Finales. I liked one, hated the other.
Twenty-two episodes into the seventh season, they finally get the spirit of Gilmore Girls right—just as it ends. Which makes about two or three shows worth watching the entire year. (One of the others was when Emily got arrested. That was a hoot.)
Stupid WB. Stupid CW. They never should have fired Amy Sherman-Palladino. If they hadn’t, the Gilmore Girls would still be going strong, and would not have been the show that I taped for a month before finally getting around to watching the episodes prior to the series finale.
Well, at least they got rid of Logan and gave Rory a spine again. And almost turned Luke back into Luke, instead of that wuss he’s been for over a year. But still, every time I see an old episode, I notice the vast chasm between the show-that-was and the show that it became. Wow, this season sucked. Black-hole level sucking.
I need a new show to fill the gap. Something good better come up next season. A good chick-flick for TV, like Men in Trees. Only better.
I seriously doubt it’s going to be the Grey’s Anatomy spinoff. If that pilot episode had been any more boring, I would have taped it and prescribed it to myself for insomnia.
And while I’m on the subject of Grey’s Anatomy:
Hi. Do you know me? I’m Shonda Rhimes. I’m the creator and executive producer of one of the most popular shows on the air. It’s about these doctors, see, and their lives, loves, and laments. Only this season, it’s been all about the laments. I decided that this season, everybody suffers. It’s not bad enough that Meredith is all dark and twisty, what with her having the most awful onscreen mother since Mommie Dearest. This season, we had to make her choose between McDreamy and McVet, turn down (again!) McSteamy, give her mother heart problems, have her mother become lucid long enough to tell Meredith what a disappointment she was, is, and forever will be, drown her, kill her mother, make Meredith pull herself back from some limbo-like dream fantasy, and then, when we finally give her something good (getting closer to her stepmother and father), we take that away from her by having her stepmother die of an infection caused by the procedures that Meredith suggests. (Incidentally, that rule about physicians not treating family members doesn’t seem to be in effect here.) Then her father hates here again. Oh, and now her boyfriend is about to break up with her.
But that’s not enough. We also took George the Steadfast and made him drunk and unfaithful (the drunk we believe, the unfaithful? No.) and in love with Izzy, who is in love with him. Sorry. Haven’t bought it all season. Still not buying it. Izzy attaching herself to George, sure, because she’s still devastated that Denny’s gone (and aren’t we all?). But wait! We get to torture even more people! We have Burke leave Cristina at the altar, then walk out of her life, because this man, who has been dating her for three years, suddenly doesn’t get that Cristina freaks out before all things major. Addison can’t have a baby, McSteamy can’t have Addison, Alex can’t have Ava, nobody gets the Chief of Surgery position because the Chief isn’t leaving (we knew that all along). The Chief’s wife loses their baby (say what?!), the damned writers cheat us and make us think she’d died (she didn’t), and, let’s see, have we forgotten anyone? Oh, right. Callie knows that Izzy and George have a thing going on. George flunks out. Bailey doesn’t get Chief Resident. And all of this happened in the last two episodes.
The only ones who ended the year happy are Joe and Walter, the two gay guys who adopt twins at the end of the episode, making them, once again, the only happy couple on the show. Maybe she has something against heteros.
I don’t think Shonda Rhimes likes her characters. She sure was mean as hell to them this season.
If things don’t pick up, I’ll be dropping this show, too. Come on. There’s only so much angst a viewer can take. We like the happy. Really. We really, really do.
I’m guessing I’m going to hate the Lost finale just as much.
Then again, there’s always the Heroes finale. If they don’t blow up New York—especially if they don’t leave us with a cliffhanger where New York is about to blow—I’ll probably like it.
No way it can be worse than Grey’s Anatomy. Even if they blow up New York, it can’t be.
Be patient. Next season there’s Pushing Daisies which looks intriguing, a vampire detective [if he spends all his time being all like broody I will file an objection], a time-traveling reporter [at least he doesn’t get his paper early], and a new bionic woman [oh lord start the slomo cameras].
Boom.
I agree they really screwed up Grey’s Anatomy. Someone had to flunk his test, but why George, why not that other idiot that was with Izzy before Denny. Burke should have married Christina; that would have created some interesting plot twists.
Yeah, and don’t you just love Addison telling Alex to bust up someone else’s marriage? Because that worked out so well for her and McSteamy.
Okay, I can see them trying to turn Alex from a tushiehead into an honorable dude, but at George’s expense?
Addison should not be allowed to give dating advice. Doesn’t she have the highest “dating number” on the show?
But don’t forget it’s escapist fantasy. If residency was anything like this program we would have to be pulled kicking and screaming to graduation…
Doctor: Since I normally do not watch T.V. (I only tape Heroes and Farscape), what network are the shows that you mention going to be on and what are their names? They sound tapeable (though I usually don’t have time to watch the tapes.
Meryl:
Given Hiro’s powers, I can see New York blowing up and Hiro jumping back to create another alternate.
I can also see us realizing that the explosion is to a real New York destruction as Hiro in the museum in front of the dinosaur is to Hiro back in the age of dinosaurs confronting a living T-Rex.
Sabba:
Pushing Daisies [ABC] about someone who can raise the dead by touching them.
Moonlight [CBS] about a vampire PI who falls for a breather.
Reaper [CW]about a guy who’s job is to hunt down and retrieve those who have escaped from Heck.
Bionic Woman [NBC] with some british actress!
New Amsterdam [FOX] a homicide cop is secretly hundreds of years old and tired of living [will this one last long?]
The Sarah Connor Chronicles [FOX] she said she’d be back…
can’t find a reference to the one about the time-traveling reporter [and if he goes to the future is he out of a job?]
Boom.
By the way, here’s my latest Sylar theory. Do we notice that he seems to be much better at using his powers than the others? Look how smooth he was with the police van, and the use of his hearing, and his fine control of his nuclear hands in the last scene.
In his origin, we saw him as a watchmaker, and he kept saying he was good at making things work. Is his power eating brains, or is it coordinating, fine tuning, and using talents to their maximal efficiency?
That would make him very hard to beat indeed, since everyone else seems a bit clumsy with their powers…
And, for the record,
Boom.