Wow! I have never seen such a poorly handled "cliffhanger" than the Second Part of the Grey's Anatomy. SPOILER: Suffice it to say they remove the bomb and get it out of the OR but halfway down the corridor the bomb blows up and Meredith is caught on the edge of the blast and the 2-3 Bomb Squad guys are vaporized and flaming papers are falling on the floor and could it spread and is the whole building going to go up!?! and Cut! to commercial.
When they come back, it's like nothing happened. the two patients live, all the doctors run back to each other, display their true emotions etc. etc. and people get all whiny and crap, the romantic music cues and old lovers reminisce....but they don't even mention the Bomb Squad guys. It's like they didn't even exist. And one of them you were thinking maybe because of the intense experience he and Meredith would hook up or something, a la Keanu and Sandra.
This show must be getting desperate. The shift in tone from the explosion to the commercial, and then back to the triumphant doctors coming out of the elevator was jarring to say the least. And previously, Meredith and Bomb Squad Dude #1 had a "moment" at a crucial part of the removal, as Meredith was about to lose it. BSD says "think of me as someone you like" and so you expect for Ellen Pompeo as Meredith to actually "act" as she comes to her senses and you all know who she is thinking of...instead, they "cut" to a dream sequence where BSD is replaced by Dr. Dreamy, and he is reassuring her. How lazy is that?
And if you wanted to make the argument that "Hollywood is out of touch with Middle America" then you couldn't do much worse than to use this episode as Exhibit A, wherein imperious Doctors reign supreme (while breaking all the rules) while Nurses are nowhere to be seen, Paramedics run away, and the Bomb Squad gets blown to hell. Meanwhile, the show's main characters, who are whiny, self-absorbed, and promiscuous, don't even care enough to take 5 seconds away from their bitching to acknowledge the team's sacrifice.
But Katherine Heigl is hot.
2.16.2006
Code Whack
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My girlfriend, who loves the show, would definitely agree with your comment about the nurses being overlooked. She is, of course, also a nurse, which probably indicates some kind of bias.
I guess that's a useful comment, but I don't know.
Okay, you caught me. I just wanted the barrelhouse audience to know I have a girlfriend and that I'm not a weird loner like some might think.
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