@tete rouge: Yeah, Angela Chase wasn't all innocence either. She was another young pretty girl who didn't know a clue about what she wanted, in a world that coddles the young and pretty, letting them cast themselves adrift or tear a path of devastation through anyone or anything to find meaning or pleasure, never pushing them to actually make decisions or find direction in the end. It's rather mean for all of us to do that to young girls, regardless of how they react to it (often irresponsibly, leaving horror and heartbreak in their wake).
One of the things I like about Grey's Anatomy, aside from Kat Heigl and her bosoms, is that the characters are intentionally written to fuck up like highschoolers do. The show doesn't judge, it's simply a lens onto the world of their ridiculousness. It's a bit manufactured - George O'Malley should be a virgin, or gay, or both, but not a womanizer - and often hackneyed, but it works. MSCL (and, gruesomely, The Sopranos) did that too, to better effect, letting everyone trainwreck themselves on their own horrendous decisions and indecisions to obtain both high drama and comedy. Never again will you watch a TV show where it'll be so important, and so personal, to see if the stupid handsome boy can actually live up to the expectations of an unstoppable crush by an unstoppable imaginative beauty.
BTW, I hated Jordan Catalano, still hate Jared Leto, and I don't understand why "himbos" get the halo treatment when no one would even think of glorifying a genuinely stupid pretty girl as a target of male desire. Show me a movie or TV show that didn't portray a cheerleader in a subversive manner. Not that I'd want it. But if anyone ever attempted such a thing - to make a mockery of successful, intelligent women directly in the shadow of whorish bimbos - women everywhere would scream. There would be rioting. It would be denounced as disgustingly sexist, nihilistic, and misleading. Like Maxim mag. And, yeah, it would be. But women should similarly not be let off the hook for the same grievous mistake.
(no, not saying I'm bitter at women, just sad that painfully few men and women reach true understanding with one another because one gender is forgiven for being crazy and one is not. Forget even-handedness, that's a race to the bottom. How about we make everyone responsible for not being crazy? I'd like that.)
