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Don’t be fooled by the heart thumping, bass heavy commercials that make season four look like the most bad-assed, shocking season ever. It isn’t.

For a show that killed the best male character to date, nearly killed the title character (a few times), actually did kill her (if only for a few seconds – she drowned under the weight of her emo “issues”), blew up a fairy boat, shot a main character and held two weddings, season four blew in such a way that the words “jump” and “shark” come to mind.

Season four can be summed up in one word: emo. Derek (Patrick Dempsey) and Meredith (Ellen Pompeo)– again? Not again? Christina (Sandra Oh) is left at the alter and subsequently grouses for a season (and not in the good, bite-me way of season one), Bailey’s (Chandra Wilson) marriage is falling apart. George (T.R. Knight) and Callie (Sara Ramirez) are having issues (but not babies), and Izzie (Katherine Heigl)  is in love with George, who failed the intern exam and has to repeat his intern year. Alex (Justin Chambers) can’t decide to be in love with Ava who has gone a little (well, a lot) nutty. Meredith’s little sister, Lexie (Chyler Leigh) is an intern at Seattle Grace.

Blame it on the writer’s strike. Blame it on Isiah Washington, who can’t keep his bigoted mouth shut. The ongoing plot of season four just blew, and if it hadn’t been for a few random guest appearances (most notably Seth Green, who really just stole the show, if only for two episodes), season four wouldn’t have been worth watching at all. Can you blame Katherine Heigl for not wanting to toss her name in the Emmy hat this season?

I have a theory on how to fix the show. Can Pompeo and call it Yang’s Anatomy. Bring back the Christina from season one, and introduce Denny’s long lost twin brother, Denny. Let McDreamy and McSteamy get caught up in a gay romance and then kill them off. Hire Nathan Fillion as a gynecologist (he can do it! He played one in Waitress and Desperate Housewives!). We can call him McTightpants. Make Callie a lesbian and hook her up with anyone but Hahn (possibly Hahn could die in the same tragic accident that takes out Sloan and Shepherd). And let Justin Chambers take his shirt off in every surgery. It’s about as realistic as the show is now, but hey, it would be better.

Bonuses on the DVD include extended episodes (kinda fun), deleted scenes, outtakes, some commentary, a couple of short featurettes (“New Doc on the Block” and “On Set with Patrick and Eric”) as well as a collection of fav scenes.

Seriously (to use the show’s once fun now overdone catchphrase), give Sandra Oh more to do – she’s an amazing actress. Get rid of all the emo, and bring the show back to the funny, sexy feel that made it such a smash hit. Then maybe season four can be forgotten and we can move on.

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