Obit: Meredith Grey? (TV show character)

Subject: Obit: Meredith Grey?
From: SINSULL
Date: 16 Feb 07 - 07:17 AM

Are we in for more friendly "guides" on the other side who will help her choose whether to remain dead or return to her turbulent life or will she forever more walk the corridors and help her unsuspecting fellow interns save lives?
Stay tuned...

Subject: RE: Obit: Meredith Grey?
From: Mooh
Date: 16 Feb 07 - 07:21 AM

Is this television? Is it music? What the...

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: Obit: Meredith Grey?
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 16 Feb 07 - 07:27 AM

Presumably this is the central character in the series Grey's Anatomy. Have I missed something or has the character been killed off?

Subject: RE: Obit: Meredith Grey?
From: Pseudolus
Date: 16 Feb 07 - 12:02 PM

They made it look that way but since the character's name is in the title of the show, I highly doubt she will die.

Frank

Subject: RE: Obit: Meredith Grey? (TV show character)
From: jacqui.c
Date: 17 Feb 07 - 08:02 AM

They hadn't actually pronounced her dead at the end of the show. I think that she will jerk back and make a miraculous recovery pretty soon.

Subject: RE: Obit: Meredith Grey? (TV show character)
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Feb 07 - 02:44 PM

Huh?

Subject: RE: Obit: Meredith Grey? (TV show character)
From: jacqui.c
Date: 18 Feb 07 - 08:41 AM

Gray's Anatomy is a TV show about a group of interns in a hospital in Seattle. Very much of a soaper, but it has got me hooked.

In the last two episodes they've been dealing with a ferry disaster and the main character, Meredith Gray, got knocked into the water and was pulled out, very blue, by her Neurosurgoen boyfriend. At the end of the last show she was still being worked on but they were losing her. She had the white light experience and saw a dead patient, asked "Am I Dead" and was told that she was. End of episode.

Subject: RE: Obit: Meredith Grey? (TV show character)
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Feb 07 - 10:02 AM

Oh. Here I always thought "Gray's Anatomy" was a classical book on anatomy.

Subject: RE: Obit: Meredith Grey? (TV show character)
From: jaze
Date: 18 Feb 07 - 10:20 AM

She's too cold to be pronounced dead(why they keep asking her temperature)You have to be warm and dead(normal body temp.) to be pronounced.

Subject: RE: Obit: Meredith Grey? (TV show character)
From: SINSULL
Date: 18 Feb 07 - 11:06 AM

I am going to be really pissed off if this turns into the standard "let's talk about it and see if it is really your time to die" crap. My preferences - either she dies and comes back to haunt the hospital or she lives and brings the other two back with her leading to a kinky love affair with a ghost and a pain in the ass idiot patient who put a bomb in himself. They can relieve the bloody explosion ad nauseam. Both have excellent possibilities. The walking towards the light crap may lead me to smash my tiny TV and move on.

Now for the REAL problem. Who changed the title of my thread without my permission? If it was anyone but Max I may have to start 35 threads on and off the subject in order to make my point and get a straight answer. This never happens when the Brits start BBC threads. Is this discrimination? Is someone making decisions who is not a decision maker? HMMMM I am not very good at this...

Subject: RE: Obit: Meredith Grey? (TV show character)
From: Jeri
Date: 18 Feb 07 - 12:06 PM

I didn't change the title, but 'bite me' anyway.

Since I don't watch the show... jaze is right about needing to be warm before being pronounced. And dead patients don't know anything. Numerous cases of hypothermic drowning victims being revived. If she'd drowned in sun-warmed tropical waters, she'd be permanently dead, but it sounds like she's only temporarily dead and will be warmed up and resuscitated, and will return to life with a renewed sense of purpose.

Buy barf bags.

Subject: RE: Obit: Meredith Grey? (TV show character)
From: SINSULL
Date: 18 Feb 07 - 01:15 PM

that's "relive the bloody explosion". It was all bloody mist and great special effects.

Barf bags - I can't believe they would scrape the bottom of the barrel and reduce the series to that. Not when they have risen to the levels of McDreamy, McDog, etc.

Subject: RE: Obit: Meredith Grey? (TV show character)
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Feb 07 - 01:44 PM

A dead body will cool until it reaches the ambient air temperature. The temp of a body is taken rectally so that the internal temperature can be used. Since the body takes its temperature from its surroundings, a body in 40 degree F. water can chill to that temp, internally and externally. If you have a warm body you have a recent death.

And if you graph it the cooling will follow a curve, eventually leveling out.

Granted, this is dependent upon a lot of different factors: humidity, varying air temperature, the temp of the surface(s) which might be touching the body, etc. etc.

Subject: RE: Obit: Meredith Grey? (TV show character)
From: Wordsmith
Date: 19 Feb 07 - 01:40 AM

I wrote a blog about this on another site right after I'd finished watching it...I called it: Is Grey's Anatomy Jumping the Shark? The latter refers to an episode of Happy Days in which Fonzie literally jumped a shark with his motorcycle...it was an attempt to boost the ratings, which failed miserably. Gee, wonder why? Since then, any time a television series goes a little wacky trying stunts, like supposedly killing off the main titled character, TV critics call it "jumping the shark."

I thought it was outrageous that they continued this arc past the second episode and now into a third. Just to clear something up, the two guys that Meredith Grey sees "in the white light" are Denny, her housemate's dead fiance and the fireman, whose name escapes me, who saved Meredith's life by taking over for her hand which was in the dumb war re-enacter's body holding the live bombshell that was in his abdomen, and then he wound up getting killed when it went off. (Apologies to those who haven't a clue what this series is all about...it does sound strange in the retelling.)

This is a popular show. I can't imagine what the writers are thinking by going down this route. It has ruined the show's credibility, in my estimation, especially, by having every available surgeon either in the room trying to save Meredith, who, I agree, may not be dead since she's hypothermic...btw, why aren't they warming her?...or just outside the room grieving over her dilemma. Meanwhile, who's saving the ferryboat's victims? Why? Why? Why? I don't even know if I want to watch on Thursday. I compared her "white light experience" to Tony Soprano's frequent dream episodes...which also stretched the limits of verisimilitude.

Subject: RE: Obit: Meredith Grey? (TV show character)
From: Wordsmith
Date: 19 Feb 07 - 02:31 AM

Correction: "Jumping the shark" refers to an episode of Happy Days in which Fonzie, complete with his trademark leather jacket jumps over a shark on water skis. I just fact-checked, and there's a Wikipedia reference about it. The inference is still correct that when a show uses plot twists that are illogical or stunt-like compared to what had preceded it's called, jumping the shark. *I bow, humbly.* *red-faced*

Subject: RE: Obit: Meredith Grey? (TV show character)
From: Pseudolus
Date: 19 Feb 07 - 02:00 PM

But really, who better to wordsmith a previous post???

Subject: RE: Obit: Meredith Grey? (TV show character)
From: Wordsmith
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 03:31 AM

I admit my mistakes.

Subject: RE: Obit: Meredith Grey? (TV show character)
From: jeffp
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 10:53 AM

That's a rare quality.

Subject: RE: Obit: Meredith Grey? (TV show character)
From: SINSULL
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 06:15 PM

I too had to wonder why all those doctors were hanging around waiting to see if Grey would survive while unclaimed children are walking around the waiting room in shock and supposedly a hundred other passengers needed immediate help.

This story line has been done to death. So I repeat unless she dies and comes back to haunt the hospital or she lives and brings back her fellow travellers - then this is a colossal waste of prime time.

I didn't recognize Denny. Wonder where the stupid reenactor is. He could add some comic relief.

Subject: RE: Obit: Meredith Grey? (TV show character)
From: GUEST,zomigthemagnificent
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 07:13 PM

I love SINSULL's idea about all the kinky orgies between the intern ghost the 45 minute fiance (deny or whatever this unshaved guy was called), plus the stupid neurosurgeon boyfriend and bomb squad guy. Why don't we add the hysterical chick (the dead guy's fiancee) to make things more interesting?
I guess then from the remaining living, Mc Dreamy (stupid neurosurgeon boyfriend) would end up with Mc Steamy (sex machine plastic male surgeon ex friend of boyfriend etc) and two new charactes will join: Mc Shaggy and Mc Pukey
That would be nice.

Subject: RE: Obit: Meredith Grey? (TV show character)
From: SINSULL
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 08:20 PM

Damn! One of the writers found his way into Mudcat.

Subject: RE: Obit: Meredith Grey? (TV show character)
From: Wordsmith
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 11:56 PM

I agree, SINSULL; let's go hide! Seriously, though, I don't understand the rationale, but then we're not the creator or the writers, and who knows what pressure they're under. Someone on another site hinted that Shonda Rhimes (is that how it's spelled?) likes to shake things up. This is my first exposure to her...although, who knows if she worked behind the scenes on something else. One of the television critics on our local paper said today that he hoped they did kill off Meredith since he feels she's the weakest link - my words not his. I'll admit, it took me a while to warm up to her character, but if she wasn't semi-comatose (my words,) she'd be just as whacky as all of the other interns. I'd miss her; besides, having seen her mother in action...in and out of Alzheimer's...I'd say she's probably clinically depressed, and rightly so. Now, I'm an amateur psychologist.

Subject: RE: Obit: Meredith Grey? (TV show character)
From: Linda Goodman Zebooker
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 07:09 AM

Why was the intern down below figuring out how to operate on a guy's head with a carpenter's drill while the neurosurgeon was walking around on the pier with nothing to do? Why weren't there any walkie-talkies? Our YOUTH Director running an event for teenagers has seven walkie-talkies! Oh wait, maybe that's the way it really is...scary.

Linda

Subject: RE: Obit: Meredith Grey? (TV show character)
From: EBarnacle
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 10:21 AM

Well, we will know tomorrow evening.

Subject: RE: Obit: Meredith Grey? (TV show character)
From: GUEST,maire-aine
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 10:31 AM

Thanks for identifying the second guy. I recognized Denny, but I forgot about the fireman. I'm not a big fan of the show, altho I saw that explosion episode, but I'd vote for having her ghost haunt the halls.

Maryanne.

Subject: RE: Obit: Meredith Grey? (TV show character)
From: GUEST,guestEv
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 08:12 PM

And why were the loyal friends of the guy Izzie was about to brain drill just yapping and moaning and holding the poor guy's hand instead of teaming up and lifting the car crunching their buddy?

And how did they get the bomb squad guy away from playing McCoach on some new fooball series I don't watch because I couldn't care less about football to come back from the dead on the other network for a White Light White Night shot?

And now that we know Dr. Montgomery the neonatology babe is about to be spun off into her own series, will we care that she has the hots for Izzie's other former boyfriend, or the other way around? Will she take McBotox with her to the new show?

And why isn't Dead Denny getting a show of his own? Maybe he could play a millionaire who gives out money to people and sees what happens. Oh, wait. There was a show like that. It was called The Millionaire. I think it was back before black and white turned into color television.

And why doesn't any Gray guy on this show EVER shave? I am so tired of McStubble hiding their McLooks.

And I can't wait to find out what happens to Meredith. I think she's fascinating, and far from the weakest link in the chain. Maybe that's because my mother never said anything nice to me, either. I hope they defrost her. In more ways than one.

Yeah, I'm an addicted fan. Can't wait to find out what happens next.

GuestEv

Subject: RE: Obit: Meredith Grey? (TV show character)
From: Barb'ry
Date: 23 Feb 07 - 05:19 AM

oh well, please keep us informed as over here we are almost a series behind - it will save me having to stay in and watch it!
B

Subject: RE: Obit: Meredith Grey? (TV show character)
From: GUEST,zomigthemagnificent
Date: 23 Feb 07 - 12:49 PM

oh well after yesterdays stupidity I have only one solution:
let's convince the writers to go on a group suicide so they can find out how it is really the "other side" instead of writing all that rubbish

zomig

Subject: RE: Obit: Meredith Grey? (TV show character)
From: SINSULL
Date: 23 Feb 07 - 07:45 PM

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Subject: RE: Obit: Meredith Grey? (TV show character)
From: GUEST,pompeo al a mudcat
Date: 24 Feb 07 - 02:35 PM

thank god meredith didn't die. too bad about her mother though. but it was nice to see meredith and her mother reconcile as meredith ran from the light and her mother went too it. and it was really nice to see that even in the afterlife, denny's love for izzie remains true despite her being a bitch to george and his new wife, callie o'malley.

Subject: RE: Obit: Meredith Grey? (TV show character)
From: SharonA
Date: 24 Feb 07 - 03:14 PM

I'm with you, Sinsull. When the series debuted, I had no idea that it was going to be "ER" with a "Desperate Housewives" spin. I watched a few episodes but it was no guilty pleasure for me. The writers are guilty of recycling the same old, hackneyed plot lines, which doesn't give me pleasure to endure again.

Actually, my "guilty pleasure" TV series right now is a program on the Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) called "Pure in Heart". The translated-to English version is currently being shown on a PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) station in Philadelphia PA. The series is a combination of really trite soap opera and a comedic farce. It's fu , it's silly and, since I don't speak a word of Korean, it's entertaining to see how they murder English in their translations in the subtitles.

Subject: RE: Obit: Meredith Grey? (TV show character)
From: SINSULL
Date: 24 Feb 07 - 04:13 PM

I wonder if it's on PBS here - have to check.

Subject: RE: Obit: Meredith Grey? (TV show character)
From: Wordsmith
Date: 07 Mar 07 - 04:11 AM

Well, what a turn of events! I am actually sorry to see Kate Burton leaving the show, but just saw an ad in the NY Times this past Sunday about a stage show she's going to be in. I was very impressed by her. I first saw her in a movie called Big Trouble in Little China.
In real life, Katherine Heigl, (is that how it's spelled?) was in salary negotiations with ABC because she found out others were getting paid more.
Now everyone's po'd because Kate Walsh is supposedly getting a spinoff, and they're not...boo-hoo! Do they actually forget what real jobs pay? Are they unaware of their privilege? Sounds to me like the show's melting down in the third season. Why tinker with success? Spinoffs, so soon?
I'm already fed up with the way broadcast television runs its series. I long for the good old days when a series ran at least a year before they yanked it...and had 24 episodes!
Now, they don't even run through the episodes in order and run reruns in the middle of the just new season. And they may only run some shows for two episodes, and then they just disappear...or they keep changing the time slots so they lose what audience they may have had. ABC did that with Sports Night and Once and Again.

Subject: RE: Obit: Meredith Grey? (TV show character)
From: GUEST
Date: 29 May 08 - 03:54 PM

does anybody know what type of psychologist Meredith's psychologist is?

Subject: RE: Obit: Meredith Grey? (TV show character)
From: SINSULL
Date: 29 May 08 - 08:19 PM

incompetent, I believe.

Subject: RE: Obit: Meredith Grey? (TV show character)
From: EBarnacle
Date: 30 May 08 - 10:37 AM

Certainly not cognitive/behaviorist.