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November 4th, 2008 2:09 PM
I have a feeling this is the beginning of a very steep slippery slope that will lead to the untimely unraveling of Grey's Anatomy as a top-notch drama. The firing of Brooke Smith is bad enough, but Sara leaving is an even bigger blow and if TR ends up walking too that is just going to destroy the fan base that GA built up over 4 seasons. Right now I'm finding it really hard to love the show that just a few weeks ago I couldn't get enough of. This is truly unbelievable.
btw, that was a great, beautifully written post McSmarty
November 4th, 2008 2:09 PM
What the #@!*?! Hahn finally grew on me and I've always liked Callie. I found it interesting to get to see these two women develop a relationship and then they just drop a character in the middle of it?! Shonda says she doesn't want to belittle the relationship by bringing in another lesbian character but say's Callie is a lesbian and so she's supposed to be single forever??
Bad move ABC. 'Grey's' is a drama within a drama. No thanks... (You're lucky you have Pushing Daisies, and even that show you consider dropping altogether!) For shame! I'm going back to NBC and Tina Fey!!!
November 4th, 2008 2:09 PM
First of all: i hated Erica and thought she had no chemistry with Callie whatsoever.
that said, how on earth can they treat her that way? it's ridiculous. there is absolutely no good reason to kick her out so suddenly if it's not about Ericas homosexuality. I'm speechless!
November 4th, 2008 2:08 PM
Nicola, where's the petition?
November 4th, 2008 2:07 PM
It would be interesting to hear an official explanation for this decision. But I'm not sure that will be forthcoming..
Wasn't Isaiah Washington supposedly dismissed for gratuitous homophobic remarks? If that is so, how could the same network justify dismissing an actor and/or storyline and risk appearing homophobic?
November 4th, 2008 2:05 PM
I am two things right now..... gay and absolutely livid!!!! I know there are GA fans out there that didn't like Erica, she has been a bit of a bitch after all! But all the lesbian fans were rooting for Erica and Callie to make a go of it and ABC have just shafted each and every one of us!!! They posted spoilers where Shonda said the storyline would explore Callie coming out to her father etc. and we know that's not gonna happen now! I've chuckled to myself in the past when reading people's comments where they get so passionate about the characters and relationships but I didn't identify with that mentality, I wasn't passionate enough about any of it to post my own comment... until now! We know it's fictitious, we're not stupid, but us gays watch hetero couples getting together all the time - and they're usually naked like Callie&Mark, not fully clothed like Callie&Erica, how absurd was that???? - but once in a while the queer folk get something we can relate to and that makes u
November 4th, 2008 2:03 PM
This is really effed up. I am a straight girl, but I have been enjoying the Callica story a lot! I also liked that Brooke isn't conventionally beautiful, such as stick thin, and is a strong woman.
I'm really ticked off. I was already considering stopping watching Grey's, and now that the most interesting plot line is gone, I'm gone too.
November 4th, 2008 2:02 PM
This is very disappointing. I'm a straight, married, teacher, mother of two and christian, and I thoroughly enjoyed the Erica / Calli relationship! I laughed so hard when Calli opened up to Miranda about "going down south" and I thought it was very touching last week when Erica compared her relationship to Calli with needing glasses. It was good writing, and that is why I watch the show. It was refreshing to get away from the Mer/Der thing for awhile. You know, I'm not big on how promiscuous Sloan is, yet I don't think you here the homophobes discussing how slutty he is. But a loving relationship between two people of the same sex is somehow not acceptable? People need to get outside, get a gay friend and get some perspective.
Lorie
Ottawa, Canada
November 4th, 2008 1:50 PM
It's just wrong!! So wrong it hurts!
How could they.. How could they treat her like that!
ASAP is just humiliating, Brooke was great, the chemistry between her and callie was perfect.
I hope that Sara Ramires will walk, and George to go too.
So that ABC can see what the've done wrong
I really wanted to see how callica would be this thursday.. now it just sucks..I dont even want to watch it anymore
November 4th, 2008 1:40 PM
This is not good! I think Callie and Erica are both great characters. I wasn't convinced by their relationship but I find it ridiculous that the network would fire Brooke because of the lesbian relationship. I live in the UK and gay relationships are commonplace on tv, even shows which air during the day. Homosexual relationships are normal in real life, so why shouldn't these feature on tv?
November 4th, 2008 1:36 PM
ABC is collapsing in on themselves; they've become a living contradiction.
ABC claims they didn't fire Brooke Smith because of her gay character, and claim it was because they didn't like her character. Which is it? Did you not like Erica Hahn because she foiled the egos of characters or did you not like Erica Hahn because she was gay? Either way ABC is in the wrong and their rationale unjustified.
If you don't like where the character is at, do some re-writing. They've done a major overhaul with multiple characters: look at Addison who was hostile in her first season or Callie who was the "freak" and completely ostracized.
You don't stop writing a character because you don't like her--you stop writing a character because you have to smother a fire before it gets out of control.
You don't fire an actress because she agrees to fight for a cause she believes in--you fire an actress because she fights for a cause the conservative media disagrees with.
This goes above and
November 4th, 2008 1:29 PM
regardless of whether of not you were a fan of erica, this is just wrong. this show is getting kind of ridiculous and i think abc is losing sight of what television is all about. pleasing the fans and giving them interesting entertainment should be the ultimate goal, and firing brooke smith so suddenly and for no apparent reason is just an awful decision when she has such a fan base...
i dont see how firing her is going to give them any financial gain, so its obviously not for the money. i love greys anatomy and i will watch it to the end, but abc's reputation is definitely tainted in my eyes now...
November 4th, 2008 1:26 PM
There is coal left from the fired Erica.
Hi,Callie we love you!
November 4th, 2008 1:23 PM
It's claimed that Sara walked but due to her contract has to come back and film till episode 15 ...
November 4th, 2008 1:20 PM
Apparently Sara has walked. She's leaving in episode 15? Returning to Broadway. That's the rumour. And T.R, he was so angry after hearing that Brooke's contract had been terminated with immediate effect that he became too ill to film scenes on the last episode, hence there was hardly any scenes of him last week. I suspect he'll walk. I don't think he'll be back next season.
Very unfair to Brooke and very sad and disappointing at how ABC are so small minded and homophobic. This is the 21st century. Not the 20th and right now I'm so glad I live in an open minded country (United Kingdom) that are supportive of gay marriages and openly show gay and lesbian relationships on primetime television. With this storyline, America had come into the 21st century and made progress but now they've just gone back ten years. Well done ABC.
Brooke and Sara are stars and we should applaud them for their wonderful if brief portrayal of Callie and Erica's romantic relationship and for what they've d
November 4th, 2008 1:18 PM
I didn't like Callica but why did they have to fire her? They can just break them up and telling her 4 days in advance reeks. They have no class at all.
November 4th, 2008 1:16 PM
OMG - I don't believe this I only got into the show after watching the Callica relationship blossom, I'm from the UK and i'm sure this wouldn't happen here - god look at Badgirls. ABC should of had the balls to keep exploring as it's not like they we're being risque with the two of them!
Brooke you're amazing!
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November 4th, 2008 1:09 PM
I don't have nothing against gay couples if smb is gay that is his/her choice, but I didn9t like callica because I never liked hahn-neither when she appeared as a guest star before neither in season 4 and 5 so I'm not sad or anything but I think it's not fair to brooke smith-I mean women moved her famili to L.A. and then BUM! YOU'RE FIRED! byby
and I don't know what to think about the reason-I don't think it could be because she plays a lesbian because grey's is not the only show with that subject but I don't know what else could be a reason that someone fires her so sudden and with no explanation...if she did sth if that is her fault we would find that out through tv or net or sth so I don't thnk that's possible....
November 4th, 2008 1:09 PM
She was one of my favorite caracter :( She played such a powerfull women ... I liked her a lot.
November 4th, 2008 1:09 PM
All right, such things happen. But ASAP is humiliation.Stamile has gone in that way. Is that ABC style?
November 4th, 2008 1:03 PM
omg that's so sad! i didn't like her character very much at first but in the last few episode i started to like her! she was so god! and for the chemistry between her and callie it was amazing!so i don't know what the network was thinking!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
November 4th, 2008 12:57 PM
Gizzie was dropped due from pressure to ABC and I do know many people sauid they had problem with Gizize once they learned TR was gay. I read that a whole lot, so yeah it does relate very closely.
I just read on another site TR got sick after learning about Brooke firing hence the lack of screentime for him last episode:
More Cast Shakeups At ABC's Cash Cow?
Rumors abound that Sara Ramirez (Callie Torres) will not be completing a full season of Grey's Anatomy this year.
Rumors began to swirl when Ramirez was spotted in NYC looking at apartments this past weekend and the sudden termination of Brooke Smith, one half of the Callica couple (Callie/Erica), only adds to the mystique surrounding what is really going on over at ABC.
A source who is close to the actress would only say, "Sara really supports the gay and lesbian communities so she's not really happy by what has gone on. She was extremely close to Brooke Smith, so close in fact, that she has spent a lot of time with
November 4th, 2008 12:47 PM
Well this was a shocker...
I'm actually glad about this... to me, Erica Hahn didn't add anything to the show. Personally, I found the Callica relationship to be repulsive. Call me whatever you want, that's just my opinion.
But all I really care about is MerDer and the intern that's coming in. I've heard Mer and this intern might kiss on screen. Anything to ruin the happy-ever-after, right?
I can't wait for Thursday!
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November 4th, 2008 12:30 PM
Seriously people, it's a show - a fictional show. There are going to be changes, characters we don't like or do like, story lines we love, some we hate. We have the choice - don't watch it if you don't like what's going on, but be mature enough to not "hate" on writers or actors or networks, and mature enough to allow viewers to give an opinion of what they like or don't like.
November 4th, 2008 12:18 PM
I was never a fan of Erica Hahn, but I don't agree with how ABC treated Brooke Smith. If they weren't a fan of the Callica storyline, couldn't they just dropped the whole story? Why didn't they write Brooke Smith out, instead of just dropping her? Í don't think this is how she deserves to be treated. I'm telling you, there is more to this story then we know. I think we will never know the truth.