The Season 4 premiere got off to a great start with each of the previous interns (except poor George) trying their hand at giving their new interns the same speech that Bailey gave them on their first day. Their "Nazi" impersonations resulted in various degrees of success, with Izzie fairing the worst and Meredith losing credibility when she hilariously went off the script: "On call room. Sleep when you can where you can...but not with anyone...especially not attendings. Sleeping with attendings: not a good idea."
After a great start, the episode lost some steam. Callie was in over her head and I don't feel sorry for her; Lexi seemed a little too perky and excited to meet Meredith; Izzie was doctoring a deer for crying out loud and then lectured her interns saying that she "did the impossible" (please just get over yourself, Stevens); and Meredith still just can't handle a relationship with Derek for, oh, some combination of reasons. But, even considering those things, this episode was better than any of the Grey's we've seen since at least last November.
Highlights and random observations:
- I'm not loving Karev's new facial hair.
- Christina: "Why is everyone so tinkly and hurt? I'm the one who got left at the alter." Tinkly? Do they have to go to the bathroom?
- Bailey: "You and Grey aren't smelling each other in the elevator anymore."
- With the addition of all these new interns, doesn't it seem like there are a ton more people working in the hospital now than there were before? It just seemed like most of them were getting in the way.
- Lexi picked a bad time to introduce herself.
- Steamy: "You want to rub up against me, you're going to have to buy me a drink first."
- Callie needs to get her head in the game. Weird comment about George being a daddy since she's not pregnant...or "maybe" is. I found it all borderline creepy, but maybe that's because T.R. Knight was giving her a look of sheer terror the whole time she was talking.
- That's one fake looking deer.
- Hey, another pregnant chick who's all alone. Maybe Karev can have this one.
- The scene with all the interns conversing around the severed arm had a lovely, vintage GA feel to it.
- Meredith: "Spiritually, Bailey's over everybody's head."
- So the Chief's wife still won't talk to him? Come on! They reconciled! That was the one even half-way positive thing that came out of that train wreck finale and now that didn't even stick! Geez!
- Ha! George thought Izzy was talking about him when she referred to "Bambi."
- Thank you, Derek, for finally sticking up for Meredith. Too bad that you were the one complaining about her for all of last year.
- Well, that was a ridiculously easy childbirth, considering the mother was out cold having an arm reattached.
- So why did Lexi change her plans and do her internship at Seattle Grace if she really wanted to go somewhere else?
- McSteamy to McDreamy: "I didn't come to Seattle for Addison. I didn't come to Seattle to be chief. I came Seattle for you, okay? I came to get you back." Hilarious.
- I liked the Alex/Christina alliance at the end and also that George found a new friend in Lexi.
- And then George goes and tells Izzie that he loves her. Well, I guess I'm glad someone does, because that girl is on my last nerve. I would like to point out that George didn't have to watch her doctor the deer. Maybe if he had, he'd feel differently.
The dynamics of the show have changed with departure of Burke and Addison and the original interns now holding positions of power. It will be interesting how the characters and show deals with this shift. Now we just have to wait and see if this season will be full of good Grey's moments (the chat around the severed arm, McSteamy's proclamation to McDreamy) or if those painful Grey's moments (Izzie and the deer, anything from last year's finale) will continue to creep in.
Premiere Rating: 7 / 10
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