to the producers of "Grey's Anatomy"

I was not amused by your show last night.  Usually it's entirely incidental that your program takes place in Seattle.  I love the aerial shots of the city I miss so much, but otherwise the show could be taking place just about anywhere.  Then last night you decided you needed some big fat medical drama and trauma and so you decided to smash up a ferry.  That hit just a bit too close to home (wrote the girl who is going to be riding on the ferry in a few short hours).  You were just a bit too realistic with your depiction of Colman Dock with the doomed Alaskan Way viaduct in the background and a still-burning ferry there in the water.  And the part where the woman was separated from her seven year old son in the accident?  Didn't like that part at all, nope.  It matters not that the Washington State Ferries belong to the safest ferry system in the known universe (as they are happy to tell you), now those images will be forever etched into my mind as we go chugging off across Puget Sound.   Please keep in mind kind producers that the reason we all love to watch your show is for the sex.  If we want smashed up faces and lost girls and gruesome wounds we'll watch something else.  So please stop it with the ferry disasters and the marrying off all the main characters and bring us back the sex.  Thank you.

Comments

[adey]

Amen! And along with those instructions- dont throw the main character off of the dock. We know you would kill her. Without her the show is just anatomy. If you're going to play with us that way at least use a character rumored to leave the show.

[peg]

I couldn't agree more with your assessment of the ferry disaster plot. As a claustrophobic and one who anticipates disasters as a hobby, I had to leave the room when the burning ferry shot came on. We live here, guys!

[cc]

Up with sex!

I am SO glad I didn't see that! I don't like the show anyway-- it is so preposterous. I work in a hospital. Yes, I know it's not supposed to be true, but there has to be some sense of reality-base for me to enjoy those types of shows.
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[gjp]

Folks -- it looks like

she's Back!

(glad to see some biting criticism of pop culture!)

[Paul]

Yeah, that was a bad idea for a plot. Did they decide to trade writers with ER, just for a change of pace? I thought they had the copyright on the "public transportation disaster" cliffhanger plot. Should we tune in to ER this week's for our dose of residents sleeping with attendings?

Plus what the heck was with the Izzy character? It was like she'd swallowed a bottle of dumb blonde pills. She's a friggin' surgeon, for goodness sake. Blood doesn't bother her, nor has she trained for years to stare dumbly at a wounded person.

Maybe next there will be an episode where the doctors spend the episode trying to diagnose a patient, applying three different treatments that just make things worse before figuring it out at ten minutes to the hour, and then on Fox Dr. House will sleep with Cameron while Cuddy puts the moves on Chase.

OK, I officially watch too much TV.

[jessica]

I'm so glad I don't have a tv.

[ValMalGal]

Never seen the show, but I'm all for the sex over violence thing.