I know there’s a thread about last Sunday’s show so if this is redundant, please feel free to amputate, Mods.
So, who thought this was the most contrived piece o’ drama they’ve seen since Terms of Endearment?
I know it sounds like I’m a hater but quite the opposite is true; I couldn’t take my eyes off it! It was replete with cheesy goodness and I loved hating it.
Here are my initial responses, appropriately hidden so as not to spoil for those who haven’t seen it yet…
[SPOILER] Izzy was really staring to work my nerves, yet as much as I was starting to tire of that storyline, when Denny finally died,it * my * heart broke.
The scenes with the individual residents talking with the chief was a stupid premise, yet all the actors turned in fine performances.
I nearly had a breakdown when they had to put Doc down. Why I didn’t leave the room, I don’t know.
The “prom” storyline? Holy crap, but what a colossally stupid idea. [/SPOILER]
That’s all I have for now. Tis too late to get me started. In spite of the criticisms listed above, I am hooked on this show!
I have only this to say about the show: my wife has been refusing to let me in the same room with her while she watches the show. Why? Because, oh, a couple of months ago, I started to refer to Denny as “Dead Meat Denny.”
I mean, my God, how could you not see that coming? He was doomed from the very beginning.
Well, I posted this in the other thread but I’ll repost it here and since other people have posted open spoilers, I am not boxing this.
The ending scene with McDreamy, Meredith and the Vet looked like a couple people trying to call a dog to see who it liked the most. I hope she walks away from both.
I think the only point to the whole prom thing was to have a little light fluff and to show that there isn’t anything Bailey can’t do. Can’t we just rename the show “Bailey’s Anatomy”?
I liked the prom. It was sweet. They got the teenagers and their reaction exactly right. They got the Chief and his reaction to his niece and her boyfriend exactly right.
Meredith made me cry twice. First with her monologue to the Chief when he’s interrogating her and she launches into his affair with her mother. (When did she find out?) The second time was when they were putting the doggy down. I had to go pull my twenty five pounds if he’s an ounce tom cat on my lap just to hug him.
Izzy made cry again when she was lying down next to Denny. Karev, too, when he was comforting her. Damn I knew they were going to kill Denny off but why couldn’t they wait until next season?
I’m so glad Burke’s not dead. Will he and Christina break up?
Sanda Oh was brilliant as usual. Her speech to the Chief was another bit of mesmerizing acting. They really let her character’s vulnerability show but not in the way I thought they would. I thought they have her be at Burke’s side all the time. Instead they showed her unable to cope with his shooting.
I’m really hating the McDreamy-Meredith romance right now. Geez, Derek just get a divorce already and get it over with. Stop hurting Addison like that.
The ending was the show’s only real serious weak point.
My dog is now 13 or 14. My ex had to put down his mother and brother in the last couple of years. I’m so not looking forward to that day, so scenes like that just kill me.
I’m not sure what that was supposed to be - but it was just creepy and wrong.
Denny’s dying, on the other hand, even though it’s been clearly visible from the moment he showed up, worked. I cried - I admit it, it got me. Yang & Burke also worked. Even the confessionals “which seems to be a theme in my life” worked. But the McDreamy storyline is just not good.
I wanted Denny to live just a little while longer. Just a little…
I knew Denny was doomed when he was all better and it was only 10:45. I mean, I knew he was doomed anyway, but I’d held on to some crazy hope until then. He had to die. What else was going to happen? When you think about it, Izzy got her fairytale ending. She fell in love with the perfect man, and he fell in love with her, and while they won’t live happily ever after (Although *he * kind of did. He died happy, anyway.), they’ll also never fall out of love. Bummer about the never having sex, though.
The more I think about it, the more I’m a bit irritated by the loose ends from Sunday’s episode. What happened to the brain dead girl and her parents? What about the restaurant manager? He got shot, and then we never heard about him again. They had two hours! They couldn’t have given us a tiny bit of closure on those things before everyone apparently left the wards unstaffed to go to the prom?
Putting in my impressions before I read the thread, so I won’t be influenced.
First: Grey’s Reality strikes again. It was so bad that I totally lost my suspension of disbelief and had to will myself into taking the show seriously. Time out? If nobody tells, nobody gets in trouble? We think we know what happened but without proof we can’t do anything? So, instead of criminal prosecution for the lot of you, youhave to throw a party? Pure and utter poppycock!
I was never so happy to see a sympathetic character die as I was when Denny flatlined. Sandra Oh does not deserve Burke while McDreamy and Dr. Whiny deserve each other. “What does it mean?” It means you are a philandering jerk.
And I must have missed something. Is Loretta Devine The Cheif’s sister or wife? I was totally confused on that score.
Loved George’s sexual aggression. At least there’s one relationship on this show worth something.
Now intern asshole gets to redeem himself. Maybe another chance with the over-the-top grieving Izzy, who, I cannot repeat enough, shouldn’t have been allowed to quit. She should have been put in jail.
Can;t wait untill next season!
I really hope you’re talking about your dog’s mother and brother.
LavenderBlue, Meredith found out about the Chief and her mother when she went to visit her mother and the Chief was there. The nurse said something to the effect of, “He’s here twice a week, and your mom always perks up when he comes.”
She peeked in the room and they were sitting close and holding hands, I think. There was a familiarity between them.
I’m also sick of the McDreamy thing. Wile E, I thought the same thing about the end - it was like two people with a claim to one dog, each calling it, hoping it will come to them.
I don’t think Burke and Chistina will break up. After she saw how devastated Izzy was by Denny’s death (and after Burke’s little speech about how he didn’t need her to take care of him), she went to him and saw him clenching his fist and working his fingers. She went to him and held his hand. Burke’s speech of not ‘needing’ her was almost something Christina would have said. She thought she could be this cold, detached surgeon, but she now realizes she needs him.
I loved the scene where the Chief’s wife reads him the riot act and he discovers that she has known all along about his affair with Meredith’s mom, and then the scene where he tells McDreamy about it. And the confessionals were great, especially Christina’s…so hard to judge expression with her, but when he told her he didn’t want to help her get her edge back because he didn’t want to be responsible for her becoming less human…that was good. And then when Meredith tells him that she also knows about the affair…he just knew he didn’t have a chance.
And as much as I don’t like Addison, I felt so bad for her at the prom when she realized what Mcdreamy and Meredith had been doing…it was such a quick, brief look, but she knows.
“Whenever Derek and Meredith commit adultery, God kills someone’s boyfriend.”
That was the only thing that kept going through my head at the end there.
Biggirl that was the Chief’s wife chaperoning their neice at the prom, and calling him out on all the crap she’s put up with over the years.
The individual interviews - if I was the chief, I’d fire the whole lot of them for being too screwed up to come near patients. But I missed what Alex said - the commercial ended too quick. What did he say?
Thank goodness! My husband kept switching to 24, so I missed stuff. Like the first 10 minutes. Which had me confused on how all the interns ended up in Denny’s room. And this scene.
Whoops, didn’t see the new thread, I posted this in the other one, but for the sake of continuity…
Meredith Gray is the most shallow and horrible person in the world. “Oh, the Vet has PLANS with me, don’t you see? Good. Let’s have sex now.”
She is an emotional cripple who can only express her feelings through a physical manifestation. Her blossoming nymphomania has more in common with a man who beats his wife than it does with a normal adult being torn between two emotional loves.
He did an analogy about being drafted to a football team. A bad, sucky football team that did everything wrong, but it was still your team. So you don’t talk to the media. . …
That bugged me, too. We found out that the guy who was supposed to get the new heart was a good guy with two kids, does he die? Does his family get to sue the hospital for his wrongful death? I thought maybe the shooter or obnoxious manager would end up as organ donors so the guy would still get a heart.
I was already annoyed about the dog stuff. I tried not to pay too much attention to the supposed vet medicine lest I get too annoyed about it. It’s a good thing I didn’t pay close attention because I just saw a comment elsewhere that he euthanized the dog with “phenobarbital”. A Pentobarbital solution is used for euthanasias. It would take a hell of a lot of pheno to kill a dog and would be rather costly. Then again Chris doesn’t ever seem to have any other clients so maybe he’s just not a good vet?
I’ve been debating mentioning this but was I the only one wondering if Meredith had anything running down her leg when she had to leave the room without her panties?
I was also annoyed we never saw the brain-dead pregnant girl again, or the evil manager.
I get the feeling the new season will start right where this one left off, so maybe they’ll be back.
