Everybody Leaves (Grey's Anatomy 9x01 Going Going Gone Episode Review)

Well... that was sad.

After the horrific events of last season finale's plane crash, the doctors onboard of the plane try to do their best to live normally and to forget what had happened to them. But for the two of them (with the exception of Lexie who died in the crash), moving on would be really really difficult.

The premiere episode of Season 9 of Grey's Anatomy jumped a month after the accident. 

Christina is already in Minnesota, Meredith is nicknamed "Medusa" for being such a mean mentor to her new interns, Derek is still having problems with his injured arm...... Mark is in a coma..... and... you ready?.... Arizona's crippled - as in she-has-no-legs crippled.

It was announced a few months back that Eric Dane (Mark Sloan) will leave the show for good, so I was not really surprised when his character died in this episode. It still made me feel sad especially on how Shonda - creator and writer - devoted most parts of this episode to him by showing "amateur video clips" of Mark throughout his life. I'm happy that they decided to kill his character rather than make him leave Seattle Grace because I don't think he's just gonna leave his kid just like that to Callie and Arizona. And of course, he'll be with Lexie Grey in heaven - or where people who died in Grey's go.

The biggest surprise in 'Going Going Gone' involves Arizona. Throughout the hour, the characters are giving hints that something bad had happened to our blonde lesbian. In the end, we found out that Arizona's legs were cut off... by Callie herself. I am really curious on how Arizona will continue to be a surgeon now.

It saddened me how Bailey is becoming a comic relief in the show. She's one of the strongest characters in the first few seasons of the series, but now.... Anyway, I hope we can see more storylines for her. 

Overall, the episode went really well. It sill surprises me how Shonda Rhimes were able to inject so much stuff to the lives of these doctors. It has been 9 years... and Grey's still continue to shock me. Next episode, we can finally see what really happened to Mer, Christina, Derek, Mark, and Arizona in the island. What lead to Mark's coma? To Arizona's legs?