Sandra Oh’s impending exit from Grey’s Anatomy was set into motion on Thursday evening, May 1st. So was the return of Isaiah Washington in his role as Dr. Preston Burke. Thursday’s episode marked Washington’s first appearance on the show since 2007.

“It was very energized — as it would be with the person you were about to marry. ‘I used to look into your face all the time — and now where I am looking into your face!’” she says in an interview with Entertainment Weekly. “There was a lot of things to play. And I hope it translates well.”

The show’s creator Shonda Rhimes knows people are sort of all over the place when it comes to a reunion of these two characters.

“I’ve had some people say, ‘I want them to get back together,’ I’ve had some people say, ‘They can’t possibly get back together,’ and I always tell people they need to remember that we’re talking about Cristina Yang here,” she says. “It’s not gonna be about whatever you expect it to be about.”

Sandra Oh told EW her take on the first on screen reunion between the two characters.

“It was very energized — as it would be with the person you were about to marry. ‘I used to look into your face all the time — and now where I am looking into your face!’” she said. “There was a lot of things to play. And I hope it translates well.”

Yes indeedy, Burke is back. pic.twitter.com/WBsmCN3Yv7

— Sandra Oh (@IamSandraOh) May 1, 2014

Did you watch Grey’s Anatomy on Thursday night? Do you think the first facet of Cristina Yang’s reunion with Burke translated well?

Sandra Oh talked with Jimmy Kimmel about her upcoming exit from the hit TV show.

Now that the reunion is out in the open, what do you think will happen between these two characters between now and when Sandra Oh makes her official departures from Grey’s Anatomy?

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