"She reiterates that fact, when she tells everyone in the room that she is overseeing all of Izzie's surgeries and that they all now answer to her."

Izzie should have stopped her at that point, and said, "NO. You all answer to ME." Because everyone on this show forgets that the patients aren't lab rats...they're people who are suffering.

(Sorry...it's a sore point with me, having just watched the care my brother-in-law recieved while he was dying of cancer.)

I seem to remember from one of the earlier seasons that Izzie's family was trailer trash...Remember Izzie was a teenage mother and gave her daugher up for adoption. Sharon Lawrence is going to be on sometime in the next few weeks playing izzie's trashy mom.

Does anyone else feel this way: I used to think the Major was hot, but now I just look at him and notice he has no eyebrows. Maybe it's from seeing his pearly whites--pecs that it.

Odd coincidence, but I'm the wife of a an army doctor who was in Baghdad from 2005-2006. Yang handled the situation exactly the way I would have (including the sex part to make him feel better after almost killing her). I was pissed at Grey/Callie for treating the Major like he was going to lunge for Christina while he was awake. He's not a serial killer, people, he was having a flashback. I also love that she broke it off to force him to finally get help.

I was a lot more shocked that the writers spared us a long, irritating good-bye scene between Izzy and Denny, since the surgery would send him away for good.

I found the strangling scene upsetting for the reasons others have stated, but also because I've lived my adult life with the effects of all that simplistic stereotyping of vets (in my case Vietnam) on TV and film - of us being loose cannons that could randomly go off at any time. I don't expect to benefit from my service, but I shouldn't have to hide it, as if I were some sort of sick pervert, either.
Semper Fi

"I think they could've stressed how messed up he is from war without having this creepy strangling story. But that's just me."

It's entirely possible that they could've gone another direction to show how Owen's PTSD is really affecting him. But, I think that it had to be something as drastic as him nearly killing Christina during a flashback in order for her to break it off with him, thereby serving as the catalyst for him going to get help.

fire@will...may I say, very sincerely, thank you for your service.

cattyfan:

You may. (and thanks)

these comments are too intense for my liking... I'm just glad Greys is back again I was literally going out of my mind. Any idea how they're gonna kill George off?

nyla23:

I envision Izzie needing some sort of crazy transplant..George, of course, will step up to the plate. Everyone will be concerned about Izzie obviously, but it will be George who dies, giving his life for Izzie.

fire@will, I remember those days in the late '70s and early '80 when the killer on every cop or detective show became was always a Vietnam vet, either nuts or getting revenge for something, or both. It's appalling how little care and attention war veterans get without adding a stigma to having served your country in a war. Mental and physical trauma and illness is something to be treated, not ignored and/or stigmatized.

Anyhoo, I didn't realize George was going to die. I figured that Izzie either goes off to die somewhere, and he goes with her, or some variation on that. But maybe they will pull a thirtysomething and unexpectedly get killed in an accident just as Izzie gets the news that she is in remission. (I knew he was leaving, but I didn't know how.)