Season 4, Episode 8 - “Forever Young”

The first half of Grey’s tonight sounded good. See, I’ve got a thing about eyes, and so when the dude with a pencil jabbed in his eye was on screen, I had my eyes squeezed shut, muttering something along the lines of, “Sweet Lord, you’ve got to be kidding me.” Luckily, the guy went into a coma pretty quick, so I didn’t have to see that mess for too long. Sound callous? Don’t care.

Anyway, on with the show. Using the school bus crash as a metaphor for how juvenile the staff of Seattle Grace can be was a brilliant move. Our regulars begin with a lot of eye-rolling toward the adolescents, but end up having their eyes opened (eyes…pencils…BLECH…sorry). The irony that Sloan, the one doctor that actually seemed to want to be…connected with the students was deemed “old” by them was priceless.

Bailey’s schoolgirl crush took some time to grow on me. When it all started and she was acting like an airhead, it just seemed to drastically out of character for her. But the breakdown and “long speech” to Shepherd at the end really redeemed it.

The whole triangle between Meredith and Lexie and their dad seems a bit tacked on for me. I believe this dynamic has a lot of potential, but…I don’t know. I think it’s that Meredith’s constant complaining and self-righteousness is finally just grating on my nerves. That being said, I am absolutely loving Chyler Leigh in the part of Lexie.

The romance between George and Izzy…eh, I really just don’t care anymore. If they’re going to get together, fine…if they’re going to break up, okay. Just do it already and let’s move on.

Episode grade: B+