So one of the biggest season premieres aired tonight and I am still trying to determine whether or not it lived up to the hype.
Grey’s Anatomy is one of the hottest shows on television right now, but I don’t think that you could tell from this year’s debut.
I thought that it moved very slowly as it oddly seemed like a midseason episode instead of a premiere. I felt that its direction was all over the map.
It featured flashbacks to the opening intern mixer where Christina met Burke for the first time and George tried to talk to Meredith. It also saw The Chief reneging on his wife’s challenge to leave the hospital.
But the fact is that it did not answer the question that left us hanging since last year. Who did Meredith choose? McDreamy or The Vet? Many people like to compare Grey’s to Lost as being the two best dramas in recent years, but while they are both hot shows, they clearly differ in premiere philosophy. Whereas Lost opened its second season by answering what (or more appropriately) who was in the hatch, Grey’s chose to leave it vague… with the presumable plan being that the triangle will make-up the majority of this season. I just got a sense of already seeing that last year and I was kind of hoping for a choice to have been made and for the season to see what the ramifications of the choice were.
That’s just me.
It’s still a good show. But I think the producers should have decided on a clear path. Either go with the quarantine storyline, focus on Izzie, or go with Meredith/Derek/Addison/Finn.
I was just left lacking and wanting more.
Perhaps that was the point.
