Deterioration of the Fight or Flight Response & Losing My Religion [05-15-2006]

This is something of a team effort at giving you a summary of the season 2 finale of Grey’s Anatomy. I don’t have any screen caps for you, nor was I able to keep a running transcript of what was going on - they lost me in the very beginning with the voiceover. Since I’m doing this from memory, I’ve recapped the general plot lines, and my impressions of the first half. Josh’s take picks up somewhere after the first hour.

Grab your kleenex — after the jump you’ll find the work-in-progress recap of the double episode finale! This should probably go without saying, but here there be spoilers. ;)
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Sunday was the first hour of the three hour, two night season finale of Grey’s Anatomy [abc]. After the jump, a hastily-written recap to get you up to speed for watercooler talk and the special Monday night episode. Why Monday? Why so many hours in this season? Only the ad wizards at ABC can answer those questions.
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She didn’t really just say quiet in an empty ER, did she? Oh.

Previously on Grey’s Anatomy:
Meredith cries, George grows a spine, we get confirmation that Cristina isn’t a morning person, Izzy is our little optimistic ray of sunshine, Meredith begs and George ignores, George has another moment with CutieDoc, Grey discovers that the Chief (Richard) visits her mom, and Denny’s heart is giving out and they need to do surgery.

Back by popular demand, the complete Voice Over, with incredibly cool funky beat in the background. We also get a nice flyby of Seattle, north pulling down to the Space Needle (which as you know, is directly across from Seattle Grace Hospital).

My college campus has a magic statue. It’s a long-standing tradition for students to rub its nose for good luck.

We’re now inside SGH, where a nurse is writing on the surgery board.

My freshman roommate really believed in the statue’s power,

Meredith is scrubbing in for surgery with Addison, who removes her wedding ring and pins it to the front of her scrubs with the world’s largest safety pin, right where Meredith won’t be able to miss it. She even pats on it. What a bitch.

…and insisted on visiting it to rub its nose before every exam.

Cut to Burke’s OR, where he’s asking a scrub nurse if she’s sure there are none to be found. There are none to be found.

Studying might have been a better idea; she flunked out her sophomore year. But the fact is, we all have little superstitious things that we do.

Montage scene already! Burke is cracking his neck back and forth, McDreamy declares that it’s a beautiful day to save lives and we should all have fun, Bailey seems to clench her fingers and then tilt her head back, pause, and say okay.

If it’s not believing in magic statues, avoiding sidewalk cracks or always putting our left shoe on first. Knock on wood. Step on a crack, break your mothers back.

A nice gusher pops out of Addison’s patient. Burke’s patient flatlines, McDreamy’s patient has a reaction to anesthesia. Bailey begins to lose her patient, as well. All four doc’s lose their patients, Addison making Grey call it.

The last thing we want to do is offend the gods.
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[Yet again life intervenes--this time the actual trip to Amsterdam to visit Josh [#], catch up schoolwork, and more Olympics–really, I had to fight my roommate last night to watch the Grey’s Anatomy tape instead of the Olympics. A very quick summary of what occured below.]

More sex with Izzy and Alex, George gets some balls gumption, Meredith sees her father for the first time in twenty years [in an oddly anticlimactic scene], a ghost from Addison and Derek’s past, and Burke says his piece to Christina . . . after the jump in “Yesterday” (season 2, episode 18)
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Intervening events (the Winter Olympics (or rather, my roommate’s obsession with the Winter Olympics), schoolwork, and my own upcoming trip to Amsterdam (to visit Josh, who I am supposed to be filling in for)) are delaying the extensive recap, for which I sincerely apologize. A thorough recap is coming soon! Cross my heart, and hope not to turn into “pink mist” [see last week's episode [#]]. After the jump a quick and dirty–very quick and dirty–recap of this week’s episode, The End of the World As We Know It (Part II).
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take that nicolette sheridan. grey’s anatomy appeals to the superbowl demographic

Although I think Seattleites would agree that “code black” ought to be the code name for the Seahawks losing the Super Bowl, it actually involves Alex and Izzy getting it on, the Nazi about to give birth, a guest appearance by Christina Ricci, and other events marking The End of the World as We Know It (Part 1) . . .
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{Note: O.K. Ducklings, I’m out of town; so tonight’s recap comes to you by way of Ellen, a onetime Seattleite who’s funnier, more timely, and has better grammar than your usual recapper; so do your best to be extra nice to her!}

Previously: Bailey pregnant, Meredith is the only one who can see her
mother, the dog, Izzy as underwear model, unhappy nurses.

Narration: In surgery, there’s a red line on the floor that marks the point
where the hospital goes from being accessible to being off limits to all but
a special few. Crossing the line unauthorized is not tolerated.

Shot:
Nurses striking.

[More: An episode about lines, but refreshingly not too heavy handed and
only involving 3 patients, a new Nazi who turns out to be the anti-Nazi, a
musical Burke, and secrets about Izzy revealed . . . ]

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This week, on another thrilling episode of Grey’s Anatomy, we find out what happened to all of those patients from last week [mb]. The fate of the five little quintfants and Old Yeller are revealed, and for good measure we pick up two brand new cases. George gets a new age hiker who needs an old timey cure and Sandra Oh delves into the finer points of compassion for the incarcerated. As if that wasn’t enough, there’s all of the fallout from Alex’s infidelity and more of that unrequited (and otherwise) puppy love that we’ve come to expect. After the jump, the long format recap is yours for the reading!
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For those on the edges of their seats, this week’s long-format Grey’s Anatomy recap is now posted [mb]

a thanksgivingday “ferry boat” ride.

Sorry for the long delay, but the full recap is now posted on the other side of the jump. The rundown on Isabel’s day in the kitchen, Chief Wannabe #2’s surprising social graces, George’s hunting expedition, a trailer park lovestory, Meredith’s angst, a short-lived miracle coma recovery, Joe’s gay boyfriend, and the hospital as an escape from personal drama.
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