Romance On TV: Grey’s Anatomy Sets Up Its Lesbian Romance For Failure
Posted by: Leigh Raines
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10:30AM, Friday November 7th 2008
Last night on “Grey’s Anatomy” we finally got to see how ABC execs decided to cut out Erica Hahn (Brooke Smith) and her lesbian love storyline. There was much backlash and gossip regarding the unfair decision to give Erica the boot because people and network execurives seemed “uncomfortable” with her same sex relationship. The news leaked that she was getting the ax right before the episode aired. So how did they do it? More details after the jump.
The past came back to haunt Izzie as she is assigned to the patient whose heart transplant she once stole for her late fiancé Denny Duquette. Erica Hahn gets wind of this reality and decides she’s going to report Izzie to higher authorities. As she is leaving the hospital after work with Callie, they get into a fight that went something like this.
“There is not gray area here. You can’t kind of think this is okay. You can’t kind of side with Izzie Stevens. You can’t kind of be a lesbian.” It ends by her telling Callie, “I don’t know you at all,” and then walking away into the night, never to be seen at Seattle Grace again. We think, anyway.
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Catherine
wrote on November 7 2008 @ 11:04 am: [report]
It totally comes off as a rushed ending to that storyline.
Kiki T
wrote on November 7 2008 @ 11:55 am: [report]
This show so jumped the shark episodes ago
Cath
wrote on November 7 2008 @ 02:23 pm: [report]
I despise the character of Erica Hahn, but not because of the lesbian storyline—she was annoying WAY before that. She is rude, condescending, unsupportive of her fellow doctors, and straight up mean! So I’m glad.
ShortyDooWop
wrote on November 8 2008 @ 12:09 am: [report]
complete agreement with Cath!
Nicole
wrote on November 8 2008 @ 02:22 pm: [report]
Ding dong the witch is dead….... or at least not going to be appearing in episodes for a while!!! Lesbian or not—she was a B@$#H!!
Tracy
wrote on November 10 2008 @ 10:38 am: [report]
The fight would explain why the relationship dies but to not see her again in the work scene makes no sense. Nobody can have that big of bee in their self righteous bonnet and simply walk away from their job. You would think that she would issue an investigation or just something more than a 2 minute pissing contest with the chief and then with Callie. THey really dropped the writing ball on this one.