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More random TV thoughts
as I wait for the Smallville premiere, and hope I can stay awake.
Someone, please please please write Sam/Jess, Sam/Lucifer. I mean, if the absolutely gorgeous love of your life started appearing mysteriously in her bed, you'd totally have sex with her, right? And only later would you find out you were SLEEPING WITH THE DEVIL. I really, really want that story.
Flash Forward Thoughts
While no individual character from the show made much of an impression on me last night, overall it looks like it's going to be a compelling mystery. I enjoyed the pacing and the writing quite a bit, and the visuals were well-done. Though I'd seen that preview for the show a million times, it hadn't quite occurred to me how much devastation would be wrought be everyone in the world blacking out at the same time--car crashes, plane crashes, fires, patients dying on the operating table--DAMN. That's a truly horrific scenario, and if it had a human cause it could happen again, which is truly terrifying. So they've really set up the premise well. It's too bad the previews had revealed so much of the individual plotlines, because they weren't surprising to me--though at least we got a hint that the man the lady doctor ends up with is somehow associated with the sketchy group that may have caused the flash forwards, which is intriguing. I'll definitely be tuning in to this again.
Gray's Anatomy, OR: the show that deliberately stomps on my heart just because it can. Why do I keep watching this again?
I will just say at the start I am still pissed at Shonda for killing George off. That was completely and totally unnecessary. Sending him off to Iraq was a more than sufficient way to explain the character leaving, and left open the door to future returns. George's death seemed completely gratuitous and downright MEAN to me, like she was deliberately getting back at the actor for leaving. Plus for me George has always been the emotional heart of the show, so I saw no real reason to keep watching now that he was gone, but I did want to see the funeral, etc.
And I will say the show gave good grief. Precisely because George was the emotional heart of the show, his death had an extremely powerful effect on everyone, and I did appreciate the multiple ways people coped with his loss, and how it kept striking people differently at different times. That seemed realistic and really well-done. And I even liked how this became a factor in everyone's relationships--how Meredith and Derek escaped into sex, and Callie and Arizona escaped into donuts, and how Cristina kind of wanted to escape into sex and couldn't, etc. And then the different collapses--I was surprised that it was Meredith's I found most moving, and she made me start crying as well. And I loved, too, how it captured the strange moments of humor that bubble up when you're grieving, like that hilarious scene at the funeral itself. And the scene in the elevator with Derek and Bailey totally rocked.
Still, I don't know if I can watch a George-less Gray's. It's true that Lexie has sort of taken over the George-role, for me, but I'm not sure if that's enough. I'm certainly not interested in the whole "merging with Mercy West" plotline. And God knows it would make my Thursday nights less crazy if I could just give it up, but I suspect I will remain addicted, if only to watch the progression of Lexie and Mark.
Sorry about that cut-tag error! Eeek! I hate to spoil people.
Someone, please please please write Sam/Jess, Sam/Lucifer. I mean, if the absolutely gorgeous love of your life started appearing mysteriously in her bed, you'd totally have sex with her, right? And only later would you find out you were SLEEPING WITH THE DEVIL. I really, really want that story.
Flash Forward Thoughts
While no individual character from the show made much of an impression on me last night, overall it looks like it's going to be a compelling mystery. I enjoyed the pacing and the writing quite a bit, and the visuals were well-done. Though I'd seen that preview for the show a million times, it hadn't quite occurred to me how much devastation would be wrought be everyone in the world blacking out at the same time--car crashes, plane crashes, fires, patients dying on the operating table--DAMN. That's a truly horrific scenario, and if it had a human cause it could happen again, which is truly terrifying. So they've really set up the premise well. It's too bad the previews had revealed so much of the individual plotlines, because they weren't surprising to me--though at least we got a hint that the man the lady doctor ends up with is somehow associated with the sketchy group that may have caused the flash forwards, which is intriguing. I'll definitely be tuning in to this again.
Gray's Anatomy, OR: the show that deliberately stomps on my heart just because it can. Why do I keep watching this again?
I will just say at the start I am still pissed at Shonda for killing George off. That was completely and totally unnecessary. Sending him off to Iraq was a more than sufficient way to explain the character leaving, and left open the door to future returns. George's death seemed completely gratuitous and downright MEAN to me, like she was deliberately getting back at the actor for leaving. Plus for me George has always been the emotional heart of the show, so I saw no real reason to keep watching now that he was gone, but I did want to see the funeral, etc.
And I will say the show gave good grief. Precisely because George was the emotional heart of the show, his death had an extremely powerful effect on everyone, and I did appreciate the multiple ways people coped with his loss, and how it kept striking people differently at different times. That seemed realistic and really well-done. And I even liked how this became a factor in everyone's relationships--how Meredith and Derek escaped into sex, and Callie and Arizona escaped into donuts, and how Cristina kind of wanted to escape into sex and couldn't, etc. And then the different collapses--I was surprised that it was Meredith's I found most moving, and she made me start crying as well. And I loved, too, how it captured the strange moments of humor that bubble up when you're grieving, like that hilarious scene at the funeral itself. And the scene in the elevator with Derek and Bailey totally rocked.
Still, I don't know if I can watch a George-less Gray's. It's true that Lexie has sort of taken over the George-role, for me, but I'm not sure if that's enough. I'm certainly not interested in the whole "merging with Mercy West" plotline. And God knows it would make my Thursday nights less crazy if I could just give it up, but I suspect I will remain addicted, if only to watch the progression of Lexie and Mark.
Sorry about that cut-tag error! Eeek! I hate to spoil people.
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(I didn't realize things were that bad on the set).
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I am, however, waiting on tenterhooks for Private Practice given where we were left for the finale. That was just as mean as literally throwing George under the bus.
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It was one of those roller coaster ones. It'll be interesting to see how they get out of this one.
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I thought the dialogue was terribly hammy for the most part, and it tended towards over explanation: did we really need to be told that John Cho's character is afraid he'll be dead in six months? No, but he had to say it out loud, just in case someone in the audience was too stupid to have figured it out by themselves. Whatever though, they can't possibly kill off someone that attractive.
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I love John Cho so much--they better not kill him off!