The Becoming

Season 4, Episode 14, Aired
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The clinical trial continues to make progress. The anti-McSteamy club creates new initiatives but that isn't enough to stop one woman from spending time with him. Cristina is affected by Burke's career developments.
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  • He's with Rose. He's with Rose. He's with Rose.

    10
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    By QQboo, Sep 29, 2010 Report Abuse
    I learned a lot from this episode. I, like Meredith, tend to have an extremely hard time moving on from relationships that are either intense, passionate, or serious, or all of them. I think having a constant reminder to myself in these situations would help. "He's with Rose. He's with Rose. He's with Rose." I never thought about it. "He doesn't love you anymore. He doesn't love you anymore. He doesn't love you anymore." Let's see how I do with my self-reminders.

    This episode also makes me wonder what my therapist would say to me if I were to get therapy. I don't think I am a coward. I am not frightened to take chances, open up, and love. I am not sure why I somehow just seem unworthy and undeserving of love. Therapy might help. I think Meredith's shrink is pretty good.moreless

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  • Wow, something good at last. It encoureges us to end with represion and break all those nonsensical rules that would make us get closer to each other and to understand each other.moreless

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    By g_anatomy, Apr 25, 2009 Report Abuse
    This episode was an absolute surprise. It had a lot of interesting issues.

    -Finally, someone says what we all think, and what we all know about Mer. She was in denial world that prevented to see her what was right in her face. Sometimes we tend to do that and we need someone to tell us when we're not being totally rational about someting.

    -We really get to know how Cristina feels. It's kinda sad that her issues make her so depressive and weak, instead of getting over them in other ways.

    -Mark learns that all actions have consequences, in a very painful way. -I liked that walled-up girl case. That's the biggest metaphor of being repressed and she talked out loud how she was feeling. BUt what's important here is that Alex broke the rules to save her, and shows us that sometimes you have to take risks to help people. After all, some rigid rules prevent us from knowing and loving each other.

    -With that exact argument I want to talk about that gay love story. Basically those two guys were repressing each other from one of their parent (drawing parallels with society...) and they're caught. We get to see a clear contrast between conservative thinking and new concepts, and how they act. Being specific, our two lovers fail to be free, since they are controlled by the judging eye. But it's too late when one of them realises that he shouldn't hide from anyone and that "he's there". That story was great but I hated that one of them had to die and that the other kept on the repressive mechanism. We should remember that we have to fight for what we want, without caring in society's judging eye, which function is to avoid change and have power all over us.

    -That sex police plot line was the other side of this episode and marks one of the contradictions of this episode. The gay story stands for "do what you want if you want it and without stupid boundaries", but this one reenforces the exact opposite idea, by having control over sexual encounters. Everybody accepts this obsessive control without even thinking about it, and nobody opposes to this idea. Miranda doesn't make any opposition to this control, but instead she denouces how sexist it was.

    -Mer's narration was absolute empty, and what she said only was her denial discurse.

    I have to say for myself that we should not repress ourselves, we should to step up and solve all that stressful situations that take our freedom away. We should ignore all that rules that had no sense, to be closer to each other. They tried to say this with episode. Save for all those little contradictions, it was a really good episode.moreless

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  • Finally someone to call Meredith on all her c*ap!

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    By TineRua, Jun 04, 2008 Report Abuse
    I love Doctor Wyatt and the scenes she's had with Meredith are outstanding.

    I have been saying since she started going drunken one night stand crazy in S2 that Meredith needs therapy, and after the bomb thing, then the drowning thing, she should have had to have manditory sessions with a shrink. Assuming that she had those sessions but they weren't shown (though that doesn't seem to have been the case) Meredith probably did what most professionals (cops, firefighters, doctors, et cetera) do when forced to do manditary shrink sessions, which is sit there, answer with non-descript responses that satisfy the requirements of the therapy and offering up nothing more; it's dangerously common.

    Finally Meredith's getting help. I love that she's doing that, and Doctor Wyatt is yet another amazingly strong female presence on this show.

    The fairytale romance was a bit of a red herring -- it was real for the patient but she was a transient character; she was never going to come back, so why not make her love story be perfect until her death? But Derek started applying it to Meredith and Rose because, like Denny said in "Some Kind of Miracle", Derek is a romantic who believes in soulmates, so of course he'd believe in the fairytale romance, and because everything got screwed up this season with Derek and Meredith he's all screwed up about Meredith and Rose and everything else. He thinks he'll get his 'happily ever after' with Rose, because he believes he's idealizing what he and Meredith had in some subconscious attempt at justifying the final demise of his marriage and all the other changes that have happened in his life since he met Meredith at Joes that first night.

    All in all it was a good episode. Seeing Hahn freaking out was good because it showed another side of her, one that wasn't so stoney and **** and cold. The Chief's messages to his wife were just disturbing, but at least he's trying to get Adele back.moreless

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  • Interesting storylines.

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    By krazy4crack, May 31, 2008 Report Abuse
    I enjoyed multiple aspects of this episode, but the one thing I surely didn't enjoy was Derek and Meredith getting closer again. I just can't stress enough how much I want them to either stay together or just break it off, it gets very annoying seeing them break up and get back together over and over again. It gives Meredith more reason to be so dramatic with her life and constantly whine about how hard her life is. The Sloan strike was hilarious, I mean, it was somewhat filler, but it was funny. Bailey is back and tough as ever in my opinion. The Chief is being annoying again and Alex is starting to get on my nerves.moreless

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  • Greys is finaly back :)

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    By carly-hope, May 24, 2008 Report Abuse
    I loved this episode. Im in this show mostly for Alex and Izzie but this episode was wonderful from the beginning to the end. and everyone was at their top game. I especially enjoyed Sandra Oh and Eric Dane. and big applaus to the guys playing the Marines. the story was both sweet and sad, to feel that you have to choose between your father and the love of your life. and not being able to say a proper good bye, it just tore my heart apart. Alex was wonderful too. but it was hard to watch him trying to do the right thing, be responsible, being excited for the wrong reason and knowing he will get hurt eventually. Im so glad Greys is back to what made the show so wonderful.moreless

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    • International Episode Titles: Czech Republic: Doktor v hlavě (Doctor in the Head) Slovakia: Premena (Conversion) Edit
    • Original International Air Dates: Australia: May 25, 2008 on Network 7 Sweden: June 4, 2008 on Kanal 5 Latin America: June 9, 2008 on Sony Entertainment Television Croatia: June 12, 2008 on RTL TV Italy: July 21, 2008 on Foxlife Ireland: August 26, 2008 RTE2 Germany: September 24, 2008 on ProSieben Belgium: October 23, 2008 on VijfTV The Netherlands: October 27, 2008 on Net 5 Finland: November 19, 2008 on Nelonen Norway: November 25, 2008 on TV2 Romania: January 13, 2009 on TVR1 Czech Republic: April 9, 2009 on Prima Edit
    • Music Featured In This Episode: 1. Carmella (Four Tet Remix) by Beth Orton plays at the beginning of the episode as Bailey walks down the hall with Tuck. Meredith talks with Dr. Wyatt. 2. Like A Virgin by Sandra Oh. Cristina sings the song as she operates on the cadavers. 3. Mansard Roof by Vampire Weekend plays as George begins passing out the forms. Lexie and Meredith are hesitant to fill them out. Rose tells George she will be needing one after all. Meredith goes to find Cristina. Alex turns in an incomplete form. 4. Know When To Walk Away by Jay Clifford plays as Alex has his temperature taken prior to Mrs. Marshall's surgery. Meredith wheels Darren into surgery and notices Todd still waiting in the hall. 5. Brightest Hour by The Submarines plays as Meredith tells Derek she can watch Darren on her own. Callie wants to have sex, but Mark is not in the mood. 6. Only Yesterday by Taken By Trees plays as Meredith monitors Darren. Bailey passes Mark sitting pensively in the hallway, Todd demands an answer from Meredith and Darren's father, and Erica tells Mrs. Marshall that she's still at the top of the list for a new heart. 7. Good Arms vs. Bad Arms by Frightened Rabbit plays as the episode comes to an end. Bailey asks Izzie how she handled her dilemma, George comforts Lexie, Callie confesses why she's been avoiding Erica, and Derek talks with Mark in the elevator. Edit

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    • Mark: The most refined, professional, and ladylike doctor in this hospital came to my defense tonight. The best that she could come up with was "He's a whore." I'm a whore. Derek: I slept with her. And the whole time I was thinking about Meredith. Who's the bigger whore? Edit
    • Callie (to Erica): Okay, so I know I've been avoiding you. I know it's stupid and based on nothing, but when she was here, Addison said... Well, she implied that-- that we were... that I was... that um... you and I might be lesbians. (they start laughing) Edit
    • Lexie: I just called three of my ex-boyfriends to find out how unforgetable I am. I left messages, I'm sure they'll came me back. George: So you made a mistake and slept with Alex. No one has made more mistakes, or slept with more inapporiate people, or been more publicy humiliated than me. Let me be an inspiration, I am the Chief's intern. I am the man at the right hand of the man. Edit

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    • While discussing Rebecca's current status Alex says to Izzie "She's pregnant, she's knocked up." referring to the 2007 movie Knocked Up, starring Kathering Heigl, in which Heigl's character becomes pregnant unexpectedly. Edit
    • Episode's Title: "The Becoming" "The Becoming" is a song by Nine Inch Nails, off the album The Downward Spiral. Edit

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