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6.10 – A sweet kiss on a Silent Night.
By Aussie Lee | December 4, 2009 | 
Episode 10 Holidaze for me was just that .. a daze. It was here, I watched, I laughed, I cried, I got completely bamboozled and then it was gone. I was left dazed. For me, it was just too much at once yet at the same time not enough. Not enough what you may say? Well I’m sure it’s not too hard to work out what I’m going to say next because I know all my fellow fans felt it too.. not enough Callie, and for that matter Calzone. Initial reaction was to come away dazed quickly followed by a dose of irate at the show. Now that I’ve had time to sit back and reassess I still feel the same, yet content at the same time. Confused much??? Yeah I know.. even I can’t work me out. Go figure. So how about I just tell the story hey and see if we can work it out together ok? Good. Let’s go.
So where do we see Callie first? Oh yeah that’s right…. Overhearing a conversation Bailey was having with her mum on the phone, and a very intriguing conversation to overhear at that. Bailey has not told her mother that her and Tucker have split, hence this quizzical, yet ahem.. hot look from Callie followed by the question on everyone’s lips..….
Callie: You didn’t tell your parents about the divorce?
Bailey: *raised eyebrow look at Callie here*
Callie: How long can you keep that a secret?
Bailey: When you started dating women how long did you keep that secret from your family?
Callie: Ok *with a sly grin*
Touche Bailey yet in the same breath, wait come back here Callie! The confusion reigned for Bailey too. I think here she was really looking for a little bit of a discussion with Callie, possibly some insight from her and how she worked through this difficult process but Callie left her high and dry. So much for inspiring washroom speeches from Callie at that point. A shake of the head from Bailey.. a stunned look with a barely audible “Whaaaatttt?” and pffftt.. Callie was gone.
Next Callie is working on a patient alongside Mark when a blonde haired woman arrives on the scene to drop the bombshell of all bombshells. Being blonde just added to it really.. you know.. blonde bombshell and all that….get it? Mmmkkk… moving on. So as she approaches Mark and declares her name to be Sloan (oh how original) followed by “I’m pretty sure you’re my dad!”, nothing better than to freeze that frame there and cackle my xmas socks off at the priceless Mark Sloan reaction. Lexie has impeccable timing as always, everyone looks at everyone else, Callie stares on with what I like to believe was a look of shock mixed with “Oh I can’t wait to find out more about this… where’s my phone???” before then looking to Sloan for a reaction, any reaction.
So next we find Sloan and mini Sloan (albeit female.. minor detail), staring at each other over a table in a room somewhere, obviously not knowing what to say next. Ok Mark.. I somehow don’t think that staring at her like that is going to realllly achieve a lot, how about opening that usually quick witted trap of yours and saying something. Can’t blame him I guess for losing his voice. Lucky for him though, someone was thinking straight and logical and that was Callie, who arrived at that point loaded up with medical supplies and with a cheery yet wary “Hey.. how’s it going in here?” When she barely gets an audible response and the Sloan’s continue their family staring competition, she takes matters into her own hands.
Callie: “Okkkk.. sooooo… have we broached the question of a paternity test, cause I brought supplies.”
Yay for the reality of Callie! I mean as the work wife you’d certainly want to ensure that your work husband is taking the right steps with regards to a possible addition to their already wonderful family network…. Right? Yeah I knew you’d all get me here. Obviously Mark is in no position to formulate even one word let alone a coherent sentence at that point so Callie steps in and gets things rolling in the right direction. At this point, while Callie is taking mini Sloan’s blood for the test, Mark is still a mute moron. For someone who is never short of a quick retort or an inappropriately timed statement here or there, the cat sure has got his tongue this time!
You know you’ve got to wonder what was going on upstairs in the space where Mark’s brain should be located during his muteness. It really would have been the perfect place for one of those little comic clouds, you know the ones, where his thoughts just popped up in a bubble here and there. Yet again, considering his demeanor at that point, it just might have been a waste of an artist’s talent as the clouds would have probably been empty, just floating up above his head going.. “Hellloooo.. we’re waiting!!!” Again, it’s Callie who breaks the silence..
Callie: “Mark now might be a good place to say something.”
Mark: *empty white clouds here*
Callie: “Out loud…”
Mark: *more empty white clouds here*
Mini Sloan: “Dude.. are you like high or something?”
Mark: *I wonder if I left the iron on??* BINGO! Something!
Anyways, we next see Callie and Arizona share a cute kiss in the kitchen. HOLD THE PHONE!! Rewind.
Yeah that’s right.. you all knowwwww I could not have gone past this point without throwing a pic of the sweet ocassion in now don’t you!! Yay!! So I wasn’t dreaming. A kiss. Finally! How sweet.. yet how bloody awkward did that look? Urghhh… I wanna complain but I’m not going to complain because in all reality, we got a kiss folks! It just felt forced but hey.. that’s just me and my silly opinion, hence my need to stop rambling and move on! I think the entrance of Mark’s newly confirmed daughter by way of DNA results, mini Sloan, shifted the awkwardness in the room. Callie’s reaction.. priceless… “Hiiiii… Welcome. Happy Thanksgiving! Who wants wine????” with a knowing glance at Arizona that said “Quick.. glass.. this is going to be fun and we’re going to want a drink while we watch this!” And as Mark finally finds his voice and starts to confirm that the woman before them is actually his grown up daughter, it’s Lexie who draws our attention in, as she chops celery with an extremely large knife! Poor Lexie takes one slice too many though and slices off the top of her finger bringing the attention back to her. Way to go hun.. attention seeker. Kidding kidding.. don’t lynch me! Believe me, if it was me in Lexie’s shoes, I probably would have cut off half my hand by that point!
So it’s Christmas Eve.. when all through the house.. not a creature was stirring not even a mouse. Callie couldn’t sit still though…and had found Bailey’s father in the gallery watching his daughter perform surgery. Apparently Bailey had suggested that she come say hi to her father. I bet Bailey might have thought otherwise if she’d known what was about to ramble out of Callie’s mouth. So Bill asks Callie about the surgery his daughter is currently performing and she explains it to him, adding a little tale of her own about a guy who’d received an electric shock from Christmas lights powerful enough to break both his wrists. This was lovely idle chit chat .. no .. really.. it was. But what fell out of Callie’s mouth in that same breath had me laughing and half choking at the same time! Sooo not a good look!
Callie: Anyway… I’m dating women…and..
Bill: I’m sorry???
Callie: Oh I recently started dating women and my family had a realllly hard time accepting that but you know, we worked through it and ummm… Bailey said that you are having a hard time with her divorce, which I totally understand, but I wanted to say that she didn’t come to that decision lightly. And she’s a good person and ….Merry Christmas.
Callie Callie Callie. I really do love ya girl but seriously… you gotta work on your advice tactics hun! LOL. It’s funny you know.. I automatically thought after that speech.. well that was no ‘good man in a storm’ type speech but nonetheless it was just as effective, I hoped. Well only time would tell I guess.
Then the moment had arrived.. the one I had been waiting for….a sound so sweet it instantly gave me goosebumps the moment her voice hit my ears. Sara singing Silent Night, my favourite Christmas Carol, as the rest of the cast sat around the dinner table for Christmas dinner. I have the song playing now.. on repeat.. as I type this and I can honestly say that the goosebumps are still with me for the entire time I can hear Sara sing. Her voice is sublime and was simply a perfect addition to such a special occasion.
There’s been a lot of huff and puff about the fact that Callie was not at the dinner with Arizona and before I’d really sat and watched this scene, I felt the same. Why wasn’t she there? She should have been there. That’s ridiculous! Dang it! But now I’ve had time to rethink it all, Callie was giving a greater gift. In my mind, she was working at the hospital to allow someone else to have that special day with their family, a selfless act which is just Callie to a T.
It was an emotional scene for Bailey, one that allowed her to take a stance against her father and voice her deepest feelings and emotions, explaining her life now as a single woman and more importantly, a single mother. To have the angelic voice of Sara Ramirez singing in the background during this exchange, well it was just gripping to the core. And you know what… it was like Callie was actually there with them all the same. Oh I know.. it’s not “Callie” singing perse, but it’s hard to differentiate between the two sometimes when an actress of Sara’s caliber is so invested in Callie and takes the character very seriously, entrancing you everytime. So let me have my thoughts wander a little and let me say that even though Callie was not there.. she was in an angelic spirit kind of way. And as we’ve seen many times before, she’s there when Bailey needs her support. They have always had what I like to think of as an ‘unspoken’ bond Bailey & Callie. They just seem to get each other and connect well and obviously they are very close friends when it counts. And I like to think that Sara’s (Callie’s) voice was like a guiding hand.. leading Bailey gently through this moment in time which was so emotionally charged. Well that’s my way of looking at it so I’m sticking with it so there. 
Unfortunately.. that was the last time Callie was even mentioned or sighted for the rest of the episode. Quite disappointing but seriously… I can say I’m happy because the visions I can have in my head are of her like this….
Or perhaps this
Because no doubt she would have been catching all the zzzz’s she could possibly get after working Christmas Day, no doubt a very busy day indeed. So for now.. I am satisfied as much as I possibly can be with regards to her screen time this episode. Of course there could have been more.. but her presence was significant enough for me. I’ll admit my initial reaction was one of anger and a little cursing on the Shondaland (gah) but I blame the daze of the episode’s speed on that, nothing else. Also the fact that the epi had received such hype before it aired, to me it almost had a SF feel about it, and to have barely any Callie let alone Calzone, well that came across as a horrid crime. But there is so much time left for these two, it wasn’t a SF, it’s just the yearly holiday hiatus, so there is plenty of time for hope and much development for Callie before the end of this Season.
Now I have had time to reflect, I’m definitely in a more festive type of mood. Are you?
Till next time,
Aussie Lee xxoo
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December 4th, 2009 at 09:27
Yes, this was a very difficult ep to review. I agree, what a challenge in such a whirlwind. It took me longer to get through your review since since so many of your screenies were Callie. *STARE* Nice POV, dude. Nice.
So, um yeah Callie with Bill…I think it’s concensus that she should just leave the speeches to Arizona, right?
Thank you for also acknowledging that unspoken bond between Callie and Bailey! It does definitely exist even though they seem barely connected at work anymore, every once and a while they share these deeply personal moments that often times are spilled out in elevators or moments of Callie just plain thinking out loud and oversharing. So good. I love their cut and dryness.
Am I feelin festive now? Heck yeah! Cannot WAIT for the release of Sara’s “Silent Night” track. Can. Not. Wait.
@elyima, Hey there!
Thanks so much for your comment and I’m glad someone gets me on the Callie / Bailey bond! 
“I love their cut and dryness.” Exactly the point I was trying to make just couldn’t find the words so thank you!
Is it Dec 8 yet??
AL xo
December 4th, 2009 at 10:00
So, this is what I do when I read your reviews: I read and type simultaneously, like if it was a conversation. I have my notepad open and I just write down what comes across my mind while I’m reading. That’s why my comments are always so long…
That said, let’s start it!
Not enough Calzone, that’s really something to blame. Not only in this episode, but in each and every episode of this season so far! Really, I was rewatching Season 5 and I guess they had more interaction (counting kisses, hugs and nice words said to each other) in 5 episodes of last season, when their relationship was just starting, than by now, after the “Am I your girlfriend” and the “I love you” stuff! Come on. We’re not asking for sessions of making out (what would be REALLY awesome, but I figure it’s not gonna happen), we just want more intimacy! It doesn’t mean sex, it means showing love. That’s all.
Now, about Callie: this first picture it’s just cute, I love that look on her face!lol I like Callie and Bailey’s friendship a lot, like in the last episode when Callie offered to be Bailey’s work-husband… And in this one, when she tries, all in her “Callie-way-of-helping” talk to Bailey’s dad about the divorce… Ah, btw, I have to say something: since the “I love you”, I feel Callie much more comfortable about talking of Arizona as a grilfriend. Not that she was uncomfortable with the status before; I just think that now she knows it’s real. She has a love and she can talk about it, in her always spontaneous way of being. So I love when she says to Adele that she’s Mark’s work-wife, but that he has a girlfriend and that she has a girlfriend too (love Adele’s face when she says so), and in this episode she tells Bailey’s father, and he also has a face when she tells she dates women… I love to observe people’s faces when she talks about it. They are always faces of surprise at first, but they are sudden dropped out by the security that Callie shows on what she feels about it. Did I make it clear? Anyway. Hope so.
Ah, about Mark and Mini Sloan… What an awkward situation and even worse for Mark, he being… Mark. I don’t blame the blank clouds! (lol, I love the blank clouds, I totally could picture them).And Callie shows her support as a friend doing what she knew it should be done and Mark wouldn’t do for himself. That’s what work-wives do to their work-husbands!
The kiss: I found it cute, not at first, ok, I admit I forced myself to like it… and now I do. I just wanted a little bit more…
Callie in advicing mode: she’s the worse adviser ever! hahaha! I love it, it’s cute, I always laugh a lot with her trying to make her part well, but always messing up in the end. She doesn’t think much before talking… Or maybe she does, and that’s the problem, I can relate. You think a lot and it all makes sense to you, and so you think it will make sense to others too… But most of the times, it doesn’t.
I won’t say much about the Silent Night scene, first because you’ve said already whatever that could cross my mind about it. I agree 100% with you. And second… because it still makes my heart stops only thinking about it. I got too emotional when I first watched that scene, not only because of the song, Bailey’s speech was something too. But I admit it was mostly because of Sara’s voice… Ok, I won’t start thinking, I’ll just wait for December, 8th and the release of it. Then I can listen to it till my heart explodes and my ears starts to bleed! lol, Oh, no, kidding, I want to be alive for Christmas.
About the whole episode: I loved it. And I am the only one who actually said the word “love” about it, that I know. But I did. Despite of the short time for so many holidays (I wished it was a two-hours episode, but, huh…) and the little Calzone interaction (the awkward kiss, only), it got me into the moods of the Holidays. I love all medical stories and how they all ended up well, because it was holidays and nobody should be sad. I surely wasn’t.
@Lorena, Hey there you!
Yet again an epic comment! A kilometer indeed.. just like you said!! LOL 
Love your comments and thank you so much for taking the time to write it out.
You’re a gem!
AL xo
December 4th, 2009 at 10:50
I’ve watched their kiss several times
It’s not an awkward kiss but a poorly edited one. About ten seconds prior to their kiss would have mad it seem more natural.
@Sonya, I completely agree. The editing is what made it look awkward and forced. Clearly there was more to that scene, something before the kiss that was cut. It just seemed odd because it was so abrupt.
@Sonya, You know Sonya.. thank you. You’ve so hit the nail on the head so to speak. Thanks for your comment.
AL xo
December 4th, 2009 at 10:55
Uh… Ditto? …
Awesome review. As always. You managed to write an awesome review on a awful episode. I applaud you more than usual for that!
@Metriosity, Well thanks for the extra applause
but I have to applaud you back for leaving such a lovely comment on an episode that we both know you found awful. Thanks for taking the time to read through it all and relive at least Callie’s part.
AL xo
December 4th, 2009 at 11:43
I know most of us love Callie and Arizona best, but I think we should cut the good folks at GA some slack. They don’t put on C&A, we complain, they do, MD people whine, and OC, and ML, and then there’s Izzie and Alex, etc. It’s a big cast, and since ours are the only two that aren’t originals, we should still remain grateful. Some of the writing and editing could be better, but this year is still way better than last, IMO. And it’s just entertainment, so enjoy it. And Shonda does promise good things to come. I think she really likes them, so let’s hold out hope! And they are still great. My gosh, they kinda make me wish I was a lesbian, they’re THAT good! And you know – I gotta say – they’re really pushing some bars on this one. I agree, MORE could happen, but seriously? A lesbian with a bisexual character? Has that been done with series regulars on a network show? Surely not…?!
@anonymous, Oh I’m with you on the holding out hope don’t you worry about that…. and ITA with your comment. Well said.. and thank you.
AL xo
December 4th, 2009 at 14:18
“so there is plenty of time for hope and much development for Callie before the end of this Season.”
If Callie would get one tiny centric storyline in the second half, I would die a happy stalker fan death. I love Arizona and Callie together but I seriously want something Callie devoted and some serious character development for her this season. She is way overdue a moment or five to shine…..thanks for the pics, SaRa pictures are always welcome even if I saw the eppie.
@GAaddict, Hey!! Thanks for your comment. I would tend to agree with you too on a Callie based storyline but I also would have to say, IMO, that I thought she had her time in a way in 6.05 during the whole…. You can’t pray away the gay with her father scenario.
Of course a development in regards to her as a doctor with some way out case is needed too. I wanna see her shine as well!
AL xo
December 6th, 2009 at 09:40
Hey!.. Welcome back! Long time no read about you!
This episode was weird to me, I like it but I think they rush to much the holidays, you know and I know thanks giving for you guys are very special but I’m not convinced yet. IMO
I really hope these next episodes the writers compensate us with the lack of Callie and Calzone! Better be! *arrggh*
Was great to read you!
@Bast, G’day stranger!
Oh yes ITA… they rushed it all too much. BTW hun.. little tip for ya … I’m an Aussie and here we don’t celebrate Thanksgiving Day either. 
I still gave thanks for a lot of things that day though.. just cause I can 
I’m all for the compensation too!
Thanks for reading and commenting yet again! Take care.
AL xoxo