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14 hours ago, FnkyChkn34 said:
Except that he botched his first surgery, was nicknamed "007" and then failed his intern exams... He was a decent doctor, but not great.
This!!!
But that's what I liked about him and Alex...he failed one of his tests,too and wasn't some genius intern...I mean how many surgeons do we know from Greys who graduated at the top of their class at one point and became brilliant doctors right away? Amelia was no.1 at Harvard even though she used to be a "junky" and when she appeared on PP she was fired from her fellowship,but performed some "miracle surgery" right away, Cristina was at the top of her class even though she had a learning disabilty, Meredith overcomes everything and passes every test,because she is the titular character...oh and please don't forget about super genius Maggie Pierce and "Lexipedia"...
I liked George because he showed that even if you are in the best intern program you can still struggle...it's not wrong to mess up.
He was very down to earth,just like Alex. I always loved how bluntly honest he was as an intern. He never beat around the bush.
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1 hour ago, FnkyChkn34 said:
And smoking hot. I mean, do surgeons really look like Patrick Dempsey, Eric Dane, and Sara Ramirez?? (Hint: no, they do not.) I liked George because in addition to being a regular guy, he looked more like a regular guy, too.
Oh yeah,you are right. And don't get me started with Addison Montgomery. High Heels,skirts...she had the looks AND the brains with her zillion job titles. George,however,was the "everyday guy." He wasn't freaking good looking and it seems like he didn't really care. Many people hated that about him,because they thought he was boring. For me,it was the opposite. He was a breath of fresh air.
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10 hours ago, Eolivet said:
I think others have touched on it, but what hit me when I saw George is what the show has been missing: normalcy. George was a regular guy. Normal. Down-to-earth. He was the proverbial everyman, to me, and when the show lost him, they lost that perspective. I can't tell you how much I needed to see the guy who personified normalcy, in the middle of a COVID episode. Because nothing feels normal. But George was normal. And like Meredith saw George, even through a dream/hallucination, maybe that means we can get normalcy back someday.
I agree with you. The normalcy is what I liked about him the most. When you watch Greys you get the feeling that every intern and surgeon/doctor is brilliant,world-famous and super smart. I loved characters like Alex and George because they had their edges and imperfections. 🙂
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On 11/21/2020 at 3:28 PM, SarahK said:
Kate Walsh has been riding out the pandemic in my hometown of Perth, Western Australia. Apparently she was holidaying here when lockdown happened in New York so she just...stayed. I saw her on stage recently in the inaugural production of a local theatre company. In a former dance hall 5 minutes walk away from my house. Surreal but fantastic!
Yeah I read about that. I love how she still sticks to the roots of acting by playing small roles in theater. She also said that she is trying to open a film studio in Western Australia. I adore actors and actresses who don't only act for the big pay check,but also love the art behind acting. Kate Walsh really is a blessing. I love how her career turned out.
She said she will stay in December and then return to the U.S until at least July or something so it seems like she will return to Australia soon. 🙂
You can consider yourself lucky for having the opportunity to watch her so close. 🙂
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42 minutes ago, readster said:
Oh that's exactly it. All these others hows from Shondaland have ended for a couple of reasons. 1. They lost in ratings. 2. The main actors were ready to move on. 3. Even the writers were: "We can't do this anymore. 4. The network said: "it's getting expensive and you don't have the ratings and half of you are ready to leave the show, so it's been fun."
Grey's honestly, has nothing to fill in the void, in fact if the show left say this year and they gave Station 19 another year, I would bet dollars to donutes it be gone by that season. It doesn't have big enough ratings or anything to keep it going longer. Even as a spin off of Grey's, even Private Practice didn't go past 7 years.
I agree with the majority of your post,but I think PP would have been able to go on for another 2 years or something if the main actress hadn't asked to leave. Kate wanted to move on which is the main reason why the show ended.
But you are right. Grey's has nothing to fill in the void but I doubt,that if the rumors are true and Ellen really demands that amount of money that the network will agree. The article I've read also said that there is (supposedly of course) an actress who would play the role of Meredith and demanding much less than Ellen,but I think that wouldn't work...Who wants to see a Meredith that isn't Ellen Pompeo? 😄
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Cristina was the driven one, the one who was ahead during her intern year/residency. If I picture someone coming up with some great surgery it would be her.
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23 minutes ago, Daisy said:
Honestly it doesn't bother me that Meredith won. It won't bother me (if the show continues) if she wins again. She's established (even before "you are the Sun!" that she is really, incredibly smart/brilliant blah blah blah and i am really am fine with that. But this is why this dumb award bugs me:
It's based on innovation and research (mostly) so why are all these surgeons researchers/innovating? etc etc. Isn't that more.... research doctors jobs? I dunno the actual term but i doubt most regular surgeons don't really have time to be all "innovate and research!"
and mostly. it takes one line hell even use the Cristina storyline fall out to have he rules change. We know there are at least 75+ Avery/Fox hospitals. why wasn't there some sort of uprising that they should ALL be considered. (or hell why wasn't it known up front that Fox/avery people weren't included for the Avery/Fox award). and because Cristina's thing was so revolutionary- they HAD to make a Change. so she did miss out on this thing - but because of that Cristina opened the door for everyone to be included regardless of where you worked.
(and it's Cristina. in my head she'll win tonnes anyway from her hospital in Switzerland). but just... acknowledge it.Oh yeah. You totally read my mind. 😄 It buggles me that Cristinas situation was shoved aside so easily. 😞
And to be totally honest? I do have a problem with Meredith winning the award, because in my pov there were surgeons on the show who were known for being the best in their fields and doing research for years but Meredith, sitting at home staring at her broken wall,suddenly comes up with some revolutionary surgery and gets an award for it. To me,Meredith never stood out as a surgeon. She was always naturally talented,yes,but her love life and personal issues were always put first.
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Thanks to all of you who brought up the Harper Avery Award situation.
I got the feeling that the writers wanted Meredith to win the award because she is the shows main character so of course she needed to be the one coming up with a great surgery that would secure her the award.
Cristina was robbed.
On 11/25/2020 at 8:40 PM, Daisy said:I will have to say, and this show does it a lot - but it's so noticeable in the later seasons (and even now) it really needs to be brought up. I get that this is a show run by predominately women, and it's for women and they wanna be all "the future is female" etc - but i find the later the seasons go, the more unrealistic it is. I've been reading older threads (just to see how i felt them vs. now - some perspective). some things has changed (Like i like how Amelia changed after she had her tumour removed though i still wanna smack her a lot of times). little things like that. - but what gets tiresome is how they pretty much push down men - to make the women rise up and to me that's really irksome. You don't need to do that, Show. and if you feel you have to, then honestly you are missing the whole point.
Amen to that!😎
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3 minutes ago, readster said:
Yep and that's gotten other shows cancelled sooner because of paying more of the actors. Hell, some shows have tried to remain in their status with decent to OK ratings by firing various actors and cutting down shows to make sure they can "afford them" and it turned them into crap a whole lot faster.
Exactly! You also have to ask yourself why networks cling to shows that have been on air as long as Grey's is now...to me it looks like they simply don't have anything better as a replacement, so it's logical to stick with the long-running show as long as the ratings don't decline to an all-time-low.
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19 hours ago, kariyaki said:
And they’ll pay it. Greys is one of the network’s highest rated shows.
Greys being one of the highest rated shows of the network doesn't say much. A 1.2 rating in the important adult 18-49 group is very low. If the rumors are true (it's said that Ellen demands 4.2 million dollars MORE for each season) I have my doubts that they will be able to pay that without having to fire someone else. Plus...I'm sure she won't be the only one wanting more money. Networks have to figure out if it's rentable to let a show remain on air for much longer when it's only there to pay the insane salary of the shows star.🤷♀️
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I still watch Greys, but I personally wouldn't mind if the show ended after this season. In my pov the show has been on air longer than it needed to, but Ellen said that she just couldn't refuse the money they offered her which is why the show is still on air. Alive? Not so much,because I don't see any decent storylines anymore,but I want to know how the show is going to end which is why I'm still around.
In the German press rumors are going around that this season might be the last,because Ellen is demanding more money...but it's just that: A rumor.
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5 hours ago, FnkyChkn34 said:
My comment was really only in response to the speculation about why don't they have enough money to afford their own places. Sorry, maybe I quoted the wrong comment.
Meredith said her house would the place where strays are always welcome. That was established early in season 1 and has been a theme throughout the whole show. It's also pretty much a no-brainer that it's necessary for the plot and just for the ease of writing a TV show. I don't think it happens nearly as often in reality, but it's also helpful to have multiple responsible adults around to take care of the children, for example when Meredith would be called in for an emergency in the middle of the night. She can just leave knowing that her children aren't alone - and then us viewers have one less thing to criticize. "Why is she just leaving her toddler children alone in the middle of the night!?!" She's not. 😉
It's all a fictional TV show... we just have to go with it.
I agree with you on the bolted part. Viewers tend to criticize alot...especially when it comes to kids...but I've read about fans criticizing Meredith for not spending enough time with her kids in the first place and that leaving them with other surgeons,who "in reality" would be pretty much busy themselves (especially with being Department heads) isn't realistic.
But I see it the way you do: we just have to go with it. It's a TV show. 🙂
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1 hour ago, FnkyChkn34 said:
Derek and Addison had money out the wazoo - at one point, they owned a brownstone in Manhattan, a house in the Hamptons, Derek's 300 acres in Seattle, and his classic Land Rover Defender. Meredith probably has money too, it's just not important to her so it's not important to the show.
It's not about the importance of money. I'm pretty sure that Meredith has money,not just because she is a pretty good surgeon herself, but because her mom might have left money for her,too. I think many people are just confused why the surgeons on Grey's rather share homes and houses with each other (even the ones who aren't interns and have to pay off study loans) when they could easily afford their own place.
My theory is that the writers are unable to resist a classic TV trope of forcing characters together by having them be roommates. In real life, people in their 30s and 40s who make good livings would never live with their co-workers, but it provides a convenient way to get people in the same room when group exposition needs to be provided or a variety of reactions to some shocking news is needed.
But I also get that the surgeons on Greys spend more time in the hospital than anywhere else so why get a huge place for themselves?
Addison and Derek had their own practices back in New York and since I watched PP I know that the number of patients and working hours is much lower when you work in a practice. On PP every character had their own house and "the meeting point" was either the practice or Addisons house.
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On 11/30/2020 at 12:58 AM, limecoke said:
Lincoln complaining about Meredith’s crowded house and Maggie needing a tent? These are doctors. For a zillion seasons the show has convinced us they are the most prestigious surgeons in the universe. However, they don’t seem to have the means to buy their own home ?? Yeah, that makes sense. I can hear it now...”But we’re SISTERS.....”
I like McWidow but don’t like him for Meredith. But that’s where they’re going, right?
I know it’s awful to say but the pounding of COVID in tv shows is wearing me down. I don’t know what else they can do but still...
Sure, Patrick Dempsey looks way older but so does Ellen Pompeo. If they wanted dead young looking Derek they should have used old film.
This. Haha. I really don't get it,but I'm always trying to figure it out. Maybe it's supposed to be a "meeting point" outside of the hospital or something like that.🤔🤔
BTW: The most prestigious surgeons have left the show loooooong ago.😎
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7 minutes ago, Avabelle said:
I just don’t think she got the chance as Heigl literally didn’t return to the set. It’s funny actually how similar her and Chambers exits were.
What surprised me with Heigl and Greys is that either the network or Shondaland bent over backwards to keep her. She bitched about not having good enough material to work with and they gave her the cancer storyline. She wanted time off to accommodate her movies and later maternity leave and they have her that. She was given a big fat pay check to re up her contract and after all of that she stilll screwed them over last minute by refusing to return to film her final episode of the contract she backed out of.
I think Shonda seems an ego maniac and Greys does seem pretty toxic but I do get why there’s no love lost with Heigl.
Oh yeah. Ellen said herself that times behind the scenes were pretty toxic.
Kate Walsh who appeared to be one of the more "inconspicuous" actresses from whom we never heard anything bad about said that people on set stopped talking to her when they heard that she got her own show. However, she never addressed who it was.
It's astonishing for how long this show has been going on DESPITE of what happened bts.
There are shows (like Castle e.g) which got cancelled because of bts issues.😐
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30 minutes ago, Snow Fairy said:
I agree. We don't need such thing for a whole season. Will they make up a storyline in which covid is gone? Because otherwise the show will be really to much like reality
They're:
A. Known for taking on topical issues
B. In Seattle, where the first outbreaks in the US were seen
C. Placing the season in the midst of Covid gives them a way to allow their cast and crew to remain safer by wearing PPE, even while filming so I think the Covid situation won't magically disappear.
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7 minutes ago, Avabelle said:
I don’t know that The Heigl dislike is limited to Greys. I’m pretty sure she fell out with Judd Apatow too after slating Knocked Up. I think that her apologies about her Greys behaviour were delivered too late - she was only sorry after her career didn’t take off.
Also the Gizzie storyline was awful but I don’t think she should have been publicly slating the show she worked on. It’s just screams unprofessional and disrespectful.
I agree. It just suprises me that Shonda didn't kill Heigls character off. Rumors are going around that Shonda loved to do that with characters of actors she had "issues" with.
I think there are only a handful of actors who got along well with practically everyone.
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I read somewhere that Patrick will be seen three more times after his first appearance so if we count in 17x03 it will only be two more. Should be enough. Tell Meredith to move on and then leave,dear Derek. That will be Meredith' closure. 🙂
5 hours ago, dmc said:The woman who committed fraud and faced jail time as a single parent. The woman who screwed up a clinical trial knowing she waiting on an adoption confirmation. Meredith only considers Meredith and sometimes Christina and slightly less than sometimes Alex.
If any one had told me Amelia and Linc would be THE couple on the show, I would not have believed them. I for one am proud of Owen, he's being something we never see on this show PROFESSIONAL. He's not letting his feelings dictate how he does his job.
Is anyone dreading the inevitable Deloser and Lucky Charms love triangle coming maybe a square if Derrick stays arounds.
What have they done to Koracick, this guy was always a good doctor and teacher? I am hoping that Koracick and Owen become best friends and tell Teddy to eff off.
I sometimes ask myself how this woman got her Harper Avery Award.^^
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Love the Mer/Der reunion.😍
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1 hour ago, anna0852 said:
OK, let's start the pot.
$20 says our mysterious guest star in two weeks is Cristina.
If it was a few days ago I would have thrown in a $100 for Cristina, because the wiki page for season 17 had Sandra Oh and Kate Walsh listed as guest stars,but a few days after the information "leaked" both names were removed from the guest list. 😞
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Cute reaction from Kate Walsh to the Dempsey/Pompeo reunion.😍
https://www.instagram.com/p/CHyj42_D0U0/?hl=de
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Drama bounds to happen on long running shows...but do you see-as an outsider- actors/actresses in the past and present where you got the feeling that they got along with everybody?
I always thought Kate Walsh was one of them.
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If it was up to me I would've ended the show long ago. In my pov it is way more satisfying to end the show on a high note. Cool surgeries have been done, enough tragedies have happened, enough kids for the characters have been born. Meredith has her Harper Avery award (the titular character always needs to shine,right?) What else is there to tell?
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On 9/25/2020 at 8:46 PM, chitowngirl said:
Can’t “like” your post enough!!
They're:
A. Known for taking on topical issues
B. In Seattle, where the first outbreaks in the US were seen
C. Placing the season in the midst of Covid gives them a way to allow their cast and crew to remain safer by wearing PPE, even while filming.
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S17.E05: Fight the Power
in Grey's Anatomy
I thought the 6 months crash course Arizona had was unrealistic anyway. I don't believe for a second that you can learn it that quickly and yeah...I honestly don't get why they try to push Jo into the OB/Gyn area. I'm not really up to date with all specialities, but is there even a fetal or neonatal surgeon? And I don't mean one of the caliber of Addy.