First -\u00a0To my Hubby:\u00a0 I cite a loophole in our Grey's Anatomy deal. I get to leer at Patrick Dempsey for an hour a week.\u00a0 Two hours on special occasions or when Shonda Sunshine so decrees.\u00a0 There's no clause about blogging.\u00a0 So there!<\/p>\n
This is a post about\u00a0Grey's Anatomy that's not about Grey's Anatomy.\u00a0 It's an ode to Shonda Rimes and her writing team.\u00a0 It's also an ode to every writer who gets the big one right.\u00a0 Sometimes that includes me.<\/p>\n
How to set the scene for the proposal?\u00a0\u00a0Most of the time it's all\u00a0led up to this.\u00a0 It started with that\u00a0first meeting when the dynamic duo eyed each other for tender spots where a knife or a high heel would do the most damage. By the second meeting they notice tender spots that would taste just right.\u00a0 A few rounds later, they can't be in the same room without battling the urge\u00a0to rip off clothes and find\u00a0the most tender spot of all.\u00a0 After all the angst and the obstacles, the hope and the despair, he finally plans to ask the M question because he has to<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0 You know what else he has to do?\u00a0 He has to get it right.<\/p>\n True, he\u00a0has to get it right for him, for her, for them.\u00a0 But most of all, he has to nail it\u00a0for the readers\u00a0or viewers who laughed and cried with them, who suffered and soared\u00a0with them.\u00a0 They rooted for the romance,\u00a0believed in it even when the dynamic duo had boogled on to other people.\u00a0 Those readers and viewers watched each of the pair waste time on wrong people and got through the rocky times by imagining\u00a0the duo reunited, picturing\u00a0the pivotal moment\u00a0when two agree to become one. So when the moment arrrives, the hero has\u00a0to make it McDreamy.<\/p>\n What Grey's showed is that\u00a0perfect may be perfectly wrong.\u00a0 Had Derek proposed in Meredith's bedroom, surrounded by roses, he'd have gotten it right by storybook standards, but not\u00a0by the standards of his story.\u00a0 He might have even gotten the wrong answer.\u00a0 Surely, Mer would have wondered why he\u00a0didn't know she wasn't a rosy kind of gal.\u00a0 In the end he figured it out -\u00a0Mer's more elevator than rose petals, which is one of the reasons she's perfect for him.<\/p>\n Making it McDreamy means making it fit the characters and the arc of their romance. For Grey's, since it was a planned proposal, that meant location, location, location.\u00a0 Only\u00a0a few I can think of would have fit.\u00a0 He could have popped the question on the barstool at Joe's.\u00a0 He could have asked in a supply closet or on call room.\u00a0 The second best place would have been THE exam room he chased Mer to at the dance. But yeah, given the overall history, that elevator was perfect.\u00a0 And forget the roses, the scans were the best\u00a0dark and twisty bouquet.<\/p>\n In thinking about this post, I realized that so far, I've written only one planned proposal.\u00a0\u00a0The others have occurred rolling around in the mud, under a cloud of circling glass from all the bottles polished off the night before, in a hospital bed (not from being cut by the glass) and\u00a0in a gazebo after a quick dash to change clothes.\u00a0 The planned proposal wasn't even traditional.\u00a0 It was under a willow tree with a fully set table - white cloth and all.\u00a0 But it was outdoors with servants holding back an angry horde.\u00a0 Now that's romance.\u00a0 In the story, yeah, I hope so.<\/p>\n Guess what it all means is that romance is as different as lovers.\u00a0 My McDreamy might be your McNightmare. Hopefully not in my books though.\u00a0 There, I hope that like Shonda, I get it right.\u00a0 Kudos to Ms. Rimes and her diabolical minions!!<\/p>\n \"Just when I think I'm out, they pull\u00a0me back in.\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" First -\u00a0To my Hubby:\u00a0 I cite a loophole in our Grey's Anatomy deal. I get to leer at Patrick Dempsey for an hour a week.\u00a0 Two hours on special occasions or when Shonda Sunshine so decrees.\u00a0 There's no clause about blogging.\u00a0 So there! 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