S19.E03: Let’s Talk About Sex

[BoogieBurns]

Gentle reminder: Kai's pronouns are they/them

Ex: "Why do they write them so dull?"

I'm not the pronoun police, this is just a safe space to get comfortable with using correct pronouns. If it gets confusing, just say Kai instead. (We're all still learning!)

Ex: "Why on earth is Amelia still with Kai?!" 

[bunnyface]

On 10/20/2022 at 11:10 PM, statsgirl said:

Richard said that he took care of a sack at 15. The idea of teaching high school students the difficulty of parenting started with the egg project in 1986 when the actor was 32.

I graduated high school well before 1986 and we had practice babies.  It's definitely been around longer than 1986.

[Milaxx]

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.

[RedbirdNelly]

13 hours ago, Milaxx said:

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.

that I understand but "spend a day recording a sex ed video" doesn't make sense to me

[DEL901]

16 minutes ago, RedbirdNelly said:

that I understand but "spend a day recording a sex ed video" doesn't make sense to me

Especially all at the same time so there are no interns available.  

[Susbeen]

Can we please talk about the Muslim hijabbi girl on the computer every episode? It looks like she is also an intern but getting zero screen time or lines…sad

[Milaxx]

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.

[shantown]

On 10/26/2022 at 1:01 PM, RedbirdNelly said:

that I understand but "spend a day recording a sex ed video" doesn't make sense to me

1 hour ago, Milaxx said:

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.

They've spent days on things like planning a high school prom before, so at least this is vaguely medical. (And medical in reference to humans, not to saving a deer that somebody hit, lol)

I liked it mainly because of how much it can set up within the episode - a reason for Addison to be back, a chance for the interns to interact comedically, it leads into related patient cases, and it serves as the impetus for the romantic hookups soap opera portion of the show.

[MarylandGirl]

2 hours ago, shantown said:

They've spent days on things like planning a high school prom before, so at least this is vaguely medical. (And medical in reference to humans, not to saving a deer that somebody hit, lol)

I liked it mainly because of how much it can set up within the episode - a reason for Addison to be back, a chance for the interns to interact comedically, it leads into related patient cases, and it serves as the impetus for the romantic hookups soap opera portion of the show.

Ha, thanks for reminding me about the deer!

And I do think the sex videos served the overall plot well.

[bybrandy]

On 10/24/2022 at 7:02 PM, BoogieBurns said:

Gentle reminder: Kai's pronouns are they/them

Ex: "Why do they write them so dull?"

I'm not the pronoun police, this is just a safe space to get comfortable with using correct pronouns. If it gets confusing, just say Kai instead. (We're all still learning!)

Ex: "Why on earth is Amelia still with Kai?!" 

The last time we saw them they were not all in on Amelia's mom life.  And since it seems Link and Amelia are pretty much 50/50 there is time for them to have a long distance relationship in the other half but it feels like something they should be discussing because it feels like a deal breaker in the long term.   

But I'm not invested in the couple just saying this feels like a big place to leave them without addressing it again.