Grey's Anatomy 2/22

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On preview DianaG has expressed my thought more succinctly and eloquently than I was about to.

It’s things like good people who STEAL ORGANS facing no consequences more serious than a turn in the time-out chair that make me wince. Or Burke, performing surgery when he wasn’t fit, and still being considered to succeed the Chief. (Never mind that the new Chief wouldn’t be chosen by the old Chief).

The characters were complex, now they’re just confused. Addison giving Mark a chance? Huh? The Addison of 2 weeks ago wouldn’t have considered it for even a fleeting second.

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OK, if we don’t get to drown Meredith, can we drown Izzie? Please? I’d be happy to hold her under.

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I agree, I think Grey’s jumped the shark or at least went very petty by dragging out a clinically dead star, then reviving her after meeting her mom in the afterlife. They also did a sh*tty job of givng back story of the dead people she saw on the other side and what they were actually trying to convey to Meredeth. I think I’ll watch CSI next week.

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Are you serious? At this point, this show is one of the simplest on TV. They’ve sucked all of the fun out of it, which is why I won’t be watching (or in these threads to bug you guys any more) after this week. They took characters who were actually interesting and with nuance, in Season 1, and turned them into soap opera caricatures. There’s a reason I compared it to Studio 60 earlier - the only reason it’s even THIS good is that a few of the acting performances are consistently outstanding (Sandra Oh being the most obvious, but they almost all have their high points at least once in a while). Other than that, last night’s episode marked a devolution to the point where I might as well have been watching Days Of Our Medical and Cliched Lives.

By your own way of saying it, no one on this show is acting remotely like an actual human at this point. Also, what DianaG said.

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Yeah; I hate to keep mentioning it but it’s still fresh; my brother had a heart attack and was under for a week, and took a full month to come back to being himself. And he didn’t even clinically die.

The dead guys’ eye candy scenes were nice; I love Denny when he looks earnest.

Izzy keeps harping on the O’Malley marriage: “Some piece of paper means anything?!?” when her marriage would have been made in heaven. :rolleyes: What did Denny see in her?!

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I think we are all blessed to have witnesses the miracle that is “Meredith’s rebirth”. After all, only a miracle could allow someone to be extubated after being essentially dead for 2+ hours and not need monitoring, neuro or cardiac ICU, or even a nurse or doctor nearby. Oh, right, there was a drunk intern in the room, making it a miracle that Yang did not kill her by accident.

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I think the reason they did this was just so they could show that Meredith already knew about her mom and they felt they had to have that “payoff” in the same episode and not 3 episodes later.

Okay, so her memories and speech is intact, but there is still time to give her some neurological problems or organ failure.
Here’s hoping. :smiley:

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The problem with this show right now is that you don’t have to have any medical training at all to know the medical stuff on the show is incredibly stupid.

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Listen, I don’t want to alarm anyone - but I think it’s clear where the writers are going on this show. Meredith dies, goes to purgatory, sees her mom on the way to heaven and comes back?! Meredith is going to convert and become a born-again Christian! I mean, think of the possibilities:

(1) It will put a strain on her relationship with Derek. Not to mention denying him the freshly living nookie - that will make for good TV! Plus, she can harp on and on about maybe moving the trailer closer to church. Ah, conflict!

(2) She and Christina can fight about it. They will pull apart giving us plenty of drama and opportunity for that big, season-ending reconciliation.

(3) She can get in trouble for trying to convert patients or foist her beliefs down their throat. I mean, how many gay patients have we had on this show, and the doctors have always been too professional to say “Sir, you have cancer. Of the soul.” (Please - don’t lynch me - satire. Satire.)

(4) We can finally have the big GA abortion special where we resolve the whole issue. I mean who doesn’t want to see Izzy, Christina, Meredith, Derek, Addison, Alex and the whole gang individually arguing and trying to counsel some poor girl who wants an abortion. Of course, Derek (as the neurosurgeon) would be the guy who gives abortions at Seattle Grace - so Meredith would threaten to break up with him if he did it. And the Chief can counsel him, “I gave plenty of abortions on my way to becoming chief.”

(5) She can convert Izzy - who’s clearly missing something in her life. Then they can stampede all over the free clinic handing out “literature.” Ah, a militant Christian Izzy. That sounds great.

(6) There are ample opportunities for her to condemn all the promiscuous sex-outside-of-marriage. 'Nuff said.

(7) There could be a new preacher / love interest - that would keep the triangle with Meredith + Derek + Other Guy alive. Or maybe we could bring back Chris O’ Donnell who she runs into AT CHURCH! OOOOooh, that’s good stuff.

(8) It would give Addison a good reason to go somewhere else and make her new spin-off.

(9) More biblical overtones to the voice-overs. Instead of Meredith piping “Miracles happen everyday. They’re all around us.” She could say something like “In the book of Job, the Lord writes ‘I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.’” Much more dramatic.

(10) Scores of opportunity for Bailey to say “Oh… hell no.”

Whaddayaguys think? Pull in more viewers from the Red States, no?

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Two things to improve your Grey’s Anatomy viewing experience:

  1. skip all “event” episodes, especially heavily promoted 3 episode arcs. This show is not ER, nor should it try to be. It’s much more enjoyable in single episode self contained doses.

  2. Imagine the glee if Dr. Cox from Scrubs was to guest star. :smiley:

Dr. Cox

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I like the way you think, and this is vaguely reminiscent of the latest Chick tract with the guy with heart problems.

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You do realize that you’re saying that a show that just featured talking dead people isn’t realistic enough? :stuck_out_tongue:

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Christ on a cracker, that was a pitiful episode. They could have killed off Meredith and made television history and set up some really great repercussion drama, but no. Not only did they miraculously save her, but I’ll bet she won’t even need a psychiatrist after, you know, after trying to commit suicide, now that she got a hug from her dead mom.

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Well, you lost me at first but any opportunities for #10 are fine by me.

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About the only good thing I can think to say about this episode is that the amnesiac pregnant lady’s makeup job was incredible. Her face made my skin crawl. Other than that…well, Grey’s is about to be put on the same list Lost is now on and that’s not a good thing. My list of shows I only watch to make fun of unless there’s something better to watch.

What’s happening to all my favorite shows?!? :confused:

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Simplistic? I’ll give you simplistic. I’ve seen 10 minutes of this show, EVER, before last night, and decided to watch out of curiosity. I correctly predicted everything that was going to happen, with absolutely no prior knowledge of the characters outside of what I’ve learned from commercials.

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Well I only really started to watch Grey’s Anatomy when the Gilmore Girls turned into a steaming pile of crap. I’m like the Ted McGinley of viewers. Somewhere in Hollywood there are writers saying “Uh oh, Gwen’s hooked. Quick have everyone act completetly out of character…and turn up the moaning chick soundtrack!” I liked Ed at the beginning too…hmph.

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The first episode I saw was the 2nd part of the one where…someone had a bomb inside them? I don’t remember it very well. My boyfriend was about to visit from Ohio, and had exams (he is in med school), so he had me TiVo his shows so he could watch them at my house. I just kind of kept watching after that sort of by momentum.

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Will George and Callie’s marriage work? Maybe yes, maybe no.
Will Addison end up with Alex or Mark or nobody? No idea.
Will Christina and Preston get married? Not a clue.

But will Meredith live? That’s not even a question. Ellen Pompeo is the star of the show - of course she’s going to live. What else are they going to do? Retitle the show Anatomy of Nobody in Particular? Even as I watched her drowning and then saw her being pronounced dead, the only thing I was wondering was how they were going to explain her still being alive after all this.

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Close enough. Two men were playing around with AK47’s and one dude (let’s call him “Cheney”) accidentally shot his friend. The ammo pierced the friend’s body, but for some odd reason, never exploded. Hence the equivalent of a bomb inside a body.

It was a perfect chance for the writers to kill off Meredith (or Christina Ricci, for that matter, either of which would have been highly satisfying), but instead they used it as yet another plot device so that McDreamy could lower his eyelids to half mast and talk in a sultry voice to Meredith. Another wasted opportunity for the GA writers.