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.

Last week saw the return of Izzie. This week saw the return of Arizona’s heelies.

Hurrah! We shall rejoice.

As much as I would like to spend the whole review talking about how much I missed those little booties, there are more pressing issues at hand.

Surgery of the Week.

Although it wasn’t really a surgery, Altman notes that Karev performed a miracle this week: he blocked a tear in the main aortic artery.

Now I don’t know a lot about surgery, but Alex’s instinct saw him cut open his patient out of the OR and stick his hands right in there. Turns out, this saved a life. Kudos.

Romantic Moment of the Week.

You know when I say ‘romantic’, I often mean ’sexy’.

And this week, our resident sex-a-holics really lived up to their name.

Yang and Hunt did the deed at least four times during the episode. One of these times saw Yang end up with burns on her behind and another meant that Yang skipped a major surgery, but it was worth it in the spur of the moment.

Too bad it ended in tears…

Bailey Moment of the Week.

There were SO many great Bailey moments this week that it was hard to choose which was best.

In the end, I thought I’d praise the fact that she finally put an end to the looming storyline of how Webber needs to seek help.

We also saw Miranda give the anaesthesiologist a stern talking to in true Bailey fashion, but people have been trying to convince the (ex-)Chief to go to rehab all day, yet Bailey was the only one who succeeded.

Brownie points go to Chandra Wilson (who plays Dr. Bailey) week – those were a lot of speeches, and every one of them was acted with stunning conviction. Awesome.

Quote of the Week.

For the past few weeks, we’ve had large paragraphs of text for our quotes.

So this week, I thought I’d go for one of Robbins’ rare one-liners:

“This really isn’t gunna work for me…”

The fact that these 3 are sharing a bed really is comedic when you cast your eyes and ears on it. LOL-a-thon indeed.

Overall Episode Rating: 8.5 out of 10. Great drama, great acting, great story lines without over-powering us.

Next week, it’s Valentine’s Day in Seattle. But which of the couples will be truly happy?

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!