About the Writer - Mark Ondo/LittleDreamer
21 y/o Austrian. Music lover, avid TV watcher, cheesecake muncher and pseudo writer. His taste in television is as eclectic as it gets and he dedicates more time to fictional characters than he would like to admit. He currently reviews Under the Dome and Zoo, writes about various shows in Mark's Remarks and creates Best-Scene Polls for Grey's Anatomy, Once upon a Time, Revenge and Scandal.
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-Meredith comes back.
ReplyDelete-Amelia and her pain ;(
-Arizona makes a scene.
Ellen Pompeo kicked ass in this episode, she is such a superb actress
ReplyDeleteI hadn't watched a full episode since the middle of season 9, and I decided to make an effort to try to watch this one, and I just loved it. I think it might have become my favorite episode, even the Japril and Ben/Bailey were nice to watch, and I am not a big fan of them.
I am anxious to see what is next in Meredith's story, it's a shame Derek died but life will go on and I am happy that Meredith has become strong enough and stable enough to cope with her emotions while taking care of two small children.
I loved baby Ellis, the name especially because it shows that Mer has forgiven her mother for not being the best parent to her and understands how difficult it was for Ellis to keep going without Richard.
Emmy nom for Ellen Pompeo for last night episode and loved Maggie and Alex scenes
ReplyDeleteMeredith was almost written out of every scene of this two hour show.
ReplyDeletesummation of Pompeo
ReplyDeletewalks in says one line passes out; sits, says second line; leaves; answers phone, says another line; puts baby to bed, wow another line, collapses again, says another line, Alex shows up three more lines, comes home one or two short lines, then voice over.
Ellis had as much if not more lines than Meredith and she is dead.
The show was supposed to be about Derek and in that way it makes sense as Meredith should be silent in her loss focused on her children but that is not Emmy material, when she speaks listen and if it is great then nominate her.
"The show was supposed to be about Derek"
ReplyDeleteThis show was never about Derek.
You do not understand Aristotle's law of contradiction applied or Borge's summation of a life concept, namely that if you can notice the absence of something then that something exists as in the memory of a man; and the sum of a person's life is part who one thinks they are, part who others think they are and part who they actually are. When Derek died the question became which part would be the most deeply felt and responded to and by whom.
ReplyDeleteThe Series is called Grey's Anatomy, not Shepherd's Anatomy so if you were looking for more than what you received then you were looking for a spinoff but rejoice, Amelia will rip off her bandage next episode and act the fool for you over the thoughts of what could have been. BUt, will that have anything to do with what Derek thought he was doing or what other thought about who Derek was or will it only have to do with who Derek was, a brother, a board member on a hospital, the father to three children and husband to his still grieving wife.
The reasons why they did not belabor the tedium of the funeral were many but simply the series is about Meredith who they showed you was instructed by Derek to keep her calm in tragedy as others have always depended on her and bonded to her. She has a medical history of difficult pregnancies and this would not be any different. The last thing Derek wanted was to settle down and raise another child. That was the life saved here. Meredith had the choice yet again to live or die but like when she drowned she chose life but unlike when she drowned Ellis did not have to die for Meredith,and unlike that time it was was not Meredith breathing life into Derek but Derek breathing life into Meredith and inspiring her to live on with baby Ellis who reminded Meredith of her beautiful Derek, the moment she saw his face in hers.
Seriously, I thought it clear the episode was to be about Derek as he was dead and that leaves only what is about the man, his wishes his family his his friends, and his work. Clue: he wished for another child; his three children had a lovely vacation in California and are now back in the house he built for them; and his work is thriving with robocop, with April arms deep in chest cavities and with Amelia reaching her potential no longer in Derek's shadow. (Oh was in the episode) As for friends, Richard and Owen are inspired to fall in love again, Mark though dead lives on in Jackson and his work with both Jo and Ben, and Miranda has found her hair product'd pretty boy to love without measure in their own personal Disney land as she is now the attending and her man the student,( my how those paths reversed.)
Suggest you watch the episode again and see whether they missed who Derek was or you missed who Derek is. They are not the same thing.
You seem to forget that Derek was in DC for months before he died. We already saw what Amelia can do when her brother isn't there. Do you remember how she saved Herman's life? Do you remember Meredith telling Derek how she CAN but doesn't want to live without him? Honestly it's great that you're thinking about Aristotle's law of contradiction while watching this TV show but when Derek died they did not have to get use to Derek being gone, the only thing left was to accept that he is never coming back.
ReplyDeleteAlso the number of lines has nothing to do with how good an actor's performance is.
Loretta Devine (Adele) recieved an Emmy nomination in 2012 and she had less screen time than Meredith had in this episode. I never said that I think she should get an Emmy for this but I don't think she shouldn't get one because she hasn't had enough lines. You are busy trying to sound sophisticated and educated but your arguements are rather empty, or make no sense in this context or the issue you're talking about is simply more complex than that. Anyway, have a nice day.
ReplyDeleteThe fact that you are point out the spelling mistakes of someone who's native language isn't even english just indicates that you have run out of arguments. Not to mention that it IS a correct way of spelling. I am not going to waste my time reading the rest.
ReplyDeleteBritish snobbery at its finest. I could see the Lord but that did not give me reason to take an antiquated spelling as anything other than that, and as English is not your native language why would you be using a version of a word not used in most dictionaries these days? The fact is spellings of that word have been changed since 2007 in most reference material, and while one may want to hold on to the old, the new is more civilized.
ReplyDeleteThe scene that had me bawlling, like, ugly, runny nose, hiccup-inducing bawling, lasted for two seconds: Mer in the elevator, Bailey just touches her arm, as though making sure she's there, making sure she's strong enough, making sure she knows Bailey's there- So much conveyed in that one touch! That two second moment was THE moment, for me!
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