Episodes 25 and 26: It’s the end of the world (as we know it)

[to be sung to the tune of “It’s the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine)" by REM. My advice? Push play on the video and read the post below along with the music]:

Dreamscape complete with teary haze.

That’s great. It starts with a dreamscape, OR craze, and

teary haze. Meredith is quite afraid.

Premonitions, death dreams, gratuitous lesbian shower scenes,

Screaming woman, chest wounds, Bailey’s water broke on George’s shoes,

Ricci’s hand into the chest

Bleed, where bombs sleep

The ORs start to clatter with fear, fright, flight, hype

Car wreck and a head bleed, Bailey’s hub to OR 3, neurosurg emergency with

A bomb on site

Alex is a-coming in a hurry with a fury not to

move that hand

Team by team the surgeons baffled, trumped, tethered, cropped

Look at that chief reign

Fine, then,

Uh-oh, trombones, drums roll, change of tunes from indie tones

“Save yourself, Save yourself!”

But what does Bailey’s husband need with that subarachnoid bleed

McDreamy sticking with the husband cause it’s right. Right.

Izzie idiotic, in a closet with that Alex who is feeling pretty psyched

It’s the end of the show as we know it.

It’s the end of the show as we know it.

It’s the end of the show as we know it.

It jumped the shark.

40 minutes/TV hour. Next week we’ll have Nielson Power.
We know you will return to see if all the ORs burn
Scrubbed in, bomb holding, silly plot is still unfolding,
Every move could escalate, subsequent incinerate
Lots of drama, lots of tension. Hold still, hold still,

Watch your hand rush, rush. Uh-oh, this means no fear, Meredith.
Who will you end up with? Season after season after season after you will pine, yet:
“Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives and I decline.”

It's the end of the show as we know it.
It's the end of the show as we know it. (It's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the show as we know it (It's time I had some time alone).

It jumped the shark.

It's the end of the show as we know it. (It's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the show as we know it. (It's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the show as we know it (It's time I had some time alone).

It jumped the shark.

It's the drama for our times, residents with crazy lives. 
Everyone else makes it but the 

Bomb Squad Guy dies?
Christina Ricci, Meredith and Preston Burke.

Bailey's husband, Alex, Sandra Oh! Whoa!
Egoistic, narcissistic, G.A. cast.

Right? Right.

It's the end of the show as we know it. (It's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the show as we know it. (It's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the show as we know it (It's time I had some time alone)

And I feel fine.

Gratuitous lesbian shower scenes

Bailey's water broke on George's shoes. She does not yet know that her husband, after a car wreck on the way to the hospital, would soon be Derek's patient

Christina Ricci guest starring as a paramedic who puts her hand into a patient's chest wound. A chest wound that contains a bomb. Yes, that is Christina Ricci's hand, displaying the true meaning of the phrase "The opposite of sex."

If I had a nickel for every Xray with a foreign object that they've displayed on this show...I'd have at least a dollar.

Izzie idiotic, in a closet. Alex is feeling pretty psyched.

Offer her solutions, offer her alternatives, and she declines.

Maybe my take was a little harsh, but these episodes do seem to represent the weeks the show jumped the shark. The plot is ridiculous, unbelievable, and far afield from the "medical drama" this show was supposed to be. To me, the question is not "has it jumped the shark?"  but "Can it rise from the dead?"

For those who missed it, the episode ends like this: the bomb goes off just outside the OR and everyone is somehow fine except the bomb squad guy, who is dead. To indicate all that Meredith has been through in this day, in the last scene they give her a neat little scratch on her forehead. Never mind that she was 30 feet from a bomb blast that showered her with debris and the force of which slammed her head against the floor incredibly hard. 

The TV version of a traumatic experience = a neat little scratch.

Episode moral: If you knew this was your last day on earth, how would you want to spend it?

My answer: I don't know, but definitely not watching this show.