What gives a Television Program a Long Existence

There are shows which go on from season to season, reaching five, then ten, then on and on.

While others flounder and flop after one or two, some scraping to three, there are those which are either halted by the Actors after ten; but could have continued, and those which, like Grey’s Anatomy, are almost automatically renewed.

As a person who began watching Grey, first on television, then online, and who has written about the show on more than one occasion, I was intrigued this morning; having viewed yesterday’s last episode.

At first Grey’s was ‘okay’.   I watched it because there wasn’t much else to watch.  It didn’t air for long in Jamaica, and it was a shoulder shrug.

When I first began watching on line, as it was a familiar show I began to watch it.

Now Grey’s was uneven.

Written by the same person who does Scandal it suffered from the same flaws.

Firstly, the head writer seems to have no familiarity with how normal people talk or act or think.

The dialogue was ridiculous, the same stupid words in both series, the same inability to relate in both series, the same weak man overly strong woman.

It is kind of ridiculous to watch the early seasons.   No one is going to waste time with Meredith, especially if they have alternatives.  She’s cold a bit confused, and has no passion.

The same is true of Olivia, on Scandal.

So one watches it, and gets maybe ten or fifteen interesting minutes out of the forty or so.

At one point, Grey’s plunged to repulsive, and I believe that enough people spoke to the head writer, and there was a change.

It wasn’t enormous, it was done smoothly.   Different characters with different outlooks arrived, and there were different events and proceedings, which moved the show from what it was until what it is.

Yes, to keep interests, there are plane crashes, explosions, diversions in relationships of characters, but the dialogue has moved a few steps towards more normal, and although Meredith is still a virtual android, the other characters have personalities.

One starts to care about the other characters, and Meredith moves more to a ‘prop’ which spews some dialog and moves the plot a few steps forward.

Renewed for another season, hopefully it will be able to maintain it’s current standard.