A quick observation
Posted by Dan
May 8th, 2006 at 11:29am
In Grey's Anatomy
When characters on Greys Anatomy give their show-stopping, Emmy reel speeches, do they have a tendency to bookend them with the same phrases?
I only caught the second half of last night’s episode, but I saw the phenomenon twice, once when Southern Mama gives her little “I can hear you, I’m right here” speech and again when Meredith gives the “You don’t get to call me a whore” speech.
Am I just imagining things?
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Maggie | May 8th, 2006 at 11:34 am
You’re not imagining things! I noticed that too! I named it, in my head, “cheap circular monologue device.” The monologe doesn’t freakin’ GO anywhere, literally. It’s the same idea over and over again, and they even emphasize this lack of building tension or change or growth by freakin’ repeating the first line! Such a cheap, freshman-year eating-disorder-suicide-incest playwriting sham. It’s faux-dramatic. It doesn’t ring true.
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