What?
It made absolutely NO sense that there was only enough oxygen in the entire hospital for two people to spend 30 minutes in the toxic OR.
It made almost as little sense that anyone would get bent out of shape if new patients weren’t lined up at a newly opened clinic on the first day. Was any of the $8 million spent on a publicity campaign?
I know it’s just cheesy American television, but they want me to watch so they can sell advertising. Don’t insult me.
Both good points, but I still loved this episode. I loved the way George defended Cali at then end. I loved the way Christina said yes, the love the way Burke reacted, I love, love, loved Meredith’s speach to her mother (You’re the reason I’m like this.) - it actually made me kind of love Ellen Pompeo a little bit.
Heh. I sort of watch this show from inertia and for no other reason - it’s generally the kind of show I would make fun of rather than watch, but I used to watch it with my girlfriend ALL THE TIME - but this week’s episode was actually… pretty good. It was funny to a degree that it hasn’t been in a long time, the things that are usually annoying weren’t so much, and Kate Walsh was super-hot.
Plus, it gets a thumbs up solely for the “Callie O’Malley” line.
I forgot to tape it, and only saw the last half-hour. Could someone please explain what was going on with the toxic gas, and what did the patient mean when she was talking to her husband through the glass about “finding something out this way”?
The patient had cancer and was taking chemo for it - she was also taking some sort of herbal suplement and there was a reaction creating a toxic gas. They did this on Law & Order a few years ago.
The guy wasn’t her husband - he was her boyfriend of about 6 months I think, and she was hoping she wouldn’t have to tell him she’d been sick.
Caliope Efeginia Torez? 
The oxygen had something to do with battery life (yes, it makes no sense)
Brian
Izzy is pretty nasty for a nice girl. Selfish twit.
Boy, I always thought Grey was a self-absorbed, whiny, self-righteous bore. And then I met her mother. If there was anyone in TV land who deserved Alzheimer’s, it’s that bitch. I cannot fully describe how much I HATED her mother.
Also, Addison telling McSteamy that she wasn’t thinking of him right. . . now. I wonder if Alex felt that!
Callie O’Malley. Hee.
Like Kiros, we thought that this was one of the funniest episodes in a very long time. Yes, Izzie is self-absorbed. She always has been. The story lines just haven’t supported that lately. And as for the way she treated Callie, I felt it was believable. She feels that she’s George’s best friend, and really doesn’t like Callie all that much, and thinks George made a bad decision but she’s still trying to be polite. She just doesn’t know how to fake sincrity.
What surprised me was Meredith being genuinely supportive to George. (“Is it good impulsive or Meredith-impulsive? Because if it’s Meredith-impulsive I might be able to get you out of it.”)
What didn’t surprise me is how Ellis, when lucid, treated Meredith. When Richard told Meredith it was a gift, mt GF and I turned to each other and said, “A gift to who? Certainly not Meredith.”
Since we *are * on the SD, here’s an obligatory link to a column about a toxic lady.
Izzy is just a total bitch. I got fed up with her with Denny, but now she’s even worse.
The constant snippy little nastiness about Callie, and making fun about her behind her back to the cool kids, and the nasty neglect of her one and only clinic patient because she didn’t have a cool enough illness for her to treat — why does she exist?
The “Callie O’Malley” line genuinely took me by surprise. I snorted out loud at that one.
I still think it’s a ludicrous for a chief resident of a busy surgical service to have time enough on her hands to conceptualize, implement and staff a clinic. It’s also pretty sad that the mother of a newborn feels she doesn’t have enough to enrich her life, so she needs to do this on top of her duties as a chief resident. I love the actress who plays Bailey, but these writers are pretty screwed up.
‘Total bitch’? 
She’s the one constantly in trouble for getting too emotionally involved with her patients and concerned about their lives!
The worst hole in that plot was having a hospital open a brand new expensive clinic and nobody showing up. In the real world there would have been a dozen news stories about the new clinic being built, progress on the construction would be a regular feature in local media, and there would have been a huge opening ceremony so unless Seattle had become miraculously bereft of poor folk, there would be a lineup at the doors on the first day.
Sometimes I get the impression that some of the writers on these shows are freshly-minted college grads with no knowledge of the real world. And apparently no editors or producers who could correct them. Or maybe they’re just so insular and wrapped up in their labours they never crack a newspaper.
How about going from concept to funding to building to equipping it all in 8 days? There is TV magic and then there is complete fantasy, but this would be a far-reach even if they worked round the clock “Total Home Makeover” style.
Eight days! Exactly! So silly. Seattle Grace would have had to have had extra space and all kinds of equipment and supplies available, but no, Izzy is whining about how much everything cost. Even deciding on protocols and paperwork and everything else takes months or years.
I was pissed that Ellis Bitch-Ass went back under before Meredith told her to fuck off and that she wouldn’t be seeing her again. Oh wait, Meredith would never do that. :mad:
And Burke and Cristina giggling with joy? They are so filled with angst all the time that it came out of nowhere and felt very strange.
And to echo the above, after a bomb scare, code black, possible chemical warfare, wouldn’t they have quite a few haz-mat type suits available??
And I simply could not believe “You’re not moving in, are you?” Un-effing-believable.
I wish she had gotten something more painful and that she would be lucid for it. Something like bamboo under the fingernails. Asshole. I know people feel a family loyalty, but enough is enough. I’m tempted to write my father off for a lot less than the kind of crap Ellis pulled.
But in some sense her being sick has freed Meredith up to take it easy and dream a little, and not have that dragon breathing down her neck.
I loved this episode.
I thought Ellen Pompeo did an excellent acting job in this episode. She managed to look like a guilty teenager reluctantly talking to her mommy. The ineraction with the chief and Ellis Gray was very poignant.
Cally O’Malley made me laugh and then feel silly for not picking up on it earlier.
I wanted to clarify-- I thoroughly enjoyed this episode.
P.S. I gave up on this show being like any hospital in reality when the only punishment the residents got for their roll in stealing someone else’s heart was a time out in the corner and party planning duties.
My take on the suits - The suits they were in had battery-powered “air scrubbers” for the lack of a better word. Even if you pump oxygen in… it has to get out safely somehow. If there’s an exit for the oxygen, it has to be secure and one-way so that the toxin can’t get into the suit. Since such suits are used so rarely, they hadn’t been charged for a while, or somebody was slacking and didn’t charge them. Hence… drama.
And yeah… 8 days my foot! You couldn’t get authorization to re-paint the sign outside the door in less that 4 to 6 weeks!.
If just breathing the fumes from toxic lady’s blood would cause everyone else to keel over, why was she still alive and kicking, lying in the toxin-impregnated OR? Because she didn’t have a mask over her face. Aargh! Why do I look for even plausibility in the medical stuff in this show? Who am I kidding? I watch it for the man candy. And Bailey.
So ignoring all that medical silliness, I thought this was a good episode – terrific acting, lots of good laughs. The way Alex and Addison were giving each other the eye was classic. He only kissed her because she’s his boss, my foot!
She was intubated. When you’re intubated the sole source of oxygen to your lungs is what comes through that tube. It’s blocking your throat. I mean, there was lots of silliness in this week’s ep, but this isn’t one of them.
Overall I liked it though. I’d loved Bailey going from Nazi to mom in 10 seconds flat with the little girl.
Yeah, the 8 day Grand Opening definitely stretched the limits of incredulity. Other than having an outlet for the $8m, I do not get the free clinic thing. They wouldn’t staff it with surgical interns, they wouldn’t try to steal paying customers from the E.R., they…oh never mind. Stupid writing.
Another freakish case shows up at Seattle Grace. Sigh.
I did like the interplay between Christine and Ellis. Christine was not happy with her own reflection. I liked how Addy didn’t immediately hop into bed with Alex. Having 3 interns involved with their residents is just too ridiculous for words. I guess Mark and Izzy are next up.
I like Cally. I think Izzy has acted like a bitch lately and wish she’d go away.