I feel the same way as Michael, I am really enjoying the "other" table. The non-1st season cast. Especially Arizona, but Owen, Mark, Callie, and Lexie(even though she wasn't there today). The non-1st season cast has really stepped it up and filled in a lot of the holes that have been around for awhile. Arizona is definetly one of my favorite characters. They have written her extremly well, meshed her with the entire cast, given her lots of great material, and Jessica Capshaw is doing a great job with it. I loved last week's episode when we saw all of the non 1st season cast really step it up, and I hope it continues, even with Merideth coming back and Izzie eventually returning for good.

I thnk Addison is better on Private Practice,. She had no more purpose on GA. How many more sick babies were in Seattle that needed that much urgent care? And, she had slept and broke up with all the lead male characters. Derek has never been in love with her since she arrived. Mark had cheated and would again and Alex? Uhm..I couldn't even take that seriously when it was happening. She's a lead on Private Practice. Please let Kate Walsh be successful there and stop putting her back on a show where she was lucky to get 2 minutes screentime on any given episode.

Who cares? Meredith isn't going anywhere. Shonda Rhimes loves her. First character she wrote/created out of all the characters, put her in the same college as Rhimes went to, written like the creator herself. Ellen Pompeo and Meredith will be there front and center as long as Ellen Pompeo remains on the show. Rhimes herself has said that. So the haters are going to post the ugly stuff because they know she's not going anywhere no matter how mcuh the try to tell you she's not the lead. It cracks me up a little. They complain and Mer remains. You'd think they would move on to what they like about the show but they stay focused on Meredith. Sad, but in some ways pretty funny too. Rock on Shonda!

I love Kim Raver and I am so happy to see her on Grey's. I am not a fan of Owen and Christina, so looking forward to the mess she can cause in that relationship.

Great episode! What a bombshell in the end! And to see Christina finally challenged, in a surgical bind and be successful was so satisfying! Loved it. Both plots were built well over the past eps. And Kim Raver totally rocked her role, she shockingly didn't even look new. She got the rhythm and the energy of the show immediately, it was eerie! Like she was born to be here, kind of filling the Addison gap. Yay! I loved how she immediately was complimentary, confident, and a good teacher. I hope things work out with the 3 of them so she stays!

i would have to say that for the better part of the last two seasons the hospital has been the main character and that's what the problem has been.

I don't think the show has been the same since Addison left but I'm happy to see some new people with story lines. New heart chick and Owen are definitely going to be together so just get used to it now. Alex and the pixie (which I endorse and not only because she's hotter than Izzy but far less annoying).

The chief and his drinking is a bit of over kill. Another drunk who has to have the "talk."

All in all though I'm enjoying this show a lot more than in recent years so they must be doing something right

Izzie hasn't learned a damned thing-she almost died of her disease, and now she is back to being a spiteful, spoiled brat again. How did she get that way anyhow? She grew up in a trailer park, with a trashy mom and knocked up at a young age. Her character has to die soon, or its just no longer believable. Hey, wait, it isn't now! I feel bad for Alex, she dumped a $200,000 medical bill in his lap, and she wonders why he is mad? There is a word for her, c..t, and I don't use that word much, but if the shoe fits.....

I still love Izzie. She and Alex are the reason I still watch this show.

I might even be willing to concede that back in the beginning of season 1, when meredeth's alzheimers' mom and drunk dad were a major focus, along with "mer and der" being the key relationship, one could make a plausible argument that meredith was the key character. She was the one with the house, she was the one that all the interns were friends with, despite some not liking others, she was the one with the back story with the famous surgeon mom.

So much has changed, I just don't see how anyone can claim that Meredith Grey is more significant than any other primary character at this point in the show. Plus, now that it seems Meredith and Derrick are finally officially together and married (post-it married, but seems to satisfy them), that aspect of the show is gone. Looking back to the first few seasons, you kinda got the notion that if Meredith and Derrick ever got married it would be in the series finale.

But whatever I might be willing to concede about the beginning of the show is no longer true of the show now. Aside from the fact that Meredith still does more of the annoying and pointless "surgeons lives are like raindrops..." 30-second voiceovers at the beginning of the show than Christina or Kerev (though they certainly do some of them), she is now no more important of a character than they are.

I sort of liked it but also found it too much. what I liked was that it had alot of little things reminiscent to old grey's habits, like the lunch scene, and the bar, and the chief's wife and things like that. but i think they overloaded with the characters and storylines. I'm not sure if I'll remember everyones storylines by next week.