Can’t bloody stand these things…
Jun 09, 2008 in General
You know what? I've been watching the old episodes of Grey's Anatomy for the past few days, and its so soapish its schmaltzy blah-ness, addicting yes, but its just weird. Everybody sleeps with everybody else and everyone is dating someone they should not date or in love with someone who they should not be in love with.
Plus Ellen Pompeo has a bloody annoying voice, and I can't stand that voiceover she does in every other episode… the lines she has are MEANT to be great, useful, simple one-liners that would apply in our lives, but her voice just can't cut it lah.
So I really cannot understand why is it that so many of my female friends like that show.
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OK I noticed something - most of them are having problems in their relationships.
Or lack of relationships.
'I think I'm like Meredith Grey…'
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Grey's Anatomy. Ally McBeal. Neurotic, attractive, professional woman having problems staying in a proper relationship. I'm like Meredith Grey, my life is screwed up.
Talk about the power of persuasion man. Yah so you ARE like Meredith Grey, or you ARE like Ally McBeal, but the BIG problem is, you're not. You're just watching a damned show and the McBeal and Grey characters are make-believe. They were BASED on people who were too weak to take a risk, or too comfortable being problematic. These are girls who will find problems in a happy life, and then two minutes later spend 10 hours wondering what went wrong.
And the writers were smart enough to warn you - it's the Meredith Grey character who does the voiceovers, its SHE who has an amazingly annoying, whiny voice who gives out 'smart tips for living' and never actually follows them; in the same way it was that crazy woman called Ally McBeal who had those crazy hallucinations of a dancing baby, and who goes home and wail because her ex boyfriend is married and she can't help flirting…
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Relationships should be easy, but these stupid chick flicks are brainwashing the lot of us. Long ago, life was meant to be live it, meet a guy, then marry him, and bear him kids and take care of them. Now with the invasion of the Sex in The City culture we're doomed to considering every single nostril hair he sheds before we can even consider saying yes to a date in the first place. And then, even in the process of courtship we'll spend over four years years carefully checking every other suspicion we have about the possible Mr Right before gleefully tossing him to the big rubbish dump of Mr Wrongs I Used to Date.
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Stupid Grey's Anatomy. Addictive yes, but Ellen Pompeo is really, really annoying.