Grey's Anatomy Season 4

My thoughts on the oct 11th episode...

~I don't think Geo is going to leave Callie. I'm glad he got a spine and told Izzy that  him telling Callie wasn't about Izzy. I'm also glad he realized, "who marries someone right after his father's funeral." I think he should have told Callie he wanted to leave her in a different way, rather than saying, "I slept with Izzy." because if he really believed that telling Callie was between him and Callie and not sleeping with Izzy, that wouldn't have been the way to go. IMHO he should leave Callie because the marriage isn't working for him, not because he loves Izzy more. A relationship can only be as healthy as the people in it.

~I was glad to see Meridith melting towards Lexie and this time Lexie having the protective shield. I though it was telling that Mer said, "for the record, I was very fond of your mother." rather than saying that she loved her step mom although I guess saying what she did was a step. I liked how  Mer went over the report with Lexie in the end, in a "big sister" way.

~Alex has really grown both as a surgeon and as a man. His intern, the older gentleman was sooo annoying-- someone needs to tell that guy that being a doctor is about the patients' needs rather than his own old fashioned ideas. I wonder if he's a permanent (annoying) fixture.

~How funny was "very old guy" although I did think the writers took creative license when he was begging Izzy not to save him-- what about a living will? He could have gotten a DNR and wasn't she supposed to suggest advanced directives to him?

~I thought Bailey's admission  that she didn't know at all was as much for herself as for Alex. I also thought that her outreach to Callie was much more about being kind to Callie than Bailey's actual needs.

I can't wait until next week!

I totally forgot about the crummy thing Alex did to George at the end---that was uncalled for-- hopefully he's a work in progress and that was just a slip back to his old ways.

Doreen, I totally forgot about Bailey! That would be a real twist for her and the show- the chief divorcing would be too predictable.

I wonder about the storyline with Mer and Lexie's father too. My thoughts were similar to yours. Since Lexie disclosed he's alcoholic, maybe he comes in with some type of substance abuse and/or liver problems.

I was worried when Izzy operated on the deer that the show might have jumped the shark, but think it rebounded in the following episodes.

Jump the shark is when a tv show has been on too long and resorts to gimmicks to try to attract viewers. It was so named because on happy days when Fonzie water skiied and literally jumped a shark, people said that was the beginning of the end of the show, creatively.

Another  infamous "jump the shark" tv show is when the brady bunch adopted cousin Oliver. There's actually a whole website about it http://www.jumptheshark.com/index.jspa .

I loved most of the episode.

~Meridith seems to be slowly getting her mojo back. How funny were the scenes with her mother's ashes and the boy's comments about them. I thought the end with Mer and the chief  washing her ashes down the drain was really touching. I also loved how Lexie shared her mom's dead cat story. I'm glad the sisters are bonding and I really love lexie.

~I still don't like Callie, but at least she was attempting to do her job. She's supposed to be a professional, a role model and an example for the residents and announcing George and Izzy's affair was juvenile, although I guess slightly better than how she was acting passive aggressive before.

~I don't get the Callie/Christina friendship. They were never friends before, although Callie did lend Yang her intern notes for the exam. I thought Mer was christina's "person". I also don't get why yang was so mad at Izzy for the affair- since the writers seemed to just invent this friendship.

~Glad to see the heart surgeon back as dept head. She just did a hilarious stint on Weeds. I feel bad for Christina-- because what's between she and the dept head (can't remember her name) seems more personal than professional-- also unprofessional. Christina seems to be the most competent of the residents.

~Ava/Rebecca and Alex are growing on me a little. Even though I'm against doctors and patients hooking up, because Ava/Rebecca left, came back, and made the overtures, it doesn't bother me.

~I hope the old intern is transfered to psychiatry to complete his training-- he was annoying.

~I thought it was interesting that the chief is getting a divorce, Miranda's husband is mad and doesn't understand the demands of her job, and (hopefully) George and Callie are getting divorced. The first two showed the difficulties of balancing being a doctor and being a partner. I was really glad that Miranda was empathic with George and mentioned how fast he got married.

~Speaking of George, he was wonderful with the heart transplant man.

~I still worry that Callie will turn up pregnant throwing a wrench into their divorce plans. Even if Geo doesn't end up with Izzy, he needs out of that trainwreck of a marriage.

~I'll be soooooo mad if that cheery cheery resident from last year and McDreamy hook up-- she's annoying.

~The boy with the ear thing would have been more realistic if he didn't have the surgery the same day as he asked for it. That likely couldn't  happen since he'd need preop testing and have to have an empty stomach for anesthesia.

~ I wish they showed more psychopathology of guy who cut off his leg. There's a rare psychiatric condition where people actually do that. I saw a documentary on it once and was fascinated. There were people who cut off multiple limbs at multiple times in their lives, people who died from the condition, people with multiple wounds from trying. One woman tried to freeze her leg in ice for hrs before cutting it off....

What's coming in November, from my tvguide-- if you can get the mag yourself or read it in line at the grocery store it'll be better - it's not online yet

~Callie continues her downward spiral putting her chief residency in jeopardy (can't say I'm sorry about that)

~Mer's father ends up in the hospital (I hope with a huge mea culpa) and she learns more about Lexie

~Tension between Izzie and Yang over surgeries

~Izzie and Geo try to get their relationship back on track

~McDreamy, McSteamy and the chief go for a men's night out (this is supposed to be hilarious)

I know there's a lot of mixed feelings about them-- what's your reason(s) if you have them-- just curious.

The reason I like the whole beauty and the geek is because I was always the geeky, nerd  in my younger years. LOL- (but I had a backbone unlike Geo and I would have never flunked the exam)