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.