Originally posted by: nushy1995
Hello behno!
So here I am with my pakaoing session on Grey's Anatomy. Bwhahahahahaha! 😈 😈 😈
The reason I loved this episode so so much is for three reasons -
First, they addressed mental health issue and how every person suffers and projects grief differently
Second, the backstory of Teddy and Allison and why Teddy is still mourning the death of the love of her life since the last 20 years.
Third, Amelia being the advocate of us audiences and putting Owen to his place which I have been wishing since Season 15 when he broke her heart.
Now, the negative portion for me was Teddy's recovery. Someone who had gone into a catatonic state, her making everything work in her own mind and snapping out of it within an episode was weird. But I hope she gets some professional help in the later episodes as the actors have hinted.
And second, this episode would make much more sense in the last season itself if they showed Teddy's insecurity in parallel with Amelia's because both the women were victims of trauma for decades, even though their forms were different.
In this episode Teddy was trapped inside her mind. Blaming herself for everything that had gone wrong. Even Andrew, who died because of a stab wound and Teddy did a flawless repair of his damage but lost him anyway, she kept blaming herself saying she was the one who killed him and kept going back in time where she could do things differently. And the worst part is, whatever she did it ended in catastrophe. The good part though was that she realized she loved Owen and her insecurity would never leave her because in their relationship Owen always took her for granted. Which is why Teddy always felt she was not good enough. Amelia and more importantly Christina would always be his first choice.
So the weird chasing kept happening and we finally got to see the exact moment when or why she fell in love with Allison who was an extremely kind and compassionate woman.
On the morning of 9/11 she offered Teddy to make her pancakes but Teddy had to go to the hospital. A couple of hours later, she watched on TV how Twin Tower fell and that's where Allison worked.
Ever since then she has blamed herself. For not staying at home that day because then Allison wouldn't die. And in her mind she did things differently. She told her how much she loved her and that they should tell Claire (Allison's partner) about there affair because Claire could hate Teddy but not her, no one in the world could ever hate Allison because it was impossible to do anything but love her. But she died even in the dream version.
That's where Mer popped up, obviously because she is Teddy's latest patient and Teddy once told her about Allison. She pointed out how Teddy always runs from her grief and she should accept life as a package deal because she can't avoid harm. She could not save her parents or Allison or Andrew because they were tragic casualties. She could only learn to accept it and move forward.
And they showed her finally waking up from her bed.
I loved this portion so much because when I am conflicted even with the minute things, I play it in my mind over and over and it's like I am questioning and I myself am answering to it. I think pretty much everyone does that. So showing what was going inside her head was a beautiful thing. Plus, Kevin is an extremely talented director and he is the one who plays Owen. He knows the minute details and the way he incorporated them in her dreamy world and the aesthetics - it was mindblowing.
Coming to Amelia, in Teddy's own word she is an incredibly kind person. This woman has lost her father, fiance, her son and her brother in horrible tragedies and she has hit rock bottom more than anyone. That is the reason she knows what trauma can do to people.
She has never hold any grudge against Christina nor Teddy. Love can happen more than once and when she realized Owen loved Teddy more than her, she ended her relationship with dignity. When the whole hospital s**t-shamed Teddy for cheating on Owen she was the only one who showed Teddy kindness. And even in this particular episode when Owen went on and on about how Teddy was still in love with Allison and didn't deserve his forgiveness she pointed out the worst thing Owen had done in his entire life, choking Christina when he was asleep during one of his PTSD episodes.
She pointed out that losing the love of your life and that too in a horrific tragedy is not a simple thing. Teddy must have had PTSD from that incident and she didn't need judgement, she needed help.
But she was also compassionate enough to let Owen know that she wasn't just blindly taking Teddy's side. She loved him too and for his own betterment he needed to forgive Teddy. He had forgiven her once, he could do it with Teddy also. After that whether he would want to give Teddy a chance or not, that would be his choice.
So that's how it ended.
What do you guys thing about the PTSD and its effect?
Wow!! I must say, I am really impressed with the entire sequence of events that you described.
Tbh, I don't have much idea on PTSD and its effect. So, I can't give my POV about that...
Rest, I'm really impressed with the characters that you described, the entire sequence where Teddy was looking for alternate scenarios but all ended up in a disaster there too... This portion somewhat reminded me of the movie Talaash.
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