Amber on Grey's Anatomy

[Dana5140]

It has just been announced that Amber will guest on the 7th episode of the season, playing the daughter of one of the leads- see Ausiello this week for the details (lost the link!).

[Nue]

this is really great! I love Grey´s Anatomy!

[Dana5140]

Here is the link:
http://ausiellofiles.ew.com/2010/09/22/ ... ys-gossip/

[taralicious]

I hope her performance on GA won't be as unsettling to watch as her appearance on "Private Practice" where the make-up artists had convincingly turned her character into an abuse victim.

[Laragh]

Anyone else think it's kinda funny she's gonna be on GA after PP? Like since technically the shows live in the same universe lol.

I know shows recycle actors sometimes, but I still think it's funny

Anyway, can't wait to see her on it!!

[LonelyTara]

Freakin' awesome!!!

[abarda]

I'm gonna watch it, sure!

[Kaylynmarie]

im soo EXCITED lol
Now i have a reason to keep watching it lol

[Tillow4ever]

How many othr characters from buffy have been on? That link said "Yet another Buffy grad is checking into Seattle Grace"

And I'm very excited to see Amber!!!!

[LonelyTara]

I think just Seth Green...I wish Amber was joining the cast permanently ...sigh...getting to tune in 4-times a month would be so awesome!

[helpfulinformationperhaps]

wonder if she - Sara Ramirez and Jessica Capshaw will have a chat about playing a lesbian couple in prime time and what it means to the fans?

[Laragh]

Just saw next week's promo and she's in it

[helpfulinformationperhaps]

excited to see amber in next weeks grey's!
promo here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbELZ2XKZUg

she plays Jon's (the guy who needs a lung transplant in last weeks episode) estranged daugher. summary of the sides for her part are up on the web.

[dreamingstate47]

wonder if she - Sara Ramirez and Jessica Capshaw will have a chat about playing a lesbian couple in prime time and what it means to the fans?

Kind of on a related note, I found it sort of hilarious that in the Grey's Anatomy Season 6 finale the lesbian characters were the only little group in the hospital where NOBODY got shot (and honestly, I was just the tiniest bit disappointed because I wanted the angst... Obviously I didn't want either of them to die, but I would have been okay with one of them being injured). (edited by moderator --check your PM)

I am so excited for next week's episode! And I'm glad she's not a patient because her appearance on Private Practice kind of freaked me out.

[LonelyTara]

Can you give a link to the summary of her role? Also...so glad she's letting her hair grow back. I thought the short cut was really cute, but I missed her hair...

[helpfulinformationperhaps]

Amber is one of the "big stars" being bought in for sweeps week episodes!
bostonhearld.com

summary of the relevant sides that are up for this episode here
http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com ... 7&st=37350

she plays the daughter (Elaine) of a patient needing a lung and heart transplant.

The patient Roy is at the hospital to get a lung transplant. As Dr. Yang is examining him, his daughter (Elaine) who he hasn't seen or spoken to in 20 years arrives and she's being snarky, calls him 'Roy'. Next scene has a Dr. informing Elaine that Roy's heart failure is so advanced now that even with new lungs his heart may be too damaged to work. A doc/Teddy has gone to pick up the lungs and the doc says she's going to call her and inform her of the situation.

Next scene has Elaine distraught and she's asking Dr. if Teddy can't get a new heart does that mean the lung transplant isn't going to happen, asks what the situation is with the new heart, asks when can she see her father. Dr. can't really answer any of it and apologizes, they are new to the case.

Elaine starts her speech - says she drove over because she hadn't seen her father in 20 years and wanted to blame him for that. Says he tried to be her Dad in the beginning but she couldn't forgive him for leaving her mom and so he stopped trying. But now she has twins and she doesn't even know if he knows that. She doesn't want the fact that she called her father 'Roy' to be the last thing he ever hears from her.

Dr. is performing an emergency heart surgery and Dr. yang comes in and says she really needs him to check on patient Roy. Dr. asks several questions about the patient's condition, what has been done and what needs to be done if the patient's condition deteriorates.

Dr. yang answers all of it, Dr. praises her work and says he'll go there when he can but it doesn't sound like Dr. needs him at all. Next scene is Roy's surgery and his heart and lungs are in. Drs. are waiting. Dr. says if the heart doesn't start beating soon they can't take him off bypass and asks if she thinks something is wrong.

[Lady Callie]

I think just Seth Green...I wish Amber was joining the cast permanently ...sigh...getting to tune in 4-times a month would be so awesome!

Nicholas Brendon is in this weeks Private Practice. Going to make watching very hard because ...

Spoiler:

...he plays the man who attacked and raped Charlotte. And we all know he can play dark characters extremely well.

Looking forward to Amber's guest spot; Grey's is one of my favorite shows!

[Laragh]

Emma Caulfield was in Private Practice last season as well!

[Lady Callie]

Emma Caulfield was in Private Practice last season as well!

She was?? I have no memory of her! Last season really frustrated me, I might have not paid attention.

[Cyteach]

I just set up my PVR to tape Amber's episode of Grey's... I'm an avid watcher anyway, but this makes the absence of Callie and Arizona a little easier to bare!

[Laragh]

Emma Caulfield was in Private Practice last season as well!

She was?? I have no memory of her! Last season really frustrated me, I might have not paid attention.

Maybe it was two seasons ago actually...Hmm...*goes to check*

Yep, 2x17 'Wait And See', where the baby's couple was born as a hermaphrodite.

And if anyone is watching Grey's EST right now, AMBER!!

[Lovers4ever]

I'm just a sometimes watcher of "Grey's Anatomy", but I wasn't going to miss seeing Amber. Thank you, Dana5140, for alerting us about her appearance. I thought Amber played her way-too-small part very well. Her compassionate eyes and facial expressions are as moving as ever. Was anyone else bothered by not getting to experience closure between her and her dad's characters? I wanted to hear her call him "Dad".

Two other points, almost related -
1) I'm sorry I didn't comment on dreamingstate47's post earlier, but I am totally shocked that GA didn't take the opportunity, with a raving gunman, to plow down lesbians, which seems to be the norm. This has got to be a first!
2) That argument between Cali and Arizona was so fake and contrived that I told my partner it must have been written by Joss Whedon. Don't make us believe in a couple and then try and get us to believe they'd just walk away from each other.

[Vanille]

Was anyone else bothered by not getting to experience closure between her and her dad's characters? I wanted to hear her call him "Dad".

I was also bothered by this. In the final scenes I kept asking "Where's Amber?" Having never watched Grey's Anatomy before, I didn't have much interest in whatever plot that was going on.

I agree that the scene between Callie and Arizona seemed extremely contrived, although I was hoping it only seemed that way because I had no relationship with the characters. I'm pretty sure I cringed after Callie's line "if you get on that plane, we're over." Well duh. Hence the part where she uninvited you to Africa.

[Nue]

she´ll be on Grey´s next week too? because her character´s dad is still sick and they didn´t talk yet...

[Laragh]

she´ll be on Grey´s next week too? because her character´s dad is still sick and they didn´t talk yet...

Pretty sure she was only in it for the one ep...

The whole episode was pretty poorly written for all the characters really and there was a definite lack of closure on Amber's role!

Grey's is normally famous for the sappy end-of-episode-family-reunitings and mega speeches

[xlaurax1]

Yeah, I agree with everyone about being upset with the total lack of closure for Amber's character. I was very disappointed actually, because as Laragh said, Grey's is usually big on concluding the minor patient-family story lines, and all we got was seeing her standing by her fathers side in the background of another scene.

However, I would like to say that Amber looked beautiful in all her scenes, and her hair was adorable.

[misskitty87]

Amber looked so beautiful! This was the first episode of Grey's I watched and loved it. Although I do agree that she didn't have enough screen-time and would have been happier if there was more closure between Elaine and Roy. I felt like it just ended abruptly and we were left wondering what happened.

[Lady Callie]

Two other points, almost related -
1) I'm sorry I didn't comment on dreamingstate47's post earlier, but I am totally shocked that GA didn't take the opportunity, with a raving gunman, to plow down lesbians, which seems to be the norm. This has got to be a first!

I've been watching GA since the beginning and Callie and Arizona are the first lesbian couple since Willow and Tara that I've fallen for. I've really enjoyed how normally this pairing has been treated on the show. Let me too you, the episodes with the shooter had me in fits. I was terrified they would kill one of the girls. With all the stuff we went through with BtVS and the evil/dead lesbian stereotype the media refuses to let go of, I was convinced one of the girls would die. They even had a scene with the shooter (I was hiding behind the sofa).

Truly that was one of the best episodes of television I have ever watched. That said, this episode with Amber was not the best; universally it seems like the fans found the writing to be off. The breakup was something I had seen coming (and necessary because Arizona's actress is going on maternity leave). It was a little odd that there wasn't more on Amber's story line, but I think part of that was because Christina quit.... which is kind of a huge deal.


Thought Amber was great, I loved her short hair! For me it really helped distinguish her as a different character from a snarky Tara.

[LonelyTara]

Yeah, I have to say, it was the best of times and worst of times on Grey's. Amber was gorgeous, and gave a beautiful performance. I can't believe that they didn't include a moment where she got to see her father after he came out of surgery. I can only hope she's back in the next episode, but I'm afraid that maybe it ended up on the cutting room floor and won't be shown until the DVDs are released at the end of the season. As for the Callie/Arizona breakup, it seems really severe considering Capshaw is coming back in a month or two from maternity leave. Why not have Callie decide to stay in Seattle and try to make the long distance thing work?

[helpfulinformationperhaps]

Amber did a Great job! I was disappointed as well that we got no closure between her character and the dad.

And ...She got a mention in TV Guide!
http://www.tvguide.com/News/Matts-TV-Week-1025160.aspx

"Finally, did anyone else get a Buffy the Vampire Slayer vibe watching the medical dramas? First, Amber Benson (Tara) as the estranged daughter of Cristina's patient, and then Nicholas Brendan (Xander) on Practice, scarily effective as Charlotte's mad attacker."

As for Greys Anatomy, I agree with others here that the episode was really poorly written. The lack of closure for Ambers charcter was glaring, and the way the C/A storyline was progressed was exceedingly ham handed and out of character.

Shonda gave the writing assignment of a critcal sweeps episode to a new writer doing his first ever script ! He was not up to the task. He has a blog and you can post him if you like. http://www.greyswriters.com/2010/11/aus ... rying.html Someone should point out the lack of closure for the Roy/daughter story.

When I read through that blog I was struck by this posters comment, which pretty much summed it up for me:

"There are almost no words to describe what you have done to Callie, Arizona, and their relationship.

Sara often speaks of telling their story with "integrity," and what we witnessed tonight was a complete and utter disregard for that.

When Callie and Arizona tried to separate during the final episodes of last season, they did so with the greatest sense of love for each other. The storyline was so much richer, so much more fulfilling because even throughout that seemingly impossible situation, they were written with the kind of care and understanding that comes with knowing who these characters are and what they mean to each other.

Tonight? Tonight was an example of character assassination at its cheapest, hollowest, most contrived level. Plot: need to write Arizona off for a few episodes so Jessica can take her maternity leave. Solution: Throw away, in mere seconds, what it took over forty episodes to build?

The entire episode was clearly written by one who has no understanding of any of the characters on the canvas, but what was just done to Callie and Arizona was one of the most ill-conceived stunts I've seen in a very long time.

Sara and Jessica deserve to work with better material than that. It's disrespectful to what they've built as actors to create, and it's worse than disrespectful to destroy the characters they play.

Posted by: K. | November 04, 2010 at 10:38 PM"

I've been cautiously watching greys for the C/A storyline, but this episode made me want to stop watching. They may not have killed one character and sent the other over the edge of sanity, but what they have done to those characters over the past two episodes (envious, passive agressive callie and cold & totally focused on career Arizona, topped off by that tremdously cruel airport scene has been total character assasination and pretty much ruined this show for me. C/A have a tremedous following and their breakup caused them to trend on twitter for quite a while last thursday.

The sad part is that by the writers trashing the characters, they have given tacit approval to the shows fans who are uncomfortable with the couple, to bash the lesbian (arizona) and the pairing (C/A) as well. It amazes me how strong the undercurrent of resentment for shonda making callie bi is, and how quickly it has come to the surface, in posts across the web.

Perhaps its time for me to turn off the tube and free up an hour on thursday. Anyone know of some good C/A fan fiction?