Where's The Grey?
Grey's Anatomy is simply abominable; it's season finale should hightlight and magnify the best of the year - not the worst. It is supposed to show the creative geniuses of the writers and/or director who bring this thing to the minor screen. Instead, it just shows how far these people are away from reality. From doctors who spend time guarding paitent rooms to protect a sexual tryst, to hypocrisy where doctors are supposed to know everything but know nothing, to an ending where we are impressed with a whole bunch of kissing - and lesbianism. Can we propose that Grey's, which reasonably tries to make professionals in the medical field look human, instead makes such out to be like clay figurines in the hands of medievel witch doctors? Hmmmmmm.
Where's the grey? The grey area, that is. That's the part where directors and writers can enter and propose a situation that requires the viewer to consider, perhaps the answer should be this or that but no immediate answer is asserted. It's a part of our lives, yea, our religion, where we ask of ourselves what is the conclusion of a matter that requires immediate attention. We put work and effort into finding out the issue - the grey area requires that we search deeply to know the answer or that we go to where the answer may be. We don't sit around and let some promiscuous-minded writers and directors determine it for us. Let's take this scene from the finale: girl with brain tumor asked if she could sleep with fellow patient before either have their respective operation and "could" die; not taking this too far, how is it the writers could not create a more hopeful scene where the girl is told "no" - whereas now, surely, after this "tryst", one of them has to die? The writers did not consider that the majority of women from mixed racial parentages fall in love with a man who is of the same race as her father, not the mother - but Hollywood is just too far in fantasy land to even consider how much more profitable and compelling are facts in story-telling. The imagery in this scene is grotesque. How about this one: same girl's parents look over their daughter to see how's she's coming along and ask of the doctor - the lead character, by the way - when would they know if the treatment is working? The reply is abominable: "we don't know", when it should have been: "Why aren't you in church praying?" We know that doctors don't know everything, but can't the character at least give some guidance or instruction? In another part of the story,one doctor compels another doctor to stick up for her professional duty in admitting a patient to a psyche exam; is there here not hypocrisy in story-telling?
Grey's Anatomy concludes,that the people who put this finale together know what is in the best interests of their characters. That would be fine if they owned the airwaves. Woe to them. It seems, with Grey's Anatomy, with the exposition of last night's finale that promiscuity, lewdness and hypocrisy there are not too many areas of grey left. There was a time when everybody just had an opinion and no matter how awful it was you put up with it because you didn't want to judge lest somehow you were found to have faults in the same area. It seems we are heading to a clear distinction as to what is right and what is wrong here, what is proper and improper, what is black and what is white. The darker side seems, temporarily, to have the prevalent advantage. Do you not wish for a few more shades of grey?
