The past few weeks - due to my unemployment -I have been catching up on my 'Grey's Anatomy'. A show I loved when it originally started some years ago. However, due to the fact that I keep living in different cities around the globe, my television viewing over the last 4 years or so, has been rather sporadic. Very jumbled up. I'd watch episodes of T.V. shows and kind of know what was going on. But only kind of.
Sure, the basic storyline would make sense, but the background information seemed to be lost on me. The ins and outs of the characters personal lives. This made only some sense and for the most part, left me wondering what on earth was going on and what I'd missed.
I switched on the television about a month ago and saw that 'Grey's Anatomy' was on. Now, I know this show isn't for everyone, my own sister doesn't enjoy watching it and by her own account 'could never get into it'. But me, I love it. I enjoy it. I could sit here all day and watch episode after episode.
Which, dare I say it, is basically what I've done.
I have watched 3 and a half - count them, 3 and a half! - seasons of 'Grey's Anatomy' these past few weeks. I have seen characters come and go and die. So much death. I have seen the hospital change names from 'Seattle Grace Hospital' to 'Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital'. I mean, honestly, who has time to pronounce that?
It's rather odd that so many of these men at this 'hospital' are so good looking. I used to work at a hospital. I don't remember there being this many good looking people - men or women - walking the halls. I also don't remember this much nookie going on behind the scenes! But alas, this is Hollywood.
Speaking of the good looking men, here's a picture I took a couple of years ago at the premiere of 'Made of Honor' at a London hotel. It's Patrick 'Dr McDreamy' Dempsey. Don't ask me how I managed to get this photo. I've still no idea. Every time I look at it, I'm in awe. The fact is, I couldn't see him well from where I was standing - behind about 10 paparazzi - so I just lifted my digital SLR camera in the air, hoped to God it would focus on Patrick and not blurr and then I snapped, heard the click, then waited patiently for 5 seconds to pass, so I could review the photo, only to find that he ignored all the paparazzi and looked directly at me. Me! Just some fan.
The result is below. It is still, to this day, one of my top 5 photos I took in my years of meeting celebrities, if not, my number one shot...
I find it odd that there's a McDreamy and a McSteamy, but when an actual Scottish actor enters the mix, he's not given a 'Mc' name. Granted, he does do a pretty damn mean American accent! Thankfully, Dr Owen Hunt, played by Kevin McKidd, seems to have covered that base with his actual real surname!
I also find his character to be the most interesting on the show. It's not Grey, or Little Grey. It's not Dr Shepherd, the world class neurosurgeon. It's not slutty Sloane or the stand-offish Christina Yang (whom I've actually taken a liking to as the episdoes go on). No, my favourite character is definitely Dr Owen Hunt. The tormented yet compassionate man who spent years serving his country in Iraq only to come back and find love in a fellow Seattle Grace Mercy West Doctor. He`s the number one character to watch. On my list at least.
Plus, if I may be shallow for just a minute, he's pretty damn hot! (I am sorry to have taken to objectifying you, Mr McKidd).
But now it seems I've finally caught up on my 'Grey's Anatomy' that I've nothing left to do except sit here and idly wait for this weeks episode to air. I'm trying to be patient about it. But it's not easy. I've think I've become a 'Grey's Anatomy' addict. This isn't good news. I'm like the junkie who thinks the needle will bring the fix, but all it brings is more pain and desperation and lost hope.
Oh My God!!! It's just television!
But alas, I've watched so much 'Grey's Anatomy' the past week that if someone collapsed infront of me, I think I'd have to perform a coronary surgery, or even neurosurgery.
Oh, and by the way, I'm pretty sure I could! Scalpel...
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