This is from Shonda Rhimes blog. She's the creator, writer, genius behind GA. Her thoughts about this episode and it will shed lots of light...:
http://www.greyswriters.com/2007/02/shonda_on_walk_.html
Shonda on "Walk on Water"
"Holy crap, am I glad it is my turn to blog again! I have missed it, let me tell you! How is everyone? You still out there? Still good?
Or are you yelling and screaming at your TV sets and cursing my name for throwing Meredith into the water and then rolling the credits on you?
I dont blame you for the cursing. But please remember that next week, things get even more interesting and then the week after that, they get REALLY interesting. I dont want to talk about it. Or give anything away
.
Which means theres not much I can blog about.
it. I can tell you that this episode (as well as the next) was directed by the famous Bossy McBossy Rob Corn. And that before he had a script, he kept coming into my office to say in that quiet, calm voice of his: YOU. ARE. KILLING. ME.
See, its that time of year again. That time of year when I get all sick and flu-y and my brain goes stupid and so I start to lie face down on the carpet in my office threatening to flee the country because my ability to write has clearly leaked out of my ear while I was sleeping. Every year, like clockwork, it happens. And every year, like clockwork, it takes me by surprise. Youd think Id learn. But I dont. I dont learn.
So Bossy McBossy is waiting for pages and Im gathering my passport and calling the airports and Betsy (who sits in the office next to mine and keeps me sane) very kindly keeps coming in to remind me that I have pitched the entire 3 episode arc to her eight or nine times in vivid detail over the past five months. All I have to do, she says (using, I might add, the exact same voice one uses with a three year old who wont give you the sharp objects in her mouth), all I have to do is WRITE DOWN the things I have pitched her. All I have to do PUT THEM ON PAPER.
HA!
Everyone knows the key component of serious, rampant procrastination is the inability to put anything on paper.
Okay, I am actually procrastinating by writing about procrastinating. On to the point, which is this: Rob Corn worked his behind off shooting this episode with pages being fed to him as he shot and for that, I will no longer be referring to him as Bossy McBossy. Instead from this moment on, I will call him by his new tribal name: Shoots With No Script.
Now, Shoots With No Script will tell you that I had very definite ideas about this episode. And I did. But they were all character-based. They were all about Merediths attitude and the little girl and Izzie and her tub of butter and Cristina and the notion that, in choosing to marry, she fears that she is LITERALLY being left behind in more ways than having to stay at the hospital while everyone goes to the accident site. They were all about Derek and Burke and their conversation about these women and Richard and his badly dyed hair. My thoughts were all about disappearing.
They were not about things that Shoots With A Script needed to know. They were not, for instance, about what the ferry should look like when we first see it. Because, if you know anything about me, you know I dont want to think about hurting a ferry boat. I, like McDreamy, have a thing for ferry boats. Ferry boats are awesome and, in fact, very safe. Ferry boats are amazing.
Ferry boats are a metaphor for Meredith, you know.
What I was interested in was Meredith and how she was doing after being hurt by her mother. And the devastation of the ferry boat was the best way to physicalize Merediths pain.
The little girl? Shes also a metaphor for Mer. A motherless lost girl who cant speak for herself and disappears? Okay, thats too obvious. But you all know Merediths been doing a dance with death for some time. Yall know that if youve been watching. Shes dark, our girl. Shes dark and twisty. And I worry about her.
Now, Im really worried about her because shes in the water and I want to be clear with you: I dont put people in the water for no reason. Merediths got issues, shes got serious Mommy issues and shes broken and shes in the water.
I killed Denny. I blew up Dylan.
Im not entirely playing by the rules of TV here.
Theres a point. And its coming. Shoots With A Script and I have our fingers and toes crossed that it works.
Because what happens next
well, just wait and see
Okay, I rambled and I procrastinated and I should just stop writing and let you go ahead and yell at me now
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February 09, 2007 in Shonda Rhimes | Permalink
