The Compromise
So we get a call from Bryce and Lindsey last weekend. They want a compromise. They want Miles and I to watch the first three episodes of Grey’s Anatomy and they’ll watch the first season of LOST. Considering LOST is so awesome, we figured we could sacrifice three hours for two new fans. Even though the compromise seemed like a last minute thought, as LOST was already queued up in their DVD player. This compromise was made under the conditions that Miles and I post our thoughts, good or bad, about what we watched. And Bryce had to Twitter while they watched (in an effort to get him to Tweet more often) and Lindsey had to post about it at least once.
It almost seems like a less funny Scrubs. There are even parallel personalities of characters. A female doctor often getting hit on and not taken seriously by patients because of her looks and femininity. A female of a minority race (who I know later falls in love with) A black surgeon. A doctor who picks on the interns and is seeking to be chief of their specialty. A male doctor who is shy, and self-conscious and often mistaken to be or joked about being gay. A doctor who is a womanizer and makes everything dirty. So in that case, it was a little annoying that I’ve already seen characters like them. I had to get past it.
The show itself was pretty decent. I think I would have liked it more if I hadn’t seen enough medical-type shows already. So what would have won me over, wouldn’t have been the situations with patients, it would have been their relationships with each other and their lives outside the hospital. I have heard enough from others and seen enough on the morning shows the following days and through roommates to know that later on there are a lot more things going on, like with George and Izzy and another character we haven’t met yet, and Burke and Christina and Meredith and Shepherd (not as cool as LOST’s Shepherd). So it’s hard to judge interactions between characters in the first three episodes, because there’s not enough development there.
If ABC had all the episodes online (like they do for LOST), then it’s likely we’d continue watching from time to time. Probably not several in one night, like we’ve been known to do, however. But since they don’t, and we had to buy these three episodes to keep up our end of the deal, then it’s probably not too likely we’ll continue. Because we’re not hooked and don’t see ourselves getting “hooked” like we are to our few shows we are faithful to. But I’ll stop calling it Gay’s Anatomy (even though it’s so much more fun and that wasn’t part of the deal).
As a little extra joy, I watched Can’t Buy Me Love today on ABC Family or something – starring none other than a very young Patrick Dempsey. Ha.
Ha.
June 7th, 2008 at 11:55 pm
Season one is alright. You should watch a few from season 2 before you decide to give up. My favorites are “Grandma got run over by a Reindeer” and the one with code black. They were the first few I watched.
June 8th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
I’m glad you’ve at least tried. :) I’m willing to lend out Season DVD’s of you’re interested.
June 8th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
Lost rocks my world!
June 8th, 2008 at 8:00 pm
Alright. I’ve been twittering and you posted. I have a feeling we’ll never get posts from the other two members of this deal…
June 8th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
Miles doesn’t post anymore. Didn’t you get the memo?
June 8th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
Well, I was going to say that you can always borrow the season(s) from Debra and/or Jackie–not sure who owns them, but I think that’s been covered. I also want to go on record as saying that the first time I saw Dr. Shepherd (the less good one) on Grey’s Anatomy I said, “Hey! That’s the guy from Can’t Buy Me Love!” I watched that movie a lot when I was young. Oh, those were the days. I also want to say that I saw a connection between LOST and Grey’s Anatomy somewhere in Season three when I realized there was a Dr. Shepherd and Dr. Burke on both shows. (Isn’t Julianna’s last name Burke? If not, ignore that last comment.)
June 8th, 2008 at 10:18 pm
Debra – we may take you up on that offer.
Deb – I think you mean Juliet and I just checked on imdb.com and you’re right, her last name IS Burke! Good catch. And crazy.
June 8th, 2008 at 11:19 pm
I think we’ll find at the end of both series that Lost was really just all a dream in Meredith Grey’s mind, as she has fallen asleep in the on-call room her first day as an Intern.
June 9th, 2008 at 9:27 am
Grey’s doesn’t get really good until season 2. The first season is only a half season anyways, so it won’t take long to get through. We also have season’s 1,2, and 3, but it looks like you can find them easier than that.
June 9th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
Greys is good. Lindsey got me hooked when Alicia and I were in Philly. Now I own seasons 1-3 and plan on buying season 4 this fall.
June 10th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
yes, Juliet. sheesh.
June 10th, 2008 at 8:14 pm
I like Miles’ theory- those stinkin’ series writers- there they go messing with our heads again!
I’ll put the DVDs with the other package that’s waiting to be taken to Sioux Falls. Do you remember that?! Gesh!
July 27th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
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