Gray Grey’s

i have watched grey’s anatomy from the beginning. i have seen every episode of every season and haven’t been this disappointed yet. For 3 seasons viewers have been waiting for McDreamy and Meredith to be happy and together. why, after only a few episodes of them being together, are they already trying to pull them apart again? this is the thing about television writers that i don’t like. they love to mess with the lives of our favorite characters. mcdreamy and meredith deserve one season of non-threatening relationship drama. take christina and burke for example, for almost the entire show these two have been together. we have watched them overcome obstacles and fall madly in love with one another. yes they have their drama but i don’t think i’ve watched one episode of grey’s and actually feared that christina and burke might brake up. you just sort of know that they will work out whatever problem they have in the end and surprise surprise they always do. but meredith and derek can’t ever get that kind of a break. i understand the whole dramatic effect that television needs but why not mess with burke and christina? why not give them something worry about instead of meredith and derek all the time. it just gets to the point where it’s not dramatic anymore between them it’s just old. i think it would better serve the writers to focus on christina and burke or even focus more on the addison/alex/mcsteamy love triangle (that only lasted like 2 episodes - there was such a build up of addison and alex and with in like 3 minutes they did it and alex was an ass and that was that). I just don’t like what the writers are choosing to focus on. The battle for chief is a great idea but why put derek and meredith’s relationship in the middle of that. i know it creates conflict but derek is the romance guy. he’s the one that does the right thing, that treats meredith right and takes care of her and suddenly he’s throwing away everything he’s done to get her back in order to be chief? the mcdreamy that i know would never do that, it just simply wouldn’t matter. if it came down to chief or meredith derek would chose the girl - mark would chose chief, even burke, but not derek. it’s just not in his character to do that. so why are the writers doing this to him?
after asking myself these questions over and over again i decided that maybe i was missing something. something from one of the previous seasons that i just didn’t remember. maybe derek was extremely work oriented like burke and i just forgot because i wanted him to be with meredith so badly. so i went back and re-watched the second season. i was right. derek is not the man the writers are making him out to be. yes his work is important to him but they’ve always made it seem more enjoyable for him instead of a job. his relationships were what he put most of his energy into - addison, mark, meredith, etc. but now suddenly he’s all about the job and burke is all about wedding cakes. i dont understand why the writers are messing with the dynamics of the characters but they shouldn’t. they need to let the characters be what they are and create drama somewhere other than meredith and mcdreamy. people are starting to get tired of meredith and mcdreamy and if the show is going to be successful for a long period of time then they have to focus more on the other characters in the cast.
I also have a problem with the izzy george relationship but that would need to be a whole other blog in itself.
I fear the worst for Grey’s. Please don’t ruin a good thing!

Not Lost

recently, since every show i decide to watch ends up getting canceled, i decided to start watching LOST. it has been said that if you haven’t watched LOST from the beginning there is no point in trying to start watching it now. I have to disagree because I have never seen the first season, or the second, or the beginning of the third. I started watching this show about two episodes into the third season and for the most part understand what’s going on. Now there’s a good chance that’s because I have someone that watches it with me who has seen the whole series, but I don’t think that’s the only reason. Frequently, throughout the show they do a sort of recap when talking to other characters. For example, on the most recent episode, Claire gets really sick and Juliet has to save her. The whole time they are talking about a previous character that died, Ethan. They explain that before Claire had her baby, she was kidnapped by Ethan and tests were done on her but she doesn’t remember much of anything. Juliet reveals that what they were actually doing was helping her so that she could give birth (because no other woman on the island has been able to give birth). Even though i hadn’t seen any of the past stuff they were talking about and I didn’t know who Ethan was, I still picked up on what was going on through their dialog. So the point I’m trying to make is that serial dramas like Lost are not impossible to jump into mid-way through, you just have to pay attention. I think this aspect makes serial dramas more appealing because the viewer gets the intense, seriousness and complex story of the serial drama but also has the opportunity to leave and come back as long as they’re willing to pay close attention to the dialog to figure out what’s going on. It’s actually a lot like a soap opera in the sense that there is always a lot going on so it’s easy to get lost but easy to pick back up too. I’ve always thought that about serial dramas, they’re the day time of night time, so why do so many audiences feel like it’s impossible to join in on a long running serial drama? I’m really glad that I gave Lost a shot because it really is a great show, and I’m definitely not lost.

What happened to Studio 60?

Canceling Studio 60 was probably a great idea but I didn’t support it. The show itself wasn’t that great but for some reason I loved it. I think one reason behind that was the casting. Aaron Sorkin wrote an ok show but whoever was in charge of casting it did a fabulous job. Matthew Perry, Amanda Peet, Bradley Whitford, D.L. Hughley, Steven Webber, Timothy Busfield and Sarah Paulson are all great actors cast in a mediocre show, which is disappointing because with a cast this good the show could have been great. This brings me to another disappointment, Aaron Sorkin. This guy is a great writer so why crap out now? He had such great success with The West Wing and A Few Good Men, even Sports Night was good but under appreciated, so why half ass the next one? I had high hopes for this show especially after the pilot, which i thought was GREAT. It did everything that a good pilot needs to do: gave the audience something to look forward to, had relatable drama (the Matt and Harriet relationship) and outlandish drama (Danny’s cocaine problem and the firing of the executive producer), a killer opening monologue and a great conclusion that left you anxiously awaiting the previews for the next week. The show’s momentum fluctuated until the last 2 episodes, when Matt started popping pills and having made up flash backs, when it crashed and burned. Sorkin also completely blew the Danny Jordan relationship. The idea was great but the execution sucked. At first he made Danny look like a psycho stalker, and then when he stopped that and started being kind of cute and funny (like having big name directors and actors send Jordan a recommendation letter for him) Jordan was unnecessarily mean to him. After a way too long courtship Jordan gave in and the two were happy for…like a minute. By the next episode Jordan was being annoying and Danny was rolling his eyes, which indicated an a soon to be break up. The same goes for the Harriet and Matt relationship. As soon as you thought that maybe they were on the road to recovery they fell apart, and over something SO STUPID. This constant back and forth in such a short amount of time made it almost seem like Sorkin couldn’t decide where he wanted this show to go. In the middle of the season the show went on a break, which in cases like Heros, can be a good thing, but in this case it did not help. The show pre-break was great (it even got a Golden Globe Nomination) but post-break it tanked. The first half was completely different than the second half. All of the drama that was great during the first half morphed into this stupid string of obnoxious and exhausting melodramas. I was really looking forward to the Monday night line up of Heros and Studio 60 but I think NBC got it right when they axed the Sunset Strip in favor of The Black Donnelly’s. I just hope that Paul Haggis will prove to be more successful than Sorkin so that I don’t have to have to write about three different shows for every blog.