I know I'm late. But that doesn't mean I have any less to rant about why Meredith and Derek are, somehow, still not together. Still.
*SPOILER ALERT* If you are one of the six remaining people who have not yet watched Season 3 of Grey's Anatomy, please be warned that this post contains information regarding pretty much every dang thing that happened. Please come back later.
Okay. First of all...the Meredith and Derek thing. Where did that go? Into an alternate universe where the laws of acting like a human being no longer apply?
Question: How can someone who is apparently your everything all of a sudden be your nothing?
So she has issues. And he has baggage. Big whoop. That's called two people in a relationship. So why aren't they? Meredith can finally be with her elevator-eyes McDreamy after the whole Season 2 fiasco, and what does she do? Tries to die (by drowning - first in her bathtub, then outside - it's complicated). Sorry, but I'm not buying. Not even if it's on sale. She can't decide between Derek and Finn? Are you freaking kidding me? She actually says, "He's the guy who brings your roommate lunch when she's sad. So I'm going to end it with Derek." But then yelling at Derek in the stairwell last season, she's all, "When I met you, I thought I'd found the person I was going to spend the rest of my life with." Hmmm. Which of these things does not belong?
McDreamy is her soul mate. So she pulls away from him, right when things should be getting all hot and hotter? Seriously? He's the one. He's always been the one. We, of course, know this. While Meredith is all dark and twisty inside and that's supposed to somehow justify it.
McDreamy = fate
Next. Addison and Alex? There's no way. There's no
freaking way she would even be able to look at him after how obnoxious he was to her. Oh, and then there was the time that he almost got her fired over the whole mother who didn't want to have kids thing am I the
only one who remembers anything around here?!
George and Callie get married. Enough said.
What do Burke and Cristina have in common? Aside from being into slicing people open? Answer: Zero things. Because both of them picking red velvet cake doesn't count as a thing. So what are these two people doing together? And they actually think they should get married? Seriously? Plus, let's keep in mind that three seasons was actually supposed to represent one year. That's a lot of people getting married and people almost dying in one year. Kind of like on
Desperate Housewives, how at this point if you see another dead body you're just like, "Whatever. Is there any more Crunch 'n Munch left?"
Was Season 3 good? Yes. Despite all of my ranting, yes. Was it as good as Season 2? No. Why not? Because Season 2 made sense. Things went together. Events followed a logical progression. And everything was fresh and new. Let's put it this way: That elevator ding sound effect they use when someone says something shocking and the camera cuts to the other person? Used to be fresh. And they used to at least make an effort to blend it into the music. It's not like I don't like the ding anymore. The ding rocks. It's just...been there, heard that.
But even if I hear it a thousand times, even if it doesn't quite fit into the scene the way it used to, I'll never get tired of the overdone ding.
You would think that a person who has never owned a TV would be less interested in watching the Emmy Awards. But actually, loving The Office, Grey's Anatomy, 24 and The Daily Show the way I do means that this was a big year. And my good friend and neighbor, Michelle, has a big TV to match. Hmmm. You can see detailed info here, but I also have a few things to say.
For example. What's up with that shot to T. R. Knight when the animation thing (before the host, who was some guy named Ryan something, came on) mentioned the shunned Isaiah Washington? Hasn't George been through enough? Especially after not winning tonight (a travesty!).
Anyway. I was majorly bummed when both
The Daily Show and
Late Show with David Letterman (which will always be
Late Night in my heart) got shot down in a double-whammy effect of what the eff was
that? And not just because when I was a teen I would tape
Late Night and watch it the next day after school, recording the Top Ten lists and best lines in my special
Late Night notebook. Dude, I even wore Adidas when everyone else was wearing Keds just because Dave wore them, that's how obsessed I was.
Jeremy Piven absolutely deserved his win (even if it was over Drama). Ari Gold is totally brill. And Jeremy is sweet. When I got my picture taken with him after the Neil LaBute play
Fat Pig (before the days of
Entourage - my love for Jeremy goes way back), he pressed his cheek right up against my cheek like we were old friends. He said, "There's love for me in New York." You got that right.
I'm a big
Grey's fan. So it was hard to accept the fact that they did not win for best drama (of course
The Sopranos had to get it, everyone knows this, duh, but it's still hard). But what was even harder to accept was the personality of Katherine Heigl (thanks for clearing up that pronunciation, by the way)...not exactly shining through. More like blinding everyone with insensitivity. Here's a hot tip: You might want to think before you speak. Like, when you say, "Even my own mother didn't think I had a chance in hell of winning" when your own mother is sitting right there as your guest, it might come off as...oh, I don't know...insensitive, perhaps? Especially when your own mother then looks as if she's about to burst into tears as the camera cuts to her while you're rambling on with the rest of your speech. Oh, and about that speech? We didn't need to hear that you've been "working [your] ass off for seventeen years." Sweetie, some people in that room have been working their asses off for
seventy years. Simmer down now.
Kiefer Sutherland: always a gentleman, looking sharp,
24 theme playing all officially in the background, still not winning for best lead actor in a drama. My conclusion: that sucks. Here's what should have happened with that:
In a fabulous moment of synergy, Steve Carell presented for best variety show and
The Daily Show finally won! Yay! Jon Stewart is so hot that it didn't even matter when he gave his speech with some lipstick on his lip. You go, Jon. Work it!
Own it!
In an even more thrilling moment (if you can believe that), Steve Carell ran onto the stage when Jon Stewart called him up to accept the best lead actor in a comedy award, which he
completely deserved. Way to stick it to the man (the man, in this case, being some lame dude who won and wasn't even there). In other news of
The Office, shout-out to Greg Daniels who won for writing an amazing ep. And in a most excellent Dwight Schrute style competition, Rainn Wilson battled Kanye West and beat his butt to a pulp. That's how long I been on ya, nephew! But when both
The Office and
Entourage lost in the best comedy smackdown, I had to call it a night. There's just no excuse for that kind of inappropriate behavior.
