re: brave new world, re: there's no "i" in team

okay, so i'm behind...this is unprecedented, but i'll have to comment on both episodes at once.

re: brave new world
cristina's acting was fabulous in this (and continues into the next episode) - i think it's because she reminds me of one of my friends. i've referred to the tranquility of "derm" more than once since i've seen the episode and i loved the ending where the trailer became meredith's sanctuary.

while all the euphemisms were funny, i'm still not sold on the lesbian storyline. although...it's starting to make more sense now that i saw the preview for next week's episode.

and i continue to like the little squabbles that mer and der have, even though mer is getting awfully whiny and self-wallowing these days. was she always like that?! maybe she was and i just never noticed.

re: there's no "i" in team
i didn't get a chance to watch this until tonight. i loooved this one. mer is annoyingly whiny again, but i'm willing to give her another chance. izzie's "I CARE ABOUT YOU I CARE ABOUT YOU I CARE ABOUT YOU I CARE ABOUT YOU I CARE ABOUT YOU" was about as inappropriately funny as cristina's "TRY AGAIN" from season 3.

i wondered about the father paying his son to donate his kidney (is it wrong that i almost hesitated to type that because they turned a blind eye to it on the show so i thought in turn, i had to keep it a secret? yes, i think it's definitely wrong and i'm going to seek medical attention...right after i finish this post, of course)...right, digressing, sorry...i want to know what the story was, was it that the father was an abusive alcoholic during his son's youth? i thought they would go into alex's story in more detail - clearly his father died before they could make ammends and now he regrets it - but that was a bit disappointing that they just left that hanging. touching scene when father and son reunite emotionally.

THE KIDNEY IN THE JAR. SWOON! i love you derek! it totally makes up for the fact that you were a jerk for most of the episode! as far as the kidney being a natural nightlight? who knew?

lexie and george - talk about role reversal for george. someone as smart as lexie should have known that he didn't get to pick his interns - she was right there when they were lining all the interns up, george clearly had no part in it, so why would she think he didn't ask for her? silly, emotional woman.

the best part? the fact that i can FINALLY read the writer's blogs - wouldn't it suck if they haven't updated either?! and the next episode is only 2 days away! yipppeee!