| Master Fan
Joined: Mar 2001
Posts: 19,032
| (part three of three)
Izzie: You're mother...talked to me. She wasn't ready to leave you but she was ready to leave her body.
Nina: Please, I don't need you to explain the relative comforts of death for my mother.
Izzie: What she was afraid of was that you had taken on so much of her disease that you had frozen up to. You spent so much time planning and helping her avoid risk, god knows that's what you should have been doing, but she was worried...You have a healthy body, Nina. If you fall down you won't turn to stone and you're mom so wanted you to fall.
Izzie: Messing up - it's what makes a person. It's how you learn, where you find joy. And the things you don't plan for... The things you never see coming.
Izzie: Ok, it happened. It was a mistake and it happened. People make mistakes. We need to figure out where we go from here. We need to figure out how to tell Callie.
George: I'm not gonna tell Callie. Do you know how much this would hurt her?
George: I'm not gonna clear my conscious at her expense. She has done nothing but support me, encourage me and believe in me and this is how I pay her back. No, I have to live with what I did.
George: This is our secret, ok?
Izzie: Ok.
MVO: The thing about plans is...they don't take into account the unexpected. (So, when we're thrown a curve ball, whether it's in the OR, or in life, we have to improvise. Of course, some of us are better at it than others. Some of us just have to move on to Plan B and make the best of it. And sometimes what we want is exactly what we need.)
MVO: But sometimes...
MVO: What we need is a new plan.
Podcast for MFM: (This one's by Shonda and Betsy.. they alternate with each new line/paragraph, and the brackets are when the other made a comment on what they were saying.)
Quote:
Betsy: I'm sorry okay you guys.. like.. they did it!
Shonda: You know, I like to think that George and Izzie didn't 'do it', I like to think that they made love.
They did it! (Shonda laughs) Like 84 times according to Izzie.
Many many times.
Many, Many times they felt the joys of love according to you. According to me.. they did it like 84 times. Which I dont know, is just this amazing thing.
George and Izzie making love.. is something that I have actually been planning since we made the pilot, (Thats true) and I saw how funny and great TR Knight and Katie Heigl were with each other and how well they got along.
And how Genuine their chemistry is actually, (and how genuine their chemistry is) cause they really, really do love each other. So it's..
Yeah, I mean we.. clearly I had some things to get through first, you know.. the unfortunate George and Meredith incident, (There's also Denny Duquette) Things that were planned.. George getting married, all those things.. but it's exactly the right time for this to be happening, so I'm excited about that.
And also just.. it feels initially, from the last episode to this episode too, it feels...you kind of go at their pace, because it feels incredibally awkward initially, but then as you ease into this episode, one of the things that I find amazing when I watch it is, I get kind of really used to the idea, and I actually accept the chemistry, which is.. that scene in the closet..
Part of what was really great for me is that we picked this episode up literally seconds after the last one ended, which was important, because I felt like you didn't want to leave George and Izzie for a second, you were like 'Oh my god is this really happening?' and you go from being like 'Ew, George and Izzie had sex.' to 'Oh, George and Izzie had sex.' to 'I want George and Izzie to have sex again.' (It's true) There's something about the two of them - and that wonderful silent scene in the closet, that you realise just how much they love each other as friends, and how good they are together, and how it's nothing like the dark and twisty George and Meredith encounter.
Yeah, and then (It's exactly the opposite.) It's exactly the opposite.. in a way it brings up the sort of eternal question which is the friendship/romance thing.. which is at what point does a friendship become a romance (and is it okay for that to happen?) and is it okay for that to happen? Is it as valid .. if it doesn't start with one?; if you get to this, after you've been friends? I mean all these sorts of things that everyone goes through.
And then there's always the tiny problem of realising you might love your best friend after your best friend has a wife.
Well there's that.. which is always a little bit of an obsticle probably,
Which makes it doubly as hard, but you understand why George goes to Izzie and says 'look we can never talk about this again. This can never happen. This never happened.' but also how disappointing it is for Izzie, who I think has this growing realisation that it was amazing.
But it was also a much bigger incident. What I loved and I really.. when I walked into the writers room and said 'George and Izzie are going to have sex, and George isn't going to remember it for the first half of the next day.' everyone in the room just stared at me, and I said you know but to me it seems really important to George and George's.. for George logic, for George morals and ethics, for him to not remember what happened.. or else there's no way he can carry on, you know this is George we're talking about. For him to.. he wouldn't be functioning for most of the day, so it was really important that he not remember. (Absolutely) And have Izzie remember, and then go from being like 'Woah, he doesn't remember.' to you know.. feeling a little bit of a thank god, to being a *little* bit pissed off, because they had *amazing* sex, and he doesn't remember. (Many times.) Many times. And he doesn't remember.. and being a little bit offended. Because you know.. she's hot.
Well you would, I mean yeah, and it's also though - for him, it's the line where Izzie's actually asking about this, and she's told usually when you black out, usually when you don't remember something, it's something you don't want to remember, and how.. yeah, that's true, but how also that's so hurtful.
And Izzie's not.. bless our other girls, I destroy them, but Izzie's not the girl who sleeps around. The rest of them have a little bit.. they have a much bigger sex life then she does.
|
And the Writers Blog (By Chris Van Dusen)
Quote:
By now, you all know that this blog is a pretty scary, intimidating, daunting place for us writers. Unless your name is Shonda Rhimes. If your name is Shonda Rhimes, you’re not scared of the fans who are asking for your head because of that whole George and Izzie sleeping together thing. You’re not intimidated by the millions of people wanting – no, demanding – that Mer-Der sex. You’re not daunted by the task of getting Cristina Yang to walk down an aisle wearing a big, white, frilly wedding dress…
Of course not.
But, if your name is Shonda Rhimes, you’re able to casually saunter by a guy who’s staring at a blank computer screen, attempting to write his very first writer’s blog for his very first episode of television – his brow furrowed, eyes glassy – and casually whisper the words: “Just blame me.”
Let me tell you, the day after we see Izzie and George have sex is a pretty frightening time to come on here and try to explain why Izzie and George woke up in that bed next to each other. Some of you are really, really angry about that. And, Shonda is insisting that you – yes, all of you – with your scrunched up noses and your crossed arms and your loud, infuriated sighs – you all should blame her for Izzie and George.
“Izzie and George sleep together,” our fearless leader said. “IZZIE AND GEORGE SLEEP TOGETHER!”
It was pretty amazing. It’s still pretty amazing. And, trust us, we’re taking Izzie and George to some pretty amazing places. Because, just like the theme of this episode, we have a plan.
We know you’re shocked. We hear you. Television watchers without pity: We get it. But, here’s the thing. You know who’s even more shocked than you? Izzie and George.
They didn’t see this coming. They didn’t mean for this to happen. I mean, they’re FRIENDS. They’re BEST friends. They spend most of their waking hours together. They have many things in common. They confide in each other. They look out for each other. They stick up for each other. They worry about each other. They care very deeply about each other.
Wait a minute.
Izzie and George are already in a freakin’ relationship! They’ve been in one for a really long time.
Okay, so, up until now, it was a sexless relationship. But, Izzie’s been mourning Denny all season long. George has been fighting left and right with the woman he married in the wake of his father’s death. And, of course, Izzie and George drank a lot of alcohol. So, the sex happened.
The really, really good sex happened…
The sex that makes Izzie think she has deeper feelings for George? It happened.
The sex that officially puts Izzie in the Dirty Mistresses Club and classifies George as an adulterer? IT HAPPENED!
Both Izzie and George are wrong for the sex. It was a mistake. It wasn’t part of the plan. George is married. To Callie – who, at the moment, I feel so incredibly sad for. There she is – thinking that she married the perfect husband. The only man who has ever stood up to her father. She’s deeply in love with George. That scene, after lunch, when Mr. Torres comes to the hospital and tells George to protect Callie with his entire being – Wasn’t that scene just heartbreaking? The look on Callie’s face, so proud of her husband…
George – We torture the hell out of him in this episode. He kinda deserves it, don’t you think? You know, for the whole adultery thing. So, he’s incredibly hung over. He remembers the sex during lunch with none other than his wife and his father-in law. And, in the last scene of the episode, he’s horrified, left speechless, just staring at the ceiling. So, so lost. He’s not getting any sleep tonight.
And, neither is Izzie. One of my favorite scenes of this episode is Izzie and George in the linen closet, right after George has remembered the previous night’s transgression. There are no spoken words, yet it’s almost like you hear what Izzie and George are saying. It’s painful. Heart wrenching. I don’t know about you, but, in that moment – I wanted Izzie and George together. Without the complications. Without the mistakes. Without having to totally destroy Callie. The sex, it was wrong. But that last look between Izzie and George in the linen closet? It was so, so right.
Because… Izzie and George? They’ve got some intense feelings for each other, those two. It’s obvious. It’s amazing. There they are, in that linen closet, NOT DRUNK AT ALL, and it’s apparent that the sex – the really, really good sex – it could happen again – right then and right there. So George rushes out, leaving Izzie all alone. Neither has a clue what to do.
George. Is. Married. We see George banging the linen closet shelves, Izzie looking so confused, both of them pacing around like caged animals. Izzie and George are so incredibly flawed. But that’s what makes them interesting. That’s what makes them human. That’s why, even though they did a terrible thing, we still love them. And we want to see them get out of this okay. I’m talking about all parties involved: Izzie, George, and Callie.
Okay, some of you will remain angry about this Izzie-George thing. Go ahead. Be that way. But, HOPEFULLY you found some joy in the MER-DER SEX you saw at the end of tonight’s episode…
| |