This being the often-overwroughtGrey’s Anatomy, Lexie’s final few minutes were full of the requisite melodrama.
“Mark,” she told him, despite his disbelief, “I’m dying.”
You don’t die today."
But he couldn’t stop the inevitable.
“We’re gonna have the best life, you and me.
“So you’re able to’t die, okay?
Because we’re supposed to end up together.
We’re meant to be.”
And then she passed away, with Mark closing her eyes.
It was an intense death.
I mean, how awful was it to watch one ofGrey’slongest-running characters pass away so quicklyand rather unceremoniously?
Could it have been someone less important somehow?
I guess it would have been too obvious to do Kepner.
And you probably just don’t kill off a hottie like Mark Sloan, right?
“I don’t understand how this keeps happening!”
Cristina said, while clearly dealing with her own form of shock.
“I’m serious, I do not understand how this keeps happening.
We’re in a plane crash, like right now!”
she said, referencing the avalanche of crazy that has befallen the cast over the years.
Her let’s-get-real dialogue just helped to even out the loony, unexpected events.
Because, like, how many tragedies can these surgeons go through?
To be honest, the whole plane crash played so, so very crazy.
And, truly, where was Walt, the polar bear, and the smoke monster?
Clearly, I was getting majorLostvibes out of this particular plane crash, too.
Webber was planning his traditional dinner for the doctors finishing their residencies.
But no one was excited about it, except for him.
“You guys jazzed about dinner?”
he asked Kepner, Avery, and Karev, all of whom were dreading the evening.
“Call me Miles Davisbecause I’m jazzed!”
Webber promised his graduating residentsminus Meredith and Cristina, who they patiently waited forsome great advice.
Little did he know that those chairs wouldn’t be filled anytime soon.
“I would love to leave here and never look back,” Altman told Hunt.
“But you are as beaten and broken as I have ever seen you.
I am not going to leave you for MetComm or anywhere else.”
Talk about a reversalfrom hatred to pure love.
Yes,fired her!
“You’re fired,” he told her.
“Effective immediately.”
You fight, you hear me?”
So, does this mean that Altmanalong with Lexieis also going to be absent from Seattle Grace next season?
We’ll have to wait and see.
“I proposed to you!”
she said, in one of the more lighthearted moments of the evening.
“In a trench coat and a thong!
Proving, once again, that no good, ever, can come from a thong.”
This whole storyline just makes me grin, ear to ear.
Bailey hasn’t been this delighted in a long time.
NEXT: Kepner, Meredith’s final words, and what’s next…?
And what of Kepner?
She was still reeling from the fallout of not passing her boards.
And her relationshipcan we call it a relationship?
“I’m happy tonight!”
Kepner said, rather pained.
“We will be pushed to our breaking point.
This is the starting line.
This is our arena.
How will we play?
That’s up to us.”
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