Grey's Anatomy is one of my favorite shows. I've been watching it for four seasons now. When it first came out, my sister Shannon was living in town. She would come over, we would play with the antena, trying to get the perfect picture. Needless to say, we were big fans.
But lately, I've been disappointed by the show. And maybe it's more that just this show, it a thought process that I see more and more that frustrated me. The thing the frustrates and disappoints me is the thought process I seem to see about marriage.
For those of you who aren't fans of the show, you spend the entire first season rooting for Meridith and McDreamy, only to find out at the end of the season that McDreamy is married. Separated, but still married. I wanted things to work our between McDreamy and Meridith, but that was wrong. He had a wife. And so, I began rooting for the wife. And as you may have guessed, things don't work out with the wife. She now has her own spin off.
Well, this season, they've done it again. They make you root for a couple, but in reality, the guy is married. Come on! On the most recent episode, there was a conversation between the husband (George) and his mentor, Dr. Bailey. She basically tells him that nothing is black and white, and they he's not a bad guy for cheating on his wife.
Are you kidding me?
As a Christian, it is black and white. Scripture plainly teaches that marriage is sacred, and is to be held is high esteem. But that's not what's happening in TV land. And even though I know that not all marriages are perfect, it would be nice, for once, to see marriage portrayed as the blessing that it is.
4 comments:
Amen sister! Preach it!
i'm with you !
sorry the kids were sick!!!!!
love a pumpkin picture even in the bright sun!
Oh how right you are! And then there's that Hollywood hierarchy of intelligence...children first, then women in general, single women specifically, followed finally by men with fathers being on the bottom rung of the intelligence ladder.
Want to know how backward Hollywood is? Remember that God is our Heavenly FATHER.
We were watching Brothers and Sisters a couple weeks ago, and there was a point where we were so shocked we had to pause it. There was a conversation between Sally Field and Calista Flockhart (sp?) about marriage and divorce. They were talking about how nowadays people have "starter marriages" to get their feet wet. WHAT?! So we're now treating marriage like we treat our house buying? We had never heard the term "starter marriage" before, but as we tell the story more and more people are saying they hear that all the time. It's incredibly sad. Marriage is just a long-term dating relationship with no commitment to forever. There's nothing sacred to marriage vows. And thank you, television, for perpetuating that reality.
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