Just watched another amazing episode of Grey's Anatomy. I feel like I've been through a lot with that show. From the first episode that I saw I fell in love with it. But after sometime the show had started to bother me. I was pissed at all the actor/character changes and repetitive and far-fetched plot lines. However after watching those episodes which I hated at first, a second time, I realized they were still everything I loved about that show.
So a few days ago I saw that this week's episode was going to be an "alternate reality" episode. My first thought was that this was stupid. The writers must just be killing time to make the show go on longer. I thought it would a waste of time to watch. But then I saw the preview, and you can't help but want to know what goes on in a world where Meredith's Person is April, not Christina; where Lexie is a druggie instead of a doctor; where Percy was never killed; and where everyone is romantically involved with someone else. And not only was this episode extremely interesting, but it was also a good look on character development as we got to see deeper into all of them. Because what I realized as I was watching, was that everyone is focused on that they are the person they are because of things that have happened to them and what they have done, but what has just as much impact are things that didn't happen or what could have happened.
I'm not saying that we should be regretful and dwelling. Rather we should use those experiences to learn and make better decisions to live the lives we want. Although in contrast to the episode's overall theme of fate, Alex and Bailey point out that "we create our own destiny." That's what I believe. And although I don't always do that, if there's something I want, like Alex, I believe in doing what you can to get it. Don't just let things happen to you. Because if you do, you will feel like shit.
By the end of the show it's clear the writers want you to know that where the characters are in their lives right now is where they should be. I'm glad they did this because often times when we watch our favorite TV shows we can't help but exclaim "Why did they [the writers] do that to them [the characters]?!" And it makes you wonder what you would think if you could watch an alternate reality of your own life. I think we often wonder about that, at least I do, but we don't always think it through. We do "what ifs." What if I didn't go to college, what if I drop out right now? What if I didn't treat this person like that, what if I go make things better right now? And by doing this we try to look into our own pasts and futures. The truth is though, that you can't undo things you've done and you can't know what's going to happen in the future. We can't have that deeper understanding of our own character development because there isn't someone sitting at a desk in sunny California with a pen determining what's going to happen to us. We have to do that ourselves.
So if you want to be happy then do what makes you happy. Don't worry about "what ifs." When we were little my friend, Timmy, used to do that all the time, "What if there's a earthquake, what if we die?" And we eventually got kind of annoyed with this habit "Timmy, there's not going to be an earthquake. And if there is you aren't going to die!" No point in worrying about those things. I'm not saying don't be prepared, by all means little Timmy make yourself and earthquake emergency kit, but don't let the fear of earthquakes get into your everyday life and ruin your present life with worry.
It's like my mom said yesterday when we were discussing relationships, "Seize the day means enjoy each other's love TODAY. Thank God for it. Even if you never have another great day with him, you will always remember the love and be thankful for it...Everyday your Dad and I count our blessings together. Even if they are a little stupid (roof over our heads, love our kids, heater is working). When I was dating your Dad, everyday I thought to myself. 'If I NEVER see him again, at least I had _____ time with him. So I am very lucky' I swear to God I did this everyday"
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Showing posts with label Grey's Anatomy. Show all posts
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Friday, February 3, 2012
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Protecting my identity
I don't know if you have noticed, but I changed my name. Rodent girl was something I thought of when I couldn't think of anything else and no one read my blog. Now, for all two of you who read it regularly, you get to see a different pen name. Not that it matters much.
I constructed my new alias based on my two favorite fictional female doctors. "Remy" from Dr. Remy Hadley from House. and "Stevens" from Dr. Isobel Stevens from Grey's Anatomy. Also known as Thirteen and Izzie respectively. And (insert chimes and bright, flowy colors) Remy Stevens was born. I'm their love child. JK.
I picked this name because both characters are hot and smart. That is all I aspire to be. Plus, I love House and Grey's Anatomy.
I constructed my new alias based on my two favorite fictional female doctors. "Remy" from Dr. Remy Hadley from House. and "Stevens" from Dr. Isobel Stevens from Grey's Anatomy. Also known as Thirteen and Izzie respectively. And (insert chimes and bright, flowy colors) Remy Stevens was born. I'm their love child. JK.
I picked this name because both characters are hot and smart. That is all I aspire to be. Plus, I love House and Grey's Anatomy.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Don't Die Izzie Stevens!
Having nothing to do, since I wasn't needed to babysit tonight, I started looking up Grey's Anatomy stuff. And OMG- why didn't I think of this before?! Years of me complaining about how none of my friends watch the show so I had nobody to talk to about it, but there are like a million message boards.
So a few episodes ago, was the whole "I'm here for you thing." To catch up all non-GA fans, Izzie had been spending a lot of time with Denny, her dead fiance (he was a patient in season 2). While Denny was there as a ghost, Izzie was having relationships with him (coitus), which was weird and confusing since she is going out with Alex. So she decides to be with Alex over Denny. After she tells him this though he won't go away. He can't and he tells her "I'm here for you" and that she's a doctor and she needs to figure it out. That episode ends with Izzie figuring it out- she's sick. That's what Denny meant. In case you're having problems with my explanation- dead fiance ghost telling you you're sick = not good.
In the next episode Izzie gets the interns to do tests on her, under the pretense that they are doing it for practice before they do it on real patients. Incompetent intern, Sadie (incompetence proven in next episode where she ends up quitting), gives Izzie her blood test back and all it says is that she's anemic, but the Sadie's real patient might have cancer. An episode later, Izzie is doing a craft project and can't find the scissors which are right in front of her face.
And that's all they say about it! Oh, stupid GA -Private Practice crossover is more important!
People on the internet are saying that Izzie might die. Katherine Heigel has implied publicly that she doesn't want to do the show anymore, and in kind of an insulting manner. This has lead people to believe that the writers are going to kill her off - most likely via brain tumor. However I found this quote from Shonda Rhimes, “I think the love triangle with Denny, Izzie, and Alex is among the most interesting we’ve ever done. Watching the chemistry between Jeffrey and Katherine again has been really touching. I can’t wait for our viewers to see where we’re taking it. But what it won’t involve is Izzie having a brain tumor.” *
Well, that's nice and all, but folks on the Internet are speculating something like, brain aneurysm, or something where even if she doesn't die, she'll be incapable of performing surgery and that will be her excuse for leaving the show. Now, personally I think the brain aneurysm thing is overdone and would not be a good storyline, but what if she leaves the show? Another idea is that maybe Sadie mixed up Izzie's test results with cancer lady. Sounds too predictable to me. Not only would I be upset if Izzie left the show, but I would be mad for them doing it in such a stupid way. Then I discovered this one yahoo answers:
"Here is my guess:
Denny kept telling Izzie, "You're a doctor. You figure it out. You're a scientist." I think that was his way of telling her to figure out that she has some sort of physical sickness, like a brain aneurysm, that causes her to see and feel hallucinations. Remember the episodes with Meridith and Derek's clinical trials? Some of the patients had intense hallucinations. Or even Eli Stone, he has an aneurysm that causes him to have intensely real hallucinations.
I think Izzie finally figured out that she is truly sick. Denny was telling her that he was there for her so that she would stop to think, "Why am I having hallucinations?" He wasn't trying to "be there for her" like a friendly emotional shoulder. He was there FOR her to realize that she was sick.
Again, just my guess."
-lysharenee
After I read that I was like, omg- yes! hallucinations! It ties everything in and it would make the storyline more plausible.
I am so messed-up about this. I can't wait til Thursday for a clue, but it's gonna be another GA/PP one. Congrats to the show for keeping me on the edge of my seat (but in the meantime I'm going to go pull my hair out).
Anyway, I just hope that Izzie Stevens doesn't leave the show. She's one of the mainest characters and the show just wouldn't be the same without her. I would have a really hard time watching the show without her. There have been so many characters added Erica, Dr. Dixen, Lexie, Sadie, ped surgeon who's name I can't recall (and Callie, Addison, and Mark were early add-ons) , and so many who have left- Burke, Addison, Erica, and now Sadie. This show has had so many shuffled characters, which is ok I guess, it keeps it interesting, but at some point we fans just need people to be fans of, and that won't happen if nobody stays on the show. In my opinion Izzie can't leave because it would put a crack in the foundation of the whole show. Plus, the "character shuffling", is a crack, Burke leaving was a crack, ghost Denny was maybe not the smartest idea. I just don't want the show to crumble. I love the show too much. I stood by through all the craziness, and now that the show is back on it's feet plot-wise, I don't want it to fall again.
*http://www.greysanatomynews.com/2008/11/18/greys-anatomy-spoilers-no-brain-tumor-for-izzie-whats-next-for-callie/
So a few episodes ago, was the whole "I'm here for you thing." To catch up all non-GA fans, Izzie had been spending a lot of time with Denny, her dead fiance (he was a patient in season 2). While Denny was there as a ghost, Izzie was having relationships with him (coitus), which was weird and confusing since she is going out with Alex. So she decides to be with Alex over Denny. After she tells him this though he won't go away. He can't and he tells her "I'm here for you" and that she's a doctor and she needs to figure it out. That episode ends with Izzie figuring it out- she's sick. That's what Denny meant. In case you're having problems with my explanation- dead fiance ghost telling you you're sick = not good.
In the next episode Izzie gets the interns to do tests on her, under the pretense that they are doing it for practice before they do it on real patients. Incompetent intern, Sadie (incompetence proven in next episode where she ends up quitting), gives Izzie her blood test back and all it says is that she's anemic, but the Sadie's real patient might have cancer. An episode later, Izzie is doing a craft project and can't find the scissors which are right in front of her face.
And that's all they say about it! Oh, stupid GA -Private Practice crossover is more important!
People on the internet are saying that Izzie might die. Katherine Heigel has implied publicly that she doesn't want to do the show anymore, and in kind of an insulting manner. This has lead people to believe that the writers are going to kill her off - most likely via brain tumor. However I found this quote from Shonda Rhimes, “I think the love triangle with Denny, Izzie, and Alex is among the most interesting we’ve ever done. Watching the chemistry between Jeffrey and Katherine again has been really touching. I can’t wait for our viewers to see where we’re taking it. But what it won’t involve is Izzie having a brain tumor.” *
Well, that's nice and all, but folks on the Internet are speculating something like, brain aneurysm, or something where even if she doesn't die, she'll be incapable of performing surgery and that will be her excuse for leaving the show. Now, personally I think the brain aneurysm thing is overdone and would not be a good storyline, but what if she leaves the show? Another idea is that maybe Sadie mixed up Izzie's test results with cancer lady. Sounds too predictable to me. Not only would I be upset if Izzie left the show, but I would be mad for them doing it in such a stupid way. Then I discovered this one yahoo answers:
"Here is my guess:
Denny kept telling Izzie, "You're a doctor. You figure it out. You're a scientist." I think that was his way of telling her to figure out that she has some sort of physical sickness, like a brain aneurysm, that causes her to see and feel hallucinations. Remember the episodes with Meridith and Derek's clinical trials? Some of the patients had intense hallucinations. Or even Eli Stone, he has an aneurysm that causes him to have intensely real hallucinations.
I think Izzie finally figured out that she is truly sick. Denny was telling her that he was there for her so that she would stop to think, "Why am I having hallucinations?" He wasn't trying to "be there for her" like a friendly emotional shoulder. He was there FOR her to realize that she was sick.
Again, just my guess."
-lysharenee
After I read that I was like, omg- yes! hallucinations! It ties everything in and it would make the storyline more plausible.
I am so messed-up about this. I can't wait til Thursday for a clue, but it's gonna be another GA/PP one. Congrats to the show for keeping me on the edge of my seat (but in the meantime I'm going to go pull my hair out).
Anyway, I just hope that Izzie Stevens doesn't leave the show. She's one of the mainest characters and the show just wouldn't be the same without her. I would have a really hard time watching the show without her. There have been so many characters added Erica, Dr. Dixen, Lexie, Sadie, ped surgeon who's name I can't recall (and Callie, Addison, and Mark were early add-ons) , and so many who have left- Burke, Addison, Erica, and now Sadie. This show has had so many shuffled characters, which is ok I guess, it keeps it interesting, but at some point we fans just need people to be fans of, and that won't happen if nobody stays on the show. In my opinion Izzie can't leave because it would put a crack in the foundation of the whole show. Plus, the "character shuffling", is a crack, Burke leaving was a crack, ghost Denny was maybe not the smartest idea. I just don't want the show to crumble. I love the show too much. I stood by through all the craziness, and now that the show is back on it's feet plot-wise, I don't want it to fall again.
*http://www.greysanatomynews.com/2008/11/18/greys-anatomy-spoilers-no-brain-tumor-for-izzie-whats-next-for-callie/
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