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oncetherewasaway	Sep 20 2008, 01:11 PM
McEditor Posts: 1,625 Group: .Grey Girls. Member #23 Joined: October 25, 2006	RECAPS & REVIEWS & RATINGS BUDDYTV Grey's Anatomy: Episode 5.6 "Life During Wartime" Recap- October 30, 2008 The powers that be behind Grey's Anatomy would like us to know that no animals were harmed in the production of this episode. Uh oh, that can't be good. Tonight's episode of Grey's Anatomy begins with Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) and Derek (Patrick Dempsey) cleaning out Ellis' old boxes containing memorabilia from Meredith's childhood. Meredith finds her old Anatomy Jane doll. Alex (Justin Chambers) and Izzie (Katherine Heigl) are sleeping together now and have been for a week. Of course, Alex has to go and ruin whatever goodwill exists between them by rudely asking if he is allowed to screw other people. He doesn't want to have to change his plans on banging the hot peds chick. After some false starts, Callie (Sara Ramirez) and Hahn (Brooke Smith) are finally having great sex with either other. After one particularly rousing bout, Hahn gets weepy and declares, "I am so, so gay. I am extremely gay." Callie kind of freaks out and leaves abruptly.............cont’d http://www.buddytv.com/articles/greys-anatomy/greys-anatomy-episode-56-life-24074.aspx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CHICAGO TRIBUNE ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CINEMA BLEND TV Recap: Grey's Anatomy - Life During Wartime - Oct 30, 2008 This.... is an episode of freaking out. Callie and Erica freak out because Erica is the biggest gay to ever gay in gaytown. Yang freaks out because McBadass is back. Bailey and The Chief aren't necessarily freaking out, but the Chief wants to groom Bailey to be his successor and she'll start by curing a girl with an inoperable tumor, so she probably should be freaking out. McBadass is shanking pigs so that he can train everyone in trauma surgery, so he's kind of a walking freak-out at this point. Izzie freaks out because Alex is still an ass and McBadass likes to train on animals. Lexie is still freaking out that George is oblivious and George is too oblivious to freak out that Lexie isn't talking to him. Ok, repeat readers know by now that I'm a bit bored with the whole Callie/Erica storyline by now, so let's just get that out of the way. After an apparently mind-blowing night of sex, Erica breaks down in happy tears. She likens her experience with Callie to finally getting glasses as a kid, thinking there was nothing wrong until she got glasses and realized that all those green splotches on trees were leaves. After years of sleeping with men and thinking that the experience was fine, her amazing sex with Callie has made her see what she's missing and she now realizes that she's so definitely, incredibly gay. Callie - and, admittedly, I - spent the length of Erica's speech staring at her uncomfortably and slightly freaked out. Callie finally just says that she has to go and runs out of Erica's apartment. Erica, obviously feeling very vulnerable right now, breaks down in sad tears and spends the rest of the day being even more bitchy than normal. ........cont’d http://www.cinemablend.com/television/TV-Recap-Grey-s-Anatomy-Life-During-Wartime-13136.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------- EW.COM 'Grey's Anatomy': On the Battlefront - Oct 31, 2008 The new trauma doc comes in guns a-blazing and rubs some the wrong way, while Hahn and Callie continue to forge a real relationship I will say this: I can't wait to hear what you all thought about tonight's episode of Grey's Anatomy after the passionate message-board debating last week over Callie and Erica and George and Izzie. Because this was pretty much more of the same — plus pigs. Yes, we knew this episode would be special from the first second when the no-animals-were-harmed disclaimer flashed on the screen. But first: At the Meredith homestead, Derek was learning about Anatomy Jane, a budding little doctor's version of a Barbie doll — with accurate little plastic organs that fit together inside — that Meredith used to take everywhere when she was a kid. And Alex was learning that the correct way to ask a lady if she'd like to be his girlfriend is not "I just wanna know if you're gonna go off and screw O'Malley or some other loser. 'Cause then I don't have to cancel my plans with the chick from peds." Put a guy line like that next to Hahn's giddy, tearful morning-after speech to Callie, and, well, I'm once again thinking about taking up women. .......read more http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20237121,00.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------- LA TIMES 'Grey’s Anatomy': Man Hunt - Oct 31 2008 Was there anybody in the hospital that Hunt (Kevin McKidd), a.k.a. the cocky new head of trauma, DIDN’T tick off in last night’s episode of “Grey’s Anatomy”?! I mean, besides Anatomy Jane. First, the guy goes and stabs a bunch of poor pigs, all as a teaching exercise for the residents and interns during a mandatory skills lab. That sent a horrified Izzie, who refused to participate, into an ideological tizzy and prompted her to label him a “murdering, sadistic bastard.” Then he had the audacity to kick Derek and Mark out of the ER after they’d been paged for help with a head injury and burn victim. He’d prefer the residents learn how to treat trauma victims without the help of any attendings save himself, thank you very much. And finally, there was the former military doc’s bumpy reunion with Cristina. Just a few weeks ago, he was heroically removing an icicle from her chest and wrapping her up in a steamy kiss. This time around, he couldn’t even seem to remember her name. Not OK. So not OK............read more http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2008/10/greys-anatomy-m.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------- MSNBC New doctor shakes up ‘Grey's Anatomy’ - Oct 30, 2008 Stabbed and sedated pigs and an ugly doll figure in the week's plots When pigs fly: Major Owen Hunt (Kevin McKidd) joined the staff of Seattle Grace as the new head of trauma for the hospital. He immediately shook up Cristina, whom he'd kissed in an earlier episode, by not remembering her name. He angered Derek and Mark by having Alex apply the equivalent of a field dressing (skin glue) rather than call them in to help with a head injury. He outraged Izzie by stabbing four enormous (sedated) pigs in order to teach the hospital's docs how to respond to trauma as he'd had to in Iraq. (ABC flashed repeated warnings that no animals were harmed, but we're still wondering what PETA will have to say about this.) By episode's end, though, Hunt had charmed everyone. He contritely told Derek and Mark he'd listen to and learn from them. He'd listened to Izzie's spiel about how modern doctors can use technology instead of animals to learn new procedures. And he'd confessed to Cristina that he was the lone survivor of his Iraq unit. "Before ... I knew your name," he said in a touching speech. "And now I'm living in the after." She's no Malibu Barbie: Meredith found an old plaything, Anatomy Jane, a doll with removable organs that she'd loved as a child. The ugly doll helped her come up with a way to treat a 10-year-old girl with a seemingly inoperable tumor, but it shook up the Chief. He finally confessed that remembering young Meredith with her doll forced him to face his own failures, and seeing the tumor girl's devoted family made him recall how alone Meredith has always been..............cont’d http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27426976/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- NEW YORK MAGAZINE Devouring Culture Vulture ----------------------------------------------------------------------- TV GUIDE Grey's Anatomy Episode Recap: "Life During Wartime" - Oct 31, 2008 his week on Grey's Anatomy, Dr. Hunt returned as head of trauma at Seattle Grace and not everyone welcomed him with open arms. Callie and Erica hit a bumpy patch when one of them became a little too emotionally involved in their new relationship, and the Chief pushed Bailey's medical abilities to the limit. While it was great to see Dr. Hunt return as a possible love interest for Cristina, it was clear pretty early on he was not going to be a hospital favorite among most of the staff. His "in the field' mentality for handling cases made him an easy target for criticism among some of the doctors, including Derek who at one point referred to him as the "Rambo" who was "out of control." Izzie also proved to be a non-fan when she refused to take part in Hunt's "live tissue" experiment, which turned out to be code for saving sedated pigs that had been (purposely) sliced open. In his defense, Hunt tried to get Izzie to see that some advancements in medical history may not have been possible if it had not been for work involving animal tests and experiments. But Izzie remained firm in her beliefs that the modern medicinal world no longer needed to use animals as lab experiments. She then ended her powerful rebuttal by saying, "Don't tell me I'm less of a doctor for walking away."................... continue on http://www.tvguide.com/Episode-Recaps/greys-anatomy/Life-During-Wartime-35071.aspx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- TV SQUAD Grey's Anatomy: Life During Wartime - Oct 31st 2008 (S05E06) "I am so gay." - Hahn As much as I've been annoyed with how the Hahn/Callie courtship has gone thus far, I have to say - I think they won me over here. To see Hahn cry and blubber about how she's finally discovered herself, I couldn't help but feel bad for her. Granted she flipped the bitch-switch back on at the hospital, but you can't really blame her for that. She's gay. Callie's bi. And Major Owen Hunt likes to stab live pigs. Well it wasn't quite that harsh... OK, maybe it was - the man jabbed a knife into four sedated oinkers. Hunt is back in Seattle (apparently he returned to Iraq for one more tour and saw most of his squad die) and he didn't really make too many friends on his first day at SGH. He forgot Yang's name (his reason for doing so was respectable - living in "the after"), violated Izzie's love of animals (did we know she was a card carrying PETA member?), and from what I can tell, made Sloan and Shepherd quite jealous with all his field-tested trauma moves..........cont’d ----------------------------------------------------------------------- USA TODAY ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ZAP2IT 'Grey's Anatomy': First do no harm - Oct 30, 2008 One thing that Grey's Anatomy does so well when it's on its game (and it was tonight) is show with perfect clarity the relationship between what's going on inside a person to how they act toward others. And this week we got that in spades -- from the Chief, Hahn, Callie, Meredith, and the latest addition to Seattle Grace: Major Owen Hunt (Kevin McKidd), the new trauma chief. Practical learning: First of all, a disclaimer that no animals were harmed in the making of this episode proved alternately alarming and fascinating. And stayed that way, thanks to Hunt. As the Chief introduces the Major to Derek and Sloan, one of his incentives for bringing him on board becomes clear: With Hunt heading trauma, Seattle Grace is being reclassified as a level 1 trauma unit. And while McDreamy and McSteamy greet McArmy's arrival with something less than excitement, it's nothing compared to the freakout moment Cristina has when she sees him. Which is later utterly wiped away when he doesn't remember her name..............keep reading http://blog.zap2it.com/ithappenedlastnight/2008/10/greys-anatomy-1.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------- RATINGS ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Edited by oncetherewasaway, Nov 3 2008, 01:32 AM.


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