Each of the intern loads up their triage kits. Basically, the purpose of triage is to identify the most serious medical conditions so they can be treated first. You have to do this all without the help of labs, x-rays, or time, so it does take a touch of skill. Unfortunately, the ambulance they are riding along in has to load up with supplies, so one of the interns is going to have to stay back. Bailey decides that Christina is going to stay back, which really pisses her off. This could go either way. Christina is the smartest, so she would be great at triage, but she is the smartest, so she would be great when everybody was coming back from surgery and needed to be operated on. In the end, I guess Bailey thought that Christina's personality may could cause more injuries than it was worth.
Once again, this was all starting to give me a little bit of an ER kind of feel. Every now and then, ER has to come up with a new even where dozens of people die, just so they have an excuse to show lots of gross shit happening to people. Without a doubt, one of the people who are working for the hospital will be put into some kind of danger, and we are left wondering who is going to live and who is going to die. Would Grey's prove much the same? Yes, but unfortunately, they are making this thing last a lot longer than I could have imagined.
As this episode was moving along, I really was starting to enjoy it. Since I have only watched about half of the GA episodes in existence, I liked the way they seemed to be looking at the personalities of all of the characters. Yes, we always see them as they are working and that sheds light on their personalities, but there was a lot of dialog that centered on their lives without talking about the careers, especially among the interns.
For example, as the interns started finding their patients, it gave us a little microcosm on their careers and what they brought to the table. Alex is not considered the smartest intern, but he has always enjoyed saving people, and the more risk and thrill that is involved when saving that person, the better. Karev finds a woman that had a pylon fall on to her and at first, Alex thought the woman was dead, and put the tag for a dead body on her. That would be his bad triage skills showing through. When she moaned and moved her hand, he moved the pylon off of her to reveal a woman with "the worst crush injury he has ever seen".
George? He has always been known as the caring one, the person who is high on bedside manner. He found a woman who was looking for her son, even though her more immediate concern could be that her intestines wanted to break out from the side of her abdomen. George promised to find her son if she went to the hospital, and that is exactly what happened.
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Comments (19)
I actually really liked this episode. Maybe I'm a nerd
1 of 19 | Posted by VilleJ03
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Posted on February 13, 2007 4:02 PM
I like this episode up until the Meredith overboard scene. Can she not swim?? Can she not scream for help? I don't know how they are going to makes this life threatening...
(and Alex'z patient was hard to look at and reminded me of the movie "The Mask")
2 of 19 | Posted by juxtapoeser
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Posted on February 13, 2007 4:15 PM
I thought the same... I also was waiting for "Code Black" level of intensity and it never came.
Until the ending and the teasers for the next episode! Woo-wee!
More of my thoughts here:
http://audgepodge.blogspot.com/2007/02/my-take-greys-anatomy-ferry-disaster.html
I am a bit nervous about the death rumors which I've read everywhere from the GA writer's blog to Watch with Kristin to TVgasm (http://www.tvgasm.com/newsgasm/news/greys-anatomy/a-major-greys-anatomy-characte.php) as well.
3 of 19 | Posted by Audge
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Posted on February 13, 2007 4:17 PM
I thought the same... I also was waiting for "Code Black" level of intensity and it never came.
Until the ending and the teasers for the next episode! Woo-wee!
More of my thoughts here:
http://audgepodge.blogspot.com/2007/02/my-take-greys-anatomy-ferry-disaster.html
I am a bit nervous about the death rumors which I've read everywhere from the GA writer's blog to Watch with Kristin to TVgasm as well.
juxtapoeser - I thought the same thing about Alex's patient looking like Eric Stoltz in Mask!!! Crazy!
4 of 19 | Posted by Audge
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Posted on February 13, 2007 4:19 PM
Awful episode. Writing, directing, acting? Can't decide, but something was off - everyone seemed out of character, the storylines were pointless, and it was a bummer.
5 of 19 | Posted by tvtvtv
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Posted on February 13, 2007 5:13 PM
How did the man manage to climb himself out of the water with a giant leg wound when Mer can't. Not only did we not hear a splash, but she can't pull her skinny butt out of the water?
Hmm. Just a thought.
6 of 19 | Posted by Sarah
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Posted on February 13, 2007 5:24 PM
Im sorry but why is someone who keeps pointing out how they never watched until mid-last season and only catches every other episode doing the recaps?
Really "J-unit", WHY are you doing them? It's the most popular show on TV. Im pretty sure another writer watches them.
other wise- excellent episode especially since it is the intro to a three part series. Loved the symbolism.
7 of 19 | Posted by Marshall
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Posted on February 13, 2007 5:57 PM
Im sorry but why is someone who keeps pointing out how they never watched until mid-last season and only catches every other episode doing the recaps?
Really "J-unit", WHY are you doing them? It's the most popular show on TV. Im pretty sure another writer watches them.
otherwise- excellent episode especially since it is the intro to a three part series. Loved the symbolism.
8 of 19 | Posted by Marshall
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Posted on February 13, 2007 5:59 PM
you are annoying "marshall" we didn't need your snobby comment not once but twice, and why do you put peoples names in quotes?
9 of 19 | Posted by ilovebside
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Posted on February 13, 2007 6:11 PM
Not one of GA's greatest eps. It dragged on and on with no real drama--seriously, Meredith falling into the water was their cliffhanger? Guy with broken leg in a huge amount of pain climbs out, Mer can't? I can't imagine how they'll drag this out for TWO MORE EPISODES. Holy Lord. I think I'm going to skip the, read your recaps and then see if I want to watch them on ABC.
10 of 19 | Posted by katybee
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Posted on February 13, 2007 6:11 PM
meredith's alzheimer mother forgot to give her swimming lessons.
11 of 19 | Posted by nurseratched
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Posted on February 14, 2007 8:05 AM
The dumbest scene was when the doctors were standing outside waiting for the patients to come. I think it was Bailey, Callie and Christina. Are these the only doctors at the hospital? Callie is an orthopedist! Don't they have doctors that handle more life-threatening injuries available? I know it's a TV show but they should make it more realistic.
12 of 19 | Posted by suebee
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Posted on February 14, 2007 9:35 AM
Meredith shold also consider packing on more pounds so that the next time she is helping a convulsing man, she won't get knocked overboard.
13 of 19 | Posted by suebee
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Posted on February 14, 2007 9:36 AM
I bet Shephard is going to save the twig. He is going to find the little girl and she is going to take him to the twig. You knew Meredith was going to go swimming as soon ashe she went between the man and the water. I wonder if GA cleared the idea of a ferry boat crash with Seattle?
14 of 19 | Posted by carol
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Posted on February 14, 2007 10:54 AM
I liked the recap, esp job description 'traffic cone'. Very funny. The show: kinda dumb, but it's TV.
The rumor is they'll kill someone 'you would never expect'. Well, that means Bailey, because everyone else is expendable, cranky, or threatening to quit or retire, on the show and off.
Seizure man might have knocked Pomp out when he flung her into the water. I think that's what we're supposed to think because they just showed her sinking like dead weight. Somehow, I don't think they'll kill off the title character, though it wouldn't hurt my feelings if they did. Izzie hasn't had a storyline since that dopey Denny fiasco. I say they let her go and add her name to the clinic door. Whatever they do, I doubt any of us will be 'shocked'.
I like the good Alex. Having one dimensional good or bad characters is silly. If people were that easy to read I'd start dating again.
It was stupid when Alex told the woman her baby would be fine. He could have said, we'll do everything we can, your baby's heartbeat is strong, kid looks good on the ultrasound, but false reassurances are never therapeutic, and come back to bite you on the ass. Any medical student would know that, let alone a doc.
But the dumbest of all was that looking for the boy thing. Triage is prioritizing. Surgeons shouldn't be on the phone doing tasks that any Red Cross volunteer would be better at. He's supposed to be saving people, hello. All they had to tell the mother was, we have people looking for him, but if you don't have your surgery, he might not have a mother once he's found. Done. Everyone standing around with their heads up their asses was stupid.
But anyway, it's TV.
I guess I'm supposed to apologize for the long post. Why do ppl have to apologize for long posts? It's not hard to scroll past one if you get bored. Oh well. At least I didn't rag on J-unit.
15 of 19 | Posted by Miss Information
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Posted on February 14, 2007 1:40 PM
Ack. I think this was one of the worst episodes they've ever done. They need to quit with the "ripped from the headlines" stuff—first that old man who plowed through the farmer's market in Santa Monica, and now the Staten Island ferry. This isn't Law & Order. There were a few good moments, but just no tension at all. I can't believe they're gonna try to stretch this out for three episodes. Gaahhhhhh.
16 of 19 | Posted by m_ruv
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Posted on February 14, 2007 8:20 PM
Good recap, J-unit, of a pretty dull episode. It was supposed to be full of action, but during the show I kept thinking, who cares?
I thought Meredith was pushed over, not fell. Maybe I was hoping she was pushed?
17 of 19 | Posted by may1
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Posted on February 15, 2007 9:47 AM
call me insensitive, but I thought all the patients (and most of the patients on this show) are total a-holes! Well, except for the poor crushed woman who Alex saved. But,
the woman who was finding her son, the man who freaked out and knocked Meredith off the pier, the friends of the crushed-under-the-car guy....ALL the relatives in the waiting room....jerks!
Let the damn doctors do their jobs, shit! The Patients are really the worst part of this show. Although I did feel really, really bad for the girl who wet her pants....she reminded me of my neice and I thought what if something like that happened to her?!?
now that that's off my chest....the episode was OK. I just can't wait to see who's gonna die. My guess is that it will be Burke (i just can't picture him and Christina actually getting married!) or even George (again, I just can't picture he and Callie STAYING married)
18 of 19 | Posted by anniedawg25
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Posted on February 15, 2007 4:43 PM
I'll call you insensitive. You cant judge the patients--consider what these people are going through, the horror they are seeing, the terror they feel...I mean, how would you react to all of this, especially as a patient?
I think these episodes aren't half-bad. (Though I do admit, that it was very predictable that Meredith was gonna fall in the water.) But, maybe the writers are just really in tune to what the viewers think-so much that they can evoke these emotions in us. Maybe they know what we are thinking and expecting and they are playing on those expectations.
And, not to be the devil's advocate or anything, but Meredith would be the perfect person to kill off because she is definitely someone "you would never expect." Im sorry, but if a character is expendable, like Bailey as someone pointed out, killing that person would not be something "you would never expect." Long story short, I have not been let down by GA before, and I dont think the writers have run out of unforgettable episodes yet, im just gonna wait until next week!! Im excited to see what they have come up with!
19 of 19 | Posted by krystibrow
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Posted on February 15, 2007 10:02 PM