But what I want to talk about is season finales. You (elusive, possibly nonexistent you) don't know this about me, but I am obsessive about television. Obsessive may seem like a little bit of an intense word choice, but I promise you, it is no hyperbole. It started with the OC in grade 9 and I watched every single episode, twice, three times. One Tree Hill was my next baby, and with this one I spent time of forums and read spoilers. Veronica Mars, Gilmore Girls, Joan of Arcadia, Friends, Grey's Anatomy, Gossip Girl, Sex and the City, How I Met Your Mother, The Office, and Arrested Development later, I can pretty much call myself a television aficionado. I am hardcore. I watch every episode, I hang through bad sweeps and story arcs, I have sidereel.com bookmarked permanently on my broswer, obsessive really is the only word that can describe it.
So, season finales are a big deal for me; and this year, they kinda sucked, with the exception of one, so here it is, a list (in no particular order) of my dissection of the season finales of 2009.
I. Am. So. Lame.
The Office- I love love love this show. I think it's hilarious and amazing and I watched 4 seasons in like a week and half over Christmas break. I have a massive crush on Jim and I love Dwight. That said, I found season 5... weak. I loved the Jim/Pam engagement, I loved the Michael Scott Paper Company, the one liners seemed to be getting better (somehow, I don't know how), but the season as a whole just lagged. The season finale was lackluster as well, with the office going to the company picnic and playing a game of intense volleyball. Highlights: Dwight stalling (how many people need to get hurt? One? Two? Three? Four? Five?! Six?!), Toby and the HR guy talking in the most monotone voices about the hilarious HR retreat, and of course the PB & J pregnancy. John Krasinski did an amazing job with that one, and I think the scene really benefited from the audience not being able to hear it.
Out of 10, 10 being out of this world amazing, I give it a 5.
One Tree Hill- It is first important to note, that after 6 intense years with the OTH gang, I stopped watching this season. It was just too bad and too uninteresting. But, I decided for old times sake to watch the finale, with my friend explaining everything to me-- for an idea for how out of it I was, I didn't know about Peyton's weird pregnancy thing. But, my question is, was this the series finale? They all ended happily! There was no cliffhanger, everyone was with their respective someone, no one died and forgiveness and happiness was achieved. What. The.Hell. If this was the season finale and not the series finale it was the worse thing ever, on the epic scale at least. I give it a 2 out of 10.
Gossip Girl- this show just hasn't been doing it for me as of late, but like the Office, the last little bit of it made up for the whole thing. Yes, that means I'm a Chuck and Blair fan, a fact I only recently found out. They were just sooo cute. The rest of the episode was drama filled, but because there wasn't a solution to the "WHO IS GOSSIP GIRL?" mystery, it was kind of a waste. Also, it totally went over my head that the Lily and Rufus' son was that random kid in the coffee shop. It's sort of a show I think I'm going to stop watching. 4/10.
How I Met Your Mother- I love this show. I love this show. It's hilarious and I love all the characters, but it also was lacking. I mean, I enjoyed it overall, and I thought the Barney/Robin storyline fit them really well... but very little was solved. The cliffhanger of "your mother was in that class" was fitting for the show, but also not very exciting. I don't know, I just felt it could have been .... better. Out of 10, it gets a 4.5.
Grey's Anatomy- This episode knocked my socks off. It was fantastic, the twist at the end made it, but I think that because the beginning was a little slow it made the ending so much more urgent. I did not see it coming, some people say that they did, but it completely went over my head. I was bawling like a baby, and bawling might even been an understatement. I was sobbing. It started with Bailey and the chief's conversation, with her crying and it went right on for like 5 minutes after. I have a theory about who died/who lived which i hurriedly typed up in a facebook message to my friend, which I might copy and paste to the bottom of this post. And the Lexie/Mark story line? Adorable. Derek/Meredith marriage? Fantastic, so cute. Callie and Arizona are feeling a little stale for me, they keep having the same drawn out argument and then coming back together. Out of 10, this finale gets a 10.
90210- This, like the rest of the season, was awful. The acting seemed to get worse (Naomi screaming at Annie to get out, and then Annie's fuming cry/smolder thing? What was that?) The cliffhanger of Liam getting taken away? Couldn't care less. Out of 10? 1; and only because they were wearing fancy prom attire throughout.
Anyway, I think that's all the finales I watched; minus 30 Rock, which was really awesome but wasn't something I could really blurb about.
AND NOW (drumroll, please) Juliana's (Juliana!) Amazing (Amazing!) Grey's (Grey's!) Prediction (Prediction!) {that was supposed to be an echo, in case that wasn't clear}
I started thinking about the finale and how they could totally cop out and one of them could be alive still.
Unfortunately I can think of it either way, just listen and then im going to sleep--if the drumming stops{my neighbours were having a drawn out engagement party next door, and it was 3AM, I was more than a little annoyed}
IZZIE DEAD, GEORGE ALIVE: she's wearing the prom dress, going to see denny, because thats what she was wearing when she was going to see him when he was dead and if she's going to see denny then shes dead too. George is on the floor and shes in the elevator, hes in the light and shes moving away from it. He seems calm and collected like he's sending her off and she seems confused and a little out of it because shes dying. He's wearing the uniform because he is going to continue living and fulfill his destiny of being a army doctor.
GEORGE DEAD, IZZIE ALIVE: He's on the floor because he's already dead and she's in the elevator travelling back to alive-ness. he's wearing the uniform because he died honourably. He seems calm b/c he already knows he's dead and she's confused because she's in that stage between awake and dead.
ON THE OTHER HAND THOUGH
If he dies, then he will just go to war anyway OR not be able to operate anymore because his arm is so severely bunged up, so we lose him regardless. This might be the better way to go. UNLESS they save him, and reconstruct his face so a new actor plays George, but TR is out of the picture- I really hope that's not the one, that would be so weak.
Shonda Rhimes in an interview said that at the beginning of the season the last ten minutes is what she pitched and George got such little air time this season so the audience wouldnt notice that he was missing in such a huge chunk of it in the finale, which by the way TOTALLY WORKED.
Okay, rant done.
Unfortunately I can think of it either way, just listen and then im going to sleep--if the drumming stops{my neighbours were having a drawn out engagement party next door, and it was 3AM, I was more than a little annoyed}
IZZIE DEAD, GEORGE ALIVE: she's wearing the prom dress, going to see denny, because thats what she was wearing when she was going to see him when he was dead and if she's going to see denny then shes dead too. George is on the floor and shes in the elevator, hes in the light and shes moving away from it. He seems calm and collected like he's sending her off and she seems confused and a little out of it because shes dying. He's wearing the uniform because he is going to continue living and fulfill his destiny of being a army doctor.
GEORGE DEAD, IZZIE ALIVE: He's on the floor because he's already dead and she's in the elevator travelling back to alive-ness. he's wearing the uniform because he died honourably. He seems calm b/c he already knows he's dead and she's confused because she's in that stage between awake and dead.
ON THE OTHER HAND THOUGH
If he dies, then he will just go to war anyway OR not be able to operate anymore because his arm is so severely bunged up, so we lose him regardless. This might be the better way to go. UNLESS they save him, and reconstruct his face so a new actor plays George, but TR is out of the picture- I really hope that's not the one, that would be so weak.
Shonda Rhimes in an interview said that at the beginning of the season the last ten minutes is what she pitched and George got such little air time this season so the audience wouldnt notice that he was missing in such a huge chunk of it in the finale, which by the way TOTALLY WORKED.
Okay, rant done.
and i'm leaving tomorrow-wish me luck!
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