Blog #3 TV Analysis Gray’s Anatomy

Life has been and always will be an extremely precious gift that unfortunately for some is taken away way too early, and for others can be taken for granted. The show that I am going to be analyzing is the latest episode of Gray’s Anatomy. In this episode the doctors of Seattle Grace Hospital are put to the test when a fairy boat crashes and there is mass ciaos and death, that they are forced to deal with and control. For Meredith Gray the test not only stops at the crash victims but she is put in a situation where she has to fight for her life but the question is does she fight hard enough? There are men and women who are robbed from their lives every day, and then there are people that take their lives for granted who either commit suicide or when are put in a situation that requires them to fight for their lives they take the easy way out, if they feel their lives are not worth living.

Life is sacred and many people don’t consider or think that one day when they least expect it can be taken away instantly. In the previous show the viewers were exposed to the brutal scenes of death and pain that the fairy boat crash resulted in. Doctors were sent to the site and immediately split up to help where needed, Meredith spotted one particular man who had a broken leg with an open flesh wound, climb over the wall that separated land from the water. As she was trying to help the man because he was in so much pain he knocked her over the edge of the wall and she fell into the water. My first thought was that she would be fine and swim to the wall and climb it just like the man with the broken leg did, but she never came up. Time passes and she was still submerged in the water, finally help comes for her and they get her to the hospital.

The first thing that came to mind was why didn’t she swim? If a guy who had a broken leg could get to safety why couldn’t she? Derek Shepard, Meredith’s boyfriend at the time who saved her from the water later tries to put the pieces together and the thought crosses his mind that Meredith might have tried to kill herself because he knows that she is a good, strong swimmer. Meredith as she is in a so called “in between heaven and earth” comes across previous characters on the show who have died in the hospital who have been good people who have either helped her or made an impact on her in some way. They confront her with the idea of why she didn’t swim and fight for her life, which she quickly denies but then later admits that the problems that she thought made her life not worth living were extremely insignificant, and not worth taking the easy way out for.

It is ironic how in this episode innocent people like children, pregnant women and older seniors who are going through such pain and suffering and are dying from the crash when they didn’t have a choice. Then there is Meredith who is a doctor and is there to save lives but chooses to not save her own because that seemed like an easy way out for her, when she can clearly swim and get herself to safety. It killed me to see all the pain and death in the episode, it clearly shows that life is sacred and for some people it takes a disaster like this to show them how valuable life is, to see the craziness in the Hospital when people were looking for their wives, husbands, children and parents.

It just goes to show that you never know when your time will come and in this episode it really laid out for me how Meredith when given the chance to live being that she could have fought for her life chose not to. When I look at the innocent people on the boat who died I am sure that they would have given anything to be in Meredith’s position were she had the choice to live or die. She was lucky that she was given that second chance at life, because it is too precious to just throw away especially when you are given the choice.

Grey's Anatomy watched on TV 9:00pm February 22 2007