Grey's Anatomy Recap

In the most recent episode of Grey’s Anatomy which aired on Thursday we witnessed a face transplant. The patient needed to have 70% of his face grafted. This surgery was considered one of the biggest surgeries in the world and it just happened to be happening at Seattle Grace Hospital while everything was going to heck. Derek refuses to come back to work even after Dr. Bailey had sent Callie and Owen out there to retrieve him but find themselves telling stories of the patients that they have both lost. Eventually, Chief gets fed up and heads out to the woods himself to talk to Derek. They then argue about Chief had told Meredith about the ring and that he had hit it out into the woods that night that he had sent her out to talk him into coming back to Seattle Grace. Also during this time the interns have some issues that need to be solved. Two of the boys are beating each other over a girl that we find out is pregnant with one of their kids. While Christina is preparing to do her solo surgery, she is also helping Izzie with getting and appointment to get her melanoma cancer cells checked out in which she ends up not going to. Izzie confides in Christina that she doesn’t want to be a patient and have the staff laugh at her and call her names while under the knife. She tells Christina that she doesn’t want anybody to know and that she is just going to live with it. Later in Christina’s solo surgery before she asks for the scalpel she reveals to Bailey and Alex what is wrong with Izzie. At the end of the episode Meredith goes out to Derek’s trailer in the woods and he tells her that he loves her and she said she knew. He then asked her if she would still love him if he wasn’t a surgeon. She said no. But then tells him of Izzie’s condition and gives him the scans of her brain. After she leaves we see him pick them up. So my guess is that in the next episode Derek goes back to try to save Izzie because at the end of the show we also see her transferring to a patient and is no longer a doctor. I am really excited for the next episode because, hopefully, Derek will be back at Seattle Grace and they(he) will be able to save Izzie and everything will go back to normal! Also at the very end we see that the face transplant patient successfully got a new face but is still a bit bruised and swollen. That should be neat to see on Thursday how that turns out and if it gets infected or not. I am also excited to find out how Christina’s solo surgery went. Four days till then! Can’t wait!

Catching Up

So today I spent a good amount of my day at home catching up with all the episodes of my television shows that I haven’t had time watch the past few weeks. Desperate Housewives is on tonight at 8 PM and I am super excited to finally be able to be home and watch it with my mom and watch it the day it actually is showed! As I was catching up on my shows on the ABC website, I also took the quiz to find out which Desperate Housewife I was. Turns out to be that I am Lynette! It told me that I am usually always there to help someone when they need it, which is very true on my part. Ask me for help and I will try my best to help you out. It said some other things too that I think are very true about how I feel and look at things. In the recent episode that I caught up on today the Scavo’s were having a going-out-of-business sale at the pizzeria and Tom was having a pretty rough time with all this. Katherine was having a house warming party for Mike because he had just moved into her house with her and the girls, Gabrielle, Bree, and Edie were all surprised that Susan had been invited and was being an adult about it and was actually letting Katherine use here punch bowl at the party. Bree tries to help out Tom by inviting her publisher over for dinner as well as the Scavo’s for a little interview as he is looking for someone to do advertisements for books and other things like that. While they are at dinner Tom seems to be of little interest and then Lynette decides to step up for the family and try and get the job. Tom realizes this, and then also starts wanting the job, so they get into a big fight and say some pretty bad things about each other but later at home they forgive each other and Tom decided to let Lynette go back to work and they are happy again. Also in this episode we find that Orson has a minor pick-pocketing habit that will most likely get him into trouble in the near future. The episode ends with Gabrielle getting a call from Carlos’s boss’s wife, Maria, who needs their help. They go over to their house and find Brad, Carlos’s boss dead on the floor with a knife in his back because he had told Maria about his new love that he had found. That is how that episode ended, so I am excited to watch the new episode in like twenty minutes!

Spoilers..what's the fun in that??

I missed Grey’s Anatomy this last Thursday because I went to my high school BBB District Championship game and I haven’t had time yet to watch it online. So, I Googled Grey’s Anatomy and then I found this website www.tvfanatic.com, which has a bunch of shows you can look at pages for, and I clicked a drop down box and clicked Grey’s Anatomy because I had missed it this past week. So now I am on this webpage titled Grey’s Anatomy Insider and I am thinking “sweet, this could be a fun website since Grey’s is like my favorite show.” On the home page of this website you can get a sneak peek at the next weeks episode. There is also a tab that is dedicated to the quotes from the show . There are groups for the top rated quotes, recent quotes, quotes by episode or quotes from a certain character that you can use as searching tools. There are also other tabs for pictures from the show, episode guides, forums which has like message boards so people can discuss things about the show with other fanatics , and one that is dedicated to giving information about the characters and the cast of the show. Then what really got me was the tab at the top titled Spoilers. I read down a few paragraphs and this website has people asking questions about things that happen in the show and they want to know what is going on before the show actually reveals it. I was kind of upset with this because what is the fun in watching the show when you already know what is going to be revealed. What is the fun if there is no suspense? Because I had found this information of course I had to read it and now I am kind of upset that I did because it ruined the whole show for me. I will still watch it but I won’t like to watch it knowing what is going to be revealed during the episode.

On the Web

Some television channels are all about drama and they create websites dedicated to their shows and to their viewers , so that if we happen to miss an episode it will be right there the next day so we are able to see it. The two most common channels and websites for drama television are ABC and TNT.
On ABC’s website they give you the opportunity to watch the episodes of your favorite series online for free! Some of the shows available are The Bachelor, Brothers and Sisters, Desperate Housewives, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, General Hospital, Grey’s Anatomy, Lost, Private Practice, Scrubs, Supernanny, Ugly Betty and a few others. There is also a schedule that shows what time every show is on during the current week. Also on the website, there are blogs you can read or participate in, games and quizzes about the shows, message boards and widgets. You can also view photos of the characters of the show, information about the shows, bios and episode recaps. They also have tours you can watch of the shows! Even though this site’s purpose is for the shows shown on it, you can also click on a link that will take you to the news for the day.
TNT’s slogan is WE KNOW DRAMA. If we want to watch some good drama television, I guess that is the channel or website to go to! On the site you can watch videos and series online for free also. They also have sneak peeks of the newest episodes. The site also tells us the movies that are going to be shown or have recently been on the channel. There are games you can play and information about sports like the NBA, NASCAR, and Golf. Just like ABC, TNT also gives a schedule of their shows for the day. There is a link to enter a sweepstakes to win a gift certificate to Amazon.com. The two websites are very similar except ABC doesn’t give sneak peeks of the newest episodes and doesn’t have a sweepstakes that can be entered that I know of. I go on ABC.com a lot because I am often busy at the time they are showed, so it helps a lot that they have free viewing of past episodes so I don’t miss an episode!


www.abc.com
www.tnt.tv

Let's Review

Personally, I don't write reviews but I do think they are fun to read and see what people have to say about the shows that I like to watch, so here are some reviews of some of the most popular drama television shows.
The number one rated drama television show has a 3.8 star rating from the 201 times that it has been rated. The first six reviews have all four or five star ratings and positive things to say like “ I like the edge”, or “Every episode introduces a new twist or a new set of circumstances that you had no idea was coming. The writing for this show is simply amazing.”
Then comes the two star review in which this person states that they don’t like it because “Too many characters, too many drawn out and obscure plots, moves along at a snail's pace. It might have been OK if the producers had condensed 24 episodes in each series down to 12 and got things moving a bit. All in all pretty dull fare.” Seeing that this number one rated television show also has quite a few bad ratings surprises me. I was not expecting to see that, but I guess some people really know what they like in their TV shows and don’t like anything but. http://www.rateitall.com/i-131350-lost.aspx
Grey’s Anatomy has now moved up to number two on the list of popularity. Grey’s has a 3.65 star rating from its 130 reviews. Of those 42 ratings only seven of them had a two star rating or below. The few people that gave it a bad review said that it was becoming more of a “soap opera.” The most recent review tells us “Grey’s anatomy is a GREAT tv drama, and is a show that anyone can enjoy. The simplicity of all the characters mixed with all of the intense medical drama and all of the complex relationships, with in watching only a few episodes, you will find your self commenting on how so-and-so did something with so-and-so, and be addicted like I was.” http://www.rateitall.com/i-729326-greys-anatomy.aspx Personally, I agree with this review because I love the relationship problems all tied in with the medical work problems. It fascinates me! I love watching Grey’s with my mom so she can explain all the medical stuff and then we can talk about it and how much sense everything made in that episode. Even when I call her during the week for something I always ask about the most recent episode.
Desperate Housewives has a 3.52 star rating as the average of the 215 times it had been rated. A recent review stated “Brilliant acting and even though the storylines are well "out there," they're so clever, the way everything works out and a lot of the time you're left thinking Oh my god I can’t believe that happened. The theme, the music, the suspense, the camera work, the edit..everything works!” I soooo agree with this review! I love the whole friend aspect of everything and that's what makes it so interesting to me. http://www.rateitall.com/i-112846-desperate-housewives.aspx
**Want to rate or write reviews for a show you have recently seen? Go to : http://www.rateitall.com/t-6-tv-drama-shows-current.aspx

Crossover Drama

Recently, on ABC, they have had two of their major drama television series “crossover” with each other. For the last two weeks Grey’s Anatomy and Private Practice have been in connection with each other making it a one two hour show instead of two one hour shows that have nothing to do with eachother. Dr. Shepherd from Grey’s Anatomy was called while he was getting ready to propose to Dr. Meredith Grey and was needed to perform surgery on his ex-wife’s brother who are both characters in Private Practice. Here is the re-cap of what the last two episodes had in store for us... “Derek is ready to propose to Meredith, but wants to wait until the right moment, because, as he tells Mark, "she spooks easily." Mark advises Derek to wait, Cristina tells him to keep it simple, while the Chief advises Derek to go all out. Derek is surprised when Meredith mentions how cute their kids will be, so he takes it as a sign he should go ahead and propose. Meredith finds Cristina in an on-call room, with Owen fast asleep. "He's planning to propose," she tells Meredith, but she's talking about Richard in the diary, not Derek. “You have been acting like a basket case," Meredith tells Derek as he prepares to leave the hospital for the day, "If you don't want babies or you don't want babies with my crappy DNA, just say so." "Meredith, I want your crappy babies, all of them," he tells her, but insists he has to go. With Mark's help, Derek has decorated their bedroom with dozens of roses, candles and teddy bears, but after he gets a call, thinks better of it. The only evidence of his romantic gesture: A single rose Meredith finds under her pillow.”
In the second episode of the crossovers Addison and her brother and friend show up. These three are the characters from Private Practice although Addison used to be on Grey’s Anatomy and then started up with her own show, Private Practice. “Addison arrives at Seattle Grace with her brother Archer, who's collapsed due to a parasite in his brain. Archer suffered a seizure during sex with his girlfriend, Naomi, who also happens to be Addison's best friend. Derek announces that surgery is not an option as Archer has eight cysts in his brain, any one of which could burst during surgery and kill him. Derek consults with the best doctors and they all agree the case is hopeless. Sam, Naomi's ex and a fellow doctor at the Wellness Center in LA, urges Derek to consider treating the cysts one by one. Derek decides it's doable and talks a reluctant Archer into having the surgery. Meanwhile, seeing all of Derek's old friends and hearing about how he sang and played guitar at his wedding to Addison makes Meredith realize there's a side of Derek she doesn't know at all.”
To get all the season re-caps of Grey’s go to------->>>>>
http://abc.go.com/primetime/greysanatomy/index?pn=recap#t=131878
Private Practice--- >>>>> http://abc.go.com/primetime/privatepractice/index?pn=recap#t=132693

Personally, I think they are only doing this to get people to watch the two shows more , so that even after the whole crossover thing is done with, hopefully, people that didn’t watch one or the other of the shows before will watch both instead of just one of them to get their ratings up. After this thing is over, I still don’t think I will watch Private Practice because I don’t have the time. I haven’t really ever watched an episode and it is probably really good…but no time with all the homework!

History and such...

When we think of drama we think something bad is going to happen to something or someone in the show. On the contrary, drama can also be somewhat good for some people. Drama television brings emotion and conflict to our eye through the television. “Drama originally started in plays in the Renaissance by one of the world’s greatest playwrights William Shakespeare. From Hamlet to Romeo and Juliet, all of Shakespeare’s shows were full of drama and excitement. Drama is one of the oldest genres of TV shows in television. From Simon on Seventh Heaven to Buffy on Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, dramas have a very wide range of characters. Drama television shows started in the 1940’s and they were a huge hit. The longest running drama TV show was a soap opera called Guiding Light. It first aired on June 30, 1952 and it is currently aired each weekday. Drama shows could be about family, animals, school and so much more. Also, dramas can be for viewers of all ages.” http://library.thinkquest.org/04apr/00328/dramajen.htm
The shows I like watch haven’t been around for that long of a time but they are widely know across the country. I think we like the drama television shows of today because they are upbeat and deal with things that we can relate to or would like to relate to in our lives today. Same as back then when drama television was first discovered; the shows back then had to deal with the things they could relate to also. The reason I like Grey’s because it is all about hospital drama which I find fascinating and the relationship drama which is always fun to watch and see how people deal. I love Desperate Housewives because it is about a group of friends and their problems which will relate to us all at some point in our lives. The Secret Life of an American Teenager is appealing because it is so real life and that could happen to anyone at that age and we enjoy crying and laughing at all the conflicts that happen. Drama TV can also teach us what to do if we are ever out in the scenarios that happen on television even though sometimes the ways to deal showed on TV are sometimes not right. I think it is pretty cool that drama has been around for that long. Drama television is probably the oldest type of TV entertainment because even cartoons had drama in them! More than 70 years being that the first full length movie was shown in 1915!