My thoughts (as if I haven't weighed in enough)...
I also posted this to AfterEllen.com, but I think it bares (sic) repeating...
Many people are saying (even at Callie_Erica and AfterEllen), that perhaps it's understandable Brooke Smith was fired, because she was not as (insert preferred adjective for attractive body parts and / or ideas about sex-kittens here).
Oh dear. Now, I download episodes, because Australia is so far from America that TV shows take many many months to be beamed across the ocean. (We had also never seen an interview with a hologram before the election coverage, outside of Star Trek. We are a simple people.)
So perhaps the picture quality I was watching was poorer than that received in the US. Because what I did see (and I saw it many times. On pause. Long, long moments of pause), leads me to this point: When it came to Dr Hahn, the man-whore said it best: (Sloan) "She brings that whole, ‘We’re naughty and we’re getting sent to the principal's office’ thing to it." - Oh my, how clearly you speak the truth, and appeal to the poor teen-aged lesbian still huddled deeply inside me.
Or, (Sloan) "You never thought about reaching across the OR table and pulling down her mask and ripping off her scrub cap so that you can grab a handful of that blonde hair ..." - Why yes, Mr Sloan; yes I have. And thank you for asking.
Forceful, rude, abnoxious, arrogant; prickly and often socially inept - that sounds like a perfectly acceptable lesbian to me. Added bonus: eyes the kind blue you find in postcards... my poor lesbian heart can barely take it. Thank goodness Dr Hahn was a world-class cardiothoracic surgeon. It is important to be in talented and capable hands...
Firing Brooke Smith was, to state it in very plain english, a damned shame. The woman does deserve an Emmy, for the leaves, and for a few other moments the left me puddled across the floor.
But argue as I may for Ms Smith, and argue as some may against her, ending a relationship - any relationship, but particularly one that was so warmly accepted, well-researched, intelligently handled and ground-breaking (sad as that is to say) - is repugnant. And insulting. And rude.
And to do it before the episodes aired and ratings rolled in is like... usurping the election before anyone voted. And handing it to McCain. And we all know how that turned out, don't we.
So shame on ABC. And I will watch this last episode, and then I will stop. And when it finally comes on Australian TV, I will do the same. Because ratings should matter in decisions like this one. And personally, I will enjoy hitting ABC where it hurts. Their tiny, tiny man parts. Their ratings.
Many people are saying (even at Callie_Erica and AfterEllen), that perhaps it's understandable Brooke Smith was fired, because she was not as (insert preferred adjective for attractive body parts and / or ideas about sex-kittens here).
Oh dear. Now, I download episodes, because Australia is so far from America that TV shows take many many months to be beamed across the ocean. (We had also never seen an interview with a hologram before the election coverage, outside of Star Trek. We are a simple people.)
So perhaps the picture quality I was watching was poorer than that received in the US. Because what I did see (and I saw it many times. On pause. Long, long moments of pause), leads me to this point: When it came to Dr Hahn, the man-whore said it best: (Sloan) "She brings that whole, ‘We’re naughty and we’re getting sent to the principal's office’ thing to it." - Oh my, how clearly you speak the truth, and appeal to the poor teen-aged lesbian still huddled deeply inside me.
Or, (Sloan) "You never thought about reaching across the OR table and pulling down her mask and ripping off her scrub cap so that you can grab a handful of that blonde hair ..." - Why yes, Mr Sloan; yes I have. And thank you for asking.
Forceful, rude, abnoxious, arrogant; prickly and often socially inept - that sounds like a perfectly acceptable lesbian to me. Added bonus: eyes the kind blue you find in postcards... my poor lesbian heart can barely take it. Thank goodness Dr Hahn was a world-class cardiothoracic surgeon. It is important to be in talented and capable hands...
Firing Brooke Smith was, to state it in very plain english, a damned shame. The woman does deserve an Emmy, for the leaves, and for a few other moments the left me puddled across the floor.
But argue as I may for Ms Smith, and argue as some may against her, ending a relationship - any relationship, but particularly one that was so warmly accepted, well-researched, intelligently handled and ground-breaking (sad as that is to say) - is repugnant. And insulting. And rude.
And to do it before the episodes aired and ratings rolled in is like... usurping the election before anyone voted. And handing it to McCain. And we all know how that turned out, don't we.
So shame on ABC. And I will watch this last episode, and then I will stop. And when it finally comes on Australian TV, I will do the same. Because ratings should matter in decisions like this one. And personally, I will enjoy hitting ABC where it hurts. Their tiny, tiny man parts. Their ratings.