This episode felt over-long to me. It seemed like there was about an hour of medical content, and they tried to stretch it into two hours by rehashing a lot of the same emotional/non-medical stuff a few more times than was necessary. When the medical stuff wrapped up, there was still about 20 minutes left, and personally I was already over everything else. I wish networks didn't feel the need to premiere their shows with episodes that are twice as long as they should be (Bones, 90210, Heroes, Grey's Anatomy, The Office, etc., etc.). We've got a whole season with these people to look forward to, there's no reason to overdo it right out of the gate.
Speaking of overdoing it...what happened to Rose? Last year she was so vanilla and boring, but this season she's providing sarcastic commentary in the middle of brain surgeries, stabbing people with scalpels, and cracking the unfunniest kinds of jokes ("I'm carrying your baby, Derek."). Crazy, party of one... Thank goodness she's gone off to pediatrics now. Good riddance.
It was interesting that Seattle Grace has found itself demoted from the No. 3 teaching hospital to No. 12. Ouch. Now I realize that these doctors have a lot of sex and get distracted from their medical work a fair amount of the time and that there have been a few scandals (Denny's death, Burke's hand, etc.), but Seattle Grace has also performed what can only be a disproportionate amount of really cutting-edge, dramatic medical procedures. There was the bomb in the person's chest, the ferry boat accident, the people stuck on a pole, the guy encased in cement, the penis fish, the "pregnant" man, the conjoined adult twins, the person with toxic blood, the using viruses to kill brain tumors, etc., etc., etc. It seems like every third person who crosses through the doors of Seattle Grace has some kind of extremely rare/bizarre medical problem that receives some kind of extremely rare/bizarre medical treatment. And, a lot of the time, the doctors end up saving their patients. You cannot tell me that there are 11 other hospitals in the U.S. with this kind of a remarkable track record.
My only explanation for the No. 12 ranking is that somehow the review committee got wind of Izzie using hospital equipment to resuscitate the deer.
And, honestly, after the promos for the next episode--which suggest that the whole freaking roof of the hospital collapses in mid-surgery--Seattle Grace is going to be lucky if it can hold onto the No. 12 ranking.
I could also have done without the dream sequences, which I thought were weird because in only one of the cases was the person actually dreaming (Meredith dreaming Derek had been in an accident). Izzie was wide awake when she saw Denny (Again. Please, move on Izzie, please. It's been over two years since Denny's dying episode aired. It is time for Izzie and the show to get over it.) Christina, I guess, was the one who "dreamed" about her and Meredith as old people, but she wasn't asleep and she didn't seem to be losing consciousness at any other point despite having been run through by an icicle. (At least Old Mere and Old Christina were really cute, even if they weren't relevant to the plot.)
Things I did like:
- Sloan badgering Lexie about liking George.
- Meredith: "And they'll be Derek's kids, so they'll have perfect hair."
- Christina: "As you weigh your options, just consider the possibility of shutting the hell up."
- Hunt, the military doctor, was kind of cool. He was also kind of creepy though, what with randomly pulling the blinds and kissing people and all. And it was weird that they had all those doctors around and still allowed him--someone who is not on hospital staff--to treat Christina.
Premiere Rating: 5.5/10
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