Christina is not the head of cardio. She can't be. She's not going to jump from 5th year resident to chief cardiothoracic surgeon; she still needs to complete 3 years of cardio fellowship.
They can barely string together a coherent 40 minute show. They're seasons can barely hold a storyline together. It's like they don't have the appropriate attention span for their own TV: can you imagine a 90-minute movie?
God no. That movie will tank so hard that any studio that is associated with it will close its doors. Just ask what happened with the studio that was responsible for John Carter.
Dan and Nate becoming endgame! Vanessa comes back and gets with Chuck. Serena dies. Blair remain single and independent.
Something different than the same old crap of "Will they, Won't they?" Obviously, it's a "will they". So as far as Chair goes, that story is done and told.
Of course they're endgame: with two people who are as emotionally toxic, broken, and damaged as those two are, how could they not be?
Let's not confuse fairy tale endings as some great affirmation of their love: it's an affirmation of their unhealthy codependence of one another. Fine let them be together; they've been reduced to being so incomplete on their own, that their own damage fits one another. It's called coping.
On the flip side, it’s also called really really really bad writing. Safran and co. have been responsible for the most haphazard, inconsistent, plot-jumping, rehashed ridiculousness that has boxed them into a corner that is a Chair endgame.
I was always a proponent of season 4 Dair and gave me hope that it was a vehicle for change in the upcoming seasons: something new and different, and not the same boring crap that gets recycled. And Safran and co. gave us season 5, so what left is there to continue on with that garbage and recycle season 1 all over again.
Wait a minute... Dan is the reason Serena's life sucks? That is such bull. Serena made her own bed, let her lie in it. And come on, Serena is not this great person: she is utterly utterly flawed and just as self-destructive as everyone else on this show.
When she had the opportunity to get with Dan, she toyed with Nate AND Dan for an entire season, only to not choose either one of them to try to be with the professor.
Serena always wanted to have her cake and eat it too.
She is responsible for her own decisions and her own choices that she made. Her going off the deep end is one elaborate cry for attention.
Karev can't take over peds. He's not qualified to; he's still only a 1st year fellow come this fall and peds surg fellowship is 2 years, then he needs to pass his peds surg boards to become an peds surg attending. And even then, he needs more attending experience to be the chief peds surg attending, so he can't take over. He'll still need someone to teach him.
Cristina cannot replace Teddy as the chief of cardio. Cristina needs to finish her 3-year cardio fellowship before she can become a cardio attending, much less be the Chief of Cardio. She'll still need a new Chief of Cardio to teach her for the next 3 years.
Cristina is NOT a cardio attending. She is a 1st year cardio fellow.
The only character who is an attending is Meredith, because she chose general surgery as a specialty: everyone else, with the exception of Kepner, is a 1st year fellow in their chosen specialty.
It was announced last week that the originals have signed up for two more years: Ellen, Sandra, Justin, James, Chandra, and Patrick.
I want to say Jessica's was renewed as well along with Eric, Kevin, and Sara. The only ones up in the air is Jesse and Sarah. Shonda has always been explicit about keeping Jesse. But given that the only people that could leave were all in the plane, I want to say everyone at the hospital, sans Kim, will be back for at least season 9.
It makes sense to kill off Lexie. I loved her too, but with Chyler wanting to leave for more family time, not killing her would have put Sloan in perpetual writing-purgatory. It's going to severely limit the story if you constantly have an off-screen romance between Sloan and never seen Lexie. It just won't work. It will marginalize Sloan and limit Eric Dane as an actor.
Unless Lexie and Mark broke up, the character of Lexie HAD to die. There was no other way. Altman can go because there was really nothing left for her that binded her here. Cristina can always get a new teacher (as evidenced by the last 3) and Owen's relationship with her was already strained. Pulling focus to rebuild an Altman-Hunt dynamic strains any hope of a Cristina-Owen reconciliation.
I'm sorry Lexie had to die. I cried like a baby. But, for me, she had to go for the story to go on when the actor that portrays her wishes to exit the show.
Alex and Cristina cannot take over for Robbins and Altman, respectively. The latter are fully trained department heads. The former are still only 1st year fellows, one in a 2-year fellowship the other in a 3-year fellowship, that don't even hold attending status in their specialties, much less be the chiefs of their specialties.
Alex will still need a peds surg attending to teach him and help him with his peds surg boards. And Cristina, now that Altman is gone, will need yet another Chief of Cardio to teach her for the next three years and help her pass the cardio boards.
The Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery is like the Professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts. It's constantly a revolving door on who will retain that post. Burke had it longest, then Altman, than Hahn, and Dickinson never actually accepted the position.
It would be interesting if they brought back Burke in season 9 to instruct Cristina. Then it would be kind of awkward between Hunt, who will be Burke's boss, Burke, and Cristina. Though I know it'll be highly unlikely next to impossible.
S9 will introduce a new Chief of Cardio. I wonder who he'll/she'll be. Hopefully it'll be an Asian dude or an Indian lady. GA needs more diversity in an increasingly white crowd. During the first 2 seasons, half the cast wasn't white, and now, in a principal cast of 14, it seems the only people of color are Torres, Webber, Yang, Avery, Bailey. I don't count Ben since he's not a principal cast member.
The only one of the group that can have actual attending status is Mer, and that's because she elected to go into general surgery. Because everyone else chose a specialty outside of general surgery, they'll still need additional training as fellows.
Cristina is not going to replace Teddy. She can't. As skilled as she is, she still requires the prerequisite training of three years in her cardio fellowship to actually be a cardiothoracic surgeon, and then pass her cardio boards to be a cardio attending. There's no way she'll be the chief of cardio as a first-year fellow.
Same thing with Alex. He needs another two years in his peds surg fellowship to actually be a peds surgeon, pass his peds boards to be a peds attending. He's not going to replace Arizona as a first-year fellow.
I liked the callbacks from the previous seasons. The cold open from the pilot, and you can see young just graduated med-school Izzie. I enjoyed how Cristina mentioned "bombs", as a callback to season 2's End of the World as We Know It, "Guns" calling backing to Death and All His Friends, and of course George when she mentioned "buses running down my friends" calling back to Now or Never.
Callie mentioned George too. It's nice he's still in their minds.
I especially liked Meredith in her voiceover repeating the (then) Chief's opening line of playing the game.
I was sad, but I still loved it. Can't wait for season 9.
Christina cannot be the chief of cardio. Christina, just like the rest of the residents that are going into specialities other than general surgery, will still require an attending to teach them. Cardio is a three-year fellowship, peds, trauma, plastics is a two-year fellowship. Meredith is the only one that can actually be an attending because she's going into general surgery. After their fellowships, each would still need to pass boards of that specialty.
I was always a proponent of Dair at the end of season 4. I was on the fence about Dair in season 5, especially how Safron and co. was backsliding, flip-flops, and all the inconsistencies that made up the agonizing storyline, or lack thereof, that made up this season.
Thank God Safron is leaving. All I want out of season 6 is some freaking consistency. Is that really so much so hard to ask?
At least season 6 will be devoid of Safron's self-appreciating, self-deluded, self-actualizing perception of genius producer's previews where he talks as if he's God's gift to TV.
There's at least that to look forward to in season 6.
It makes no sense that GG is Dan. GG has been blogging since before his arrival in the pilot. Dan had no concept of the UES prior to the pilot, and now, he's this omnipresent force that's been around secretly blogging about S and B all this time? Does Lonely Boy really have that many resources?
And if Dan was GG, why would he need Georgina to write a tell-all about the real UES? Wouldn't he have it already?
And I don't think it's so harsh; it's so human that Regina harbors this animosity towards Snow which grew into such hatred.
It wasn't JUST a promise that Snow broke. It was a betrayal that resulted in Daniel's murder. Sure Cora was the one that ended it, but Regina knew Cora: this was expected. What was unexpected was trusting Snow with the life of the love of her life.
Her love for Daniel was so great that when he died, it turned her love into such hate. And as the years went by, Snow continued to represent everything that Regina could not have: love. Leopold loves Snow more than Regina. The kingdom loves Snow. Prince Charming loves Snow. Even an assassin, the Huntsman, came to love Snow.
I'm sure Rumpel's manipulation resulted in Regina obtaining the curse and using it.
I believe Regina took vengenance on everyone that played a role in Daniel's death. When Regina was younger, she displayed no magical talent whatsoever. By the time she's become Queen, her mother is missing, and she's a powerful enough sorceress to go toe-to-toe and win against Malificient.
She may have yet taken a more immediate role in obtaining her revenge against Cora, while Snow, she saw as representing what was torn from her. Despite living an entire life of anguish and pain from Cora, she was still able to have love. If Snow hadn't told Cora, Daniel would probably still be alive.
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Dan and Nate becoming endgame! Vanessa comes back and gets with Chuck. Serena dies. Blair remain single and independent.
Something different than the same old crap of "Will they, Won't they?" Obviously, it's a "will they". So as far as Chair goes, that story is done and told.
What else you got GG?
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Let's not confuse fairy tale endings as some great affirmation of their love: it's an affirmation of their unhealthy codependence of one another. Fine let them be together; they've been reduced to being so incomplete on their own, that their own damage fits one another. It's called coping.
On the flip side, it’s also called really really really bad writing. Safran and co. have been responsible for the most haphazard, inconsistent, plot-jumping, rehashed ridiculousness that has boxed them into a corner that is a Chair endgame.
I was always a proponent of season 4 Dair and gave me hope that it was a vehicle for change in the upcoming seasons: something new and different, and not the same boring crap that gets recycled. And Safran and co. gave us season 5, so what left is there to continue on with that garbage and recycle season 1 all over again.
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When she had the opportunity to get with Dan, she toyed with Nate AND Dan for an entire season, only to not choose either one of them to try to be with the professor.
Serena always wanted to have her cake and eat it too.
She is responsible for her own decisions and her own choices that she made. Her going off the deep end is one elaborate cry for attention.
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Cristina is NOT a cardio attending. She is a 1st year cardio fellow.
The only character who is an attending is Meredith, because she chose general surgery as a specialty: everyone else, with the exception of Kepner, is a 1st year fellow in their chosen specialty.
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I want to say Jessica's was renewed as well along with Eric, Kevin, and Sara. The only ones up in the air is Jesse and Sarah. Shonda has always been explicit about keeping Jesse. But given that the only people that could leave were all in the plane, I want to say everyone at the hospital, sans Kim, will be back for at least season 9.
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Meredith: Yea.
Cristina: I miss that.
Meredith: (long pause looking at fire, then the wreckage, with a sigh)... Me too.
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Unless Lexie and Mark broke up, the character of Lexie HAD to die. There was no other way. Altman can go because there was really nothing left for her that binded her here. Cristina can always get a new teacher (as evidenced by the last 3) and Owen's relationship with her was already strained. Pulling focus to rebuild an Altman-Hunt dynamic strains any hope of a Cristina-Owen reconciliation.
I'm sorry Lexie had to die. I cried like a baby. But, for me, she had to go for the story to go on when the actor that portrays her wishes to exit the show.
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Alex will still need a peds surg attending to teach him and help him with his peds surg boards. And Cristina, now that Altman is gone, will need yet another Chief of Cardio to teach her for the next three years and help her pass the cardio boards.
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It would be interesting if they brought back Burke in season 9 to instruct Cristina. Then it would be kind of awkward between Hunt, who will be Burke's boss, Burke, and Cristina. Though I know it'll be highly unlikely next to impossible.
S9 will introduce a new Chief of Cardio. I wonder who he'll/she'll be. Hopefully it'll be an Asian dude or an Indian lady. GA needs more diversity in an increasingly white crowd. During the first 2 seasons, half the cast wasn't white, and now, in a principal cast of 14, it seems the only people of color are Torres, Webber, Yang, Avery, Bailey. I don't count Ben since he's not a principal cast member.
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Same thing with Alex. He needs another two years in his peds surg fellowship to actually be a peds surgeon, pass his peds boards to be a peds attending. He's not going to replace Arizona as a first-year fellow.
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I liked the callbacks from the previous seasons. The cold open from the pilot, and you can see young just graduated med-school Izzie. I enjoyed how Cristina mentioned "bombs", as a callback to season 2's End of the World as We Know It, "Guns" calling backing to Death and All His Friends, and of course George when she mentioned "buses running down my friends" calling back to Now or Never.
Callie mentioned George too. It's nice he's still in their minds.
I especially liked Meredith in her voiceover repeating the (then) Chief's opening line of playing the game.
I was sad, but I still loved it. Can't wait for season 9.
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Thank God Safron is leaving. All I want out of season 6 is some freaking consistency. Is that really so much so hard to ask?
At least season 6 will be devoid of Safron's self-appreciating, self-deluded, self-actualizing perception of genius producer's previews where he talks as if he's God's gift to TV.
There's at least that to look forward to in season 6.
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And if Dan was GG, why would he need Georgina to write a tell-all about the real UES? Wouldn't he have it already?
You know... I was really hoping that Nate was GG.
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It wasn't JUST a promise that Snow broke. It was a betrayal that resulted in Daniel's murder. Sure Cora was the one that ended it, but Regina knew Cora: this was expected. What was unexpected was trusting Snow with the life of the love of her life.
Her love for Daniel was so great that when he died, it turned her love into such hate. And as the years went by, Snow continued to represent everything that Regina could not have: love. Leopold loves Snow more than Regina. The kingdom loves Snow. Prince Charming loves Snow. Even an assassin, the Huntsman, came to love Snow.
I'm sure Rumpel's manipulation resulted in Regina obtaining the curse and using it.
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She may have yet taken a more immediate role in obtaining her revenge against Cora, while Snow, she saw as representing what was torn from her. Despite living an entire life of anguish and pain from Cora, she was still able to have love. If Snow hadn't told Cora, Daniel would probably still be alive.