Yes, Grey's fans. \u00a0The series has returned and the premiere episode promises that this season may be a strange one indeed. \u00a0Could it be --- The Season Of The Body Snatchers?<\/p>\n
We catch back up to our Seattle Grace faves on the 30th day after the plane crash -the day the crash claims its last victim. Mark has been hooked to life support since the crash. His living will or heath care power of attorney directs that he should be disconnected from artificial life support on the 30th day that passes without any cognizable signs of improvement. \u00a0 On the first day of the new season, everyone is affected by the knowledge that it's the day that Mark Sloane will die.<\/p>\n
Everyone feels that Mark's death on this 30th day means that limbo time is over. \u00a0By his final declaration, Mark essentially said, if you can't play after 30 days it's time to get out of the game. \u00a0 \u00a0Operating under the Sloane Rule, on this day people are trying to make some big moves.<\/p>\n
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Derek's been treated by Callie for his hand injury. \u00a0There's been lots of surgery and lots of therapy and as this 30th day dawns, Callie calls him in for a consult to view an x-ray. \u00a0He agrees with her diagnosis and they decide surgery is necessary. \u00a0Then he surprises her by saying he'll help with the operation. \u00a0Derek thinks the 30th day means it's time to return to the OR. It goes well at first, but then his hand goes numb and he drops an instrument. \u00a0It wasn't time for Derek's move and now he must decide how to play the rest of the game.<\/p>\n
Derek's marriage seems to be going fine - or at least, from the bit of interplay we get in this episode, he and Mer seem to be happy in their marriage. \u00a0He's dealing better with Mer's aftermath than she is, as it turns out. \u00a0Or perhaps, McDreamy just knows his Mrs. that well. \u00a0She won't deal with her emotions for a while, and he knows that. \u00a0She'll rebel for a while. Then she'll tread water for a while. \u00a0One day, it will hit her all at once - and when it happens, he'll be there for her. \u00a0But the 30th day is not that day yet.<\/p>\n
On the 30th day, Meredith is busy being inhabited by the spirit of someone who seems like a combination of the Nazi, her Mother and....... \u00a0Cristina? \u00a0 See, Mer is now the attending in charge of the interns. \u00a0How does she handle them? \u00a0She out-Nazis the Nazi. \u00a0Mer learned her lessons from Bailey too well and perhaps she combined them with some memories of her mother because the interns call her Medusa. \u00a0On the 30th day, she picks one for the first surgery - but not to highlight her skills. \u00a0Oh no. \u00a0Mer gives the honor to an intern along with a big lesson in humility. \u00a0She assigns a simple surgery with a complication guaranteeing that the intern, under the watchful eyes of her fellows, will fail in a dramatic fashion.<\/p>\n
Mer's also busy trying to push Cristina into returning for the 30th day. \u00a0Cristina's in Minnesota at her new job and she's been repeatedly agreeing to fly back to Seattle but she never gets on the plane. \u00a0Cristina promises to make her big move on this 30th day by returning to be there as Mark dies. \u00a0Then Cristina schedules a surgery that means she won't make the 5 pm time when Mark will be removed from life support. \u00a0 She promises to catch a plane as soon as the surgery is over, but then -- she doesn't. \u00a0Cristina does a world-class job on her surgery, as always, but is called on the carpet by her new chief who tells her that she's not fitting in - she's not doing well. \u00a0At the new place, everything is a team approach and the only super star is the hospital. \u00a0There's no competition.<\/p>\n
The new Chief orders Cristina to take time off and get in a Minnesota frame of mind. \u00a0Cristina sits, blinking, and trying to absorb the concept of a surgical program that doesn't thrive on competition. \u00a0If she can't compete, then she can't excel. \u00a0If she can't excel at her job, then what's she to do?<\/p>\n
On this 30th day Alex is making his move - flying off to start his new job at John's Hopkins. \u00a0Except, as he leaves, he discovers that the new peds Chief is more concerned with the bottom line than the human factor. \u00a0The New Chief has decided to end the program Arizona and Alex had started to fly in needy kids from Africa for free care. \u00a0It doesn't fit the new guy's image of the program he wants to build. That thought stays with Karev as he goes to the airport and encounters Meredith, who has fled from Mark's death vigil, allegedly to wait for Cristina. \u00a0Mer screams at Karev for leaving and he says he can't keep walking around the hospital as the guy who should have been on the plane.<\/p>\n
Mer decides to make a big move by flying to see Cristina, but as her plane is about to take off she learns that she's not ready yet either. \u00a0The walls close in on her and she stages a fit, insisting she has to get off. \u00a0She has to leave. \u00a0Does the warm, fuzzy, Meredith go home to her husband and child? \u00a0No, that warm Mer has vanished. \u00a0In her place is the rebel, tossing back drinks at the bar as she chats with Cristina over Skype. \u00a0Then in comes Alex, and we learn that he didn't go, has perhaps decided to stay. \u00a0Why? \u00a0Well, he wants to fight the new Chief but also -- he just couldn't get on the plane - and he wasn't even in the crash.<\/p>\n
And there's lots of not ready yet in this episode. \u00a0Derek wasn't ready. Mer wasn't ready. \u00a0Cristina wasn't ready. Alex wasn't ready.<\/p>\n
Someone who is ready is Callie. \u00a0We've been watching her all episode at the hospital, without Arizona. \u00a0And we've been seeing everyone acting awkward. \u00a0The new Peds Chief when introduced mumbles something about how sorry he is. \u00a0Callie's spending time in supply closets and on-call rooms crying - when she can find one where Bailey and Ben or Karev and the new woman of the hour aren't doing the mattress mambo. \u00a0But overall, we're given the clear impression that the absent Arizona died in the crash. \u00a0That turns out not to be true. Callie's big move is going home and slamming open a bedroom door where we see Arizona under the covers.<\/p>\n
Callie screams at Arizona, telling her that she has to get out of the bed and live. Mark died today but Arizona is alive and she and Callie have a child to raise. \u00a0Arizona - no longer the peppy, perpetually happy soul - snarls at Callie, asking how she is to get up and go on like this. \u00a0She throws back the cover to show a stump, saying, you cut off my leg. \u00a0Oh, Callie should have known that the 30th day wasn't the time to make her big move -- hadn't she learned that from Derek?<\/p>\n
Owen decides to make a big move on the 30th day too. \u00a0Not to fly to his wife in Minnesota - as Karev tells Cristina - but to fly to April. \u00a0She's left the medical industry to work on a farm. \u00a0Owen marches up to her as she herds a pig, telling April that she needs to come back to the hospital. \u00a0Owen says April failed because he didn't do his job and he's going to do a better job teaching her.<\/p>\n
As the epi ends, I'm left wondering whether this will be the Season Of The Body Snatchers. Is Meredith turning into Cristina? \u00a0She's Medusa to her interns, snarling and tossing bones, waiting for the pack to turn on each other and enjoying their battle. \u00a0Bailey seems to have turned into Meredith from the first season, as she and Ben boogle through on-call room sexing at a pace and rate that would have made Mer\/Der proud. \u00a0In fact, Bailey's not the Nazi anymore. \u00a0Now they call her BCB - Booty Call Bailey. \u00a0 Say What?<\/p>\n
Now the Minnesota Chief has announced that he's trying to turn Cristina into Meredith - a non-competitive team player who cares more for the interests of the group than themselves. \u00a0They're trying to turn Cristina all warm and fuzzy. \u00a0Which would make her -- Meredith.<\/p>\n
So, the premiere has me wondering that if all the attention from the plane crash may have attracted a really foul group of deviants -- The Body Snatchers. \u00a0Is this the season when all the players change parts to see how they fit?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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