Oooooooooo-kay ...?
... After Sunday night's big Part I of the Grey's Anatomy finale, I mostly was left thinking, 'Good Lord, I think they over did it a little bit here. ... Denny should've been dead weeks ago. I was sick of him and Izzy's little fairy tale after the first night ...and now Izzy's gone psycho!!!! ...
... And then Burke gets shot. Didn't see that coming.
... Now we're nearing the end of the big Part II tonight ... and I'm not sure I've been more furious with a Grey's Anatomy episode ...
... Izzy was CRA-zy -- and delusional, and her insistance to compromise Denny's status to 'steal' a heart -- which, of course, led to the whole Burke getting shot fiasco -- was downright ugly ... and it made me even more upset that her intern gang went along with her.
... they all deserved everything they got from Bailey. Although she could've slapped 'em all upside the head, and I would've said they all deserved that too.
... And still you have to admire (a little) the way they hung together, and talked around Chief. But I'll never look at Izzy the same again ...
... and now she's done. So it appears.
... if there was anything to like about the whole three-hour drag-a-thon, (aside from the facts that Burke will survive and McDreamy and Meredith -- ok, a slight yawn -- apparently are over that whole 'whore thing' ... sucks for poor Addison ...) it's that George scored major gentleman points (even while he's already soaring far above the other men on the show) for his apology to Meredith for their little escapade earlier in the season and then his explanation to Callie about why he couldn't say whether he loves her ...
... and just when I wanna go on about how odd of a character Callie is, she's trying so hard to keep up with George and being cool -- like making sure Meredith's dress is tied after -- well, you know, with McDreamy ...
... Oh Meredith, what have you done ... again!?!?!
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Before the whole Grey's Anatomy shebang, Kates and I fondly took in and reflected on West Wing ...
For me, the final episode was well-done, although not near as memorable as other recent series finales. The comedic lines, quirks and subtle reflections of past episodes were all there, but the flow of the episode felt as though the writers had tried to cram a little too much in to it ...
... seeing the pilot, aired before the final episode, offered up some neat moments too, although I really would've enjoyed seeing the 'look back' NBC had advertised several weeks ago ... but apparently the cast suddenly thought they were too good for doing something like that ...
... Hard to believe it was six years ago that 'West Wing' was becoming a sensation and (yes, it's storytime) I was in New York City for a conference. On a rainy Thursday night during the spring of 2000, near the end of the show's first season, I sat with about a hundred other fellow college journalists and our advisers and screened a 'West Wing' episode. It was the first one I'd ever seen, and I was hooked immediately ...
... then Aaron Sorkin, Alison Janney, Dule Hill and Martin Sheen were brought into the room for a brief press conference to talk about the show. Three friends and I stayed for the conference as long as we could, before we had to get over to the Nederlander Theatre for 'Rent' ...
... I got to live out a dream by seeing 'Rent' on Broadway ... but I'll never forget the friends of mine who did stay and later waved in my face pictures of their shoulder-to-shoulder encounters with each of the above-named cast members ...
sigh.
... 'West Wing' is gone and now another tie to another era is severed.
a City Says Goodbye to 'West Wing,' Its Chattier Self -- a neat story from the Washington Post, with a sidebar about the cast members, about how Washington, D.C. said good-bye to West Wing.
a An interesting 'West Wing' fan site
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