Grey's Anatomy: Remember when it was good?

Seriously, remember when Thursday night everything stopped for an episode of Grey's Anatomy? When the drama between Christina and Burke was so thick nothing else seemed to matter? When you actually gave a damn about what happened to Meredith and Derek?

Then, there was the dismantling. The removal of Isaiah Washington and thus, the end of Christina and Burke. Kate Walsh leaving Seattle Grace to launch the insanely pathetic Private Practice spin-off. Ellen Pompeo did something to her face and she was no longer remotely interesting to watch. And Katherine Heigl and T.R. Knight got really, really annoying, on and off camera.

As the producers and writers spend the summer months trying to write themselves out of a season finale that left two major characters on the brink of death and the others kind of not doing anything interesting, I propose the following to breath life back into the show:

• Bring back Burke. The reintroduction of Washington's character would lend the show some much-needed dramatic gravitas and provide for an interesting set of complications now that Christina has moved on with that guy who was in HBO's Rome.
• Kill George and Issie. They spend the last season not doing much, and we hate them and rather Seattle Grace find interns we actually care about.
• Fix Ellen Pompeo's face. Okay, that was just mean. But seriously, the Meredith Derek thing is stale. Her family dramas were much more interesting.
• Let Bailey get her groove back. Why hasn't this powerhouse actress been given a romantic storyline. She's getting a divorce, so she needs to now have some fun. Give her an intern or two to play with. That might be fun.
• Let some patients live. E'rbody been dying this season. Don't they remember that Deny's story was interesting because they gave him room to grow as a character before killing him (ditto with the crazy chick who had to get a new face). Bring some folks on. Let em hang a little bit, then kill 'em in sweeps. We'll appreciate it.