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December 06, 2006
Grey's Anatomy
I have become totally hooked on "Grey's Anatomy." I am so into this show that I am watching the current season via Tivo while making my way through the ones I missed via Netflix.
Last night I watched the two episodes that piqued my interest in "Grey's Anatomy". Strangely I didn't watch them at the time. I just remember seeing the ads and thinking "That looks good, I should watch that."
The episodes are "It's the End of the World" and "As We Know It". It's the double episode about "Code Black" – a patient comes into the hospital with unexploded ordnance embedded in his chest. A paramedic has her hand inside the injury, trying to keep the guy from bleeding to death. She of course doesn't know at first what she's got her hand on. And that's not even the half of it.
In addition to the brilliance of the episode, there was a cool personal moment in it for me when I recognized one of the actors as someone I went to college with and then worked with years later. Not that he'd remember me or anything. Just to be sure I wasn't crazy, I called hubby into the room to take a look. Yep, he said, that's Marty Lodge playing the anesthesiologist. Cool. Good for Marty.
The moment got soured though towards the end of part one, when Marty's character turns out to be a lousy coward. Not that it's Marty's fault. But still.
Favorite moment from these two episodes - it's tough because there are so many - but it has to be near the end when Derek is frantically searching the hospital. He asks the chief repeatedly, "Where is she?" The chief, misunderstanding, points him in Addison's direction. (She is Derek's "was-separated but now on-again" wife, if you don't know.) Addison hugs Derek, clearly relieved that he is okay. But Derek is still scanning the room.
It's the chief's wife who points out what I knew all along, that Addison is not the "she" Derek was asking for. He was asking for Meredith.
Second favorite scene:
Meredith says, "I have a feeling."
Derek says, "I get those," then "if you wait long enough, it passes."
Moments later Derek runs into his wife Addison who asks what he is doing.
He replies, "Waiting for it to pass."
She doesn't know what he is talking about of course, but we know. Don't we?
Really good stuff.
Posted by Selena at December 6, 2006 06:44 PM