Grey's Anatomy

Originally posted by forumcrew
wednesday at 9

ABC Boss: Grey's Spin-off Needs "Some Work"
In a Tuesday-morning press conference, ABC entertainment president Stephen McPherson said the network is "obviously really thrilled" to include Grey's Anatomy spin-off Private Practice on the schedule, but admitted, "There's some work to do" toward preparing the show — which was somewhat tepidly received by critics — to stand on its own. Calling the May 3 episode which laid the foundation for the follow-up "not really a pilot, but a hybrid kind of introduction," McPherson says, "We spent a lot of time introducing the characters and not enough time on the stories. We've really got to hit the stories stronger." With the characters established, he says, "What [Grey's creator] Shonda [Rhimes] does brilliantly is the conflict between people and the reality of that. You'll see the intricacies of those relationships."

Accounting for the tonal differences between the two shows — one of the nits picked by those lukewarm to Practice — McPherson said, "We're not doing an imitation of Grey's. Grey's was a show about these young interns who know nothing, don't know each other and are thrown into this world. [Private Practice presents] a world where people know each other — really well, in some cases — and the complications that result when your life hasn't necessarily turned out the way you want it to, and you're trying to change it."

At the fore, of course, is Kate Walsh's Dr. Addison Montgomery, whose journey thus far, McPherson notes, "has really captivated people." "It's amazing that a character who came in as a ***** on wheels can become some people's favorite," he marveled. "We want to carry that into the world in L.A." — Matt Webb Mitovich

Isn't the spin-off going up against the hit CBS show Criminal Minds?

yes it will be up against criminal minds. It will have the new show pushing daises as a lead in though and a lot of the people in the tv world think daises could be a huge hit.

Originally posted by forumcrew
yes it will be up against criminal minds. It will have the new show pushing daises as a lead in though and a lot of the people in the tv world think daises could be a huge hit.

Who is in Pushing Daisies? I will watch Private Practice because of Kate Walsh. I just hope it can a successful show.

Lee Pace ("The Good Shepherd"😉 has been cast in the lead role of the drama pilot, a romantic high-concept procedural about a man (Pace) who can touch the dead and bring them back to life. His character, Ned, is further detailed in the casting notice as follows: "Late 20s-Mid 30s, handsome and awkward, good-natured but self-contained. Ned is a professional pie maker who owns his own store, The Pie Hole. Ned has an unusual gift: he can touch a dead person (or animal) and have them come back to life, but if they live longer than one minute someone else, usually in close proximity, will die; also, if he touches them a second time, they'll die again, presumably this time for good. Ned discovered this gift and its drawbacks when he was 9 and his mother died while baking a fabulous pie, only to come back to life with his touch--only to die again when she kissed him good night. As a result, Ned is a withdrawn young man who loves pies and tries to avoid human contact, for fear someone else he loves will die. Ned has a side business with a private investigator, Emerson Cod, in which Ned brings murder victims back to life, finds out who killed them, then makes them die again and uses the knowledge, with Emerson, to collect rewards. The system works pretty well until Ned uses it to bring to life Charlotte "Chuck" Charles, the girl he's loved since childhood who was murdered on a cruise ship; unable to consign Chuck back to death, Ned lets her live, winds up telling her his secret, and finds that his life is about to become complicated."

According to Ausiello (of tv guide), this is the most well-received pilot of the 07-08 season

Finale tonight droolio

Grey's ought to be good.

What'd you guys think?

I personally was left unsatisfied. Yeah I cried a couple of times, but it wasn't close to last years. Last years finale was groundbreaking... this one, was just like any other episode.

here is Shonda Rhimes (shows creator) take on it.

Shonda Rhimes on Burning Down The House...

Original airdate: 5/17/07

So the third season began with Meredith helping Izzie remove her prom dress and ended with Meredith helping Cristina get out of her wedding gown. I don’t know if you’ve noticed but…I like a little symmetry.

This season was important to me. It wasn’t as light as Season Two and for good reason – our characters were in a darker place. I needed to put Meredith’s mother to rest, Izzie’s grief to rest, and the race for Chief to rest. George needed to grow up on a monumental level and then come full circle to where he was when we first met him in the pilot. Meredith had to finally try to face the fact that she’s damaged when it comes to relationships. I wanted to put Bailey on the path of questioning her standing as The Chosen One. Both Burke and Derek needed to hit a relationship wall, each in their own ways. And then there’s Cristina…

Oh, the Cristina of it all. What this season is about most of all – for all of our women – is the idea of “having it all” is a myth. And that was true for Cristina more than anyone. Slowly, over the course of the season, we’ve watched as hard-nosed Yang sliced off little pieces of herself to accommodate Burke. From helping Burke hide his tremor to Colin Marlowe telling her she’s not the woman he knew to prepping for the wedding, she slowly morphs from kickass surgeon-girl into a woman we don’t quite recognize in that wedding dress with penciled eyebrows. I wanted you to have the feeling in the finale that she’s become this painted doll – beautiful, everyone’s fantasy bride, but a painted doll all the same. No longer our Cristina. There’s that wonderful moment where she begs Bailey to let her cut because a part of her knows she’s becoming someone she doesn’t recognize. And then, just as she’s lost almost all of herself standing there in that gown ready to walk down the aisle, Burke is telling her that he can’t marry her. Because even Burke realizes that this Cristina is not his Cristina. It’s devastating. I hope you noticed that in the beginning of the episode Cristina talks about a heart as a purely anatomical thing (“it pumps blood”) and then Burke’s vows are all about the heart as an emotional thing (“I promise to lay my heart in the palm of your hands”) and it’s so sad to realize that they have completely opposing views of the world. I feel for Burke and you should too because he knows that, in a way, by leading, pushing, cajoling her down this path to being together, he’s done this to her – he’s changed her. That the only way to save her from disappearing completely is to set her free. And then in that wonderfully painful moment (how much do we love Sandra Oh and her incredible talent?) in the apartment, Cristina turns to Meredith and says “He’s gone. I’m free. Damn it.” And it’s so nuanced and so layered and so tragic because she’s relieved and terrified and heartbroken and suffocated all at once. Watching her journey back from this is going to be amazing next season.

George and Izzie and Callie: you all have your opinions, very strong opinions, on how you feel about this love triangle. I’m glad – strong opinions mean you care what happens. In the finale, Izzie’s declaring herself and Callie’s fighting for her rightful territory. That moment when Callie casually lets Izzie know that she’s not only been named Izzie’s boss but that she and George are trying to have a baby is very interesting. Callie’s saying “don’t mess with me” in the only way she knows how. About the baby thing – for the record, I am very strongly against anyone trying to have a baby to save a relationship. It’s crazy because it never works and I highly recommend you don’t do it. Plus it goes against every feminist bone in my body. But it is also human to delude yourself into believing that you’re not having a baby to save your relationship, that instead having a baby is a way of taking your relationship to the next level. And Callie gives that great speech about her hormones and her body. I’ve been there and I know that it is real, this sudden baby rush that happens and, if you are firmly into your career, it freaks you out. Callie’s just being as honest as she knows how to be with George. Because she can’t bring up Izzie again – not when the last time she brought it up, George called Izzie a supermodel thereby suggesting that Callie was, well…not.

George is interesting is this episode. Did you notice that after he looks at his test scores, his entire demeanor changes? How he’s vulnerable in a way that we haven’t seen in a long time? My favorite moments for him are in that scene with Bailey where he says he can’t repeat his intern year over again. He just can’t. And then when that girl in the locker room (Lexie Grey! Lexie Grey!) asks if he has any advice, he says simply “No.” I love that. Because he doesn’t have any answers. He thought he did and then he fails his intern exam and Izzie has to go and tell him she’s in love with him. He has no idea what the future holds. His whole future is one big question.

Alex and Ava. My heart beats for them. How amazing was Ava in those scenes? And Alex…I’ve said before that Alex is Meredith’s mirror and I’m saying it again. He’s too screwed up to give Ava a reason to stay because he doesn’t think he’s good enough. And it’s no coincidence that this scene comes right before the MerDer scene where Derek is asking her, all pained and raw, to put him out of his misery and Meredith is WAY too screwed up to give him an answer. They’re damaged people, Alex and Meredith.

What I love is that for Meredith, Cristina getting married has become this incredibly important thing – this sign – that maybe she and Derek can make it through. That she can be healthy enough to let herself have this, have him. She keeps saying to Cristina “you can do this” and she needs it to be true. She needs it desperately. Meredith, the girl with no family model for how a relationship works, looks to her best friend. So when Burke shuts the whole thing down, Meredith is almost as devastated as Cristina. She does that long walk down the aisle, gets up in front of the wedding guests and tells them it’s over. And she doesn’t just mean the wedding. She means everything she hoped could be true. She means the fairy tale. She means the MerDer of it all. It’s over. It’s so over. Because she no longer believes.

Bailey’s got a lot to contend with next year. She thought she was going to be Chief Resident – she really believed it. After all, the Chief spent the season practically anointing her with Chief Resident oil. But he also spent the season warning her. Because from his own life, he knows what it is to get so caught up in a job that you neglect your family. And he wouldn’t wish that on anyone. That is a lesson Bailey’s not ready to learn – the fact that there may be a choice between family and career isn’t something this generation of women has been raised to believe. It’s not something I’m ready to believe. But, like I said, what the women start to see this season is that maybe they may not necessarily be able to have it all. Because maybe having it all has a price. Is it fair that Bailey has to pay this price? Absolutely not. But isn’t it ironic that Bailey’s got the strong family and (in her mind) a shaky career while Callie’s got the solid career and the shaky family life?

The Chief. Aah, my Chief. I love his full circle journey this season. His wife starts out leaving him and now she’s come back. And Derek hands him back the Chief job. Which opens all sorts of possibilities. Because if he’s going to do it all over again, how will he do it differently? Is it possible for him to have it all? Will he get Adele back if he chooses to stay Chief? I love the wonderful moments with his wife, when they’ve lost the baby and he’s there for her. For me, in the face of the supposed fairy tale playing out with Burke and Cristina, this is what real love is. After years of mistakes and pain and problems, real love is two people standing together, choosing to be together, despite all that has gone wrong. It is very grown-up, the Chief and Adele of it all.

Derek. Poor Derek. He’s done his best to pull Meredith forward. He’s done his best to be in this relationship and help her be in it too. He has tried to be the best man. But it wasn’t enough. He can’t save her. And so in that last moment, when he’s sitting with the Chief, and he tells the Chief that he can’t take the job, it is about so much more than just the job. It is about his belief in himself. I adore the moment in the locker room when he tells Mer that she’s the love of his life. Mainly because Patrick says things like that better than anyone I’ve ever seen. But also because he’s desperately trying to get through to her. And when he says that he can’t leave her, he won’t leave her, because he can’t – it’s sad. And she looks at him and just sort of…freaks out and and he pleads with that one word “Meredith”…it’s all so…the way he puts his head back as they leave the locker room…He can’t be more of a best man. Where he’s going next season is going to be interesting to watch.

Last but not least are Addison and Mark. We don’t see a lot of them in this episode. And for good reason. Their stories were done, finished, earlier. For Addison, there’s a brand new future ahead over at Private Practice (Wednesday nights at 9 pm!). For Mark, he starts fresh over at Grey’s next year. Without Addison. He’ll get to stand on his own and I think you’ll enjoy seeing it.

So that’s it. That was our season. I did my level best to burn it all down this season, to burn it to the ground so that we can have a place to build from next season. Burning it down was hard. But next season…oh, next season is all about the fun and the pain and the new beginnings. Because our interns are going to become residents. Because everyone is single again -- well, there is the little matter of Izzie and George and Callie…but still…

…the future is wide open, people.

Special thanks to Tony Phelan and Joan Rater for writing an excellent finale. And to Shoots With No Script for...well, shooting with a very long script.

Have a good summer.

May 17, 2007

Derek is gonna sleep with Meredith's sister.

I'm kind of confused as to where Derek gets his reasonings from.

I was very shocked at Meredith's reaction to Derek's plea for help and it in a way made Derek's statements more understandable.

Cristina is my favorite character and I just don't understand why Burke put her through all of this, knowing the whole time what kind of person Cristina was, only to turn away at the last possible minute.

What would he have done if Cristina had actually walked down the isle on time?

Izzie needs to really shut up and back off.

Alex is acting very stupid and immature.

George............what comes around goes around I guess...

Maybe he would have been able to focus more and pass if he had come clean to Callie about what he and slutty Izzie did.

I wonder why the Chief decided to give the job to Derek after all?

I would have definitely given it to Bailey.

Also, why did he care enough about Bailey's family life to not give it to her but give it Derek when he cares about Derek's relationship as well and promised Meredith's mother that he'd watch out for Meredith, which would imply not giving Derek the job to ensure that her relationship wouldn't be complicated with Derek being chief?

Can't wait to see how Cristina handles it all next season and if she's more HAPPY or SAD about the cancellation of the wedding.

What kind of relationship will Cristina and Burke have now? Friends? Not Friends? Numerous Awkward Situations (In the Elevator)?

anata wa wakarimasu ka.....

So is this new intern Meredith's sister? If so, I'm not sure how I feel about Derek getting involved with yet another intern, but if that wasn't enough, she's in Meredith's family. That's a bit too much for me.

I was shocked by her response to Derek as well. If she had to go to Christina, she could have just say, "Let's table this discussion, I want to hear what you have to say but I have to get to Christina" She came off totally rude to him and yeah, I can see what he means too. Now that is.

The Izzie and George thing is just sick. Best friends turned lovers almost never works out.

I'm not sure why the chief gave the job to Callie as well. Bailey was obviously the top choice. I can see why she might be upset over this.

I didn't like the focus on babies. Babies seem to be everywhere so much that it was a bit overkill for me. Callie wants one, those twins that were born, Ava and her baby, Addison wants a baby, then to top things off, 52-year old Adele has to be pregnant and have a miscarriage. Babies were just everwhere, a bit too much I think.

To hold up the wedding the way Burke did was wrong to me. Sure, Christina didn't really want a huge wedding and things like that, but she was on board with it and even wanted to do it at the end. If Burke had a problem with her "not being herself" he shoudl have said something way before the last possible second. But even so, to pack up his stuff and leave the aparment was too much. Is this really something to break up over? I don't think so.

realizing someone isnt the type of person you want them to be and never will? yea thats reason to breakup. The 2 ways they both looked at and talked about the heart were perfect examples of why theyd never work.

I don't think it's plausible to say they'd NEVER work.

anata wa wakarimasu ka.....

there wasnt a new episode this past Thursday, right?

Yea it was, it was the best episode ever too, Dempsey's charactor hooked up with that one chick, and than that one charactor almost pimp smacked the other charactor, AWESOME!!!.....BEST....EPISODE.....EVER!!

😈 😈

Originally posted by Morning_Glory
there wasnt a new episode this past Thursday, right?

Originally posted by wuTa
Yea it was, it was the best episode ever too, Dempsey's charactor hooked up with that one chick, and than that one charactor almost pimp smacked the other charactor, AWESOME!!!.....BEST....EPISODE.....EVER!!

😈 😈

anata wa wakarimasu ka.....

last week was the season finale... noo.. i looked on abc.com to watch it and it wasnt there 🙁 🙁 🙁 grrr

Oh no. I'm sorry. You meant LAST WEEK.

Last Week wasn't the season finale but it was a new episode.

The Season Finale was just this past Thursday though, 2 days ago.

Hope that clears things up.

So which did you misss? Last weeks show or this weeks Season Finale?

anata wa wakarimasu ka.....

Originally posted by InnerRise
Oh no. I'm sorry. You meant LAST WEEK.

Last Week wasn't the season finale but it was a new episode.

The Season Finale was just this past Thursday though, 2 days ago.

Hope that clears things up.

So which did you misss? Last weeks show or this weeks Season Finale?

anata wa wakarimasu ka.....

and I went to look on abc.com to watch it ..yesterday and there wasnt anything new on there 🙁 so I thought they hadnt shown anything new this past week

so this season probably isnt going to end on a real sad note like last season... dont tell me, and Im not reading any of the previous posts