"Grey's Anatomy" does it exist to be a show or for gossip media?

[underpants]

Oooh look they all got a raise!!
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=2937038

Good for them and all but for crying out loud no one ever seems to talk about what happens ON the show it is just a ready made soap opera (good and bad) off the screen.

My wife watches the show as does my mother and a co-worker. To me, eh, it is marginal show at best. There are some aspects of the show that I like but mostly the acting is not all that great and several times home run lines are bunted on from a lack of trying in the writing. How long was she underwater again????

[Hugin]

1. I've never seen it...

I prefer reality shows like 'Deal or No Deal'... :rofl:

My sweetie is currently re-addicted to 'Dallas'.

[underpants]

2. And now our next contestant... a chicken

The chicken will peck out which number case to select next on this piece of tissue paper. This will show that it has the same chance of winning as the copier repairman from East Nipple Arkansas.

[Hugin]

4. Hey, it's very suspenseful!

Sort of like watching NASCAR for the accidents.

When is Howie going to lose it being touched by contestants? (He and I have much in common.)
When is one of the contestants going to go into cardiac arrest trading $2,000,000 for a penny?
When will the crowd riot and drag the banker out of his safe little hidey hole?

...

and then... THEN... There's the G-I-R-L-S!

The other day they had a Greek family on smashing plates and spitting.

It's got Shatner, Saget, and Foxworthy's shows beat by a country mile!

I'd put my monkey up against your chicken, any day... BTW.

[underpants]

6. Shatner's show is horrible

I watched the very first one and I was dying laughing Bill is clearly just there for a check which Saget was also but I ran into his show a week or so ago and he seems to be more into it. Shatner was funny waiting for the official answer and then he just told a guy "That isn't right" it was funny because what should take 5 minutes is dragged out for an hour-is that show still on?

Foxworthy show is bad but I have to say it and he is very entertaining. Some of the questions are hard because you don't deal with it every day (the comparison here is shooting pool with someone who has a table in their house while you are playing for the first time in years) and say what you want to about Foxworthy he ain't stupid (IBM engineer) and he does have a grasp on the obvious.

I am not a even semi-regular viewer of any of them.

Ah yes the girls. Now THAT is smart executive producing.

Dennis Quaid was on The Daily Show and he said that Deal was his favorite show because you get to watch whole families come apart between commercial breaks.

The last one I watched the woman actually had the Million and sold off for $50,000 or so.

[Hugin]

9. I'm more of a Randy Quaid type myself...

Any word on if he watches "Deal"? I know 'Cousin Eddie' would... Heck, he'd be a contestant.
If Clark Griswald didn't beat him to it. :rofl:

[Chan790]

3. The second...

I used to watch it until it became the consistently-worst show I've ever seen. Used to be good, but after a point it stopped developing deeper plot points and the writing dropped to the level of soap opera. I feel this is the fault of it's fans, those of whom I know tend to have about a 10th grade reading level which is disposed upon Harlequin novels. It's opium for the masses, like most television.

I feel bad for the cast members though. Some of them had real careers or the possibility of a real career before this crapfest began. Those people obviously wouldn't have signed-on for this if they had seen the direction it was going to go in. If I were Patrick Dempsey or Katherine Heigl, you'd have to give me a massive raise too to not just walk the F away.

[Missy Vixen]

7. In defense of romance novelists

>tend to have about a 10th grade reading level which is disposed upon Harlequin novels.<

Have you read a romance novel in the past twenty years? There's a reason why the sales of romance novels in the United States makes up over 50% of popular fiction sold. People enjoy reading them.

I'm a romance novelist. I think you'd be fairly surprised at the backgrounds and education levels of those who write romance novels, and statistics about our typical readers. (There is research on the subject available at www.rwanational.org)

Newspapers are written to an eighth grade reading level.

I might also mention that with an illiteracy level in the United States approaching 40%, if women will read and enjoy a romance novel, let them. They're reading.

Julie

[Chan790]

8. Oh I know...

I was a literacy activist. (and am a failing writer) I think reading anything is a good thing.

I have a history of screeds here about shows catering to their audience rather than continuing to do what they did to get there. This was in-line to that. It has reduced what once was a decent medical dramedy (I hate that word!) with an interesting subplot that the main character had a one-time fling with her superior which created sexual tension between them into...well, crap.

I have, in fact, read quite a few romance novels. (At my dentist's office, it's romance novels, Highlights, or The Economist) Some are good and quite interesting, intelligent and witty, I cited the Harlequin novels specifically though: the dregs of the genre; God-awful terrible crap prattling aimlessly about throbbing manhoods with unrealistic plots which all seem to be exactly the same and have Fabio-looking guys on the cover. I could have said dime-store horror or crime novels. The point was that I cited the worst of the genre because it is formulaic, predictable and caters to its' audience rather than taking any chances whatsoever.

Likewise, catering to masses ruins decent and watchable shows. It's like allowing yours (or mine, or any writer's) writing process and ideas about where they're going with their story to be influenced by focus groups in the middle of the story. The writers, creator, and executive producer had an idea where they wanted to go when they started this show. I'd wager this wasn't it.

[Bill McBlueState]

5. It's gone downhill, fast

My wife shares her name with one of the major characters. Every time she has to show her driver's license or any kind of membership card, she gets, "Oh my god! Your name's the same as that girl from Grey's Anatomy!"

The show used to be okay, but it kinda sucks now, IMO.