Nitpicking the nitpickers:
I didn't like that they humanized Miranda so much. She never cries and she was blubbering like a baby. She let me down. She handled the death scene more like the Miranda I have come to know and love, tough but loving and there for the patient.
I kind of also knew that Merideth would lose the baby. The storyline wouldn't have room for a baby in their lives right now, babies are for when the show is dying and they need something to pick it up. Now the two lesbian Doctors Callie and her pediatrician lover are 2nd string, they can deal with the pregnancy problems, not the main characters.
Izzie had her last show a few weeks ago and wasn't even written in the storyline anymore. but it was hard for me to watch Little Grace confess her love then have Alex carry on about how much he loved Izzie. I do think he knows that she would be better off with McSteamy and he was giving her the out.
You sound like someone whose had prior experience with someone pulling YOU out from under a bed by your feet, holding a gun to your face and asking you a yes or no question, that if you answer incorrectly, you could live or die. So, you know how one would react.
Miranda was traumatized and in SHOCK from that. You have to cut her some slack. She was pumped up on high adrenaline & her emotions were still all over the place from that experience and the experience was still not
over yet. She was not her usual self, in control of the hospital, not in control of an ongoing situation. Realizing Charles was going to die because she couldn't get him on an elevator, was the straw that broke the camel to a totally uncontrollable situation.
We have a recent thread here, where a poster woke up & found her close friend choking to death. Not being a doctor, she performed CPR & saved him. She is
still having a reaction to that experience days later. But Miranda, is expected to just get over it and act her usual self? Sorry, I'd be blubbering too, after someone held a gun to my head.
I also knew Meredith was going to somehow lose the baby. The real actress had already had her baby last season, so they didn't need to add that into the storyline. I thought Meredith would probably get shot and lose the baby that way.
Thanks for explaining the Izzy situation. I had been loosely following along all season and obviously don't pay attention when her scenes are on, so her leaving didn't even register.
I loved the episode! Very intense. There were of course a lot of unbelievable elements (I was wondering where everyone in the hospital disappeared to. You know hundreds of people work there, but Bailey and Mandy Moore were alone in that hallway? Was MM the only patient?
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Still... one of the best episodes all year, I thought.
I think for a TV show, where they don't have an unlimited budget, like a movie, and can hire a cast of hundreds,
that you have to suspend disbelief, at least in the hiring of extras. But, yes, some parts were poorly written & unbelievable.
1. When Miranda was with the patient and the shooter was coming and the girl pretended to be dead, she was uncovered for a few minutes I'm sure there would have been movement or he would have noticed her breathing at least so I thought that part was kind of dumb.
And I know! How in the world did Mandy Moore's character not even BLINK when that psycho ripped the blanket off of her? That's just crazy!
I guess neither of you heard how Holocaust survivors who were shot or shot at and then picked up & thrown onto the pile of mass graves had to pretend they were dead through it all and for hours, until they could crawl out of the grave in the dark of night. They escaped & survived. Adrenaline and life & death situations can make a person do amazing things.
