Letters to the Editor
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Icky Izzie
Nice commentary on the season wrap-up, but I feel like there is a component missing--maybe it's just me, I don't know. But does anyone else out there really REALLY hate the Izzie-George plot??? GOD. I, for one, really hate it. I mean to say I find it not only irritating but disgusting. And cheap--it's a cheap trick, making up for this season's lack of sexual tension between Mer and Derek by inventing this perverted affair. Izzie, I wish SHE would just die. Her doe-eyed diatribes make me nauseous. And for God's sake, it was the other roommate that George was in love with from the beginning--not Izzie. It just doesn't make sense.
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The new intern named Grey
I believe she is Meredith's half sister.
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Burke isn't a "hard man"...
...he's a "heart man". I think that speech makes a lot more sense if you correct that. And Lexi Grey is definitely Meredith's half sister.
Other than those things, I'm with you on this wrap up.
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Bad Choice
I'm soooooooooooooo glad I chose to give CSI my 9pm Thursday timeslot instead of this dreck.
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competely agree on the izzie factor
The character this year is even worse than i thought could be believed. I was hoping that the writers could turn it around with the only resolution that makes sense to me. Izzie realizes that she's not in love with George (who has been her surrogate brother since day 1) but that she is just reaching out to someone safe and comfortable because she recovering from the Denny-disaster of last season. Or that she's been taken over by aliens. That's really the only other explanation that I'd accept for this ruinous storyline. Especially when there was so much potential between George and Callie. Too bad Shondra turned has turned the once fiery Callie into a silly idiot.
And I adore Kate Walsh. Since I can't marry her...can I be her? I'm sure my husband would not mind.
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"I'm a HEART man"
Not "I'm a HARD man". But I heard it wrong at first too.
Love your columns!
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Cristina's post-wedding breakdown
I don't think it was half-relieved at all. She realizes all at once that she is free from the maddening forces of conformity and compromise that came with being with Burke, but that the cost of that freedom is being completely alone.
TV shows these days try to slather irony onto everything, but this one is particularly well-constructed. She gets what she wants, only to find it wasn't what she wanted at all.
Cristina has been terrified of trust, dependence and vulnerability--of what she would lose in a relationship. Now Burke and that pressure are gone, and she expects to feel relieved. But instead she is horrified to find that she is still haunted by the specter of loss; this time it's the loss of what might have been--a new Cristina.
Alex, of course, is in a parallel story with Eva. He also is given the opportunity to take a terrifying turn in his life, to risk becoming a different, and perhaps better, person. And his realization is also too late.
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Lexie Grey
Lexie is Meredith's other half sister from her dad and Susan's marriage. Remember when they were waiting for Susan's surgery to be done he began speaking about his other daughter who is finishing her first year at med school and he says how difficult it is, and then he comments to Meredith "but you know that."
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Burke and Christina
Great observations. It seemed that Burke left Chritina at the altar, however.
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Guilty Addiction
I have a guilty addiction to Grey's Anatomy. I think it is a pervasively stinky show and yet, I keep watching it. . . .
This has not been a good year for Grey's. George and Izzie--nope, doesn't ring true. Friendship did--erotic love, nope. Also, frankly, sleeping with Izzie months after he got married doesn't ring true with George's character. Izzy sleeping with George months after losing her one true love (is there such a thing) because she accidentally killed him doesn't ring true either.
Derek and Meredith? Never quite saw the attraction there, either. Both are self absorbed and unable to see that anyone else is in the world. I've known people like that, but usually they hook up with co-dependent enabling types who will adore them just the way they are. There really aren't even any sparks between them this year now that they're together.
Don't get me started with Meredith's "fall" off the wharf and her miraculous recovery that had her back at work in a matter of days. What is the term--"jumping the shark"?
This season just hasn't been very good.
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Maybe the newest "Grey" will take over for Meredith
Maybe Meredith can die and do voice-over, ala Housewives, and the new Grey can seduce all the McDoctors.
I just can't handle her or Izzie anymore - why are they so fickle anyway? I mean George and Izzie just don't make it as a couple, and Meredith just drives everyone away. George and Callie are a much more interesting couple.
What happened to the clinic that Izzie paid for, anyway? I mean, she might be a little bit interested in it - maybe meet someone outside the GA clique. She's just too beautiful and complex for George, and he's too wishy-washy for her. (From last night's episode, is George going to become a male nurse? A stay-at-home Dad?)
I think the producer should being in some male writers to add some testosterone to the Mc-whatevers - these are surgeons and I can't believe how they act around these women, who are mere interns. How 'bout some arrogance?? (The ER staff would kick butt over these guys.)
I wish Kate Walsh well in her new show (although the pilot sucked bigtime) - she and Christine were the only believable female doctors on this show.
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What about Bailey!
Seriously, I'm ok with all of it. The drama, the repeated plot devices, the angst (oh, LOVE the angst).
The biggest failure of the season finale was in its disservice to Bailey.
The build-up to chief intern has been a sub-plot for weeks now. When we finally discover that Bailey loses to Callie--the payoff is completely dumped. Sure, it makes sense to mess with us because we *expect* Bailey to take the position. But at least let us know *why*.
And because so many of us are over the "we've all had sex with each other" plot repetitions, Bailey may be the one character we all still fiercely love.