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3 hours ago, txhorns79 said:
Didn't they already do that storyline a few seasons ago? Wasn't that an Alzheimer's study that Derek was doing that Meredith blew up violating the double blind structure to ensure Adele got the real treatment?
My memory fails me, but wouldn't that taint her credibility on working on any Alzheimer related study? I mean, I know Grey's isn't anything close to real life, but they couldn't find a better excuse for EP to exit the show?
3 hours ago, ams1001 said:I was thinking the same thing. How old are the other two? Why is Zola's opinion the only one that matters?
Ellis is pretty young, but IIRC Bailey is maybe a year or 2 younger than Zola.
Anyway, the entire story arc developed for EP's exit is just sloppy. Just go already.
I did enjoy Bailey & Addison. As heavy handed as the storyline was, I didn't mind it. It's reality for far too many people with uterus now.
HATE revisiting the Catherine hiding her medical issues from her family storyline again.
Also hating the Lucas/Amelia storyline. Unless he was going to be completely no contact with his family, he should have tried to match elsewhere. So Amelia is wrong and so is Lucas. It's just dumb all all-round. Some clean and deal with the nepotism accusations.
Best part of this episode was no Owen & Teddy.
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On 10/28/2022 at 11:57 AM, marceline said:
Bringing Teddy and Owen back was a mistake. Their relationship has moved from dysfunctional to absolutely toxic. It's hard to believe that they were once even friends.
I haven't like their relationship since they brought her back. I mean Teddy's pregnancy was the result of Owen rebounding & flying to Germany (?) for a long distance booty call. Why she would follow him back to the states after that and then proceed to build a relationship from that is gross. I hate they the show tried to make them the measuring stick of a successful relationship for Maggie/Winston or Linc/Jo is insane. I liked Maggie/Winston before this season and I have no idea why they didn't let Jo/Linc connect last season.
On 10/28/2022 at 5:58 PM, KaveDweller said:I guess that is setting up Meredith to be gone most of the season.
They definitely are but it's being done so heavy handed, that it's insufferable. Also the whole genius Zola thing makes no sense. Especially when it's clear the main issues are more MH. I realize many extremely smart kids can also have MH issues, but the way they are writing this, they are muddling the 2.
I dunno, this week wasn't as enjoyable. It felt very heavy handed. They are clearly moving the characters around to prepare for Meredith's departure, but it's super clunky writing.
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23 hours ago, RedbirdNelly said:
that I understand but "spend a day recording a sex ed video" doesn't make sense to me
YMMV but in terms of "teaching high school students" it makes sense to me. Sex education and teaching young people about their bodies is still community outreach. A hospital is perfectly capable of functioning without interns for 1 day, Even one as dysfunctional as Grey Sloan.
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On 10/24/2022 at 2:27 PM, RedbirdNelly said:
This episode reminded me of old Grey's in the way it pulled all the interns to do something that had nothing to do with surgery, leaving me wonder why on earth they would do that. It turned out ok in the end but I prefer medical case storylines.
In real life interns actually are actually required to participate in things not directly surgical related, but medically adjacent. For example, I worked as a Certified Child Life Specialist. Interns had to spend a certain amount of hours working with us. It wasn't a long period of time, I think it was 2 weeks. I also know not every hospital had that requirement, but the goal was to have a more well rounded doctor. One that could treat the whole patient and not just the illness.
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23 hours ago, KaveDweller said:
Deluca was an intern when he first came on, he definitely had a real story arc and personality.
And they seemed to set up some interesting characters with Schmitt's class, they just never followed through and let them all leave.
They definitely picked one or 2 to give actual story arcs and personalities, just not entire classes. The frustrating part was many of them did have potential. Casey, Qadri both had potential. Helms didn't really have a personality outside of being Levi's BFF and having a crush on Grey. Just so many missed opportunities.
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3 hours ago, izabella said:
This is what they should have been doing all along. Every few years (since time means nothing on GA), have a new crop of interns as the old ones leave. You know, like normal hospitals! Instead, they did everything except for that.
For a while they were doing just that. After Jo's class they stopped making the interns actual people and other than Schmitt, didn't actually give them story arcs or personalities.
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40 minutes ago, KaveDweller said:
Since the data has all been digitized, it is more believable that it could be accessed. It absolutely would have been archived if they were paper records, but if it is digital why deal with archiving.
Maybe they have a database where it searches older files if they can't find something in recent ones. That would mean the extra records aren't slowing down most searches.
I guess it depends. We have a lot of hospitals in my city and they limit how far back they go to convert records to digital and the rest are archived. I *think* the limit was 20 years. I guess if they converted all the old Seattle Grace records to digital, retrieval would be that easy.
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22 hours ago, ams1001 said:
Yeah, I totally wouldn't suspect that Addison knows Lucas. Not at all.
I would absolutely expect Addison to know Lucas. She would have been married to Derek when he was born and if she kept in touch with his mother after she and Derek broke up, it makes perfect sense.
22 hours ago, LexieLily said:Intern Jules is totally getting pregnant from the just-one-time-and-no-feelings sexcapade with Blue, isn't she?
If they are continuing to mirror the original interns, then I can absolutely see at the very least a pregnancy scare.
22 hours ago, Laurie4H said:1 hour ago, ams1001 said:Would a hospital really have almost-30-year-old patient data that easily accessible? You'd think they'd archive it at some point. Staff aren't going to need to go back that far on a day-to-day basis, and with the number of patients coming in and out that's a lot of server space for information no one's likely to be looking for (and it would probably make their searches take longer).
Simone was born in Seattle Grace. What is now Grey Sloan has been renovated several times. I would think between it would be archived off site.
I don't mind Amelia being bi. It tracks for the character. I just don't see any chemistry between the 2 actors. I also don't care one bit about Owen & Teddy.
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8 hours ago, chitowngirl said:
I would be complaining to HR about a hostile work environment. No one should have to tolerate that, even an intern.
The Teddy & Owen plot was stupid. You would have thought they would have taken into consideration Owen couldn't actually teach in the ER under the circumstances of his probation. He should have been put in a lecture/classroom status from jump.
Speaking of Owen. Did they jettison Megan & Farouk along with the other surgical residents?
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On 10/13/2022 at 10:52 PM, BoogieBurns said:
Soulmates! But no, it seemed platonic. Sad to see Luke Dunphy lose a leg, but a good twist on the season 1 (pilot?) episode with the rhythmic gymnast.
Last episode, I saw Amelia and Adams standing in a room acting weird. I thought they were messing around too. But he has to clear it up fast, or else people will forever think he dated his aunt.
Zola brought me to tears, she's lost so much. She was already orphaned once! Then she loses her dad, her mom loves to almost die, and now she realizes Maggie could get Alzheimer's like the great Ellis?!? She deserves an hour of hugs a day until she's 100.
The actress, I forget her real name but it's really cute, posted on IG that she was back on set around the same time the other cast members were posting they were back. I think she's still a regular. She should be chief resident. Schmitt should be nothing.
Is Nico (Schmidt's boo) gone?
The roommates genuinely seemed like just roomies to me. I think the guy was a little emotional because he was so socially awkward and his roommate really helped. I never got a romance vibe.
Helm really did have a crush on Grey. The thing was she knew it was a crush but sometimes it takes a minute to outgrown that crush. That said, since Helms is back, please give her an actual storyline. Let her go on dates. Are she & Schmitt still living in Jo's old apartment?
I think Zola's at the age where she can truly comprehend what Ellis having Alzheimer's means. Compounded with the losses she has already experienced, I can definitely see it hitting her hard.
In the beginning I liked Nico/Schmitt, but as time went on they basically made Nico a meat stick for Schimtt. The constant break ups and getting back together and yet neither one shows a lick of personal growth. Nico's whole family backstory dropped and unresolved. Nico asking Schmitt to move in with him dropped so that he can move in with Helm. If Nico is back, pair him with someone else. I'm over Schmico.
On 10/13/2022 at 11:37 PM, Mirabelle said:So Helm was literally in love with Meredith and it wasn't just a case of creepy hero worship? That aside, that was the most I've ever liked Helm and when she comes back to the hospital I hope she really is over her infatuation with Meredith.
Yes Helm was indeed infatuated with Meredith. It's nice to see the character even stating it. I just hope they can show her moving on and actually having a normal dating life.
On 10/14/2022 at 1:25 PM, taanja said:Wait. What? Ellen Pompeo is only going to be in half the eps this season?
She's in a new series on Hulu.
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On 10/8/2022 at 12:35 PM, iMonrey said:
Something I also don't get - the residency program was shut down for reasons too complicated to remember, and has now apparently been reinstated for other reasons I don't get. But from what I can tell there are no current residents, except for Schmitt, since all the other ones had to go find jobs elsewhere. So what's the point of having a chief resident if there are no other residents?
Not exactly. The surgical residency program was shut down. That's how Schmidt got to stay, by switching to OB which apparently kept their residency program. The solution was a lot of upgrades in terms of tech and agreeing to take the bottom of the barrel residents. These are all doctors who would not have matched with any other program. So what is happening is Schmitt will transfer back to being a surgery resident and as the only senior surgery resident at the hospital, he will be chef resident over the misfits.
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40 minutes ago, iMonrey said:
Wait, I'm confused. Which one is the Shepherd nephew? Was he the one who screwed up by telling the wrong parent their child was brain-dead?
Lucas is the one who told the wrong parent.
Fun fact, the actor playing Lucas was Jake (aka Schmidt) love interest in the movie "There's Something about Harry."
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1 hour ago, KaveDweller said:
This show likes to play with time, so they certainly could make Richard involved somehow. Ellis seems less likely, since she isn't hear to react or be involved. Or maybe they'll have it be someone we've never heard of, who now works with Jo (since OB would make more sense to be involved in a childbirth case than a surgeon).
Now that's a definite possibility.
SpoilerEspecially since Addison is scheduled to return. She and Derek were interns under Richard Weber.
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17 hours ago, Lady Calypso said:
Honestly, after the last...three batches of interns, most of these ones seem somewhat competent. They definitely were working for an old Grey's school vibe, with how similar the new class is to MAGIC in various ways (with some updates/changes, of course), the return of the Basement, and even some old instrumentals (I know I definitely heard an instrumental of How To Save a Life when Meredith was introducing the new class in the surgical room). When's the last time we got some truly competent interns? Maybe Stephanie and Heather from Jo's class?
I appreciate them not treating this class like a total joke and giving them some life. Even the mistakes many of them made here, they're mistakes Meredith and her class would have made. And that's the vibe they were going for...yet I didn't hate it. I should be more annoyed at the blatant rip-offs of season 1 to try to capture a semblance of the magic they went for back then. And, yes, this class will never capture that magic, but they made me more intrigued than any other attempts of a class. And we're on season 19, which means this show has been going on a LONG time, so if they've managed to do SOMETHING to impress me, that's pretty damn good.
I even think I got their names down. Dr. Griffith (Simone, I think I remember from the pre-season release?) was the most intriguing and they gave her the most backstory so far. Plus, probably the most competent one there.
Mika (aka Dr. Please Shut Up) felt at first like a season 1 Alex but she seemed to morph into a kinder version of Alex. So at least they didn't just have her make dark humour jokes the entire time like they would have with Schmitt's class.
Jules (aka Dr. I Slept With an Attending Oops!) was...fairly bland, until she told Link "I don't want a relationship with you, dude, WTF?" She felt like a rehash of Meredith AND Izzie.
Lucas Adams (aka a Shepherd nephew! What a twist!) started off really off-putting but even before the reveal, he seemed to tone it down and figure out his shit. I guess he started as the George with making a crucial mistake day 1 that almost cost him his career, but adding the Shepherd aspect to this does put things in perspective (why Lucas grabbed Amelia like that at one point). And, if he's a Shepherd, you know he's going to excel in whatever specialty he chooses, since almost the entire family are in the medical field.
And Dr. Kwan (aka Blue) is...well, I see him being a mini Cristina with the cutthroat behaviour. I do like Harry Shum Jr so I expect to at least not totally be turned off by his character so early on.
Meredith seemed to be more alive here than she's been in years. Ellen actually looked like she was acting!
For a six month time jump, they really wrapped up cliffhangers within minutes (Richard leaving, Teddy/Owen on the run, the residency program needing to be saved) and I'm not sure that's a great thing.
Schmitt being the Chief Resident, mostly because they're short staffed, is just so ridiculous. Schmitt killed a patient less than a year ago and he has ZERO leadership skills. He's gonna be a terrible Chief Resident.
Not much on anyone else, besides Owen needing a probationary attending, it seems, and Maggie/Winston....actually, I didn't catch an update with them.
Overall, I mean, we're 19 seasons into Grey's. It's never gonna be like the early years but at least, for the first time since...god, I don't even know when, at least eight years, I feel somewhat excited and hopeful about the season.
I agree, this wasn't a bad season intro. I think they realized they needed to go back and give the residents actual personalities and backstories in order for us to care.
I think Lucas will be part George (the bumbling) and part Jackson Avery (high connected/nepotism baby). It will be interesting how they make this work.
I'm over Teddy/Owen. If they had never retruned, I would have been 100% okay with it.
Overall, decent job of wrapping up all the cliff hangers.
16 hours ago, KaveDweller said:I kind of assumed we would. Or at least that they were there.
Simone is too young for her death to be a result of Ellis mistake. Interns are 25/26, show is 19 seasons along, wonky timelines considered Ellis was either in Boston and/or already suffering from dementia. Either way she was no longer at Seattle Grace. There's a slim chance the writers could make Richard be involved, but when the show started he was Chef. Hopefully they don't have him have somehow been involved. It would be nice if that's the end of Simone's tragic backstory; that her mother died in child birth at this hospital.
Anyway, this was a decent season opener.
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On 7/31/2022 at 6:09 PM, funnygirl said:
Grey's has been a consistent disappointment for years now, so I wouldn't be surprised if - in addition to the 5 new residents they've cast and are adding to the show - they keep useless Schmitt and the other merry band of idiot residents that have been chewing screen time.
The main problem I have with this latest bunch of residents is they never actually gave them personalities. Except for Schmitt we know nothing about their lives outside the hospital or their personalities. They are mostly just the butt of jokes. This show started following Grey and her fellow interns. We knew all about their backgrounds & families. We barely know last names for half this bunch.
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This past season was truly awful. I didn't care one bit about any of the Minneapolis folks. Teddy/Owen are insufferable. Nico/Levi need to realize they just aren't right for each other. I was hopeful at the end of the previous season, but then this season happened and they broke up AGAIN. Just give them other love interest and let them move on. Please give the new interns actual storylines & backstories. I have to admit, I'm a Harry Shum Jr fan so I hope he gets an actual storyline.
Sorta, kinda explains how they get the residency program back. Sounds like an experimental program to take residents that may not have matched elsewhere.
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CiLEpblhfgW/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
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There's a promo out that sort of explains how it will happen. Gonna post a link in the spoilers thread
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I'm sure they'll be a magical handwave and the residency program be restored in the first episode.
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They missed a chance years ago to focus on the rest of the hospital and less on Ellen. I agree Ellen seems over it, but I also think she knows deep down she'll never get another opportunity like Grey's. I think it's pretty clear that the show is trying to limp on until season 20 and then it's a wrap.
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This past season was truly awful. I didn't care one bit about any of the Minneapolis folks. Teddy/Owen are insufferable. Nico/Levi need to realize they just aren't right for each other. I was hopeful at the end of the previous season, but then this season happened and they broke up AGAIN. Just give them other love interest and let them move on. Please give the new interns actual storylines & backstories. I have to admit, I'm a Harry Shum Jr fan so I hope he gets an actual storyline.
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On 12/1/2021 at 4:26 AM, Zonk said:
They said they'd maintain data connection through the teather, when it was pointed out that there would be a problem with interference. The writers just forgot about it. The holo should have stoped working after the teather was cut.
There being just enough of a connection for an uninterrupted holo but not for a bit of gravitational data? Buh humbug!
The tether was to help keep them in range of getting a signal to transmit. They could have kept holo Stamets, but he should have glitched in and out more. I saw him glitch once or twice, but it's blink and you miss it. Then saying the signal wasn't strong enough to trasmit would make more sense.
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On 11/28/2021 at 2:48 PM, Affogato said:
I must have missed that, thanks. The number ones always refuse to be captain of other ships, don't they? In the Discovery's case it makes some sense, since they all are exiles in time.
they are certainly showing us that Michael is just wonderfully able to accept support and advice from Saru. Also wonderfully supportive of Book. Leading with your emotional intelligence does seem to distinguish her from some of the other captains.
I like Saru as Michael's number 1, more than I liked Michael as Saru's number 1. He balances her out much better. I also think Saru's skill lie more as advisor or counselor of sort. I know he is on the counsel for Kaminar, but before the season premiered, I imagined him as an Ambassador housed on Disco.
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On 11/25/2021 at 12:36 PM, Zonk said:
o how did the Stamits Hologram keep continue to function after the tether was cut? They said thay'd send it through the teather to get around the distortions. And Stamits couldn't even send data back, but he could maintain a live stream of his body and conciousness?
The tether was ship to ship, not ship to person. It was a literal "rope" attaching Book's ship to Disco. Stamets could send the data back because the connection was only strong enough to maintain his holo, it couldn't take the added data.
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On 11/11/2021 at 10:23 PM, statsgirl said:
Travis: We need to tell Vic right away that Dean's died. [Me: Don't! she's just been electrocuted, don't shock her with this! ] Bailey takes Travis to tell her, Vic's heart stops.
Only one person is allowed to be a visitor in CCU. Why are all three of them sitting at Vic's bedsie all night?
Speaking of extra privileges, I hate when someone entitled pulls rank. No other parent would have been allowed to sit in on Farouk's surgery and Meghan just walked in there and sat down like it was her right.
Probably another reason why Ben didn't tell her, she's not the most reasonable person reacting to a surprise.
I'm not surprised that Megan insisted on holding Farouk's hand during surgery. Yes it seems wildly inappropriate, but I worked in a Peds ER and witnessed doctors being just that insistent in the middle of a trauma when it was their own kid.
On 11/12/2021 at 5:06 AM, Laurie4H said:So now Amelia is interested in a woman? Or is she not a woman since the actress is a they? I’m open minded but I feel like it’s forced for some political agenda. Did Amelia ever have an interest in anyone other than men before? It’s really not as common as this show makes it. Just like with Teddy, we find out she had a relationship with a woman. And several other story lines where people just switch it up.
Jo’s reference of the Partridge Family was odd. Maybe 15, 20 years ago it would still be nostalgic but it seems like most of the old shows are almost forgotten with the thousands of options we have now.On 11/12/2021 at 9:53 AM, Laurie4H said:But was it mentioned she was non binary? She looks like a woman so Amelia probably looks at her like she is a woman. Unless I missed something.
I sensed immediately that the actor was non binary. Since Kai is fairly well established in the medical community, I assume Amelia would know they are non binary.
On 11/12/2021 at 10:03 PM, iMonrey said:I did not catch that. And I'm willing to bet a lot of the audience didn't notice either.
And they have never done that with a male character who is introduced as straight. I guess that's because this show is basically aimed at women like most soaps so the male characters are all fantasy figures and they're not interested in showing their male characters as equally fluid.
As was mentioned Levi slept with Jo. When he and Nico got together he admitted he didn't realize he was gay until Nico kissed him. I will concede, however that the show tends to write more female presenting characters who are gender fluid than male presenting one.
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As for the episode:
The entire Minnesota storyline is a big snoozefest. I do not care one bit about the romance of Meredith and Dr. Marsh. Not even slightly interested in Amelia & Kai hooking up. The most interesting bit of that story arc was Koracick showing up. I almost feel like they are testing the waters for a Grey's spin off.
I watch and like Station 19 and even I'm sick of the many crossovers.
Speaking of which, I find it a bit unbelievable that Miller, knowing how his parents are, meeting JJ's equally pushy parents, being a former finance guy, having had conversations with Pruitt & the old head gang and being told to write up a will/make a plan for Pru AND having 2 separate conversations with Ben, would not have put something in writing about Pru's future. Miranda & Ben springing kids on each other is their love language. I don't care if Ben didn't talk to her.
I just want Grey's to focus on Greys. Give the new residents some actual storylines. Make them fully fleshed out characters instead of punch lines so we actually care about them. Give Nico an actual storyline instead of him being Levi's meat stick.
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S19.E05: When I Get to the Border
in Grey's Anatomy
I got the impression the Addison story arc is still up in the air. If the rumors of Kate Walsh rejoining and not just guest starring are true, I think they are trying to figure out a way to bring her back.
Oh yeah, that's right. This is the misfit match class. That just makes the whole secret nephew story even dumber. You bring on the misfit who is related to the chef and 1 of the surgeons, but want to keep it secret? Was everyone tripping on shrooms or something? What sane person would think that would work?