*Spoiler Alert* if you have not seen Grey’s 2/22 episode

Two Deaths and Two Rebirths
I heard this spoiler report (2 deaths, 2 rebirths) last week after the epi aired. I knew Meredith was the first death and I was very hopeful Mer was one of the rebirths. Title character – she had to be, right?

It would just make sense because Mer had reached rock bottom and her experience with Denny and Dylan (aka TBD – The Bomb Dude) in “that place” would bring her back from “dark and twisty” and into the arms of her knight in shining whatever. At least, that was what I was hoping all week. As the episode started though, I had my doubts. I almost didn’t want to watch it to find out!

I actually didn’t enjoy the first 15 minutes of the show. Not because it was bad, but because I was afraid to invest any feeling into the show in case Mer did not make it. But then, I decided to give in. And, at that point, the show really started to get intense.

Moments in no particular order:

• “This is your afterlife, not mine”
• Addison saying “Prepare yourselves”
• “She’s freaking out”; “She’s not freaking out”
• “Sometimes, we’ll be in the same place at exactly the same time, and I can almost hear her voice”
• “I had intimacy issues- “; “Yeah”
• “Not that should be anywhere on your list of thoughts, but… in case you slip and fall later.”
• “For 99 cents you can buy furniture, that’s America man.”; “No, that’s Taiwan”
• New (or at least different) theme music – very tinglely and kinda ominous
• “Come and say goodbye to your friend” (Didn’t his lines make your heart drop right then?)
• 60 Days – “If I’m not having sex, you’re not having sex.”
• “I will kick your ass right now. I’m the one with the fresh heart!”
• “You’re gonna give me a run for my money” “yeah, I am”
• Chief saying goodbye
• Izzy/Denny moment “We touch”
• “It would be such a shame to waste all that history”
• “This is quality Sudoku… there’s like $2 worth of Sudoku here.”
• “How can you be a surgeon and have such little respect for life?”
• “Mom?” Didn’t everything make sense at that moment?
• Denny telling Mer how lives will and can change for the worse – George, cristina, Izzy, Alex, Derrick.
• Mer’s plea as she is running out of time

I love that the writers eased us into the beginning with humor (Denny and TBD’s exchange), then brought in the drama and emotion, and then brought the light-hearted banter back (Addison & Mark).

I looked up the writers for this ep and one of them was an all-time-favorite from BtVS. It clicked – no wonder I loved how all the moments came together. No one does life and death better than Marti Noxon. Okay, well maybe Joss Whedon They’re both geniouses.

So if we have McDreamy and McSteamy… does that make Denny – McHeavenly?

By TVJunkie Jenn