Previous week's musical episode

I didn't watch it since I have been watching something else(actually two things by taping one for later) that are on at the same time. But even if I had been watching I probably would not have liked it. It is just copying what other shows have done. The first one I saw was when Xena: Warrior Prince did it and it was good but it is more fitting for a genre like that and not for a drama like Grey's. Also, Buffy: The Vampire Slayer did one after Xena had done it and it worked also. But once again it was more fitting for that genre. So to me Grey's doing it was just an inappropriate copy cat.

Sorry, I only got to see bits and pieces of the show this week. Perhaps, people watched it because they wanted to see how singing would fit in with this show, who could sing, and just plain curiosity. I wish I would have had more time to see it, but I get the impression from your comments that maybe it wasn't so wonderful after all?

I saw it. It was odd, but I didn't expect normal Grey's Anatomy, so I took it for what it was. I cringed a little, but decided to focus more on figuring out which actors could sing. But, the thing with the ratings is, no one knew whether the episode was going to be good or bad until they watched. In my experience, people will watch even a bad episode to the end of a show they watch regularly. They'll only stop midway in an episode if they really hate it or are really bored. So ratings don't really reflect people's opinions of an episode. My guess is one reason most people watched was pure curiosity to see how they'd pull it off. And, some people enjoyed it, some watched out of habit, and some people hated it, but continued to watch to see if it would improve or just to see how bad it could get before the end. It doesn't surprise me that the ratings were high. It was a stunt episode. Even people who thought the idea was crazy probably tuned in just to see what was going to happen. A better way to tell what people's opinions of the episode would be reading comments on blogs and forums. Ratings can only say people watched, not what people thought of the episode while they watched.

I think they made it make sense. The whole singing thing was a hallucination caused by massive head trauma. I think they took a risk and they got high ratings because people were curious about whether or not they'd fail at it. I kind of liked it.