GREYS ANATOMY - Meredith & George (aka awkward sexual hell)

Okay...I'm going to address the complete George and Meredith hookup here, even though it actually happened in 'Yesterday' because that post was already too long, and it just seems to warrant a whole section all by itself. And well, thats just a luxury I have when I go back and contemplate things in hindsight.
Okay...thats a lie, the hindsight part I mean. At least for this next rant. I actually pulled this from my comment to Krista Vernoff on the Grey's blog that I wrote right after the episode. I'll throw some fresh perspective in though. Think of it as a then and now.

I think I am in the minority regarding Meredith. 1) I DON'T think the scenario was a gimmick...but I do think it was forced. Given most of last season, it was definitely something you could have worked with, but you needed to lead into it. I only watched as far back as "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" but thats far enough...George's actions came out of nowhere. This season he has been slowly accepting a friendship with Meredith - to the point where he joked to her (and Izzy) about sex at the end 'Break On Through' and all of a sudden, he's back to awkward obsessive George. We had gotten used to seeing this sweet, more confident, completely-comfortable-around-Meredith George, and suddenly we've regressed to last season. No continuity. 2) I DON'T think Meredith is the one who took advantage. (I'm sorry, I'm not on the 'Meredith is whiny/she sucks/kick her off the show' bandwagon...I LOVE HER) I understand the fact that George was/is unaware of what's going on with her Dad, BUT not only is he aware, but he acknowledged, when she chose the dog over him, that she is going through a really hard time. He understands that her life is in a turmoil right now. Now, since that conversation, she not only had a near-death experience and watched a man die, but her ex-boyfriend's wife's ex-boyfriend came to town, drudging up those old wounds. I don't care what he didn't know. He knew enough to know that she was in no state to hear that crap. He took advantage. He had no right to walk in there and demand that she listen to him say those things, one of which was that he'd never hurt her, which he IS going to do just by the chain of events he is setting in motion. I love George as a doctor, but he needs to be able to move on without Meredith's help...she's not responsible for how he feels and rejection is a part of life.

Yeah alright, I'm not going to change much. I'm actually going to stand by every word I said. It actually gets my blood up just reading it again. Krista added another post about the same episode where she added more justification by arguing the point that "we all" have slept with someone where we've regretted it the next morning. Well I'm not sure who "we all" is supposed to be referring to, but its not me, and I'm sure many more people haven't done it either. What I think a more accurate assessment would be, is that we've all either had a crush on a friend that was out of our reach, or we've been the crushee who just couldn't develop those feelings no matter how nice the guy was or how much we wanted to. While I'm sure not everyone has been in that situation, I guarantee the number is a hell of a lot higher than regretting a one night stand gone awry. The thing is...the writers are trying to argue that the only way for the crusher to move on and get over the crushee is to have some sort of sexual encounter, and thats simply not true. Like I wrote in the comment...rejection is a part of life. Personally, I've been both the crusher and the crushee and I can personally vouch for the fact that in neither situation did anything happen and I have moved on, and so has the guy who had a crush on me. Strange how that happened. Not only is this line of thought erroneous, but as I pointed out in the Grey Matter comment, they have contradicted themselves in storyline. George had already begun to move on from Meredith and then out of nowhere they put him right back in the thick of it with no reasoning at all. How he acted in 'Yesterday' can be most compared to the pilot, and he pined for her up until he found out she was with Derek. From then until right up to the sexual hell, he grew into a healthy, confident good friend. And they've trashed basically half a season with this crap.