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Post by Leanne on Feb 20, 2009 11:56:28 GMT -5
Speaking of which, things were a little awkward for Hunt and Cristina when Hunt refused to take sides in her feud with Campbell. Though Hunt, in what we're learning is typical Huntian fashion, sorta took Cristina's side when she wasn't looking by telling Campbell he'd been fired by the Army because they knew it was his time to go, even if he didn't at the time. He also, in supremely romantic Huntian fashion, later told Cristina that she'd been wrong in the way she handled the situation — but also that he hopes he'll be around in 40 years when she's Campbell's age. A dude who'll call her on her crap and profess lifelong love in the same breath? Sounds like Cristina's (and my) dream man. www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20260330,00.html 2 pages Ive snipped the Owen/Cris part
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Post by Leanne on Feb 20, 2009 13:54:04 GMT -5
'Grey's Anatomy': The arc ends: a fistfight and god talk By Lisa Todorovich February 19, 08:32 PM Technically, this episode of Grey's Anatomy was the end of the "crossover arc," but it was just pretty much Addison working on Derek's case and a lot of conversation about who was a god and when. Plus there's another freaky guest star. Spoilers ahead, but I'm going in laparoscopically... Fighting to save her: The centerpiece of the episode is Jen (Jennifer Westfeldt), the lovely pregnant patient who accidentally ran over her husband, Rob (Ben Shenkman) and turned out to have an aneurysm. Derek operated on her to repair it, nicked it, caused complications, she began having strokes and the baby got really sick. This week everything's getting fixed with a bypass, and a freaked-out Derek doesn't leave her side for days on end. Addison's there to watch the baby -- and Meredith and Karev do kind of a funny "my guy/your guy" banter. But as Jen's being wheeled away, Rob tells Addison to make no mistake: if it comes down to a choice between his wife and his baby, save Jen. There are complications this time too, which ends up pitching Addison, who wants to deliver the baby, and Derek, who wants to save them both, against each other. Addison totally hits the nail on the head when she turns to Meredith to try to figure out what's up with Derek. Jen makes it through surgery with preeclampsia, which Derek insanely wants to hide from Jen and Rob. She suffers another brain bleed and heads back into surgery, and Derek wants to take out the temporal lobe to try to get the swelling to go down. Holy moly. Addison wants to deliver the baby, but Derek argues she'll bleed out, and now he wants to take out her frontal lobe. You don't need to be a doctor to hear that and know it's a lost cause. Derek and Addison have an angry scalpel face-off, and she tells him he doesn't get to play God here. Hey, did you know surgeons have a God complex? They lose Jen but deliver the baby, who looks to be a strong 24 weeks. But Rob tears Derek apart, calling him a murderer. After this, Mark, who had been sucking up to Derek in preparation for telling him about dating Lexie, picks this moment of all moments to do it. Stupid. So Derek clocks him -- twice. And boy can Mark take a punch. And then we're supposed to believe that these two world-class surgeons would get into a knock-down fistfight in a public area in a hospital that would go on until one of them practically had a broken nose. No wonder Seattle Grace's ranking has fallen to 12. On the other hand, it's nice to see Derek with some frailties, and to note that it's not always Meredith who has to be the neurotic one. Cristina v. Campbell: Callie's working with a patient who fractured his ankle because he fell down some stairs after gallbladder surgery -- surgery that basically butterflied the guy rather than deal with the problem laparoscopically. When they find out that Dr. Margaret Campbell, an Ellis Grey-style old-school chick surgeon, did the operation, Callie and Cristina fill Owen in -- Cristina a little too vocally, because she's going on and on about Campbell's incompetence when she appears. And she's Faye Dunaway. Which would be enough to intimidate anyone. Campbell has her way of doing things, and given that Hunt seems to see her point of view, she takes a shine to him and bristles at Cristina. To her credit, though, Cristina doesn't back down, even if she takes it a little too far by going to the chief and all but accusing Ms. Crawford -- I mean, Dr. Campbell -- of being incompetent. All kidding aside, Dunaway's quite good, if intense, which is probably the mixed legacy of playing a particular part very well. In surgery to repair a mistake she made on the patient, Campbell puts Cristina through her paces to prove that there's more than one surgical technique, but in the end Cristina remains unbowed and Campbell decides to retire. After saying she was a god in the OR once. Owen, in his infinite patience with Cristina, points out her similarities to Campbell -- and throws in how he wants to be there with her 40 years from now when they're trying to pry the scalpel from her hands. Aw. Izzie and the Interns: And here we go. When the patient Izzie thought might have cancer comes back and gives her an earful, it becomes obvious that her test results got mixed up with Izzie's. I realize Sadie was a screw-up, but seriously, did she have to mess up everything she touched? Izzie loses it to Bailey about the interns' incompetence, and Bailey's retort -- that she felt the same way about Izzie's intern class -- was priceless. Clearly, Izzie's trying to deal with a hairy problem straight on, and I applaud her turning her own case into an exercise to teach the interns how to get competent. What I don't applaud is her inability to just go and get freakin' diagnosed by someone who knows what they're doing already. From the look on the dermatology resident's face when she brought the test results, we know it ain't good. Etc. Bailey chasing the chief's recommendation letter for her peds fellowship just felt like filler to me, even though it was obvious that he wasn't playing ball because he didn't want to lose his successor. Good for Bailey for telling him it's not up to her to fulfill his plans and hopes. George's word count: 79. Bailey was totally right to choose George to write her recommendation letter. I should be more frustrated with Callie, whose talking-it-out method of dealing with her issues and her adolescent search for affirmation from Mark really is pretty annoying. But I like that she's piecing it together bit by bit, and that she's feeling strong enough to get out there and make an ass of herself. And amen to Arizona for saying that it's not her job to help Callie grow up. Just something I noticed: Addison apparently travels with her scrub cap. I suppose there's a possibility that she might've scrubbed in on Archer's surgery, but as a gynecologist/obstetrician/pediatric surgeon, what are the odds? blog.zap2it.com/ithappenedlastnight/2009/02/greys-anatomy-the-arc-ends-with-a-fistfight-and-talk-of-gods.html
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Post by Leanne on Feb 20, 2009 13:54:55 GMT -5
By Dustin Christian: 2009-02-20 05:55:24 Tonight’s episode seems to be about not being able to let go and harassing the Chief over it. Derek cannot let go of the patient whose aneurysm he nicked lord knows how many episodes ago, The Chief can’t let go of his plans for Bailey being the next Chief, Sloane just can’t quit Lexie, Izzie can’t let go of her own craziness, and Faye Dunaway plays a surgeon who can’t let go of surgery. …with wacky results. Except not really. You’d think that after at least three episodes, I could remember this lady’s name, but I can’t. The pregnant lady who ran over her husband is still around and going under for what we hope is one more surgery to repair a bleed. The surgery takes so long that Addison is about to remove the baby to save its life, but Derek finishes just in time. The lady can talk normally again and everyone’s happy…for about five minutes, until she has another complication and they have to take her in again. This time, the only solution that Derek can think of is to remove parts of the woman’s brain while her baby slowly runs out of time. Things get incredibly tense with everyone questioning Derek’s judgement (the dude looks tired and out of it, but refuses to relinquish control) and Addison wanting to at least save the baby. Derek pretty much just tells everyone to kiss his ass and stay out of the way, so Addison sends Alex to get the Chief, who makes Derek let the patient go (she has almost no brain left anyway) and Addison save the baby. The husband, as one would expect, does not take the death of his wife, whom he was repeatedly told was undergoing routine procedures, well at all and calls Derek a murderer. Sloane is still trying to court Lexie, but she’s not budging on the no more secrets thing. She has a funny line about Sloane hiding in her attic while she sneaks him in and out of the house and brings him food makes him Anne Frank, not her boyfriend. Sloane finally relents and goes to tell Derek about his relationship with Izzie, but right after Derek was called a murderer is probably not the best time. Derek punches Sloane and they get into a very big fight, drawing blood and almost falling off of that little walkway thing. Sloane even sprains his arm from punching Derek so hard. Nobody dies, though, and both men end the day being nursed by their respective Greys. Bailey tries to gather recommendation letters to the board that decides who gets into the pediatrics program, but can’t seem to get the most important one – the Chief’s. When she finally does get his recommendation letter, she’s disappointed to find that it was a form letter full of noncommittal language. When she confronts him about this, he yells at her for abandoning him and his plan to make her the next him. Bailey takes no man’s crap, so she yells back at him about him not having the right to dictate her life or career. This is never really resolved since the Chief had to go break up the McRumble, but Addison writes a glowing recommendation for Bailey on her way out of town, which I suppose is just as good. I heard the name of Faye Dunaway’s character, and I remember that it started with a “C”, but that’s really all I can remember about the name, so let’s just call her Mommy Dearest, shall we? Excellent. So Callie, Yang, and McBadass are checking out a patient who fell down a flight of stairs shortly after an operation. Something about this confuses them all until they realize that the surgeon was Mommy Dearest, which apparently explains it all to Callie and Yang because Mommy Dearest is an old surgeon who apparently makes a lot of mistakes. Mommy Dearest overhears their exchange and verbally bitchslaps Yang as an inexperienced surgeon who knows nothing. She continuously asks McBadass questions to prove her point that new methods aren’t always the best. As Yang is running a CT scan, she finds a rather large mistake that Mommy Dearest made during her surgery and brings it up to the Chief (told you everyone’s running to him today!). The Chief explains the error to the patient and tells him that he has the right to choose another surgeon for the surgery to repair the mistake, but the patient still wants Mommy Dearest. During the surgery, the Chief scrubs in to observe, Yang and McBadass to assist. Mommy Dearest continues to trying to smack Yang down by quizzing her on how to perform a procedure if certain machines aren’t available. Yang admits that she hasn’t really thought about it, but the machines keep people from making the kind of mistakes that Mommy Dearest did. Mommy Dearest loses it and kicks Yang out. Later, McBadass makes a subtle comment that the Army essentially fired him (though they called it an honorable discharge) when his time as a military trauma surgeon was over, and he’s thankful to them. Mommy Dearest takes the point and decides to no longer do surgeries, though she makes it a point to praise Yang yet warn her that she’s just like Mommy Dearest. McBadass later makes the same point and says that he’ll probably have to pry the scalpel away from her in forty years. Yang nods and says “Out of my cold dead hands”. McBadass gives this bashful smile and says “You kinda missed the point – I want to be around in forty years.” And everyone goes “Awwwwwwwwww.” And my teeth ache. The woman that Sadie had to tell that she may have cancer a few episodes back comes back to tell Izzie that she had a million tests done and the only thing wrong with her is she has anemia. She suggests that Izzie find out whose lab results were mixed up with hers, because they think they only have anemia when they may have cancer. Izzie and I both remember that the lab results told her that Izzie only had anemia, so…. Izzie gives herself all kinds of exams, but can only really find a mole on her back. She has it removed and the dermatologist tries to reassure her that it’s nothing, but Izzie doesn’t seem reassured at all. She spends most of the rest of the episode berating the interns for knowing nothing and making stupid mistakes, but finally decides to use this as a learning experience. She gathers all of the interns into a lecture room, puts up her x-rays and whatnot, begins rattling off her own stats, and challenges them to figure out what’s wrong with her. www.cinemablend.com/television/TV-Recap-Grey-s-Anatomy-An-Honest-Mistake-15477.html
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Post by Leanne on Feb 20, 2009 13:56:20 GMT -5
On this episode of Grey's Anatomy, Derek battles it out with two of his colleagues, Cristina gets booted from the OR and the Chief writes a less-than-stellar recommendation for Bailey. Last week, Addison pleaded with Derek to "be a god" when operating on her brother and work a miracle to save his life. That operation was a success, but did the victory go to Derek's head? It certainly seemed that way as Derek feverishly continued to perform risky operations on pregnant patient Jen (Jennifer Westfeldt) this week. The first surgery was branded a success when it became clear Jen's proper speech patterns had been restored, but the celebration was cut short when Jen needed to be taken back to the OR for a follow-up procedure. The more Derek did in the second surgery to save Jen, the more he compromised her unborn baby, which resulted in a battle of the scalpels between Addison and Derek. Ultimately, Jen couldn't be saved, but for now it looks like her premature baby will survive. What I liked least about this scene was the way Addison kept pleading with Meredith to make Derek stop the surgery. I get that this was a power struggle, not only between two doctors, but also on a personal level as Derek is now "Meredith's guy/" But something about all of that melodrama just didn't compute for me. I will say, though, the fist fight between Derek and Mark this week was interesting to watch. Hopefully, these two won't continue to harbor ill will toward each other in the coming weeks, as they make the best comic duo on the show when they're on good terms with each other. Now, on to Dr. Campbell (Faye Dunaway), a staple doctor at Seattle Grace who only just surfaced for the first time. Apparently, it's well known around the hospital that Campbell rarely operates on patients anymore and has been branded by some (namely Cristina) as a dinosaur for her outdated surgical methods. This week Cristina spotted a major mistake in Campbell's most recent surgery and she wasn't shy about letting everyone (including the Chief) know about it. Eventually, Cristina found herself in the same OR with Campbell and a battle of the words ensued. Did anyone else envision flashbacks of Dunaway as Joan Crawford in Mommy Dearest when Campbell screamed at Cristina to "get out" of her OR? That scene alone was priceless! Unfortunately, now that Campbell has declared that surgery her last, it looks like she won't be back. On a lighter note this week, Bailey was earnestly seeking out letters of recommendation from just about anyone who was willing to write one. However, her main focus was the Chief, who managed to churn out only a form letter with bland statements suggesting she would be a "fine addition to any program." In the end, we learned that the Chief was miffed that Bailey was "abandoning" him by choosing pediatrics over the chance to succeed him at Seattle Grace. Of course, this news only infuriated Bailey who then went on to tell the Chief she is not his son and therefore, she should not be expected to follow in his footsteps! Having said that, I'm sure the Chief will take the time to rethink his letter and offer a revised recommendation. And even if he doesn't, Bailey still has the glowing letters from Addison and George in her pocket. In the "we totally saw this coming" file, the patient Sadie diagnosed with cancer a few weeks back re-entered Seattle Grace with the news that after thousands of dollars spent on further testing, all she really had was a case of anemia! Yep, sounds like Sadie did mislabel those vials of blood after all, which also means Izzie's future has taken an even darker turn. Now that Izzie has the interns working on her case, what will they find? Other notables for the week include the newfound knowledge that Owen was given an honorable discharge from the army and Arizona likes to call Callie by her full name, Calliope. www.tvguide.com/Episode-Recaps/greys-anatomy/Greys-Anatomy-Episode-1003095.aspx
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Post by ruralstar on Feb 22, 2009 17:18:09 GMT -5
Not new knowledge. Owen told Cristina in episode 6 that he was given a discharge. He never implied it was anything but honorable.
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