Greigh’s Anatomy

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In accor­dance with our com­pro­mise, I am writ­ing about Grey’s Anatomy.  The orig­i­nal agree­ment was for Holli and I to watch three episodes in sea­son one, and then Bryce and Lind­sey would watch sea­son one of Lost.  With noth­ing to lose, we took on the bet.  We pur­chased the three episodes from iTunes, watched them, and sat back.

The results: meh.

With­out a leg up by ABC.com, we had no easy way of watch­ing the other sea­son one episodes.  Then Bryce and Lind­sey came home for Guse’s wed­ding, and they lent us sea­sons one, two, and three.  With our excuses out of the way, we com­menced ta’ jig­glin’.

The results: we became fans.

With­out giv­ing away any spoil­ers, I will say that the show is at its best when it is shar­ing the episode’s time between inter-personal con­flict and med­ical mys­tery.  The show has a ten­dency to get too caught up in per­sonal drama.  That’s fine, but I get pretty bored with that kind of thing.  You can get that sort of drama by droves through shows like The ‘Bu or Hor­ri­ble Peo­ple.  How­ever, it does add a lit­tle spice.  I enjoy a smat­ter­ing of moments that make me say, “Oh, no, [he|she] didn’t!  Snap!”

I like the med­ical mys­ter­ies a lit­tle more.  I don’t nearly enough about med­i­cine to guess along with them, but who knows how many of those terms or pro­ce­dures are actu­ally made up, either.  There was one case in which my google search­ing did in fact yield the cor­rect diag­no­sis before the doc­tors got it.  If only I’d been doing web devel­op­ment in that hos­pi­tal, I could have helped with the case.

One of my major pet peeves with the show is the way they deal with expand­ing the cast.  You can bet that if some­one sud­denly shows up as work­ing at the hos­pi­tal, within three episodes they will become a love inter­est.  It’s clumsy.  It’s Nikki and Paolo clumsy, but not quite as frus­trat­ing as the char­ac­ters usu­ally make their intro­duc­tions worth­while.  Unlike Nikki and Paolo.  Whom I hate.

Despite the things that I don’t like about the show, I enjoy it more than I dis­en­joy it.  We’ll watch the next sea­son, though the last sea­son didn’t give us many rea­sons to return.  Their time slot also helps.  The ques­tion now will be whether we watch Grey’s Anatomy over The Office or whether we DVR it and return to ABC for Lost.

Despite our new­found enjoy­ment of the show, our old hatreds remain.  Holli and I are going through much the same issue that old peo­ple are going through: racism (or overt hatred of any kind) is no longer fash­ion­able.  We hated on Grey’s for so long that we some­times for­get that we’re fans now.  In other words, it’ll be a long time before we learn to quit call­ing it “Gay’s Anatomy”.  There should be a sup­port group for us.

6 thoughts on “Greigh’s Anatomy”

  2. I think the log­i­cal thing to do once LOST returns to tele­vi­sion (assum­ing time slots are the same next sea­son), would be to DVR The Office. Last sea­son of LOST, we saw the last 30 sec of each Grey’s episode and I think we’d learn pretty quickly that we don’t want to see the end of each episode when we turn to watch LOST.

  3. We watch it like a bad train wreck. Casey can usu­ally fig­ure out the “mys­tery” in about 5 min­utes while rolling his eyes and walk­ing out of the room. With com­ments like, “That would never hap­pen”, “When do they go to work? 10 am? It’s always day­light!” and “Yes, all chiefs, attend­ings and res­i­dents sleep together” it’s really hard for us to keep a straight face all the while mak­ing rude com­ments like we are Servo and Crow from MST3K.

  5. I’ve never seen the show but if you like med­ical mys­ter­ies you should give House a try — it’s awe­some. Let me repeat… awesome.

  6. You are going to DVR The Office so you can watch Grey’s? Wow, I hon­estly don’t think I can be friends with you guys. I know I’d prob­a­bly like it if I saw it, I’m not igno­rant — i assume i’d like it and I will prob­a­bly start watch­ing it because Houa likes it, but I don’t want to because to me it looks like a well done soap opera. I mean, its about doc­tors, but they never show them ever doing doc­tor things in their pre­views. Accord­ing to the pre­views I see its all about who is hav­ing sex with who, who’s cheat­ing on who, who’s mak­ing out with who at work. Them adver­tis­ing the show that way makes me feel like the only rea­son they do any­thing doc­tor­ish is to try to make it appear to be more seri­ous and com­pli­cated than a nor­mal soap opera. ER — in their com­mer­cials, most of the time its doc­tors try­ing to save some­body with maybe a lit­tle romance. Grey’s — doc­tors mak­ing out and get­ting jeal­ous at other doc­tors with no men­tion of whats actu­ally going on at the hospital.