It occurred to me this week that I no longer know why I still watch Lost. I still find some entertainment in it, but the excitement that accompanied the first two seasons is long gone. You know that every episode is going to ask more questions than it answers, and the few answers that it does offer up are to questions that I hadn’t been asking! This season has made an attempt at trying to tie up some of the loose ends of seasons past, but the writer’s strike put a serious damper on it, and probably reduced the amount of material the writers could tie up significantly. I am tempted to wait till the whole bloody thing is out on DVD and watch all of the seasons back to back from the beginning. If I did it that way I would at least be able to avoid the weekly exercise in futility. *sigh*

I love Grey’s Anatomy. It entered the scene at a time when I was losing hope in television altogether from the exes all the way down. I have always been a big fan of ER but since Noah Wyle left the regular cast, I feel like there was no one there for him to pass the torch to. At any rate, no one expected a little mid-season replacement with a cast as fresh as Grey’s to take off like it did, but here we are two season’s later and the world practically stops when the show airs.

I recently watched the entire second season again as ABC was kind enough to replay it leading up to the premiere. It is obvious that this cast gels together like very few that we have seen in recent years. Furthermore, the characters aren’t segregated into little cliques so it is truly an ensemble. Miranda Bailey’s interns started out as a little clique, but their interpersonal relationships have developed immensely with other characters very quickly. They also force characters to interact who would not necessarily do so willingly or regularly, like Preston Burke and Derek Shepherd who start out the show in contempt of each other but have cultivated a grudging respect and admiration for each other. All of this points to brilliant writing and the writer’s ability to get into the human psyche.

Somewhere along the way while re-watching the second season of Grey’s I got that warm fuzzy feeling that I haven’t had since Buffy ended. If you’re a BtVS fan you know what I’m talking about. It’s a mix of nostalgia for the crew you ran with in High School mixed with grown-up teen angst and a dab of super-hero worship. Somewhere along the way I came to the realization that the leading characters in Grey’s Anatomy were the Scooby Gang with scalpels. Let me break it down: