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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.
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Actually, it was a homemade bazooka.
Brian
See, that’s part of the problem of only seeing part 2 of the episode. I came in when they were in an operating room and someone’s hand was stuck inside the guy or something, and they couldn’t remove it or the guy would asplode. Or something like that. It’s kind of fuzzy since at the time I had no idea who any of the characters were so my memory of who was doing what is pretty hazy. Oh, I think that was also the episode where Bailey had her baby.
Well, if you saw the guy in the uniform last episode, he was the bomb disposal guy who the shell got handed to when it was removed from her and got blown up when he was carrying it to safety.
It bugged me how Meredith bonded with the guy, ended up splattered with his body shards when the bomb blew, and showed zero reaction after. It’s clear to me that the GA writers are intent on writing a ‘personality’ story and create events that will provide the suitable background for the characters to emote, react, whatever but that these last as long as the episode or as long as they’re necessary to provide some context to a few episodes but that’s it.
This isn’t a medical drama; it’s a drama that has medicine as background. Some of it is about ethics; much of it is about how screwed up people can be. I think the writers have served notice that expecting the backstory to be much more than window-dressing is a mistake.
That wasn’t a typo, it was a joke. http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/dictionary/asplode/
So it’s your fault!
Well, see, that’s the difference between men and (most) women. Men know their artillery.
Sorry I’m late to the party this week. I was in a flu-induced coma all weekend, but got better. Of course, had I been at Seattle Grace, I might have only napped for an hour or two.
I can’t believe, after two-an-a-half years of watching this show, that people are still griping about the medical inaccuracies of the show. Get with the program. QG has it right - it’s a show about screwed-up people that just happens to have a medical theme tying it all together. If you expect anything else, you’ve clearly missed the point of the show all this time. Relax, grab some popcorn, and watch the train wrecks like the rest of us. But please stop saying that the medicine sucks. Of course it does.
McDreamy: “How’s the girl with the bomb?”
George, I think: “Meredith. ::McDreamy’s eyes narrow and then widen, both sultrily.:: Meredith is the girl with the bomb.” ::McDreamy looks sultrily pained::
And women know better than to stand in front of the homemade bazooka to investigate why it didn’t shoot—BOOM/AHHHHH!
This episode is proof that people watched season nine of the X-Files. At least me and whoever wrote this episode did. A shameless ripoff of “Audrey Pauley,” this one.
Why were Denny and Bonnie unable to move on? Yeah, they were in love when they died, but if that was the only reason, there’d be a hell of a lot of ghosts wandering about.
My understanding was that they refused to accept their deaths (this is in accord with things the characters said in this episode but contradicts what the characters were saying in the episodes they died in). This is why Meredith was in danger - her chronic ambivalence in life carried over in her death where she refused to admit she had let herself drown and continued to deny or ignore the implications of being dead.
This episode, full of people showing care and concern over Meredith, made me realize how much I DON’T give a {beep} about her and her moonlike face.
The only part that touched me was Christina - I have a friend who is the love of my life, my Platonic Other Half, and I imagined what it would be like to walk into a hospital room with her lying cold and still. I would feel as if every leaf in the world had fallen from every tree.