Posted by Dustin on 11.14.2009 at 3:40 pm

Mostly just thoughts this time, with some bits of recap being able to be taken away from them . . .

Grey’s Anatomy

Seeing Adele back this week was great, and it was hilarious that she suspected the Chief of having an affair because he hadn’t been home all week. When she accused Bailey, I thought Bailey was gunna mess her pants! That of course sent Bailey on a hilarious goose chase to find the person The Chief may have been cheating with, but I think it was easy to see what was really going on. I was surprised it didn’t cross Adele’s mind, but I guess since the affair thing had also been done before that’s where she went first.

The Chief made a huge mistake during a routine procedure, cutting the bile duct (or something), which turned his patient yellow. Bailey covered for him, and he turned all his surgeries over to her. He then went to a bar. Yup, the Chief has fallen off the wagon! If this is supposed to make me feel sorry for him, well I don’t. I was actually more furious than ever, as if any doctor in the hospital made the mistake he did, he would have fired them. Also given the shhhhh The Chief gave Bailey last season, why is she being so protective of him? I didn’t like that either honestly.

Izzie returned, but only for this episode, and only to bring an old high school teacher to see Derek. Everyone thought he just had dementia or Alzheimer’s, but she knew it was something else, possibly a tumor. She wouldn’t give up, and in the end, she was right and Derek saved the guy and gave him back his lucidity. My guess is that her find will help her get her job back at some point, probably when Derek is named chief.

I loved that during this story Izzie stood up to the Chief, who didn’t want to give the surgery to the guy pro-bono cause his coverage wouldn’t afford it. She reminded him how she gave 8million dollars to this hospital for a clinic! Go Izzie!

Izzie and Alex also had it out, neither one of them could forgive the other for the slights they saw. Izzie blamed Alex for her firing, telling the Chief she wasn’t ready to work. He blamed her for not giving him the benefit of the doubt. I find myself blaming the writers for making us sit through this storyline (too much like the Mer-Der crap) again.

The final, and best, story was Owen bringing in Teddy Alderman as a cardio surgeon for Christina. She was a bit stunned she was a present for his new girlfriend, and of course she always had feelings for Owen which she made clear. He was shocked when she revealed she always thought if he and his wife broke up, he’d call her. Christina meanwhile was fending off the other doctor she had kissed. Yeah I think we can see a quadrangle coming up at some point here. Not in favor of that at all, they use that story device too much on here as is.

Christina of course wasn’t impressed by Teddy, thinking she was a poorly trained not up to date and never published hack. Of course when she finally saw Teddy work, and Teddy stopped taking shhhh from Christina, she was impressed. I know they have too many doctors as is, but I love Kim Raver’s addition to the show. She was great! Her interactions with the other docs was also great (when they were all telling her how Christina has run off all the other cardio attendings).

Private Practice

I was a bit let down with this week’s show. I didn’t like the whole pregnant woman trapped in the car with her dying husband outside story at all. You could tell they weren’t going to give us a happy ending, and didn’t when they had the wife die in Addison’s arms. It was heartbreaking and frankly one gory storyline! I kept cringing through the whole thing just wanting it over.

Throughout the episode they teased us with a Sam and Addison pairing, how he originally asked her out in school but she said no as Naomi had a crush on her . . . and she also had Derek at the time. At the end of the show they finally kissed, but giggled after and said “You aren’t Naomi/Derek.” I hope that means they AREN’T going to try and pair these two up, as I think that would be a big no-no.

Pete and Sheldon competed for the same women at some bar on their night off. It was just some huge metaphor for Violet, and Sheldon told Pete he needed to admit he still loved Violet and wasn’t over her.

Violet, Cooper and Charlotte meanwhile dealt with a groom who took too many viagra on his wedding day as to impress his bride. They were supposed to be virgins, but she wasn’t. She heard the first time hurt and wanted to be good as well, so she did it with some other guy and got knocked up. The whole storyline set up a mini battle between Violet and Charlotte that has been simmering for two seasons now. Violet felt Charlotte wasn’t putting her heart into her patients, was only healing them on the outside. She said that’s not how they did things here, they listen to their patients, they help them. It was time someone told Charlotte that, as she’s still been the cold heartless doctor that got her fired from the other practice.

So when the groom found out about the wife, he wanted to divorce her. Charlotte told him this long story about how she was married, but her husband did a bad thing she couldn’t forgive, so she left him and now has a great life. However he was always her “one” she thought, and she sometimes thinks what it would be like if she tried to work it out. Violet overheard her of course, and when confronted, Charlotte says she made it up to just help the kid, which is what Violet wanted her to do. Violet of course was disgusted, has Charlotte lied about the past, or is she a compulsive liar? That was the big question, and I think it’s a bit of both honestly. At the end of the show as she and Coop were in bed, Charlotte said “I have something to tell you . . . ” So was Charlotte married? If so, you know that guys going to come back at some point!