Grey's Anatomy season 6 finale

I've been watching Grey's Anatomy pretty regularly since it began, knowing that it's an awful show. If you haven't seen it, basically it's a hospital situation, in which all the doctors are all having relationships with each-other, and if a patient should manage to get their attention, it's only to symbolically push them in the rigtht direction through their confused love lives. A perfect show for the self-centered decade we live in, except that its characters are educated professional people who strive to perfection, which is actually a positve message for the youngins.

The second annoying thing about Grey's Anatomy used to be that it belonged to the cliffhanger genre, which I despise with a passion. I even stopped watching it for a while because it was taking "the doctors" half a season to realize that the ditzy blonde was acting ditzier than usual because she had a huge brain tumor (incidentally, an important lesson to all the ditzy females out there). I had to get really really bored to start watching it again.

Surprisingly season 6 brought us some improvement - they gave up on the cliffhanger style, and lost some of the more annoying main characters, which left them with the rounder and more interesting minor characters. Then the season 6 double-episode finale was just damn good.

A pissed off husband of a woman who died in the hospital comes in with a gun and for about two hours walks around shooting people at random. God knows, something I've wished on the cast of that show (mostly on George) many times in the earlier seasons. All of it directed very well, really scary and exciting, as each two or three of the characters are isolated in some part of the hospital in some insane situation. Before it all ends, they even got in a very cool speech by the crazy gun guy about how he only meant to kill three people, but darn it if the ammo wasn't on sail that day, and he couldn't resist buying a lot more than he needed.

Of course the main effect of the entire shoot-out was to give all the unhappy couples a chance to re-think their relationships and realize what their hearts really want, but because it was done so well, it didn't feel as idiotic as before.

I am very pleased. They might yet grow up to be a good show, if they don't get cancelled for their trouble.