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[astralis]

I am a sad, sad person. I am sitting here continually refreshing my flist and the episode thread for "Desire" over at TWoP's Grey's forum because I am just that desperate to find out what happened tonight. This afternoon. Whenever. Time differences screw with my head.

But, anyway, last night's Grey's - here, at least.

"I couldn't sleep so I stayed up all night baking and cleaning the bathroom floor in case George wants to lay down on it." Oh, Izzie. Sometimes I still love you.

"I don't know how to exist in a world where my father doesn't." Oh, George.

"I did want a baby." Oh, Addie.

This was an oh, everybody sort of episode. They even made me come thisclose to liking Burke, Meredith, Derek and Mark. There is something wrong about that.



And "Desire", based entirely on the posts that have started appearing at TWoP, because I really need to get ready for work:

Sounds like they've done more damage to Alex and Addie than they would have done had they just dropped the damn storyline entirely and pretended it never happened. My ship. My characters.

And I used to think the CSI writers were on crack.



ETA: More on Desire

Dear Shonda Rhimes

I don't like you.

Me.


But, seriously. They built up this thing between Alex and Addie and then they just trampled all over it in great big concrete-soled boots with giant nails sticking out of the bottom. And they trampled over Addie's heart (yes, okay, fictional character) and the hearts of everyone who's ever invested anything in Alex or Alex/Addison.

Oh, my girl.

I would rather they'd dropped the storyline altogether than done this. We couldn't have some nice sex and then rational discussion about how it's a bad time because he's an intern and she's an attending and maybe he's not ready to give her what she wants, and then Addie goes trotting off to the spin-off to get her head back together and her life on track again. No, we couldn't possibly have someone on Grey's Anatomy acting like an adult. I get that Derek is Shonda's prince and Addie is the devil woman (he shaved his beard for her!) who cheated on him and therefore must be punished but she didn't deserve that. Maybe Alex was freaking out. Maybe he doesn't think he's good enough for her. But God forbid there actually be communication.

That was Alex Karev circa season one in that last scene. Not the Alex who'd notice if Addie went missing, who put a huge dent in his chances of ever becoming a plastic surgeon by buying Sloan a vanilla latte just because he was rude to Addie, who, okay, didn't exactly let her down gently in the supply closet that time, but who managed to behave like an adult (or something close to, high school with scalpels and all that).

Well, because Meredith occasionally gets something right: De Nile. It's not just a river in Egypt. It's a freaking ocean.

I think I'll just disregard everything that happens post Great Expectations and watch just for the pretty people. And then, when Addie goes, maybe I will too.

Comments

[meredith44]

Word again to the majority of your post. (And, yes, it took me this long to get from your last post to this one on my flist. Hence why I rarely comment/am caught up.) I mentioned most of the Desire stuff that I wanted to mention in my previous comment (and I'm really trying to do that denial thing), so I'll just make some comments on your reaction to the good earlier episode.

I think the juxtaposition of these two episodes in your post is a good example of what's wrong with GA right now. In the first episode, they were all banding together. Plus, the characterization seemed pretty good to me: Izzie wasn't all about her, Christina showed compassion without being soft, etc. In addition to that, the episode managed to tug at my heartstrings without resorting to anvils and majorly contrived situations. It wasn't even George's Dad's death that got to me. My tears started flowing during the Cristina/George conversation.

Then, of course, in later episodes, the characters completely regressed and became one-dimensional and the events were all manufactured to try to create the most drama possible. (I'm not going there, really. I'm trying not to think too much about it.)

I'm with you in that I don't think I'll be watching when Addison leaves. If TPTB manage to redeem Alex themselves with the last few episodes of this season and the first of the next, maybe I'll continue watching. Otherwise, I'll probably just stick to the spin-off. Until they screw that one up as well. *sigh*

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It seems like everything started going more rapidly downhill after the ferry arc and Meredith's near death experience - plot, characterization, all those good things. I can't think how they (the writers) can fail to see what they're doing, but every writer's blog is just... smug, almost. Self-congratulatory. But they're making a hideous mess of a great show with great characters. I never thought I'd see the day George would become unlikable.

As for the spin-off, yeah, I'm sure they'll screw that up sooner rather than later. And it bugs me, because Kate Walsh is brilliant and it's about time she got recognised, but I just don't think they know what they're doing with Addison any more.

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