[shinystar]

Ep 3.15 - Walk on Water (Part 1 of 3)

The interns of Seattle Grace are challenged like never before.

Well the whole episode given away just like that.. Surprise ruined
That´s honestly the vaguest ep synopsis I´ve ever seen in my life!

Promo: YouTube - grey's anatomy 3x15 Promo

[thegreenlight]

Thanks for starting the thread, Karen.

BEST SYNOPSIS EVER. Worddd. It's really intriguing.

I think it's gonna be good. I watched two clips and they're both good, so I'm excited.

[Tanique33]

oh my, this thread is so unexpected. haha. thanks karen. i think it's safe to say i'm excited about tonight, since they've reeled me in with the promo that told me absolutely nothing.

[BrucasForever<3]

I am totally excited for this epiosde. 8 more mins.

[thegreenlight]

This episode was crazy.

The ending!(!!!!!)

I'm like, nervous for Derek. Holy crap.

[Tanique33]

um, i will say this. i, with my friend, have called this the episode our LEAST favorite episode of the series. EASILY.

the beginning was good, and as my friend just said, once they left the hospital, it went downhill. it was greusome, it was sensational, and most of all i thought too much of it was silly. i'm not sure where to begin.


loved all the burke/derek stuff. i love the bonding. i loved how mark tried to be down and the shut him out, and him with the chief was hilarious. i loved the elevator scene and him dying his hair for the ladies. more perfect words from derek to mer, in the beginning. so very good start, but then...

george/callie---it felt particularly contrived tonight. him taking pics was silly, and her having to remind him in the middle of the crisis she is his boss was beyond out of place. it made no sense. it felt like they were trying to create silly problems.

i was actually FREAKED OUT by, alex' patient, and had my eyes covered for her parts. i thought them constantly showing her crushed face was overkill. absolute overkill.

mers patients leg?? overkill. her asking the girl for help?????

forgive me, but as soon as i saw izzie's patient i didn't think he'd make it, so to watch her not leave his side for an hour left me a little perplexed. why couldn't she run out and grab a doctor? the guy wasn't going anywhere.

mark was hilarious in the beginning, but again, this was NOT a good episode, after the trauma started.

and those previews were sooo sensational too. izzie with a drill?? does anyone think mer is going to die?? the guy crawled up over the edge, how far are we supposed to believe the drop is?

right before the show started i wondered to myself if they would over achieve with these 3 episodes, and i hope i'm wrong about the next 2. but saying it's my least favorite episode of the series i suppose speaks for itself.

i can't wait to read opinions on this one.

[thegreenlight]

I loved the episode. The whole ferry scene wasn't as huge and dramatic as I expected it to look, but it was still pretty gasp worthy. And, I forgot that you put cars on ferries, so I was all like, "It's not that bad" and then they showed cars and I was like, "Oh, yeah. Damn."

I usually like Sydney. I liked her the other times she was on, but she was rather annoying this episode.

Loved the scene with the Chief and the attendings on the elevator. Funny stuff.

I liked Alex and the patient he rescued. Yeah, she was messed up, but I didn't think anyone would expect her to look like a beauty queen after what happened to her.

Izzie's patient and that little storyline is annoying, though. And the dude's friends? They need to shut the hell up. I didn't see them trying to help out -- they just kept yelling at Izzie to do something.

The little girl that kept following Meredith was like a bad omen. She was creepy, for the most part.

So, yeah. Excited for next week. Especially for what's going on with Derek.

[Tanique33]

interesting. i'm so curious what people loved, past the beginning. i think i'll go check out the shows board to see what exactly people loved about the trauma stuff.

yeah i think it's safe to assume no one thought the patient would look like a beauty pageant. i didnt expect an extra from the excorsist either. but to each his own.

as for the actual explosion, i'm not sure if knowing helped it feeling a little anti climactic, but it definitely didn't hit me like i thought it would. it looked good. they did a good job making it look real.

but this being the only episode i didn't really like, past the beginning, in three seasons, i'm ok with that. they certainly can't all be winners.

[thegreenlight]

At first I was worried about it being three parts. I thought it would be a little boring or not interesting to show them at the same scene for three episodes straight, but then Meredith happened. I think it's fair to say that'll be a big part of the next episode.

I don't really know how you didn't like it?

[Tanique33]

well, i listed how. i'm still waiting for someone to say what about the trauma they did like.

i said i liked the beginning, i think for the most part everyone i've seen liked the beginning. what was great or even really good about the trauma stuff? i had more questions than anything about the episode.

but i'll reserve judgement on next week, the previews didn't do anything for me, but i'll see.

as for it being a three parter, i think the next 2 will focus on the relationships. this was the injuries show, and i expect things to get more personal going forward.

[thegreenlight]

The only trauma part I don't like is what's going on with Izzie. Every other part I'm good with.

I did have a lot of questions, though, too. My best friend was watching it with me and the whole time I kept asking questions. I'm usually not very verbal during the episodes, but there was a lot of stuff I was talking about this time.

[Tanique33]

well you kind of said it. normally i don't have questions. i usually leave the episodes pretty satisfied with the answers they give me. when i leave a show a movie, a book, with just a lot of questions and too much stuff that doesn't make sense, i can't walk away saying it was a great anything. were there great parts? yes. on a whole it wasn't a good episode for me.

for you it sounds like a lot of questions is a good thing for you. i totally respect that. my friend we said the EXACT same things about the episodes. that was funny.

[thegreenlight]

I'm kind of hoping some of the questions will get answered in the next episode, but if they're not I'll just let them go. It's obviously one of those far fetched catastrophic things that this show does, and I've learned that it's best to just go with the story even if it may seem unrealistic or hard to believe. I'm thinking that's what I'm going to have to do for this story.

[Tanique33]

and that's cool, and you may very well get your questions answered. i'm content knowing it's one episode i didn't like. some people loved it, some of us didn't. but people are talking about it, so they got what they wanted.

[Gio Gio]

Grey Matter....

Shonda on "Walk on Water" Holy crap, am I glad it is my turn to blog again! I have missed it, let me tell you! How is everyone? You still out there? Still good? Or are you yelling and screaming at your TV sets and cursing my name for throwing Meredith into the water and then rolling the credits on you? I don’t blame you for the cursing. But please remember that next week, things get even more interesting and then the week after that, they get REALLY interesting. I don’t want to talk about it. Or give anything away…. Which means there’s not much I can blog about. Damn it. I can tell you that this episode (as well as the next) was directed by the famous Bossy McBossy Rob Corn. And that before he had a script, he kept coming into my office to say in that quiet, calm voice of his: “YOU. ARE. KILLING. ME.” See, it’s that time of year again. That time of year when I get all sick and flu-y and my brain goes stupid and so I start to lie face down on the carpet in my office threatening to flee the country because my ability to write has clearly leaked out of my ear while I was sleeping. Every year, like clockwork, it happens. And every year, like clockwork, it takes me by surprise. You’d think I’d learn. But I don’t. I don’t learn. So Bossy McBossy is waiting for pages and I’m gathering my passport and calling the airports and Betsy (who sits in the office next to mine and keeps me sane) very kindly keeps coming in to remind me that I have pitched the entire 3 episode arc to her eight or nine times in vivid detail over the past five months. All I have to do, she says (using, I might add, the exact same voice one uses with a three year old who won’t give you the sharp objects in her mouth), all I have to do is WRITE DOWN the things I have pitched her. All I have to do PUT THEM ON PAPER. HA! Everyone knows the key component of serious, rampant procrastination is the inability to put anything on paper. Okay, I am actually procrastinating by writing about procrastinating. On to the point, which is this: Rob Corn worked his behind off shooting this episode with pages being fed to him as he shot and for that, I will no longer be referring to him as Bossy McBossy. Instead from this moment on, I will call him by his new tribal name: Shoots With No Script. Now, Shoots With No Script will tell you that I had very definite ideas about this episode. And I did. But they were all character-based. They were all about Meredith’s attitude and the little girl and Izzie and her tub of butter and Cristina and the notion that, in choosing to marry, she fears that she is LITERALLY being left behind in more ways than having to stay at the hospital while everyone goes to the accident site. They were all about Derek and Burke and their conversation about “these women” and Richard and his badly dyed hair. My thoughts were all about disappearing. They were not about things that Shoots With A Script needed to know. They were not, for instance, about what the ferry should look like when we first see it. Because, if you know anything about me, you know I don’t want to think about hurting a ferry boat. I, like McDreamy, have a thing for ferry boats. Ferry boats are awesome and, in fact, very safe. Ferry boats are amazing. Ferry boats are a metaphor for Meredith, you know. What I was interested in was Meredith and how she was doing after being hurt by her mother. And the devastation of the ferry boat was the best way to physicalize Meredith’s pain. The little girl? She’s also a metaphor for Mer. A motherless lost girl who can’t speak for herself and disappears? Okay, that’s too obvious. But you all know Meredith’s been doing a dance with death for some time. Y’all know that if you’ve been watching. She’s dark, our girl. She’s dark and twisty. And I worry about her. Now, I’m really worried about her because she’s in the water and I want to be clear with you: I don’t put people in the water for no reason. Meredith’s got issues, she’s got serious Mommy issues and she’s broken and she’s in the water. I killed Denny. I blew up Dylan. I’m not entirely playing by the rules of TV here. There’s a point. And it’s coming. Shoots With A Script and I have our fingers and toes crossed that it works. Because what happens next…well, just wait and see… Okay, I rambled and I procrastinated and I should just stop writing and let you go ahead and yell at me now… February 09, 2007 in Shonda Rhimes