Friday, January 16, 2009

Short Little Nuggest of Meredith, that's all anyone needs.

Well, Izzie get the quote of the week, in telling Meredith, to her face, that all anyone needs is short little nuggets of her. It's too bad she didn't warn McVet about that back in season 2, shit, Chris O'Donnell would have only been on for more than one episode.

This weeks episode involves a man on death row wanting to die in the hospital, and a little kid getting dead organs. Oh, and some short guy that got leg extensions only to be shorter. That part was odd. I don't get drop in plots like that, which essentially are just to make us remember the Callie is part of the plot. Also, Callie also wants a piece of the hot british chick, yet, no scenes together this week, at all. Hot british girl did have a great scene with Dr. Bailey, who may be losing her mind, but, that was about it for her.

In terms of losing her mind. I still do not understand the whole Denny/Izzie thing. I hope that she will dump Alex, soon, so that Kerev can win an emmy for the downward spiral he will take after said dumping, but, that's just me. If the point of her going nuts, is to let us know something is wrong with her, they should just have something be wrong with her, and not have Denny be a part of it. At all. I also think that ghost/dead/crazy Denny must KNOW something is wrong with her, given how he told Kerev "We need to talk." Is Izzie dying? Who knows.

I also sort of enjoyed Yang and The Journeyman this week. I say sort of because, again, the episode felt compressed, and he just shows up, drunk and tragic like. I get that he's a vet, and that he's troubled. But damn, Yang must have a thing for tortured souls or something. The shower scene would have been hotter, had they been naked, but, still, not bad. It reminded me of a shower scene between Bobby and Helen during season 1. Sadly, I could not find this on youtube, or I would have linked it.

The serial killer is awesome. Not only will he create the cylons, in a about a year on scifi, but, he is also currently trying to save a small child (without the help of artificial intelligence, and without being on Caprica.) I like his story line, in that, there is real conflict going on between Derek and Meredith that lets us see them, philosophically, as different kinds of Doctors. That is growth, good writing, and, well, great acting by Stoltz.

Kerev almost got the quote of the week at the beginning, when he said "She's holding that bottle of tequila like its a life vest." Guess why? Meredith likes to drink, a lot, she has a problem, so much so that Izzie had to hide it all before Derek's mother came over. (Which she never did actually enter the house). I love Tyne Daily, and think she is great in everything, however, I have to agree with McDreamy here. She BARELY said two words to McBitchy all day, and thinks they'd be great together. Odd. Want to know who she did talk to? Our girl Lexie.

How cute was Lexie in that t shirt, in her room, after she had properly been "taught", again, by McSteamy? You know, it was only upon a second viewing did I notice that Sloan was wearing what looked like a grey shit under his jacket when he left. That's right, she had on his t-shirt, and gave it back to him, and then he snuck out.

I will leave you with that final quote, from the two of them, cause it was so darn cute:

McSteamy: "You're 25 you're a fetus."
Sexy Lexie: "I am 24, I skipped the third grade."
McSteamy: "Does that feel dirty?"
And she just smiles.

If they ever take her off this show, it better be for her own spin off that would be 100 times better than that private practice shit.

Friday, January 9, 2009

She's...she's kind of a bitch.

Shockingly, these words were not said about Meredith Grey this week, rather, they were said about Yang. We will forgive Eric Stoltz his transgression, as he is new to Grey's Anatomy, and does understand the fundamental rule, which is Meredith is THE Bitch, others may have their moments, but no one tops Meredith Grey in the Bitch Department. (That could be read as a fairly horrid double entendre, props to anyone who caught it). I have to give a shout out, right away, to McWife, as she did point out that Meredith actually had some cute hair this week. So, her hair was great, and that as about it.

Having said that, the likes this week were the guest starring geniuses of both Eric Stoltz and Jessica Capshaw. Dr. Arizona comes to us from the Practice, and, I enjoy the hell out of anyone who can talk back to Miranda in a way that is both appropriate and awesome. Eric Stoltz has been in more television that any man alive, and, will be coming to us soon in Caprica, the spin off of Battlestar Galactica. So, having him on the show, good too.

Kerev continues to not disappoint this week. I wonder if he truly grasps how messed up Izzie is, or, you know, he is just trying to make things work with her because he is used to dating crazy (see Jane Doe) and doesn't want to screw this up.

Sexy Lexie Grey is interesting. From a woman last time who was basically having a nervous breakdown because she wanted to know "if she was so bad" and, of course, she wanted to be "taught" a thing or two. This week, she had a bold confidence, but not in a slutty way. I wonder if this is how Meredith was originally supposed to be written. Weak, Vulnerable, but, once she had a night of hot sex, and hours of talking with McSteamy, she had a better confidence about her, not in a direct way, but it was there. It was good to see her in this light, this week, and I was sort of disappointed that the moment that McSteamy gave in, and went up to her in the bar in the end, that she went right with him, no questions asked. Good for him I guess.

Meredith just sucks. She is an abysmal person. She gets pissed her boyfriend agrees with Yang, she argues with Yang in front of Derek and the Journeyman. She makes snide comments (not out of character). Then, when her former best friend actually opens up, and has a good heart to heart with her about it, she still doesn't get it. Or, at least doesn't admit she does. Instead, she goes home, dances it out with Derek, and, presumably, will be come more reliant and dependent on him, while she has fewer and fewer friends actually living with her (Yang, Gone, George, Gone, Kerev? not really a friend, Lexie, No way, and Izzie, is really all she has left there).

Meredith listen to your friends, you've had fights like this before. If you don't make it right, she'll never talk to you again. Did you apologize like you meant it? Like you could imagine she had a point? That's the key. Meredith has a friend she's losing, a friend that wants her back, and she doesn't get that they could even have a point.

Imagine hearing that from a friend, because if a close friend actually tells you that, you have to be a bitch. You just have to be.

Best line of the week "from the lab Dr. Sloan.....did you need something else." Delivered with sheepish delight by the younger Dr. Grey.

Followed closely with "You only live once, I'm not going to waste it....I'm going to Denver", by Dr. Sloan.

Fantastic.