History Headscratchers / GreysAnatomy

* The fact that every single episode needs to have a one-in-a-million case, cutting-edge procedure or major catastrophe (or preferably any combination of the three). ''{{ER}}'', ''{{Scrubs}}'' and even ''Series/{{House}}'' do a wonderful job of having interesting, moving episodes without having super-duper-special things happening every week. It's as if the writers know that their characters aren't interesting enough and their writing isn't good enough to produce compelling episodes without something really outrageous happening.

* How was the plane crash not massive news? Jo mentions it to Owen in the season nine premiere as something that she "heard" had happened. A plane went missing. Its occupants were stranded in the woods for weeks. They are doctors from that same hospital that had that huge shooting only two years before. This is news media gold, and yet we are to believe that there was no round the clock coverage or any coverage at all for that matter?

**** There's a new one now I forget her name

* Seriously, how many tragedies can happen to one person in a space of six years? Pretty much everybody has it hard, but Meredith and Izzy are the worst offenders here. It's definitely not realistic and it's not moving nor dramatic anymore. Now it's just like "Gee, I wonder what kind of terrible event will happen to Meredith today"? Even her ''friggin dog'' have died!
** Even worse when you realize it's only actually been around 2 years. (seasons 1-3 were all their intern year, and if you look closely you'll notice that seasons change based on this, and that holidays aren't repeated in this time.) The number of major catastrophes that have happened at that hospital- Cut LVAD wires, Bombs, Ferry Boat crashes, Crashed ambulances, Flooded pipes, Interns cutting each other open, and finally a crazed gunman on the loose- I probably would have run far far faaar away by now.

* The fact that every single episode needs to have a one-in-a-million case, cutting-edge procedure or major catastrophe (or preferrably any combination of the three). ''{{ER}}'', ''{{Scrubs}}'' and even ''Series/{{House}}'' do a wonderful job of having interesting, moving episodes without having super-duper-special things happening every week. It's as if the writers know that their characters aren't interesting enough and their writing isn't good enough to produce compelling episodes without something really outrageous happening.
** In addition, it bugs me that none of the attendings can be simply decent, good or even great at their job. They have to be the ''best'' in their particular field at ''all times''. Seattle Grace has the best pediatric surgeon, neuro surgeon, cardio-thoracic surgeon, plastic surgeon, trauma surgeon and orthopedic surgeon in the entire universe. With all that awesomeness and all those "''this procedure has only been done once before in the world and I am one of few surgeons on the globe qualified to do it''" operations how is it that the characters are also worried because Seattle Grace's ranking has dropped?

* Why didn't the police kill Gary Clark when he tried to kill Little Grey?, Why again, why, if they had a clear shot, did they put a round in his shoulder instead of his head?

* Can someone please explain the merger to me? Ok, so: Chief Weber is being fired/demoted because Seattle Grace's ranking has dropped. So he therefore arranges a merger with Grace and Mercy West. It's unclear what this is supposed to achieve. They don't seem to need the money; we are told that revenues are up except for elective procedures, the clinic is turning a profit, and in any event I'm not sure how the merger would save money. Further more, money wasn't an issue so much as prestige; would adding (say) the #20 program to the #12 program up the rating, rather than drive it towards the average of the two? This is further compounded by the Chief demanding that Derek not remove the perfect tumor from the MRI guy, even though he urged Baily to remove another inoperable tumor because doing so would help the ratings. The entire arc doesn't make a lick of sense to me.

* How do these people keep their jobs? If my coworkers or I acted anything like these guys we would be fired. Don't get me wrong - I love the show. It's just that everyone acts like they're ten years old instead of adults. Most normal businesses wouldn't put up with that crap for ten minutes.
** Meredith should have lost her license for tampering with the drug trial. Instead she got fired and acted like she had been wronged. Somehow Webber managed to take the fall for the whole thing saying Mere was covering for him even though Alex testified that he saw Meredith switching the drugs, and Webber ''isn't'' fired. Talk about ultimate job security.

* For a show set in Seattle there is remarkably little rain. There's a lot of talk about it but little demonstration. There are also remarkably few people carrying umbrellas or wearing ponchos. No one ever has wet hair or wet shoes. I know it's really minor nitpick, but it really is the little things that make a show.

* Still reading the main article and I've reached seasons 4 & 5 - Lexie's intern year. Can't remember how you worded it, but I vaguely remember that someone was not paying attention to time. I just can't remember the ep numbers. In the season premiere (5?) it is mentioned that it is October (global warming, black ice) yet in the S4? episode Haunt You Every Day, it is Halloween, which is the end of October. So, in addition to stretching 2 seasons, Lexie's intern year lasted two October. Oops.
** It's not exactly clear when Lexie's intern year ends. By the beginning of Season 6, she's in her second year of residency, meaning she'd already been a resident for a year prior. Since the show runs on a mild version of WebcomicTime, it's entirely possible Seasons 4 and 5 didn't represent a calender year.
* The length of time allowed for George's intern exam is an hour longer or shorter than the time allowed the rest of the interns. Don't remember which but one was 2 hours and one was 3.
* This may not be unique to ''this'' medical show but why do the characters always use the term "GSW" when they have a patient who has been shot? It makes complete sense when they're writing up the case notes but it actually takes longer to ''say'' "gee-ess-doubleyou" than "gunshot wound".

*** They don't get away with not having those surgeons. No hospital just has one surgeon in each field, in the cases of Addison, Burke, and Sloan, they were the heads of their departments but that doesn't mean there wasn't someone there in the interim. For instance before they had Dr. Shepherd they had "shadow Shepherd" who was the interim head of neuro. Callie mentions there is a head of ortho who doesn't do anything. The pediatric surgeon that was there before Arizona was in fact seen, he died at the beginning of the episode where Arizona first appears. Just because we aren't introduced to other doctors doesn't mean they don't exist. A better question would be why they never had chief surgeons in these departments.
* How was the plane crash not massive news? Jo mentions it to Owen in the season nine premiere as something that she "heard" had happened. A plane went missing. It's occupants were stranded in the woods for weeks. They are doctors from that same hospital that had that huge shooting only two years before. This is news media gold and yet we are to believe that there was no round the clock coverage or any coverage at all for that matter?

* First comment ever. Hope I didn't mess up.
Still reading the main article and I've reached seasons 4 & 5 - Lexie's intern year. Can't remember how you worded it, but I vaguely remember that someone was not paying attention to time. I just can't remember the ep numbers. In the season premiere (5?) it is mentioned that it is October (global warming, black ice) yet in the S4? episode Haunt You Every Day, it is Halloween, which is the end of October. So, in addition to stretching 2 seasons, Lexie's intern year lasted two October. Oops.

* For a show set in Seattle there is remarkably little ran. There's a lot of talk about it but little demonstration. There are also remarkably few people carrying umbrellas or wearing ponchos. No one ever has wet hair or wet shoes. I know it's really minor nitpick, but it really is the little things that make a show.

Still reading the main article and I've reached seasons 4 & 5 - Lexie's intern year. Can't remember how you worded it, but I vaguely remember that someone was not paying attention to time. I just can't remember the ep numbers. In the season premiere (5?) it is mentioned that it is October (global warming, black ice) yet in the episode I usual know the title on by heart, Haunt something, it is Halloween, which is the end of October. So, in addition to stretching 2 seasons, Lexie's intern year lasted two October. Oops.

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Still reading the main article and I've reached seasons 4 & 5 - Lexie's intern year. Can't remember how you worded it, but I vaguely remember that someone was not paying attention to time. I just can't remember the ep numbers. In the season premiere (5?) it is mentioned that it is October (global warming, black ice) yet in the episode I usual know the title on by heart, Haunt something, it is Halloween, which is the end of October. So, in addition to stretching 2 seasons, Lexie's intern year lasted two October. Oops.

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* The Shonda Rhimes school of TV writing: Crap out a script, and when it comes up short, have a character repeat their line over and over again every scene.

**** That would be Dr Teddy Altman

* Izzie's crying... it annoys me

* For a show set in Seattle there is remarkably little rain. There's a lot of talk about it but little demonstration. There are also remarkably few people carrying umbrellas or wearing ponchos. No one ever has wet hair or wet shoes. I know it's really minor nitpick, but it really is the little things that make a show.

* The fact that every single episode needs to have a one-in-a-million case, cutting-edge procedure or major catastrophe (or preferrably any combination of the three). ''{{ER}}'', ''{{Scrubs}}'' and even ''{{House}}'' do a wonderful job of having interesting, moving episodes without having super-duper-special things happening every week. It's as if the writers know that their characters aren't interesting enough and their writing isn't good enough to produce compelling episodes without something really outrageous happening.

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