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Grey’s Anatomy Recap: Drowning on Dry Land

by admin on February 15th, 2007

Episode Name: Drowning on Dry Land
Air Date: February 15, 2007

Wow, that was an AMAZING episode of Grey’s Anatomy! I’m such a sap I actually cried.

So do you think Meredith really died? Will she still be the narrator like Brenda Strong’s character on Desperate Housewives?

TV Squad reminds us that she can’t really die:

Come on, people! You know and I know that Meredith isn’t really going to die. Sure, she’s all blue, her temperature isn’t coming up, and she’s seeing visions of Denny Duquette and Dylan the Bomb Squad guy. Clinically, she may even be dead, in that "you were dead for two minutes!" kind of dead.

But we know Ol’ Mer isn’t quite all the way gone yet. She’s just in "Limbo."

Remember that episode of Magnum? The producers weren’t quite sure the show was going to be cancelled at the end of the seventh season, so they have Magnum get shot and spend an episode in "limbo," seeing dead people and trying to help the living from afar. The episode shows Magnum walking off into the clouds; when CBS brought the show back, ol’ Tom was called back from the clouds and miraculously brought back to life.

Putting characters in limbo is a device as old as TV itself; heck, it’s even older, as we see every Christmas when we watch It’s A Wonderful Life. So, even though Rhimes has said in the past that she intends to turn the usual TV conventions on their ear, it really doesn’t look that way to me. I mean, what’s next week going to be? The entire SGH staff gnashing teeth and rending garments while Meredith gets taught Life’s Big Lessons by Denny and Dylan? Then at 9:59:30, Meredith comes back amongst us, worse for wear and more aware of the big picture. Oh, and I’m sure Derek will ask her to marry him.

Wasn’t Izzie’s speech about Meredith annoying? I hate how she told George it was a mistake to marry Callie. I love Callie!

I was all ready to buy into Izzie’s speech about believing in Meredith and knowing she was going to pull through, until she decided that it was the perfect time to tell George that he made a horrible mistake in marrying Callie. Nice. Only in the world of SGH do people’s brains work this way. Izzie just saved a life and got her career back, her friend is hovering near death, and her mind goes right to what she thinks is George’s "sham" marriage. Yikes. Does Shonda have that dim a view of humanity?

And what about the tension between Burke and Yang? I think they’re going to totally split up. Maybe Burke will be the one to die next episode because they want Isaiah Washington off the show?

I liked Yang’s description of how Meredith is her "person": "If I murdered someone, I’d call her to help me drag the corpse across the room." That Cristina can get so mushy sometimes.

I liked the nice "there are more important things going on" bonding between Mark, Addison, and Derek while Meredith was being worked on. And, it’s too bad Alex and George didn’t find the body of Joe the bartender or something when they were looking in the morgue. That would have been a lot more of a surprise than what we got.

I loved Cristina’s line but I don’t EVER want to see Joe the bartender die! He’s so awesome.

Anyway, it was a crazy episode and I’m sure for big fans it will be a crazy week waiting to find out what happens! Stay tuned for spoilers and more discussion.

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