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oncetherewasaway	Jul 27 2007, 01:03 AM
McEditor Posts: 1,625 Group: .Grey Girls. Member #23 Joined: October 25, 2006	[size=7]PODCAST[/size] [size=3]4.01 A Change is Gonna Come [/size][size=5]--- 09.28.07 - Chyler Leigh (Lexie Grey) talks about joining the show as one of it's newest interns and Executive Producers Shonda Rhimes and Betsy Beers break-down the first episode of the season and preview the arrival of Mama Burke in next week's episode, "Love/Addiction", which airs October 4th.[/size] Hi!..Hi!...It’s Shonda ....It’s Betsy.......It’s Grey’s Anatomy......We’re back.....We’re back, baby.....We’re back. Ok, how great is it to see these guys with their own interns? I’m sorry, that first thing with Cristina and calling by numbers and the whole run desperately, desperately trying to imitate Bailey, which is such a great call back. I love, I love seeing them try to be what Bailey was to them in their first year and failing miserably. But really trying. I mean. I think that was just in terms of pure enjoyment factor one of the high points for me in a really, really long time. Which I thought was really, really terrific. And that’s literally the exact same speech from the pilot. It is. I think we might have changed like three words though. It’s like tiny, tiny though. And Lexie Grey plays the role of Meredith Grey actually from the pilot. Yes! It’s a deep metaphor people. It’s a deep, deep, deep metaphor. It’s so deep that probably anyone could have figured it out. Because that’s exactly how deep we are. George is an intern. George is an intern all over again, which I love. I think it’s terrific George being an intern. And Lexie sort of agreeing to cover up the fact that he’s because she met him last year when he was there before so she knows. She’s the only person who knows. I think there’s something really lovely about that entire storyline where she basically tells him you know suck it up. Life’s difficult and you get a real sense of who she is. And he says you’re kind of awesome. Which is great. Then there’s the great moment in the end for the two of them where you know he comes into the locker room and everybody’s wondering “you delivered a baby, oh my God, you delivered a baby.” Which is the exact opposite of his first year when at the end of the day he was 007. That’s right and he was trying to figure out how to get out of living with his mother. Exactly, it’s wonderful. I think that’s terrific that she sort of ended up being the George enabler in this particular situation. Little bit like her sis in also the place that they go, the place that Lexie goes to calm down is standing to stare at the babies. Which is a total call back to the fact that was what Meredith and George used to do. But I also just love the moment when you pull back and Meredith is standing there on the outside looking in at the place she used to be that’s now been replaced. She’s been a little bit displaced by Lexie. Absolutely. And by necessity she has a different relationship with George now. Which is clear because George is having a very, very difficult time juggling his new role and trying to balance out with his friends. It’s a really, really difficult position. I mean I think a lot of his rage, it’s interesting, I think that a lot of his rage is I’m an intern again and that’s not fair. But a lot of it also is I’m trapped. Like he says I’m exactly where I was last year. He’s trapped. He feels like he’s trapped in this marriage. He feels like he’s trapped being an intern again. He feels like he’s trapped. He couldn’t admit he’s feelings for Izzie if he wanted to because he’s trapped in this role of being the responsible one and just trudging along and being George. And what I love in a very strange way that moment in the locker room, that moment with Lexie freed him to show up at the door for Izzie and tell her he’s in love with her too. I think that’s absolutely right because before that it’s the whole idea of I screwed up my exam, I screwed up my exam for a whole lot of reasons. The pressure of actually this strange extra marital thing that’s happened. It’s also just the whole idea that he was busy blaming everybody else for what happened to him. Everybody. As opposed to actually taking a look at the fact that he’s the one who has to take the responsibility for it. And he’s got to figure out what he wants to do. And when he actually does his job well and when he realizes he does his job well, despite his level and despite the theoretical level of expertise I think that gives him the courage and the strength back to actually do what he needs to actually stand up for himself in a different kind of way which is terrific. I actually love that whole end run because the whole episode seems to be going in one direction and then everything turns around in the last minute. Yeah it’s building to the idea that nothing’s going to be the way you think it’s going to be; nothing is going to stay in its regular, regular way. Hence the name… A Change Is Gonna Come…Sam Cooke. Sam Cook, exactly and what I love to a large degree the hugest changes come sort of from left field sometimes. What I love, what I love is that we start off the episode being sort of saying like clearly things have changed. We start off you know with our interns giving the Bailey speech to their interns. Yet they’re trying to be the same but it’s changed. The mentees have become the mentors. And they’re not very good at it. Yeah. They’re trying to be the same as Bailey. Which means they’re actually fighting against the change. Exactly. And what Izzie discovers with the Bambi is that she’s her own kind of resident. You know that’s what I really love about that storyline. She’s going to be an Izzie kind of resident. Yeah she’s going to be Izzie. She can’t be Bailey. She’s going to do it the way Izzie’s going to do it. And then each of them in their own way find out they can’t be Bailey. They’re absolutely individually who they are wether they like it or not, and they have to adapt to that. So.....What I also love is having Bailey struggle with the concept that she’s not chief resident. She’s angry and in a way she has a right to be and in a way she doesn’t. You know nobody gives you anything. But she feels like she’s earned something that she then didn’t receive. Ans she’s furious with it. And the chief has a wonderful moment where he talks t o her and he says one day you’ll thank me for this and I love where there’s this moment and Bailey says not today. You know that like she’s going to hold it against him for a little bit a while. I feel like there’s going to be an interesting struggle there for Bailey as she lets Callie be in charge, and also just between her, Callie and the chief and how that’s gonna work. Well also in this weird way because Bailey, no matter what the chief says, Bailey wants the job because Bailey is the best at the job because Bailey is a phenomenal administrator and leader. Here’s the truth…Bailey is the job. Bailey is that job. And basically not to give her that job is to ask her not to be Bailey and I think that’s what’s going to be interesting to watch her struggle with in the next couple of episodes. She’s desperately trying to hold her tongue. She’s desperately trying to sort of get along. And she’s desperately trying to not be Bailey and I think that’s gonna be great to not to see her… I totally, totally agree. I also feel like what’s interesting is what Richard’s choice is what comes…Richard’s big flaw to me as a human being is that what he does very often is he takes his personal experience and decides other people need to learn from it. So the weird thing is like… What he does most often is he does that with the women. He does it with the women all the time. So, you know, it’s like I don’t want you to end up like I ended up so I think this is a better way for you. I’ve chosen to save your marriage for you. I’ve chosen for you. With Meredith the exactly same thing which is I want to make sure you don’t make the same series of mistakes that I make. He did it with Bailey when she was pregnant. Exactly. He does it a lot. He does it a lot and that’s the thing I think to watch with Richard. He does it to Addison. He does it to everybody which is I don’t want you to end up like I am. Well how about I get that opportunity myself. So it’s a little bit of himself trying to adjust himself especially with the women and trying to understand that they’re different people. Part of it is that they’re a different generation. Part of it is that fact that he feels like he’s got to be everybody’s father and make sure that everybody’s ok. And part of it is just his flaw. You know what I mean he’s a guy and he’s that kind of guy. And I kinda love that about him. Well it sure makes you feel safe and like the hospital is well taken care of and like he’s the guy you really, really want around. For guy who doesn’t have kids these are his kids. It explains a little bit to me why he’s the guy who chose to stay with Adele and not to go with Ellis. There’s a lot of that, that’s great. Definitely! Definitely! Mer/Der. Mer/Der. Very proud of the Mer/Der in this episode, very satisfying. The great moment. I love the moment where Meredith is standing there with Derek and he’s trying to talk to her and they haven’t spoken in 17 days and he’s trying to talk to her and Lexie pops up. He sort of looks at her and goes you’re the girl from the bar. And Lexie sort of realizes yeah I basically tried to pick you up and tried to buy you a drink at some point. Meredith is just looking and she has this amazing look on her face. She’s like the girl from the bar? I’m the girl from the bar. Like the frustration of this sister who is every where all the time you know saying stuff is so great for her. I don’t think by any stretch of the imagination that Meredith is threatened by Lexie in the sense that she thinks Lexie is going to take her boyfriend, because I think if your watching you see a very great moment where Derek says she’s your sister? You watch him go and done. Exactly like end scene. Because you know he’s not that guy. I mean he’s McDreamy people. He not that guy. But I love that idea that for Meredith there is this sense of her sister is a little… there’s a little bit of Single White Female going on there. She’s like every where and she’s me only a little bit better cause she’s happy still. And perky. Yeah and perky. And interested. Yeah and I love the moment where Meredith and Derek break up, because I personally was like I’m not ready for them to break up, I haven’t been ready for them to break up for a long time so to have them break up and then decide they they’re gonna have a little bit of a break up kiss and little bit of break up sex, and obviously not get to a place where they can truly break up at all was great and exciting for us because we cant imagine having them sort of be apart, apart and we weren’t interested in having them be apart, apart. I felt like there was something really fabulous about him saying he could never leave her, and her realizing that no matter how much she says its over its never gonna be over. Now when I think also it’s just interesting to explore what does break up mean. Yeah. There’s a lot of different types of break ups. What does beak up mean to them. I just love the…She’s saying the more things change the more they stay the same. She and Derek are kissing and they have a pull and it’s magnetic and it’s not going any where. And no matter how she much would like it to be simpler than that. It can’t happen for her, which in the long run its going to be good for her don’t you think? I would suspect that’s probably the case. He’s not an ax murderer. He’s McDreamy. He’s also a good dresser. His hygiene seems to be excellent. Good eyes. Good eyes. I think the totality of this is good catch and Meredith obviously knows that but Meredith is in a strange state in her own brain. She has been through a lot. She desperately wishes she was in a different place in her own brain. I also feel that on top of everything else Meredith spent a better part of last season being fully invested in Cristina getting married. And really in the end was just sort of determined to get Cristina to the altar. As somebody who has no family she has no example of how normal people behave. And the only example she has are her friends. And her friend especially Cristina, who frankly isn’t an example of how normal people behave. Still she is what she has. I think she believed that if somebody as emotionally stunted as Cristina could make it to the altar and could get married it was possible for her. When it stopped being possible for Cristina it stopped being possible for her. And what compromises do you live with in your life at the end of the day Burke and Cristina , their compromise was too huge. The sacrifice was too huge which Burke recognized which is why Burke walked away. It’s a beautiful thing to do. Honestly I feel like he loved her so much that he walked away which always breaks my heart every time. I really do feel like what he says to her is if I loved you, not the woman I’m trying to make you be, not the woman I want you to become. If I loved you I would walk away and he does love her enough to walk away which I think is quite lovely. It’s just devastatingly sad because what he’s looking for and what she’s looking for are so different. And what she’s left with is so little. Dude, that proposal came out of we’re not speaking to each other. I’m going to make you break the silence. It was part of that. So it was more of a challenge than anything else. Mark and Derek. Did we talk about them and their little drift towards friendship? No, but I think it’s kind of notable that there they are. Derek when you think about it he doesn’t have Addison who he used to…I mean they were friends, they had been together, they had a push me pull you. By definition on all fronts Derek has had his closure about Addison. She’s not even there anymore. But the idea that he had this closure. They’ve come to a place where he and Addsion were sort of friendly. They were in a good space. And the three of them when they were in competition with one another was oddly sort of friendly respectful competition. Now that she’s gone I love what Mark says, I didn’t come to Seattle to be chief, I didn’t come to Seattle to get Addison back, I came to Seattle to get you back. Which is so true. The reality of it is that all Mark is desperately looking for is the family that he used to have and that family for him has always been Derek and in the Center Derek was always his brother in every sense of the word. And only two guys frankly, not to disparage womanhood because women just think about it differently, only guys could have gone through what they went through, having your best friend sleep with your wife and still possibly be able to become friends again. I think that’s absolutely true. I don’t know why. Way, way, way more time would have to transpire for chicks for that to actually make sense. You know in different countries maybe. But I do think there’s something really wonderful about the fact that they might be able to get past this. together. They’re kind of one of my favorite team. I sort of feel like Derek is at this point, because there was this whole point initially where Mark first showed up, there were issues with Addison. He’s grown up from this. He really used to hold grudges. The biggest growth with Derek, because we always talk about the interns growth. I think Derek had to come to terms with being alone. He’s had to come to terms with that he’s not always in the perfect relationship. He can’t hide behind that. Derek start off this show in a place of a person horribly, horribly betrayed. Was clinging to Meredith as the one thing he could trust as opposed to trusting anything else. And now I think he’s in a place where he’s no longer feeling betrayed or feeling worried about being betrayed. His level of trust in other people is very different. His level of trust in Meredith might be a little bit more tenuous. Absolutely so I think he has to be more resourceful this season because he doesn’t have anybody to talk to. As proven by the fact that he was trying to hit up Bailey for a drink, which is a picture I would like. You know he and Bailey used to have a drink from time to time in the beginning. They’ve had their moments. But not the Bailey that’s pissed off about not being chief resident. She sees through it in ten seconds straight, which is it’s not me you want. You just want a friend to have a drink with. Which is awesome because she’s right. She’s not going to do it. Cristina I know we talked about her a little bit. I’m just going to say that you know clearly the news that Burke’s not coming back having it delivered by Derek was hard for her, and I don’t… I feel like we’ve been talking about having closure for her. I don’t know if she’s ever gonna get closure but she’s gonna get some semblance of closure. She’s gonna get some answers. Next week we’re gonna get a visit from Miss Diahann Carroll. She’s gonna pay us a visit. And I think that’s going to be interesting to watch. I also think that next week we’re gonna see how one, how Cristina especially, deals with the fact that you’ve been left at the altar. There are a lot of wedding gifts around. A lot of wedding gifts. There’s a lot of ways of handling that, just keeping in mind that Cristina always the most important thing to Cristina is surgery. Surgery, surgery, surgery. Exactly. Surgery is the loving arms you can always fall into when something else didn’t go so well. For all these characters actually. We hearken back to the Thanksgiving episode from a couple of years ago. What else can we say about next week? The theme for next week is addiction. Which is something certainly I think all of these characters who are absolutely… Can absolutely relate to in many a way. Absolutely. And I think the thing that really is gonna happen is what happens after George says I love you too. What happens after that and where exactly do Meredith and Derek go from having a little bit of break up sex in the on call room to the next episode. What happens now? What happens there? I don’t know. Just watch next week and tell us what you think. Please would be good. See we always say that. Gosh! Anyway. This is Shonda. This is Betsy. This is Grey’s Anatomy. This podcast transcribed and posted by merderenchanted: Sep 30 2007, 10:01 AM


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