Comments on: Grey's Anatomy: Irresponsible Entertainment?

By: Grey’s Anatomy News - Real-Life Surgeons Dig Grey’s Anatomy

Grey’s Anatomy News - Real-Life Surgeons Dig Grey’s Anatomy — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 17:55:12 +0000

[...] The other days I asked if you guys felt the show was acting irresponsibly in its lack-of-punishment of Izzie’s actions. It seems to be the majority that feels that it’s just a show and should be given the liberty to stretch reality a bit. I agree with that. I mean, even “reality” shows have elements of fiction to them. [...]

By: Jan

Jan — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:17:13 +0000

Fiction is, well, fiction. I think people should be a lot more in an uproar over “Reality” shows that obviously are anything but reality!!

By: rey

rey — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 02:39:31 +0000

Obviously this show is not a reality series, it is just a fictional drama. It is not their obligation to put true information, because a real life series would be boring.

By: Jordana

Jordana — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 00:19:38 +0000

That’s just ridiculous. If the show had done everything that would’ve happened in real life, there wouldn’t BE a show because almost all the main characters would have been fired and the hospital would’ve lost all credibility. One could argue, in this case, that Shonda should never have written that storyline in the first place, but it makes for good drama. And that’s what this show is and that’s why we watch and continue to love it. Plus, as Merrique says, the hearing is still coming up.

By: Angela

Angela — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 19:26:37 +0000

I don’t think it was an irresponsible move on the part of ABC or Grey’s Anatomy. We can’t watch fictional television shows expecting to see the truth. OF COURSE that’s not how it would work in real life….it never even occurred to me that that’s how it would happen in real life….it’s a TV show!

By: vincent (from the netherlands)

vincent (from the netherlands) — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 18:55:30 +0000

I don`t think it’s irresponsable entertainment, we can see in other programms fight and shoot and how people are killed than is this ‘just’ a mirror of how live can be in normal live.

By: Merrique

Merrique — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 18:30:33 +0000

We’re forgetting the season hasn’t finished yet… and from what we see in previews, the hearing is still coming up so wait for it.

But still its just TV. AND in real life people DO get away with crime more often than we’d like.

By: Karen

Karen — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 15:29:26 +0000

It’s fiction – its a tv show and NOT real. We all know that. It is why we keep watching every week.

By: marta r

marta r — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 15:24:02 +0000

I definitely thought Izzie would have to face criminal charges in the show! That’s what expected to see this season…not just a slap on the wrist and back to work!

What she did, though it was in love, was a crime of passion – even those who act in the heat of the moment must face at least SOME punishment besides enduring guilt.

By: Grace

Grace — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 14:19:30 +0000

I think that we can’t expect TV shows to get things right. If you look at any child birth scene on TV or in movies and they’ve always gotten that wrong. They can’t always say this is not how it is, but it very rarely is how it is.

The fact that nothing happened to her is obviously not realistic. Probably, something should have happend, and then they could have resolved that in the magical way that TV shows have of resolving things they want to go away.

But all in all TV shows are what they are and you just have to take them with a grain of salt. And I think most people do or else this world would be in one big mess.