Grey tries to re-approach the "I think your boyfriend is a psychopath, turtleneck wearer" conversation with Yang. Yang tells Grey that whatever war wounds he has, she has to accept them as if they were actual physical wounds. I understand that this is a little different than a woman who puts up and defends abuse...but it's still equally frustrating.
In other news, Sloan's patient starts to flat line much to her family's excitement, but they are able to revive her. They explain that they aren't total assholes who are praying for her to die, and it's not even that she has a lot of money they are waiting for. Apparently they have done this song and dance with her every month for a few years, and now they are all ready for her to just croak already.
After Owen's meltdown, Derek tries to comfort him that he's not crazy. Ah, I love when the pot calls the kettle black. It's like when I try to tell my friends they have drinking problems. Owen, not really interested in someone barely off the ledge trying to give him advice, tells Derek to look in the mirror and share those words of wisdom. In case you are counting, the number of Doctors who have reminded Derek that he's crazy before he cuts into Izzie's brain is now up too two.
Back in the on call room, Alex is trying muster up his swimmers in round two with the cup. The Chief stands outside knocking asking how he's doing. Well that'll kill the process of ejaculation. You know what will kill it even faster? After the Chief leaves, Grey barges right in. Alex may never get hard again. Grey tries to comfort Alex who starts to lose it. He doesn't understand why this is happening and insists that this isn't the way him and Izzie are supposed to have a future together. He's also pissed at himself for not realizing Izzie was sick when she told him about her hallucinations. I think it's great that Alex and Grey are talking about this openly and comforting each other, but um...maybe go talk and open up to the girl who is dying in a hospital room all by herself?!?
In the air vent room, the Major is collecting his thoughts and looking at the fan blades when he's interrupted by Christina. The Major tries to end things with Christina since he almost killed her with his bare hands, but Yang argues back. She's pissed that he doesn't believe her when she says that she'll tell him when enough is enough.
I'm mad.
In Izzie's room, she's still knitting her puke green scarf. Bailey asks who it's for and Izzie's answer is weighed down by her disappointment that nobody has come to visit her all day. Bailey, realizing she'll have to give another "why you are all terrible people" speech to the residents begins to talk to Izzie about one of her other patients. Bailey doesn't want Izzie to fall behind in her residency while she's undergoing treatment. There's the Bailey we grew to love!
Meanwhile a very nervous looking Derek prepares for Izzie's surgery. He looks like he's mentally walking through the steps of the procedure while reacquainting himself with his tools. It should be said, that Derek looks like total shit in this scene. I wouldn't be afraid of him cutting into my brain because he just had a breakdown, I'd be afraid of him cutting in to my brain because he looks like he just left Burning Man.
Karev, having successfully cumtributed to Izzie's eggs drops them off for the Chief. He didn't talk to Izzie about it, but his part is done.
The SuperFriends gather for lunch and all ask one another how Izzie is. Upon realizing that none of them have visited her all day, they all jump up to rush to her side. Kidding, they just go on living their life normally. Didn't this crew of sensitivity training rejects used to eat lunch in a room with a guy in a coma? They can't just go chill with their friend for lunch?
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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