Holy crap Izzie got fired. Well, I guess now we know why she's taking a 5 episode break! I kind of can't believe she would leave Alex without a face to face confrontation, but I guess she needs something to do when she comes back for one to two episodes maximum later on. It seems unlikely that she would ever get hired back given her history. I feel for her that she had to go out that way after all the other shenanigans she's pulled and that Mercy West guy was a total douche, but losing a woman her kidney is no joke. (I have to say this again...PLEASE tell me the doctor who accidentally cut off a BABY'S ARM last week got fired. Seriously)
Who I feel really bad for in this situation is Alex. Bummer for him to finally open up and let someone in and then almost lose her to cancer and then have her get better and take off. Then again, that does assure him of good angsty storylines for the next few seasons. And how can she really just TAKE OFF after a half finished comment by the chief?!? She doesn't even know what he was actually going to say! I do want to know what that note said, they better tell us next week.
I'm sure I've said it before, but any episode that has Christina experiencing an emotional breakdown is automatically a good episode. No one cries quite like Sandra Oh. She made me want to go out and hire a new cardio god so she can have something to do. She and Meredith are super cute together, as always. Here's a thing I know: Without the two of them and their dynamic this show really doesn't work for me. In addition to the Christina meltdown, episodes that have good Meredith/Christina scenes are also always very good.
Now clearly this is the intention, but I really don't like any of the new Mercy West people. Douchy McSurgicalBitch, CubbyStealing DoeEyes, SelfHelp NoseJob and Football ERZones are not cool and I want for them all to get their comeuppance in a bad, possibly unhealthy way. Especially CSDE. She is pretty much just a completely unpleasant person and I don't think much of her doctoring skills. What I did like was the sound tongue lashing she and Alex got from Luke's sister (Gilmore Girls reference)...you know, not that it stopped them from being petty and immature.
Ah Callie. Callie and her dad. Callie and Arizona, who I have a new level of respect for after getting the background story on her name. I like that she's a good man in a storm. I like that Callie's dad finally came around and realized that even though she's a lesbian now she's still traditional enough to want a big white wedding and kids. I have to wonder what the priest's take on the whole situation was, given the fact that he was never able to get a word in edgewise. The scene in the conference room where they were screaming Bible verses back and forth at each other was one of my favorites.
I also just finished watching Private Practice and it's entirely possible that I could be reading things into this, but Sam used to be a heart surgeon, the preview for next week has him suddenly getting back into heart surgery against Addison's wishes....could he be getting primed to get a job up at Seattle Grace as the new cardio guy? Possibly? 'Cause I gotta say, I wouldn't hate that.
Friday, October 16, 2009
Friday, October 09, 2009
Liver & Jewels
Last night was a quality episode, I called it that Meredith gave her dad part of her liver (but seriously, who didn't call that?). I'm glad that it was as a result of Lexie's super emotional speech about knowing that Thatcher isn't her dad, but he is Lexie's and could Meredith please give Lexie her dad back? Loved it.
I did think it was laying things on a little thick when Mark gave his impassioned speech to the penis patient's children and got all misty about how some children would do anything for their parents to give a little back blah blah blah. I mean, I'm glad the old guy got his implant, don't get me wrong. Although my favorite part of that was when the guys tricked Christina into being on the surgery.
Poor Christina. Good for her telling the chief to cut her because she needs to be able to use her talent and if he can't give that to her she needs to be able to leave. Obviously I hope she doesn't go (and I'm pretty sure she won't), and it did seem to give the chief his much needed wake-up call. Finally he seems to have remembered that his job is to staff and manage a world-class hospital with the best surgeons possible, and not to be whiny and complainy about being an old guy.
Callie has her job back! Now there was a shocker. I couldn't get too into that storyline, but I liked Arizona's reality check about how she didn't have her favorite scrub nurse anymore blah blah blah.
What I'm waiting for now is this whole deal I keep hearing about that will lead to Izzie being absent for five episodes...here's what I've heard: Something happens. It's shocking. Izzie disappears for awhile. Alex has to deal with it. Very descriptive, I know. I'm sure the patient from this week's episode will have ended up setting a chain of events in motion that will lead to said absence... but until then we have bears and ticks to entertain us.
I didn't get to watch the episode until today so I didn't see a preview for next week's episode, I think that's about it for this week!
I did think it was laying things on a little thick when Mark gave his impassioned speech to the penis patient's children and got all misty about how some children would do anything for their parents to give a little back blah blah blah. I mean, I'm glad the old guy got his implant, don't get me wrong. Although my favorite part of that was when the guys tricked Christina into being on the surgery.
Poor Christina. Good for her telling the chief to cut her because she needs to be able to use her talent and if he can't give that to her she needs to be able to leave. Obviously I hope she doesn't go (and I'm pretty sure she won't), and it did seem to give the chief his much needed wake-up call. Finally he seems to have remembered that his job is to staff and manage a world-class hospital with the best surgeons possible, and not to be whiny and complainy about being an old guy.
Callie has her job back! Now there was a shocker. I couldn't get too into that storyline, but I liked Arizona's reality check about how she didn't have her favorite scrub nurse anymore blah blah blah.
What I'm waiting for now is this whole deal I keep hearing about that will lead to Izzie being absent for five episodes...here's what I've heard: Something happens. It's shocking. Izzie disappears for awhile. Alex has to deal with it. Very descriptive, I know. I'm sure the patient from this week's episode will have ended up setting a chain of events in motion that will lead to said absence... but until then we have bears and ticks to entertain us.
I didn't get to watch the episode until today so I didn't see a preview for next week's episode, I think that's about it for this week!
Friday, October 02, 2009
who's out?
Well, while not nearly as intense as last week's episode (thank goodness), this week's Grey's Anatomy still had its tense moments.
I hate it when the Chief and Derek are fighting with each other. Last season it was over Meredith and the proposal, this season it's over the merger. I'm not entirely sure why Derek thinks he's entitled to hear what the Chief is planning (outside of how it relates to his department, I guess) but I also think Richard is being a little unreasonable about Derek's part in his career at this point. Whether he likes it or not, he'd be out on is a** without D's tip about the board. I'm pretty sure he needs to get over himself and stop being such a jerk. Yes, you're aging and you're not as smooth as you one were. Yes, you had to throw a hail mary to keep your job. But I do agree with Derek when he told Richard to start acting like the chief of surgery. Step it up, pal!
Maybe this is weird, but I find that I really don't like hearing Mark call Lexie by her name. I liked it better when he was calling her 'little Grey'. I'm sure exactly why this is a problem, it doesn't bother me when anyone else says it. I do hope Mark gets a nice beefy storyline this season, what with some of the absences we have coming later in the season with pregnancies and movies and the like. I like Lexie and her neuroses about whether she was going to get to keep her job or not. They make her seem more like Meredith but also different because (if this makes sense) these are the well-adjusted sort of neuroses Mer would show if she'd had a normal childhood. Lexie is like Meredith: Version 2.0 - the happy childhood. I also liked when she told Christina that she was amazing and pretty, causing Christina to give her the last of the chocolate pudding.
OK, so I read ahead of time that the first cuts from the merger were going to be last night and that someone we had known from the first season was going to be a part of the cut, but that it would not be a main character. My mind immediately jumped to Olivia, but I was thrown for a minute during the baby arm situation because I could be making this up but I thought the doctor who accidentally cut off the baby's arm was the same one who Meredith went toe to toe with about the baby who couldn't breathe in the first season. I could be reaching. But seriously, how did she not get fired for CUTTING OFF THE ARM OF A BABY!?!??! Are you telling me that Mercy West doesn't have a big enough staff that they have people who deliver babies without cutting off limbs? Yikes. And seriously, this is why you're ranked 12th. How are you gonna cut too deep and SLICE OFF AN ARM. I was sad to see Olivia go, even though she really hasn't had a lot to do since she spread syphilis around the hospital and slept with Alex when he was supposed to be dating Izzie. Alas. Farewell.
Also farewell to pregnant intern who I didn't immediately remember, but then it came back to me that there was an intern love triangle last season and there was some blood and some punching and I think she was the girl in the middle of it. So I guess we're sorry to see her go? I don't really care enough about the new interns (except for Lexie) to care whether they stay or go, so I couldn't get too worked up when Megan's husband looked all distressed about her getting cut, except as it related to making Lexie feel like a jerk because she was going on and on and she didn't know.
Callie is so not moving to Portland (regardless of Arizona having told her she wasn't allowed to). I foresee a make-up with the Chief coming very soon. Once he gets off his high horse about the older doctors still being relevant and able to do their jobs and sees that it comes down to saving money and having the best people available, Callie will return triumphantly. And then maybe Christina will have a specialty (other than peds) to latch onto without a cardio-god there to mentor her.
Speaking of Christina and peds, I'm a little surprised Arizona fell for that one. If we're supposed to believe that she's been working at Seattle Grace for at least as long as everyone else (and probably longer, because she's an attending) shouldn't she have heard of Christina? And her girlfriend is Christina's roommate! Which implies they've met before! She was very easily swayed when Christina said she liked kids, and it took more convincing than I thought necessary for Callie to convince her she was being used. I mean, there's naive and then there's child-like (and not in a good way). I was glad to see Owen stand up to Christina about going to the Chief. Even though he's now a bona fide member of Crazytown, he still has his moral center and I'm hoping that it doesn't slip for awhile. There has to be at least one grounded character, and I like that even though he's got all kinds of baggage and he did accidentally choke his girlfriend, it's him.
When Izzie was sweating all through surgery and then finally asked someone to take her wig off for her, it made me think of Sex and the City when Samantha was sweating all over her couture because of her wig. Anyone else? No? ok. Alex was cute as ever, first for taking care of her and then letting her know that he's not her nurse so it's time for her to take care of herself.
I don't have much to say about Meredith this week, but next week looks SUPER intense with the dad and the health issues and the begging and the drama. I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that Mer ends up deciding to give Thatcher her kidney, in order to explain why she'll be gone for awhile (because Ellen Pompeo is starting to look like a normal sized person, which must mean that baby is ready to come out!).
I hate it when the Chief and Derek are fighting with each other. Last season it was over Meredith and the proposal, this season it's over the merger. I'm not entirely sure why Derek thinks he's entitled to hear what the Chief is planning (outside of how it relates to his department, I guess) but I also think Richard is being a little unreasonable about Derek's part in his career at this point. Whether he likes it or not, he'd be out on is a** without D's tip about the board. I'm pretty sure he needs to get over himself and stop being such a jerk. Yes, you're aging and you're not as smooth as you one were. Yes, you had to throw a hail mary to keep your job. But I do agree with Derek when he told Richard to start acting like the chief of surgery. Step it up, pal!
Maybe this is weird, but I find that I really don't like hearing Mark call Lexie by her name. I liked it better when he was calling her 'little Grey'. I'm sure exactly why this is a problem, it doesn't bother me when anyone else says it. I do hope Mark gets a nice beefy storyline this season, what with some of the absences we have coming later in the season with pregnancies and movies and the like. I like Lexie and her neuroses about whether she was going to get to keep her job or not. They make her seem more like Meredith but also different because (if this makes sense) these are the well-adjusted sort of neuroses Mer would show if she'd had a normal childhood. Lexie is like Meredith: Version 2.0 - the happy childhood. I also liked when she told Christina that she was amazing and pretty, causing Christina to give her the last of the chocolate pudding.
OK, so I read ahead of time that the first cuts from the merger were going to be last night and that someone we had known from the first season was going to be a part of the cut, but that it would not be a main character. My mind immediately jumped to Olivia, but I was thrown for a minute during the baby arm situation because I could be making this up but I thought the doctor who accidentally cut off the baby's arm was the same one who Meredith went toe to toe with about the baby who couldn't breathe in the first season. I could be reaching. But seriously, how did she not get fired for CUTTING OFF THE ARM OF A BABY!?!??! Are you telling me that Mercy West doesn't have a big enough staff that they have people who deliver babies without cutting off limbs? Yikes. And seriously, this is why you're ranked 12th. How are you gonna cut too deep and SLICE OFF AN ARM. I was sad to see Olivia go, even though she really hasn't had a lot to do since she spread syphilis around the hospital and slept with Alex when he was supposed to be dating Izzie. Alas. Farewell.
Also farewell to pregnant intern who I didn't immediately remember, but then it came back to me that there was an intern love triangle last season and there was some blood and some punching and I think she was the girl in the middle of it. So I guess we're sorry to see her go? I don't really care enough about the new interns (except for Lexie) to care whether they stay or go, so I couldn't get too worked up when Megan's husband looked all distressed about her getting cut, except as it related to making Lexie feel like a jerk because she was going on and on and she didn't know.
Callie is so not moving to Portland (regardless of Arizona having told her she wasn't allowed to). I foresee a make-up with the Chief coming very soon. Once he gets off his high horse about the older doctors still being relevant and able to do their jobs and sees that it comes down to saving money and having the best people available, Callie will return triumphantly. And then maybe Christina will have a specialty (other than peds) to latch onto without a cardio-god there to mentor her.
Speaking of Christina and peds, I'm a little surprised Arizona fell for that one. If we're supposed to believe that she's been working at Seattle Grace for at least as long as everyone else (and probably longer, because she's an attending) shouldn't she have heard of Christina? And her girlfriend is Christina's roommate! Which implies they've met before! She was very easily swayed when Christina said she liked kids, and it took more convincing than I thought necessary for Callie to convince her she was being used. I mean, there's naive and then there's child-like (and not in a good way). I was glad to see Owen stand up to Christina about going to the Chief. Even though he's now a bona fide member of Crazytown, he still has his moral center and I'm hoping that it doesn't slip for awhile. There has to be at least one grounded character, and I like that even though he's got all kinds of baggage and he did accidentally choke his girlfriend, it's him.
When Izzie was sweating all through surgery and then finally asked someone to take her wig off for her, it made me think of Sex and the City when Samantha was sweating all over her couture because of her wig. Anyone else? No? ok. Alex was cute as ever, first for taking care of her and then letting her know that he's not her nurse so it's time for her to take care of herself.
I don't have much to say about Meredith this week, but next week looks SUPER intense with the dad and the health issues and the begging and the drama. I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that Mer ends up deciding to give Thatcher her kidney, in order to explain why she'll be gone for awhile (because Ellen Pompeo is starting to look like a normal sized person, which must mean that baby is ready to come out!).
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