereas there are others that can't get
enough. I fall into the cannot get enough category. While I love both
characters and their friendship; I do get annoyed when they put their
husbands second.
In "Beautiful Doom" fans were treated a Meredith and Cristina centric episode. While fans everywhere assumed that this meant Cristina came home to Seattle, the episode showed us a couple of days where certain events happened in Meredith and Cristina's lives that brought back all the issues they had yet to deal with. A tragic accident happens while Meredith is on her way to work and the patient is trapped under a car. Meredith is forced to relive what happened to Lexie, in order to deal with losing her sister. Cristina is on a difficult case with Dr Thomas and goes into overtime trying to protect him from being fired. It is during this time that Dr Thomas gives Cristina a pep talk on just where he sees her life going.
The chatter leading up to this
episode was all about Cristina and Meredith's friendship and Shonda
Rhimes' twisted view that it is okay for them to put their friendship
before their husbands. I do not usually follow spoilers, however it
was hard not too watch, given these two girls are two of my favourite
characters, in-fact Cristina is my fave and if she weren't on the
show, I am not sure I could watch anymore. Previews tend to be
misleading and manipulative; and it's nice to be surprised. There was
also a lot of discussion between fans about how unhealthy this
friendship is. On the TWOP
forum for example,
many posters there are sick of Cristina and Meredith choosing each
other over their husbands. So I'm not the only one who has this view,
but I do think that they have both realized that their husbands
should be their person's too. I feel that this began to happen at end of last season.
In
this case however; Derek was out of town in this episode and Owen and
Cristina are estranged. And the communication between Cristina and
Meredith was on the phone until right at the end when Cristina shows
up drunk on Meredith's doorstep. Meredith is probably not sharing her
burdens with Derek because he just lost Mark; his best friend and he's
also dealing with his injured hand. For Meredith it was her patient that was the realization that she needed to deal with the fact that her
sister was dead. Unfortunately for Cristina it was Dr Thomas' death
that made her realize that she wanted Owen back and her friends in
Seattle, which is why she arrives at Meredith's, having gotten smashed
so she would be brave enough to board a plane.
As
a huge fan of this show; Meredith and Cristina, I really loved this
episode. The difficult part for me were the phone conversations
between the two. These were hard to focus on as Shonda chose to use a special echo effect and this just ruined those scenes. Apart from
that, I loved all of it. Cristina turning up in the end and we are
left to wonder if she is back in Seattle for good; having lost yet
another mentor. Many fans thought that Meredith's display of finally
understanding that Lexie was dead was not enough, but for me it was.
She is not a character who cries much unless she is feeling some
extreme emotions. However what is not believeable is later on this
season Meredith Grey seems to have forgotten she even had a sister,
Lexie and Mark are barely mentioned by Meredith again. I can let this
go only because she has never been portrayed as a character who goes
on and on about her sadness and feelings.
When
I first watched this episode I was not sure whether Cristina has
returned to Seattle permanently, but given that Shonda Rhimes
(creator of Grey's
Anatomy)
has said that Owen
and Cristina
will
find their way back together, I was hopeful that she was back. And in
the very next episode there she is in the dark blue scrubs.
With
Meredith and Cristina's friendship being the main purpose of this
episode, the assumption was that we might see flashbacks of the past.
This was not the case and it was refreshing and different the way the
episode played out. As for the high tech phone calls, that did not
work. Meredith's preoccupation with her patient and saving the
woman's life and then also needing to deal with Zola was really well
done too. I laughed out loud when Cristina sees her car covered in
snow, and was close to tears when Dr Thomas hit the deck. I just knew
he was gone. It would have been nice if Cristina could have figured
out by herself that she needed to return to Owen and her friends,
without Dr Thomas needing to die. I guess someone can't have a
epiphany about their life without something tragic happening on
Grey's
Meredith
Grey has been all positive and hard core ever since the crash, which
is typical behavior for her. She has been helping everyone else move
forward and stuffing her own feelings. After the shooting in Season
Six, Meredith was all “We are fine” so it is not surprising that
we saw very little emotion from Meredith. Her thirty second dance
party in surgery once her patient was out of the woods was a typical
way Meredith lets off steam. And the anxiety and stress we saw her
patient was critical was her remembering her sister dying. Grey's
Anatomy is just not so obvious sometimes and you need to be able to read
between the lines.
My
hope originally was that Shonda would do a memorial service for
Lexie, given Mark's character got an excellent send off. Lexie fans are very angry that her character did not get the same, given that she and Mark were "made to be." However, I knew this was
unrealistic as Shonda does not do funerals.
Again
I must say this was a great episode, probably one of the best this
season. I was excited after watching this as it seemed to me that
Season Nine was going to be good.
What
did you think of "Beautiful Doom?" Have your say in the comments.
Read my Grey's Anatomy: Season 9 Finale Review
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