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Thoughts on Grey’s Anatomy: 15X16

I really liked this episode. It’s the first one in a while I’ve actually enjoyed. The opening shot shows a residential neighbour then cuts to the inside of Meredith’s house. Which one of those houses is supposed to be Meredith’s house? All previous shots have shown her living on a hill.

We get an adorable scene of Zola and her Aunt Maggie. Zola’s making a family tree for a school project and is talking to Maggie about parents, family, and adoption. It’s adorable. If you pause the episode at this point you can see that Lexie is on the tree as are all of Derek’s sisters. I miss Lexie. Then Ellis Grey appears out of nowhere! Hi Kate Burton!

We get treated to a crazy dream sequence. Amelia shows up and we get to see her, Maggie, Ellis, and Zola interact. Wistful thinking anyone? We then find out it was Meredith’s dream! This just keeps getting weirder. The dream clearly means more to Meredith than it does to us because she’s struck by inspiration.

At the hospital Nico and Schmitt are getting it on!!! I like them! Schmitt’s ringtone is hilarious! It’s his Mom calling. He shushes Nico and he gets pissed and leaves. Ouch. One of the things I liked about this episode is that DeLuca was significantly less creepy and more of a human being. That does not excuse his past behaviour though. Him and Meredith talk and we find out his Dad most likely has bipolar disorder, but refuses treatment so they can’t be completely sure.

DeLuca goes to kiss Meredith before he leaves and she says there are rules. He agrees and kisses her twice before leaving. I think that’s the first time DeLuca has moderately respected Meredith’s rules and boundaries. Meanwhile Maggie’s doing a podcast (and many interviews) about her ground breaking surgery. Cool! Webber wants to know why they call it a podcast!?!?!

I checked. The word is derived from a combination of two words. iPod and Broadcast. When the term was coined most people were using Apples’ iPod to listen to podcasts. So when Ben Hammersley suggested the word podcasting to describe the new method of delivering content the term stuck. Jackson’s over it. Hahaha!

Maggie gets caught up in the moment and while blabbering on to her interviewers she accidentally tells them she’s Ellis and Richard’s love child and that Meredith is her sister. Yikes! Well it was bound to come out eventually. My friend guessed that based on the synopsis and she was right!!! She asks them to edit it out. Seeing as they don’t I’m pretty sure there would implications for them. Including info without a person’s consent has consequences.

Helen’s still in town! So Amber, Alex’s younger sister, has a kid or more than one kid. That’s the first update we’ve had on her in years. I wish we knew more about her. I thought she was in her 20’s but this implies she’s more into her 30’s potentially. Sigh. Alex and his family never get the storylines or screen time they deserve. Helen reveals she’s knitting them gender neutral baby hats and freaks the hell out of Jo! Also Helen believes in gender fluidity! Right on! Next Alex needs Bailey to cover the pit which is literally part of her job and something she did recently voluntarily. She throws a fit and is super snarky. What the hell is her problem? She’s acting like a child.

Jackson, Link, Nico, and Schmitt treat a patient whose a minor league baseball player who needs surgery on his leg. DeLuca’s Dad is a huge jerk to his loving daughter Carina which really makes me hate him. It turns out he’s in town to see Andrew and pitch an idea to the Chief. His big idea is a baby in a bag. Fetus’ outside the womb for better outcomes for Moms and babies who would otherwise perish. It’s pretty cool, but something tells me this isn’t going to go well.

Meanwhile Amelia and Owen are at the lawyers signing the custody paperwork for Leo. Instead of just giving Owen’s address as Leo’s address when he effing lives there they decide to reveal that they’ve broken up like total morons. Sometimes these characters seem too dumb to be doctors. Jo asks Link to put her on a surgery so she can avoid Alex and baby talk. They’re developing Link and Jackson’s friendship. I like it! Jo comes in hot with the zingers and shuts Schmitt all the way down! Talking with the patient’s Mom only intensifies Jo’s parenting fears.

Maggie comes to talk to Meredith about her screw up. Meredith explains that Ellis came to her in a dream and gave her the answer to something. Maggie says Ellis got in her head today too. To which Meredith replies, “Did she give you the question?!?!” Haha! I love Meredith! Maggie spills her guts and Meredith just rolls with it. She takes this a lot better than Richard.

Having been bumped from his surgery Jo, Schmitt goes to work with Bailey in the ER. They wind up treating a male patient who coughs up blood and whose husband freaks out big time and whose teenage daughter is so calm it’s hilarious! She says he sounds like a dying moose! Meanwhile Alex likes DeLuca’s Dad’s pitch. Meredith tells him to dig deeper while also trying not to reveal the private medical history DeLuca told her in confidence. Alex doesn’t get it.

Alex and his Mom have lunch at the park. It’s nice that they’re able to interact normally now that she’s feeling better. Aw! His Mom thought he would be an engineer when he grew up and now he’s interim chief of surgery! Back at the hospital Richard’s been receiving interview requests and he wants to know why. Maggie spills the beans and he’s really upset. In the OR Jo and Jackson have a conversation about the pros and cons of kids.

Now we’re back to Owen and Amelia. They seem to be agreeing and getting along for once. And Amelia brings up Teddy. Here we go again. Amelia sets boundaries about him talking about his feelings for Teddy. Who she brought up. These two are a goddamn train wreck all the time. They start fighting. Amelia once again speaks her truth and sets boundaries. I’m really proud of her here. She needs to do what is right for her and it’s not the same as what’s right for Owen.

As Owen’s other ex-wife once said to their mutual sister, “Don’t let what he wants eclipse what you need. He’s very dreamy but he’s not the sun. You are.” Owen then throws a temper tantrum and decides to be really passive aggressive. Like a child. Then he blames her and says it’s her fault that she can’t take his BS anymore. Has this man ever taken responsibility for ANYTHING in his personal life ever? Amelia’s face says it all.

He accuses her of not loving him or not wanting to even though she never said any such thing. She never said she doesn’t love him. She just can’t be with him anymore. Then he’s says this is her fault because she won’t let him love her. It’s not. He said a similar thing to Cristina. You think he would have learned by now. Also all Amelia does is love and feel things too much. She’s acknowledged this. And then he cranks his assholery up to 200.

He says this is her fault because there’s some fundamental part of her that can’t love or be loved. He actually said that. And he says this in an attempt to convince her to get back together with him while they are at the lawyers to sign paperwork to get custody of Leo. Does he hear himself when he speaks ever? He’s such a child. He can’t handle the idea of someone not wanting him so he accuses her of being incapable of love. What an asshole. He said something similar to Cristina as well.

Why doesn’t he ever learn? Also Amelia’s an addict who was insane for over a decade of her life. That’s a horrible thing to say to anyone but it’s especially horrible to say it to someone who could go over the deep end at any minute. Amelia’s worked so so hard to be clean, sober, and sane and Owen is actively sabotaging her and he can’t understand why she doesn’t want to be with him. Seriously? God he’s such an asshole. Amelia get your ass out of there! You deserve better!

All Owen ever does to all of the women in his life is gaslight them, yell at them, make them feel small, guilt trip them, accuse them of things, and hurt them. His behaviour is abusive plain and simple. He needs to get over himself and get some help. Back at the hospital DeLuca’s Dad convinces him to back his project. Maggie comes to talk to Richard. He’s pissed. Largely because he doesn’t think Catherine needs this on top of her cancer. I see his point. Maggie’s upset because he says he’s not proud of the part of his story that lead to her existence. I also see her point. We cut to Carina and DeLuca arguing in Italian. Meredith walks up to them.

DeLuca agrees his Dad has episodes but says he’s not dangerous. But that by definition means he is if he’s treating patients. Meredith calls him on this. Carina insists he’s not well and this is dangerous. Carina says DeLuca is letting their Dad manipulate him and I have to agree. DeLuca acts like a child in response. After he leaves Carina asks Meredith’s advice and she tells her to talk to the Chief.

Alex comes to talk to Mer and asks if she knew. They talk and DeLuca walks in and finds out Alex knows. He’s upset and plays the ‘he’s my Dad’ Card. As if that changes the fact that he murdered 4 people. Those of us with mental illness, if untreated, are fine until we aren’t. DeLuca’s not getting this. Back in the OR Jo and Jackson talk about kids again. He makes a great speech but not everyone feels that way about kids.

Back to Amelia and Owen. She wants to be removed from the paperwork. She says she’ll be in Leo’s life because that’s what Betty wants. She’ll be Aunty Amelia. Who is fundamentally incapable of love. She repeats Owen’s own words about her back to him. He acts like she’s being ridiculous and he never said. He said that literally minutes ago. What does he have amnesia? He gaslights her at every turn and she’s finally sober and sane enough to see it. Leo is Owen’s. Teddy has Tom. Teddy and Owen are having a baby together. But Amelia doesn’t need to be a part of this. She doesn’t want to be anymore and she’s stepping away. Good for her. Owen finally gets what he deserves.

Jo comes to speak to Alex. She tells him she’s not afraid of his genes. She’s terrified of hers. Because she doesn’t know anything about hers. Alex wants to hire a private investigator. But Jo doesn’t want to meet them she just wants to know. She’s going to do an ancestry DNA test. He tells her about the baby in a bag project. I’m guessing this is how her family is introduced.

Maggie’s Phone is blowing up with interview requests. Richard comes to speak to her. He tells her he’s ashamed of what he did in the past, but that he’s grateful for her existence. She knows. Maggie realizes when her Dad hears the podcast he’s going to be even more heartbroken.

Schmitt runs and tells Nico he loves him! So beautiful! He tells him his Mom is spastic and it’s not that he’s ashamed or the fact that he’s gay or that Nico is Asian that’s the problem. The woman freaks out when he tries to purchase a backpack. Literally. His Mom needs help. And a hobby. Nico gets it now and everything is right with the world.

Meredith closes off her voiceover by bringing in some truth about the blood vs. water proverb. Owen’s at home alone with Leo BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT HE DESERVES!!! Maggie and Jackson bring a bummed out Amelia to Meredith’s house. Jackson says he’s cooking then realizes Mer’s food is expired! Hahaha! We learn that Maggie and Jackson are living at Mer’s until his place is repaired. After what just happened today it looks like Amelia will be too.

Well that was fun! Let’s move on to next week’s promo shall we?! Meredith and DeLuca continue to date. Yawn. Owen tells Teddy that Amelia is out of the picture. OMG DO NOT TAKE HIM BACK TEDDY! You deserve better! Amelia cuts her hair! She looks cute! She realizes how hot Link is. They go in for kiss! I ship it!

Until next time.

Au revoir!

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