"Grey's Anatomy" Finale Roundup (Major Spoilers)

ABC's "Grey's Anatomy" ended their fifth season last week with a finale chock full of romance and angst.

There was Izzie Steven's in her beautiful prom dress in that Great Grey's Elevator of Death, seeing the doors open to reveal George O'Malley, all decked out in his army uniform--007, licensed to kill. Or in this case, be killed. George and Izzie--both flatlining.

Will either of them live to return to Seattle Grace this fall? Only Shonda Rhimes and the lawyers negotiating their contracts know for sure.

And here I am returning to the scene of the crime. The last time I wrote a "Grey's" post, I was called the equivalent of a baby killer by some rabid fans from the ABC "Grey's" forum. But I'm nothing if not courageous.

Yeah, I'll say it again, I don't like Cristina!

Back to the finale. Will they or won't they live? George saved a damsel in distress and took a direct hit from a speeding bus for his trouble. I doubt they'd have bothered to give the damsel so much screen time, if George isn't back next season. Obviously he won't be in any shape to go in the army, but since his rescuee is in love with him already, he may just be happy to stay home.

Izzie I think will also be back but I predict for half the season. Married to Alex, she's got some decent short term storyline potential, but only if she comes back with more short term memory complications from her brain surgery.

As far as everyone else:

Meredith and Derek--how cute were they, writing their marriage vows on a blue post-it? After all the crap they've been through, they should stay married for 50 years.
Thank you Bailey for ditching that lame husband of yours. Never did like him and that ultimatum? Not cool. He should wish for another wife as good as you.
The Chief trying to lure Bailey from pediatrics was funny and sweet.
Sloan and Little Grey were also sweet--him trying to convince her to move in with him, her trying to avoid it--but hiding Chyler Leigh's pregnancy was starting to get obvious.
Cristina and Owen. What can I say? Don't like her, never will. Love him--beautiful, hot man that he is--wish he was with someone else.
I'm so over Callie. Just don't care anymore.
But I love Arizona and especially her defense of George joining the army.
Even though it took John Doe writing "007" on Meredith's hand for her and most viewers to realize he was George, I knew as soon as the Chief told Callie and Bailey he sent O'Malley away that morning to see his mother. No, really--I did! I swear!
I will say though, the reveal that John Doe was George was very, very well done. I still hear Meredith's scream in my head.

Enough of me however. What did the rest of the blogosphere think of the "Grey's Anatomy" finale?

LJ at Our Family Beginnings loves "Grey's" but thought the finale was a mixed bag. She did however love Alex dealing with Izzie's cancer:

Alex's passion for her was fantastic, and I loved seeing Justin Chambers sink his teeth into something meaty for once. Was he a jerk when he chastised his new bride? Of course! But it was entirely in character for him, given his history. He may have been one of my favorite outcomes of this season - his fear, his heart, his anger - it all came out. Had this story of Izzie's illness simply been introduced without the hallucinations, I would have cared more. Unfortunately, Denny was the dead man who would not die.

Adeshola Blue, a guest blogger at The Black Snob wrote a letter to Shonda Rhimes before the finale aired about where she feels the show has gone wrong. This is just a sampling:

George is "forced" to come out in real life, but "Callie," a once promising character with good medical storylines, has to be magically gay and have a revolving door of lesbian love affairs, evidence that the writers didn't have a clue as to what they were doing. The whole thing was spastic to her hooking up with the Dr. Burke replacement, Dr. Hahn, then once you start to get used to Dr. Hahn, boom she is gone, heading out to the Parking Lot of No Return. Then Callie has to whine and moan about her gay love affairs to Mark Sloan, the one character she did have actual sexual chemistry with (the big Latina girl can't get no love, eh?), then you spend several episodes of her stealing annoying and unnecessary glances with yet another female character played by Melissa George that ends in nothingness.

She won't get any argument from me on that.

Sheri at Sheri's World thinks Mer and Der are just asking for trouble by not making the wedding vows official:

Meredith and Derrick got fake married in the residents locker room and wrote their vows on post-its. Something tells me something will go wrong with this next season. They need to just get their butts down to City Hall already!

Black Hockey Jesus at Mama Pop was shattered into 16 pieces by the finale but loved Chandra Wilson:

Chandra Wilson was despair manifest. I wish I could youtube her scene with the Chief ("We're all scared! If you're not scared, you're not paying attention!") and show you. I get chills if I dare to think about it. Can I get an amen for an Emmy for Chandra Wilson?

Did you watch the "Grey's Anatomy" finale? What did you think?

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