greystitle.jpg Last night’s episode of Grey’s Anatomy was Part 2 of a special three-part story arc centered around a ferry boat disaster. We pretty much pick up where we left off last week, so I’ll just give a quick recap of what happened, and then jump into my reactions. By the way, this episode was called “Drowning on Dry Land.”

  • Izzie didn’t give up on the guy trapped under the car. She called Chief Webber and told him about the situation. He then advised her on what she needed to do: drill a couple of holes through the guy’s skull (right there in the field) to relieve the pressure on his brain. She manages to get it done, and when they arrive back at the hospital, the chief tells her to scrub in on the surgery because she’s no longer on probation.
  • Karev still had to deal with anxious family members waiting for answers about their loved ones. He wasn’t getting timely updates from the outside world so he took matters into his own hands by going around and photographing all the unidentified patients in the operating rooms and the morgue, then posting the photos on a bulletin board in the clinic waiting room.
  • George continues frantically looking for the missing son of Bailey’s patient. He spends most of the episode agonizing over the kid until he finally sees some promising info on the surgical board. It turned out that Callie had been operating on the kid the whole time.
  • Meredith, of course, was knocked into the water at the end of the last episode. She seemed to be in there for an extremely long time before the non-talking girl led Derek to the spot. Shepherd jumps into the water to drag Meredith out, then performs CPR nonstop until they arrive at the hospital. Once there, the chief and Bailey take over and kick Derek out of the room. Later, Addison and Burke also go in to lend a hand
  • While everyone works on Meredith, Sloane waits in the hall with Derek and squeezes his arm in a show of support. The interns also gather just outside the double doors leading to Meredith’s room. George freaks out and is afraid that Meredith is going to die, so Izzie launches into a speech about how they just have to believe that their friend will pull through.
  • The final scene shows Meredith sitting up in what’s clearly a dream world only to see Kyle (from the bomb squad episode) and Denny in the room with her. She asks, “Am I dead?” and the other two nod.

My Reaction: I thought the first half of the episode was pretty boring. For example, did we really need all those scenes of George wandering around looking for that kid? Couldn’t they make the speechless girl say one damn word?? She looks like she belongs in a Stephen King movie, not an episode of GA. And while I know Izzie’s procedure out in the field was supposed to be Tense! and Exciting!, I just found it gross and unwatchable.

The episode did pick up when Derek was in the ambulance with Meredith. My God, she looked B-L-U-E and I have no idea how they’re going to make her survive this. Because y’all know she’s gonna survive, right? It is called Grey’s Anatomy, after all.

So we can pretty confidently eliminate death as the outcome of this accident, which leaves us with two alternatives. A)She survives with no lingering effects; and B)She survives but has brain damage or needs physical therapy, etc.

I don’t read spoilers, so I have no idea which way the writers are going to go with this, but I can tell you right now that I don’t like either option. On the one hand, Meredith was under water for so long and she has been unconscious for so long that no one’s going to believe it if she just wakes up and is fine. On the other hand, if I have to sit through stupid physical therapy scenes where she has to re-learn how to eat, talk, and wipe her ass, then I’m going to lose patience pretty quickly. If the writers throw in amnesia for good measure, who knows what I’ll do!!

Anyway, I thought “Drowning on Dry Land” made last week’s episode seem a lot better and more coherent. Let’s hope that Part 3 wraps things up quickly and neatly.