[shinystar]

Ep 3.13 ~ Great Expectations

From ABC.com

Episode Summary

While rumours of the chief's departure spread among the hospital staff, Bailey proposes the creation of a free clinic, and a Seattle Grace doctor receives a proposal of a different sort.

It seems really interesting...
Is it Thursday yet?


YouTube - Grey's Anatomy 3x13 promo!

[Tanique33]

i second that, is it thursday yet? ugh i see proposal i think callie, not a good thing. lol.

but i'm ready. it looks to be a busy episode.

[shinystar]

Proposals.. Anyone could be proposed if you ask me at this point.. If Burke for example asked Cristina, I wouldn't be surprised much, given their relationship's weirdness
George and Callie wouldn't surprise me either, especially considering George's sex drive that we could see in the promo..
Derek and Meredith, i can't actually see it happening to them.. I just can't

My guess would go out to George/Callie in the end

It does seem like a packed episode yes

[thegreenlight]

Thanks for starting the thread, Karen.

Yeah, I'm thinking George/Callie for the proposal. I couldn't really see Burke/Cristina or Meredith/Derek. So, yes.

[Tanique33]

soooo much to say, but since i just wrote about greys' at another board, i'm tired. i will say i LOVED the attendings together like the interns. that was a lovely change of pace. i loved them being bratty too, like our beloved interns.

LOVED that the nazi was back and all her one on one stuff with the attendings. i loved that no one thought mark would get chief position.

loved addison and alex, the pacing is still great for me. of course i didnt' buy a second of what he told addie, and neither did he.

loved izzie and george. i got all my duos today. good derek/mark moment. good burke/derek stuff. i love they are inching their way to a nice little friedship. that was the most awkward dinner party EVER.

finally a conclusion to burke and christina and her speech was very good. i didnt' see the proposal coming. nice touch. no comment on callie and george i'm just not believing them.

finally my duo. i loved mer/der's fight. but my word he had the line of night for me, "i'll always show up" that whole speech about being there through fights, and everything, was so touching. i loved that she admitted to never doing that before. i left the show, loving them a little more.

so that is it. good stuff.

[thegreenlight]

There's really a lot to mention here. Every storyline was pretty strong, I thought.

The Puritan chick and her family/best friend storyline made me almost cry. That's probably now one of my favourite patient storylines.

I almost died watching what they did to that runner.

All the attendings trying to talk to Richard was amusing. I just remember when all four are trying to talk to him and hearing Addison, "I have an appointment!"

George/Callie. Eh, whatev. I don't like or dislike them. I expected that proposal.

Burke/Cristina. I really thought he was going to propose, but then but I was like, nah -- no freaking way. Then he did. So, right. That'll be interesting, to say the least.

Meredith/Derek. Oh, how I do love them. Their scene after the Burke/Cristina dinner fiasco was hilarious. Her talking about Burke/Cristina and him talking about being Chief. Their last scene was pretty amazing. I loved that.

Next week: Dead doctors!

[Tanique33]

haha thats funny you got dead doctors. i got doctors passed out. it does look good and nice little lead in to sweeps.

[thegreenlight]

Actually, I said, "They're all dead on the floor" and my best friend said, "Dead doctors!"

Ooh, I forgot about Addison/Alex. Riiiighttt. I really don't think he wants to get involved. We've heard all this stuff about Alex being in love with Izzie and everything, and he just seem like he'd want to get involved with an attending (like he said). So, yeah. I really don't think anything will happen with that. I find it amusing (actually, hilarious) that so many people starting shipping them and I see a billion icons of them -- only to see him dump her next episode.

[Tanique33]

i think it's hilarious you bought his speech. lol oh it was clear to me and everyone i know who watches he was lying about not wanting her. he was just saving face. i think it's safe to assume they are far from over.

[thegreenlight]

I think it's hilarious that everyone who suddenly ships them doesn't buy it.

[Tanique33]

well i can only speak for myself and people i know, there really is nothing sudden about it for us. we've just followed the story, and the writing has been on the wall with them for awhile. i'm not quite sure where it looks like things are over, but however anyone sees the show is cool. like i said i see things on this board i never see. like i honestly thought him lying was blatant, and obvious, but i guess not to everyone.

i look forward to where they go next, they are just where they need to be.

[tonka17]

I found it confusing that mer has never been in realtionships but i think i confused that with the ONS like i confused them with realtionships i guess not, i thought it was really cute that he's her first real emotionally deep relationship, its just cute!! And you can see why meredith was so burned when derek went back to addison she was really feeling this type of emotionally pain for the 1st time and well it hit her hard!!! And i loved merder tonight their really starting to communictae now and i loved that derek realised he was being an ass and he went to rectify the assiness, something he definatly wouldn't have done with addison in season 2!

chris and burke i could care less i dont think they should be getting married and i dont think they will be especially if rumors are true that IW is leaving!

george/callie im also ehh on them as well it doesn't add up really but i guess i can handle this one!!

Im really turned of by izzie these days but she improved this episode!!

Markie mark you idiot you truely isolated yourself when you where as ass in respects to meredith, you do now truely have no friends at least she was sort of a friend to him!!

Alex where was he this episode!!

The attendings they so were acting like interns, lol and bailey came to knock em down just like she does to the actual interns!!

And that addie/alex thing was funny, in respects addie did need to be taken down a peg and in the words of Michael Kelso BURN!

Good episode, i enjoyed it even if i didn't agree with somethings!

[shinystar]

The promo certainly got me confused with all the people lying on the floor.. It will be good to see Ellis back!

No blog from the writers' yet and the ep sounds amazing from what I read..

and if Alex/Addison is over, then I'll be happy!! No offence to Addex fans

[Tanique33]

haha i'm not sure their fans would take offense considering they don't think it's over, not to worry. hell, even lots of non shippers don't, i don't consider myself a shipper.

i'm going to feel so horrible for mer when ellis is no longer lucid. that is going to be sad. but, i'm looking forward to getting a glimpse at what their relationship was.

the writers blog is a popular thing on this board eh? i'm not really a fan, but its cool so many people seem to be into it.

[Gio Gio]

Too Many Chiefs On ''Grey's Anatomy,'' the top surgeons start to battle to become head of surgery; plus, Burke and George propose, and Bailey tries to start a free clinic By Vanessa Juarez As Meredith's voice-over about great expectations kicked off last night's episode, I thought this could either be really good or, as Addison might say, vomit in the mouth. Unfortunately for us, the cheerleaders of Seattle Grace Hospital, it was the latter. (My poor pom-poms are sad.) Let's begin with the scene where I thought things really started to go downhill. It was two-thirds or so into the ep, when Meredith and Shepherd had had a really asinine fight at the hospital and it looked as if they too might be on their way to the International House of Silence. Until Shepherd came home and said to Mere, ''I was a jerk. Sometimes boyfriends can be jerks. It doesn't mean you stop talking. You get that I'm saying I'm sorry.'' To which Mere replied, ''You yelled at me for no reason and then you walked away and now you show up here.'' Shepherd: ''Of course I showed up. Why wouldn't I? You don't trust me?'' Mere: ''I do.'' Shepherd: ''Okay, well, this is how it works. You fight sometimes, and somebody apologizes.'' Mere: ''Well, how am I supposed to know that?'' Okay. Stop the HTML. Did Mere just ask how she was supposed to know that? Was she kidding? Is she 12? I'm going out on a limb here, but typically, when you get in a fight with anyone in your life in any kind of relationship — lover, friend, child, parent — you usually apologize. Especially if you were fighting about something stupid to begin with. It's what you do. It's called ''getting over it'' — but I digress. So I thought the kicker of the show would be that Adele had moved on with her life sans Richard. But I was wrong. (It could've made for a good cliff-hanger, no?) Then Burke asked Cristina to marry him. Yipes! I thought, this has got to be the end. But then I was wrong again (a very rare event, I might add), and I lost it. George began bending his knee, proposal-style, and I began curling up in the fetal position. Two proposals in one episode? For goodness' sake, Grey's writers, let the story lines breathe. Instead of the whole great-expectations thing as the theme of this ep, it should have been titled ''What Happens as an Adult When You're Not Picked for Kickball in Grade School.'' Burke, Shepherd, McSteamy, and Addison are supposed to be some of the best surgeons in the country, yet they all acted like whiny children at the mere possibility [enter bright ray of light] of becoming chief. Don't get me wrong — there were definitely some salvageable parts to the episode. I love that Cristina and Callie will eventually become friends, probably bonding over being such hard-asses — though I've been trying to figure out why Cristina is always wearing that emotional armor. Is it because she's been in the Dead Dads Club for so long? Could it be — dare I say? — great expectations? Or pothos, the Greek notion that ''some people, no matter how much they achieve, no matter how much they're loved, they continue to chase a horizon that will never arrive''? (Today I happened to be reading an interview with Baz Luhrmann from back when he was planning to do a movie about Alexander the Great, hence the Greek...oh, never mind.) Callie, at least, can be empathetic outside the hospital. Seeing as how she was living in the hospital basement, I assume that she had a rough life, which would be a quasi-good excuse for being icy. But why does Cristina continue to be so stubborn? Meanwhile, George has turned into a sex machine. Hey, we all grieve differently. Speaking of grief, how distressed were you to watch Callie slicing up that dude's legs? Holy crap. She basically said, ''Hey man, if you want to keep your legs, you're going to have to be still while I cut slits into your calves like apple pie.'' Um, okay, but please hold the �* la mode. It's safe to say that the Amish people did not watch last night's episode, nor are they reading this TV Watch (sniff, sniff), but I thought that patient's scenario was out of the ordinary. I'm glad that the mother and father weren't made out to be reps of some merciless cult. By the way, did I miss something? What happened to the patients? Will there be closure on their stories next week? And what did you guys think of Nazi-land this week? The free-clinic stuff was sort of a snooze. Izzie is going to keep throwing her $8 mil at people until they finally take it. (Iz, I just want you to know that I'm still paying off school loans. Nudge-nudge.) Bailey did have that one good line aimed at the super-surgeons: ''I know you all have your messy love lives and your secrets and your silliness, but I want more.'' Changing the subject to a little TMI, but there's something about karma that makes me want to be a believer. Maybe it's that warm, fuzzy feeling of Schadenfreude I get when it works in my favor. (Boy, I sound like Cristina.) Anyhoo, the reason I bring that up is because my favorite part of the episode was when Karev pulled Addison into the storage room and said, ''You kissed me, and ever since, you've been avoiding me. You've been avoiding me because you just assume that I want you. You just expect that everyone you look at sideways is pining after you, right? Has it even occurred to you that maybe I'm not interested?'' Wow. How about them apples? So, kids. The moral of this story is that when you make it to the finish line, you'll be relieved. And you'll still probably have a big ego and low self-esteem.

Source: Entertainment Weekly's EW.com