
(S03E19) Ehh... not so much. This wasn't exactly the follow-up I was expecting after last week's Close Encounters of The Gizzie. It just felt off. Like that scene in the supply closet? I found myself asking, "Really... those two?" Last week I thought it was great. Not a huge surprise, but it was something fun. Now I feel like I was in bed with them because it's the morning after and I'm being all weird about it too.
You know how Curb Your Enthusiasm has that ability to make you feel really uncomfortable as a viewer? That's essentially what every scene with George and Izzie in this episode felt like. Something out of Curb. The horrible thing about this is that we better get used to it because I don't think it's going away. It's obvious they want each other (at least from Izzie it is) and it's just going to have to wait until George is willing to break Calleigh's heart. Season finale anyone? I'd be happy if this all went away and Izzie just went back to Alex now that his flirtations with Addison have stopped.
Elsewhere, the race for chief was still moving forward and all the attendings were being interviewed by the hospital board. First off, Marlowe is starting to become a real prick. He seems pretty convinced that he has the job in the bag. Not so fast. Being the one person who probably doesn't deserve the job, I can't say that I'm surprised that at the end of the day Sloan came out on top. The guy is pretty sleazy, but he used his charm, listening skills, and manipulative techniques to his advantage. Much like Webber though, the "right now plan" makes more sense to me too. However, Derek made the smart observation: who knows where you'll be in ten years? Too bad he didn't come to the same conclusion Sloan did. Although Bailey helped Sloan... sort of.
Other stuff:
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This I didn't even think about until Joel wrote about it, but he made a damn good point. Ever since the accident, Meredith looks way better than she ever did before. Almost dying does a body good apparently.
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I'm glad Cristina finally made a move and decided to go forward with Burke. Her little holding pattern was getting harder and harder to deal with.
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Catherine Dent! I love that she guest-starred and unlike Shoreh Aghdashloo's turn last week, I actually cared about Dent's character.
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I'm gonna flip out if Alex starts up a relationship with Jane Doe. I don't care how hot her new face turns out.
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Was there an actual point to introducing Hector Elizondo as Calleigh's father? Or was he simply brought in as the catalyst for George to remember the Night of the Living Gizzie? I like Elizondo which is why I ask, but he was just sort of... there.
And of course, the quote of the episode. One I assume everyone laughed at:
Addison (after Izzie asks her about sex with the wrong person): "What am I? The go-to person for adultery?"















Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
3-23-2007 @ 6:39AM
Sam said...
I swore Hector Elizondo said 'Mia', which had me thing of his Princess Diaries gig.
Izzie and George, eh... its bad.
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3-23-2007 @ 6:40AM
Mel said...
Weird music they had during surgery.
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3-23-2007 @ 6:40AM
Mel said...
Anyone else grin at Kate Walsh's schoolgirl giggle?
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3-23-2007 @ 12:45AM
Mel said...
Anyone else grin at Kate Walsh's schoolgirl giggle?
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3-23-2007 @ 6:39AM
nogizzie said...
I don't like 'Gizzie' either but it seems almost certain than Callie will not be Callie O'Malley for long.
Did anyone else notice this:
when Cristina sends the amputee-to-be into the elevator and talks to Burke for a few minutes, I assumed that she'd be doing the surgery with Bailey, while Burke was being interviewed. Yet, in the next scene, Burke's all scrubbed in and in the OR with the F.O.P. patient while Cristina's cutting off her patient's leg in another OR. I think that was edited wrong. The timing seemed really off.
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3-23-2007 @ 6:40AM
radwimp said...
mostly a horrible ep, but man... that LOOK addison had when izzie spilled the beans? one of the best laughs the show has given me. i'll really miss kate on the original show.
also, the "RIGHT NOW" plan by sloan. genius.
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3-23-2007 @ 6:40AM
Phish said...
izzie and george, hmmm it can be interesting, although i can see them growing old together, it just seems to be a vry boring and stale relationship.
its the type of relationship ppl want when they're 50, not mid-20's.
they need to mix it up a bit, make george more "manly", more ambitious and a little conniving, then you can see what the attraction could be.
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3-23-2007 @ 6:40AM
Mel said...
Well if anything, it made Izzie a more likable character this episode. I just find it hard to blame anyone of the three in the triangle for the mess.
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3-23-2007 @ 6:40AM
Jothie said...
I like Izzie and George together(I will never used a merged name, ever, in my life. Whoever started that trend needs to have their hair lit on fire and then put out with a sledge hammer)
George is the nice guy of the show. The one that will always do the right thing, will always be there for you and just has a decent soul. Of course they never get the girl. That's why I like them together. Finally the nice guy gets the beautiful girl(and on a show of good looking women Izzie is the best looking of the lot)
Of course George won't act on it because he's a nice guy.
I wished they hadn't have slept together yet. Maybe just Izzie admitting her love for him and then weeks of George struggling to do the right thing while secretly thinking of Iz every hour of every day. Cheating takes George out of the nice guy category, while the writers made him drunk so it could be excused I still wished it hadn't happen. George was the only nice guy on the show.
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3-23-2007 @ 6:40AM
sea0tter12 said...
"I swore Hector Elizondo said 'Mia', which had me thing of his Princess Diaries gig. "
He said "mija", or "mi hija"; in other words, "my daughter."
And I love this episode! So much emotional tension, great acting, everything!
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3-23-2007 @ 6:41AM
Marggy said...
Sam, Hector Elizondo probably said "mija" which in Spanish means "my daughter" (it's really mi hija, but it's just smushed together). I didn't actually hear him say it, but that's probably what you heard as "Mia."
George and Izzie make me want to throw things and my television. And at Shonda Rhimes. Dumbest storyline since the cutting of the LVAD. This is utterly idiotic.
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3-23-2007 @ 6:41AM
Clint said...
I thought the episode was a slight dropoff from previous weeks
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3-23-2007 @ 8:04AM
M. Reddick said...
I like George with Izzie. Good guys win too. By temperment the two of them are a lot closer than they outwardly appear to some. They are at their core kind and decent characters in a field filled with cutthroats. Only Dr. Bailey has a better balance as a character.
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3-24-2007 @ 2:49AM
Meg said...
I thought this episode felt off in many respects. One of the most annoying was probably in the editing--surgeons appear in surgery in one scene, then suited up and going into interviews in the next, then back in scrubs as if leaving surgery in the next. I paid more attention to that than to the story lines... which mostly seemed weak. Christina's walking in at the end and talking about how she wants a small ceremony didn't cut it for me. I thought Burke was more upset because she didn't want to commit to him (or anyone), not because of the actual ceremony.
George and Izzie? I'm just not feeling it. And nobody else in the house heard all this lovin, more than once, as Izzie put it?
Eh...maybe it'll improve, but I feel like we're just biding our time until sweeps.
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3-24-2007 @ 2:49AM
Wendy said...
Wow! I absolutely LOVED George and Izzie tonight. I have to say that last week, I wasn't so sure about them being in an actual relationship. But after that linen closet scene - I'm so ready for more between the two of them. I get chills just thinking about that scene! I'm very anxious to see where this goes and the journey it will take to get there..
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3-24-2007 @ 2:50AM
Alicia said...
I liked the fact that the whole situation between George and Izzie made me uncomfortable. Means I'm in the show.
I knew that George would do the "right" thing and not try to hurt the Mrs. I loved the way he told Izzie that he wasn't going to tell her, and that it was their secret. I just *hope* Izzie doesn't spill her guts even more. I mean, if I wanted to keep a secret I surely would NOT TELL Izzie Stevens. But hopefully if she loves George she will. But I see a train wreck ahead.
This episode was ok... Not the best, but certainly not the worst either.
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3-24-2007 @ 2:50AM
lauch said...
This show is realllllly going downhill. It's becoming very predictable, and as stated on this site recently, everyone sleeps with everyone...oh and there's a hospital too.
This show had promise..I was hoping for a St. Elsewhere/ER type or show, and instead, I feel like I'm watching an episode of "Passions". Instead of exploring each character's personality, we're left to wonder how they pulled the next thing out of nowhere.
I've not seen any consistency with how each character acts. Izzie falls in love with someone who ends up dying, and now all of a sudden she's pining after George??? Meredith has a near death experience...and if you didn't catch those episodes, you wouldn't even know it happened. Alex is a womanizing self centered jerk, but then they bring in McSteamy, so Alex becomes more about the patients? It doesn't make any sense at all. disconnect much????
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3-24-2007 @ 2:50AM
rvkey said...
Man, I used to love Izzie, but frankly I'm getting a little tired of her sanctimonious speeches. Seems like there's 2-3 in every episode. And when she starts one of her little rants it's as if the entire hospital stops breathing to listen to her. Who the hell is she? E.F. Hutton? Enough already.
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3-24-2007 @ 2:50AM
Jimmy said...
The whole Gizzie affair has ruined two of my favorite characters. First, George is now just a pathetic adulterer. What happened to the guy we all felt for when he slept with Meredith, or when his father died. I don't like this George, and maybe that's the plan, but the writers are doing a sloppy job of it. Second, I truly despise the character of Izzie now. Since she came back to the hospital the character has been a self-righteous, overbearing bitch; and now we can add slut to the mix. When she broke into her sactimonious speech to Elizabeth Moss's character I was wishing I had a rotten tomato I could throw through the television screen to hit her square in the face. I was hoping Calleigh would tell her to shut the hell up! The last half dozen episodes have been real crap; I hope the writers can turn this around.
By the way, I can see why ABC chose Kate Walsh to lead her own show. I love the comedic touches she brings to the character and show; not to mention her talent.
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3-24-2007 @ 2:51AM
SallyDoodle said...
>> Was there an actual point to introducing Hector Elizondo as Calleigh's father?
Isn't Hector Elizondo rumored to be in the spin-off with Kate Walsh?
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