Grey's Anatomy: The M.A.G.I.C is Gone

Hello Lovies!

So, as you know I've been ambivalent about Grey's Anatomy for sometime now, sure that it had jumped the shark and would probably be lucky to be renewed for another season - if that.

With last week's confirmation that Katherine Heigl will not be returning to the series, I feel compelled to make some sort of statement. So here goes.

When this show first debuted, my friends and I were hooked immediately. The 5 main characters -the interns, were a fresh addition to reality heavy TV and we related to them and the show right away. It was during the second epi that we noticed that the first letters of their first names spelled out the word MAGIC (I now refer to this as the Harry Potter Ministry Of Magic Effect - and if you got the reference I will heart you forever!.)

M = Meredith
A = Alex
G = George
I = Izzie
C = Cristina

Their camaraderie, hi-jinks, shenanigans and drama was great for the first 3 seasons and then that show seriously started going to SHIT! Shitty writing, contrived stories (getting stabbed by an ice stalactite, performing mouth to mouth on a deer, not to mention the epic...Meredith 'drowning' incident, the 'for the love of God just Fucking Die Already Denny so Izzie can stop fucking your ghost' crap, the '007 BusKill' and of course 'The Post It Marriage') What. The. Fuck. Shonda? What the Fuck?

Say what you will about Katherine Heigl and the shitty, entitled, ungrateful attitude she displays in the media, but she acts the hell out of the crappy material that is written for her on Grey's. For that alone, I will miss her.

I miss the old Alex Karev, not this pudgy, emasculated, whiny asshole that he is now.

I WILL NEVER miss George 'I made a girl cry during/after sex' O'Malley. Ever. He was THE weakest link on this show and I cheered like a fucking loon when I realized that he really had been killed by the bus. YES I DID!

Cristina's character was my favorite character, but then Shonda ruined her with the fallout from the Isaiah Washington bruhaha. She has never been the same since. Her character has basically devolved into a bitch; and not the good kind either.

What can we say about Meredith? Dragging her remaining family into the show - her Dad and her sister Lexipedia (I hate Lexie and the actress who plays her with the fire of a million suns! GAH!!!!) ruined her characterization as well.

Shonda, what the hell happened to the Fab Five? It's like you wrote these excellent characters and then just stopped developing them or you left it up to others who didn't share your vision. The show hasn't been the same and I don't watch it anymore and you know what...I don't miss it.

What I do miss is the excellent character Dr. Preston Burke. That was one of the better veteran actors on the show. He could act circles around McDreamy AND McSteamy. He was that good. The way you as the creator of that show handled the 'slur heard around the world incidents' was horrible. I believe that you let T.R. Knight, Katherine Heigl and ABC pressure you into letting him go and in agreeing allowed his unexpected departure to ruin the direction of your show. It has never been the same since. You have only yourself to blame. Handling this differently, you could have kept him on and it would have avoided the shoddy addition of so many stupid extraneous unnecessary characters (Dr. Hahn, Lexipedia, Meredith's Dad, Teddy etc.).

Anyhoo, it's all water under the bridge now, but I wonder if you would reconsider re-hiring Isaiah and resurrecting the Dr. Burke character; he would be a threat to so many people and open up so many avenues for drama and entertaining story lines. He would be a cardio-thoracic specialty threat to Teddy and threaten her title as Mentor to Cristina as in his time away he has become the expert in their field and has just patented/perfected the 'Preston Procedure' (shit now I have to write fan fic for this! LMAO/NR). He would be a potential love interest again for Cristina and cause some problems with her and Owen. He could also come back gunning for Chief and therefore be a threat to both Richard and Dereck. Just a few thoughts.

Shonda, it's been a great run, but Grey's is officially dead to me. I won't miss the show, but I'll miss what you created initially.

That was indeed M.A.G.I.C.

Dazz