This is something I began writing and it's grown into an thing about why I think we're all so obsessed with Grey's and my personal connections to the show. I'm almost thinking I want to send it to Shonda… I need feedback on how to end it :)

Everybody’s got something they know all about. For some people it’s sports, fro some it’s random facts, and for others it’s TV shows. Many people would say that knowing all about a TV show is a waste of time or that it’s unhealthy, but some of us would beg to differ. I am one of those people, and my show is Grey’s Anatomy. I know so much about it, yet the only people who enjoy it as much as I do so far are on the Internet. So exactly why is it that I, like millions of others, am obsessed with the show called Grey’s Anatomy?
This obsession could seem like some shallow thing like being obsessed with, oh say,[I] High School Musical[I] or something equally as unstimulating. I, for instance, have decorated my bedroom and closet doors with magazine articles and pictures of the cast, have character icons for folder images, and have a whole folder full of Grey’s pictures. I know Season 1 by heart (since it’s the only one I can watch whenever I want) and jump at any opportunity to see a movie that features a member of the cast. I have fierce discussions with people I don’t even know about it! You can laugh, but there are always reasons for the obsession.
I can see why people would be attracted to the show because of everything that goes on at Seattle Grace. The relationships, the drama, the sometimes strange medical cases. But some people go beyond the simplicity of the storylines. Some of us delve deeper, thinking about why the characters do what they do, predicting what will happen next week, basically immersing ourselves in the world of Seattle Grace Hospital. We’ll even go so far as to make up our own storylines and pairings! But I still haven’t answered the big question: Why do people go that far?
Some could say we’re losers for being so obsessed with a fictional world on TV. That could be a way of putting it, but it’s most likely not true. A reason we’re so obsessed the fact that Grey’s Anatomy has something we can all relate to in it. The characters are so true to life that there’s something in each of us that’s like Callie, or like Meredith, or even Cristina, with some being more than others. I am most like Callie; I give off an aura of being one person, but actually being someone almost totally different. I am like Meredith; I have my own share of things to hide. I am like Cristina; My emotions don’t show often, but when they do, I am like Izzie (Or I THINK I’m like her!); my emotions can act up easily. I am even like George; when I have something important to say, I can’t come right out and say it. When I watch these characters on TV, I feel like I could potentially relate to whatever they’re going through that week; that I could almost take my life and stick it into the world of Seattle Grace. If it were so, details of my life could make for an interesting storyline. There is always something or someone we can connect with.
Take my connection with Callie, for instance. Most of the time, I pretend to be someone I’m not, someone who has it all together. But I really don’t, at least a lot of the time. Much of the time, when I can be by myself, I have problems of my own. I have parts of my life many people, including my parents, don’t know about. It’s almost like I’m a whole different person under that image of having it together. Callie is that way too, and she’s the character I can most identify with. She’s tough and vulnerable at the same time, and so am I. I may seem like I don’t care what other people think, but if someone does something as trivial as making fun of my loud laugh, I feel hurt. If someone accidentally hits me with a ball in gym class and laughs about it, I feel hurt. It’s like in Season 2, when Callie mentioned to George that “Those girls were staring at me like I was vermin, like I was in high school again.” She was hurt by the stares Meredith and Izzie gave her. At the end of Episode 4 of this season (4), when she went to bed alone and sad, it reminded me of how I feel so often. She is probably the character I most identify with.

I like it, ma'am!

I'm not so sure how to end it, though....

I have a speech class this coming semester, I expect all of my speeches to be on Grey's Anatomy. :P

I'm going through a "deep" spell…

I know like, nobody's reading this, but here's the last paragraph:

And that’s the reason we get so obsessed. There’s a character we can relate to. There’s an actor like Sara Ramirez who sends a message that people who aren’t a size 0 can make it. Someone makes us feel like we could fit right in with everyone else at Seattle Grace. Everyone’s got some sort of “dark and twisty” side, and on Grey’s Anatomy, those sides come out on a regular basis. For that hour every week, I feel like I’m in their world of hospital drama and relationship issues. I don’t think about anything. It’s like everything changes at 9:00 on Thursday nights. So, if anyone asks me what the big deal with Grey’s Anatomy is, I could answer that it’s simply a great show, or that I feel a real connection with it. Both are true of course, but it’s deeper than just witty dialogue and sexy relationships. It’s the ‘connectibility’ factor. It’s everything I just said. And I don’t need to say any more than that.

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Thoughts? Opinions? Criticism?

I like. "I said so, there, and that will be good enough" is the way to go.

Lovely!

Thanks :D And now, I just need to get that to Shonda…:)