I actually like the fact that Meredith is a total fuck-up, that being gorgeous and a doctor doesn’t make her perfect or even really that cool, and she’'s the protagonist. It’s also realistic that McDreamy is kind of a dick, and everyone is miserable because they are screwed up, emotional wrecks. They are emotional wrecks in ways that I can believe and sympathize with.
Except Izzy. The writing for her has been not so hot this season.
Oh yeah, and if they kill off Meredith, I will gain so much respect for the writers of the show for having enormous brass ones. But it’ll never happen. I can’t believe anyone can speculate that it will with a straight face.
So, does anyone else wonder if the silent little girl is even real? It could be Meredith…but I’d like to think I’d recognize my 6 to 8-year-old self. hmm. Meredith is sort of dim, though, so maybe she isn’t that aware
I think last night’s episode is the first one I saw and I really wanted to know what would happen next.
This show is tilting on the edge of “Delete Season Pass,” but we’re hanging in there for now. Bailey is still worth watching, at least.
But I really wish they would have had her bitch slap the woman refusing surgery till they find her kid. “Woman, we have all the information to find him, and it won’t do him much good to get found only to have his mom dead!” It would be such a perfect thing for her character.
Speaking of, could someone reassure me that massive emergency management forces include some kind of “bring lost children here” area with social workers or something? Not that I think Grey’s is presenting a realistic account, it just brought up the question, and it’ll bug me now.
What a stupid episode. Attn. writers: There is plenty of drama in everyday life and everyday medicine; you don’t have to create unrealistic plot devices week after week after week because then you’ve turned your show into E.R.,
which made the same mistake.
I thought that the little blonde girl was a horrible actress.
I hate Izzy with a growing passion and wish that she’d take a permanent plunge into the Pacific.
I wish they’d give Derek more of a personality. He’s boring.
The only interesting characters on the whole show right now are Alex and Addy.
I agree with every point you posted except this one. I still like Bailey.
Three weeks long? Seriously?
At first I thought there would be hypothermia because Meredith put her jacket on the patient. THEN i remembered that Bailey told them to put their IDs on their jackets. So she’ll be unconscious and unidentified…or maybe there will be an amnesia plot. If there’s an amnesia plot I might (finally) keep my promise to myself to stop killing brain cells with this show. Who am I kidding - I’ve been lying to myself ever since last season when I called my sister to say “If Izzie is allowed to be a doctor after this I am never watching this show again!”
How can I like the characters as much as I do and hate the show so much?
Ya know, I kind of thought I had misrepresented my position almost as soon as I had posted. In the first season I liked the characters, most notably Drs Yang and Bailey. Throughout the second season I thought on more than one occasion that somone in the show was behaving “out of character”, but I still liked the way they spoke and interacted. More than once I’ve said it seemed like there was one set of writers writing dialog and a different set developing stories, and that the story writers didn’t really know the characters that I liked in season 1.
a more accurate statement would be that I used to like (and in some cases love) the characters but hated things like the 2 people impaled by one girder and the whole bomb thing. Now I hate ridiculous cases, exagerated disasters and gore, AND hate what they’ve done to once good characters. I think I keep watching in hopes that whoever was responsible for the early goodness will have come back and sorted out this mess. (Fix Izzie or send her on an exchange program far away!).
Isn’t that the definition of insanity: Keep watching a TV show that has grown progressively crappier expecting it to improve?
If they never find the girl’s mom and Derek and Meredith adopt her I think even I will be able to quit.
It’s an utterly different show from what it started as - it went from Season 1, with few episodes, no real expectations and little hype, a smaller cast, and frankly a much smaller scope, gradually up to ABC’s Biggest Show, the competition for CSI, that had to appeal to as many people as possible. To complicate everything, a lot of the initial storylines that were so integral to the characters were stuff that was, by nature, wrapped up after the first season and a half (or one normal season’s length of episodes).
In particular, I’m pretty sure ABC said something to the effect of “Desperate Housewives is the biggest thing we’ve got right now, make this show more like that!” around the beginning of Season 2. You can’t really argue with the efficacy, given how it’s grown, but I would argue that it’s been at the cost of a decrease in quality, not to mention a slight genre shift away from its initial comedy and off-the-wall-ness towards straight prime-time-soap.
Basically, it grew WAY past the show that got the initial 9 episode run, and I’m not sure the story writers really DO know the characters from Season 1 that well anymore. I mean, in Season 1, Bailey was telling Meredith pretty strongly that she should break up with Derek. At this point, if you’re an intern and you AREN’T sleeping with a resident, you’re behind the curve.
Wouldn’t it be extraordinarily unlikely that the little girl has no relatives who adopt her? How many single parents with no brothers or sisters or grandparents are there?
Well, um, BobT I don’t think it’s any more or less likely than violating all sorts of ethics, rules, and I imagine some laws, to steal a heart from another transplant patient and still be allowed to practice medicine. Gah!
Furthermore I don’t think it’s any more or less likely than 10 out of 12 major characters not being able to find someone to date who doesn’t work with them (and on the same shifts, too - how convenient!)
No, no. See - she won’t be able to speak because of the trauma so they won’t know who she is! So then Derek and Meredith adopt her and we have to deal with mute kid syndrome for a season or show. Then one day…
wait for it…
… ok, your choice between (a) or (b)…
(a) HER ADOPTIVE PARENTS SHOW UP! And we find out the girl is related to Izzy who gave her up for adoption when she was little! Serious tension ensues.
(b) Or she starts talking and suddenly knows her old address. And they take her back to her parents, who haven’t cared that she’s gone. And they beat her - that’s why she didn’t talk. So then Bailey and Meredith conspire to steal her back in the still of the night with the help of a good hearted, incredibly good looking, well meaning case worker love interest…
Kill me. Please God don’t let it go down this way. I mean I’m sure it will be equally hokey however it goes down, just so I didn’t think it up.
Oh, they’d never do that. What TV does is have them want to adopt the kid, and set their heart on it. And then, at the very last minute, they don’t get to adopt the kid because some relative surfaces. See also: Monk, Medical Investigation, Boston Public, Charmed, e.r. etc
The only time they get to keep the kid is if it’s part of the intitial set up of the series like Punky Brewster, The 4400 or The O.C.
Wait! I’ll do you one better! The little girl is an ALIEN! AND she is related to Izzy! As we all know, Izabel (they didn’t even change her name!) is the sister of Prince Maximilian, an alien on Roswell, and they came to earth disguised as humans so they can have teen angst and avoid being killed by their enemies on their homeworld.
All we need now is Jason Behr to show up as Dr. Max, the Alien surgeon with terminal brain cancer, (Spot that other TV show reference!) AKA Doctor McProbey.
Sorry to bump this thread, but I’m a few days behind on Tivo.
OK, so we have a massive disaster and Seattle Grace’s best & brightest are on the scene…and 2 of them are playing babysitter, instead of saving lives. :rolleyes:
But at least we actually get to see Meredith doing actual, you know, doctor stuff. Instead of just hanging around in the hallways and bitching.
And of course Yang & Burke couldn’t be happily engaged for more than a day…now they have to fight about who told who first. :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
