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⌈ Secret Post #3102 ⌋

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[Zack and Miri Make a Porno]

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[Video Games Awesome]

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[Steven Universe]

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[House MD]

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[Blazing Saddles]

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[My Love Story]

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[Gordon Ramsay, Kitchen Nightmares]

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[Robert Vaughn, Jack Lemmon, William Shatner]

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[MMOs]

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[Death Note]

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I feel like an outlier because I love Grey's Anatomy for the soap opera shit. It's my guilty pleasure. I love it! Long-lost sisters? Great. Torrid affairs? Fantastic. Pregnancies, drama, shootings? AMAZING, I want more.

I actually don't hate that. I enjoy the craziness. But it is because I love the characters so I love seeing them go through all this. I never feel that way with soap operas because the characterization is always so flat that I don't keep watching because I don't care for any of the characters. That is what sets Grey's apart for me. The craziness works because of the strong characterization (although I think it may have gone a bit far more recently, but that may be the lack of Christina and very little Callie stories for me since those two are my favorites).

Same Anon

Yeah, definitely. I can't watch actual soap operas because I hate the characters, but Grey's grabbed me.

Meredith is my favorite character, even though she's hard to love. I stopped watching after Cristina left and I heard Derek died.

Meredith was always hit or miss to me, mostly because she hits too close to home a lot of the time (though more in early seasons). Derek I outright can't stand, so I don't mind that he's gone. But his death was badly done. And none of the characters I care about are getting any story.

I enjoyed Arizona's storyline early this season, but then everything just got boring. I hate that Callie and Arizona got divorced and seem to be permanently apart now. I love that they brought in Amelia, but I hate that she was shoved right into a romance with Owen (and that she wasn't given the chance to really mourn for Derek, her brother).

I've been along for the ride on this show, even for storylines I didn't like, but just this past season after the first episodes was so boring. Even Derek's death was boring.

I didn't realize I was getting attached to her until it was too late. It was like she snuck up on me...I was like "yeah she's kind of boring" and then when Derek was being a dick I was like "how dare you. get away from her."

On a side note, I didn't like Derek much either. I felt as though he inflicted way too much damage on Meredith and guilted her for not reciprocating his feelings in a way HE wanted. The reason I stopped watching was because all of the extremely unneeded character death was grating on me, and hearing about another just made me uninterested.

I hate that Arizona and Callie broke up. Arizona didn't not feel like the kind to cheat and the fact that she did felt like just a way to break them up. I didn't expect them to be together forever, perfectly, but the way they broke up seemed like a slap in the face. Their bittersweet breakup about the children would have made much more sense and I actually would have preferred that to be the reason. On a sidenote, I miss Mark, Callie, and Arizona together so bad it hurts. My OT3!

It seems as though they're grasping at straws now. The spirit of the show was perfect in those first few seasons, but it got too dark and started taking itself too seriously. Like Glee!

I honestly think that part of it is that Shonda's attention turned to her other shows, which are all so much darker than Grey's. Even when horrible things happened on Grey's before, there was always a certain lightness. And while I don't believe in destiny and "one true love" that was always part and parcel of Grey's until recently. Now it is becoming almost as dark as her other shows and it doesn't really feel like Grey's anymore.

Oh man, the shooting episode was so good ("Death and All His Friends" I mean, not the episode where Burke got shot at the hospital although that one was good too). It was the first Grey's episode in a while to really engage me; I know some people who thought it was too much, but I loved it. It also had the bonus of getting rid of some of the annoying characters brought in because of the hospital merger (Reed and Charles were just awful. I wanted to throttle them whenever they showed up on screen. I feel kind of bad for being happy that they got shot, but I was okay with whatever it took to get them gone)

The plane crash episode was pretty great too imo. It's too bad that they killed off Lexie RIGHT as I was finally warming up to her character though. Poor girl.

I agree with everything you said. The episode made me cry, actually, which made me feel like a big baby, but it was kind of terrifying. Watching the characters I came to love go through that was just awful. That scene where Cristina keeps operating with the gun to her head, with Owen and Meredith and Jackson, was one of my favorites of the series.

I liked the plane crash episode too! It felt a little (well very) unrealistic to have it happen but I thought they pulled it off alright. I hated that they killed off Lexie and Mark, I actually liked them a lot, and I liked Lexie from the beginning. They were wise not to have her actually be interested in Derek. It would have been her death sentence.

Oooh yeah, that operating scene was genuinely intense. I also really liked the PTSD storyline that Cristina got because of it; I thought it was a great arc for her character and it solidified her as my favorite.

I thought Lexie was a bit too annoying and quirky when she first showed up tbh (but I was also kind of pissed off at the show around the time she showed up, so she may have just gotten swept up in that). As the show went on, I found her character to be a lot interesting and bit charming in a way. It's made her character more enjoyable when I rewatch older episodes

See, I liked Lexie and I liked her with Mark in the beginning. But then when there was the whole storyline with Callie getting pregnant and her actually angry with them, I stopped liking her. She was just so immature during that whole storyline. It was fine to not want to be with someone with a child, but to actually be angry with him for having a child when he only slept with Callie while he and Lexie were broken up just showed her immaturity to me. And I just never could get over that and like her again.

I liked Lexie enough that that didn't kill her character for me, but I agree she was acting immature. To be fair though, he did spring this being a Mom/being a grandmother thing on her (while they were in a relationship) not once but twice. I wish she'd been more mature about it though.

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