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Old 01-01-2008, 07:19 AM
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Lets hope that 2008 will bring us better Mer/Der goodness
I hope 2008 will be the year of MD!!

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I wish that scene were a bit brighter too... It's so bad to make icons with or any kind of art


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Can't you lighten the image to make it better? When making artwork with it i mean?
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Nice cap But I don't remember in what epi it comes from
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It’s cheap. It’s easy. It’s insidious. It's relentless. It’s the most over-used plot device on television – UST.

UST (unresolved sexual tension), to the best of my recollection, is a term coined by X-Files' fans to describe the chemistry between Mulder and Scully.

This year, UST and its variations can be found in Desperate Housewives, Chuck, Reaper, Life, Journeyman, Grey’s Anatomy, Californication, Pushing Daisies, Tell Me You Love Me, Ugly Betty, Women’s Murder Club, Moonlight, Dexter, Big Shots, Brothers & Sisters and the list goes on (and on and on).

In the hands of talented writers, UST is fun. On rare occasions, it's a delight. Mostly, however, writers use the device to taunt viewers. Networks and/or the writers play the highly manipulative, two- steps forward one-step back game, often over the course of several seasons. UST is a cheap and easy technique for getting viewers to cling desperately week-after-week-after-week

But the networks and showrunners are playing with fire, too. When a series RUSTs-out - due to RELENTLESS unresolved sexual tension - once loyal audiences can quickly turn into furious web mobs. And their word of mouse can be scathing and potentially damaging - which is pretty much what's happening at the moment to Grey's Anatomy.

[..]

Grey’s Anatomy!

for the Meredith/McDreamy string-along.

Grey’s Anatomy sharked out during a February’s sweeps ferry explosion arc. Meredith Grey tumbled into the bay and flatlined, a plot feint that had viewers and critics rolling their eyes. ABC hyped the melodrama as “the most important hour(s) of television this season” and “destined to become the most talked about television all year.”

I seem to recall that audiences were told by ABC not to “miss the devastating conclusion.”

Riiiighhht, snerked the fans commenting on Maureen Ryan’s blog - like ABC was going to change the name of the series to “Anatomy.”

Ellen Pompeo (Meredith) and Patrick Dempsey (Dr. Shepherd or McDreamy) are yet another pair of actors whose chemistry can only be measured by the nano-thimble.

The drowning stunt may have led to bedside UST (or hurt/comfort), but I never returned to Grey’s Anatomy to find out if McDreamy declared his love over a bedpan, in true fanfic tradition. (But the fanfic writers do it a lot better than most television dramas anyway.)

Grey’s Anatomy fans are apathetic. Worse, they’re angry. Creator Shonda Rhimes, claim the fans, likes to reframe this fury as a sign that fans still care enough to be passionate. No, it is what it is. They’re just mad.

Here's a small sample of frustrated and angry comments culled from Television Without Pity. Frustrated and angry comments mean that viewers could jump the ship. (ship: short for relationship.) Taunting the wild viewer is a dangerous game.

[..]

Okay, then. It’s not just me. Here’s the promo for the ambulance crash episode mess, this time during November '07 sweeps. It was another “life changing” moment. Do they have no new ideas on this show?

The viewers are right: nothing has changed since last year. The ferry crash was followed by a school bus crash, was followed by an ambulance crash - and Meredith is still a commitment-phobe. (I'm having a little trouble keeping track of the timeline, to be honest. The plots are all bleeeding together.)

Meredith finally tells McDreamy that they can only date each other. Such progress! But wait! – they’ll talk about it later. Patrick Dempsey (McDreamy) strains to convey a tender facial expression, but really looks nauseous, probably because he's just as bored with this tedious storyline as we are. And besides - he just kissed Rose for fixing a computer in his O.R., stretching motivation and believability past the breaking point.

Hinting at disastifaction over the show's failure to grow the characters, Dempsey told reporters he was ready for a change.

On a TV Guide blog, annoyed viewers unloaded.

Said one: Meredith and Derek are following the same formulaic path that about 2842963 TV couples have followed before them. I wish showrunners would catch on to the fact that their viewers are smart enough to recognize these formulas and be bored by them.

Lost in this miasma is the fabulous Chandra Wilson (Bailey) and the incomparable Sandra Oh (Cristina), their talents diminished by the absurd plots, the narcissistic characters, the irritating voice overs (topping CW's Gossip Girl for worst television v.o.) and the stiff Ellen Pompeo. Sandra Oh dances circles around Pompeo in more ways than one. “Stop!” Cristina says to Meredith’s non-stop moping about whether to date or not to date McDreamy exclusively, “Dance it out!”

Unfortunately, I don't see the big network's weaning themselves from RUST any time soon. I suppose in ’08 I'll be assessing another crop of RUST’ed series, propped-up by the predictable sweeps stunts: weddings, storms, deaths and crashes.

And next year at this time I'll have a blog post entitled "The ’08 season: The Big Networks, still doing what doesn’t work harder.”

Source: My Vote for 07's Worst Drama: 'Grey's Anatomy' (for Taunting Viewers with Unresolved Sexual Tension, Television's Hokiest Plot Device) - TV Crush

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Aww that bar scene was great until that umentionable person ruined the scene. But i love these two because they have so much chem in every scene there in good or bad!
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