I don’t watch sappy romance movies; I go for the kooky Tarantino ones, or a good ol’ action flick or – when I feel like something decadent – pure gore, the b-movie bloodfest kind that makes you want to either laugh or hurl. I don’t read romance novels either – give me King or Koontz, Paterson or Higgins Clark, Hornby or Easton Ellis.
When it comes to girly lovey-dovey stuff, cliche love-story tv shows are my only guilty pleasure, especially when they involve medical procedurals; so much so, that I can now identify rare illnesses or body parts in english but would be stumped to come up with the greek terms (because I’ve never come across them before in my life).
And so, for me, Grey’s Anatomy has it all; the relationship factor intertwined with the medical drama – often used as a subplot to accentuate what might otherwise be too subtle for the characters to portray. I love living vicariously through the residents of Seattle Grace Teaching Hospital, even when they become caricatures of themselves. The weird heroine with daddy issues, the independent robot-like ambitious heart surgeon, the mother-figure older resident who teaches with tough love, the guy who acts like an ass but has a kind heart, and so on.
It’s a show written by women, targeted mostly towards women, and women famously don’t go for the blood-thirst trigger-happy action-packed videogames in their spare time. So why anyone in their right minds would make a Grey’s Anatomy videogame is beyond me.
Not only this looks like a snorefest, it also features graphics that are beyond lame.
It’s true; the geniuses over at Ubisoft okayed and put this idiocy out on the market. I don’t even know what the game would entail.
Would we be given alternate reasons why Meredith can’t accept how nice a guy McDreamy is and have her speak the same inane excuses over again?
Would that change the storyline somehow?
Would we make Burke less of a wuss and have him not leave Christina at the altar? Would Izzy be nagging less? Would George be less of a pushover?
Would we get to operate on poor unsuspecting patients who go to Seattle Grace hoping for good medical care and instead get sucked into all the drama?
And if we can influence the plotlines, could we make Shonda Rhimes go back in time so as to never introduce the Denny ghost story?
Could we maybe re-cast the show and do away with that bland, awful, talentless Meredith?
Could we maybe eliminate the character of Erica Hahn and not have her inflict on us the pain of watching her ugly mug make out with fatso Callie?
And most importantly, could we make McSteamy appear topless throughout the whole season?
Cause if so, maybe I should get my hands on a copy…
