I have to say I did really enjoy the season finale, obviously especially the Callie/Erica/Sloan storyline. I would have liked a bit more passion/heat in their kiss, but I'm gonna take whatever they gives us!! I really hope that they get to be happy at least a bit next season. Happy couples are not exactly usual for Grey's, but still. I want their relationship to be interesting, eg will they come out?, but I want some happy scenes with those two, cause they have chemistry! I'm wondering how Sloan will actually deal with it.... it seems that they will get a shot at their love, because I think shonda is serious about those two, like she is about every relationship, so its not just for ratings, and thats really great!

you're right, somehow the season finale made meredith at least a bit less anoying. even though I just found the thing with the candles so unrealistic, I just did not believe it!!

does anyone know wheter Sara Ramirez is straight?? a girl can dream, right?

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I thought this was one of the best episodes of Grey's ever. I am so glad the writers got back to what made the show great in the first place.

I  am just so excited about this storyline. I have loved Sara since she was in Spamalot. So as soon as her and Erica became friends I was so excited. Those two definitely have undeniable chemistry and I am so excited to see how it develops.

 She is unfortunately straight. She is a big time friend of the community, but she is straight. :(  But, she is so beautiful and talanted we can look past that. :)

I'm just totally in love with these two characters!:D Bit addicted... but I'll get over it;) Can't wait for the next season, and I sure hope that Shonda isn't going to screw this up. If they split up, which of course eventually happens, I hope it makes sense and is done in a good way. Never watched the rest of the show, just started watching for them, so I don't really have a bond with any of the other characters, but I've decided the start watching the show from the beginning, because I actually really like the way it's been written.

Question, did you use my edit on youtube, or did someone just edit it exactly the same way? Haha! Not that it matters. Just curious:p I guess it was 'stolen' by someone else first and then used by you. Who cares, hehe:p

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I loved the run-up to the kiss and as you said,the nerves were written all over Callie's face.But I was also very distracted (and concerned!) about the trenchcoat that Hahn was wearing. I'd really have to have the hots for someone to ignore that minor fashion-detail.But on a more serious note,I hope future episodes will explore this relationship and show its ups and downs and not just let it be a 'novelty' gimmick to fill the gay-quota.As for Meredith,in my humble opinion she remains one of the most annoying,tedious,self-absorbed,selfish characters and I wish Derek would've ditched her ages ago.I know I know,the show rests on the tension between the two but hell's bells,he is,quite objectively,an amazing guy and deserves a kick-ass chick with fewer neuroses.

I think Sara Ramirez is indeed straight (sniff) but hell yeah,a girl can dream!

It was a great finale! 

and waiting for more next season! 

I LOVED it - I just started watching Grey's (I'm so predictable sometimes) and the Callie/Hahn storyline was great! And I actually really liked the rest too - but was I the only one thinking the concrete-boy thing was sort of scary? In a good way.. but still scary.. hehe

"Even in death Gabrielle, I will never leave you"- Xena

...I'm gonna start to watch this show :P 

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I see in the future the writters f*cking up this Callie / Erica relationship.  You know they will probably bring Sloan into it again.  Probably have Erica fall for Sloan.  No way are they going to have a HAPPY Lesbian relationship move forward on this show.  I might not even watch next year because of the don't want to go through the almost certain dissapointment that will surely come.

Tristen

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I'm hoping that next season continues with the Torres/Hahn storyline... I know that for dramatic license couples break up, get back together, move on to other people, etc. etc. but I would just love it if for once we'd get to have a couple who would stay together, so here's hoping!

I think that Sara Ramirez and Brooke Smith are two of the better actresses on network TV these days and I love how honest their portrayals of each of their characters has been and continues to be. It's also nice to see some "real size" women on TV and not just size 0-2. For that alone, plus the diversity of characters that have been on the show, Shonda gets high marks in my book.

Thanks for all the great mini recaps over the season carolinagrrrl, good job keeping us all up to date! 

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I have to start out by saying this: Thank you, Shonda Rhimes. Thank you for bringing Grey’s Anatomy full circle, and back to the show that I fell in love with four years ago.

That was about my reaction exactly.

I've been watching Grey's since literally the first episode, all through its MAJOR ups and downs, hoping and later on knowing that it would get back to this point. I was entirely pleased with the episode as a whole, and for all my bitching and moaning about no lesbians, ever, on here? NOW WE HAVE THEM. In the forms of two of my favorite characters! I like that they kept Erica's sexuality pretty much undercover, because I think she's actually a lesbian, she's just not very out. I've been thinking that ever since that Brooke Smith interview when she said she thought it would be cool if Hahn was gay. But the whole Callie thing just makes it even better, because I love and respect her as an actress and a person, and I know she'll really do the storyline justice. Both of these actresses have been very vocal about their support for the gay community. Brooke Smith has played gay before, and Sara is good friends with T. R. Knight, and I think she spoke out for him a few years ago during the Isaiah Washington debacle. So, I think in their hands, the romance can definitely flourish, if Shonda decides to give them that. Which I really, really hope she does.

Up until the punching, it was a real nice party...

I saw the opening Callie/Sloan sex scene a bit differently. I think after the elevator kiss, she knew she was into Erica, and she actually liked it when he was talking about Erica kissing her, etc. She was using his body in order to act out her feelings for Erica. And if you think about the *kind* of sex they had...it fits. Judging from Erica's eyes in the bar scene with Addison, I'm pretty sure she had feelings for Callie. And, when they laughed about being called lesbians by Addison, there was something weird about Erica's face. Like, she was thinking...'it's obvious?'

Anyway, I love this show more now! I think that George will pass his exams (if you fail twice you are not asked back and TR Knight isn't leaving the show), and I can't wait to see how Sloan deals with the 'Callica' romance. As for comments about it being a "real" lesbian relationship...well, none of the heterosexual ones have been all that real - it is TV after all. But it would be nice if they could be happy for a little while!

I have to say I started watching this because of the lesbian storyline and in the meantime the show has grown on me. Before I would only watch occasionally and wouldn't really make an effort to keep up with it.

I really liked the season finale, it was a really good episode. I especially liked the fact that the relationship between concrete boy and his love interest (the girl that wouldn't admit she liked him) sort of mirrored Torres's inner devils about wanting to be with Erica. It was interesting how the writers explored that paralel and by doing so also sent a message regarding the fact that questions about choosing to love someone and being afraid of what other people might think also happen in hetero relationships. I honestly loved that. The dialogs Torres had with the young teen that couldn't admit she liked concrete boy where very much her inner dialogs about being afraid to be with Erica and, again, I have to say I was impressed by the way the writers handled it.

Regarding the future, I don't really know if I have much hope... Even though I was impressed with this episode, I honestly think they brought in a lesbian story line in order to put the show at peace with its LGBT audience after the homophobic incident on set... I am afraid that once they feel they have accomplished that, they will just drop the story just like they have dropped so many other love stories in the past.

My tolerance for the show wont be a lot if they do that, so let's wait and see.

Like others, I'm not a regular watcher of Grey's Anatomy, but I have become invested in the Hahn/Torres relationship. I will not, however, get my hopes up for the relationship.

The fact that Shonda Rhimes always mentions McSteamy when she talks about the future of the relationship makes my enthusiasm tepid at best. I just know there's going to be a threesome written into the plot, and it's going to make my stomach churn. I know Rhimes has mentioned the chemistry between Erica, Callie, and Sloan at least a few times, and I always wonder why the heck Mark Sloan is still being mentioned in regards to this new relationship. Shouldn't his part of the relationship be over? Shouldn't we be focusing on the two ladies now? So again, that's why I'm not jumping up and down and getting all excited yet. I think Mark Sloan is going to be a major factor in this storyline, and I don't like it.

On the positive side of things, both actresses are amazing. I know Sara Ramirez gets alot of love on AE, and indeed she should. But I have such a crush on Brooke Smith now. She's a freaking force of nature on that show. Love the complex character of Hahn, and the confidence in which Smith brings to her character. However, there's still so much we don't know about Hahn yet.... there's so much vulnerability there, and I hope the writers delve deeper into her character, and don't screw it all up. Yup, yup. Love me some Hahn. HAAAAHHHHNNNNN!

So again, not getting my hopes up, and not doing somersaults of Callica celebration just yet. 

I am ecstatic about the Callie-Erica relationship. It finally gives me a reason to like a show that I have never been able to get into in the past (even when my straight-girl crush was borderline obsessed with it). Which just goes to show you, writers, producers, and miscellaneous Hollywood big-wigs, that if you throw the lesbian community a bone every now and then, we will flock to your shows; FLOCK, I say!

But am I the only one who thinks that the kissing on this show really sucks? It never looks like something I would really want to do, straight or gay. What is it with these surgeons that none of them seem able to kiss?

Granted, I've only watched season 4 and part of season 1, so you die-hards can tell me if these doctors really are capable kissers and are just having an off year. 

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"From error to error, one discovers the entire truth."

- Sigmund Freud 

with the way this episode turned out. Really happy. Doing my happy dance (and trust me, I usually do NOT dance) happy.

As for the future... I'm not willing to give up right away. Shonda mentioned talking to the people from GLAAD, so I'm thinking that stereotyping (and how to avoid it) in tv must have come up. I have good hopes. And there's a lot of ways Sloane could be 'used' to get some bumps in the road for Callica, instead of doing a threesome.

For example; what if he realizes he likes Callie more than he thought, and he confronts her? Which could lead to major drama of the 'who do I choose' kind (and of course we all hope she'd end up choosing Erica)
Or what if Callie finds out she's pregnant? She would need to tell Erica, and Sloane, and there'd have to be tough decisionmaking since it pretty much puts a new relationship under a lot of strain. Drama people, drama ;)

AMEN!

You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
[Indira Ghandi]

does anyone know the song that's playing when they kiss? i threw what i thought were the lyrics into google but i couldn't find anything.

 thanks:) 

And remember that, in a world of ordinary mortals, you are a Wonder Woman!

I am so glad that this end of the season show was good enough to make up for an optherwise lack luster season.  This one had me crying and laughing, which was why I loved this show so much the first season.

I've always loved that Sara Ramirez was presented as sexy even though she is not the usual toothpick, like Meredith.  So I hope now that they continue the lesbian story line without going for the stereotypical storylines.

Love Effie Ferns!

Kisses!!@@

When Ellie and Dr. Hanh can't express the words they express it with a kiss.