Dissecting Grey's Anatomy: We are Siamese, if you don't please
Yes, last night WAS a rerun, but last week wasn't. So we're re-running a post that never ran, cause we're has-beens OR because it features FREAKIN' SIAMESE TWINS!! Seriously, people. Seriously.
(Note to the Grey's Faithful: We're putting this SGH coffee mug on our wish list.)
Ep 7 is all about family, the ones you choose, and the ones you choose to lose. It opens with a shot of West Seattle, where Meredith's mom apparently lives. Addled by Alzheimer's, MereMa is talking about the Chief leaving her "because I have a daughter, right? I should have never had a kid."
Uh, well, if you didn't we wouldn't have a show to watch. But poor Mere, having to hear that.
And poor, poor Dr. Burke. Yang tells the Chief about the hand-scam, but, much to Dr. Bailey's chagrin, he refuses to punish them, instead ordering Burke to let McDreamy operate again: "That hand is worth $2 million! I want it fixed and I want it fixed now!"
That prompts the question- what are Seattlest's blogging hands worth, and can we get a quote from Lloyd's of London?
Meanwhile, Georgie's pre-op pop is telling his son where the life insurance papers and "his magazines" are, in case he doesn't make it out of surgery. Whoa, there, daddy. Cancer, Shmancer-- you're at SGH.
The rest of the interns are assigned to work on twins who are Siamese, and boy, are they pleased. It's a two-fer, and the boys want to go solo. Plastics man McSteamy picks Izzy as his attending, but the "look, don't touch" intern refused to fetch his bone-dry cappucino. No worries, McSteamy likes 'em fiesty, and makes room at the operating table for her to watch.
Burke and Cristina are at an impasse, but the Cold War thaws when Burke sees his woman impress Dr. Hahn, who is performing George's Dad's operation.
Meanwhile, Meredith gets another Mare (Winningham), who plays her stepmonster. The stepsis she never knew she had is about to have a baby, and Addison insists Meredith assist. But Meredith doesn't want to deal with the newfound fam. Addison saves the baby, but Meredith refuses to resuscitate the relationship. "You're very nice... but you're not my family," she says.
Cristina kicks ass in the OR, and Dr. Hahn, who gives her props for being just like her younger intern self, "cold and focused." Family, friends, dating, it's all overrated she says. Ice, ice, baby. Yang throws down a running whipstich (remember doing that one on the turkey?) while George and Burke watch from the sidelines.
The Chief calls out Burke telling him he "passed the torch" to him and Burke blew it out. True 'dat. Now the chief wants to retire and get his wife back, so Burke better get his hand back, stat.
The conjoined twins bicker over a woman. Both brothers love her, but she chooses the one who cuddles with her after her lover falls asleep. They argue right up until the surgery, but when it's over, they're wheeled into the same room, and touch hands. Awww. Thicker than water, after all.
Sometimes you choose your own family, like Meredith, who eschews her stepmom's entreaties and instead makes nice with much-maligned Cristina, who gets flak for standing by, and covering for, her man.
Meredith beseeches everyone to let Yang off the hook and they DO! Except George.
Yang is embarrased, but Meredith explains she had no choice."You're my sister... you're all I've got," she says.
The people who are with you at the end of the day-- or the end of the post-- those are the people worth keeping.
