TVgasm has just released this exclusive footage of “Grey’s Anatomy” actor Isaiah Washington’s notorious on-set meltdown. Surprisingly, none of the media outlets reporting on the melee mentioned the chainsaw, the flamethrower, or the use of automatic weapons.
Curious.
I begin this week with a complaint: although I’m as much of a sucker for reading spoilers as the next guy, I like to have the option to read them, not have them thrust upon me as has been happening in the previews for the following week’s episode of “Heroes.” Yeah, I know, the whole point of the preview is to tease you about what to expect, but the ones for “Heroes” seem to give away major surprises and developments instead of just offering the teasing lines immediately before the surprises and developments. Like, the whole “save the cheerleader, save the world” thing was given up long before future-Hiro uttered the line at the beginning of this week’s episode. It just pisses me off, that’s all I’m saying. But, then again, even the fact that we saw someone shoot into the air in last week’s preview didn’t damage the sheer coolness of Nathan shooting upwards, into the clouds, and – it sounded like – breaking the sound barrier in the process; that was definitely still very much a “holy shit” moment. (By the way, did I miss it last week when they revealed that they’d taken Nathan rather than Niki? All I heard Claire’s dad say was “take one of them”; I never heard him say which one…but the show acted as though we were supposed to have known that he’d taken Nathan.)
So Alias Boy…sorry, I mean Matt…more than makes up for his brief appearance in last week’s episode by, if my calculations are correct, getting more screen time this week than any other character. Surely his wife’s gonna get pissed off when she finds out that he really IS getting inside her mind. (Is it me, or does she look like an older Katie Holmes?) Based on his mother of a headache toward the end of the show, it looks like Matt’s gonna end up crazy sooner than later if he doesn’t figure out how to reign in his abilities.
By the way, the subject line is partially a reference to that, but also to Claire feeling a bit of remorse for running the QB’s car into a wall. She finally opens up to her dad…sort of. About the rape, not about her abilities. Well, if nothing else, we’ve confirmed that no matter what his ulterior motive in all this turns out to be, he’s clearly still got a lot of love in his heart for his adopted daughter…or else she’s so crucial to his endgame that he’ll do anything to protect her. And Niki…sweet, sweet Niki…doesn’t get much forward motion in her arc ’til the end of the episode, except to discover that she had hot monkey sex with Nathan and doesn’t remember a thing about it. Oh, well, she can always order a copy of the DVD…
So exactly when did Hiro learn all that English? Finally, he gets Ando to help him with a phone call to Isaac, but, still, when he’s chatting with Nathan at the diner, it’s clear that he’s fluent enough in speakin’ American to be able to get his point across to Isaac…so why did he insist on speaking solely in Japanese when he called him? Nerves…? As long as we’re talking about the dynamic duo from the land of the rising sun, dammit, we were thisfuckingclose to seeing that Niki / Ando romance kick off…and, by God, I’m not giving up hope yet; there was a spark, I tells ya! As far as Hiro’s new buddy, I have to say, I never would’ve thought that he and Nathan would meet up so soon, let alone that Nathan would be amused with him rather than annoyed by him.
I noticed this week that at least one of the supposedly big reveals of the episode was pretty anti-climactic, that being when Peter finds Isaac’s painting of Claire; I mean, it’s not like we didn’t witness Isaac painting it last week…but they played it like it was something we’d never seen before. Rule of thumb, people: if it’s not a new revelation, it’s not cut-to-commercial worthy…!
If it was me, I think I would’ve ended the episode with Niki’s husband creeping around the corner…but, overall, it was a solid episode with lots of new info.
Funniest line: “That hurt more than I thought it would.”
Most chilling line: “Hollow him out; take everything.”
“Grey’s Anatomy” surgeon Dr. Preston Burke (Isaiah Washington) continued what is apparently some sort of unorthodox physical therapy treatment for the nerve damage in his injured hand last week, following up his rehabilitative choke-hold exercises with a new form of resistance training: dragging Dr. George O’Malley (T.R. Knight) out of the closet.
Unfortunately, this is not a convoluted plot line on the popular medical melodrama; this is real life. Further details have emerged regarding Washington’s on-set temper tantrum a few weeks back, and the net result is that actor T.R. Knight has essentially been forced out of the closet.
Here’s how the story evolved:
1. On October 11, the National Enquirer reports that Isaiah Washington put a choke-hold on Patrick Dempsey during an on-set spat, after Dempsey objected to Washington’s saying “something mean” to T.R. Knight.
2. On October 18, the Enquirer updates its story about the spat to include a mention of Washington yelling to Dempsey, “I’m not your little faggot like [name deleted].”
3. On October 19, T.R. Knight issues a statement indicating that he is gay, and that he hopes that that fact “isn’t the most interesting part of” him.
Nice work, guys. Not that we consider the National Enquirer any sort of bastion of journalistic integrity or moral rectitude…but did anyone at the publication really think that even the drooling masses wouldn’t be able to do the math on this one?
Let’s see: Isaiah said something mean to T.R. Knight. Isaiah also called some unidentified actor a faggot. Hmmm, to whom could he have been referring? Not the same actor to whom he had already been reported to have said “something mean,” perhaps? No, that couldn’t possibly be it. It’s a mystery for the ages.
So, here’s the question: who is more to blame here: Isaiah Washington, for being a homophobic egomaniac with anger management issues; the National Enquirer, for taking such laughably lax steps to “protect” Knight’s personal life…or some combination of the two?
And if you were running the show over at “Grey’s Anatomy,”what would you do to reprimand Washington for such clearly unprofessional and unwarranted behavior?
So Pam and Jim finally reconnect and have a long conversation. I love the bit about Pam’s confusing “28 Days” with “28 Days Later”:
Pam: “I kept waiting for Sandra Bullock to show up.”
But the conversation ends abruptly and awkwardly when Ryan and Dwight return from the Tests. Pam says “bye” to Ryan, and Jim thinks she’s saying it to him. Pam’s a receptionist – doesn’t she know to cover the phone when she’s talking to someone else? Geesh!
Here are a few of my favorite moments from the episode:
Dwight: (talking about Ryan’s future) “Is he going to be a slacker/loser/wiseass like Jim or will he join Dwight’s Army of Champions?”
Karen: (as Jim sings the Cardigans’ “Lovefool”): “That is not a proportionate response.”
That was a great shot of Dwight tearing off in his Firebird, leaving Ryan alone in the field.
Dwight: (after Ryan says that competition is the biggest threat to Dunder-Mifflin) “Wrong! Flash floods!”
So the jailbreak is on, but Tigh has to poison his own wife first. She gives a nice speech, making him feel even worse about what he had to do. With all her faults, it was obvious that he really did love her. But you know what they say: once you go Cylon, you can never go back. Here’s hoping that Tigh loses his eye for good – how great would he be with a black patch?
The coolest thing about the escape was Adama’s ruse with the drone ships and the subsequent jump into New Caprica’s atmosphere. There’s Galactica, crashing to the planet, but he’s able to launch a crapload of vipers before jumping away.
For a moment there, it looked like he was going down with his ship, but you just knew that Lee would show up with the Pegasus to save the day. I thought it was interesting how the writers figured out a way to save Galactica while destroying Pegasus at the same time. After all, it the show isn’t called “Battlestars Galactica and Pegasus,” is it?
I have to say that the special effects on the show are tremendous considering how much the creators grumble about limited budgets. The space battle scene was extremely action-packed, and the effects are getting so good that you don’t get lost in little details that look odd, which was still a problem for sci-fi television as recently as a few years ago.
It looked like both the Cylons and the humans were each going to leave New Caprica with a hybrid baby, but Casey turned out to be a random human child. Katee Sackhoff’s (Starbuck) acting was terrific in that scene on the ship. When she discovered that she wasn’t Casey’s mom, she looked like she had just been punched in the gut.
I’m curious how Maya died on the way to their ship, leaving the baby Hera for the Cylons. Roslin stressed to the leaders of the insurgence how important it was that they get off the planet, and while tons are others are able to escape, they are not. I wish we had been able to see how that happened. Maybe they can tie a flashback into a future episode to explain it.
The Admiral looks better without the ‘stache. Now if we can just get Lee to go on a diet…
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