GA is pretty !!! so far, and I'm only halfway through. It's been !!! all the way from the start.
Can't even shout, Can't even cry. The Gentlemen are coming by. Looking in windows, knocking on doors. They need to take seven, and they might take yours. Can't call to mom, can't say a word. You're gonna die screaming but you won't be heard.
Dream Girl ,'Bring On The Night'
Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
§ ita § - May 20, 2010 8:02:11 pm PDT #802 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Ginger - May 20, 2010 8:04:51 pm PDT #803 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Synthetic life has been created.
As long as it doesn't look like a London Olympics mascot....
I say keep the creepy and inexplicable Olympics mascots coming. I'd like Atlanta to be able to retire the "worst mascot ever" crown.
meara - May 20, 2010 9:12:19 pm PDT #804 of 30001
On Grey's--seriously, why did they kill Reed and not annoying girl-in-love-with-Shepherd??? ANNOYING.
Also this whole episode is making me SO FREAKING TENSE. Damn.
Vortex - May 20, 2010 9:19:46 pm PDT #805 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I quit watching Grey's Anatomy a long time ago, but I'm almost curious about what's going on. Between this and my facebook page, something huge obviously is going down. Of course, even if someone told me, I probably don't know who the characters are.
meara - May 20, 2010 9:21:47 pm PDT #806 of 30001
Also re: Grey's--I find it incredibly unlikely that they wouldn't have a lockdown procedure code. I've worked in a number of hospitals and even just medical buildings, and most of them have posted around all sorts of code lists--"CODE AMBER MEANS LOST/STOLEN CHILD, CODE BLACK MEANS DANGEROUS PERSON ON THE LOOSE, CODE BLUE MEANS DANGEROUS CHEMICAL SPILL" etc etc. And there's usually several that are completely weird (radiation!) but that's why they have the list posted--so when they suddenly annouce "CODE PURPLE!" people can look up and go "whaaa?"
§ ita § - May 20, 2010 9:24:03 pm PDT #807 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
We had a bunch of emergency codes when I worked in a hospital, but none for that. So I'm not sure how they'd inform the rank and file employee.
meara - May 20, 2010 9:24:22 pm PDT #808 of 30001
Vortex, basically there's a guy whose wife was in surgery and was brain dead and McDreamy said to pull the plug because she had a DNR and the guy flipped and sued the hospital and lost, so he's returned, with a gun, and is shooting up the place. And various shit is going down.
Vortex - May 20, 2010 9:26:18 pm PDT #809 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
meara, ironically, the thing that got me watching Grey's was Isiah Thomas saying "we have a code black" in all of the ads during the Superbowl that year and I just wanted to know what the fuck a code black was and then I was hooked for a while. Of course, what ultimately made me stop watching was that I could no longer suspend my disbelief that Meredith had any redeeming value. She was whiny, needy, annoying, clingy and indecisive. I couldn't understand why all the men wanted to be with her and all of the women wanted to be her friend. Plus, her overbite started to annoy me.
Sophia Brooks - May 21, 2010 2:38:53 am PDT #810 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I don't watch Grey's anymore, but at my uni, we have a yearly quiz on codes and procedures, and they are also listeed on the back of our ID badges, which we wear at all times.
Sophia Brooks - May 21, 2010 2:44:23 am PDT #811 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
From reading this, I think code black has a universal meaning.