Okay, okay. I know. I suck. I said I was gonna blog more and I didn’t. It’s just that I went home after 27 episodes and lay down on my sofa and then I…I…
…well…
Alright, I admit it. I started watching TV. Like a fiend. I LOVE TV. LOVE. I’m a TV junkie. And I never get to watch TV during the season because I’m busy making TV so I thought I’d just fire up the Tivo and watch a teeny tiny bit, just a few seconds and…and…well, I fell in. I fell into TV world.
I fell into this unbelievably brilliant island where this plane has crashed and there are all these people and they’re well, kinda…lost, I guess you’d say.
Then I fell into this super funny show that is made like a documentary and all of the people work in this one place which you’d maybe call an office.
There was also this group of super secret military men and their wives and no one is supposed to talk about the fact they work in a special arena called…well, it’s a unit.
How good are these shows with only one word titles? WOW.
But I digress.
The point is, I got sucked into OTHER shows. Mainly in an effort to push the events over at Seattle Grace out of my mind. I’m not over Denny’s death. I thought I was. I was sure I’d be fine by now. But I’m not. I’m just not. I’m all freaked out. And I’m kinda worried. About Mer and Der. Because, dear GOD, they had SEX! Really good sex. Great romantic perfect sex is what it looked like. But he’s married. And Addison’s all dancing at the prom and reliving the horror of Skippy Gould talking about Star Wars and poor Finn’s making all kinds of plans and…
…but Mer and Der have this all-consuming love and, I’m sorry, I did a little dance of joy when he kissed her.
Yeah, I wrote it. But still, when I SAW it in the dailies, when I saw it ACTUALLY HAPPENING, I did a little dance. Of joy.
But here’s a key piece of advice from me to you because there’s a difference between real life and TV and that’s this: don’t sleep with married people. Unless they are married to you. Because all-consuming love doesn’t come around all that often. And, in real life, nobody does a dance of joy when they find out you’ve been engaging in adultery. Not even me.
You think about that over the summer. Just in case some super McDreamy approaches you on the beach and you start feeling all steamy…
Here’s a few other things to think about over the long summer break:
The Chief: a lot of things were revealed about about the Chief. My favorite moment is Meredith leaning forward and saying, “It was you. You were the reason my parents broke up.” And the Chief, all of his secrets finally spread out for everyone to see, can do nothing but leave the room. The history of Ellis and Richard, it is long. It is deep. There is WAY more. But you gotta for wait. Watch for the clues.
Burke’s Tremors: yeah, they were there. You saw them. It was a tough choice to make, maiming a surgeon, maiming BURKE for God’s sake, but it was necessary. What’s a hero without a few stumbles? And you know that it’s not the fall that is so interesting. It’s watching whether or not someone chooses to get back up and, when they, how they choose to rise. That’s what we’ll be watching for Burke to do – get up and rise well.
George and Callie: My George, he’s been through a lot. He’s had sex with Meredith, had his dreams of love shattered, moved out of the house, cut his own hair and lived with Burke and Cristina. Callie, strange and odd and dark as she is, is his chance. His chance to be happy again. Give the woman the benefit of the doubt. She’s flawed and she pees in front of other people and she likes to crack bones but, guys…? She loves George. SHE LOVES GEORGE. That recommends her to the highest place of cool girl in my book. Because she’s the only one who sees George for George. Besides, I love that moment when she’s stomping down the hall, all uncomfortable in her prom dress, cursing her high heels but determined to go to the Prom. Determined not to be that girl she was in high school. Callie lays all her emotional crap right out in front of us, not bothering to hide or pretend she’s cynical or hip to fit in. She defiantly doesn’t fit in and her square pegness thrills me.
The Monologues: this was something we’d never done and I wasn’t sure would work. But you place those pages into the hands of the actors and each and every one of them layered their characters’ souls right into the dialogue. Those monologues – all grouped together in one act – tell us more about our characters than we have maybe learned all year. And they speak to the heart of why Alex, Izzie, George, Cristina and Meredith are the way they are. They also tell you how this episode is going to end. If you were really listening, everything was there.
Okay. I am shutting up now. Have a good summer. Get ready for Thursdays in the fall.
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