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Grey's Anatomy: Walk on Water
(S03E15) As Al Bundy used to say, "Great Lucifer's ghost!"
This is going to be a pretty intense arc, isn't it? Sandwiched in between a ferry wreck and lots of oddball traumas are the interpersonal issues of the entire SGH staff. Oh, and water. Lots and lots of water.
Who knew that, when Meredith made like she was drowning herself in the tub at the beginning of the episode that it was going to foreshadow the end? I mean, I thought that it was Mer just being overly melodramatic. She had just gone through the whole "Mom is lucid" drama, and she still had to go see her mom go through heart surgery. But Mer likes to do things that are all "dark and twisty" like make like she's drowning. Now, as we found out quite suddenly at the end, she's getting her wish at the worst possible moment. More on this later.
This episode is a little easier to review than the non-event ones. Though it touches on storylines, the trauma overrides everything else. So there's not much to examine here. Callie's still having a hard time being the wife of an intern; at every turn, she strains to remind George that she's his boss, even when he's just doing his job. Webber dyes his hair and the only person who's sympathetic is Addison (who really rocks a pair of reading glasses, doesn't she?), though I liked Mark's suggestion to add highlights. The chipper resident Sydney thinks there's a competition underway for chief resident, even though Bailey's just happy running the clinic. Derek is annoyed that Meredith doesn't want him there when she's hurting.
And Burke lets news of his engagement to Cristina slip to his only friend, Derek, who blabs to everyone else. Can I say that the whole "Don't say anything until I tell Meredith" business was a bit sitcommy? And, I figured that the engagement would have taken some of the pettiness out of their relationship. But I guess not; every single slight is met with punitive measures, from both sides. And, to be honest with you, hearing Cristina call the ferry accident a "trauma bonanza" seems cold, even for her. Shonda and company have to be careful to not make Yang into a cartoon; the woman has a heart... we saw it last week when she said yes to Burke.
By the way, having the interns go through a triage drill -- and not doing well -- right before Webber comes in and announces there's a real triage situation developing was a bit on the nose, wasn't it? But this wasn't exactly an episode full of subtlety...
So which ferry trauma did you like the best? I liked Alex's lifting the beam off the pregnant woman. Not only was it heroic, but he was caring and used his emerging OB/GYN skills to great effect. One question: did the beam hit the woman in the face? Or was she burned? Why did she look like that? Anyway, I felt for him when he froze when Webber put him on the spot and he gave the case to Yang. But she got hers, thanks to Burke. "You're knitting. I pull pylons off people." Nice comeback, Alex. And, by the way, I think Addison and her reading glasses are falling in love with you.
Izzie's being put to the test with the trapped mechanic. Not sure if this is "the big test," where Izzie fully returns to being a surgeon again, but it was pretty cool when she yelled at the mechanic's friends when they were too demanding. And O'Malley's going to have this whole "not finding abdominal patient's son" thing come back and bite him in the ass, isn't he?
But back to Meredith in the drink. Was it a surprise? Of course it was. Problem is, the show's called Grey's Anatomy, and she's Meredith Grey. She'll be fine, even if it takes an entire episode of Derek's furrowed brows to find her. That little girl isn't going to be any help, is she? She's too concerned about knowing where her mother is to worry about Meredith. But I wonder if that whole "Do you want to marry me?" exchange Derek and Meredith had at the triage station is going to have ramifications in the next week or two, especially after he becomes her "knight in shining whatever."
It's going to be a hell of a ride for the rest of the year, isn't it? Strong writing, strong stories, and even though the traumas in the ferry accident aren't much different than what we've seen on any "event" episode of ER (down to the "now we wait" scene in front of SGH's emergency room), it's still pretty well done. And, to be honest, at least a ferry accident is more realistic than a helicopter falling on a doctor...
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