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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After the jump, a recap of last night’s Grey’s Anatomy. One case — hillbillies vs. hospital intern, and the aftermath — dominates the medical intrigue. There’s a little bit of character development and relationship advancement and the showdown we’ve all been waiting for, possibly as a way of setting the stage for next week’s two-night season finale.
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Oops! It turns out that there was a new episode of Grey’s Anatomy [abc] last week. The full recap is posted behind the jump. Sorry for the delay, but the Southern California desert and all of the rock and roll goodness got in the way of television watching. This should have you all caught up for tonight’s episode.
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Previously – George looks like Mr. Katimsky, who gave up on Momnesia and Meredith when Mother Grey wouldn’t give up on the hot hot love from the then not yet Chief. However, this lookalike business has gotten George into all sorts of trouble, such as occasional heckling and cuddling with Mother Grey and a long term rental in the Grey House and one night of weepy sex with Meredith. Daddy complexes are fun like that.

And with that, we’re off. A basketball player (#2, Robinson)
wearing home jersey scores a basket. And the crowd, watching the game on
television at Joe’s: the Only Bar in All of Seattle, goes wild. While everyone
cheers, Meredith knits.

Voiceover Meredith says: “A good basketball game can have
us all on the edge of our seats. Games are all about the glory, the pain, and
the play-by-play. And th
en there are the more solitary games we play. The games
we each play all by ourselves.”

And all of a sudden it’s inverse intervention time. Joe, to
no one in particular: “Dude? Is she knitting?” Apparently barroom knitting is a
big no-no, as the customers are scared of it. Dempsey makes it a double-team,
crossing the bar from his background perch to to tell her that she looks a
little weird. He says this as a “friend”. Meredith, not really looking up from
her domestic work, says that can’t have a drink because she’s celibate. They
both think that this Dartmouth grad is having vocab issues, but she doesn’t
mean sober. Well, sort of. For her, sobriety helps with the celibacy since drinking makes everyone look porny, and then her clothes come off, and good
times ensue. Naturally, AddiSatan lurks just around the corner to make it a
full-on triple assault on Meredith’s “just say no” approach to a night at the bar. After a fair share of
“what, you – celibate?” Grey points out the obvious – for her,
every guy turns out to be married or mark or George. She leaves out the guy
with the non-stop erection, which is understandable here. With that, the peer pressure gang lets her go back to her sweater making, which she claims will
help her surgical dexterity.

“The social games, the mind games, we use them to pass
the time, to make life more interesting, to distract us from what’s really
going on.”

After the jump: the Chief and Sandra Oh face off in the classroom, a spelling bee champ visits the O.R., something of a 1990s ABC primetime reunion, Alex talks tough, a whole lot of knitting, a little background basketball, and much much more!
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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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The pretty, pretty cast, since I don’t have a screen shot from the show.

I pulled Grey’s recap duty this evening, and Michael is a friend helping me out – mostly with the commentary. It’s my (our) first time doing this, so be kind!

Previously on Grey’s Anatomy, Meredith admits she is a horrible person, Izzy makes the moves on Denny, George moves out, and in with Preston and Cristina.

Voiceover: As drs, patients are always telling us how they would do our job. Just fix me up, slap a bandaide on me, send me home.

And during the voiceover, we see McDreamy and Meredith walking outdoors with McPooch. The location looks like Carkeek Park, and then seems to switch to a more mountainy area.

Grey talks, George cuts his hair in the bathroom sink (yes, Cristina and Preston’s sink), George and Preston come back from running five miles, Christine makes coffee and grumps. And did you know Preston could juggle (eggs)? Me neither. There’s some serious male bonding going on here, and Cristina looks like she’s going to rip eyes out.

The scene cuts to a gratuitous fly-by shot of Seattle, showing off one of the shinier downtown office buildings as the camera flies south, then west to the water. We come down from the water, to find Cristina bitching to Meredith and Izzy about how George and Preston are bonding, while Izzy knows things suck between Meredith and George, she isn’t calling Alex back, and Alex thinks George looks like a hobbit with his new haircut.
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In this edition of Grey’s O’Malley’s Anatomy, George takes over the narration. Hey — it’s just like that episode of My So-Called Life where Brian Krakow got to narrate the episode instead of Angela. On top of that excitement, we completely forgot to assign someone to do this recap. All that you really need to know is that George and Meredith’s icky pre-hookup at the end of the last episode turned out to be even worse than you thought it would be. Tears of a non-orgasmic variety from Meredith resulted in George storming out of her bed and eventually out of the house. And, for that matter, workplace awkwardness exploded into him telling everyone about the whole top-secret hookup, falling down the stairs, and unexpected flirtation from an orthopod who still admired him due to his elevator heroics. Plus, he moves in with Chief Wannabe #2 and Sandra Oh when his plan of taking his suitcase and camping out in the alley behind Seattle Grace didn’t pan out.

And how could we forget — Addison gets a very nasty poison oak infection in a very inconvenient location. Yet, the perils of living in a trailer, taking Dog for a walk, and urinating in the great outdoors, seem to leave her more endearing, both to the audience and to Dempsey. Go figure.
Sorry for the inconvenience. Maybe we’ll give this one a fuller recap when it hits reruns.
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The cast of Bones.

As Josh noted in one of his ever-popular Grey’s Anatomy recaps, singer-songwriter Mike Doughty is well-liked by whomever picks the music for their show.

…or so we thought.

This afternoon, I opted to relax and watch a few episodes of the new television show Bones. I started watching the show in the fall, but then ended up spending my Tuesday nights grading papers with colleagues, so no David Borea-ahem, I mean, no excellent new television show for me. So I’ve been hoarding episodes to watch for that point in time when I, er, had time. It came this afternoon. I pop in episode 4, “The Man in the Bear” and kick back. The show opens in fictional Aurora, Washington, and I’m already grinning – yay! Washington state gets a plug. And hey, even better – Bones and her partner, Booth, are being sent to Aurora to investigate the arm pulled from the stomach of the bear.

After the cut, we’re back and have moved from Washington, D.C. to Washington state – you can tell because of the trees. Booth is driving the apparently F.B.I.-required SUV, and the music is oh-so-familiar. …waitaminute, it’s Mike Doughty! In fact, it was “Looking at the World from the Bottom of the Well”, which is one of the two songs also features on Grey’s Anatomy (and if I remember right, on the season one soundtrack).

Maybe people just associate Doughty with the Pacific Northwest. I had a chance to ask him a while back what was up with the Grey’s Anatomy “appearances”, and he said he had nothing to do with it (and wasn’t aware his music had been featured until I mentioned it), so I suspect he was probably out of the loop about the Bones “appearance” as well. But maybe someone should tell him; perhaps he’d take it as a hint to follow-through on the idea of moving to the PNW.

[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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