Did you see it happen? Oy. I’ve never blogged TV before, but this one is so bad I can’t help myself.
I’m not proud to admit I’ve been addicted to Grey’s Anatomy for a couple of seasons now. In my defense, hubby was my dealer. He forced me to watch this in return for Ugly Betty, which he always wanders away from.
YEAH. My husband got me addicted to a steamy medical soap opera. That is so great.
Anyway, we awaited the season premiere with great anticipation. George is dead! He has to be – they aren’t going to keep him on there all disfigured, duh. Who cares – his character actually left the show fifteen episodes ago. And Izzy! Please tell us that nitwit is dead, too!
No such luck.
So from there it was all downhill in a big danged hurry. I had to fast-forward through Torres’ psychic break in the first minute of the episode, and then her freak-out at the chief? I thought she was a highly educated professional and a trust fund baby, not a gutter rat. Totally out of character. And Izzy is going to just linger on with a rare fatal cancer? Oh, brother. Talk about a pigeon-holed character.
Never piss off the writers. You’ll end up in a coma, or without a head.
-Moral of the story, Soapdish
That’s what you get, Heigl, for being such a moron.
My main complaint? All the characters sound like the same person. They all use the same repeating speech patterns. Normal people don’t speak this way – much less fifteen people who all work together.
Come on, writers! Enough already! After the tenth agonizingly long dramatic monologue that sounded like a skipping CD, I was ready to throw my remote at the screen. It’s like they know the show is gasping it dying breath, and they’re all too busy updating their resumes to write anything worthwhile.
We’re thinking of turning this into a Tuesday night drinking game. Every time a character does that weird repeating thing, take a drink. Score!
Yawn. I hope they get back to what works soon.
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Don’t watch medical dramas. Either too much like real life, or too much not like real life.
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You don’t watch House?! But. But.
If I had been a physician I don’t know that I could, either.
GA is incredibly stupid, as far as realism goes. In what hospital in the world do you have 20 surgeons on staff, just all standing around all the time?
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I love Grey’s (and House and Bones.) I purposefully scheduled my cable/internet to be set up the DAY I moved into my new apt so I wouldn’t miss the premier and then, THEN the box stopped working. I was a teensy bit ticked. Anyway, I watched online and really hope it’s hospice time for Izzie, and this Bailey turning into a softie bit is really starting to tick me off. Either way, I will watch it until the end and record the repeats on Lifetime.
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I love the books that inspired Bones, but I haven’t ever watched the show.
Tell me what you think when you get to the end of the episode. I like Cristina’s last scene & the 2 final scenes with Lexie Gray (her scene alone with Torres & her last scene) – and that is all.
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I liked when Alex said the, you made me love you bit. That was sweet.
I like Hunt and Yang in therapy and the ceviche part, that was funny.
Lexie just keeps growing on me, so does Arizona.
Oh, and McSteamy is still really, really hot.
Merging, really? Weird.
I love House. I love to hate him. He’s such a prick.
But, I can’t wait for Lost to start again. Now THAT is an edge-of-your-seat type of show.
Boo-yah.
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Did you see the first episode of House? I loved it.
Have never watched Lost, though I have some addicted friends. One who saw one episode, then went out & bought all the previous seasons and got nothing else accomplished for a week. It was SO bad that she had the portable DVD player and was watching while she waited for her kids to get out of school (at that school you had to park 20-30 mins in advance or else spend an hour slogging through traffic). LOL – I’m too afraid to start watching it now. XD
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I wrote a scathing post about Grey’s a couple of years ago, you wouldn’t believe the hate mail I got from people who had never read my blog.
I found that post, WT! And it was SPOT ON. We fast-forward through that rubbish – actually we started watching long after the point where you saw it. There hasn’t been much of that “I don’t know who you are but let’s screw” but I still think it’s a ridiculous show. It isn’t even making fun of itself like Ugly Betty, which at least has the good graces to know how stupid it is and have fun with the stupidity.
My husband thinks they jumped the shark when Callie went gay. I think he’s just disappointed.
The previews for next week made me roll my eyes. Maybe I’ll sit by hubby and play Age of Empires next Thursday.
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You would be drunk soon, if you did that ;o)
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I explained the Torres blow-up to myself – she still loves George and that’s what the shock did to her. The Izzy thing…I hope the character will get better since they spared her. A good thing for the writers is that they can ax her anytime they want to – she has cancer…Yup, I’m addicted to GA as well
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I hated that the mom asked Torres to choose about George’s organs. Give. Me. A. Break.
That’s so true – the writers can kill Izzy any old time they want. So funny. Girl better not badmouth them anymore! Oh, no! The whats-its are growing again! Gah!
Jeffrey Anderson: [as Dr. Randall] And I’m afraid the results are very disturbing. It seems that Angelique has a rare case of brake fluid…
[pause]
Jeffrey Anderson: Bran… fluid. Bran flavor.
Burton White: What the hell?
David Barnes: [offstage] Brain fever!
Edmund Edwards: [offstage, loudly] Say it!
Celeste Talbert: [as Maggie] Brain fever!
Jeffrey Anderson: [as Dr. Randall] Yes. Brain fever. Or what we call in Austria…
[they both goggle at the word]
Jeffrey Anderson: Kopfgeschlagen. At the current rate of inflation, her brain will laterally explore the…
Celeste Talbert: [as Maggie] Literally explode?
Jeffrey Anderson: [as Dr. Randall] Exactly, within the next three houses.
Celeste Talbert: [as Maggie] Hours?
Jeffrey Anderson: [as Dr. Randall] Yes, will literally explode within next three hours. I would suggest leaving the restraint.
Celeste Talbert: [as Maggie] Restaurant?
Jeffrey Anderson: [as Dr. Randall] Restaurant, yes.
Celeste Talbert: [as Maggie] Her brain will actually explode?
Jeffrey Anderson: [as Dr. Randall] Yes, yes, I’ve, um, seen it happen. It’s a dreadful, dreadful thug. Thing.
Oh, sorry. More soap dish. I need to go do something else. I’m cracking myself up over here & I’m sure no one else is amused.
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Hubby watches House. I love Hugh Laurie (have since Blackadder–who knew the guy could actually ACT?), but the show is so unbelievable that I just can’t watch.
Every week he almost kills the patient, instead of doing a ten cent test to see if what he’s doing will work without killing the patient. Then he has a nearly miraculous “idea”, which either: 1) we’ve been screaming at the TV for 48 minutes, or 2) NO ONE would ever guess (needles in the brain from an infanticide attempt–give me a break–and this is AFTER she had an MRI that didn’t turn her brain into scrambled eggs).
And then there are the 400 million ethical violations. Not to mention the vicodin addiction (and it’s attendant prescription fraud) which would have gotten his license pulled back in 1964.
House was at it’s best in that first season, when he was in the clinic and forced to deal with the idiots who came in. He got to say the stuff we always wanted to. Loved it when he explained to a preggers lady that she had a parasite in her uterus (Don’t worry. People tend to get attached to their parasites. They even start arranging playdates…)
Just can’t watch it anymore.
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They have really gotten into a rut:
–Patient presents with weird symptoms that seem to go away or patient doesn’t want to stay at hospital for (pick your reason).
–Symptoms get worse – don’t go to Princeton Hospital! Your symptoms WILL get worse as soon as House tries to blow you off! You might as well go to Derry, Maine trying to avoid the supernatural. DUMB.
–Patient continues to worsen as House tries increasingly dumb things and/or the other doctors try things on patient without House’s permission.
–Patient comes 10 seconds from death when House has an epiphany based on some other random thing that Wilson and/or Cuddy says. Patient is saved.
Yeah, okay. That part of it is getting boring. I really liked House in the mental institution, though. I’m hoping his new-found happiness (if he wasn’t just playing them – SIGH) will jazz up the show a bit.
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PS – I haven’t been able to leave a comment on your blog for a couple of weeks now. It always times out. I’m sure you saw the multi-comment thing where it was only taking my first line & all that. Then the next two posts – it times out every single time, can’t post a thing.
I’m assuming you haven’t black-listed me. Ahem. Right?
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I’m having trouble with it, too. I think Intense Debate may be about to take a hike.
The Mother´s last blog …Karma is a Bitch
Yesterday after I told you about it, I was able to leave a comment no problem!
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