I think I may be in a bad mood, but I’m not sure. It may be one of those moods that seems fine, but then after people spend half the day looking at you with that “geez, what’s YOUR deal?” face, you realise that maybe you got up on the wrong side of the planet.
I’ve realised a couple of things in this odd mood of mine. Firstly, Grey’s Anatomy is no longer a show about friends facing life’s problems. It’s now a show about selfish people steamrolling everyone around them in order to get what they want. I don’t think I’m at the place in my life where that can be something I look at for entertainment. I know I said that a few weeks ago, but I really wanted to give them a chance. They were in reruns for so long that I thought perhaps I just hadn’t been fair. Last night’s episode really sat on my stomach like bad meat. The whole ham-handed “penis fish” speech of Izzie’s was bad enough. But Derek breaking it off with Meredith was a slap in the face to the audience that has made this show. Now they’re just jerking us around.
The other thing is that it now occurs to me that Cat Stevens’ “Oh Very Young” is really a depressing song. It’s got a happy little tune, but underneath the happy-jaunty music is a song about how we’re all gonna die and once you get old you don’t care about things anymore so you young people better make a difference. Wow. Bummer City, Cat.
I can thank the writers for one thing: they proved my theory that Skinner got out of Kersh’s office alive. And became a skank.
Otherwise, every little thing you said. My lord my lord. Here’s ladders, children; y’all all get OVER yourselves.
I stopped watching the week before George slept with Izzie. My husband still watches, and he gives me plot summaries, so when he told me that George had slept with Izzie, I thanked the deity of TV watching for letting me stop before I had to observe it. I will watch the pilot for the spin-off next week, but not GA qua GA ever again unless I hear that things have gone back to how they used to be. If there’s a spinoff and it’s well written, and they can get Addison, Callie, and Alex onto it, I’ll watch that. But I suppose it’ll just be more of the same, anyway.
The sad thing is that GA was always a show about selfish, driven steamrollers (well, selfish, driven steamrollers plus Meredith, who was passive-agressive instead), but it viewed them with detachment, plus we were shown reasons — believable reasons — why they were the way they were, and the characters always acted consistently. Now there’s no reason for anything, either in character or in the situation, for anything anyone does, except that the writers think “wouldn’t it be cool if we set up this or that situation?” Except for (at least up to the point where I stopped watching) Addison, Alex, and Callie.
Man, I hate those writers for messing up such a good show.
Yes, but wasn’t the Office hysterical?! I thought nothing could top Jim imitating Dwight until Dwight tried to imitate Jim. I LOVE that show!