First to start of, Season six finale was like no other I have seen. I went in knowing that anything was possible as Shonda Rhimes would have no problems killing off a character. I have been watching the show since it’s high days through the lesser days. And this final was one word: Epic.
Every time I read the episodes reviews of Grey’s Anatomy on TV Squad I want to bang my head against my screen. First the person who reviews most of the episode has never heard of the word objective, countless of times I wanted to tell him to stop watching the show if you find it so bad. 15 million people tuned in to watch the final, it came in at Number 1 so you are better off being objective then angering your readers.
Then you have the viewers of the show who obviously have never been in a large hospital nor are familiar with many medical issues. Some comments made:
lock down doesn’t actually mean anything. different areas of the hospital are not actually locked in any way and people can freely wander from place to place.
The hospital is huge, there might be a lot of staff but never enough to lock down all corridors door. Seriously dude there is a shortage of nurses and doctors everywhere and you expect every door in that huge building to get locked?
if you’re shot and on an elevator in an incredibly busy hospital where the elevators are constantly moving… nobody will suddenly have any interest in using that elevator and you won’t be found for a while.
I have been in a large teaching hospital just like Seattle Grey’s and believe you me, even in the middle of the day there are sections in the hospital where you don’t come across a soul, I got lost once on my way to get an xray taken.
And most of all it is beside the point, it’s Television people, like make believe, not real, entertainment. People questioning every little detail they sound like Sheldon Cooper in The Big Bang Theory explaining why Superman couldn’t fly at full speed and catch Louis Lane in mid flight saving her from falling to her dead.
I guess this comes with the territory of internet, where there be open comments there will be all kinds of opinions, rational ones and just ones that make you shake your head. That’s why I never comment on big websites, there really is no point. It just bugs me big time that people expect so much realism in TV shows, isn’t life itself real enough already?
Specially for the “Sherlock Holmes” movie I exchanged lots of airmiles for a free movie ticket. It arrived in the mail on Wednesday while “Sherlock Holmes” premiered on Thursday here in Holland. I love going to the movies and I hate planning with people when, what or how late so movies I really want to see I go as soon as I can.
And because movie theaters are always full of people, loud people, I have taken the habit to go in the afternoon when most are at work or school. Now becoming deaf has some small advantage, you don’t have to hear people talking during the movies anymore. Ok sure you miss all the great soundtrack but thanks to surround sound you can feel the action, even deaf I can sometimes say “men that movie was loud”.
So at this new theater in the city, all 9 theaters have a minimum of 300 seats taking a rough guess. In the beginning I would always go sit in the middle but after a few times I notice most people like doing the same. So there I am with 200 something empty seats around me and everyone sitting in my close neighborhood, with the one behind me always being the worse because their mother didn’t teach them to not put their foot on the chair in front of them.
So yesterday I walk in to watch “Sherlock Holmes” and I decide I will sit between the middle and left side of a row but not in the middle and in not in the center of the theater, but more in the back. There are already a few people here and there so I took a guess that considering the movie was about to start in 10 minutes others coming later will sit elsewhere. Boy was I wrong… I settled myself, put my bag in the chair next to me because with 200 something empty seats in there they won’t miss one.
Two minutes after sitting down a couple comes in, walks into my row, stand next to me and start bending and peering pass me to see if they can sit between the few people also in the same row. They then decide that sitting right behind me is the best spot in the room. Couple of minutes later two guys come in and sit right at the entry of the row with 3 seats between them and me. No problem, I can still watch the movie without being disturbed. I expect the movie to start within 5 minutes, all that time they have been showing previews.
Then to my utter amazement some 16 year old guy walks in, sees the 200 empty seats, walks pass the two guys in the same row as I am, walks pass me and drops in the seat next to me ignoring my bag there. I was speechless, fuming with myself that I’m not the type to open my mouth and say something. Wishing I had the guts to go loudly “excuse me? did it go pass you that there are 200 empty seats in here? must you come sit right next to me and making us both uncomfortable having to share an armrest?” I was seriously considering just getting up and sit somewhere else, but again my guts where left at home, but then 3 girls, the preppy kind that sit upright during the movie and whisper the whole time bending their heads together, came and sat right in front of me.
There I was with a kid right next to me, people right behind, people right in front. And a sea of empty seats in front of me. It was all I needed. So I took my jacket, bag and drink, made a big deal of standing up, walking a few rows in front pick a seat and made a big deal of sitting down comfortable.
It really makes me fume people like that. It’s not only in theaters but in the train, bus, etc. There will be like empty seats all over the place but they come and insist for you to make room for them to sit right next to you. All the while that if they sit in an empty section they will sit comfy and so would you, nobody annoyed.
I love going to the movies in the afternoon when there is no crowd, and the theater is almost empty, you can really lose yourself in the movie and forget where you are. But not when people with apparently some abandonment issue need to sit right next to strangers when there is plenty of seats.
I should as experiment go a few days without taking a shower, put on some dirty clothes and go the movies and see if people will still clamor around me in spite of all the empty seats.
