Oh, and...




KABOOM

Is it just me, or is Christina Ricci aging backwards like Mork from Ork?

Good call.

Astounded they were able to redeem her character by the end. Nicely nicely.

Wow, this was the second ABC show I've seen in about a year where somebody just randomly blew up....

... And I laughed my ass off. I'm going to hell right?

Yeah, but not for that.

i've been watching grey's anatomy since day one. i hope that it doesn't start to suck now that millions of people think it's all about "code black".

patrick dempsey should win an award for comeback of the century. seriously, he's hotter now than he was in the 80's.

I mean, he went from totally geek, to totally chic!






can't even claim that one as my own. still, it killed me mid-show.

what was that whole 'code black' thing about? ebola? or hamsters?

More proof that we share a brain.



I love this show and last night's episode was really good. I literally jumped when that guy done blowed up. I loved the fact that George was the one to help Dr Bailey in labor and that he motivated her to stay in the hospital and not go home.

Exploding chickens with the bird flu




Amen to that. She looks likes she's all set to do Adams Family 3

By the way, who ended up blowing up?

Christina Ricci was on Grey's Anatomy? Has she sunk that low or is this show just that big of a deal?

Just a guest appearance. Celebs do that kind of shit all the time

that would be 'code gere'

Yeah, I just think Grey's Anatomy is below most good film actors. I mean, Patrick Dempsey is the star of it, fer chrissakes!

I got suckered into watching it after the super bowl and regretted it. I'll never watch it again.

i've been watching it since season one as well... i haven't really liked the past two episodes with the whole code black thing... but i fuckin' love Izzie... shes pretty fine.

I saw this for the first time today when someone brought a tape of last night's episode into work. I could see myself getting into this if I actually watched TV, which I really don't anymore.

I'd never watched it before that episode. By the end I was groaning out loud that they did NOT have to climax ALL THREE of their storylines simultaneously. And the *juxtaposition of life and death* theme with Bailey was causing me grief. Lots of plotholes. Still, good enough that I had to come back to finish watching the second part.

IT WAS CHR. RICCI?! Thank you...that had been bugging me!

I think I'll avoid being "hooked" by not watching again.

I didn't know that they let 40-somethings be interns until I saw this show (Grey). I'm 3 out of 10 curious about the backstory there.

Note to SOMB: CopyrightQ is not a fan of simultaneous climaxing. Go figure.

BWA HA HA!!!!!

First post-kaboom episode tonight. I just realized I'm excited by this. Kill me now.

so, did you watch it, or what?

it's not as dramatic as code black, but it's still entertaining.

catching up with it tonight. celebrating because it looks like i'm employed again as of tomorrow.

awesome! i knew you wouldn't stay unemployed for long.

Thanks--that makes one of us.

Congrats Slackmo.

Since you didn't see the episode yet I won't post any spoilers. All I will say is Meredith is a beyeotch.

I dont know what I think about last nights episode yet... I like George, but... bleh.

I was forced to watch this last night...I dunno...pretty shitty.

Seen and, well...that crosses a pretty major line, doesn't it?

(Also, didn't Cleveland McSteamer look like the lost DiCaprio brother?)

Congrats on the mo money, Slack. What sort of gig will you be doing?

thanks.

Same kind of gig as always--freelance writing.

(Of course, the whole employed/unemployed thing is relative--gigs come and go all the time, I've just never gotten used to the time in between. I get into panic mode pretty fast, but the work always materializes. I'm off to knock wood.)

SPOILER WARNING: I will now discuss things that happened in last night's episode. Bacdafucup if you don't want to read them.








It was effective, but was that or was that not perhaps the harshest breakup speech in breakup speech history? Izzy's got some claws. Aye chihuahua.

And it was mercilessly predictable that they weren't about to kill off her dashing patient. Which is regrettable.

This thread has effectively rendered the "You know how I know you're gay" thread obsolete.

The thread that I could replace that with would be too much fun.

(for about five minutes--then i'd regret it beyond words.)

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I kept a running commentary tonight while I watched the episode:




Chris O'Donnell has the cheesiest mustache in the world.

Kelly in red skivvies is a good thing. Meredith & Izzy give catty a bad name.

McCrankyPants.

Nothing worse than bad southern accents. I'm rooting for the night's first patient to die.

George is working the new haircut, but could stand a step or two down from the Father Knows Best look.

Two bad southern accents. Kill me now. (And one of them evidently belongs to the snooty evil mom from Titanic.)

There's something plastic and inaccessible about Izzy (like a glassy thing about her gaze) and it hurts the show.

Look, there's only two possible outcomes for cro-mag ("Captain of The Vagina Squad"--noice): he become a good va-jay-jay doc or he gets bounced. And the show needs him, so that subplot is on autopilot.

Burke wears the eyeglasses that I used to wear. (I just saw a movie where he played the son of the guy who plays the chief surgeon.)

I was wondering what word George would use to tell the parents about their daughter's injuries. "Catastrophic" was a good choice. Kudos, writers.

A little heavy on the gore tonight. I hope this doesn't become a trend. That had a lot to do with why I bailed on ER. (That and Kellie Martin.)

No matter what Harold (of and-Kumar fame) says, I just keep thinking he got in the accident because he was high.

Denny finally gets a second dimension to his character, and he uses it to bitch-smack Izzy? Hardly. Damn you, writers.

When does Meredith get to tell McCrankyPants to fuck himself? Cause that needs to happen.

When does George get to tell Izzy and Meredith to fuck themselves? Cause that needs to happen.

George needs to be less of a little bitch. Jeebus.

The McCrankyPants reaction is the show jumping the shark. Right there. It's over. There's no way he takes that stance. We were pretty convince last week it was something else, and we should have been right. Meredith did a nice job on the smackdown, because it was in character. But he was not, and that's poison. There's a 50/50 he proves some extenuating circumstance next week.

This song over the end sequence is horrendous and crazy distracting. They can't all be gems, I guess.

Cro-mag's redemption was as hasty as it was predictable.

50 bucks says Meredith is about to have revenge-on-McCP sex.
Encouraged that O'Donnell may have learned how to act.
Oh, and I'll take that 50 bucks now.

Holy Crap! That was a good episode. Izzy is so on way to to prescribing Xanax to boozed up socialites who don't care if their "doctor" is disbarred.

Nice call. Here's a long winded way of arriving at the same conclusion.

The Grey's Anatomy Season Finale Part 1

Running diary again, stay away until you've seen the show:


No self-respecting guy (especially as competitive as these guys are) would throw darts that way. Better actors would've gotten this across while still seeming to AIM. Also, Patrick Dempsey is not convincing as an Angry Guy. Sorry, Loverboy.

George is too much of a pussy to stomach. $5 says Dr. Chubby Hottie breaks up with him either tonight or tomorrow. Cro-Mag is obnoxious but on-the-money, smartass-remark-wise. Those three women being catty has become the least appealing part of the show.

No way would McGrumpy let his hot wife see that he's steamed at Meredith. Again, the writers are taking short cuts. These first three minutes do not bode well.

The Latin-girl-who's-too-hot-for-her-chubby-pasty-white-boyfriend has to be a parallel for George & his girl, right? Maybe George will Learn A Valuable Lesson. We'll see. In any case, they're horrible actors.

Meredith refers to someone's leg as having problems owing to a GSW. That's an inane acronym. It's got too more syllables than actually saying the words "gun shot wound." If you do this kind of thing, please examine the jargon for logic.

The "Dip Your Balls In It" guy from The State is in here. Izzy speaks to him inappropriately.

No way does Burke shine Dr. Oh like that. Ground your conflict in believability, writers, you lazy hacks.

[Side note: Bailey was in Lone Star about sixty pounds ago, and was approaching cute.]

"You're very, very bitter" needed to happen. That was nice.

I love that the girl from Silence of the Lambs and Series 7 is the Burke rival. She is now officially the best actor on the show. It also means this show employs three bigger girls in key roles. That's healthy.

No way does Izzy throw the lying hissy. The writers have betrayed her character, what little there was of it.

Poor Dr. RedheadHotness, having to negotiate this stupidity.

It would be cool to see Izzy get canned. Or shot by the office gunman, who is evidently still at large, and obviously still on his way.

"She's braindead. There's nothing we can do now." You could add her to the writing staff.

Izzy wants to make Denny worse so he can get the heart? She's been watching too much House.

"That's not even the length of a decent kiss" is one of the worst lines I've heard on television. Ouch. Followed quickly by "what happens to me when you go into the light?"

Dr. RedheadHotness gives a rousing speech, and while it's effective, it's no "You don't get to call me a whore."

Addison gets hotter every week. Damn her.

Another crappy song for the end sequence. They're slipping.

Kelly just had the best moment of the night.

Harsh ending for Meredith, but especially for O'Donnell. Tough night to be a vet. Karma.

George is about to become an accessory to career suicide. No good.

And...right on cue...the inevitable ending.

Fucking autopilot.

It's all just setup for two hours tomorrow (tonight, I suppose), but hopefully they'll keep the serious tone high for the finale. It worked for the bomb squad episode.

just skimmed this thread hoping for a katherine heigl photo (preferably nude) to brighten my day. no such luck

here you go:

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sadly, that's the hottest thing i've seen all day

And, finally, the finale:



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Terrible group narrative opening. Not a good sign.

If George doesn't call a code, he's dead to me. Izzy makes the most unconvincing threat I've seen in a while.

"Page Shepherd" are not what you want to hear in that situation.

"Can we have a moment?" should only be answered by "fuck no." Major writing convenience move one. Weird place for non-funny comedy.

They work so hard to coin new terms on this show. I respect that, and while I dig "cashing in your v-card" is cool, no way do we get it from that character.

Now all four of these assholes are complicit in this incident. This should be the series finale. It won't be, but it should be.

Meredith is worthless here. Denny is not redeeming this situation. Everyone of the people who are involved in this should be fired. If they want to keep these characters around for next year, they better be working in a prison hospital in Guam.

Patients are related to the staff WAY too often.

All that for "we can't help who we fall in love with?" Bullshit. Plus the idea that these people will throw their lives over for love completely runs aground of the career-focused myopia they're notorious for.

How does "Do this for Izzy" accomplish anything? Wouldn't Alex want to f her over?

Why are these four participating in this nonsense? I can only attributing it to the self-loathing in each of them. It's mass career suicide.

It's not officially a prom sighting until some jackass shows up in top hat and tails. And a cane. And a cape. And a pimp cup.

Forgot about the chief's notorious infidelity. Have to catch up on Season 1 sometime. (Don't worry, I won't break those down for you.)

"What have you done with my suckups?" is pretty awesome, and needs to be excerpted.

Bailey needs to fire everyone and now. Let's see....

No. Some shouting, but nothing definitive.

I don't care how close he is to death--he might want to stow the charm right now. And finally, Bailey injects a little sanity.

Then with the chief, Bailey seems reluctant about the "severe consequences." I would've preferred a "hell, yeah" affirmation from her at that point.

Finally, a good song as Denny and Burke go into surgery.

[Commercial indicates that Parker Posey is on Boston Legal. Now I wish I'd kept up. God bless DVDs.]

Weird seeing Denny's heart in a bowl. Disgusting seeing the entry point of Burke's surgery.

"I'd rather be running towards somebody than running away" is execrable. They should be ashamed.

The George and Meredith moment was nice.

Another good song within five minutes. This first hour is wrapping up nicely. And it CLEARLY wasn't meant to be a two-parter. That hour one cliffhanger would've kept people coming back for another week. Must be a scheduling thing. Probably has more to do with the NBA playoffs than anything.

As a one-hour episode, it was one of the better ones, if only because it was mostly serious (their strength) and ended strong.

And now, HOUR TWO:


Denny's heart starts beating again.

This solidarity thing was odd, but a refreshing turn. I don't buy it, but it's ballsy.

Then, in five seconds, it goes back to Grey's Silly Anatomy, with prom lightheartedness, as if the previous two hours hadn't happened. Welcome to the laziest writers in television.

Callie's back, after being written out of the first hour. And she's surly, because she knows she's being written out of the show.
O'Donnell's back, with a new haircut, designed to make people remember it's Chris O'Donnell.
McWaffle's back on his wife's side again, ready to charm her.

Which means we're ignoring last night's ending. They'll get into it in the last five minutes.

Margaret Yang is becoming more human. Probably should've happened sooner, but better late than never. (But wow, the camera does not like her.)

Izzy's talking about having big boobs. This is false. I figured out who she looks like--every mannequin I've ever seen.

The Spanish Inquisition scene was bogus, but entertaining.

Denny had his teeth whitened.

Glad Burke is calling out Margaret Yang for her OR washout.

I can't believe vets have to be around people losing their pets everyday. This can't be healthy.

Izzy says yes. This is a death sentence for Denny.

The dog stuff was more endearing before they made it a metaphor for their relationship. I can't tell if the conversation is an insult to the dog, or to the relationship, or to both. Maybe it's just an insult to the audience.

The George-Callie square-off was solid. George is emerging as the all-star. He'll go alpha-dog if he ever stands up to the others.

All leading up to...The Adultery Special.

And the inevitable Denny's platter.

And then Callie both bonds with Meredith and gets leverage. She'll be around for a while. Shows what I know.

And they found someway to write Alex back in, which is nice because he was becoming irrelevant.

"An hour ago he was proposing" is unfortunate, because even as she's distressed, it calls the whole string of events into a weirdly technical light. You overcommunicate, I'll overanalyze.

Addison picks up on things way too quickly.

Meredith is gunning for an iota of integrity. Nice hanger moment.

I haven't finished watching last night's episode, but Izzy's freakout on Sunday made for some of the most uncomfortable television ever. I think the trailer trash in her is really starting to rear its little head.

watched this for the first time last night. sucked hard.

Well said. Be curious to see what you thought of how they "resolved" all this.



Not understanding the "writers don't use dialogue" thing, but yeah, the writing can be horrendous at times.



Considerations of last night's relative quality aside, most quasi-playful melodramatic serials don't really offer much pleasure in one-off form. It's all about charting progress. (or, more often, the lack thereof.)

Why do you watch a show you hate? So you can talk about who's porking who with your coworkers?

I don't remember saying I hate it. It has occasional flashes of tenderness, and humor, and brilliance, to the point where I feel that the only reason it's not consistently brilliant is apathy on part of the writers. It's a maddening, frustrating, thoroughly enjoyable experience.

I don't hate it, but I am growing tired of the extreme drama. Last season was fun and light-hearted. This season was just too heavy.

I watched the final episode yesterday and was so frustrated through the whole thing. Meredith fucking Sheperd was dumb, Christina's aversion to love is just getting old and Izzy - whoa. That character needs a little vacation. I do love that George is banging a somewhat chubby mexican, though. That's fun. Since I still love Chris O'Donnell (so what if he hasn't done anything good in like, ever), I want Meredith to end up with the vet. But, since this is high drama tv, I know that won't happen.

Even though I bitch about this past season, I will most definitely be watching it next season.