I hated it immediately. And even when I eventually got over my shock, I mostly felt embarrassed for everyone involved. Even the song selection felt off. The music itself is pretty good. Chandra Wilson who plays Miranda Bailey is also a Broadway veteran, and even the non-triple-threat cast members hold their own.
Plus, as is necessary for such a preposterous premise, everyone bought in. After Callie had been written off the show. The part of the brain that gets tickled when unrealistically attractive medical heroes even the accursed April Kepner belt out a pop rock melody while trying to save their injured friend is the same part of the brain that got the warm and fuzzies over sea shanty TikTok. I cannot fathom how powerful someone must feel when they not only create the biggest network drama in the country, but abruptly turn it into a musical seven years down the pike.
Calling it a heat check feels disrespectful, because it undersells the confidence and audacity required to put something like this on television, regardless of whether it was ultimately successful. Grieving a gone-too-soon show? Ten years before, Buffy the Vampire Slayer debuted its Joss Whedon-composed musical episode to critical acclaim. In a wonderful episode of Scrubs , a patient character complained of incessant music, turning Zach Braff and Donald Faison into chorus boys.
There was a pattern for success. Of course, Shonda Rhimes is always seven seasons ahead of us. According to her, ABC was reluctant to greenlight the special event, so the years went by. Then, to convince the studio and the network, Rhimes invited the execs to a performance lead by series stars Sara Ramirez, Chandra Wilson, and Kevin McKidd. It was so good it convinced them to give the musical a chance — it helped that Rhimes wanted to use songs that the show had spotlighted before, ones that already resonated with fans.
There was a lot of pushback against it, with most critics saying the concept was too tricky to pull off for a drama. When the residents scrub in, Callie is brought in on a gurney and led on the OR table.
Mark and Arizona sit down in the gallery. While the other surgeons are preparing to go in, Addison sits down to look at the baby monitor. Arizona wants to pray and Mark says he hasn't stopped praying since yesterday. Meredith and Derek need to operate on Callie's brain again, while Cristina says she can still do the percutaneous repair.
Owen agrees with her. He and Richard ask Teddy to stabilize the heart and to step back after. Meanwhile, Cristina prepares to do the procedure. As everyone keeps on operating, Mark and Arizona watch them closely. Derek manages to control the brain bleed, but Callie's heart has stopped beating. Callie's spirit is in the gallery, too. Addison gets ready to take out the baby. Mark runs out of the gallery. As he enters the OR, Addison just took out the baby, whom she hands over to Lucy.
Arizona enters the OR, too. Alex helps Lucy, who can't get a heartbeat. They have to ventilate the baby and eventually intubate. Mark looks at Arizona and he nods. She then takes over from Lucy. As Arizona says she has a heartbeat, Richard tells them that Callie's heart is strong now, too. Derek says that they now have to wait for Callie to wake up, which may not happen. Derek walks away.
Mark apologizes for saying Arizona's nothing. Meredith and Derek are in the elevator, and she confesses that she was jealous of Callie at the baby shower. She doesn't get why the universe is so screwed up, and random, and mean. Derek hugs her, and he promises her they will have a baby of their own, too. Arizona is talking to Callie about their baby, who's small but fighting against all the complications.
Callie's spirit is stroking her own body's face. She's standing on the bridge inside the hospital. Jackson tells Lexie that he's not the guy who waits around for the girl who's still in love with someone else. Lexie asks him to go home together and takes his hand. Teddy tells Cristina she can't teach her anymore, as she doesn't want to listen to her. Callie's spirit comes back into the ICU, where Arizona is sleeping. Callie's spirit is shaking the bed in an attempt to wake up her body, but nothing happens.
When she grabs her body's feet, Callie suddenly opens her eyes and the spirit disappears. After the car accident, Callie was brought to the hospital in critical condition. In the trauma room, they assessed Callie's injuries and Lucy checked for a fetal heartbeat.
They intubated her and then rushed her up to surgery. While she was in surgery, she started to have contractions, but they quickly stopped. When she reached the point where they were doing more harm than good, they closed and moved her to the ICU. Addison was called in to monitor the baby. She was tachycardic and contracting.
The attendings then met up to make a surgical plan. She had a traumatic VSD, so Teddy wanted to put her on bypass to fix it. They argued over whether that was the best option. They went to Arizona and Mark about whether they felt the doctors should deliver the baby while Callie was stable. They fought over which way to go. Arizona favored waiting and Mark wanted to deliver the baby. The next morning, Derek woke Callie to check her neuro function. She didn't respond to their commands, so they sedated her.
Cristina proposed fixing Callie's heart percutaneously, which would reduce the amount of heparin needed, so it lowered her chances of re-bleeding in her brain. Despite Cristina's confidence, Teddy rejected the idea and Owen backed Teddy up.
Later, Callie developed abdominal compartment syndrome. They took her back into surgery. Teddy started to repair the heart her way, but as soon as they pushed heparin, her brain started to bleed again. Owen said they needed to reverse the heparin and let Cristina fix her heart while Derek fixed her brain bleed. After those two repairs were done, she flatlined.
Addison warned that they had one minute to get her heart back before she'd deliver the baby. She delivered the baby. They were able to resuscitate her, but Derek warned them that Callie still might not be able to wake up.
However, Callie later woke up and accepted Arizona's marriage proposal. After the car accident, Arizona was left with a laceration on her face, which was later sewn shut. Addison was forced to deliver the baby while she was flatlining. Lucy and Alex worked to get her breathing, but Arizona stepped in and took over. She worked and successfully got her daughter breathing.
She was then moved to the NICU. She weighed only one pound and one ounce. According to Shonda Rhimes, she already wanted to do a musical episode since the third day of filming the pilot episode, explaining she loves musicals and got inspired by the musical episode of the series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
She mentioned this desire to Betsy Beers, who just nodded at the time. As to why it took seven seasons to actually get to it, Rhimes given multiple reasons, stating it was much more complicated.
She mentions she was too busy telling other stories at Seattle Grace and creating Private Practice , she was raising her kid, the network was against it, and most important of all, she had no idea how they'd do it. So, she forgot about her idea, until the fourth season of the show. That was the season during which the Writers Guild of America went on strike.
That got Shonda to take part in protesting and to worry about the crews of her shows. To raise money for the crews, a benefit concert with people from Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice was organized. Later on, she also discovered that Chyler Leigh who didn't know it herself , Kevin McKidd who knew it but humbly chose not to reveal it , Chandra Wilson who's usually too nervous to sing , and Justin Chambers are talented singers as well.
Upon discovering all this talent, the idea of doing a musical episode got back in her head, but they didn't do it for another two seasons. At the beginning of season 7, as she said to the other writers that Callie should get pregnant with Mark's baby and that it all should be complicated and horrible and upsetting Arizona, she suddenly realized what the musical episode should be about.
She then started to beg the studio and the network people. They all politely declined, so Shonda organized a concert where she dragged all the studio and network executives to. They had an amazing band and Chandra, Sara, and Kevin as the evening's vocal talents.
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