So basically, Sara Ramirez is a goddess and completely carried that episode <3
The rest of the musical aspect of the episode? Not so great. I mean I still really got into the episode over all because of the emotion of it and the intensity, but I think it would have worked a LOT better if they'd just stuck to Callie doing all the singing. And not even just because Sara has by FAR the best voice, but because the singing actually worked quite effectively from the Callie perspective. It was only when the others randomly started joining in that it got majorly awkward
Oh and also the directing at times was quite weak. Like with the The Story scene, it was of course vocally incredible, but would have been even
more effective if they'd just kept Callie in the hospital room! By having her go out into the halls and stuff, with nothing to play to, it kind of forced it to become a "diva moment" and took you out of the emotion of it all. So yeah, things like that could have been done better.
But I definitely didn't think it was a horrible episode or anything- in fact I've watched all of like two Grey's episodes since about midway through season 5 and this episode single handedly got me back to wanting to watch it again! haha. But I did think the musical aspect of it wasn't so great- there were times when it actually took away from the impact of the episode rather than contributing to it.
Still, Sara... just.. unbelievable! Can she sing forever and ever please?
I don't need a life that's normal. That's way too far away. But something next to normal would be okay. Something next to normal is what I'd like to try. Close enough to normal to get by.
Updated On: 4/1/11 at 12:23 PM