I like Alex fine, he’s pretty straightforward about who he is. I can’t stand Loretta Devine but I usually can’t stand her. I don’t know if it’s fair for her to demand that Richard resign. And what the hell is Finn thinking “throwing his hat into the ring”? Didn’t he have enough messed up crap with his wife dying? Why is he attracted to someone who is obvious about how messed-up she is?
Oh, and speaking of the red mist, did I hear it wrong or did Izzy and Meredith really talk about how Meredith felt when the bomb squad guy bit it? (I thought I heard them refer to “Billy” but the bomb squad guy was “Dylan”.) Because it’s the first time they even acknowledged that someone died that night!!
Alex is horrible! He looks like a rat! Also, he’s nowhere near good enough for Izzy which makes it even worse that he cheated on her. (Okay, no, it doesn’t, but it makes it more inexplicable.) Gah! He’s so loathesome!
Plus, he screwed Addison over with the off-the-record tubal ligation. That was the thing that pushed Alex into dead-to-me territory.
Meredith and Derek deserve each other, and should ride off into the sunset together, leaving this show to the characters that actually interest me.
Incidentally, is it just me or are most of the actresses on the show ridiculously attractive? I’ve met real-life doctors. Most of them don’t look like that. Furthermore, the dudes on the show are not nearly as good-looking as the ladies.
I so wish this show was called “Yang’s Anatomy”. Then again I guess that wouldn’t make a lot of sense would it?
Yeah, she’s easily my favorite character on the show. I even had a dream about her a few weeks ago.
You know where the rest of the amazingly attractive women end up? Forensic labs, missing persons departments and crisis negotiator teams. It’s just ridiculous to watch these shows and have them trot out perfect woman after perfect woman when you know it’s impossible.
Hmm. I will have to revisit my opinion of Alex. Perhaps I was blinded by his muscular arms and had some sympathy when he almost failed out.
gigi, there’s nothing wrong with liking Alex (loathesome as he is) better than Meredith. Alex is *meant * to be an ass. Whereas the writers would ask us to believe that Meredith is a wonderful, remarkable person who men would leave their *actually * remarkable spouses for, and fight over. They’ve certainly never given us a *reason * to believe this, but they still seem to expect it of us.
Actually, the only women I can think of that I find attractive are Izzy and Addison (stunning). To me, Christina is average(though Sandra’s performance adds about 50 pretty points) and Meredith is downright homely. When I think of the men, I can’t name one that isn’t handsome, including George.
I’d consider Alex downright ugly - he really has sort of a caveman look going on. And George is perhaps adorable, but he’s not handsome. Preston Burke and McDreamy are both okay, but nothing I’d lust over.
Izzy and Addison are both great-looking, but I’ve been assured by various straight men that Meredith and Christina are as well. So obviously opinions differ on the subject. (Although my father, who also watches the show, doesn’t think Addison is good-looking at all. He’s nuts, right?)
Nah, just different taste. For me, Ellen Pompeo is gorgeous, although Meredith’s character goes a long way to diminish that. And I would probably do insane things for Izzy, or Katherine Heigl herself. Sandra Oh isn’t exactly ugly, but I find her kind of funny-looking.
The redheaded actress who plays Olivia the nurse is cute, though…
Oh, & Addison is, well, she’s a redhead, so I like her, & she’s a cool character, but…
She’s one of those women who is simultaneously intimidatingly gorgeous & almost sort of mannish due to sheer skeletal development. So, yeah, I don’t think she’s quite my type, but I’ve grown to like her personality (& Kate Walsh’s) over time.
I think I’m forgetting something- whatever happened with that tubal litigation thing, anyway?
I can’t believe none of you failed to comment on what to me was the elephant in the living room in this episode – the whole ridiculous treatment (or, more accurately, non-treatment) of the plague thing. It’s treatable by antibiotics today – not only should George not have been freaking out over dying from it, but there is no way on the face of the earth that hospital staff would be prevented from going, adequately protectively garbed, into a room with a seriously ill patient who needs medical care. It really screwed up the whole episode for me because it was SUCH a huge glaring medical error – I can overlook a lot of little errors, but one this big? It just pissed me off, really interfered with my enjoyment of the whole episode.
Personally, I wish it was Bailey’s Anatomy. (But not her vajayjay!)
You’re right about different taste. Ellen Pompeo needs to eat all of the sandwiches her character was preparing in this episode.
Other random fact that was bugging my friend and I about this episode… in the “whose baby” story line, they say that the baby has type O blood (they actually say “OO,” I think, but that’s redundant since O is recessive, right?), and that if some of the girls had type A or B blood, they couldn’t be the mother. But that’s not true! They could have type A blood with a genotype of AO, and still have a child with type O blood, right? Or am I completely misremembering my high school biology?
We were remarking that maybe Meredith might be a bit less whiney if she weren’t starving all the time. Five, ten pounds would do wonders to that girl. I think she could be pretty, if she’d just look healthy.
No, you’re right, and I mentioned that as well, to my parents who were also watching. Mom replied that she’d read that often medical shows get things wrong. And at any rate, I don’t think there’s a way you could tell the exact genotype of a type A or B person, without knowing the blood types of their children or parents. My two type A parents have a type O child, anyway, so I know the show was wrong from that too.
I watch the show on and off. It gets on my nerves so I can’t watch it consistently.
Oh, I agree. She does have faintly masculine facial features. Strong chin, and so forth. Maybe that’s why I think she’s attractive, me not being into women and all . . . .
Okay, yeah, I noticed that one too. That’s a complaint with just about every medical show. When a complete amateur like me can spot the errors, that shows the medicine isn’t realistic. You don’t watch these shows for the medicine. (House has been so bad on the medical stuff this season that I’m starting to wonder if they fired their medical advisors.)
Add me to the list that thought “the plague? thats easily treatable these days”.
I don’t expect super-realism. But come on, couldn’t they make it ebola or something? (at least they could have said “It appears to be a drug resistant strain of the plague”)
Brian