Grey’s Anatomy 4x12: Grading & Discussion. Spoilers

[AstroSmurf]

We are back! This is the grading & discussion thread for this week’s episode of Grey’s Anatomy, 4x12. Spoilers ahead...

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Where the Wild Things Are

Six weeks after Derek and Meredith ended their relationship, the story picks back up with Meredith, Alex, Izzie and Cristina competing in a surgical contest, with Bailey serving as judge. George and his new roommate Lexie keep busy trying to adjust to their new, squalid apartment. Callie finds a friend in the unlikely Erica Hahn.

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Lets see if we can pick this up where we left off…
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[Aragorn]

Where'd everyone go? So I watched three straight hours of TV tonight. I feel like I wasted all my free time.

But it was funny to go from Smallville to Grey's to Lost and see the jump in writing quality each time. And we're talking leaps and bounds here. Going from Smallville to Lost is like going from White Chicks to The Departed.

 

[Scout101]

decent episode. Oddly, really liked the George/Lexie vibe going on at the end of the episode. When given a chance, she's really likeable...

 

[AstroSmurf]

Yeah. Last night was crammed full of tv watching. I think I watched more television last night than I usually do all week.

Anyway, I thought it was good episode. The writing was tight and the story lines worked well together. It felt nice to pick back up with some old friends again. I gave it an Above Average. My only quibble with the episode was how the story about the bear/tumor guy and his new wife was just left hanging. Did he marry her because of the tumor or did he really love her? I love Clea DuVall so I can't help but be curious as to what happened.

A few things... Lexie and George's new apartment was just disgusting. I have lived in a few dives in my time but there is no way I would live there. Yuck! And I am growing tired of the overly needy Cristine. I liked the bitchy kick ass Cristine better. Oh and have I said how much I love Bailey?

And about next week, what did I predict back in the fall? Was it something about Dr. Hahn being a lesbian?

 

[nx1701g]

^ The interesting thing is this:

Spoiler: Is Dr. Hahn a lesbian?

Brooke Smith said that she asked when she joined the cast if she was going to be a lesbian and they told her that Doctor Hahn was straight/

 

[shivkala]

I'm done with the show. I guess I was never that into it to begin with, but last night I fell asleep during the episode. At the start of the season, I realized I liked Lexie better than Meridith. However, they quickly ruined the Lexie character, as I was really hoping she'd be the one to avoid romantic entanglements, but she quickly became involved with Alex.

It seems this show is excellent at totally destroying characters. At the beginning of last season, I rooted for Derek and Meridith, I could relate to George (figuring he, out of all the characters, would be the one I'd end up being on one of those "Which Grey's Anantomy character are you), and I felt involved with the characters.

Now I hate the untrustworthy, whiny, George as well as the whiny, self-centered, immature girl that is Meridith. And while the focus is on Meredith, George, Izzy, Christina, Derek, and Alex, I find the Chief, Bailey, Hahn, Sloane, Callie, and Lexie far more interesting.

Maybe it was my weariness, but I found the competition to be annoying. It really seemed to interrupt their ability to treat each patient with logic and their own natural talents, forcing them to look for problems where they might not be any. Regardless of the outcome, I found the way they went about it reckless and possibly damaging to the hospital.

 

[Geck]

Maybe it was my weariness, but I found the competition to be annoying. It really seemed to interrupt their ability to treat each patient with logic and their own natural talents, forcing them to look for problems where they might not be any. Regardless of the outcome, I found the way they went about it reckless and possibly damaging to the hospital.

Proper medical ethics has rarely been of importance on this show. It's one of the reasons why I've largely given up on it too. I still tune in now and then and saw a bit of last night's show before turning it off and reading a book before Lost came on instead.

I was a huge fan back in Season 1 and the first half of Season 2...once the whole Denny thing started, it's been all downhill since there. Nothing but continuous character assassination, to the point where not a single one of them are sympathetic characters.

 

[nx1701g]

Maybe it was my weariness, but I found the competition to be annoying. It really seemed to interrupt their ability to treat each patient with logic and their own natural talents, forcing them to look for problems where they might not be any. Regardless of the outcome, I found the way they went about it reckless and possibly damaging to the hospital.

To be fair though this has been employed in actual hospitals in the past. An ex-girlfriend of mine is a surgical intern (name withheld to protect the hospital) who tried to get me to go to her hospital to have my appendix removed because it meant 30 points for her in a surgical contest. The surgical game does happen in hospitals and a lot don't seem to question it. Which is surprising if you ask me because it seems like a lawsuit waiting to happen.