Grey's Anatomy 2007 Season Finale - Now What?

As Grey's Anatomy's season ended, the finale show revealed many interesting storyline changes. Dr. Preston Burke, realizing his wedding to Christina was more for his happiness than hers, called off the wedding and moved out of his apartment, apparently not leaving her any idea of his whereabouts. Christina has consistently shown that she is emotionally unavailable during all of their relationship (and apparently in a previous one), and I guess Dr. Burke was tired of doing all the emotional legwork and then hoping she would be "grateful" as he put it, that he took charge. I guess when he saw her at the back of the church, the wedding delayed while she had a meltdown with her friends, he finally realized maybe she wasn't so grateful for him "taking the lead" after all. Christina was so unhappy and trying so hard to act like she wasn't, that it was a relief to me to see them call off the wedding. Even Burke's mother realized Christina's heart wasn't in it.

I thought it was interesting when she got to the point the wedding anxiety was overwhelming for her, she ran to Dr. Bailey to beg for a surgery she could take part in, to relieve her nerves. Now is that a typical work-a-holic attitude or what? It's classic.

As for Derrick and Meredith, I think Meredith is coming into her own and becoming more independent and less clingy and needy, and although that is what Derrick thought he wanted, he still seems to show up to rescue her in every situation whether asked or not. When he found out he wasn't going to get the Chief of Surgery position because of his relationship with Meredith and Richard's promise to look after her welfare, he seemed to be the one pulling away. But now it seems to be Meredith. I thought the whole relationship between them was getting old anyway, and I, for one, don't care if they break up and Meredith moves on to greener pastures. After dealing with finding out Derrick was actually married, fighting to get him back, dealing with her mother's emotional tirade against her, getting blamed for the death of her step-mother (including a slap across the face from her own father), she needs a nice guy. Maybe she'll go back to the vet. I wouldn't mind seeing him on the show, since he was a cutie.

Now that George has failed his resident exam, he was told by Dr. Bailey he could either give up medicine or start all over from square one. He said he wouldn't start back over, but now that his wife is the new Chief of Surgery according to the bulletin board announcement, he may just change his mind and begin again. I believe that is why they had him meeting the new group of residents as they marched through the locker room. They will be fresh blood for the show and George will be one of them. Of course, that's just my theory. He could possibly be leaving the show because of his off-screen altercation with the actor who plays Preston Burke, but I'd sure hate to see him go. And did anyone notice the girl in the locker room who stopped and talked to George happened to have the last name of Grey, too? Was she Meredith's step-sister? Or some other relation? Who knows. But there have to be some fireworks in store, or they wouldn't have introduced her in that scene. Wasn't she also the girl that Derrick met in the bar and just had to tell Meredith about?

I read that Addison is leaving to have her own spin-off and from the looks of the cast they had at the new hospital, I don't see much success for it. I didn't care much about any of the storylines, although Tim Daly is a cutie. I just can't see her carrying a show on her own. I didn't see her as a very strong presence on Grey's. And she sure had bad luck when it came to men, and now bad luck with being able to have children. How much bad luck can one woman have, even if she brought a lot of it on herself? And do we care to see her playing dodge ball with a new leading man on a spin-off? Not me.

What is this with Izzy's character telling George she doesn't want him to leave and will help him to make his marriage work by backing off, and then in the next breath she says she loves him and wants to know if he loves her. I was in love with the Denny character myself, and just never could imagine her and George together that soon after Denny's death. Somehow the George-Callie-Izzy thing just hasn't seemed in character with any of their histories, but I guess the writers at Grey's Anatomy look for sexual friction where they can get it. Just look at all the close calls with Izzy and George falling helplessly into each other's arms and only missing Callie discovering them by a few seconds. C'mon people. Callie is not a dummie. She's a brilliant orthopedic surgeon, and surely can handle George and Izzy's fling by throwing George to the curb. It's pitiful to see her have a baby to make a last ditch effort to keep him from Izzy. As if her begging Izzy to "give me back my husband" wasn't pitiful enough.....I want to see her throw George back into the fishtank and move onto greener pastures.

Maybe Callie will end up with Alex, since he sure can't seem to make any relationship work with women. I'm beginning to wonder if Alex is gay and just trying not to come out of the closet until his residency is over. (Just kidding.) But he sure does have a way of messing up things with every girl he gets involved with. I really believe he will end up regretting letting his girl with the crushed face and recovered amnesia go. It's not that he has no heart, as was evident from the way he tenderly lifted Izzy from Denny's deathbed, and the nice things he happens to say to cheer Addison up, but he seems to be so protective of his heart at all costs. It makes you wonder what skeletons are in the closet of his past. Something hurt that boy awfully bad to make him that gun-shy.
So now Richard has discovered that Adelle was pregnant with his baby...and you know they will end up getting back together. Maybe he can make up all the years he cheated on her with the other Dr. Grey. He sure wasn't having any luck with "the ladies" even with his new hair color. He looked too much like a guy still in love with his wife and trying to find someone to make him forget that. Now he can just get back with Adelle and hopefully walk the straight and narrow this time.

So that brings us to Dr. Bailey, "the Nazi" as she is so lovingly referred to. She has managed to have a baby, keep a marriage in tact and work twenty-four hours a day. Talk about a super-woman, she could be the poster child. I'd like to see some conflict in her life. No woman, myself included, wants to see a perfect woman for very long. Super-women in reality turn into tired, thread-bare, shells of themselves sooner or later. So it's time for a little crisis of some kind with Bailey.

Well, that's my take on the season finale and what we know up to this point. I love Grey's Anatomy. It's one of the best shows on nighttime television and I hope we see many more seasons.