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Grey's Anatomy
Dammit, I'm going to be at Escapade when the conclusion of the three-parter airs! Escapade, the land where everyone will be watching a rerun of SPN in preference to a new episode of Grey's! What if my VCR fails me?
Spoilers for tonight's GA behind the cut.
Ok, I realize that the chances of them killing off the title character in this show are about the same as my chances of winning the lottery--but WOULDN'T IT BE COOL IF THEY DID? Seriously. I don't hate Meredith like I did most of last season--I've actually been enjoying her now that she and Derek are together, and we don't have to put up with their whiny angstcakes. And yet I still think it would be kind of amazing if they killed her off. It would really have profound consequences on all the characters, and shake them up in interesting ways.
What killed me the most was how Cristina instinctively knew something was wrong. And the look on her face when she found out! Damn, that was good. This show does emotional character arcs so well, even when it is blatantly unrealistic on other fronts (LIKE the fact that every doctor in the hospital is hanging out with Meredith when there's been enough trauma with the ferry accident that they should all be constantly in surgery for the next week straight).
As it turns out, I was more invested in Meredith's storyline tonight than any of the others. Izzie, brain drilling, blah blah blah; George searching for the little boy blah blah. Ok, I did like Karev's plot tonight, both his coming up with a strategy to identify people and his search for pregnant woman's husband. But mostly I was into the Meredith plot, and the way it impacted on the Cristina plot. "She's my person."
I know, they won't kill her. Still, her near-death experience is already fun. I LOVE that they brought back exploded bomb-squad guy, because I really liked him in those two brief episodes he was in, and I thought it was terrible how his death was just completely glossed over, so I'm happy we're going to get more closure there. And DENNY!! If Meredith is going to wake up, I want her to bring big soapy messages from beyond the grave for Izzie. It's fitting, in this show.
I think what I love best about the NDE is that it's really reminding me of one of my favorite novels, Connie Willis' Passages , which is all about NDE's. In fact, in the book there's a doctor who has an NDE (actually she figures out how to stimulate brain passages to make similar effects happen), and she has a best friend who's an ER nurse, and their relationship reminds me a lot of Cristina and Meredith's. And in the book, the metaphor for death is the sinking of the Titanic--just like in this ep it's the ferry boat. It makes me wonder if Shonda is a Connie Willis fan.
Spoilers for tonight's GA behind the cut.
Ok, I realize that the chances of them killing off the title character in this show are about the same as my chances of winning the lottery--but WOULDN'T IT BE COOL IF THEY DID? Seriously. I don't hate Meredith like I did most of last season--I've actually been enjoying her now that she and Derek are together, and we don't have to put up with their whiny angstcakes. And yet I still think it would be kind of amazing if they killed her off. It would really have profound consequences on all the characters, and shake them up in interesting ways.
What killed me the most was how Cristina instinctively knew something was wrong. And the look on her face when she found out! Damn, that was good. This show does emotional character arcs so well, even when it is blatantly unrealistic on other fronts (LIKE the fact that every doctor in the hospital is hanging out with Meredith when there's been enough trauma with the ferry accident that they should all be constantly in surgery for the next week straight).
As it turns out, I was more invested in Meredith's storyline tonight than any of the others. Izzie, brain drilling, blah blah blah; George searching for the little boy blah blah. Ok, I did like Karev's plot tonight, both his coming up with a strategy to identify people and his search for pregnant woman's husband. But mostly I was into the Meredith plot, and the way it impacted on the Cristina plot. "She's my person."
I know, they won't kill her. Still, her near-death experience is already fun. I LOVE that they brought back exploded bomb-squad guy, because I really liked him in those two brief episodes he was in, and I thought it was terrible how his death was just completely glossed over, so I'm happy we're going to get more closure there. And DENNY!! If Meredith is going to wake up, I want her to bring big soapy messages from beyond the grave for Izzie. It's fitting, in this show.
I think what I love best about the NDE is that it's really reminding me of one of my favorite novels, Connie Willis' Passages , which is all about NDE's. In fact, in the book there's a doctor who has an NDE (actually she figures out how to stimulate brain passages to make similar effects happen), and she has a best friend who's an ER nurse, and their relationship reminds me a lot of Cristina and Meredith's. And in the book, the metaphor for death is the sinking of the Titanic--just like in this ep it's the ferry boat. It makes me wonder if Shonda is a Connie Willis fan.