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oncetherewasaway	Sep 21 2008, 12:53 AM
McEditor Posts: 1,625 Group: .Grey Girls. Member #23 Joined: October 25, 2006	RECAPS & REVIEWS & RATINGS BUDDYTV Grey's Anatomy: Seattle's Fall From Grace - Friday, October 10, 2008 On Grey's Anatomy, it's bad enough that Seattle Grace Hospital has fallen from being one of the top teaching schools in the country to #12. What didn't help matters was a leak in the hospital that ended up turning into a flood. Dr. Bailey tried to warn Dr. Webber about the leaks throughout the hospital and get the surgical patients transported to area (and rival) hospitals like Mercy West and Seattle Presbyterian. Dr. Webber refused to listen though and put people's safety at risk. In order to turn things around, several things at Seattle Grace need to change and last night, Webber laid down the law and the new teaching protocol. Here are the new rules and who the affect at Seattle Grace. First, second, and third year residents will no longer be allowed to specialize. The practice interferes with the development of a fully rounded surgical education. This first rule, set forth by Dr. Webber, mainly affects Cristina Yang. It’s no secret around Seattle Grace that she’s looking to become a cardiothoracic surgeon, just like her lovers and mentors, Dr. Colin Marlowe and Dr. Preston Burke. However, Cristina prides herself on being the best so if Dr. Webber is looking for the best well rounded surgeon, she’ll do whatever it takes to make sure that she’s on the top of his list. Personal relationships, personal loyalties, and personal favorites will no longer be a factor in the training program. Attendings must spread their knowledge equally among all the residents. Attention will be refocused on patient communication and bedside manner. Dr. Webber made this clear, in his meeting, that he expects his doctors not to become overly emotionally involved with their patients and he’s talking to you, Izzie Stevens. Never mind the fact that she fell madly in love with Denny Duquette, a man dying of a serious heart condition. She is known for becoming emotionally attached to the people she takes care of and will have to learn to step back a little and act more professionally. A doctor cannot be somebody’s friend but good luck telling Meredith that. On last night’s episode, she spilled her entire personal life to a woman dying of cancer. Listen, my eye doctor is a pretty cool guy but I’m not going to ask him who he’s sleeping with. Where do these patients get off? This second rule also affects Meredith because Derek can no longer show her favortism because of her last name or how good she is in bed. Residents – your interns reflect on you. If they fail, you fail. If they succeed, you succeed. Attendings – that goes for residents as well. Teach with enthusiasm, learn with enthusiasm. Well, I guess in many ways, this affects all of the doctors at Seattle Grace. Perhaps the two worst teaching doctors are Cristina and Mark, who seem more annoyed by interns than interested in them. In terms of who will become great teachers, my money is on Bailey, Izzie, Callie, and hopefully George, who finally retook his exam last night and hopefully will finally become a resident. http://www.buddytv.com/articles/greys-anat...aspx?cf=1048576 Grey's Anatomy: Episode 5.3 "Here Comes the Flood" Recap (Part 1/4) Thursday, October 09, 2008 Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) opens tonight's episode of Grey's Anatomy with Dr. Wyatt. She thinks she's finished with therapy because Derek's all moved in and she's happy about it. Way to make your entire life about a man, Mer. Dr. Wyatt knows better and says that although she's made a lot of progress, she's not done. But Meredith's all, "See ya! Wouldn't want to be ya!" Back at the ranch, Derek (Patrick Dempsey) is indeed all moved in and pretty much taking over the place. He goes into Izzie's bedroom and starts planning out his new office after she and Alex move out. Wow, what a McDouchebag. This is news to Izzie and Alex (Justin Chambers). Meredith hasn't quite decided what she wants to do, however. Izzie (Katherine Heigl) bribes her with home-baked muffins anyway...............there’s more http://www.buddytv.com/articles/greys-anat...here-23482.aspx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CHICAGO TRIBUNE ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CINEMA BLEND TV Recap: Grey's Anatomy - Here Comes the Flood- 2008-10-10 00:55:27 The Chief shakes things up The Chief shakes things up with his new teaching protocol, Derek's douchebag tendencies begin to manifest once again, Meredith dumps her psychologist and struggles with a decision between her friends and her boyfriend, and George finally gets to take his residency test again. All in all, an exciting episode! Lots of what I love about Grey's Anatomy and very little of what I hate. Meredith fires her therapist, figuring that her emotional progress and relative happiness means that she's healed. Dr. Wyatt disagrees, but Meredith ain't hearing it. Izzy gets out of the shower and finds Derek casing out her room to turn into his new study in the expectation that she and Alex will be moving out "soon". All three confront Meredith - all wondering why she has ......cont’d http://www.cinemablend.com/television/TV-R...lood-12718.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------- EW.COM EW - TV Watch 'Grey's Anatomy': So Happy Together - Oct 10, 2008 A seemingly happy Meredith considers making a big concession for Derek, while the hospital is literally falling down all around her Wow, this was kind of a "wackiness ensues" episode, wasn't it? I mean, we learned important lessons about life and love and the pitfalls of leaky ceilings, plus some people had cancer and serious stuff, but generally, this had all kinds of highjinks. And, naturally, this was the episode I decided to share with my Grey's Anatomy-virgin male suitor, who had such keen insights as, "I hate all of these people." Of course, even those of us who have hung on every minute of every episode hate all of them, but we do so with love, like hating one's mother but not wanting others to hate her. Point being, this wasn't the best sampling of the show to exemplify why I actually do think it's a damn well-done .........cont’d http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20232295,00.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------- LA TIMES 'Grey’s Anatomy': Flooding with emotion - Oct 10 2008 After a season premiere packed with faux shocks -- Derek proposes marriage! Rose is carrying Derek’s baby! Derek dies! –– last night’s “Grey’s Anatomy” wisely focused on the realities of life at Seattle Grace, where changes worth making take time and the things that are broken are not so easily fixed. The episode began with Meredith, true to form, trying to wiggle her way out of a relationship -- though this time it was with her therapist (the always fab Amy Madigan). She’s back together with Derek, she’s happy (or at least as happy as Meredith is capable of being), so she must be cured, right? Derek is similarly deluded: He thinks now that he’s moved in with Meredith, she’ll do the mature thing and ask Izzie and Alex to, you know, move out. “That was your life,” he told her, after whipping out the tape measure in Izzie’s room, which he envisioned as his home office, and turning on the full force of his McDreamyness. “This is our life. And I’m excited about building our life together.” ....... there’s more http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracke...-anatomy-f.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------- MSNBC Floods drive ‘Grey's’ docs to breaking point - Thurs., Oct. 9, 2008 Water is everywhere, and it’s not all from Meredith crying this time Forty days and nights of melodrama: A plumbing crisis that flooded the hospital served as a handy metaphor for systems under stress. George’s retake of his intern exam was interrupted by a leaky ceiling, and the rising water challenged the Chief just when he was introducing tough new rules designed to pull Seattle Grace out of its twelfth-place ranking. (Fair warning: Many of those rules amount to variations on “don’t be a jerk, and stop dragging your personal problems into everything,” so if they are followed, the show may be cancelled shortly.) At home, Meredith bristled at Derek’s demand that Alex and Izzie move out of her house when he moves in. This, in turn, ramped up the hostility between Alex and Izzie after Alex made it clear that he didn’t intend to live with Izzie if they were thrown out. In the end, though, Meredith took a stand in favor of keeping her “family” with her, and Derek caved. Tune in for next week’s episode of “Four’s Company.” ...................... read on http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27092301/ MSNBC - Grey’s Gossip, Weekly udate ----------------------------------------------------------------------- NEW YORK MAGAZINE Devouring Culture Vulture ----------------------------------------------------------------------- TV GUIDE Grey's Anatomy: Episode Recap: "Here Comes the Flood" - Oct 10, 2008 This week Meredith got her first dose of what life will be like living under the same roof with Derek and the change just might cost her some friends. Meanwhile, the Chief gets serious about laying down a few new rules at the hospital, Erica gets testy over her new relationship with Callie and George struggles to find the time (and a place) to take his exam. Wasting no time at all, Derek has already begun moving into Mer's place and he has some shocking news for her roommates, they've got to go! As Alex and Izzie process this new turn of events, Meredith finds herself stuck in the middle. Can she really kick her friends out for Derek? You can clearly see she doesn't want to, but in true Mer fashion she seeks out Cristina for her input. The only trouble is, now that Cristina is being the "supportive friend," she feels like she can't really speak her mind. Back at Seattle Grace, the Chief held a meeting to let everyone know life as they know it is about to change. No more special favors for friends in the OR and no more getting emotionally involved with patients. True to his word, the Chief starts shaking things up by reassigning the docs to different cases to move them out of their comfort zone and to hopefully help them learn something new. Though as we saw this week, the Chief's new rules didn't exactly work as Meredith (in a rare moment) found herself becoming emotionally involved with one of Izzie's former patients............more http://www.tvguide.com/Episode-Recaps/grey...sode-20162.aspx Ask Matt: - Oct 10, 2008 Question: Why is everybody getting their knickers in a twist over whether or not a couple (Meredith and Derek) are going to be together forever? It would be one thing to expect it if, like some other shows, Grey's Anatomy had an end date. Since the show is still open-ended, most absolutes need to be open-ended. I don't love or hate Meredith and Derek, but I think Shonda Rhimes was right to say they were going to get together to stay for now. I was getting very weary of the "getting together, only to immediately split apart, only to immediately get back together." It was time for the writers to either put them together or split them up and mean it for the foreseeable future. However, there may come a time when a TV couple will be more interesting apart than they are together. If it is done well and results in a great, character-progressing story (rather than stirring things up just to stir and then return to normal), then even if it is a couple I love, it can still be worth watching. It is valid not to want to be jerked around, and it is also valid to want the show to own a thought. But to want a guarantee for any couple until the end of the run is not only unreasonable, it could stifle future creativity. Time to relax and be glad the show is going to tell the story of Meredith and Derek for now. — Karen L. Matt Roush: All excellent points, and all of which underscores my ongoing philosophy that we shouldn't judge a show before we actually see how things play out. On the one hand, we have suffered through some very unfortunate periods of Grey's Anatomy, and some of the back-and-forth regarding the core couple has been aggravating, so I can understand the skepticism and cynicism. Just doesn't mean I have to approve of or agree with it. On a similar note, Claire writes: "Thank you for your responses to the Grey's 'for now' nonsense. I agree it's silly and I don't get the hatred towards Shonda. She created the characters 'fans' claim they love, Meredith and Derek fans are getting their payoff this season, and so on. The drama on Grey's has always been delivered through the relationships since the start of the show, so I'm not getting why some would expect this to change. Just because a creator doesn't deliver the story some conjure up in their heads doesn't make her evil. I also believe a creator can change her story in the future as she see fit. It's her story to tell. I say sit back, watch, relax and enjoy the story, especially at the start of a new season. On to better things: I am in love with Mad Men! I was wondering if there has been any confirmation for a season three yet. I am really hoping that AMC will bring the show back despite the low ratings. I just can't get enough of this show!" No confirmation of a third Mad Men season just yet, but I'm sure it's just a matter of time (and working out the deal). No way does AMC let an Emmy-winning best drama get away. And I couldn't agree more about the tone of the personal attacks delivered against those who've created the shows that engage our passions. Which leads me to the next question: Question: I am writing in response to the fervor over Shonda Rhimes' comments about her show. I can definitely understand the frustration of the fans, and can see why they feel lied to (I myself do not watch Grey's Anatomy, so I was unaffected by the hubbub). However, it appears that fans have really lost faith in the people who run their shows. I have noticed in the past few years that more and more fans feel they should have a say in how the narratives of their favorite shows progress. The first time I noticed was when Vaughn was supposed to die on Alias, and since then, fan outrage appears more and more influential in how the show runners structure a storyline. I'm sure it must be a result of mass rant sessions on the Internet, but I fear that it has a detrimental effect on the quality of the shows. Thinking back to several of my faves, I was devastated when Fred died on Angel, but that led to the extraordinary Illyria story arc. I would have been opposed to killing Tara on Buffy, but then Willow would not have gone dark. I was emotionally disturbed and against the Dexter/Lila relationship, which turned out to be entirely necessary for wrapping up the Doakes storyline and leading Dexter to his new "calling." I should note, I don't mean to say that show runners never make poor decisions on their own, just that an increasing number of poor decisions appear to be driven by a fear of upsetting the audience, which I believe is a mistake, because we don't always know what is best for us or what will result in the most interesting storytelling. What are your thoughts? Does the audience hold more pull on television than previously, and if so, do you see this as a positive or negative change? — Katelyn Matt Roush: The creator-fan relationship is a very complicated issue and I don't pretend to understand how show runners truly regard the fan feedback they get on the Web or otherwise — and that extends to the critical community as well, I suppose. But I have to hope that they can put it all in perspective, the fawning as well as the sniping, and focus on telling the stories they want to tell without losing sleep over the knee-jerk responses that come with the territory. I appreciate your well-chosen examples of how arcs that at first appear to be very risky or damaging to a show can ultimately result in some of their most memorable moments. I would hate to think that Internet "flaming" would have a chilling effect on show-runners, inhibiting them from taking the leaps of faith necessary to take their shows to that proverbial next level, even at the risk of occasional failure. http://www.tvguide.com/Roush/Ask-Matt-Analyzing-20161.aspx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- TV SQUAD Grey's Anatomy: Here Comes the Flood - Oct 10th 2008 8:05AM (S05E03) "Yeah yeah - the hair. It's one of the many things that makes me happy." - Meredith This wasn't the best episode of Grey's Anatomy, but I think it got back to a lot of the core reasons that made this show good in the first place. The focus has finally returned to Meredith and Derek, which was sorely lacking last season. This show just doesn't make sense to me when the tension between those two is ignored or pushed aside for one of the bajillion other relationships going on. Beyond that, there was plenty of humor - another thing that had been lacking. So I'm feeling good about where this season is going to take us and as I said - it starts with Mer and Der. McDreamy is officially moved in with Meredith now and after getting through one minor conflict (do the roommates stay or get kicked out), it seems like they're doing OK. However, if we've learned one thing about these two, you know they'll be getting into it next week about something entirely different......................... more to read http://www.tvsquad.com/2008/10/10/greys-an...omes-the-flood/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- USA TODAY ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ZAP2IT 'Grey's Anatomy': Fixing what's broken - October 09, 09:08 PM Of all the people on Grey's Anatomy who should be in therapy -- and that's pretty much everyone -- it's hard to argue that anyone needs it more than Meredith. Which is why I was so happy to see that she's been going (and also because it means we get to see more of the great Amy Madigan). And why I was so bummed to see her try to graduate herself this week. Because she's "happy." Please. Floods of spoilers coming... You're not done, Meredith, Dr. Wyatt tells her. It's good that you're happy, and good that your relationship is moving forward, but that's not the point. You're making progress and you're working hard, but you're not done. No kidding. Aren't doctors always telling you not to stop taking the blood pressure/depression/cholesterol medicine just because you feel better? Come on, Mer -- stay in therapy for us. .............cont’d http://blog.zap2it.com/ithappenedlastnight...-anatomy-f.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [color] [/color] Blame It On the Rain - 2008.10.09 The impossible has happened -- Derek has actually moved in! However, he assumes that this means that Meredith is kicking out Izzie and Alex, which Izzie learns when she finds Derek measuring her bedroom to become his office. For someone who just came from living in a trailer, I'd think he'd appreciate just having a living room where he couldn't touch the opposite walls at the same time, at least for a little while. But this sends Izzie down into the dumps, which isn't helped by the fact that Alex is still being mean to her. Derek even tries to get Cristina on his side, but though she admits she would kick the other two out, she gets mad at him for the little ploy. She goes and talks to Dr. Amy (Meredith earlier announced that she was all better and finished with therapy) and begs Dr. Amy to tell Meredith she still needs help. Mere and Dr. A then meet in the elevator for some touching words about how she's doing better but she isn't finished with needing therapy. Amen! ...............there’s more http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/show/...s_the_flood.php RATINGS 'Grey's Anatomy' hits ratings low - October 10, 2008 How did the new shows last night do with the viewers? First we have to look at how some old favorites fared. According to USA TODAY's Gary Levin, CSI's season opener, with 23 million viewers, trounced Grey's Anatomy's second episode with 14.5 million, a series low for Grey's. The premieres of ABC's Life on Mars and CBS' Eleventh Hour tied at 11.6 million viewers apiece, according to Nielsen, though Mars took the edge among young-adult viewers and retained 80% of Grey's overall lead-in audience compared to just 50% for Hour, which lost 2 million viewers at its halfwaymark. Kath & Kim had a decent second-place opening with 7.5 million, building off its My Name is Earl lead-in. http://blogs.usatoday.com/entertainment/20...y-h.html?csp=34 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Edited by oncetherewasaway, Oct 20 2008, 03:55 PM.


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