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Is a blog useless if I am posting things way after an episode airs? I feel like I still have things to say after the fact. I would like to apologize and I wish I could write about shows right away, but life keeps on interfering. The gr. 10 boys volleyball team I coach lost today. I feel bad because I yell a lot. I hate those type of coaches, which means I hate myself. I started curling yesterday with three of my friends. Our goal is get to the 2010 Winter Olympics representing team Korea. Wish us luck.
Every year, teaching 100 + students means you get a mix of students with different abilities. The students that struggle are the ones that take up most of my time. Sometimes, I feel like a student is so far behind or just doesn't care enough, which almost makes me want to give up on them. But I just can't. I feel like if I can even motivate ONE student or help out with one student, then all the effort I put in will be worthwhile. I can't stop caring about all of my students.
Grey's Anatomy is like one of my struggling students. I am almost want to give up on the show, but I just can't let go. I have invested so much time into it. I understand the show. I can see the potential. I remember the first season of goodness.
But man, is this show really trying to push things.
Let's see:
Meredith and Derek like each other but can't quite get their relationship to work out after fighting over Derek meeting Meredith's half-sister who helps out George who finds himself not only interning again but being caught between Callie, his wife who is the resident chief and Izzie, his best friend that he slept with, who is just over the loss of her lover Denny, yet she had already slept with Karev, who is pining over a girl who he met in the hospital, which mirrors Yang's feelings over losing Burke who left her at the altar, but Yang now has responsibilities which include watching over a new group of interns, one of which is Meredith's half sister.
That last run-on sentence shows how truly stupid the storylines of this show are getting.
This season premiere did nothing to alleviate my concerns:
-No satisfactory explanation is given for why Burke just left. I found his excuse for walking away from the wedding ridiculous.
-George is an intern again and he gets put under Meredith's watch!?! Stupid stupid stupid.
-George and Izzie (Gizzie) are just a terrible match.
-George and Callie are even worse.
-I dislike Callie. I find it so fake that she got the coveted chief spot ahead of so many better candidates.
-Meredith's half-sister is cute. But I have no idea why Meredith couldn't have at least said "hello". Did she really have to just stare at her and then turn around to walk towards McDreamy? What a cow. And really, why did the show make it look like it was some sort of huge choice for Meredith? She couldn't have taken the time to talk to both people?
-Good to know that you can waste a doctor and three interns on reviving a deer. Would Seattle Grace approve of spending money and resources to do that?
-Izzie's Bambi dialogue made absolutely no sense. "I am Bambi" is prime example of the horrid dialogue from week to week.
-Finally, how dare they use the cliche in Meredith's narration "The more things change, the more things stay the same". That is just lazy lazy writing.
I can't stand this show, yet I can't fully tear myself away. I hope that Shondra Rimes can make me care about this show once again. Make me care. Make. Me. Care. Me? Care? Yes, care.
I thought I would drop this show, but I guess, the more things change, the more things stay the same.
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2 comments:
well written post. i especially loved the make me care grey's dialog. :)
i think the whole lack of explaining re:Burke is just another way to screw him (the actor) over. the whole thing, on both sides, seems like it was not handled well, and so this just seems to be continuing in that vein.
McDreamy is the big pull for me so if they hook him up with Lexie or going after someone else, i'm not sure i'll continue watching. it's already a big mess with the George-Callie-Lizzie mess. i have a feeling they are going to go with a Callie pregnancy which will complicate that mess even more. i don't think Lizzie is even that great of an actress (yes, i know she won the Emmy, but gah.) so i hate to think of the long diatribes they'll give her if Callie's knocked up.
and what was up with the Chief's reason for not promoting Miranda - because she'll make a better surgeon? so Callie is a crap surgeon so let's put her in charge? seems like it's just a lame writer's excuse for more conflict.
Such a good call on the Callie over Bailey... what a lame-o excuse from the chief. I like how Miranda was not having any of that crap. Lizzie is not that great of an actress on the show. She was great in Knocked Up, but Katherine Heigl's character is too over the top. Give me the nuanced and hang dog face of Sandra Oh any day.
It would be just too obvious if Lexie and McDreamy go out with each other. Right? Personally I am hoping for a Lizzie-George-Callie-Lexie-Meredith love pentagon, thereby ensuring that George, the biggest stuttering, blinking fool in the world is in fact much more of a stud than McDreamy.
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