GREY'S ANATOMY

It's not too often that a really good show comes along, one you can see being devoted to for years. ER was one of them nearly 12 years ago. Battlestar Galactica on Sci Fi is another. And LOST last year, and now this year, Grey's Anatomy. They characters are dynamic, and round, and sympathetic. There are times when I want to ring Addison's neck, but damn if she isn't a great doctor. Christina, she's so single minded, but is slowly learning how to integrate love into her life. The ultimate is Alex. I feel so sorry for him. He has so much going on in his life and is completely unequipped to handle it. George on the other hand has really surprised me. I thought for sure he was going to be unsure of himself, faltering at every turn, but instead he's really taken the road to becoming a great doctor.

The show starts with the quints. These poor babies, one has his insides on the outside, another has a heart condition, one has underdeveloped lungs, one isn't doing half bad and one has brain swelling. Each baby is assigned on an intern and they argue about who has the best quint. It's pretty cute. Izzie's still pissed at Alex, and rightfully so, he was doing the not so cute nurse with syphilis last week. After he walks out she complains to the others about the whole situation. She tells them how good in bed she is and that he'd be lucky to have her. They don't lend her much support, they just tell her how better off without him she is. That sucks when friends do that, that's not helping. I know I'm better off without him, but I still want to be with him. Sorry, I got a little emotional there. See, this is how this show affects me.

George and Meredith are walking down the hall and George gets up the balls to ask Meredith out for a drink later. Unfortunately she-devil and McDreamy are in front of her arguing. Apparently Addison wants him to get rid of his double wide trailer and live with the rest of the civilized people in a normal house. It was only sexy for McDreamy to live in the trailer when he was single. Meredith and McD are able to find time later (against Addison's wishes) and she tells him to stand firm and not give up the trailer. He insists that he won't. Nice, tell him to defy the Mrs.

Later, George gets assigned to Timothy Bottoms. He had melanoma on his finger, ear, and nose and they've operated, grafting skin onto the wounds. Unfortunately for him his blood hasn't started flowing properly so they're going to have to resort to putting leeches on him. I'm immediately reminded of that scene in Stand By Me and the leeches. Ah, good times. Olivia, the slutty syphilis passing nurse, is assigned to the case as well and she's having trouble putting the leeches are. George makes some comment about her and leeches and Bottoms is surprised. He thinks Olivia and George are in item and wants them to make up. Listen buddy, you don't know what went down. When George starts to throw the leeches out after they've done their job, Bottoms saves them, even naming one of them George, how sweet. George tries to hold his emotions in but eventually makes it known to Olivia and Bottoms, that what she did to Izzie was wrong. She claims she didn't know Alex and Izzie were together and I'm inclined to believe her. Doesn't mean I like the ho. Later she gets stuck in the elevator with Izzie and tries to apologize to her for sleeping with Alex. Izzie's not having it and storms out.

Christina runs out of Burke's before she can eat the spread he's made for breakfast. I just love these two together, I hope they can stick it out. When she gets to the hospital she gets assigned to a woman who's been brought in from a prison. She's in for killing three people and to have a change of scenery, swallows three or four razor blades. Of course she's not stupid so she's put tape on the outside of them. I can barely swallow my big ass vitamins, I couldn't imagine swallowing that. My question of course is how this murderer in solitary confinement could get razor blades. I'm reminded of Prison Break, long live sexy Michael Scofield! Anyway, Christina tells her that she'll be out in a day or two, which upsets her since she thought she'd be able to stay longer than that. Eventually, in protest, she eats a light bulb. I once saw this guy on Guinness World Records that ate glass. I can't stand it when a potato chip gets wedge between my teeth. Anyway, they have to operate and the woman gets another two weeks in the hospital, much to her delight. And Christina's too a bit, the nut job grew on her.

Meanwhile, Alex is still upset over nearly killing Booger. Unfortunately, because of Alex's mix up last week, Booger is in a fairly irreversible coma. McDreamy can be a McDick sometimes and makes Alex feel even worse than he already does. Poor Alex, first he almost kills Booger, then he breaks up with the cutest intern at the hospital. Alex spends most of the show trying to find a cure for Booger to get out of the coma. Unfortunately McDreamy shoots down all of his ideas, but eventually makes Alex feel a bit better by telling him about the first guy he killed. There were others?!? Note to self- don't go to Seattle and get sick.

Checking in on the quints and they're not doing too well. The one with the lung problem's lungs collapse a few times. Lucky for one of them Dr. Bailey is feeling maternal and talks baby talk to them. Bailey also tells Meredith to watch the quints mom. Good she did too because the woman's feeling a bit guilty for having all five babies. I'm gonna refrain from putting in my two cents here. Meredith tries to make her feel better by wheeling her into the babies' room, but she leaves when one of the baby's monitor starts to go off. They take Izzie's quint into surgery for her heart and have to close up. The heart was much smaller than they thought.

Alex and Meredith talk in the quints room about what's been going on and she offers him support. "Oh no he di'int" says Izzie when she walks in and sees them. She's pissed and walks out. Meredith tries to follow her and claims she wasn't trying to sleep with Alex. Izzie says, "Why, you slept with everybody else." BAM! She's got you there Mere, you went down the ho route as soon as McDreamy dumped you. Later, with the quints, Meredith has the idea to put her sick quint in the incubator with the healthier quint. This works and the sick quint's stats go up, spending the night with her sister right next to her. Bailey congratulates her on thinking of it.

Addison talks to Dr. Webber and says that Izzie shows a lot of promise. Addison asks if he remembers what he did to her when she was learning from him. He wonders if this is the best thing to do to Izzie and Addison says that this is the way to find out if she's truly gifted. I'm thinking she's going to take her out back and jump her in. Fortunately, that doesn't happen. She tells Izzie that she has to stay another night with the quints. Izzie informs her that she's not on call, that she spent all the previous night on call. Addison doesn't care and tells her that her quint, the heart one, better be alive when she gets back in the morning. Izzie works furiously through the night and the quint holds on by a thread. Izzie even has the nurse call Addison to have her come in, but she refuses, saying that Izzie should handle it. The next morning Izzie wakes up next to the incubator and the baby's gone. The nurse tells her that the baby died half an hour before, Addison told the nurse not to wake her up. When Izzie confronts Addison about it she admits that she knew the baby was going to die. After the heart surgery it was obvious the baby wouldn't make it through the night. Izzie is pissed and Addison tells her she did this so she wouldn't get too attached to her patients. Poor Izzie's just getting crapped on all day.

Luckily, she and Meredith make up and Meredith takes her to the pound and they buy a mutt for the house. I'm not really a dog person, but this dog is nasty looking. I hope they give him a bath. Oh, and if you didn't watch it, or can't remember it well, Meredith was looking S-K-I-N-N-Y. And not just "model" skinny, more like, "I'm a skeleton with clothes on" skinny. I really like Ellen Pompeo who plays Meredith so I'll forgive her. Maybe she's just getting over the flu, or spent a night on a meth binge. These people could do no wrong for me, unlike the crack whore skinny Susan over at Housewives.