Grey's Anatomy: what's the deal?

[Felon]

I've started watching Grey's Anatomy from the first season. So far it seems like a chick show, with a lot of the plot dealing with flirting between Grey and the guy who played the little nerd in "Can't Buy Me Love" but twenty years later is a smarmy sex machine. I get the feeling this is going to be one of those tiresome marathons of unresolved sexual tension between two grown adults who are clearly attracted to one another. I can get that from a soap. Katherine Heigl is fun to look at. Does anything else develop to make it worthy of its hit status?

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

I got suckered into this show when they ran an episode following the Superbowl a couple of years back and now my wife watches it regularly. Overall, you pretty much hit the nail on the head. There are some episodes with a more interesting plot, but overall it is just about moderately dysfunctional people whining about their tragic love lives, with some odd medical stories inserted usually just to provide a background.

To be honest, I think the show would be much more interesting if it didn't feature Meredith Grey. I think the rest of the cast gets better stories, but since so much time is focused on Meredith, I no longer watch the show.

 

[Storm Raven]

I've started watching Grey's Anatomy from the first season. So far it seems like a chick show, with a lot of the plot dealing with flirting between Grey and the guy who played the little nerd in "Can't Buy Me Love" but twenty years later is a smarmy sex machine. I get the feeling this is going to be one of those tiresome marathons of unresolved sexual tension between two grown adults who are clearly attracted to one another. I can get that from a soap. Katherine Heigl is fun to look at. Does anything else develop to make it worthy of its hit status?

Well, the sexual tension for most characters is usually resolved fairly quickly - the show is mostly about doctors acting like teenagers and sleeping with each other a lot. They also practice bad medicine and kill a number of their patients along the way.

 

[Ranger REG]

I've started watching Grey's Anatomy from the first season. So far it seems like a chick show, with a lot of the plot dealing with flirting between Grey and the guy who played the little nerd in "Can't Buy Me Love" but twenty years later is a smarmy sex machine. I get the feeling this is going to be one of those tiresome marathons of unresolved sexual tension between two grown adults who are clearly attracted to one another. I can get that from a soap. Katherine Heigl is fun to look at. Does anything else develop to make it worthy of its hit status?

They have some of the weirdest medical cases, like trying to surgically remove a live mortar round from a patient's abdominal cavity (after being stupid in front of a home-built heavy weapon).

 

[trancejeremy]

They have some of the weirdest medical cases, like trying to surgically remove a live mortar round from a patient's abdominal cavity (after being stupid in front of a home-built heavy weapon).

That's not weird, that's from an episode of Emergency! from the 1970s (every medical show rips it off)

 

[jester47]

Wait. There is a character named Grey in the show? And the show is called Grey's Anatomy? I thought it was just a comedy named after a popular textbook. I will avoid this forever.

Also- didn't you notice? Every show is a soap now- Thats Joss Whedon's contribution to TV. He realised that if you format a show like a soap opera, people watch it like a soap opera. BSG, Lost, Alias, 24, even the new Dr. Who to some extent- all draw on what the soap operas have been doing for years to maintain viewership. Granted the plots are better and not so pure-relationship, but it is definately there.

 

[John Crichton]

Also- didn't you notice? Every show is a soap now- Thats Joss Whedon's contribution to TV. He realised that if you format a show like a soap opera, people watch it like a soap opera. BSG, Lost, Alias, 24, even the new Dr. Who to some extent- all draw on what the soap operas have been doing for years to maintain viewership. Granted the plots are better and not so pure-relationship, but it is definately there.

Joss Whedon wasn't the one who started this trend. You have to go back a little farther. To, like ... Shakespeare.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Wait. There is a character named Grey in the show? And the show is called Grey's Anatomy? I thought it was just a comedy named after a popular textbook. I will avoid this forever.

Also- didn't you notice? Every show is a soap now- Thats Joss Whedon's contribution to TV. He realised that if you format a show like a soap opera, people watch it like a soap opera. BSG, Lost, Alias, 24, even the new Dr. Who to some extent- all draw on what the soap operas have been doing for years to maintain viewership. Granted the plots are better and not so pure-relationship, but it is definately there.

But is that bad or not? Or is it neutral?

 

[Storm Raven]

Wait. There is a character named Grey in the show? And the show is called Grey's Anatomy? I thought it was just a comedy named after a popular textbook. I will avoid this forever.

At least three characters actually. Five if you count the two women named "Grey" who have died.

 

[Mistwell]

Wait. There is a character named Grey in the show? And the show is called Grey's Anatomy? I thought it was just a comedy named after a popular textbook. I will avoid this forever.

Also- didn't you notice? Every show is a soap now- Thats Joss Whedon's contribution to TV. He realised that if you format a show like a soap opera, people watch it like a soap opera. BSG, Lost, Alias, 24, even the new Dr. Who to some extent- all draw on what the soap operas have been doing for years to maintain viewership. Granted the plots are better and not so pure-relationship, but it is definately there.

Did you really just credit Whedon with this?