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Your first reason is understandable. Heck, I found it really annoying when I first started watching the show. But it's not like they say it a lot... unless they do and I've just now gotten so used to it I don't notice it anymore.

As for your second reason, it's N/A next season since they are separating DH and GA. Grey's will now be on Thursdays at 9pm. Eyes still open... check.

And I totally hear you about your third reason. I mean *I* watch 24, Lost, Alias, and Grey's. So realism? I don't know what that is. But a part of me watches these shows because of their lack of realism (though sometimes it is grating...)

Patrick Dempsey's character in GA has gotten increasingly unattractive to most of my friends who watches the show. They cite his jerky attitude toward his wife and his flip-floppy attitude when it comes to Meredith. We've given him our own Mc nickname and well I can't write it in here.

And well five... chicka bow wow.

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As a guy who has been watching since the 4th episode here is my take. I loved the first season and the second season up until the season finale. The last 3 episodes have me apprehensive. It looks like the show could devolve into an on again/off again thing between Grey and Sheperd. And I really could care less.

Also, Grey as the narrator of the show was the worst choice. The actress is inferior to the others around her, and her inner dialogue makes me want to smack her in the head every time. To be honest... I don't even know why I watch this show. Oh I remember, Sandra Oh and Catherine Heigel are amazing and their story lines are great. To answer your questions:

1. The McNicknames are getting Mcoverdone. What was a novelty has turned into an annoyance.

2. Nothing a little morning delight with the wife cant fix

3. This was another thing about the finale and the episode before it. It's been pretty acurate up until sweeps, which makes me think ABC is getting too involved. Leave it to ABC to mess up a good thing. That's why they'd been in 4th place for so long until last year. The whole two hour season finale was drawn out, dull, and very innacurate and not consistent with the rest of the show.

4. Patrick Dempsey wasn't bad until, again, the last three episodes. Before he had a wife on the show he did have this "McDreamy" quality. Now the character's been turned into "McSleazy"

5. Chris O'donnell has been great for the show, but alas I think it's just a long guest spot.

So to answer your question, it's really a wait and see thing. If the show continues to cave in to cheap stunts for sweeps under the presusure of ABC brass, I would not get into the show. I am going to watch the first several episodes. If they they do the on again/off again crap, I am definitly ditching this once good series. Hopefully the last three episodes were a hiccup.

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I like this show so much that I irrationally find all of these reasons for not watching it completely lame. (Sorry--I mean no offense--I teased the "irrational" part.)

I was willing to give you the benefit of the doubt until you admitted to watching Desperate Housewives and having never seen a single episode of Grey's (except for a few minutse of Sunday night's episode). That's like saying you never watched an episode of Arrested Development because you were so busy watching Teletubbies.

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I was hesitant to start watching this show as well. I started watching it affter the Super Bowl and I have to say I am hooked on it. My wife and I bought the first season on DVD and got even more insight into things and are definitely buying the Season 2 DVDs. It's an excellently written show that has caused more than one fight between my wife and I on the differences in opinions we have regarding the choices the characters have made and we tune in EVERY week. As a "guy's guy", I don't proclaim that I watch it loudly at work, but don't be afraid. It's an entertaining hour that when it ends has you upset that the show is over

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Okay, good, Keith. I mean, I'll admit, I watched DH the first season, but it's gotten interminable this season. And you've gotta give Grey's a chance. Rent it this summer. Feast on the first season, then rent the second when it comes out and devour that before the third season starts. Seriously. The Mc stuff is mostly charming, and it's really about relationships, not medicine, so you give them slack with medical stuff. And there ARE repercussions and shakedown as a result of the heart debacle--major sh*t goes down in the last hour of the finale and they've set things up for more shakedown at the beginning of next season. And you've gotta get over the Dempsey and O'Donnell issues because there are hot women on the show too. And you've just gotta watch it because you're missing out and I have no other non-irrational arguments right now. (I so sound like a Scientologist or something.)

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I find myself in your situation.
I stumbled onto the show ever since i kept tv on after the superbowl, and I have to say that that two episodes arc was probably among the best two hours of tv I have ever seen. A friend of mine is a huge fan so thanks to her Tivo/DVD I was able to watch the previous episodes. In my opinion, the show is
still good, but it has worsened a lot and on top of that it has gotten too feminine.
Too many McWhatever, baby stuff, girly jokes, giggly
"doctors", even George was acting like a 14 years old who got dumped in front of her cheerleader friends for most of the second half of the season.
As far as the surreal/Scrubsy side of it I mean
come on, it's not even just relative to the medicine side (which I don't really care about, it's TV). But a prom at the hospital? That chick who lives in the basement at the hospital? And so on. I'm pretty sure if they didn't bring up Alex's speech with the high school girls and with Bailey right off the bat I would have probably stopped watching the finale too, because come on it was clear what was going to happen.
But that was vintage Alex, and so funny.

I think NBC's thursday nights will be enough for me
come next season, goodbye Grey's and goodbye OC.

Oh and about Chris O'Donnel.. I don't think I could ever be threatened by someone who played a character that involved wearing red underwear on top of a tight green jumpsuit.

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I honestly would recommend watching some of what's out on dvd - the nickname thing was funny in the early episodes but rapidly became annoying and the finale was the worst season finale I've ever seen, but the characters and stories were really good. And they did some wonderful patient storylines as well.

I won't be watching next year because the things you mentioned about in number 3 re: the finale were too much to take, but I am glad I watched everything up til then.

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okay - i can see people getting sick of the mc stuff and the lack of repercussions - but i also think that having the writers blog after each show gives you so much more depth that I understand why a prom scene was written, and why izzie wore that pink peptobismol dress - it makes sense....it also gives me a fix between shows since i'm completely addicted to GA.

I know the url has been posted before, but here it is for those of you who haven't had the pleasure of seeing it before:
http://www.greyswriters.com/

Come on, mcskeptical - give it a try and i know you'll get hooked.

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Jake (#2) apparently is saying he doesn't care about the Grey/Shepherd deal. So, doesn't that mean he COULDN'T care less? Of course it does.

Think before you type. Makes you look bad.

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I find Greys simple and insincere. I watche teh early days of 'ER', the show Grey's is obviously patterened after (even down to the cast memebers, think abut it.) and thse E's with George Clooney, Anthony Edwards and Juianna Marguiles were classics and timeless.
Grey's fans.....has there been one Grey's episode that is 'timeless' stand alone that would open the eyes of soemone who's never seen any other episodes.?

Hook me on this series..which so many others like...or take those old ER's out of syndication so Grey's dosent pale by compaison..

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Every time I hear a McNickname, I want to McVomit.

Seriously, I like soaps and all, but (a) this one sounds silly even for soaps, (b) too many cutesy nicknames = McVomit, and (c) from what I hear, everyone thinks the title character is lame. Why is this so good? I can't say I've heard anything about the show that makes me think I'd want to watch more than 15 seconds of it.

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I was one of the "late bloomers" too. I saw the preview clips for Grey's Anatomy when the show started its first season, but they didn't really grab me. My friends kept talking about the show; co-workers kept talking about the show; my mom and aunt would talk about the show. Everyone told me I was really missing out. So I relunctantly watched an episode mid-through season 1. And guess what?? I loved it. I kicked myself for missing the start. I love the characters, I love the concept, and I love the writing. I watched ER in the Clooney days... I watched Scrubs for a season or two. As great as those shows are, Grey's Anatomy is superior in my opinion. In it's own way, it's like a mix of ER and Scrubs. It has the drama, and the action, and the quirkiness, and the comedy - it really has everything. The show takes certain liberties when it comes to hospital/medical protocol and some situations would likely never occur in the real world (which might turn off some, especially those in the medical field such as myself) but like any fictional show, to truly enjoy it requires a suspension of disbelief. The show is so well done, the writing is so great, and the actors are so amazing, that it's so very easy to get attached. To the question about episodes that stand out? Pretty much every single one does. I can't think of one "stinker" out of the bunch. I'm glued to the TV every week - it's that good.

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I agree, the finale stinks...
It made my head spin of irritation actually.
Now, i realized, this isn't what i bargained to watch.
It's too melodramatic for my taste.
I mean, I'm so fed up of the grey-sheperd love-lust(well more of lust) angle. Give me a break already!
From the start, I don't understand why the show's named after meredith. I just don't get her "flaws". She's like the queen of melodrama actually IMO. The others? George's too whiny. Other than that, it's pretty interesting. I love Addison, Bailey, Izzie & Christina & ofcourse, the medical stuff. thank god for them...

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