Earlier this year a big brough-ha-ha erupted as Katherine Heigl did not submit her name for Emmy consideration. Upon noticing the omission the Los Angeles Times asked Heigl why?

"I did not feel that I was given the material this season to warrant an Emmy nomination and in an effort to maintain the integrity of the academy organization, I withdrew my name from contention," she tells Gold Derby. "In addition, I did not want to potentially take away an opportunity from an actress who was given such materials."

Some people thought Heigl was doing a good thing and respected the decision, but the majority, such as a commenter at the LA Times believe it was a "pointed slam at the material she was given this season." Rumors Heigl's character would be killed-off in the show's fifth season sprouted up and many bloggers weighed in on how Heigl's ego was getting a bit too big or perhaps Heigl herself was the problem. I wonder what those same people had to say when the show itself wasn't nominated for Outstanding Drama Series. Point being, the season sucked and so did almost everything about it.

I just finished watching the fourth season of "Grey's Anatomy" and anyone that ridiculed Heigl's decision to not nominate herself should be ashamed. As a matter of fact you should be pointing your fingers at every other actor/actress on the show that did nominate themselves outside of Chandra Wilson who plays Miranda Baily. Wilson is the only one that had any kind of material to work with and she knocked it out of the park. This is probably the reason she is nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. Then again, what do the Emmy's know? They also nominated Sandra Oh for her performance as Cristina Yang, easily one of the most hateful individuals ever seen on television.

As a matter of fact, outside of a handful of characters, no one on this show has any redeeming values. Yet, we are meant to feel for them. We are expected to endure 17 episodes of Meredith pining for Shepherd only to have her pull away again and again. Meredith "quits" her shrink too many times to count and then that sappy candlelit finale was awful only because we all know more problems will come up in the very near future. I also read people considered the season finale to be some sort of redemption for Heigl's character. Sorry, guess I missed that, I only saw Alex being a complete asshole while Izzie stood by with a shoulder to cry on. Sorry, that dick would have been punched in the throat if it was me. Oh, and I would have tossed Rebecca (Elizabeth Reaser) in a ditch while I was at it.

What's worse is the continuing book-ending of each episode with the Meredith voice over. I know the show is called "Grey's Anatomy", but that sappy bullshit she keeps spouting off is just that, sappy. It doesn't add anything to quality of the episode and only gets more and more annoying as you watch. This show is no longer, and never really was, all about Meredith Grey. Keep the name of the show and ditch the voice over. Please!

Anyone interested in the special features on either the DVD or Blu-ray editions I am sorry I didn't watch any of them, but I can tell you what you will get.

The first featurette is "New Docs on the Block" centering on Dr. Hahn (a character that would be best serve the audience as road kill), Lexie Grey (Meredith's half-sister that is just about as dumb as Simple Jack) and Nurse Rose (actually a mildly decent supporting character). Then you can follow Patrick Dempsey and Eric Dane as they walk around on location in Seattle. It's shocking to think any of this was shot here in Seattle, because to live here and see this show you would never have guessed it outside of the establishing shots.

One feature I should have watched was "Favorite Scenes" as they talk to the cast about their favorite scenes from the fourth season. If they can actually come up with anything I would be shocked. There are deleted scenes, bloopers and the episode "Forever Young" is extended and includes an audio commentary as to a couple of other episodes.

The DVD is equipped with 5.1 Dolby Digital audio and the Blu-ray comes with 5.1 Uncompressed audio, both are offered in 1.78:1 widescreen format to fit your 16:9 television.

In closing, I recommend you never watch this season and wouldn't blame you for never watching another episode and throwing away all of your previous season DVD sets. After watching the third season I was still convinced things wouldn't be all that bad, but it appears the ditching of Isaiah Washington was a bigger blow to this show than anyone could have expected. Don't blame anything on Katherine Heigl, the problems with this show are the writing and the writing alone. You can hope it gets better, but unless they put out an employment search I can't imagine the same writers have anything left in the well.