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8/10
You're a murderer!
IngridNO-679976 June 2020
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The revealing of Izzie's illness is done very good. Step by step rather than a big, dramatic reveal. This makes it much more realistic.

The case with Dr. Campbell is interesting. Cristina is so arrogant. Dr. Campbell and Cristina are probably very much alike, and they both are wrong in their arrogance. I find it a little odd that the pasient is not even a little distrusting of Dr. Campbell after being told she made a mistake, but ok.

Arizona and Callie are just the very cutest. They're a true joy to watch. The back and forth is very entertaining.

I still think the storyline of Sheperd's case is a little off and has no good flow. He may have done a mistake in the first surgery, but it seems to me that it's not that uncommon. And now he works very hard to handle the complications that arise.... Addison is sooo very concerned. I think her concern is too big, too early. She is very concerned even before he has done anything that is out of the ordinary. It just feels a little overdone. Later on he goes totally overboard, and thats where they should have put all of the concern. It's like they tell us we should expect a lot more to happen before it really happens. Also, they way they talk to Jen's husband is terrible. That is extremely annoying! Explain what is going on, and say that they can't know at this point how it's going to go. Just everything about this case annoys me!!

The fight between Derek and Mark is pretty epic, though !
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9/10
Derek and Mark Fight!
ZegMaarJus5 August 2023
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This Episode begins with Derek, he is taking care of Jen. Derek needs Addison's help with Jen for one more day. Jen goes into surgery. Derek performs it. Jen her surgery was successful, her baby is also stable. Cristina is evicted from Campell's OR during a surgery. Addison takes the baby out of Jen's belly. Jen past away after a heavy surgery. Derek tells Rob that Jen has died. Mark tells Derek that he had sex with Lexie, he is really happy with her. Derek slaps Mark in his face. Mark and Derek fight with each other in public. Meredith and Derek drink scotch together. Amazing Episode of Grey's Anatomy Season 5, what a great Episode. This Season rocks so far! The fight between Derek and Mark was the highlight of this Episode.
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5/10
Derek doesn't need this
Carson478511 April 2021
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Everything about this episode is done well - except for it's major plot line. Steven's illness is revealed well and we actually got once see a diagnosis though all it's painful waiting. If this does prove fatal, at least the Grey's Anatomy will have showed her in all her Bailey-esque compassionate, no-nonsense, low-key encouraging teaching potential these past two episodes.

Cristina faces a doctor who could be her future and makes the right tough ethical call and while she still stubbornly proves her excellence it drives her closer to Owen in a great moment of character development.

But having made Derek a god the previous episode doesn't merit making him a failure this episode. The shows plot lines shouldn't live and die by the necessity for Meredith to monologue existentially at the beginning and end of every episode. Yes the 'we make surgeons gods in our eyes but they're really people' is an important thing to bring up every now and again but this was forced. What was actually going through 2? 3? Surgeries was unclear. The posturing in the OR was unbelievable and seemed to serve very little purpose even in the confines of Addison and Derek's relationship. The patient's reaction wasn't given the space it needed to become realistic and if the episode wanted us to sympathise with Derek and doctors' plights in general it should make the grieving patient out to be the villain screaming 'murderer' (it manages this in the Dr Campbell arc why can't it manage it here). To top it all off Sloan reverses all the progress we've seen him make to give Derek the worst-timed news ever and Derek's reaction is just incomprehensible. Their fight is difficult to watch (and it's impossible to think they got that many punches in before anyone notices.

If the season needs filler space before Owen and Cristina, or Callie and Arizona, or Izzie, or Bailey, or Meredith AND Derek, or Sloan and Lexie, can take centre stage (and with that many worthy plot lines to tap it seems difficult to imagine this is truly the case), then why not give George some more desperately needed screen time.

It's not enough to just keep saying how brilliant and fundamentally great he is, show it. At this point I don't even know if he's even technically roommates with Lexie. Who are his friends? What is he doing?

This episode got it's priorities wrong and if this is the direction of the rest of the season just so we can delay the proposal to the finale then we're in for a tough ride.
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