GREYS ANATOMY - BandAid Covers the Bullet Hole

Umm...Yeah for Teddy Dunn!! Any Veronica Mars exposure I'm over the moon for. Seriously.
Alright...same format...comment from Grey Matter, then reflection...come on now...who doesn't love that??? Note: People weren't commenting on the episode, they were griping about how pointless the blog was. Not that the blog wasn't pointless, it was, but I felt the need to point out that its most likely the only one they get, so back off. I mean, really? I would kill for a VM blog every week. Ah, I should be so lucky. That's what the first part was about. And they actually had the nerve to spell Kane wrong (Cain)...so yeah.

First, a few people have already made this point, but it needs to be heavily stated that the blog is a priviledge, not a right...SERIOUSLY! Get off the writers' backs. How many shows do you watch where you get even that amount of insight to the previous night's show? I'm thinkin' none. We are really lucky to get anything, and props to Teddy (aka Duncan KANE) were in order, and I got that so, I'm happy. And...thats about all the positive criticism you'll be getting from me. I found it intriguing that you're fans of my favorite tiny blonde PI, because if you really did tune in every week, you might learn something about writing in a sophomore season. You are taking too many risks and getting HUGE backlash from it. First season was AWESOME and I am a HUGE fan, but even as well as you're doing, you've got to build a more stable fan base before you take whatever creative risks you want and just say "trust us". First of all, it would be one thing if you didn't claim that you were all about making this show "real" and about real characters or if I didn't dig behind the scenes and simply didn't know about it, but you do, and that makes the fact that everyday you drift more and more away from any type of reality just plain depressing. Bailey bringing her baby to work was explained, yes. The reasons made sense yes, but it would NEVER BE ALLOWED in a real hospital. NEVER. But that isn't even the biggest problem. Next we have the need to rename GA "interns screwing residents/attendings". Again, would never happen. They'd be kicked out in a heartbeat. At least with Derek/Meredith it was addressed as if it might be a problem. Apparently with Yang/Burke it was okay, and I let that slide, but now you want us to believe that George and this new orthopedic resident can have something completely out in the open and thats okay too. Except its not. It too, is completely unrealistic. But thats not the biggest problem either. Izzy/Denny...that's whats infuriating. Its infuriating because you expect us (us being intelligent adult viewers, some with medical knowledge and background) to buy into this ridiculous relationship. The entire storyline is completely unethical. 1) Izzy would never be allowed to get that close to a patient, and when Burke said "you really like him don't you", he would have put a stop to it, only he wouldn't have had to, because, as a doctor, she would have known where the line was. Its ludacris that Alex is the only one that seems to notice the relationship here and/or has a problem with it. 2) She would NEVER be allowed to operate on or even be in the OR with the patient that she is unethically getting so close to. The whole thing is the most far-fetched story I've seen on a drama. I come from a medical family, and I work in a doctor's office/hospital in and around a medical center. You get the technical stuff as right a TV show can get it, but when everything else (ethics, infrastructure, etc) prompts most of the medical community to use the phrase "so fake its insulting", you've got a problem. On to Mer/Der/Add...I'm hugely insulted by the comparison to FRIENDS and Ross/Rachel because while yes, there is a similarity in that they were the couple we pulled for for the duration, when Ross/Rachel were apart, they were genuinely HAPPY, not miserable, and thats what you are making Derek and Meredith and now by extention poor Addison. I don't like her, I'll never like her, but you have successfully made me feel sorry for her. It is completely contradictory and counterproductive in practice to have Derek say he's working on his marriage and 1) never show it and 2) have him do the opposite by allowing himself to grow closer to the woman he loves. Its contradictory in character to have him admit fault and show himself to be genuinely good and then 1) actually not work on his marriage and 2) lie to her/conceal the truth about befriending Meredith. Ross/Rachel's relationship took way more time investing viewers and their initial break up was about 100 years shorter. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. You named an episode that, take your own advice. After reading numerous boards and blog posts and chatting with friends and other Grey's viewers who, like myself, were obsessively dedicated to the show last year, there is a huge consensus and I'm willing to bet that what I'm about to say can be said for not all, but a large part of the GA fanbase. You've got till the end of the season to fix this. Three months is a long time for people to lose interest and a gimmick cliff-hanger won't do it. You guys did amazing work last season and into the first part of this season and it CAN be fixed, but it looks like most people are going to give up if there isn't a drastic difference in the last 7 episodes. Give us back the great show we fell in love with...

Wow. I'm not a nice person. Well, at least when it comes to ruining one of my favorite TV shows. Obviously, the thing that pisses me off the most is the Denny/Izzy thing. The one thing I want to add is, most fans are nuts about Denny and the writers are soaking their panties over him and I don't get it. First of all, from a purely shallow standpoint, I don't find Jeffrey Dean Morgan mildly attractive. Especially when you've got Patrick Dempsey to stare at all day, plus Justin Chambers and Isaiah Washington. The last two aren't necessarily my cup of tea, but I can at least see where people find them attractive. I really think Isaiah Washington is attractive but his character ruins it for me, and if you've seen Justin Chambers act like a nerd in The Wedding Planner for an hour and a half, well, that explains that one, but JDM, I just don't get it. But that's not even why I mostly don't like him. His character is just pathetic. Dude, she's your doctor first of all, and his lines are so corny and he comes off so desperate. Not that I can't see why Izzy is attracted to him, I can, because she sucks too, but seriously, he comes on so strong that its like, dude, how long has it been since a woman has paid attention to you? Is it really necessary that you hit on your doctor? And he doesn't know a thing about her before he starts. The first time he was admitted and Izzy walked in he started listing his qualifications. I don't know who's more pathetic...him for doing it, or Izzy for falling for it. And in this episode I just couldn't take him even more. Was he seriously considering not having a life-prolonging operation just because he doesn't like hospitals? He's a grown man! Get over it! We're talking about an operation that is literally his only chance at living, and he had to think about it. Even on a shallow level he would have known without her having to say it that he'd get to see Izzy more. Come on man. Not cool. I don't like Denny. I'm sorry. And I don't understand why everyone, mainly Izzy just assumes that he's this great guy. All she knows about him, and him her, is what they see of each other when he's in the hospital. How does she know he's not acting for her benefit? How does he know she wouldn't feel differently if he wasn't dying? And yet we're supposed to be over the moon for this relationship that is in no way based in any real setting. Not that it wouldn't work if it was, but there's no way to know that. Okay, so that pisses me off the most, now on to what confuses me the most.

Derek Shepherd. I love you, and I'll never blame you for what the writers are doing to you. Oh how I have a double standard. But his actions are just so confusing. All in one episode, he gets closer to Meredith and is completely devastated that she slept with George, and has a conversation with his wife wherein he admits that he was partly to blame for the disaster of a marriage that they're in and that he's working on it. I wish these writers would let this guy make up his mind. If he's going to focus on his marriage, then fine, do it. If he's going to choose Meredith, then fine, choose Meredith. But its apparent that its not in his character to be so fickle and callous, so what the crap is he doing? If he truly was working on his marriage, then Derek, cut Meredith out. If he feels like there's no hope, then divorce Addie and give her a chance at happiness with someone else so she doesn't have to go have lunch with some old guy waiting for his wife to have a baby. What the crap was that, by the way?? At this point, I feel like the writers are drawing this out for dramatic effect and there is no story to it. We're all just in limbo, knowing this isn't the way its going to be forever. We're not stupid. Get somewhere already. I'm done now. Bye.