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Post by Leanne on Mar 13, 2009 3:30:54 GMT -5
www.buddytv.com/articles/greys-anatomy/greys-anatomy-episode-517-i-wi-26930.aspx4 page recap from Buddy Tv snip Meaning, it's raining and thundering outside, but if Grey's Anatomy were really trying to go for realism, it should be snowing. (We've gotten a really unusual amount of snow in Seattle this year.) Cristina (Sandra Oh) is at the hospital and sees Major McHottie (Kevin McKidd) taking a nap on a gurney in the hallway. She walks up to surprise him, but he wakes up with a start and throws her across the hallway into the shelves of supplies, resulting in a gash on her elbow. She doesn't take the accidental attack personally, aware of his PTSD. Instead, she reminisces to him about how once had a bad dream once and woke up pulling Meredith's hair. However, Major McHottie is spooked and spends the rest of the episode avoiding her, so as to protect her from his uncontrollable, war-learned violence.
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Post by Leanne on Mar 13, 2009 10:40:56 GMT -5
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Post by MarryMeOwen on Mar 13, 2009 10:49:52 GMT -5
war-learned violence? They obviously have no idea what PSTD is about.
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Post by Leanne on Mar 14, 2009 5:03:24 GMT -5
Grey's Anatomy' Aftergasm: Dr. Who? Friday, March 13, 2009 Last night's episode of Grey's Anatomy, I thought, was the best one in a long while that we've gotten from Shonda and Co. So much plot development happened, instead of a rehashing of the same old stuff. Izzie's (Katherine Heigl) Crazy Cancer finally has a diagnosis, giving her a five percent chance of survival after chemo. And Derek. Oh boy. If anyone ever had doubts about his mental health, I think last night's episode proved that he is most certainly NOT OK. But I'll get to that in a bit. My favorite part of the episode was probably the least consequential part. It was the introduction of Dr. Jim Nelson, the poor, mousy man who might be a solid surgeon, but just isn't sexy or flashy enough to get noticed by anyone. The fact that nobody even knows that Dr. Nelson exists is just another way in which Seattle Grace is exactly like high school. I didn't really get what the point was to introduce him. Was it to show how self-involved the main characters are? Yeah, I think we all know that. Mark (Eric Dane) seemed to be making progress in becoming more inclusive – he mused to Callie (Sara Ramirez) that just because the man doesn't have creepy, perfect hair like Derek's, doesn't mean that he's any less of a man – but the lesson didn't stick because by the end of the episode, Mark didn't even remember his name anymore. (The funniest part about Dr. Nelson is that the actor who played him wasn't even listed in the official ABC press release for this episode. It's kind of like, the creators of the show forgot about him too.) It bugged me a little bit that Callie found it amusing that Dr. Nelson is so invisible, always playing second fiddle to the Shepherd the Great. I seem to remember that she didn't like being excluded from Izzie and Meredith's cool clique during her unfortunate relationship with George (T.R. Knight). Maybe she was ostracized because of the bad karma she accrued from not noticing other pariah-types. In a way, however, I am glad that the episode didn't turn into an after-school special, kumbaya moment in which the doctors learned to appreciate all of God's creatures, big and small, without regard to their social status. It would have felt forced and clichéd and it would have given the main characters way too much credit. None of them is capable of seeing past their own specific melodrama of the moment to even notice anyone else around. Some people's melodramas are, of course, very serious. Like, Izzie's cancer, Meredith's verbally abusive relationship with Derek, and Cristina's relationship with a mentally unstable war veteran. Although it was disconcerting to me that Cristina (Sandra Oh) lied about how she cut her arm to hide the fact that Owen (Kevin McKidd) was responsible, I don't think that he is abusive. That said, however, if unintentionally hurting her like this isn't a wake-up call that he needs to get treatment for his PTSD, like, yesterday, then we might have a problem. As for MerDer, it was very difficult to watch Derek being verbally and emotionally abusive to Meredith (Ellen Pompeo). We've seen time and time again on Grey's Anatomy that when his life goes to pot, he lashes out at Meredith for no reason. He had no right to call her a whore when she slept with George, he had no right to b*tch her out when the clinical trial wasn't going well, and he certainly had no right to call her a lemon in last night's episode. She has come a long way toward becoming whole and healed, and while she is not there completely, at least she has admitted to herself, at Dr. Wyatt's urging, that she needs help. Admitting so was the first healthy thing she did, and it's something that Derek needs to do about himself as well. I'm guessing that we'll never see Dr. Nelson again, but given all the multitude of ways in which the cool doctors at the hospital are broken and unhealthy, maybe Richard (James Pickens Jr.) should consider hiring more people like him. www.buddytv.com/articles/greys-anatomy/greys-anatomy-aftergasm-dr-who-26965.aspxmmm I forgot about this Doc LOL but he was actually really good
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