Grey's Anatomy: Sympathy for the Devil

I think the reason Derek's mom was so nice to Sloan, was that she was probably thankful that he got Addison away from her son!!!

Having raise Mark I'm going to go with the idea that she sees him as a son and regardless of what your kid does to another, if you love them you forgive them. So to me it makes sense for her to still love Sloan. He's her other son. Addison in my opinion would be the woman who came between her sons. I'd completely understand her being testy towards Addison, who drove a wedge between the two best friends.

The one thing that bothered me about this episode, well I say the one thing but what I really mean is the one thing that bothered me enough to comment, is the ending between Denny and Alex. We all as an audience know that something is wrong in Isabel's brain, we know that this show is not Jeffery Dean Morgan's other show Supernatural and he's not come back as a ghost. The fact that Denny's only a part of Isabel's sickness makes the end comment from Denny to Alex after Isabel left the room messed up. If he's in Isabel's head then he wouldn't still be in there with Alex after she left the room. It's tiny and nitpicky but they put so much into this storyline the least they could do would be to get it right.

Can I just say how I've missed Tyne Daly on TV. I was a "Judging Amy" fan. She had such great chemistry with Amy Brenneman on that show. I miss that show, and I said that to a friend last week when Amy Brenneman finally started getting a story last week on Private Practice.
Anyways I wish Tyne Daly could have more involvement with the show. I really liked the little bit that she was on - and she looks better than she has in years.

I am liking the story lines with the serial killer and the kid. The Denny stuff I'm still waiting for the pay off.
And god, Sandra Oh is really amazing. Just her looks tonight. And at the end her face said so much that she need not say a word.

And ummmm on a shallow note, Eric Dane is so fu-kin' hot tonight

At this point, the only thing keeping me watching is Christina and Owen. I'm totally into the new Iraq Doc. I think that Kevin McKidd is brilliant. I watched Trainspotting Obsessively and then got seriously hooked on Rome last year. I was so excited to see him on Grey's. The rest of the crap on the show I could do without. I don't care about Miranda, George, Meredeth/Derek...etc. The whole Izzie/McCorpse thing grosses me out. I Fwd all of that to the scenes with Christina. I hope this show gets better. I used to do that with daytime soap operas until I gave up and stopped watching.....

You said it, only Eric Stoltz could make me cringe one moment for this guy, and then kind of feel for him the next. James Spader used to do that for me to, but now he just makes me cringe.

The short guy plot bothered me, I just didn't care about him or his brother, I kept wanting more time with Dereks mom or the serial killer, if they'd just got rid of the short guy it would've been a perfect episode.

Here was the annoying part of the episode to me...

Last week Bailey complains to the Chief about the new Peds specialist, but Richard verbally berates Miranda saying that the new Peds Dr. is brilliant and Miranda needs to back off and let her do her job because she is the best!

This week, when the kid is crashing, the 'brilliant' peds doctor throws out week attempts to save the kid, all of which Bailey dismisses as useless... AND THE SHE-DOCTOR TAKES IT... making it obvious that MIRANDA knows all, trumps every resident, and that's ok!

I love Bailey, but show her as vulnerable occasionally, that's ok!

Derek's mom didn't like Addison, if she did she would have given the engagement ring to Derek when he was dating her. She didn't. She's waited this long to give it to someone she thinks deserves Derek and that Derek needs in his life.

I think Derek's mom knows the type of person Sloan is and therefore who could be mad. She mentioned him still being a child. I think she expects nothing of Sloan so when he does something stupid she's not surprised or mad at all. (plus the fact that she probably didn't like Addison to begin with makes a difference in how she reacted to the affair) But she's right, Lexie is right for him and his maturity level...I think being with Lexie might change him a bit...for the good.

I never would've thought it (and I'm not a big enough fan of either for it to really matter), but I actually like "Private Practice" more than "Grey's Anatomy" now. Is that wrong of me?

Even the characters being stupid and annoying isn't that problematic with PP, since the characters themselves are so damn endearing. While I couldn't possibly care less about most of the GA characters, I can't say the same for its spin-off. The fact that both shows now air back-to-back has just made this all the more noticeable.

Yeah, Mark did break up Derek's marriage, but like Mark said, she practically raised him. Also, I don't get the feeling she liked "Addy" very much in the first place.