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apocalypsosThe TWoP recap for this week's Grey's Anatomy perfectly sums up the whole George-and-Izzie thing for me.
WHAT THE HELL? You're trying to feed us the idea that this might somehow be right? I love this show. I love everything about this show. I've defended this show because it does such an incredibly good job portraying people with layers, in situations that are lifelike and full of grey areas. The characters all have good and bad to them, and can be aggravating, annoying, judgmental…anything. But I love them, and I love the show because that's how life is, too. If you've lived at all, you get this. And I get that sometimes best friends of the opposite sex (or same, if that's how you roll) really do ultimately belong together, and that romantic relationships should also be based on friendship, and that sometimes people don't see what's right in front of them. But be that as it may, that has not been the situation with George and Izzie. They have been established as best friends and confidantes, they have had their ups and downs, but never, ever in the three seasons of this show has there been one whiff on either side of romantic leanings towards each other. Never. This storyline seems like a cheap stunt to create some drama, and I'm completely offended by it. I don't like the tension between Alex and Addison either, and I'm against their potential pairing. However, I believe it. It's been written and acted for me to believe, whether I like it or not, that something between the two of them could be possible. And it's never been that way with George and Izzie so I am completely angry at the character assassination of the two of them. I think this was a ridiculous stunt and was the first time I was disappointed in the show for doing something just for the sake of shock value and not because it was an organic turn of events for the characters.
AMEN.
(I want to say except for the part about Alex and Addison but with my new girlcrush on Alex/Jane Doe and how much the sexual escapades are starting to piss me off, never mind.)
Now, here's my thing. The George/Izzie ship? Before this whole thing started I would have LOVED to see it. I like relationships on TV where best friends fall in love with another. It's the kind of thing I want to see built slowly from the ground up. I want to see two people make mistakes in love and find comfort in one another when things go bad and have good times and have them grow to a point where they realize that they're falling in love with one another.
And the thing is that up until this point I could see them steering the relationship towards that far, faaaaaar down the line. Like, towards the end of the series. And God, that would have made me SO DAMN HAPPY. I could have happily sat through half a dozen seasons of quiet friendly UST between those two before it turned into something and they got married and made babies and stuff.
This whole situation is so wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am it's detrimental to both characters. Lauren S says something earlier in the recap, It's not that I have any sort of problem with sex, or one night stands, or anything like that. But this means that George has now slept with more women in the hospital than any other of them men on whom we know stats. George. George, who we love, who is finding himself and growing a spine and becoming a better surgeon, etc., etc., etc., is now so pathetic that he can't not sleep with every female he knows. It's a disservice to the character. Dude, when Alex and Sloane -- the two men on this show with the biggest reputations as manwhores -- are currently having more success keeping their dicks in their pants than sweet lovable George, that's not right. It feels wrong. They're growing (well, Alex is growing -- I have no idea what's growing in Sloane) and George is falling apart as a character.
*****
URGH.
Okay, in news not related to how much I want to corner Shonda Rhimes and yell a lot, it's time to go to the bank and find out how much money I don't have! \o/
Somebody make me bacon to eat when I get back. Mmm, bacon. :)
WHAT THE HELL? You're trying to feed us the idea that this might somehow be right? I love this show. I love everything about this show. I've defended this show because it does such an incredibly good job portraying people with layers, in situations that are lifelike and full of grey areas. The characters all have good and bad to them, and can be aggravating, annoying, judgmental…anything. But I love them, and I love the show because that's how life is, too. If you've lived at all, you get this. And I get that sometimes best friends of the opposite sex (or same, if that's how you roll) really do ultimately belong together, and that romantic relationships should also be based on friendship, and that sometimes people don't see what's right in front of them. But be that as it may, that has not been the situation with George and Izzie. They have been established as best friends and confidantes, they have had their ups and downs, but never, ever in the three seasons of this show has there been one whiff on either side of romantic leanings towards each other. Never. This storyline seems like a cheap stunt to create some drama, and I'm completely offended by it. I don't like the tension between Alex and Addison either, and I'm against their potential pairing. However, I believe it. It's been written and acted for me to believe, whether I like it or not, that something between the two of them could be possible. And it's never been that way with George and Izzie so I am completely angry at the character assassination of the two of them. I think this was a ridiculous stunt and was the first time I was disappointed in the show for doing something just for the sake of shock value and not because it was an organic turn of events for the characters.
AMEN.
(I want to say except for the part about Alex and Addison but with my new girlcrush on Alex/Jane Doe and how much the sexual escapades are starting to piss me off, never mind.)
Now, here's my thing. The George/Izzie ship? Before this whole thing started I would have LOVED to see it. I like relationships on TV where best friends fall in love with another. It's the kind of thing I want to see built slowly from the ground up. I want to see two people make mistakes in love and find comfort in one another when things go bad and have good times and have them grow to a point where they realize that they're falling in love with one another.
And the thing is that up until this point I could see them steering the relationship towards that far, faaaaaar down the line. Like, towards the end of the series. And God, that would have made me SO DAMN HAPPY. I could have happily sat through half a dozen seasons of quiet friendly UST between those two before it turned into something and they got married and made babies and stuff.
This whole situation is so wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am it's detrimental to both characters. Lauren S says something earlier in the recap, It's not that I have any sort of problem with sex, or one night stands, or anything like that. But this means that George has now slept with more women in the hospital than any other of them men on whom we know stats. George. George, who we love, who is finding himself and growing a spine and becoming a better surgeon, etc., etc., etc., is now so pathetic that he can't not sleep with every female he knows. It's a disservice to the character. Dude, when Alex and Sloane -- the two men on this show with the biggest reputations as manwhores -- are currently having more success keeping their dicks in their pants than sweet lovable George, that's not right. It feels wrong. They're growing (well, Alex is growing -- I have no idea what's growing in Sloane) and George is falling apart as a character.
*****
URGH.
Okay, in news not related to how much I want to corner Shonda Rhimes and yell a lot, it's time to go to the bank and find out how much money I don't have! \o/
Somebody make me bacon to eat when I get back. Mmm, bacon. :)
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Date: 2007-03-29 04:27 pm (UTC)Why can they not leave one strong, confident, real-with-human-flaws character alone for more than five minutes?
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Date: 2007-03-29 04:38 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-03-29 06:06 pm (UTC)I don't watch GA but... Is it possible the writers are overcompensating for the actor being gay?
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Date: 2007-03-29 11:06 pm (UTC)Your scenario of having them together at the end of the series would probably be something I could tolerate, but not like this.
Hell, I'd find it less annoying if they drunkenly had sex, woke up, and went "ew." And went back to being friends who awkwardly tried to cover it up. I don't like the implications that they're somehow meant to be when we've seen no evidence of that.
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Date: 2007-03-30 07:46 pm (UTC)