This "week" on Grey's Anatomy, Grey's finally reaches a goal they have been shooting for all season. They surprise us! No, not with Izzie's illness or the fact that TR Knightly has a dramatic swan song in his near future, but our opening monologue is Grey free this week. We are treated to Alex telling us the crappy mentality of a surgeon as he watches over Izzie sleeping in the hospital.
Across town Torres gets the news that Izzie, the whore who slept with her husband and broke up her marriage, only to later dump him because the sex was bad, all before Torres became a lesbian, is dying.
In the same apartment, Yang and Major Redface lay in bed watching surgery. I can't imagine why they haven't had sex yet, this screams erotica. Yang falls asleep, so the Major turns off the lights and tries to follow suit. He drifts off watching the fan spin symbolically and the next thing we know he is literally strangling Yang. The scene gets scary and disturbing as Yang is ferociously fighting for her life, while the Major sleep strangles her. Torres, hearing the noise of Yang thrashing around like a banshee comes in and wakes the Major up. Yang flees to the bathroom hysterical.
The phone rings in Meredith's apartment waking her up. She sees the caller ID, and annoyed tells Yang that it better be good. When she gets the news from Torres she is adequately freaked out and rushes to Yang's apartment. Yang is still locked in the bathroom but lets Meredith in. Yang, who is calm now, assures Meredith that she's fine but has massive bruises on her neck. Meredith is ready to kill the Major who is now knocking on the door. Yang opens it, and the Major has scratches all over his neck. He cries and apologizes, and Yang tells him he was sleeping and that it's ok. She starts to hug and comfort him, because he is freaking out. Um...he's freaking out? Maybe Yang, the person who was almost murdered in her sleep by her boyfriend should be freaked out. Torres and Meredith seem to mirror my thoughts.
The whole opening was really disturbing. I'd make jokes about it, but it was too freaky.
Morning comes and a still scruffy but non-inebriated Derek comes downstairs. Without a word he puts a ring in front of Meredith. Well the timing for an engagement couldn't be better Derek. I mean, with Yang about to be sleep murdered and Izzie dying in the hospital....all of Grey's friends will be ready for a celebration! Grey says no, and then proceeds to talk to Derek like a child. She speaks very slowly and over enunciates that today is his first day at the hospital, and he has to operate on Izzy's brain and make it alllll better, and if he does, she'll get him a happy meal.
At the hospital Yang is filling out paperwork wearing the "I have a hickey on my neck" staple, or in this case the "I have massive bruises from my disturbed boyfriend on my neck"staple, the turtleneck. Grey tells her that the turtleneck looks ugly and that she has to deal with her sick boyfriend. Speaking of sick boyfriends, Alex isn't so sure that he wants Derek cutting into his girlfriend's head so soon after his complete meltdown. Can't really blame him on that one...I'm surprised that Izzie wants him to. Although neither of them saw him hit a family heirloom into the woods with a baseball bat or living in a trailer without showering, shaving or sobering for days.
The crew begins to head to Izzie's room to brief her, the residents and the surgeons on her case. As they head one way, George heads the other. Torres is surprised to see him going the other way, but since he was the last to know about her sickness he doesn't want to be involved. Way to make her dying all about you George. Outside of Izzie's room, Bailey stops the other three residents to remind them to be Izzie's friends today. She has enough doctors, so they need to be her support.
I know you guys are happy to be the only residents who aren't about to get fired off the show, but try not to rub it in. Katherine is supposed to be acting like she's dying...
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Comments (11)
"She reiterates that fact, when she tells everyone in the room that she is overseeing all of Izzie's surgeries and that they all now answer to her."
Izzie should have stopped her at that point, and said, "NO. You all answer to ME." Because everyone on this show forgets that the patients aren't lab rats...they're people who are suffering.
(Sorry...it's a sore point with me, having just watched the care my brother-in-law recieved while he was dying of cancer.)
1 of 11 | Posted by cattyfan | Posted on April 21, 2009 11:51 AM
I seem to remember from one of the earlier seasons that Izzie's family was trailer trash...Remember Izzie was a teenage mother and gave her daugher up for adoption. Sharon Lawrence is going to be on sometime in the next few weeks playing izzie's trashy mom.
2 of 11 | Posted by mariabird522 | Posted on April 21, 2009 7:26 PM
Does anyone else feel this way: I used to think the Major was hot, but now I just look at him and notice he has no eyebrows. Maybe it's from seeing his pearly whites--pecs that it.
3 of 11 | Posted by pixielated | Posted on April 21, 2009 9:23 PM
Odd coincidence, but I'm the wife of a an army doctor who was in Baghdad from 2005-2006. Yang handled the situation exactly the way I would have (including the sex part to make him feel better after almost killing her). I was pissed at Grey/Callie for treating the Major like he was going to lunge for Christina while he was awake. He's not a serial killer, people, he was having a flashback. I also love that she broke it off to force him to finally get help.
I was a lot more shocked that the writers spared us a long, irritating good-bye scene between Izzy and Denny, since the surgery would send him away for good.
4 of 11 | Posted by Emmyloo | Posted on April 22, 2009 6:30 AM
I found the strangling scene upsetting for the reasons others have stated, but also because I've lived my adult life with the effects of all that simplistic stereotyping of vets (in my case Vietnam) on TV and film - of us being loose cannons that could randomly go off at any time. I don't expect to benefit from my service, but I shouldn't have to hide it, as if I were some sort of sick pervert, either.
Semper Fi
5 of 11 | Posted by fire@will | Posted on April 22, 2009 9:44 AM
"I think they could've stressed how messed up he is from war without having this creepy strangling story. But that's just me."
It's entirely possible that they could've gone another direction to show how Owen's PTSD is really affecting him. But, I think that it had to be something as drastic as him nearly killing Christina during a flashback in order for her to break it off with him, thereby serving as the catalyst for him going to get help.
6 of 11 | Posted by crmsnkatt | Posted on April 22, 2009 10:21 AM
fire@will...may I say, very sincerely, thank you for your service.
7 of 11 | Posted by cattyfan | Posted on April 22, 2009 11:17 AM
cattyfan:
You may. (and thanks)
8 of 11 | Posted by fire@will | Posted on April 22, 2009 8:17 PM
these comments are too intense for my liking... I'm just glad Greys is back again I was literally going out of my mind. Any idea how they're gonna kill George off?
9 of 11 | Posted by nyla23 | Posted on April 23, 2009 4:21 AM
nyla23:
I envision Izzie needing some sort of crazy transplant..George, of course, will step up to the plate. Everyone will be concerned about Izzie obviously, but it will be George who dies, giving his life for Izzie.
10 of 11 | Posted by mariabird522 | Posted on April 23, 2009 4:49 PM
fire@will, I remember those days in the late '70s and early '80 when the killer on every cop or detective show became was always a Vietnam vet, either nuts or getting revenge for something, or both. It's appalling how little care and attention war veterans get without adding a stigma to having served your country in a war. Mental and physical trauma and illness is something to be treated, not ignored and/or stigmatized.
Anyhoo, I didn't realize George was going to die. I figured that Izzie either goes off to die somewhere, and he goes with her, or some variation on that. But maybe they will pull a thirtysomething and unexpectedly get killed in an accident just as Izzie gets the news that she is in remission. (I knew he was leaving, but I didn't know how.)
11 of 11 | Posted by pixielated | Posted on April 23, 2009 9:43 PM