Addison was supposed to be some wicked-witch character but Kate Walsh just played her with so much dignity, charm, and coolness that they expended her character. I agree with you, she's wasted on that smarmy, self-righteous, annoying, whiner who needs to get a clue that he can't play with people's affections. He is incredibly hot and talented as a doctor, but I think that has given him a huge god complex. I have to say, I think Derek had left the marriage long before Addison slept with Mark. She seems like a woman deeply in love with her husband, I can't understand why she would do it unless she was truly desperately lonely. She says he barely noticed her. I don't condone adultery but frankly, emotional neglect trumps foreign sex. We also have Derek's mentor having both a (whiny) mistress and a long-suffering wife, I see that as telling. I hope history repeats itself. Yeah, when he shoves her out into the rain, he doesn't look destroyed as much as self-righteous. "Looking at you makes me nauseous" he declares, while his wife looks destroyed. Maybe it’s a horrible double standerd, but when Derek dragged Addison out, I was sickened. She was practically a nervous wreck, trying to cradle in his arms, trying to say “Now you notice me,” and he just ran. And yes, the part where he calls Meredith a slut, that’s emotional abuse. He’s already starting the same cycle that he did with Addison, the “I love yous” followed by emotional abuse or neglect, each time less of the first and more of the second. Run, Meredith, marry the vet and put your neuroticism into something useful, like if dinner is on the table.
Burke and Christina are adorable, and yes, Burke is saint-like in his patience, but Christina is slowly morphing into a nicer person. He sees the good in her and that makes the relationship work. I hope he pops the question this season. Christina and Burke can have a nice Korean-Jewish-African American Baptist wedding (would kill to see one of those), where Burke rents a traditional Jewish Chuppah and researches all the minute details of the kosher wedding, and Christina insists on getting married in a pair of blue scrubs and her white lab-coat, and Christina’s mother insists on running everything, driving our poor bride to the liquor bar far too early and Burke’s parents wondering why they deserve to have their famous son subjected to such snark and madness…yeah, that would be fun.
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Date: 2006-09-22 02:19 pm (UTC)I have to say, I think Derek had left the marriage long before Addison slept with Mark. She seems like a woman deeply in love with her husband, I can't understand why she would do it unless she was truly desperately lonely. She says he barely noticed her. I don't condone adultery but frankly, emotional neglect trumps foreign sex. We also have Derek's mentor having both a (whiny) mistress and a long-suffering wife, I see that as telling. I hope history repeats itself.
Yeah, when he shoves her out into the rain, he doesn't look destroyed as much as self-righteous. "Looking at you makes me nauseous" he declares, while his wife looks destroyed. Maybe it’s a horrible double standerd, but when Derek dragged Addison out, I was sickened. She was practically a nervous wreck, trying to cradle in his arms, trying to say “Now you notice me,” and he just ran.
And yes, the part where he calls Meredith a slut, that’s emotional abuse. He’s already starting the same cycle that he did with Addison, the “I love yous” followed by emotional abuse or neglect, each time less of the first and more of the second. Run, Meredith, marry the vet and put your neuroticism into something useful, like if dinner is on the table.
Burke and Christina are adorable, and yes, Burke is saint-like in his patience, but Christina is slowly morphing into a nicer person. He sees the good in her and that makes the relationship work. I hope he pops the question this season. Christina and Burke can have a nice Korean-Jewish-African American Baptist wedding (would kill to see one of those), where Burke rents a traditional Jewish Chuppah and researches all the minute details of the kosher wedding, and Christina insists on getting married in a pair of blue scrubs and her white lab-coat, and Christina’s mother insists on running everything, driving our poor bride to the liquor bar far too early and Burke’s parents wondering why they deserve to have their famous son subjected to such snark and madness…yeah, that would be fun.