Grey's Anatomy 5/14/09

Anyone else catch this? Not surprised it ended on a cliffhanger, although the nature of one half of the cliffhanger was a surprise to me. Any news on whether these actors are signed on for next season or not?

One thing I missed - why did “007” mean George?

George’s first surgery in an elevator, the other interns nicknamed him ‘007’ because he has a license to kill.(the patient)

What I have heard all season is that TR Knight, who plays George, definitely was leaving the show and that Katherine Heigl’s status was undetermined. So I knew George was leaving, but how it was done surprised me.

Wasn’t it specifically that he had two kills, as Bond needed to have to become 007?

I think George is definitely a goner, but as another poster said, Izzie might be back depending on contract negotiations.

I thought the finale was pretty boring until that last five minutes, which were pretty good.

I had heard TR Knight was leaving but had completely forgotten about it so the end was a bit of a shock to me. I stopped watching this season but I loved the show and decided to get back into it last couple of weeks.

I already knew I was going to need some tissues for the Izzy death scene that I was expecting, but when the information clicked for Meredith and she screamed George’s name I really got the punch they were going for. And then they spliced in the other episode that made me cry like a baby with Izzy getting on the elevator heading up to see Denny.

During the scene when Alex was yelling at Izzy, did anyone else notice a hint of text at the bottom? I believe it said “I hope this is my Emmy clip.” :slight_smile:

One of my favorite lines of the night (and I’m paraphrasing) is Bailey when they were planning the intervention and she gave everybody jobs and told Alex that his job was to hit him if nothing else worked because he had that “I grew up out back by the trash cans” thing.

Wasn’t Bailey working on Izzy? Can’t imagine what it will be like when she finds out about George.

I thought it was pretty good, but it bugged me how long the George reveal was dragged out since I figured it out about ten minutes after they brought the guy in. ER did the same thing with the guy who now plays Foreman on House.

That said, I can’t stand the actress who played Meredith, but she totally nailed the scene where she figures out who it is. That was like a punch to the gut.

I’m not surprised T. R. Knight is leaving - besides being the comic relief in the robot patient episode, he’s had nothing to work with this season.

I hated the whole Izzie thing - she’s gonna live! she’s gonna die! she’s gonna live, but she’ll be a vegetable! she’s alive, but she can’t remember anything new! her memory is working again! she’s dying! Christ, I wanted to smother her with a pillow by the end.

And to hell with Bailey. Her husband tells her he’s not willing to put up with another 2 years of horrible hours and her being an absent parent when she could take the job that lets them be a family again, and she kicks HIM to the curb? Screw her. I hope her husband gets full custody and she only sees her son on alternate weekends.

:smack: I didn’t see it coming but afterward I thought, ER did this ten years ago in an incredible way.

But I think I am done with the show. Not only did they have people stop in the middle of surgeries to make proclamations at one another, and discuss their sex lives, but

“Screw the DNR!!” ?!???!

Screw this show.

I swore when Izzie cut the LVAD wires that I’d never watch again…and yet I do

I didn’t catch on that it was George (in my defense I started watching the episodes later than my regular bedtime) and agree that Meredith figuring it out was well acted and directed.

Last week I was wishing that I could set my DVR to only record Owen and Cristina. Now I think I’m gonna hate what they’re doing with them.

I have no use for Callie and Arizona or Sloan and Lexie…feh

But if there’s a season six I will watch it…can’t say why

Can someone spoiler the ending please. I don’t watch the show, but I’m just a touch curious.

A John Doe who had been hit by a bus saving a girl came in and was understandably quite beaten up - simultaneously the Chief says he had sent George home early so he could get ready to ship out for the Army as a trauma surgeon. We had thought George would be working that day and the team was going to try to dissuade him from going. At that point, John Doe manages to communicate to Meredith that he is George.

He is on the table flatlining at the same time that Izzie, who seemed to be fine after her brain surgery and some temporary memory issues, also flatlines. The chief ignores her DNR and they all are working on her.

The last scene is a dreamlike version of Izzie in her pink prom dress in the elevator on the way to see Denny like in real life that time, and the doors open to show George in an Army uniform. Like their spirits have left their bodies, or something.

Also, Derek and Meredith didn’t have time to go get married at city hall like they planned, so they made vows in the break room.* Lexie and Mark are kind of broken up and he is buying a house on his own. Christina is able to tell Trauma Surgeon that she loves him, and says Yes to them being together. Arizona reveals her brother died in Iraq and she thinks George is a hero.

Bailey wants back in General Surgery but is going to break up with her husband anyway.
*As usual with one of those scenes, I was barking “Didn’t you say those same things about forever with Addison? How do either of you believe this stuff?”

The word you’re looking for is “spoil.”

Izzy, after apparently successful brain surgery to remove a tumor, lost consciousness. She had signed a DNR because there was risk that the surgery might make her a vegetable, so the doctors weren’t going to do anything at first. But Alex, who Izzy married last week, demanded they help her, so they began to work, but without immediate success.

George joined the Army after treating an Iraq War vet who was desparte to get back because he was helping people over there but felt useless back home. All the doctors were planning to try and talk him out of it later. Meanwhile, they brought in a John Doe who was beat all to shit after being dragged by a bus. He got hit after pushing a woman out of the way, and she was guilty because he sacrificed himself for her, even though she hadn’t paid him any attention when they were at the bus stop. It turns out the guy was George, which Meredith realized when he signed 007 (his sad sack nickname) into her palm. So they all took him into surgery, but he crashed too.

As the show ended, there were scenes of the various doctors struggling to save both George and Izzy, but we won’t find out what happened until next season.

–Cliffy

It wasn’t just some patient – it was their friend.

–Cliffy

Actually I’d meant “spoiler” as in “stick it in spoiler tags” just in case, but yeah, I guess it really wasn’t necessary to do so.

Huh, interesting ending.

After careful consideration, their friend signed a DNR because she really cared about her quality of life. If I came back to live a miserable existence because my friends disregarded my wishes and betrayed me, I’d hate them all.

Not only that, but the unconscious patient’s spouse & legal next of kin (Alex) was demanding they ignore the DNR. A case could be made that because she had regained consciousness and was mentally improving that her original reason for signing the DNR had in fact, not come true, and she would have revoked it if she’d had time. The eminently logical chief was probably thinking through the legalities - if honor the DNR and let her die, Alex may sue the hospital. If they ignore the DNR, and she dies anyway, no harm, no foul (you know what I mean). If they ignore the DNR and she makes a full recovery - who is going to argue with that? If they ignore the DNR and she winds up a vegetable - Izzie can’t sue, and Alex will have an awfully weak case since he was the one who demanded they ignore the DNR.

This makes more sense to me than “But she’s my friend!” does.

Yeah, I guess the chief was the one who let Izzie back after the LVAD wires thing, so I guess he’s not the best example of following protocol.

And I guess if she did end up on a vent, Alex could just get it pulled. Unless Izzie as Terri Schiavo is the next plot twist.

It’s actually a reference back to season 1. George was picked in the first episode as the new intern to do an appy with Burke, choked at a critical moment, and almost killed the patient.

Maybe. But the point of them being friends isn’t that they’re committed to doing what’s best for her, consequences be damned. The point is that they’re not thinking clearly.

–Cliffy

Point taken. But I can also understand the “screw this show” mentality. The idiots on Scrubs are more professional with respect to heir duties.