Malignant
- Lexi, Lexi, Lexi. Bleaching your hair to cope with a broken heart? Maybe a new color eye shadow or a new set of scrubs would have worked better. Now she just looks creepily similar to Sloan, which is probably the last way to get Mark back. Sometimes change is good, but not the kind that bleaches your skull and turns you into a Taylor Swift wannabe.
- Mark’s glowing reaction to Sloan’s sonogram is endearing but his impulsive decision to adopt her baby is a bit extravagant. Even more extravagant is Callie’s immediate agreement to help him raise the baby, which is simply ridiculous. Though it’s undeniably cute how enthused he is about Sloan’s baby, volunteering to take on a newborn while still maintaining crazy hospital hours is haphazard. Sloan’s getaway may be hurtful to him now, but in the end it is probably a blessing in disguise.
Benign
- The chaos in the beginning of the episode finally presents Shepherd as an actual human. Aside from being dreamy, he actually has a pretty intense job and that sometimes gets forgotten, as he’s busy being portrayed as spending all his time swooning the ladies. While Shepherd is still swoon-worthy in this episode, his commitment to the fired and hired again intern spotlights his sensitivity.
- When the waiter started speaking about the woman in the bed next to him, the world seemed to go silent. His confession of his obvious yet quiet love for this woman misled us to think that maybe, just maybe, she loved him back. Maybe they would hold hands while drifting to sleep in their hospital beds, maybe those fifteen years weren’t lost to fantasies of romance. Her speech to Meredith about her feelings for her husband though momentarily removed us from this fanciful world where everything fits together. When it was revealed that the waiter had died during surgery, it was a bittersweet moment. The woman still has her husband, but we’re left pondering if that’s really what she wanted.
- Bailey’s awkward profession of having a crush on her coworker was reminiscent of high school days, when boys and girls clumsily tiptoed around their sought-after until one of them decided that the situation wasn’t awkward enough and it was time to say something. Despite her clumsiness, Bailey is still adorable in an I’m-still-trying-to-be-tough-but-it’s-not-working way.