The willowy voice of Ellen Pompeo once again greeted us this week, telling us how surgeons must always prepare for the worst-case scenario, because the best just doesn't happen. Then again, the difference between a best-case scenario and a worst-case scenario is sometimes a matter of opinion. If you are Christina or Callie, does having your boyfriend propose marriage unexpectedly give you a worst-case scenario or a best-case scenario?
And even more strange, if you are Meredith, what do you say about your mother waking up? It's one thing if there were some medication or a surgery involved because then at least she could have been prepared. Instead, Meredith comes in to find out that her mother woke up, and challenging as it is to live with a family member who has such an aggressive form of Alzheimer's, it's not like Meredith's mother was that easy to live with in the first place. She was a great doctor, but it seemed like she left a path of destruction in the wake of anybody who tried to get close to her.
When Meredith meets her mom, we learn that she has a memory loss, but she only thinks that two months have passed. Ellis starts talking to Meredith, who she believes has flown off to Europe instead of going to medical school. One would think that she would be happy to hear that her daughter is now a surgical intern, but instead, she has some sort of seizure and is rushed to the hospital. It's almost as if they needed a convenient way for Meredith's now lucid mother to meet all of her friends and embarrass her. And think about Webber? Now that Adele has dissed him, will he decide to spend more time with Meredith's mother?
To me, it doesn't seem like it's a smart use of resources to put surgical residents and interns in the free clinic. Yes, they need volunteers, but if the surgeons are your best doctors, why put them there? It doesn't take a lot of intelligence to take somebody's temperature, tell them they have the flu and that they need to drink lots of water. I think a lot of the surgical interns were thinking the same thing when Bailey told them that they would all have to do their time in the clinic.
As for the attendings, they were for the most part still concerned about succeeding Dr. Webber as Chief of Surgery. I think it has to do with that rumor that Webber will bequeath his fine collection of Skittles-colored polo shirts to whoever takes his job. Burke and Shepherd have decided to take an aggressive approach by wowing Webber by planning purchases of increasingly exotic surgical equipment that will help with increasingly exotic surgical procedures. To make sure their greatness is documented, they also suggested putting Peter Jackson and Brett Ratner on retainer. That way, Seattle Grace could have the option of making their surgeries seem unnecessarily longwinded and take place in New Zealand, or fill them up with lots of explosions and look like it was filmed by a low-rent version of McG.
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Comments (8)
I have to say, color me impressed with The Pomp's big speech to Mama Ellis. She may be thin lipped and botoxed, but that was some nice acting.
All in all, good episode and great recap!
1 of 8 | Posted by SharonLois&Bram
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Posted on February 6, 2007 3:33 PM
ok....
christina can assist in cardiothoracic surgery and spout off all kinds of pathology and treatment modalities, but needs an alzheimers patient to tell her that she's in supraventricular tachycardia and needs a carotid massage....
sorry. nurse's rant.
2 of 8 | Posted by nurseratched
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Posted on February 6, 2007 4:02 PM
as much as I liked Mer's big "yelling" scene for the acting, it rubbed me the wrong way. I don't care if her mom was a bitch to her or not- she only had a finite amount of time with her and she shouldn't have burdened her w/ the guilt that she did. My fave parts of this episode were Ellis throwing the smack down on Dereck, and Addison lusting after Alex. I'd take the "help" in this case too!
Great recap J!
3 of 8 | Posted by zoobabe
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Posted on February 6, 2007 4:20 PM
Great recap! I saw a pick of the pomp in a purple dress she looked so big if the dress was pink she would have reminded me of porky pig
4 of 8 | Posted by minda07
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Posted on February 6, 2007 5:21 PM
OOH. I thought the scene when Meredith goes off at Ellis was great. Great writing, great acting. I was shocked. I mean, no offense to The Pomp, we love her and all, but I always thought she was no great shakes actingwise, so it was sort of a surprise.
AND OMG CALLIE'S FULL NAME IS CALLIOPE IPHIGENIA. Iphigenia was this woman in Greek mythology whose father famously sacrificed her, so does that mean Dr Torres is gonna get offed? OOH THIS IS LIKE LOST
5 of 8 | Posted by m_ruv
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Posted on February 6, 2007 5:47 PM
When did Grey's Anatomy become ER circa 1997?
6 of 8 | Posted by NB
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Posted on February 6, 2007 8:58 PM
I too was amazed when the Pomp pulled off a nice, emotional scene! (And this despite the fact that her forehead was immobile.) I didn't catch all of Cristina's "yes" speech at the end, but I'm pretty sure she said she didn't do wifey stuff, so they could just hire a wife, which cracked me up.
7 of 8 | Posted by tvtvtv
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Posted on February 7, 2007 4:27 PM
Oh, man. When Dr. Webber was telling Dr. Grey about how she would have been happy, I cried my eyes out. I felt pathetic, but it was a really touching scene.
8 of 8 | Posted by addicted076
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Posted on February 8, 2007 5:15 PM