[nostalgia] grey's anatomy | "I need your grace to remind me to find my own..."
Okay, so. I've been watching. Steadily. Savouring the freaking journey that is Season Two of this stupid, STUPID show, with its FREAKING CHARACTERS that still have the most RIDICULOUS hold over me. And I just finished the finale...
They say 'fore-warned is fore-armed', right? And I believe it, I do. In which case... HOW THE HELL DID I MAKE IT THROUGH THIS SHOW WATCHING WEEK TO WEEK?! Spoiler free and clueless and hopeless and in love with it all.... I mean, I barely made it through this re-watch knowing full well what was coming. And maybe THAT'S the problem? It's the knowing what's coming that's the problem. It's not Doc dying and Denny dying and Alex stepping up and Izzie, my bb girl, and all the rest of it... it's none of those things. It's knowing that, as bad as things are right now, this is not rock-bottom. This is not even close to rock-bottom. This is barely even half-way to rock-bottom...
Bring on season three?
But first. The state of the union. As per usual: take everything here with a LARGE GRAIN OF OVERLY EMOTIONALLY INVESTED SALT.
How utterly life-like are these characters? I mean, set aside the situations for a moment, I recognise the largely unrealistic nature of so much of what goes on, at the end of the day, this is still a television drama, after all... BUT HOW LIFE-LIKE ARE THESE CHARACTERS ALLOWED TO BE? Izzie is bitchy and petty and ridiculous and excitable and genuine and all the things that I know and understand and believe. And Meredith could be unfathomably emotionally immature. And she is. But she's not. Unfathomable. She's probably depressed. And she definitely has attachment issues. And she IS emotionally immature. But she's not unfathomable. Not even close.
Even Derek Freaking Shepherd, egotistical asshole that he is, is painfully, beautifully, realistically ALIVE.
And don't even get me started on Alex Karev. He tells the truth, okay? He tells the truth and Denny stopped being Denny and he loved Izzie and she loved him, but he's not Denny anymore, OKAY?!
(And 12_12_12, this could absolutely have been one of those situations where parts of fandom* raved about the White Dude's Death being all about The Lady Character only because it freed The Lady Character up for The Other White Dude, but you know what? Shonda Rhimes, that's what. BECAUSE IT WASSSSS ABOUT THE LADY CHARACTER. And, in a slightly smaller way, about the other two Lady Characters (Meredith and Cristina). And everybody else was still 4986% in character and there, including The Other White Dude. But it wasn't about him now being free to Get the Girl. He says so himself IN CANON. And those (inevitable?) parts of fandom can be as gross as they want somewhere ELSE. TYVM.
* I don't actually know what those parts of fandom did as I wasn't involved at the time... I suspect there was plenty of this happening though because *cynic*)
Shonda Rhimes. For all that you have (see Cristina .gif above), you are glorious when it comes to writing PEOPLE FIRST. I wish I was more eloquent. I wish I had the patience required to properly address exactly what Shonda has given us. I wish I wasn't quite so emotionally invested and had the headspace to be objective. I wish I'd liked some (any!) of her other shows enough to be able to write something meaningful. But Shonda Rhimes/Writing Female Characters is probably my favourite OTP of all the OTPs! Shonda Rhymes writing storylines is a different matter when it comes to this show!!
OMG STOP ME. I CAN'T EVEN MAKE SENSE.
Actually, no. Don't. Stop me, that is. The events surrounding Denny's death? The fall-out of those events? The lead up to them? They were about everyone. They were about MAGIC, and friendship, and loyalty and how each of them reacted to that. Those parts were about Cristina being able (or not) to be there for Burke. About Meredith making plans (or not) with Finn. About George loving (or not) Callie. THE REST OF IT was about them all, as a group. But actually KILLING DENNY? That was about Izzie.
Stick a fork in me, I'm done...
They say 'fore-warned is fore-armed', right? And I believe it, I do. In which case... HOW THE HELL DID I MAKE IT THROUGH THIS SHOW WATCHING WEEK TO WEEK?! Spoiler free and clueless and hopeless and in love with it all.... I mean, I barely made it through this re-watch knowing full well what was coming. And maybe THAT'S the problem? It's the knowing what's coming that's the problem. It's not Doc dying and Denny dying and Alex stepping up and Izzie, my bb girl, and all the rest of it... it's none of those things. It's knowing that, as bad as things are right now, this is not rock-bottom. This is not even close to rock-bottom. This is barely even half-way to rock-bottom...
Bring on season three?
But first. The state of the union. As per usual: take everything here with a LARGE GRAIN OF OVERLY EMOTIONALLY INVESTED SALT.
How utterly life-like are these characters? I mean, set aside the situations for a moment, I recognise the largely unrealistic nature of so much of what goes on, at the end of the day, this is still a television drama, after all... BUT HOW LIFE-LIKE ARE THESE CHARACTERS ALLOWED TO BE? Izzie is bitchy and petty and ridiculous and excitable and genuine and all the things that I know and understand and believe. And Meredith could be unfathomably emotionally immature. And she is. But she's not. Unfathomable. She's probably depressed. And she definitely has attachment issues. And she IS emotionally immature. But she's not unfathomable. Not even close.
Even Derek Freaking Shepherd, egotistical asshole that he is, is painfully, beautifully, realistically ALIVE.
And don't even get me started on Alex Karev. He tells the truth, okay? He tells the truth and Denny stopped being Denny and he loved Izzie and she loved him, but he's not Denny anymore, OKAY?!
(And 12_12_12, this could absolutely have been one of those situations where parts of fandom* raved about the White Dude's Death being all about The Lady Character only because it freed The Lady Character up for The Other White Dude, but you know what? Shonda Rhimes, that's what. BECAUSE IT WASSSSS ABOUT THE LADY CHARACTER. And, in a slightly smaller way, about the other two Lady Characters (Meredith and Cristina). And everybody else was still 4986% in character and there, including The Other White Dude. But it wasn't about him now being free to Get the Girl. He says so himself IN CANON. And those (inevitable?) parts of fandom can be as gross as they want somewhere ELSE. TYVM.
* I don't actually know what those parts of fandom did as I wasn't involved at the time... I suspect there was plenty of this happening though because *cynic*)
Shonda Rhimes. For all that you have (see Cristina .gif above), you are glorious when it comes to writing PEOPLE FIRST. I wish I was more eloquent. I wish I had the patience required to properly address exactly what Shonda has given us. I wish I wasn't quite so emotionally invested and had the headspace to be objective. I wish I'd liked some (any!) of her other shows enough to be able to write something meaningful. But Shonda Rhimes/Writing Female Characters is probably my favourite OTP of all the OTPs! Shonda Rhymes writing storylines is a different matter when it comes to this show!!
OMG STOP ME. I CAN'T EVEN MAKE SENSE.
Actually, no. Don't. Stop me, that is. The events surrounding Denny's death? The fall-out of those events? The lead up to them? They were about everyone. They were about MAGIC, and friendship, and loyalty and how each of them reacted to that. Those parts were about Cristina being able (or not) to be there for Burke. About Meredith making plans (or not) with Finn. About George loving (or not) Callie. THE REST OF IT was about them all, as a group. But actually KILLING DENNY? That was about Izzie.
Stick a fork in me, I'm done...