Grey's Anatomy 10x24 Fear (Of The Unknown) review

Fear (of the Unknown) is the 24th episode / the finale of GA season 10. A great episode and a great finale, in my opinion, also there's a good surprise at the end of this episode. And yes we finally, officially :( , part ways with Cristina Yang in this episode. 

For the last few seasons, Grey's Anatomy always left us with a big bang, a cliffhanger finale, and more often than not, death (who could forget the shooting at the hospital, or the plane crash incident that killed Mark and Lexie?). So yeah, since we didn't actually know how the writers were going to  "send" Cristina off of the show,  I was kinda afraid that they would kill her as well. 

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Here are some reasons why:

• The episode opened with a weather forecaster on tv telling the audience that it was gonna be a great day in Seattle. But then, Cristina's voice over countered it with this

• And after that, Cristina told Owen about her needing to go to the mall to get some stuffs. Later in the hospital, there was news about an explosion at the mall. Plus Cristina's phone was dead so Owen couldn't reach her, and yeah you get my point. 

• And one more thing that made me said "oh noooo"

Btw, the mall explosion was the major case in this episode. Basically everyone was panicking because it was suspected to be an act of terrorism. Even the Homeland Security was involved in the investigation (this part was unnecessary, tbh). Moreover, the victims got blisters and rashes on their skin, so it was assumed that the incident was a chemical attack or even radiation.

However, later on it was revealed that actually it was only a gas-main explosion, no bomb, no terrorist, just an accident. The blisters were caused by dry-clean solutions, that's all. Which is good, in my opinion, because I think otherwise it would shadow the main story line for this episode, which was Cristina's departure from Grey Sloan.

Talking about Cristina, yes she survived that accident, since she didn't go to the mall. YAY!!

Apparently Cristina had been stalling her departure to Switzerland because she felt like she's "not finished" there. Whether it's her relationship with Owen, her patients in Seattle, or her friendship with Meredith. 

So this time, Mer helped her. Mer pushed Cristina, because Cristina needed her to, because Mer knew, as we all knew, that Cristina Yang had always been meant for something greater. She needed to go away and move on, and maaaaan I honestly shed a tear at this scene. So beautiful.

Cristina, pulled by Meredith, then said her short goodbyes to some people. A quick goodbye hug with Derek, hugs and one last short talk with the original teachers, Webber and Bailey. And a goodbye to Owen.

Idk what to say about Cristina and Owen's last moment. It was right, it was needed, and yet it was not enough. Owen was in the OR when Cristina came to wave him goodbye from the gallery. No hugs, no kisses, just a smile and a wave, and then a moment after that, Cristina was gone. Somehow I felt like it was what's right for both of them. A distance. Unwanted and yet needed so both could move on. Idk, maybe I'm wrong. 

After the goodbyes, Meredith practically dragged Cristina to the cab so she could go to the airport. Here, Cristina still seemed reluctant to go. 

And I personally also felt that it's not enough for them!!!. They're the dark and twisted sisters. They were the ultimate bestfriends. I needed to see an epic farewell between them. And of course, Shonda Rhimes didn't disappoint. Cristina came back after a few minutes for one last 60 seconds dance out moment with Mer. That's how they finished. 

I love this moment so much. It stirred so many memories from early Grey's Anatomy. The dance was their tradition and it absolutely felt right for them to do this one last time. Also the song used was Tegan and Sara's "Where Does the Good Go" which was used in season 1 of GA. Not to mention the things Cristina told Mer. So many memories, so many feels.

One more thing Cristina said to Mer before she left. 

Derek and Mer were planning to move to DC for Derek's new job. After Cristina's final words, Mer decided that she's not leaving Seattle. Derek insisted that Mer could still do surgeries and research in DC and it's a huge opportunity. But Mer didn't want to be like her father, just a trailing spouse, living under Derek's shadow. This lead to a huge fight between Mer-Der. And this was one of the cliffhangers for this season finale. Will they break up? Will Derek still move to DC, leaving Mer in Seattle? 

Another cliffhanger came from Bailey and Alex Karev. Bailey was pissed because her genome research got cut due to budgeting, so she yelled at Jackson and Webber. Dr Webber then told her that she didn't belong behind the microscope, but in the OR. And since Cristina's seat on the board was now vacant, Webber promised Bailey the seat. Bailey was beyond thrilled.

But at the same time, apparently Cristina had chosen Alex to fill her position. Earlier we got a scene between Alex and Cristina where she told him that he would be wasting away his talent by being Dr Junior Butthole (lol!!), so she left him the seat on the board. He (and viewers) was left wondering tho if Cristina could actually simply do that.

So yeah apparently we will see Bailey vs Alex for board next season. This will be a good drama I think. Both are original characters, both are loved by fans. Personally I think Bailey deserves the seat more than Alex, but well, we shall see.

One last surprise and cliffhanger this finale was her a new surgeon called Dr Pierce. She's the new head of cardio at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital. At the end of this episode, she and Dr Webber had a little talk where she revealed that her mother was none other than Ellis Grey. Oops.

Another half-sister for Meredith. And we can almost be sure that Dr Webber was Dr Pierce's birth father. Unexpected story line? Yes, absolutely. Will it be boring and too much drama? Maybe. One thing for sure is that I didn't see this surprise coming at all. 

A few other less important things in this finale:

• Apparently Callie and Arizona would be using a surrogate to have a baby

• Jackson and April were still happy for April's pregnancy. Oh and this time Catherine Avery was actually nice to April. Mothers bond.

• We saw Leah Murphy one last time. Last week it was clear that she'd get fired, but this time, despite of that, she still helped out in the hospital that was overloaded due to the mall explosion. Viewers saw her one last time after a talk with Shane, walking out of the emergency door and that's it. We rarely see an intern leaving the hospital alive, so I guess this is a nice change, haha.

• Speaking of Shane, like I said the actor was not be on GA next season, so I was wondering how he'd leave the hospital. Initial guess was he'd get fired like Murphy. But it turned out that Shane followed Cristina to Switzerland, because she was the one he wanted to learn from. Another unexpected stuff but hey it worked well. 

• One last time we see Cristina Yang. Farewell Cristina. 9 years, 10 seasons of amazing journey and character development, one of my most favorite characters on tv, ever. Thank you Sandra Oh. Cristina Yang will be missed.

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I give Fear (of the Unknown) 4.5/5 noise. I love almost everything about this episode. The farewell was beautiful, emotional but not overdone. Mention of past characters was bittersweet and the surprises were totally unexpected. A great way to mark 10 decades of a tv show. Well done. 

Grey's Anatomy 10x23 Everything I Try to Do, Nothing Seems to Turn Out Right review

Everything I Try to Do, Nothing Seems to Turn Out Right is the 23rd episode of GA season 10. There's a pretty big portion of the interns' stories in this episode, and although I normally couldn't care less about them, I quite enjoyed this episode.

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So it's certain now that Cristina Yang was moving to Switzerland to run the research facility owned and built by Dr Burke since he himself was moving to Milan with his family. We got that from last week's episode. 

Also, the research facility was awesome. I mean, they did surgery with a hologram heart there, how cool is that? Yes, I know this is fictional but even in the GA universe, this is cool. You go rock that place, Cristina Yang.

One thing I wanna say since I didn't write Grey's review last week. I'm really glad that the writers did not make Cristina's moving to involve romantic motives. Burke clearly told Cristina that he's happy with his family, he's moving to Milan to be closer to his wife's parents. He wanted Cristina to run the entire facility because she got the capability for it. Because she's the best. That's it. Believe me, if this show was run by Glee writers or Once Upon A Time writers, I'm pretty sure Cristina's motive would involve something like, to chase Burke, to go back to their once great love story. Ridiculous. So, again, thank you Shonda Rhimes. 

Now I'm just hoping that nothing bad happens to Cristina next week on the finale. Because if once again they "kick" a character out of this show by using death, if they kill Cristina Yang, I swear I'll stop watching Grey's Anatomy.

In this episode, Cristina was seen interviewing the candidates for Head of Cardio-thoracic surgery dept. Which was weird, because she was only a fellow, her position was technically lower than a Head of Dept. Meredith guessed that it was a trick from Owen, to actually offer Cristina the job, so she'd call off her moving plan.

Later at the end of the episode viewers found out though, that yes, Owen initially wanted to offer Cristina the job but he couldn't do it because he knew what Cristina actually wanted and needed. 

He only asked for Cristina not to leave him, until she left the place. Personally I feel like this is a beautiful end for their relationship. It'll be much more logical this way, than to force a story line of them being in a long distance relationship, which we know will never work well on a tv show.

As I said before, this episode focused a lot on the interns. Each of them got quite a solid case this time, unlike regular episodes where they are usually just "existing" there. The interns heard the news that one of them was gonna get fired before next year, so everyone was panicking.

Dr Bailey faced an assault & battery charges from the parents of the kid with immuno-deficiency disease, because Bailey secretly gave the deactivated HIV treatment against the parents consent. Yes, the treatment worked well, the kid's getting better, but the parents were furious. Bailey refused to apologize since she believed that it wasn't a mistake.

Long story short, one of the interns, Stephanie Edwards, put herself forward. She took the blame for Bailey, saved Bailey from losing her medical license by saying that she was actually the one who forgot to tell Bailey that the parents withdrew their consent. In exchange, Edwards received a week of disciplinary suspension. This made Bailey kinda go soft on her, saying that she wouldn't let Edwards get fired without a fight from her. Seems like Edwards was safe for the next season.

To be honest, I was quite surprised that Bailey's case got resolved just in one episode. I thought that at least her case would get closed in the finale next week, if not in the next season, kind of like a cliffhanger whether or not Bailey would lose her license, or something like that. The real story worked quite well for me, though.

Moving on to Shane Ross. He's working in the pediatric this time, assisting Arizona Robbins. Alex, who took the private practice job, suddenly came back to Grey Sloan Memorial and "stole" Robbins' patient. Alex were planning a surgery for that kid without Robbins knowing. Ross tried to prevent him, but Alex went through anyway.

Once Robbins found out, she was furious at both Alex and Ross. Poor Ross. He got the wrath from both sides. Even worse, he screwed up a bit with one of his patients, again causing Robbins to snap at him, so it seems that his position was not secured yet. 

Later we found out tho, that Alex did that because he got no patient at the practice, and he needed patients to get money. Arizona forgave him as always. You know what, I'm really sick of Alex Karev this season. I've never liked him so much, but seriously he's a complete a*shole this season. Like, really dude? Idk the system there, but Alex you left the hospital, coming back only to steal a patient was a rude move, no matter what your reason was. Ugh.

Jo Wilson was still in ortho. However, to secure her intern position, she actually tried to help everyone at the same time. She's with Callie, but she also kept on trying to impress Kepner, basically she's a mess this week.

Ben Warren and Leah Murphy were with Webber this time. They got a case with a patient who couldn't stop farting. This case was hilarious, actually. Warren seemed okay, nothing big really occurred to him, so I guess he's relatively safe. 

Murphy was in a completely different storm tho. She actually managed to get a brilliant idea for the patient, however, during surgery Webber realized that Murphy's skill was not enough as a surgeon. So, yeah. Murphy will be gone next season. 

PLUS, SPOILER ALERT. It's been confirmed that Gaius Charles and Tessa Ferrer (Ross and Murphy, respectively) are not coming back next season. So it's kinda clear how all this intern thing will turn out. 

Big twist came at the end of this episode. Derek just came back to Seattle after meeting the president in DC. And apparently, the president wanted Derek to move to DC, and it seemed that Derek wanted to bring Meredith and their family along to move across the country. Also now that Cristina was going, Alex's no longer there, will MerDer also leave Grey Sloan??

A couple more things:

• April and Jackson were happy for their baby
• while Arizona and Callie were not, since it turned out that Callie couldn't have a baby due to her accident a few seasons back. Oops.

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I give this episode 4/5 noise. It's enjoyable, good portion of drama, despite of my usual disinterest with the interns' story line, plus there were Twisted Sisters scenes this week!! And oh, we're officially saying goodbye to Cristina Yang next week and I'm glad that things are looking great for her ending, although I will definitely miss such a great female character.