SPOILER ALERT: If you've not yet watched the season finale of Grey's Anatomy, do not jump to after the fold.
Turbulence and 'tude.
More passionate, reciprocal, full-out woman on woman mouth kissing between two surgeons. Headin' for bed.
MAJOR plotline involving MAJOR characters on a MAJOR series. Choke on it, Buchanan.
Okay, being a dyke-feminist, I have to point out a few things:
(1) They were given the "male stamp of approval" by McSteamy the Man Whore, who even gave Callie the final push. Yeah, like that's SO going to happen. I mean, I believe more than most in the power of redemption, recovery, and utter change, even for sexual compulsives (hello?), even for men conditioned to think that's their only hope for human connection. But it takes more than a week. More than a year, to be honest.
(2) It was sandwiched in between several descents into less than rational lust, which of course is Grey's stock in trade, not arguing that. But they could not let it stand on its own.
(3) We had to have Erica dressed down publicly by the Chief first, so she wasn't her completely full of piss and power self.
Still -- it was an intelligent lead-in with the comparison to the adolescent pressure situation and the admonition about "hating yourself if you don't do what you know is right for you". Making it a choice, and a self-loving one.
Here's my predictions:
(a) If they are going to retire the character of Erica Hahn, they'll use the Chief's shape up or ship out lecture as a pretext why -- i.e., she wants to cut into hearts, not teach the Yangs of the world.
(b) Christina and Meredith will have some lesbian panic of their own when they find out, wondering if their closeness will be misconstrued by the testosteroni-treat hunks around them.
(c) Unless T.R. McKnight puts his foot down, firmly (don't whine about this one, kiddo, insist on your due as an actor), they'll have George O'Malley react by doing something stupid. Like hopping into the sack with Lexie. Another rebound.
And, here's another interesting note. It's about four hours since this episode aired, and I've been fishing through Google images, other search engines, and YouTube for either a still or a clip of the two of them together. Nada. I find this very unusual.
Despite all the above, I have to say, my favorite character remains Miranda Bailey. Her going home with her baby boy really got to me. She's the strongest, most complicated, intelligent, responsible woman character we've seen in eons on a drama, they need to give her more room, even in that hothouse cast. It's her turn for an Emmy.
Friday, May 23, 2008
YEAH, BABY
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
LESBIAN POP CULTURE NEWS THIS WEEK
(Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin, pioneers of lesbian liberation; photo by Jill Posener)
I don't usually do pop culture on this blog, unless it's got a political connection, and the love scandals of sapphic celebrities do not count as lesbian liberation news. But I've had more down-time than usual and have watched some trash TV, so guess what: I'm going to share!
Ellen Degeneres announces on her show that she and Portia di Rossi are going to get married. She got a standing ovation. I watched it, and got verklempt.
Anne Heche pleads to the divorce court that she cannot afford $15,000 monthly spousal and child support to the guy she dumped Ellen for, because her series Men In Trees got cancelled. No comment.
According to reports, actress Jodie Foster and her longtime partner Cydney Bernard have called it quits. Foster and Bernard began dating in 1993 after meeting on the set of Sommersby. The pair have been together for 14 years and have two children; 9-year-old Charlie and 6-year-old Kit.
Erica Hahn and Callie Torres kiss on Grey's Anatomy. Mostly this seems to just be appealing to the twisted het version of what lesbians are (secretly wanting to be with men). But the kiss is good, Erica has a good chance of being a REAL dyke trying to deal with Callie's lesbo panic, and Callie -- well, she felt that kiss, kids.
Oprah Winfrey recreates the office and apartments sets for the Mary Tyler Moore Show and the entire cast (minus Ted Knight, who died in 1989) reunites so Oprah can gush on about how much Mary meant to her. Well, Mary gave a LOT of us permission to stay home on Saturday nights, and a reference to her influence appears in at least one dykiest of dykes songs. Five points to anyone who can make the lyric connection. (Not you, Liza, for obvious reasons.)
When I used to do radio, I made it a habit to play Joan Jett's rendition of the Mary Tyler Moore Show theme, "Love is All Around". Here's a YouTube version with a montage of Joan and Mary pix. You can never get too much Joan Jett.
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