TV thoughts

I love TV. Love it! Always have. I was scared of movies and movie villains as a kid, so TV is what I had. TV tends to have more Man vs. self conflicts and more lighthearted man vs. man than films do. Anyway I loved TV as a kids and watched way too much. Then I took a 10 year break. And then went back to TV. I love it.

One thing that is great about TV and Movies and annoying at the same time are the rules. For example, if there is a scene where a usually grouchy woman is sitting at her desk in her office at night and then gazes with a smile at a picture of the man she loves and then stands up to leave for the night ... she is about to get attacked! In every genre, such happiness is bound to be slapped in the face. Too bad really, but not so unlike life. I say that not in a negative way. I say that to mean that if we just sat in happy bubbles all day, we probably wouldn't stay happy or get happier. It is a fundamental principal that trials help us grow and growth makes us happier. So, even though TV is crazy and useless and predicable, it is nice that there are universal truths that just sort of come though ... even when people are just trying to sell air time ... and even when the show is just so stupid and the characters and their sex drives are just so unbelievable.

On a more specific note: how sad is the whole Christina story line on Grey's Anatomy right now? Really heart wrenching. And as a general rule, who stupid is the writing on Private Practice (which I never miss)?