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Lexie: Mark, I'm dying. Please tell Meredith I love her and that she is a good sister.
November 4th, 2008 7:37 PM
I feel for Brooke Smith, but I didn't like the relationship between her and Sara. Gizzie fans, please stop comparing this to the dropping of Gizzie. Whether you believe it or not, Gizzie was overwhelmingly unpopular with viewers and Grey's is receiving much better reviews now that its dead!
November 4th, 2008 7:34 PM
First off, this is about Brooke Smith, not Gizzie. Let's try not to get into that arguement once more.
Someone said something about strong women:
I believe they're all strong. But, you have to realize, that not everyone can be strong all the time. Erica was a strong, smart, respectful woman, yes, but she also had serious issues with trust and was very, very patronizing to others. That's not my complete definition of a strong woman.
Meredith grew up through horrible things and she's been able to overcome a lot of that and work on changing herself. That's strong I would say, although there are a lot of things about her that she does depend on others for and sometimes she isn't strong, but nobody is 100% of the time. As a women, I am pretty proud of MOST of the ways Grey's portrays women, although I have to admit a lot are disrespectiful at times, but hey, it is pretty realistic. These characters are supposed to be like real people learning about life, not necessarily people that
November 4th, 2008 7:33 PM
I can't say how absurd this is! It's not only because BS is a GREAT actress, nor because she added something up to the show, but mainly because ABC treated her like dirt!
How could they just let her go like that? And they say they stand for the "good" family values... So, is it right to dismiss someone that works for/with you just like they did? Good lesson... THANKS ABC for teaching us how to buil such a trust-reliable relationship with our "employees"!
Okay... I know they can fire anyone that works for them any time they want... but it's really a good idea let them know this in advance!
I found it SO, SO disgusting! They could have done this without ruinning our show... giving her a proper goodbye or even preparing us for this! It's not like they had to keep her forever and if they really didn't want her anymore in the cast, they just had to do it right!
Again, thanks ABC!
Rank: Regular Character
November 4th, 2008 7:24 PM
Belle, I was just trying to make a point but true, I don't think that Grey's will be around that long. Crap, what am I gonna watch with both ER and Grey's out?
There is a point saying that the show can't write strong woman. Maybe not as much as writing as mainting them. Addie was starting to become very powerful and very chief-like but realized that it wasn't the life she wanted. That was a very strong thing to do, to build your life and be able to change it on your own, but this show is trying to show that. Meredith is growing up, slowly, but growing up. Cristina is humanizing (is that a word?) herself a little bit and slowly realizing that not everything in life is surgery, Izzie is also coming around. Bailey is like the hospital's god or something. I think that the show is focusing on the development of the strong woman more like showing them already in that strong place. Everyone has mishaps and mistakes but we all get there. By the show's end, we'll see a strong Meredith be the
Rank: Regular Character
November 4th, 2008 6:50 PM
I personally think Brooke is a good actress, maybe even great. However, I have never liked Erica Hahn from the minute she stepped into Grey's, while Burke was still there. She is just so, I don't know, bitchy somehow. I know Christina is a hard person too, but she cracks me up constantly. Hahn is either a witch or crying about glasses. I didn't like the Callie and Erica relationship, the chemistry was so off there. Sara Ramirez needs a different personality to play off, whether they take her onto another gay relationship or back to men (I personally would like to see her with Mark Sloan - manwhore though he may be, they have great chemistry together! Plus, he has evolved). As for strong women. Even the strongest have faults, and that is the beauty of Grey's. They show every aspect of the characters, their strengths and weaknesses. Show me the strongest of women in the real world, and even they have weaknesses.
November 4th, 2008 6:38 PM
ER has 9 millions after 15 years,. Grey has 14 after 5 years, you can't compare. ER is still pretty strong after 15 years. I doubt Grey will be around in that time.
Since I hate MG and hate Alex, they can oput them together. That way the god-awful AI can end.
November 4th, 2008 6:30 PM
jackofhearts - I would include Bailey in your list of strong women on the show. She's really been coming into her own, and she's earned the respect of everyone in the hospital, especially the Chief.
I do agree with your assessment of the rest of the cast though. I don't know how we're supposed to believe that any of these women are dealing with stressful life-or-death medical situations when they're SO melodramatic and needy about everything else.
November 4th, 2008 6:16 PM
Has it not occurred to anyone that the writers on this show simply CANNOT write strong female characters? Being strong doesn't mean being mean...don't they know the difference? The only strong female characters were Hahn (now eliminated), Addison (spun off) and Meredith's mom (dead).
I don't know how any woman in this day and age considers a single woman on this show to have any life of her own. Think about it: Izzy yelling at Alex about how she loves him...no matter what; Yang whining about wanting to bang an intern, thinking fondly about moving to derm, and constantly pandering to Burke; Meredith pretty much in everything she does; Callie needing to go to Sloan to find out how to please a woman?!
The fact that they're killing a homosexual story line isn't the giveaway that the writers are incompetent and have no clue about how the world works in 2008 -- rather, it's that they think the only way a woman is satisfied and happy is when she's sexually satisfying a man.
This show
November 4th, 2008 6:16 PM
Lame, lame, lame.
I will miss the storyline and Brooke Smith.
Rank: Regular Character
November 4th, 2008 6:13 PM
Homophobia anyone? This is a clear statement that ABC executives weren't happy with the gay storyline, which sucks because it was giving the show a different air to focus on. I wasn't adoring the Callica storyline but didn't found it boring. It was interesting to watch, Callie in particular, to see how this situation changes her.
I couldn't care less of Melissa's character AS LONG AS SHE STAYS OUT OF MEREDITH AND DEREK! Make her the third wheel in the Izzie/Alex triangle or write her to Sloan, whatever, just as long as she doesn't messes up MerDer.
Katia, seriously? OBVIOUSLY ABC controls her. They are her bosses. If the network didn't control the writers to a certain point, maybe The O.C., for example, could've been fixed on time. Few networks, starting by the gods at CW, are taking creative risks to be something. Someone like ABC, who is already stablished, want to maintain where they are at their level of success. This is no new science. It's a tale as old as time. Also, get
November 4th, 2008 5:16 PM
Shonda doesn,t take big risk. She dropped Gizzie because it had some backlash even though they had a lot of fans. Now she is doing the same with callica. expect her to drop any story thta has any backlash in the future and for ehr to constantly stay the safe route. She is afraid of taking risks now. That's why the show is so boring and predictable lately. ABC controls her too.
Ratings are bad for Grey but went up last week, they have 15 millions, in season 3, thy had around 20 millions.
Rank: Guest Star
November 4th, 2008 5:01 PM
I never really liked callica and I didn' like brooke smith or her character but I'm against this! ABC is just lame...
and I doubt that they are changing everything because of the ratings-I didn't heard that they were bad so...they don't have a good reason-most of people liked callica...
lame!
Rank: Extra
November 4th, 2008 4:53 PM
Wow. Just. Wow. Drama. So much of it. Lot's of people were unhappy with the story line, but big numbers of fans, gay and straight alike appreciated the risk and reward of exploring the theme. I think?
Emotions mixed right now, but talking it out at greysanatomyabc.livejournal.com/
Thanks for being here Greysanatomy insider. When you need to be with fans, it's nice to know you are here.
November 4th, 2008 4:43 PM
Its not fair. I didn't really like calle/erica as a relationship but she was one of my favorite characters. This ruins like half the season cuz now they have to rewrite the whole meredith and her bisexual friend plan and i was looking forward to seeing where callie and erica's relationship ended up!
November 4th, 2008 4:35 PM
Seriously?? They gonna change all the story lines?
Okay... and people say that Brooke getting fired wasn't a homophobical issue...
uh... who knows?
November 4th, 2008 4:25 PM
If this is true, I'm switching ABC off altogether. In this day and age, this is how the execs act. I love Grey's but this Thursday will be the last episode I watch.
Rank: Extra
November 4th, 2008 4:05 PM
I ♥ Brooke Smith / Dr. Erica Hahn! I´m sad :(
Rank: Extra
November 4th, 2008 3:58 PM
i think ABC is making a mistake in deleting the gay-themed storylines. a lot of ppl loved it, including me.
if they wanna delete smith for the show for some reason, that's their choice. but changing ALL the storylines involving homoseksuality, why??
like smith said, it's 2008... and grey's anatomy started as a revolutionairy show, so why suddenly pull back??
Rank: Guest Star
November 4th, 2008 3:53 PM
I just feel so sorry for Brooke Smith...she is such a great actress. I reckon I'll be downloading and watching her last episode...