Their selfishness and “look at me” attitudes are what define them. And are the basis (caution - mangled English phrase) for their collective growth since the first episode. Compared to the first couple of episodes of the show, these people are warm caring individuals now.
When I saw the ex-married couple running the Oceanside Clinic, I thought, “Great, here’s another smooth-running organization that’ll be all screwed up after the white people get hired - just like Seattle Grace.” But then we met all the other doctors, and I knew it wasn’t so. I think this new show has potential, but they sure as hell crammed a lot of exposition into the epsiode.
And did anyone else get thrown out of the moment during Amy Brenneman and Tin Daly’s scene together? I kept thinking that it was odd that they were dancing around having sex together when Amy was the daughter of his sister (Tyne Daly, Judgng Amy.)
Oh yeah, killing off Meredith’s stepmom - bad idea. Real bad idea. I think that this may be defined later in the show’s run as when the shark was jumped.
Seriously, though, so many awful, selfish assholes on this show, it makes a grumpy, rude girl like Christina seem like a saint by comparison. At least you could trust her alone in a room with your husband. Or your patient.
I found Brennemen’s character very annoying. It seems rather stereotypical to have the psychologist (or whatever she was) as the most emotionally messed up one of the bunch.
Tim Daly’s sister Tyne played Amy Brenneman’s mother on Judging Amy. Tyne is only about ten or fifteen years or so (I guess - not looking it up) older than Tim. I was getting images from one show bleeding into the other. Sorry for the confusion. (It made perfect sense in my head.)
Kate Walsh is getting a spin-off show so this is our chance to get hooked on that. I actually liked those parts a lot better and didn’t mind leaving the youngsters’ parts for er. I think Tim Daly is getting hotter the older he gets and he makes a nice boy toy for Addison. Certainly nicer than McSteamy. I can almost see myself not watching Grey’s and switching to the new one. After all, there’s no Izzy.
I thought I misheard that line, ASAKMOTSD. Glad I’m not going deaf yet.
I’m looking forward to seeing it again tonight. The GF couldn’t stay awake for the whole thing, and missed most of the second hour.
As for Cristina & Burke, I think it was all explained nicely by Burke to his mom. Cristina hates change, and relies on Burke to chart their course. She may gripe, but she she appreciates that Burke takes over those things for them. Because she is emotinally incapable of initiating them herself. And she only started doing the whole bridesmaid thing because her mother intimidated her into doing it. Cristina’s self-centeredness and focus to be the best surgeon, to the exclusion of everything else including developing social skills, is rooted in the time she watched her father slowly bleed to death when she was a tyke.
Thanks for the reminder! I was switching back and forth from NBC and missed all the drama back at Seattle Grace. Yay! I get to catch it anyway, and then a new Law & Order.
Meh on the new characters, too. Looks like the spinoff will be a home for actors whose highly touted shows last season didn’t make it. I didn’t connect with any of them because they were trying to give too much background too quickly.
I didn’t like how the writers wwere trying too hard to make the show cutesy. The 5 til 1 surfer guy break was a complete ripoff from the Diet Coke commercial a decade ago. Except the guy on the Diet Coke commercials had more than six pack abs. Three forty something women drooling after what looked like a teenager made me go Yuck. Give me Tye Diggs or Tim Daly anyday.
Thatcher hitting Meredith - of course misplaced, but if my beloved died from what I’d been assured was a routine and simple procedure I can see myself having difficulty processing my emotions and lashing out at whoever’s nearby. To me, Meredith’s behavior was far worse. I have no first hand knowledge, but I’d bet there are doctors who had to tell waiting folks that their loved one didn’t make it who have been slapped and otherwise abused. And I’d further bet that they didn’t walk away and leave the devastated guy all alone in the waiting room. Even if he was a crappy dad, he’s still a person…Meredith is an unappealing self-absorbed character. It would not make me sad if Derek dumped her. I wonder if she’ll end up sleeping with Sloane.
Was it realistic that Meredith would have been allowed to scrub in on her own fake Mommy’s surgery? Don’t know why I’m asking about realism related to this show. The things I wish were realistic (interpersonal relationships, and real consequences - especially for felonies) aren’t at all. The things I wish were merely implied (surgeries!) are shown in disturbingle accurate detail.
What was Derek’s deal at the end?
How tall a building IS Seattle Grace? From the exterior shots I can remember I’d guess six or seven stories. Why then, does it take so long for every elevator ride? And how is it that no one ever needs to get on at the 4th or 3rd floors smack in the middle of a poignant elevator scene?
Whatever happened to Alex and Izzie? Not that I support that notion anymore because Izzie has become irredeemable in my eyes. Isn’t Mercy West still in Seattle? they can still be friends. Callie’s character could be utilized in ways that are so much more interesting than “suspicious wife”. The wedding nonsense is just irritating. And yet…I will watch new episodes as they become available on the ABC site because somehow if I watch it online and not on TV it’s less of a waste of time.
on to the mess in LA -
I’m grateful that there was a tiny acknowledgement that doctors cannot just traipse into whatever hospital is close by and practice medicine. That was something that bugged me when Addison and Sloane first showed up.
Even if the office is a block from the beach I think most people in a medical office would wear a shirt and shoes as they crossed the lobby to head out for lunch break surfing. And it seems to me that if any of those women were aware that the three male doctors in that practice congrated for a daily leer, particularly at a woman as young as that surfer, they’d be shocked and apalled.
Are we supposed to be rooting for the Taye Diggs character to get back together with his wife, or have a fling with Addison?
Lashing out doesn’t equal slapping your estranged daughter in the face in front of all her colleagues. That’s just evil.
I don’t think doctors should expect to be assaulted, definitely not by their own fathers. And no, she didn’t leave Thatcher alone. Several of her colleagues were there, including Derek. Meredith decided to be the one to break it to him, and she was obviously distraught over it as well. I think you’re being pretty unfair to Meredith.
He is the one who didn’t treat HER like a person. He dumped her when Ellis dumped him. She overcame her reticence in dealing with him for the sake of her stepmom, who then she lost right after losing her own mother. What does Thatcher do? Slaps her. No way did she deserve that.
Whether Meredith is or isn’t too good for either of them seems to have little bearing on how the show will portray any of them. I respectfully agree to disagree with your take on the Meredith/Thatcher interaction this week. Meredith seemed most interesting to me when she and Derek weren’t together - did Sam and Diane teach us nothing? If the writers do in fact break them up perhaps she’ll become more interesting once again.
Mark Sloane as altruistic “if you love something set it free” guy doesn’t seem true to the character at all.
I don’t think George would cheat on his wife, even if drunk. And the sudden George and Izzie as soulmates seems fabricated.
I get the friend thing. I don’t get the sudden “We can’t keep our hands off each other” thing. There wasn’t even so much as a lingering glance or a wistful stare before then.
I always assumed that Addy would be taking a good percentage of Grey’s staff with her, including George and Cally after George’s latest decision to leave Seattle Grace. Looks like that’s not going to happen. Seems to me that they need some fresh blood on Grey’s because soon it’s going to start turning into Melrose Place where every man has slept with every woman on the show.
Why, when it’s been established that Addison left a thriving practice, and owns real estate there, and has family on the east coast, isthe spinoff not set in NYC?
I thought the whole 60 day McSteamy pact was setting Addison and Mark to go back to New York where he would try and be what she wanted and be tempted by a whole different crew of interns.
Amen on the Melrose Place observation. Is it not possible for anyone at Seattle Grace to date anyone who doens’t work there? (or is a patient).
The spinoff isn’t set in NYC because that would require all of the Grey’s producers to start shooting over there and find yet another set of L.A. locations that look like NYC and we’re running out of them here with all the “CSI:NY” and “Heroes” stuff filmed out here.
I wonder where the receptionist at the medical center in Santa Monica goes surfing at lunchtime, since they usually don’t let you surf at Santa Monica Beach in the middle of the day.
Now, now Meredith DID have a steamy relationship with that hot vet guy. Except it wasn’t particularly steamy. And Chris O’Donnell wasn’t particularly hot. And when Meredith had to choose between the two men, the only person hanging on the edge of their seat was, well okay I lied. No one was hanging on the edge of their seat.
In fact, I think the great decline of the show began with the vet. Or maybe it was Denny.
I think they have to keep the tension in the Mer/McDreamy relationship somehow, and they’re doing it by having him continue to be a vacillating dick who is looking for reasons to leave her. Don’t forget he didn’t tell her he was married, then called her a whore. I don’t know why she bothers with him. Maybe it’s the hair.
Did you really think she deserved to be hit by him or blamed by him for his wife dying? That went beyond the normal “patient hates doctor for not saving his loved one.” I think Thatcher actively resents Meredith and has been unkind to her before. Susan was the only thing bringing them together. I hope she gives up on it for good now.
I agree and I think the writers do too, since they keep manufacturing problems there.
Also agree with the above two statements. The George/Izzy thing seems like total bullshit, out of the blue, contrived drama.
See what I mean when I say all these jerks make Christina look good by comparison? What’s snarkiness and lack of social graces compared to these people’s flaws?
