S20.E09: I Carry Your Heart

[txhorns79]

Airing 5/23/24.

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Just as Amelia comes to a realization, Teddy encourages her and Meredith to speed up their Alzheimer's research over fear of Catherine finding out. Mika finds herself caught in the middle of Link and Jo; meanwhile, Lucas receives bad news.

 

 

[LexieLily]

Look at Yasuda out here learning that she can't depend on her colleagues/superiors to behave professionally at work and applying that to her relationship with Helm. Better for her to break it off with Helm now before Yasuda resented her more than she did already. Lucas McNephew is staying on the show as far as we know, is there a way for Yasuda to take Pierce up on the Chicago residency offer?

Meredith is so cold and emotionally detached when she talks to Nick, I find it hard to believe she loves him or would buy that house with him. Good on Nick for telling her how he's uprooted his life for her so many times and he's not going to do it again. No, Meredith, telling Nick that "you've always been bad at relationships" doesn't make it better. Good on Nick for telling her that, too. Why are two interns that Meredith/Amelia barely know being brought into the secret research when Meredith's live-in partner/free babysitter for her kids was literally right there the entire time?

I don't know what Teddy and Meredith expected to happen when Teddy told Catherine to her face that she spent the discretionary fund on research Meredith knew had to be done in secret. The way Catherine made her random visit to Amelia's lab and only Amelia's lab, who do we think it was that tipped her off?

 

[txhorns79]

5 minutes ago, LexieLily said:

The way Catherine made her random visit to Amelia's lab and only Amelia's lab, who do we think it was that tipped her off?

I'm pretty sure it was Owen.  He told Teddy he spoke with Catherine last week about seeking funding for his plan to teach first aid, and thought that caused her to look at the budget.  

I'd also tell Teddy not to worry about being fired, given firings rarely stick for main characters at Grey-Sloane.  I think Meredith has been fired twice, April was fired, Alex was fired and Richard (maybe?) was also fired. 

[DEL901]

Brunette female intern wrote a program to upload the data?  The data that was stored on paper?  Really?  

And Owen getting all self righteous about Teddy breaking rules?  Really?   Glad she called him on it.   Did either of them really think Catherine would be understanding?

Are they setting up a Winston, new doc, Amelia  triangle?

Jo is just tiresome.  And Linc has nothing to really do / no story line.  
 

 

[ams1001]

"We should keep work and home separate and when we have to work together keep it professional." Gee, what a concept. Took Show 20 years to figure that out?

I liked Winston finally saying goodbye to Maggie. Don't like him immediately hooking up with someone else.

[Laurie4H]

5 minutes ago, ams1001 said:

liked Winston finally saying goodbye to Maggie. Don't like him immediately hooking up with someone else.

I knew that was happening the minute she showed up at the bar.  It’s so predictable and cliche.  Doesn’t this show have any originality?  
 

The dialogue between the 2 interns doing data entry, writing code etc was so cringy.  Oh and then the cliche let’s have sex but then pretend we don’t have any feelings for each other.  

[babyrambo]

Greys has always been the workplace romance show but all the hook-ups this season seem baseless and desperate. Especially Monica and Winston. He’s a dullard who bores me every time he’s on screen and tied with Lucas for the character I want most to be written off. 

A love triangle with him, Monica, and Amelia is silly and unnecessary and there’s nothing I want to see less, except maybe another accidental pregnancy storyline. 

Also the reveal of two characters being bisexual would be interesting if this show actually invested in LGBT relationships like they did their straight ones. It’s strange that years ago they were so ahead of the curve with Callie and Arizona, yet as the years have gone by the number of gay/bi characters have gone up whilst actual storylines have been diminished. Feels like lip service IMO. With they way they underwrite and rush all the gay couples lately (Helm’s always been a glorified extra and & hers and Yasuda’s breakup up had no effect on me because their relationship was the definition of an afterthought; Schmitt has been saddled with lacklustre love interests for years and they can’t seem to decide what, if anything, they want to do with Amelia regarding her relationships) they might as well not even go there because clearly the writers couldn’t care less. 

The best part of this episode was seeing Maggie again. She looked great and seemed a lot happier since leaving. Wish she’d taken Adams with her for good. He’s an anchor around Simone’s neck (making her constantly flatten herself to elevate him is pathetic and not the relationship development the writers think it is) but he’s obviously not leaving. Guessing he offers his position to Yasuda and that’s how they end up writing her out. Wish it was the other way around and she was staying.  

Couldn’t care less about the Meredith/Teddy/Amelia Alzheimer’s stuff. Extremely contrived. Some with Jo and Link and their boring relationship. 

[ams1001]

35 minutes ago, Laurie4H said:

I knew that was happening the minute she showed up at the bar.  It’s so predictable and cliche.  Doesn’t this show have any originality?  

Yup. Also, how many bisexual people work at this hospital? How does that compare to the general population? I feel like the percentage must be way higher.

 

1 minute ago, babyrambo said:

Especially Monica

I didn't even know that was her first name until just now.

4 minutes ago, babyrambo said:

Also the reveal of two characters being bisexual

(PS, I wrote the first part of this comment before reading yours because it popped up while I was writing.)

 

[BooksRule]

3 hours ago, DEL901 said:

Brunette female intern wrote a program to upload the data?  The data that was stored on paper?  Really?  

When she said that I immediately wondered how the program was going to actually, you know, obtain the data.  Were they going to scan each page and download that information for the program to 'read' it?  The whole scene was like when hackers type type type for a few seconds and then announce 'I'm in!'. 

[Shellie]

5 hours ago, BooksRule said:

When she said that I immediately wondered how the program was going to actually, you know, obtain the data.  Were they going to scan each page and download that information for the program to 'read' it?  The whole scene was like when hackers type type type for a few seconds and then announce 'I'm in!'. 

It reminds me of the movie "Independence Day" when they upload a virus to an alien ship's computer as though that computer was running Windows . . . 

[Madding crowd]

Ellen Pompeo has forgotten how to act: she always seems very wooden. I still don’t like any of the whiny, entitled interns, they couldn’t hold a candle to the original MAGIC. I assumed Monica was a lesbian but they had to find a way to squeeze in another workplace romance so I’m guessing there will be a triangle with Amelia. I still like Owen, Bailey and Richard as well as Nick and sometimes Amelia.

[KaveDweller]

15 hours ago, DEL901 said:

Are they setting up a Winston, new doc, Amelia  triangle?

Yes, they seem to be. Too bad, because they had also seemed like they were letting Amelia and Winston become friends.

I also wondered if they were setting up a triangle with the two interns working on the data upload and Yasuda. Yasuda and that other woman had a moment when they fell asleep studying last week and now we learn she is bisexual. But I guess Yasuda is leaving. I hope they don't have her fail that big intern test.

Also, are Helm/Yasuda the first couple who has broken up because they couldn't deal with being in a boss/employee relationship?

11 hours ago, BooksRule said:

When she said that I immediately wondered how the program was going to actually, you know, obtain the data.  Were they going to scan each page and download that information for the program to 'read' it?  The whole scene was like when hackers type type type for a few seconds and then announce 'I'm in!'. 

I wondered if they were going to reveal her program screwed something up and the results don't actually show the correlation they were so excited about.

I thought Meredith came across like a total bitch to Nick at the end. Maybe he will go back to Seattle.

[dancingdreamer]

Meredith's  work has always come first imho, she's  just like her mother. She loves Nick, but she doesn't  show it, like everyone  else.She comes across very cold, but deep down  she isn't. Working in a hospital,  trying to find doctors  and interns is a sometimes an excersise  in futility, but I'm pretty sure they weren't  all boinking  one another.

When Teddy fessed up to Fox, I knew she'd be fired. I thought  this was the last season,  i found out today, it  isn't. 

 

 

[JeanJean]

I like the new interns, but for some reason I have a mental block when it comes to remembering their names (except Symone).

[tessabq]

The only genuine emotion I felt this week from the cast was from Amelia talking about her fear of Derek being forgotten. My quicktears took me by surprise

Edited May 26 by tessabq

[KittenPokerCheater]

Me too @JeanJean!

[JeanJean]

1 hour ago, KittenPokerCheater said:

Me too @JeanJean!

It's like my "Grey's names" storage locker has no more room.

[Snow Fairy]

On 5/25/2024 at 9:49 PM, JeanJean said:

I like the new interns, but for some reason I have a mental block when it comes to remembering their names (except Symone).

It happens to me.

Recently I succeeded to remember Millin and Yasuda. For the guys, still not there

[Rae Spellman]

7 hours ago, Snow Fairy said:

It happens to me.

Recently I succeeded to remember Millin and Yasuda. For the guys, still not there

Lucas Adams and Benson Kwan. 

[ams1001]

8 hours ago, Rae Spellman said:

Lucas Adams and Benson Kwan. 

I had no idea that was Kwan's first name...

[MarylandGirl]

On 5/27/2024 at 7:48 AM, ams1001 said:

I had no idea that was Kwan's first name...

Same! Doesn't help that they also call him Blue sometimes.

[txhorns79]

On 5/24/2024 at 8:55 AM, babyrambo said:

He’s a dullard who bores me every time he’s on screen and tied with Lucas for the character I want most to be written off. 

Yeah, once Maggie left, they've really struggled in trying to give WInston something to do.   

[Avabelle]

9 hours ago, txhorns79 said:

Yeah, once Maggie left, they've really struggled in trying to give WInston something to do.   

Even when she was there he was an incredibly weak and bland character. There’s just nothing that stands out about him at all.

[ams1001]

On 5/28/2024 at 9:20 AM, MarylandGirl said:

Same! Doesn't help that they also call him Blue sometimes.

Yes, I only knew him as Blue or Kwan.

[Mirabelle]

Why is Jo, an OB, asking an orthopedic surgeon for a consult on a cyst in a pregnant woman? And why is Linc, an orthopedic surgeon, operating on a cyst in a pregnant woman? 

[CarpeFelis]

On 5/24/2024 at 3:22 AM, DEL901 said:

Brunette female intern wrote a program to upload the data?  The data that was stored on paper?  Really?  

Possible if they can run the pages through a scanner. As a former (retired) software engineer the unrealistic part to me was her saying she wrote “a” code. Nobody says that. It’s “I wrote code” or “I wrote a program”.

Edited June 9 by CarpeFelis

[CarpeFelis]

On 5/25/2024 at 3:59 PM, tessabq said:

The only genuine emotion I felt this week from the cast was from Amelia talking about her fear of Derek being forgotten. My quicktears took me by surprise

That scene bugged me. I get why she feels that way, but this woman is supposed to be a highly respected neurosurgeon. I’d expect her to be professional enough to put those feelings aside when a major breakthrough is at stake. (Yeah, yeah, I know. Nobody at this hospital ever acts like a professional. They ought to rename it Soap Opera General.)

 

[tessabq]

1 hour ago, CarpeFelis said:

That scene bugged me. I get why she feels that way, but this woman is supposed to be a highly respected neurosurgeon. I’d expect her to be professional enough to put those feelings aside when a major breakthrough is at stake. (Yeah, yeah, I know. Nobody at this hospital ever acts like a professional. They ought to rename it Soap Opera General.)

 

Derek was her brother. Her being a professional ran smack into her grief over losing her brother. Grief doesn't have a timetable and can catch you by surprise, even years, sometimes decades, after. Ameilia got past her initial reaction and supported Meredith. 

As an example, my quicktears caught me by surprise, even though my older brother died 17 years ago next month.