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Post by Leanne on Feb 28, 2009 2:55:56 GMT -5
Sometimes, bad shows happen to good TV characters. Alas, the world is imperfect. Maybe it's time to liberate some of those worthy folks from mediocrity, and set them up in new series? Here are a few TV rescue missions, on the eve of March sweeps. MATTHEW GILBERT Discuss COMMENTS (0) Cristina Yang (Sandra Oh) "Grey's Anatomy" It's time to spring Cristina - and the tabloid-free Oh - from this fading star of a show, which is now in a codependent cross-promotional relationship with "Private Practice." Of all the central players on "Grey's," Cristina is the only one I can still wholeheartedly root for. She's all business, and a bit of a bully; but in this group of doctors with no boundaries, that's refreshing. Let's send Cristina, with love interest Owen (Kevin McKidd), to an East Coast hospital where they can work on more fascinating medical cases. The show? "Yang, Seriously." www.boston.com/ae/tv/articles/2009/02/28/set_these_characters____free/?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Matthew+Gilbert+columns
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Post by ruralstar on Feb 28, 2009 7:10:48 GMT -5
Works for me, let's get them filming in New York ;D
Seriously though, I couldn't see a show revolving around Cristina and Owen lasting for very long. They are both wonderful characters but Cristina especially would need to be softened by some of the same elements still present on GA. Not idiots like Izzy per se but by the humor of things like the Mark/Lexie storyline. Never mind that our dear Owen's issues would make the character in danger of becoming a caricature of himself. We don't need to set the characters free, we need to take a page from the book of the people in charge of NCIS for example. Let the show runner go and let the actors and writers get on with quality work that does not include revolving door 'regulars' and ghosts.
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Post by MarryMeOwen on Feb 28, 2009 9:07:10 GMT -5
They always pick the less obvious choices for spin offs from Grey's. I love Kate Walsh, and most fo the actors on her show, but it just doesn't work. I would like to see Kevin and Sandra in their own show outside of the Shonda Rimes canon, she tends to run things into the ground after a couple good years under her belt and get distracted by other projects. Like right now so many different people are writing for Grey's because she's obsessed with Private Practice, which frankly isnt' doing well.
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