I hate to say this, but if you are serious about punishing the truth-distorters, you have to be tough.
I love Grey's Anatomy. But I love the truth more. So I have to say good-bye, even though I don't want to.
Do I have the will to dump my favorite show?
I love Chief Webber on that show. I would go to the website of the TV network but I don't feel comfortable adding to their visit stats now to confirm the ID of the actor. But he plays it cool, and is humanly flawed while still great. I will miss seeing him.
I love Dr. Bailey who rides the interns hard, but no more.
Do I have to say good-bye to Ellen Pompeo playing Meredith Grey? Yes. George O'Malley's gentle bumbling that reminds me of myself at his age? Good-bye, George. Cristina Yang, the bitchy, sexy control-freak cyborg? Bye Cristina.
I won't mind saying good-bye to Denny, but I don't think the script writers had me in mind when they wrote him in. I will miss Izzie. A lot. Not because she is gorgeous but because the character is an easy one to play poorly and Katherine Heigl plays her smart and tough and human.
There are no angels in this show, just real people trying to do the right thing more often than not. While the medical cases they bring would lead me to think that the Seattle area has a wildly disproportionate number of rare medical disorders - the spontaneously orgasming woman of one episode was apparently a real medical condition - the people are real. The show would be just as good, in my mind, if it were a series of sprained ankles, post-car accident checkups and left-hand lacerations from geniuses injured trying to cut a hand-held bagel with a knife. The medicine is not real but the people are real.
Fake medicine is fine for a drama about people. Fake medicine is NOT fine for a documentary about medicine. Fake history is fine for a science fiction convention or for a exploration game of "what if." Fake history is NOT fine for a drama marked as the official story and mass-marketed here and around the world. The President of the United States and his political allies cannot be permitted to enjoy the political payoff of millions of people thinking that the fantasy of The Path to 9/11 is the truth or even remotely related to the truth. This show cannot be fixed; it is not a bad detail, according to Aravosis at AmericaBLOG a fictional farce with a fundamentally flawed premise, irredeemable.
If in 1946, the television world in its infancy had broadcast a "documentary" on how Hitler was in fact born in Iowa, how Mexico bombed the shit out of Pearl Harbor so strafe bombing the donkeys on the Avenida de la Revolucion in Tijuana was justified, how Hoover had the chance to kill Hitler in a beer hall in Munich but was too busy getting a "French favor" from the New Orleans madam Lulu White whom he had pardoned for federal offenses, we would not have allowed that television production to escape public wrath. We would have paid no mind to how many disclaimers they put up. If we made peace, any peace, with such a production, some of our children today would believe that it was OK to bomb the donkeys. They had it coming. Yet 9/11 was far more traumatic to our nation.
So if making sure that my children and grandchildren don't learn this self-serving fraudumentary's fiction as truth 5-10 years from now from their classmates or ignorant teachers means I have to give up my guilty pleasure of seeing Addison Shepard in all of her cool, lovely glory, well, buck up and take one for Team America. If it means that we have to keep the heat on Disney on all fronts, it is worth it. If you love your country and love the truth, this is something meaningful you can do. You can deliberately not watch ABC. You can go to Disney stores in the mall, shake the store manager's hand and explain VERY POLITELY how you want someday to come back, but won't until the Big Mouse starts acting like an honest American again. You can tell the Orlando tourism bureau that while you don't want to have anything to do with the Mouse, you would like to learn about non-Disney tourism opportunities there. You can write the NFL and ask them to consider other networks in the future when they renegotiate football contracts, since you will watch more football when your conscience doesn't bother you, especially on Monday night.
ABC does not have many winning programs coming this fall, but Grey's Anatomy is a biggie. There are other shows to watch on Thursday night instead. Maybe when I watch those shows, I will watch for the commercials and post them here. Maybe enteprising Kossacks can write those advertisers, letting them know that their ad broadcast on ____ on NBC, that you don't watch much ABC, and that you'd like a free sample of their detergent, etc.
Maybe see ya in syndication, Meredith, I hope.