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[natalexx]

I am posting from my awesome new laptop. And! I'm not plugged in! I am all wireless and stuff! Dude, happy birthday to me!

I'm also watching this week's 2 hour Grey's Anatomy. I have a serious problem with the way they're handling Cristina's wedding phobia. What the hell's supposed to be wrong with a woman who is willing to commit because she

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[pataka02]

Yay for a new laptop! I got mine in Feb. and it's still tremendously exciting... and his name is Fred.

Jury's still out on the whole concept of a spin-off, though I love almost the entire cast (especially Amy Brenneman and Tim Daly). In fact, the cast seems so carefully tailored to appeal to a variety of TV fans, it all almost feels a bit too constructed. I agree... I love almost everyone in the cast but they just seemed so... artificial, in a way. I guess it's a matter of waiting and seeing how the show progresses, but I don't find myself very interested in watching a group of late 30/early 40 year old people being as wholly dysfunctional as the Grey's interns. I just don't have the patience for it. And the Piz lusting scene made me feel gross because... it's Piz. Make Sark the receptionist

[natalexx]

I don't find myself very interested in watching a group of late 30/early 40 year old people being as wholly dysfunctional as the Grey's interns.

For serious. I guess I'm more willing to give the younger interns a pass for their behavior, even though they're certainly old enough to know better.

I'm glad I wasn't the only one to react that way to Piz. I kind of went "I'm supposed to get off on this? ewwwwwww"

See, I completely relate to Cristina in many ways and until recently I felt like Burke respected her as she was, but lately he's just been a mess. And considering all the behind-the-scenes rumors about Isaiah Washington maybe leaving the show, it feels a little artificial that suddenly all the drama in their relationship is coming from him.

[pataka02]

See, I completely relate to Cristina in many ways and until recently I felt like Burke respected her as she was, but lately he's just been a mess.I love Christina as well, and relate most to her and Meredith, probably. Their friendship is my favorite part of the show

[natalexx]

Heh, there are certain characters who get me just as riled up--Burke just isn't usually one of them. However, I think I've watched his relationship with Cristina differently than you. Maybe because I relate more to Cristina-post-Softening--and yeah I agree, Meredith has had a lot to do with that organic "softening" or whatever you want to call it, but mostly it was about Cristina allowing herself to soften, and Burke was certainly a motivating factor there. But to me, for instance, Burke's "I'm Preston Burke" speech was Burke asserting himself in exactly the same way Cristina always had, making it clear who he was and who he was gonna be but leaving it her choice whether she was going to choose *him* like he chose her. Their relationship has been a delight to watch because it was all about choices, really--mutual choices, not just one setting out a demand and the other agreeing repeatedly--it was each of them making it clear where they wouldn't compromise, where the lines were drawn and where they might be able to give a little bit.

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Congrats on the new laptop! What kind is it

[natalexx]

Congrats on the new laptop! What kind is it?

Thanks, VERY exciting. It's a Toshiba. I had very little to do with picking it out, but if I know my dad, he did all kinds of research first.

(Well, there might have been some staring at his abs...:P )

Really? The scene went on SO LONG I could barely look at the screen. It was just...odd.

Anyway, I think you nailed down my problem with the spin-off set-up a lot better than I did. (And not just the idea of all these failed TV pilots converging, because that's really eerie--did you ever see Eyes? Kate Walsh played Tim Daly's wife in that one.) I've enjoyed Grey's Anatomy this long because I *do* think of it as a total soap opera. Fun and ridiculous and constantly surprising. Lately, some of the surprises have been less fun and more "adultery isn't really all that funny," so maybe I've become weary of some of the same old concepts. And the idea of the "Gorgeous, Successful People on a Beach Creating Problems for Themselves" Show just makes me feel tired all over. *g*

[rose_griffes]

Happy Birthday for real!

I've never been able to watch a whole episode of Gray's. It just iritates me. But I loved Tim Daly in Eyes, so I may have to try watching the spin-off just for him. Or not.

Anyway, how is it possible this many adults are so completely dysfunctional? And by "dysfunctional" apparently I literally mean *barely able to function at all*.

Definitely. That's one of the reasons I don't have the patience to watchGray's, even though a huge number of my (female) students adore it. (And I think most of them are too young to be watching it, but that's a rant for another day. Heh.)

[natalexx]

It's a little hypocritical of me to watch Grey's Anatomy, to be honest, because all the sleeping around and adultery and pregnancy scares played as entertainment should be appalling--they certainly sound horrible when I type them out, and pretty much like the opposite of my kind of storylines--but so far I've simply dismissed it as an inventive and deliberately ridiculous soap opera. It's a very, very fine line and most the time I'm in awe that they have walked it so long and so successfully. I keep expecting them to make me want to turn them off, but so far they haven't. This spin-off, if it happens, doesn't look like it would manage that weirdly magic balance quite so successfully. Tim Daly was just about as delicious in this as in Eyes, though, I must admit.

[rose_griffes]

Heh, I've certainly had my share of guilty-pleasure shows.

an inventive and deliberately ridiculous soap opera

Weirdly enough my dad (the man who watches at least one variety of Star Trek almost daily now that he's retired) loved season one of Desperate Housewives for that very reason. He said it reminded him of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (a comic soap opera from the seventies that I don't remember). I had no patience with DH and still don't.

Tim Daly was just about as delicious in this as in Eyes, though, I must admit.

Yup, he's yummy alright.

[natalexx]

I'm with you on Desperate Housewives, btw. That line I was talking about? Between "fun melodrama" and, well, everything else over that line--for me, DH is way over it. I can't stand that show. You can see why I too puzzle over my fondness of Grey's.