5 things I hate about Grey’s Anatomy
Posted in English section, Toate articolele, Topuri on 15 October 2009
They’re not big but they’re enough to make me hate this crap! And yes I watched it for a while, decided I hate it, and have since stopped watching it.
The Goddamn Voice Overs
They say that first impressions are important. Well in this case it doesn’t much matter because Grey’s manages to botch the first impressions AND the last impressions with those annoying, repetitive, pseudo-intelectual voice overs that pass for deep insightful thoughts these days. My problem with the voice overs is that nothing is really being said. Voice overs are supposed to let us inside a characters head right,let you in on things that can’t be expressed through dialogue (one might say because of the writer’s lack of ability) but in Grey’s they are delivering stuff that is pretty much obvious, saying the same thing over and over again, and presenting normal thoughts and feelings like being somehow SPECIAL just because the human beings in question are surgeons. Case in point:
“No-one likes to lose control…”
No duh!
“but as a surgeon there’s nothing worse.”
Do tell.
“It’s a sign of weakness, of not being up to the task.”
Sounds like the case for oh I don’t know… every profession ever.
“And still there are times when it just gets away from you.”
Where did it go?
“When the world stops spinning…”
Oh shit…
“and you realize that your shiny little scalpel isn’t gonna save you.”
When does it ever?
“No matter how hard you fight it, you fall.”
What the fuck does that have to do with control? It sounds more to me like you’re bitching that you don’t know shit.
“And it’s scary as hell.”
If you think it’s scary for you, think of the pacient.
“Except there’s an upside to freefalling.”
The pacient dies and goes to heaven to play Guitar Hero with Elvis?
“It’s the chance you give your friends to catch you.”
So the fact that you fuck up is good because your friends will look better than you? WHAT ABOUT THE FUCKING PACIENT!??!?
The emotional baggage
Look, I have a job, like everybody else. And sure, there are days when I’m bothered by something and maybe I spend a tad to much time at the water cooler talking about my emotional problems with my co-workers but you know what. I don’t do that shit… every single fucking day. I don’t let my personal crap monopolize my attention every day. Now I understand it’s hard for these interns to focus on actually learning something when the object of their affection is standing 1 metre next to them but that’s what you get when you screw each other (in the workplace) over and over like some big family of inbreds that can’t get a break on eHarmony.
Case in point
The first episode Lexie is introduced. Big car accident. Patients flooding the ER room. babies are crying. Models are throwing up in the bathroom. It’s pandemonium and Meredith is trying to get a handle on the situation. Lexie comes in and picks THAT EXACT MOMENT, to tell Meredith that she’s the sister daddy wanted. Bitch, people are like dying here, could you not add your own emotional issues to the drama already unfolding?
The sex
Now I don’t mind the sex in the hospital, but they are certainly taking it to extremes, aren’t they? These interns are either over-sexed or under-sexed and complain about it daily. They go from no sex, to too much sex, to sex with ghosts/crazy people. Some of them even turn bi-sexual so they can have DOUBLE the sex.
The so called professionalism
Miranda Bailey and The Chief. God I hate these characters. Because they are supposed to represent the true figures of authority, the ones to be respected and listened to. But I just can’t stand how unprofessional these professionals act some times. Ok, we have interns, right? The bitches, the dorks, the jerks. They’re young. I’m gonna give them a pass for being arrogant with nothing to show for it. They don’t know any better. But Miranda and the Chief?
Case in point
The Chief constantly gives Meredith a get out of jail free card for doing some outlandish shit. He resents Miranda for trying to be a pediatric surgeon, gives her shit about it. He forgives the new interns after they cut themselves and nearly cause the death of that blonde intern that disappered when she was no longer interesting. Somebody should’ve went to jail for that one.
And then we have Miranda, giving Callie shit for being made chief resident and going around saying it ain’t my problem in the season 4 premiere when Callie was clrealy asking for help. It’s not your problem that people are hurting and need your help? What kind of doctor are ya!? But the scene that pissed me off the most was the one where she goes in the surgery room begging Derek to let the death row pacient DIE so that she could have a heart for a kid she’d grown attached to. How is this woman still working there after trying to sabotage another surgery and in such a deliberat, outhere, self-destructive fashion. If you really need a heart that bad, why not find some other more subtle way to do it instead of outing yourself as a psycho?
The pettyness
However, what really boggles the mind is how this show got so famous… with characters that are so utterly unlikeable. These residents are petty, they are mean, they are arrogant. They steal surgeries from each other. They constantly break the rules and get excused for it which I’d assume for any other normal person gives them a higher sense of self worth (as if they needed it). They complain for 3 seasons that nobody actually teaches them anything and whatever surgeries they get into they have to fight for and then when they get their own interns… They act THE EXACT SAME WAY. Call me crazy but I think a doctor should first and foremost be recognized through their competence, not their personal issues or character quirks. Take Christina for example.
She’s married to cardio. She wants it, she wants it so bad. But the problem isn’t how badly she wants it. The problem for me is that I don’t care if she gets it. Cause she’s such a bitch half the time she doesn’t even deserve it.
So that’s that. I understand it’s a soap opera. I understand it’s nowhere near an accurate representation of an actual hospital. But that’s not the point. The point for me is that I am unable to connect emotionally with any of these character beyond a simple: “Ah, poor Meredith”. I like good people. I don’t see any good people on this show. There is not one character I’d like to go out with to get a beer. Except maybe McSteamy. But his beer would be drugged. So I could then drag his unconcious body to my house.
Adult situations would ensue.
People like gossip, affairs and corny stories.
Nu mai stiu daca tu ai fost cea cu care am discutat la vremea respectiva, dar imi retrag laudele initiale aduse lui Grey.
Din serialul asta, singurul lucru bun e coloana sonora a primelor trei sezoane.
Prin primavara as vrea sa incep sa ma uit la Grey’s Anatomy, ca ma uit la ratinguri, si itodeauna sunt marisoare…oare o merita?:|