Mad World

So, it's been a long time since I've written. Don't worry, I'm sure there's a post to come that will let me rant or obsess over the tiny little insignificant things that have happened to me, personally, over the last few months. However, right now, in this very moment, all I want to write about is this...

Jayne Brook is an great actress. It's a shame she doesn't have a stable job at the moment, but at least she's got appearances in all the top shows. Normally, I wouldn't fault her for doing lots of bit parts in lots of TV shows, but this isn't normally.

When the creators of Grey's Anatomy brought us Private Practice, the pilot of the show was actually an extended episode of Grey's Anatomy. In fact, even after Private Practice ended its first season, Addison went back to Seattle Grace to do a guest appearance. Usually, TV worlds are not so intricately laced together. However, the makers have carefully created a TV reality in which exists both Private Practice and Grey's Anatomy. That is why I'm so upset!

Do you remember Gwen, the divorce lawyer with seizures, from Grey's Anatomy?
There she is, talking to Addison's husband. Normal, right? Sure, it's just Jayne Brook playing a regular patient with a problem Dr. Shepherd can hopefully fix. Except for the fact that at the end she says something like, "I'm going to quit my job, so hopefully I won't have seizures anymore. But if I do, I'll be back here to get the surgery."

Enter Jayne Brook. I recognize her immediately (having watched Season 2 of Grey's recently).
I'm excited—the creators have decided to follow up on the divorce-lawyer-with-seizures story in Private Practice! ...But, wait, what's that? ...Her name's Meg? ...She's a doctor? ...From Doctors Without Borders? ...She's known Pete, Addison's new coworker, for years and years?

HOW DOES THIS HAPPEN??? This was a huuuuuge casting mistake. Don't get me wrong—I love Jayne Brooks and I think she plays both characters impeccably. However, if Kate Walsh is Addison Montgomery in both series, then Jayne Brook has to be one—and only one—character as well. I'm glad Meg goes off to Ghana to save children because I really couldn't have taken it if she had stayed. The creators took all this time to delicately intertwine these two series and their characters. And then to make a huge, easily-avoidable mistake such as this? It's just careless. I expect better from my trashy, soap-opera-like, fake-medical-tragedy television shows. I mean, really.

Hopefully next time I'll be in the right mood to blog about something of substance. ...But don't get your hopes up—I have 2 midterms this week.