Katherine Heigl - Episode 6.08: Invest in Love - GA Episode Discussion - Page 8

IsabelAmandaEvans · 12-05-2008, 11:02 AM

I thought last night's episode was pretty decent, and you start to see the medical portion to Izzie's storyline in this episode. You can see just by watching Izzie her illness is increasing at a fast pace. According to the writer's blog two weeks passed since 5.09, and this past week Izzie hasn't been doing her job. She hasn't been at the clinic at all. Now we know this clinic means a lot to Izzie. This clinic is her pride and joy. She helped build it from the ground up with Bailey to the point it makes money now for SGH. It's her baby, and she's no longer working there since she is going more more into halluciations. Izzie clearly not thinking, just like in 5.08 she is in denial and doesn't want to think something is wrong with her, and her perception and judgement are almost gone. She's at the point where she can't take herself out of her own "episodes" now. It took Alex to serve as a reality check to get her back into reality again. When Izzie came in to scrub with Alex, which I loved, that felt like normal Izzie again for that brief moment. Another symptom that increased is her talking to Denny, well not really Denny but her figment of imagination Denny, while other people are around. Throughout the episode, especially with George, Izzie is either constantly talking to Denny or looking at him which makes her eyes go everywhere. When you watch it Katherine, camera work, and the director did a great job because we are at the time where we know Denny is with her all the time, and when he isn't there on-screen we can still Izzie interacting with him by looking at him or gesturing to him. The way they presented reality vs. fantasy here was awesome. It was so cool. Plus Denny was a riot

. It's pretty obivious now that Izzie is medically sick and Izzie is too far gone to do something about it, but the only one that notices this odd behavior is George. Which I freakin' love

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It's great to see the return of Gizzie's friendship in a very heartfelt way. George knows Izzie like the back of his hand. He's so worried that talks to Meredith and Alex about it. Even though Meredith mentioned once to Alex in 5.09 what was up with Izzie there was no follow-up since after that comment Meredith's problems with Cristina kicked in. Meredith became self-aborb with her own problems, and she didn't even register what George was trying to tell her. She just shrugged it off. That said Meredith was completely in character because once Mer's problems arise her awareness of others decline.

With Alex in this episode it was a mixed, gray package to me. Though it's not a bad thing because having things gray and mixed makes storylines interesting for me. Alex's "I love You" speech to Izzie was well acted by Justin Chambers, and some lines I thought to be very sweet. It's just I'm starting to agree with a few reviewers that Alex has been lightswitched when he is with Izzie at times

. For an example, when Alex said Izzie makes him be better/good I was bit irked because if that was the case he wouldn't have treated her like crap earlier this season and previous seasons. Maybe it was the wording of that line that irked me.

I also felt there was some forshadowing of a possible Sadie/Alex one-night stand fling. Sadie questioned Meredith about Alex, and noted how cool he was at Casa Interns. When any character, or person, asks what about another person in that way you know they are interested. Another thing GA always worked in opposites. For an example this season, Izzie's "I Care About You" speech to Alex in 5.05 is now taking place. She said she wouldn't go crazy or die, and well that is exactly happening. Izzie is going crazy(though medical-related) and probably has a good chance of dying. Going back to my point about opposites Alex said he wouldn't cheat, but yet we know an interested Sadie is in the wings. If Alex continues to self-delude himself about Izzie, then he could misread the signals(more like Izzie's symptoms) and sleep with Sadie. Shonda likes sleeping-with shock value, so this is one senerio I'm not ruling out until Sadie leaves SGH. If this doesn't happen, then I will be surprised.

Alex is in complete denial of what is happening to Izzie, so much so his speech -- while it was heartfelt -- was completely self-centered on himself. He didn't bother asking why Izzie is acting odd, but rather assumed it was about him. He didn't bother asking why she hasn't been at the clinic which something he knows is dear to her heart. However, it is completely in character for Alex to be in denial. We saw this type of behavior with Alex last season with Ava/Rebecca. Where he didn't want to admit it until it was too late, and he lashed out(which he did to George in this episode). From a viewer POV it's kinda frustrating because you know Izzie isn't well, and know what happened to Ava. You want Alex to wake up and help Izzie not to be so caught-up in the love at the moment. One can interpret this that Alex is in love with Izzie, but he doesn't know her well enough yet(which is true because he still doesn't know about Hannah yet). I can see this storyline will enable Alex to know Izzie better, but I do think when it's all said and done it will make Alex and Izzie's relationship stronger(as well as the Fab 5, Gizzie, and hopefully we get some Bailey/Izzie action again). One thing is for sure this can't be waited on if Alex continues to be in denial and blinded by his love, so I'm glad George is very determined on helping Izzie. Hopefully in the next episode George confronts Izzie directly about it, but one thing is for sure once the reveal takes place the reaction of the Fab 5 is going to be interesting since the writers presented Izzie's symptoms to each of the Fab 5 now. See what I mean how Alex was a mixed bag

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We finally got some of the Fab 5 dymanic back again to a degree with everyone trying to get the solo surgery from Cristina except Izzie. George came off quite hot when he was stating his case to Cristina because he was just air of confidence lol. Each one of the Fab 5 coming to Cristina was completely in character to their funny quirks lol. Except, due to Izzie's obivious illness, her discussion with Cristina was far more Izzie. I mean it was Izzie due to her quirks, but how Izzie worded things and how Katherine portrayed the scene you can tell something was deeply wrong with Izzie. Even Izzie's laugh at the end of the scene wasn't like Izzie's normal laugh. It's hard to explain in text...it's just you knew from how Izzie was doing her mannerisms, what she was talking about, and her odd laughter that something was up. To Cristina she didn't even notice it, but was rather amused by it.

Mark/Lexie - My only disappointment was how Lexie did her stripping of "teach me" dialogue. They did have a good build-up since the premiere, so it's not like it came out of nowhere. It's that part of the dialogue was....eh

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At this point nothing else really stick out of my mind right now except Derek is losing a lot of patients recently. I wouldn't be surprised if he starts to have a complex the moment Izzie's illness is revealed to everyone else at SGH. Like I said the episode was decent enough. Since I have low expections as it is I was entertained, and Izzie's storyline for me anyways is very intriguing.

YT link to all of Izzie scenes:
YouTube - Denny Duquette: season 5, episode 10

nililah · 01-12-2009, 09:36 AM

yay it was Izzie's b-day epi

and Izzie was so happy

I really loved all her parts, her smile was so adorable as always and the ending was sweet

all I can say I am dying to see Izzie's diagnose and treatment process now hope her SL will begin soon

**..Mysha..** · 01-12-2009, 01:54 PM

First of all I too loved the episode

it was her b'day and ofcos the ending was to die for

so much love

Me too, am dying to see more of this SL

crying everywhere saying the same thing

but I REALLY can't wait to see it

nililah · 01-16-2009, 12:48 PM

I stared at Katie's awesome smile while whole episode

she was so cute indeed

esp when she cleans Mer's house

and the end

OMG it was so ironic dying to see what will happen next

**..Mysha..** · 01-18-2009, 06:45 AM

I know, Katie's looking so cute and amazing this season, in each epi she looks beautiful in a different way!

am sooooo proud of her

Yeah, Katie's gonna rock this season, she's so talented and am sure she's gonna do great playing the challenging SL!

***Pav*** · 03-13-2009, 09:10 AM

I've changed the thread title for now, let's discuss the episode that just aired!

nililah · 03-13-2009, 09:20 AM

it was amazing

there were so many Izzie scenes and Katie did great job in all of them

esp the last one = epic

***Pav*** · 03-13-2009, 03:16 PM

I've been social busy tonight, the episode has to wait until tomorrow morning. Hold the thought.

**..Mysha..** · 03-13-2009, 11:12 PM

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it was amazing

there were so many Izzie scenes and Katie did great job in all of them

esp the last one = epic

Oh yeah Katie is delivering a killer performance, she's so on fire

I love the scene with Lexie how she just goes to a dead end not knowing what to say more to patient X, the helpless laugh kinda thing she gives in that scene, the scene where she tells the interns that patient X saw the hallucination

actually yeah all the scenes were amazing!

***Pav*** · 03-15-2009, 12:43 AM

I just finished watching the episode, it was heartbreaking. I'm off to Prague now, gotta go, but I'll be back. As for the entire episode, I didn't see the Derek thing coming at ALL. As for Izzie... I'm never gonna forgive.

Alex on Roswell, Shannon on Lost... That's a pattern I hate.

***Pav*** · 03-20-2009, 11:09 AM

I changed the title again as a new episode aired last night. I'm going to watch it right now and I'm sure there'll be a lot of to discuss. Can't wait to hear everyone's thoughts.

nililah · 03-21-2009, 01:56 AM

it was so sad epi

esp the fab 5 moment in the end was awesome

also loved Cristina/Izzie scenes so much it was proven that Cristina has a really good heart

***Pav*** · 03-21-2009, 02:54 AM

Cristina grew on me a lot in the last episode. Thank you, Cristina.

Do I need to mention how hard I cried while watching the episode last night?

Katherine delivered, her acting skills are just incredible. After those years, I think I don't distinguish between KH and IS at all anymore.

I was expecting Lexie playing some part in it but don't mind the fact she didn't. As for D/M, I was hoping that's what would happen, so at least there was something to be 'happy' about.

I don't know whether or not to read the spoilers now...

***Pav*** · 04-23-2009, 10:32 PM

Mysha, can you change the name of this thread to reflect the latest episode please?

**..Mysha..** · 04-24-2009, 12:25 AM

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Mysha, can you change the name of this thread to reflect the latest episode please?

Done!

and thanks for the congrats on closing thread thing

it was first n special and I was kinda nervous

btw I didn't know we are allowed to post (like at all) after the thread is closed I mean even if we can

Oh since we talked abt Izzie/Cristina scenes last time also, this episode was better, she was so caring, love C for that

as for Izzie n her bf

the first scene broke my heart

and Alex scenes ofcos! ...the last two Izzie scenes were harder

and Katie did great