Crazy Bird Lady

Please don't take this the wrong way -- but darker colors absorb more of the sun's rays, lighter colors tend to reflect them. (That's why I always buy a car with a light-colored interior, since we live in an area where it gets very hot.) Maybe Hakim's skin was absorbing more heat than the other guys', or was absorbing it faster, and that led to early heat exhaustion. Anyway, it's sad that Hakim had to tap out. I was looking forward to seeing how he would do as a survivalist when he had two very capable partners... They called him "The Ninja", and if I recall correctly, they said he's training for that American Ninja Warrior show. Those guys have to be incredibly buff on top, to carry their own weight as they swing their way across tricky obstacles. So Hakim probably has a very different skill set from the other guys.

Without a doubt, Chris was out of line for throwing away half of that piece of green fruit that Honora climbed a tree to get. (Indeed, Chris has been 'more than rude' to her in quite a few scenes -- but his behavior still isn't as extreme or as completely unacceptable as Honora's). I don't understand why the producers haven't pulled Honora from the show already. She is obviously very emotionally unstable, and she might even become dangerous. Honora's emotional instability was apparent in the challenge she tapped out of, when she insisted on lying out in the hot sun despite her partner's repeated admonitions to get into the shade. It was not surprising to me that she ended up getting heat stroke (or whatever that was) and being pulled out of there on a stretcher, unconscious! When she did the same thing again in the XL show, I think Chris and Luke should at least have tried to get her into the shade --but I'm sure they knew how she had reacted before during the 2-person challenge. It was probably Honora's way of trying to manipulate Luke and Chris into begging her to return to the shelter. She probably wanted them to fuss and worry about her getting 'sick,' and they just didn't want to play that game.

I agree with what Greysaddict said --except that, in the beginning, I did consider Grey's a "medical show" (with a touch of soap opera added for that little 'zing' of romantic flavor). Whatever you call it, it was a nice balance of medicine and romance. And I completely agree that new interns introduced regularly are needed to re-establish that balance as the original cast matures and (in some cases) they leave the show. Sadly, when new interns become 'main characters' with romantic drama of their own, Grey's swings back into overdone 'soap opera' mode. Perhaps the solution is a new Chief who believes in rules and in consequences for breaking them. (Nazi Bailey would be good for Chief, but I don't see any believable way that Bailey could suddenly become her old self again.)

Living for so long with an alcoholic husband could drive a person to become a hoarder, I think As for the filth -- no doubt, Michelle is responsible for some of it. But alcoholics aren't exactly famous for cleaning, or even for throwing their own garbage into the trash...

The worst part is, the producers of the show are dropping the whole group's survival score because they cannot work with Honora! Those producers are the people responsible for this situation in the first place. There is no reason why they should have included Honora in the XL show. She did nothing impressive the first time, and she tapped out early because she thought it would be nice to lie out and bake in the sun for hours on a brutally hot day. (Such a shocker that she got heat exhaustion!) Why would the producers decide that background qualified her for this (even more difficult) XL survival challenge?? It makes no sense.

I'd like to see the show return to a format more like they used in the beginning. It used to be a show about young doctors treating interesting patients, performing difficult operations, and, yes, making mistakes (but learning from them). That was the core of the show. The interpersonal drama just flowed along with that. Of course, there was romance and there were problems between some of the interns, etc. But at the end of the day, it was a show about dedicated people whose main focus was making sick people better. Now, they don't seem to 'waste' much time on patient care and surgeries. Now, the show seems like more of a soap opera, with its main focus about who's together and who's breaking up (and why). The hospital is mostly just the stage setting, now, and the patients they treat are usually just playing minor parts.

Certifiable! Why did they choose her, out of all the women who have tapped out?