Last chance...do not continue reading because you will be spoiled.
I don't know about you other Calzona fans out there, but I'm still recovering from last night's season 9 finale of Grey's Anatomy.
First, it's clear that Arizona and Lauren did go further than just a kiss since it showed Lauren in bed under covers and Arizona getting dressed.
Second, Callie figured out that Arizona had cheated (I really thought that Arizona was going to confess). How did she figure it out? She noticed that Arizona's wedding ring was pinned to the scrub top that Lauren was wearing. Apparently, in the aftermath of the two sleeping together, they got their scrub tops mixed up! Before Callie came upon them and figured out what had happened, it appeared to me that Arizona was regretting what she did and was trying to tell Lauren which is when Lauren said that she likes her "a lot."
Third, we found during the confrontation between the two that Arizona still blames Callie for the loss of her leg and has a lot of anger. Clearly, she has issues that she needs to work on, by herself and as a couple with Callie if they want to stay together.
She tells Callie that she doesn't understand what it was like in those woods hearing Meredith cry, Mark dying and her screaming. She continued saying that she trusted Callie more than anyone and Callie broke that trust when she let them cut off her leg despite her promise that she wouldn't. Callie fired back that she made the decision in order to save her life, but Arizona was having none of that and yelled that she [Callie] didn't lose anything, but she did [her leg]. Callie looks at Arizona and delivers the most heartbreaking line of their scene... "Apparently I lost you." The camera pans out to show them just looking at one another, so it's not clear what is to become of them.
Sara Ramirez and Jessica Capshaw, once again, hit it out of the ballpark with their acting and I've added a clip from YouTube below because the above explanation doesn't do the scene justice, so just watch it for yourself.
The big question is can Callie and Arizona work through their problems or is this something they just can't come back from? I sure like to think so because I'm a huge Calzona shipper and believe they are endgame/MFEO. It really comes down to whether Shonda (who once tweeted that they were MFEO) wants to them to be together or separate for good.
Thanks to the Callie-Arizona LiveJournal Website, I just read about an interview that Shonda Rhimes did with Entertainment Weekly after the season finale aired. After reading the interview, it gives me hope that perhaps Calzona will be okay in the long run.
"I wanted to give them a rift and a real problem that wasn’t just about something small. I wanted it to be complex and three-dimensional and I loved having this thing at the beginning of the season — Callie made a decision that saved Arizona’s life — and you get to the end of the season and clearly Arizona has been blaming her for this entire time. Really, that’s what sort of sparked all this behavior."
"As far as I’m concerned, obviously, Arizona hasn’t gotten over the trauma of what’s happened to her [and] not just because she’s blaming Callie. That’s sort of the symptom of the problem. But Arizona lost a leg, she went through a terrible plane crash, and was lost in the woods. While we watched her be angry for a while, you know Meredith and Christina have been through more PTSD than anyone in the world and we’ve watched them learn how to deal with it — I don’t think Arizona has learned how to deal with it."The above two paragraphs give me some hope because Shonda doesn't mention anything about a break up for the couple, but a rift/real problem that they will have to see if they can and want to resolve. Arizona obviously needs to work on herself first, so I do see them separated for a while until and if they decide to work on their relationship because they still love each other and want to work things out. Because of that, Shonda wasn't joking when she confirmed that the couple will have an intense storyline next season.
I think that's enough babbling for now! In a future post, I'm sure I'll write more about Calzona and the season finale because I'm sure more things will come to my mind which is why "Pt. 1" in the title of this post. I'll also write about what I think we'll see in season 10 between the couple and if I think we'll see Lauren again. Stay tuned!
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