The Race for Chief

The scene: we’re in an elevator with Chief of Surgery Doctor Richard Webber and Mark Sloane is standing towards the back.  The elevator stops and a woman steps on.  The elevator starts moving again and the woman comments that Webber is wearing a nice sweater.  That point is when we all needed to pull out an awkward turtle.  Webber starts going on about how his wife got him the sweater and how they are divorced but he’s not a bad guy, and the audience erupts in laughter.  Webber is making it so awkward that the woman gets off at the next stop when the floor she was going to was a few more up.  The best part by far is when Mark offers to help and the Chief says something along the lines of, “so you’re going to get chief by getting me laid?” 

The race for chief has been a tumultuous one that has resorted all the attendings to acting like children to vie for Webber and the Board’s attention (although after last night’s episode, I am seriously wondering if Webber is in fact really leaving).  And I personally love it.  The elevator scene (not the previously mentioned awkward one) where all four attendings and Richard end up in the elevator and can’t figure out what’s different about him?  Priceless.  It’s even better when they all figure out he dyed his hair and the boys start cracking comments and giggling like school girls while Addison tries to get them to stop.  All four of them try to come up with ridiculous plans for the future (I believe it was a ten year plan) when the new Doctor, Colin Marlow, comes in to try to get the position with the exception of Mark.  In every episode there’s been something where the four of them try to out do one another, and I’m sure there will be until something is official.            Now, it is very probable that Preston Burke will get the position.  He has after all taken over the position of chief before and seems to be the favorite. 
Addison is leaving anyway and Derek is out because of Meredith….plus, he’s one of those guys that thinks with his heart more than with his head when it comes to personal stuff, which would lead him to not always put being chief first.  The finally contestant is Sloane, whom I would personally LOVE to see get chief over everyone else.  He is the ultimate bad boy, came to Seattle for
Addison and stayed there for her (up until last night) and he is cocky, full of himself, and tries to bed every girl he meets.  Imagine the craziness that would ensue…and the major fit that Derek would throw!

My Least Favorite Mistake

Whoa, after watching “My Favorite Mistake” I was more than a little upset. George and Izzy?!?!?! EEEWWWWWW! It’s almost as if the writers were sitting there thinking, what is the most crazy out in left field thing we could do on the show, and then someone else was like, what if we get George and Izzy together, hahahaha.  I mean, it is just unheard of.  There was absolutely no attraction of any kind between them other than friendship for the longest time, in fact, if you ask me, there still isn’t anything between them.  Then, all of the sudden, Callie tells George Izzy is in love with him, they get drunk out their minds and end up laughing over the absurdity of it only to sleep together?  And it’s not just that they slept together, drunken mistakes happen, but now Izzy is acting like she’s in love with him?  It blew my mind.  I have watched Grey’s Anatomy almost since the beginning, and had I been asked before this happened who were the two most unlikely people to get together on the show, I probably would have said George and Izzy. 

I’m not going to lie, one of the biggest problems I have with this is the fact that I think Alex and Izzy should be together and him moving in could have set them back up to fall for one another.  In the episode that Alex moves in, it’s even a little awkward between the two characters, and I started to get a little excited that maybe it would happen again. For big couples of the show, Derek and Meredith have always filled the role of being the big couple of the show, Grey’s Anatomy’s own Ross and Rachel, but there’s always more than one set of people that belong together, and I always liked Monica and
Chandler too. 

My other big problem with it is that it left my friends and I that watch the show with our jaws dropped.  None of us could believe it, and none of us ever saw it coming.  Generally, in television shows as is often the case in life, you see these kinds of romances coming, the type that have the potential to turn into something, and is this case there was absolutely no indication prior to when it happened, no awkward arm brush, no catching each other staring at one another and quickly looking away, nothing.  From the sounds and looks of it, this pairing is going to be more than just an awkward two episode thing, in fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if George leaves Callie for Izzy (especially since someone told me that Callie might not be back as a regular next season).  That is probably what makes it worst.  I’ve grown to like Callie as a character on the show, after she told Bailey that Meredith’s panties were hers at the beginning of this season, she’s been alright in my book, and now she’ll end up sad and alone, and probably the most pathetic thing about that is that it will be George (Mr. Pansy himself) doing it to her.  Oh well, with
Addison’s departure, at least Mark Sloane will be available!

Blasts from the Past

Two episodes ago, Cristina got the shock of a lifetime when her ex showed up, and this wasn’t just any ex.  He is also her former professor, and he is definitely old enough to be her dad!  My best friend and I regularly watch the show together, and while she sat there in shock, I couldn’t contain my laughter.  Leave it to Grey’s Anatomy to make Cristina have a former professor be an ex-flame and end up in the running for the Chief of Surgery position at Seattle Grace!

Cristina, however, was not the only to receive a surprise visitor from long ago.  In this same episode, Meredith’s dad and his wife make an appearance throwing her off so much so that she actually agrees to have dinner with him.  This is odd in that every time her father and his wife have even stepped near Seattle Grace in a previous episode, she has managed to avoid them like the plague for the most part.  She tries to steer clear of them this time as well, but she is unsuccessful, resulting in the aforementioned awkward dinner scene.  Although the dinner goes far from well, with Meredith’s father forgetting that a picture he talks about was of him and Meredith and not him and his other daughter, and even going as far as to actually hide out in the laundry room at one point, the night is not a complete disaster (shocking, I know).  Meredith has a nice talk with her father’s wife and Derek has an even better talk with Meredith’s father which leaves you thinking that at some point, Meredith and her father might get to the point of having an actual relationship.

One of the best parts of this episode was probably when Meredith and Cristina both end up trying to hide from their respective people in a linen closet and end up arguing about who should leave until they realize that both parties are on the other side of the door.  Then they both come out looking slightly ashamed, like two kids getting caught doing something they shouldn’t.  They act so much like teenagers trying to run from their fears that it is almost as if we are back in high school with them.

On Grey’s Anatomy though, when it comes to relationships, this seems to often be the case.  Over the past two plus years, we have seen Derek chase Meredith only to let something else get in the way a few times, Cristina and Burke go through the “silent treatment” for several episodes straight, Alex and Izzy, the “pretty” people, constantly going at it, and now Izzy seems to have fallen for George, her best friend.

Relationships often get messed and mangled on this show and with the entry of these last two, well Cristina’s ex-love Colin Marlow at least; it is nice to see something light and fluffy with nothing but humor to it. And let’s face it, who doesn’t love to see Cristina squirm for once?