Jan 22, 2007 09:26
After dinner with Ali on Friday I headed back to campus to watch some TV while waiting for my friends to comeback. I hadn't witnessed cable's warm heary glow for upwards of three months and was excited to watch shows i'd been missing out on at home. But of course, nothing was on 60 channels, so I watched Grey's Anatomy repeats. I've only seen one show before and thought it was good, but not wowing. So I watched the show and it involved something like the actor (whos name i forget but was just recently called a faggot by his costar)losing his brother due to a decision other doctors made without consulting him. At the commerical CTV showed an ad for it. The screen was a grey tone with little black or white in it and involved some sort of discussion between that quirky asisn lady and Ellen Pompeo. So it came to me, and later when we all watched a repeat at 3 am i brought up my theory. It's pretty obvious, and I bet people have thought of it before.
Anyway, the name Grey's Anatomy is a symbol for life changing experiences, the kind that doctors go through everyday, and relationships, and friendships, and everything. The term that everything isn't always black or white, that there are shades of GREY. Which is what the show is all about, thinking in a non linear quality to fix things. Sort of like how monkeys do. I was shocked that a room of seven people never thought of it, but totally agreed. Words are dead, Ellen Pompeo's squinty Rene Zellweger eyes are king.