Grey's Anatomy: My Thoughts/Predictions on Calzona in Season 10

Warning: As usual, before I get into my Calzona predictions for season 10 of Grey's Anatomy, I'm going to warn anyone who has yet to see the season 9 finale and don't want to be spoiled to stop reading now because you WILL be spoiled.

You have been WARNED!

Will Callie and Arizona stay/get back together?

Will Dr. Lauren Boswell return?

I know that these two questions are what many Calzona fans are asking themselves about season 10. I know because I'm a fan of Calzona and I've been thinking about those two questions since the season 9 finale. While no spoilers for season 10 have been released and none will be released for a few months, but I'm going to speculate on what I think will happen in season 10 regarding the two questions I've posted here.

Let's get on with it:

Will Callie and Arizona stay/get back together?

I use "stay/get back together" because the season 9 finale gave us no indication about whether or not they're going to separate. Unfortunately, we have to wait until September to find out the answer, but it doesn't have to stop me from taking a guess on what I think could possibly happen come September.

I think that in the season premiere of season 10, we will find out that Callie and Arizona have separated. They no longer live together (Callie keeps apartment and Arizona is staying at Mark's old apartment across the hall), but co-parent Sophia because while Callie is understandably mad at Arizona, she knows that Arizona is Sophia's mom and won't (I hope!) keep her from their child. Arizona is getting help she needs to deal with her PTSD and resentment towards Callie about making the decision to cut off her leg in order to save her life. They then seek counseling as a couple in hopes of getting past the cheating thing and fall in love once again.

Maybe my prediction is the best case scenario and that's because while I believe that nothing justifies Arizona cheating, I want to believe that Calzona are endgame/MFEO. Of course, if they are to get back together, it's going to depend on several things and one of them is the next question I'm going to tackle below...

Will Dr. Lauren Boswell return?

At first, I thought that Lauren would not return in season 10 because she did exactly what she was supposed to do in the final few episodes of season 9, sleep with Arizona and drive a wedge between the couple. However, when I read that Hilarie Burton's (the actress that plays Lauren) pilot The List was not picked up by Fox, I started to think that she could be brought back by Shonda seeing as her schedule has opened up. The more I think about it, the more I believe she will appear in next season because it's something that Shonda would do. My fingers are crossed that it doesn't happen.

As the months go by, I'm sure my predictions will change as the spoilers/speculations (especially about whether or not Burton will be returning as Lauren) begin to roll in, so you can expect more posts down the road about what Shonda has up her sleeves in regards to Calzona. Until then, I'll try to think good thoughts about Calzona and watch old episodes of Grey's Anatomy and I'm sure I won't be the only one doing that.

Grey's Anatomy: Calzona and the Season 9 Finale Pt. 1

WARNING: This post will contain spoilers from the season 9 finale of Grey's Anatomy in regards to Calzona (Callie and Arizona). If you have not seen the season finale and you don't want to be spoiled in any way, then stop reading now.

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!