Am I the only one who has noticed that Derek Shepard is always bitchy to Meredith? He snapped at her this ep, as he does in all of them. For someone who’s supposed to be madly in love with her, he’s awfully hard on her. No surprise considering what she grew up dealing with, I guess. These days, I find him harder to take than her, as a character.
Loved the moment after Christina said yes to Burke. Very cute.
I guess she’s changed, though, because her character at the beginning of the show wouldn’t have cared about “having both” a brilliant career and a personal life. I like her and Burke as an interesting couple, but I don’t see the relationship as life-changing for her to re-evaluate her goals. 
Sloan explained this just before they went in. The limiting factor was the batteries for the scrubber. They had an estimated life of 30 minutes. Burke and Shepperd were in the OR for 32+ minutes. They didn’t breathe the toxic blood gases, they were breathing air with too-high CO2 for humans. That’s what knocked them out - oxygen depravation.
It wasn’t 8 days. They made a point of saying more than once that eight months had passed.
Nah, it was 8 days. Don’t believe me? Check out TWoP’s recaplet. Or check out this link.
“Can you believe it? Eight days and eight millions dollars!”
Why, no, I can’t believe it! 
Besides, George and Callie had run away to Vegas between last ep and this, and it wouldn’t have taken them eight months to elope. And Cristina was still mulling over Burke’s proposal.
And the “who is going to be the next Chief of Surgery” plot was still bubbling along merrily.
I also don’t think that two marriage proposals would have sat for 8 months.
He snapped at her because this is the beginning of the next twist in their plot. He took what Meredith’s mom said to him about ruining her or whatever it was to heart and now he’s going to reject her for her own good. Or at least because he’ll think it’s for her own good. Of course, rather than just discuss it with her, he’ll be frosty to her and cut her off or something and then we’ll go through all that angst.
And I read the writer’s blog and it seems everybody else heard days, not months. Maybe it was my unwilling suspension of belief that kicked in. This was way worse than the ‘freak-of-the-week’ in that case. I hate it when shows I like start circling the drain.
Oh, I freakin’ hope not. I really hate that particular plot technique in these dramas, where one person has to bust up a perfectly good relationship because s/he has the sense that they are wrong for their beloved, and are really doing them a favor by ending it. There aren’t enough :rolleyes: s for this.
Though I think you are being generous to old McDreamy here, who I think is actually just kind of a jerk after all. His continued overall bitchiness is making me have sympathy for Addison, which I didn’t think was possible.
Yup it was 8 days.
The interns have been on the job less than a year. I think it’s actually only been 9 or 10 months, yet somehow Bailey carried a baby to term last season. There are no calendars in Shondaland.
I don’t see Derek cutting Mer off for her own good. He already did that in the Finn plot. And he’s told her he will always show up. I don’t think they’ll go there again. I hope not anyway. Are you listening Shonda?
How is this show “circling the drain”? It’s a soap opera, they’ve always been vague about how time passes on this show, and the patients (those that survive) make remarkably quick recoveries (New Spine girl walking the next day is just the first example to come to mind).
As for the relationships, that’s what this show is about. So they are overly dramatic, the characters are unrealistically self-centered, and no one in a million years who is smart enough to be a surgeon would ever risk their positions and careers the way these people do on a weekly basis. (with the exception of RL astronauts or rocket scientists)
Honey even with the distorted way that time passes in this show, the interns have been at Seattle Grace for more than 8 or 9 months. Closer to two years, I think. Meredith told Ellis that she went to Europe for a two month trip and then med school over five years ago. Definitely more than a year, but probably less than two. But not by much.
Doesn’t an internship last only one year? And I believe Shonda has also said (I don’t have a cite) that it’s been less than a year. It’s also why we didn’t get a Thanksgiving or holiday episode this season, since the writers want it to seem like a year hasn’t passed yet. Plus, if Addison and Mark’s baby would have been born in the episode before last then it couldn’t have been a year yet, since the baby was conceived when they were both still in New York.
Sorry, I found the source. From January 12, 2007-Krista Vernoff
From the Grey’swriters
And here’s Shoda’s quote
I stand corrected. Thanks for the clarification (and the confirmation that time, at Seattle Grace, doesn’t move like it does in the rest of the universe.)
Watching a Roseanne from 1996 last night, I realized that the actor playing one of Dan’s drywall buddies is now the Chief on Grey’s (James Pickens, Jr.). If it weren’t for his voice I never would have known him–much slimmer with a full head of brown hair, and heavier glasses.
That’s cool. He also played FBI Deputy Director Kersh on the X-Files.
*That’s *where I know him from! It’s been bugging me, but not enough to actually look it up.