On with the categories…

Surgery of the Week.

Quite a few great surgeries this week, but I’m going to have to vouch for the arm amputation by Sloane, Hunt and Little Grey.

Seems like a random place to put a severed arm, but they attached it to the patient’s left hip. Why? To preserve it, of course!

Yeah *ahem*… Of course. Don’t ask me how this works, but it seems pretty amazing anyway I suppose.

Romance of the Week.

What did I tell you? The romance was scarce. Makes no sense, seeing as it was Valentine’s Day. But this week, Callie and Arizona finally fixed Bailey up with the hot anaesthesiologist from last week.

Seems that Bailey blushed a little when she told him she liked him. And you should all know that Bailey never blushes.

It was cute anyway, I’m not sure about romantic. Maybe next week we’ll see where that goes…

Bailey Moment of the Week.

Both of Bailey’s greatest moments fall into romance and surgery this week.

So we’re gonna recycle that for the exact moment in which she told the guy, after plucking up all the courage she could muster, that she liked him. Oh, the excitement.

Quote of the Week.

For, I think, the first time, Quote of the Week is won by Grey.

“You’re gonna have to make this up to me with a lot of sex.”

Granted, there weren’t many great quotes this week, but I thought this was mildly humorous, especially for Grey, as she often seems to be the fun sponge among the group.

Overall Episode Rating: 6 out of 10. I had high hopes for this episode because it was the Valentine’s one. I was a little disappointed however, simply because nothing really surprising happened. Let’s hope for better next week.

Firstly, I apologize for not re-capping this episode sooner. But there’s a new episode this week, so I thought I better do it soon!

It’s the holidays this week on Grey’s – we see right through from Thanksgiving up until New Year. A lot of time in 40 minutes, but they manage!

Surgery of the Week.

This episode was packed with great surgical moments. But in the end, I decided to go with Derek and his brain surgery.

Because the front of the brain was not accessible first time round, Derek, along with Slone, Robbins and a bunch of other surgeons invent a new device that enters the brain from the nasal cavity.

Why does this win surgery of the week? Because they defeated all odds, creating a device that had never actually been tested before and being successful in the end. Would this happen in real life? Probably not.

Romantic Moment of the Week.

Romantic moment this week goes to Yang and Hunt, who practically chew each other’s faces off outside A&E.

In this scene, Hunt explains to Cristina that he loves her because he loves her, not because he owes her anything. This is a moment we’ve all been waiting for, because to be honest, I didn’t really know if Hunt genuinely loved her before this. Aww.

Bailey Moment of the Week.

Once again, Bailey kicks total ass this week.

This week we see Bailey’s Father, after he finds out that she had a divorce months ago and did not tell him. He worries about the welfare of his grandson and his upbringing, but Bailey lashes out at the table, on Christmas days nonetheless, and shows the whole of the Seattle Grace staff (minus Callie, who is working) why they should be afraid of her.

Quote of the Week.

It’s not so much quote of the week, but the best speech this week is definitely the amazing acapella performance in the background by Sara Ramirez (who plays Dr. Torres) who cannot actually be seen when her pipes are giving it their all.

In true Christmas spirit, she sings ‘Silent Night’, which I’m sure you all know the words to, but I’m going to give you the opening lines anyway, just to keep to usual house rules.

Silent night, holy night,

All is calm, all is bright.

That is all.

Overall Episode Rating: 7 out of 10. Not the best, but I really liked the structure and the amount of surgery this week.

Indeed! Another Thursday, another Grey’s. Give Peace A Chance? To be honest, I’m quite confused by the title, but the episode was, all in all, utterly gripping.

This week we saw Derek operate on an inoperable tumour. It would be impossible to describe the intensity of this episode, you simply have to watch it to understand. Simply, there is a cliffhanger feeling to every scene.

Surgery of the Week.

Of course, surgery of the week has to go to Dr. Shepherd.

As Meredith says in the episode, as soon as you succeed on operating on an inoperable tumour, you become a God. And what Derek did seriously was amazing. (I know this is fiction, but if it happened in real life, it would be a mirale.) He operated on a fellow colleagues spine, working mostly by guess work, but he got through it in the end.

The acting and timing of the surgery was perfect, creating really intense drama. Awesome.

Romantic Moment of the Week.

This week’s romantic winner is a bit of a strange one. It involves Derek drawing a huge portrait of a spinal chord on Meredith’s bedroom wall in order to explain to his bed-ridden wife what his surgery will involve.

This doesn’t sound particularly romantic really, but Grey is basically begging Derek to talk to her about his surgery. (She is stuck in bed after her liver operation.) I just thought that it was quite romantic that he would go to all that trouble with writing all over the bedroom wall – which he would later probably have to paint over – and then the fact that he spent so much time entertaining her just tops it off.

Dr. Bailey Moment of the Week.

This week’s Bailey moment has to be when she saved Derek’s ass.

At first, he was reluctant to listen, but this week Miranda warned Shepherd that the Chief was just around the corner. She basically kept the Chief from finding out about Derek’s unauthorized surgery, giving him chance to prepare for evacuation of the O.R. and kept him out of trouble. Bailey, we salute you. Well I do anyway.

Quote of the Week.

I’m so tempted to give the quote of the week to Arizona again… Oh, go on then.

Remember when I said that Arizona was the Queen of persuasion? Well here’s another Arizona monologue to back up my theory.

“Dr. Shepherd is operating inside of a man’s spinal chord right now. Even the most minor disturbance could cause him to make a mistake on that patient. A patient who happens to work here and who’s life I would personally like to see Dr. Shepherd save. So no, you don’t get to go in there and be a bully. Not today, Chief. Not on my watch.”

She then proceeds to cry on Callie’s shoulder, but the point is that she actually talked the Chief out of doing something! Like, WHAT?! No one – other than his wife, Adele – orders the Chief around. And Arizona just did it. Next challenge: talk Bailey out of something.

Overall Episode Rating: 9 out of 10: Definitely the best episode of the season so far. Had me hanging off the edge of my seat!