My Quick Thoughts On Grey's Anatomy "Unaccompanied Minor"

"Okay, we're gonna be okay. You and I, we're a team, right?"

I have never written about Grey’s Anatomy on this site and I honestly was not planning on it.  The show is a guilty pleasure and for a long time it was not a very good show that I just watched out of habit.  That changed last season when the show seemed to find its footing in the second half and culminated tn the fantastically bloody season finale.  I never expected the show to keep up the momentum, but I was proved wrong because season 7 was one of the stronger seasons of the show, culminating in last night’s subdued, yet intelligent finale.

The show ran in to problems in season 3-6 because it refused to let its stars grow up.  Even though we had been following Meredith and company for so long, they still made the same bonehead decisions and never seemed to learn anything.  Now though, with Meredith and Christina both married, and with the rest of the characters actually advancing forward in their lives, the show has found new life, and that was very evident in this episode.

Each argument that was had tonight felt like a grown up argument.  It was not petty twenty somethings fighting about what surgeries they were going to do.  So whatever side of the argument you found yourself on, you found logical reasons on both sides.  Sure it is Christina’s body and she has stated numerous times in the past that she did not want to be a mother, but Owen was right to, it is a topic that warranted much more then the couple hours of conversing they did.  Meredith jeopardized the trial, and all its patients, and her career, and she had an understandable reason for doing it, just as Derek is completely reasonable to want to take a step away from her to process what she did and what it means for their future.  And sure, they chiefs lack of a serious punishment seems a little far fetched, even though it was his wife that Meredith was helping, but id rather have it be far fetched now that have to watch Meredith be “fired” for 4 or 5 episodes next season and then have to think of a contrived way to bring her back.  We have seen that done with Derrick and Christina already, with limited success.

I never really considered reviewing GA before because most weeks it was a chore for me to sit through.  Somewhere along the way it really redeemed itself.