a post-it????

[morgenwrites]

A FUCKING POST-IT??  SERIOUSLY???  THAT BETTER NOT BE ALL WE EVER GET.

Ugh.  Will post real thoughts as soon as I have them.  Once all the rage goes away.  I think I liked it, but I'm too irritated by the post-it note to decide for sure.

ETA:  Yep, still hating the post-it.  A lot.  Actual review to come some time early tomorrow because I'm running

Comments

[couture7]

Ok good, it's not just me. I mean I loved the scene and everything they said, but I'm pretty pissed they didn't get legally married. I think Shonda thought people would lobv how untraditional and romantic they are, and I do, but I want them to be really married, you know?

[morgenwrites]

Yeah, the scene was adorable and I loved that they were saying those things to each other and writing them down, but then to call that married just pisses me off. It's not married. Yeah they're nontraditional people, but they deserve a LEGAL marriage. With all the extra rights you get once you LEGALLY MARRY someone. If they do end up getting legally married next season, then I'll like it, but as of now with that standing in as their marriage, I'm freaking pissed. Ugh. I would've loved them at city hall. This is just crap.

[couture7]

Yeah, I totally agree.

[myflower]

OMG are you kidding me gurrrl? I absolutely LOVED it. They have time to plan a smal wedding, maybe invite the Shepherd family, but that was the sweetest thing everrrrrr. Those things they said to each other were so so adorable. I loved every second of that scene. ♥

[couture7]

If they actually get married in the future, then I'll be happy with this. I just have a bad feeling that this is it and they aren't going to actually get married now.

[myflower]

I don't know, I just loved the scene. It was so simple but you could tell how much they loved each other ♥ Every single thing they said to each other was perfect :')

[morgenwrites]

See, I loved that they were so loving and sweet with each other and said all those things, but I really don't think that Shonda's going to give us them planning a small wedding. I think that was it. They're "married" now according to her, and that's that. End of story. If they do get legally married at the start of S6 with a small wedding, I'd be thrilled and I'd take back hating the post-it, but right now it just pisses me off. They deserve all the rights that come with being legally married. Something scribbled on a post-it just isn't cutting it for me at all. :(

[anonymous]

Seriously - Shonda is on crack if she thinks Mer/Der fans would be happy with a firggin post-it "union".

[morgenwrites]

Exactly. A post-it note "marriage" is such crap. And I hate it a lot. A lot, a lot.

[seattle_dreams]

I think the post-it note ceremony was just supposed to hold them over until they have time to do something else. Technically, they're not married in the legal sense. Whether or not we see the actual wedding/ceremony/whatever, I don't have a clue, but I think they'll be legally married before season six starts, or maybe have something small in the SP.

I really wasn't expecting that at all. Honestly, I'm just glad they're alive at this point. I can barely comprehend the George/Izzie of it all right now.

*goes back to staring blankly at the TV screen*

[morgenwrites]

See, you're more optimistic than me. I think the post-it notes is all we get, and we're supposed to be happy with it. That they're never going to get legally married because they don't need that and ooh aren't they so shiny and nontraditional. If we do get something legal, and this was just to tide them over, fine. I'll think it was sweet, but right now this feels like such a freaking cop out to me.

Yeah, the George/Izzie. Will try to have thoughts on that at some point. It was intense.

[seattle_dreams]

Oh ITA with you. If that was it, I'm going to raid Shonda's damn office and demand a five minute city hall scene. I get that Mer isn't a ring bride, etc., and that they don't do things in the traditional way, but leaving them "married in spirit" or some cop out crap doesn't cut it for me. *sigh* Seriously, would it have been so hard to give them some city hall married adorable-ness?

[morgenwrites]

Exactly. City hall. That's all I'm asking for. This "we're married because we say we are" crap is making me so mad.

[tortiecat86]

THANK YOU!

Oh, um. Hi. This is the first time I've commented here...I was just scouring the friends page of elevatorjunkies hoping that someone else was equally outraged.

I'm okay with the post-it as a "look, we're in this forever, we're committed, we don't HAVE to do the ceremony today" placeholder kind of thing...but we sure as hell better get a real wedding. I'm not asking for poofy white dresses and church weddings...I'll take City Hall, but I'm going to need something more than a post-it after five seasons of what Shonda's put us through (not to mention The Izzie Stevens Show that I've been watching all season.) Post-it does not = legally binding marriage contract.

Post-it does not = acceptable payoff for the Mer/Der fans for all we've been through. Post-it = stupid. Like the things they said, that's all well and good. Not so much the post-it. I'm still a little too irritated to be incredibly articulate...just wanted to say, glad I'm not alone in being very displeased with this "wedding".

[morgenwrites]

SERIOUSLY. I HATE IT SO MUCH.

Yay! Do come share with me in my rage. Because that is not a real marriage. I'm totally fine with them not needing the big white dress church wedding. City Hall seems very them actually. But this, a FREAKING POST-IT is such crap that I want to throw something. That's not a pay off at all. I haven't been this pissed off at an episode since the S3 finale. Ugh. Derek and Meredith get none of the legal rights with their post-it note that come with an actual marriage. I'm fine if they don't feel they need the paper to be committed to each other. But they DO need it to be married to each other. And going around saying their married because of their stupid post-it is pissing me off.

It's such a HUGE letdown for me after all this wedding build up. And I guess I'm just not optimistic enough to think we'll ever see an actual, legal marriage between them after this.

[tortiecat86]

Shonda killed my optimism a long time ago. I've learned to expect the worst, and not to hope for anything. That way, when we DO get something good, I'm surprised and happy. I'm with you, very much afraid that she's going to go the whole route of "Mer and Der don't need a wedding and piece of paper to commit, that's all just formality, and besides, look at how Derek's legal, 'real' marriage worked out."

But you know...I'd like for the future McBabies to not be born into illegitimacy or whatever, and all those other perks of actually being legally married. After giving away the MerDer wedding to Izzie (which I was really fine with, because it wasn't THEIR wedding)...I can't imagine why Shonda ever thought a Post-It would be acceptable. Or cute. Or innovative. Or whatever else she wants to call it.

I call it stupid, and kind of a slap in the face after five seasons of the ups and downs with this couple.

[morgenwrites]

Yeah, it's my fault for getting all optimistic again and letting myself think that for sure we'd be getting a MerDer City Hall wedding or something equally lovely. I'm pretty much convinced that we'll never get a legal marriage now because Shonda thinks this is so cute and clever of her.

And yeah, the future McBabies. They're going to have parents who were married by post-it? Seriously?? I don't know what the hell Shonda was thinking when she came up with this but as a fan I feel so insulted right now.