*Disclaimer - this post written from the depths of despair, so may contain multiple grammatical errors, overuse of capitalisation and the occasional rude word*
So I was just walking from the supermarket to the bottle shop, laden with bags, as you do. Whilst passing the newsagency I saw the following magazine cover in the window:
and after muttering under my breath something along the lines of "OMGNOWAIDUDE", I found that I was becoming irrationally angry at the concept of Meredith and Derek splitting up. Again.
Let me first set the record straight. I gave up Grey's Anatomy some time around season 3 or 4, because the on-again, off-again romances made me want to stick knitting needles in my eyes during each episode, so it's entirely possible that I've missed something. I suspect not much, however.
Why did it piss me off, you ask? Well, it's like the whole Ross-Rachel thing. All. Over. Again. In stereo surround sound. I barely survived The Whole Ross-Rachel Thing back in the 90's, or however long ago that was, and here TV goes doing it again.
In a nutshell - if two intelligent, gorgeous, and loving (albeit emotionally scarred to a degree that makes me giggle sometimes) fictional characters can't find love, what possible chance do the rest of us have, for eff's sake?
Don't these TV writers know that the only reason we put up with their on-again, off-again, nail-biting, season-finale-relationship-cliffhangy melodrama is to discover that in the end that true love will win? We don't want to see a couple struggle for years to overcome their personal issues, work crises, family dramas, sexy ex-partners and fashion accidents only to FAIL! We are only too familiar with this end result - we want to see Happily Ever After. No Matter What.
I do know why they do it, I do. They want people to keep coming back again and again and again and again to see the same stories slightly re-jigged, with newer and more exciting obstacles for our hero and heroine to overcome. Let's face it, if Ross and Rachel fell in love, had 2.5 babies and moved to the 'burbs in season 2 of Friends, no one would watch.
But I want it to end well. At least sometimes. Well, once. I honestly can't remember the details of the ending of Friends, but a quick google search gives me the idea that they ended up together. In the last episode. And how do we know that lasted? Who knows what sitcom characters get up to after the series ends? I suspect they got married (again) and took a honeymoon to Sydney and on the way home the plane crashed on a mysterious island where they... Ok. I'm getting silly now.
So Grey's Anatomy writer people? I don't like this turn of events at all. Google also reliably informs me that Patrick Dempsey (minor swoon break) has said season 8 will be his last. Sort it out, writers - if they don't end up in Happily Ever After Land I'm going to be seriously pissed off. Let's have a happy ending this time.
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