Note: Do not continue reading thinking you are going to learn something from this post at all because I am just musing.
Okay, so I am not really Sandra Oh.
But right now I am going through a marathon of “Grey’s Anatomy”, and I am on Season 2, Episode 18 – “Yesterday”.
Here’s the scene I was watching the other day that has some seriously brilliant acting.
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Background: Christina fake moved in with Preston (Dr. Burke) and kept her old apartment without telling him.
He found out and he was (understandably) upset because he thought she had committed to him by moving in.
Christina: Umm..
Dr. Burke: I.. am Preston Burke. A widely renowned cardiothoracic surgeon. I am a professional.
And more than that, I am a good and kind person.
I am a person that cleans up behind myself, I am a person that cooks well.
And you, you are an UNBELIEVABLE slob. A slovenly, angry intern.
I am Preston BURKE.
And you, you are the most competitive, most guarded, most stubborn, most challenging person I have ever met.
And I love you.
What the hell is the matter with you that you just won’t let me?
Christina: I gave up my apartment 20 minutes ago?
Dr. Burke: Alright then.
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Where am I going with all of this?
Nowhere really.
I just felt an immediate kinship with Christina, the character, especially in comparison to BF.
I am not really a slovenly, slobby intern who doesn’t know how to cook …. but I am certainly nowhere as organized, rational, scheduled and as controlled as BF.
Sometimes I feel like I am the slovenly, disorganized, disheveled half of the couple.
Sometimes I like to eat crap, and it makes him wrinkle his nose and gag slightly. (Like ramen — that stuff is really disgusting if you read what the seasoning is made out of.)
Sometimes I don’t want to do certain things, and I procrastinate a bit.
Sometimes I strew my stuff all over the place and I don’t neatly organize everything into 90 degree piles like BF.
Sometimes I feel like the stubborn, totally irrational one (but in my defense, he is also stubborn!)
Sometimes I feel like I don’t know enough about cooking.. at least, not for fancy French cuisine.
That being said, clearly he loves me for other qualities (or perhaps I am just exaggerating my faults in my head).
It’s almost like we’re two peas in a pod, but still different enough in personality to need and want each other.
I balance him out with a more chilled out, easy-going “don’t worry” attitude when he gets all paranoid.
I remind him not to go into extremes as is his personality, such as giving up TOO many things to the point where we have to re-purchase them again.
So Christina? I hear you.
Sometimes it’s hard to feel like the “bad” one, and our other halves may not know it, but they secretly enjoy part of it.
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I love Cristina. Her honesty is so refreshing. And I just love her gusto!
God, I love Grey's Anatomy. And I know EXACTLY what episode you're talking about! Love!
I've always felt a kinship to Meredith, and I kinda hate that because she's the one you're SUPPOSED to love, but yeah. I do.
I don’t really feel any kinship to Meredith… mine is more towards Christina/Izzie. 🙂
Aw, I like this post. I feel like the 'bad one' at the moment. Somehow, knowing it's not necessarily a bad thing, it makes it kind of easier. =)
I loved that scene! One of my favourites (until the show started to go downhill, IMHO). Christina is definitely my favourite of the cast.
I totally get it. I always feel like my boyfriend has such a clear and organized mind. I'm always forgetting my money or my phone or my metorocard. I used to feel bad about it because I was always late or I coudln't find something..etc. Now I've come to *love* how much he differs from me. When I leave my apt, he always has a checklist of items I probably forgot. He's usually right.
It's perfect for me.
I'm also doing a Grey's marathon right now, and watched that scene a few weeks ago. Preston Burke's monologue is brilliancy – I love his character.
I too feel like the bad half our the couple most of the time… but maybe that's also a distinctly female thing to do. Let's face it, we are great at exaggerating our faults in our head.
I am still giggling over reading the monologue. Every time I see it, it makes me smile
You're not whoever that woman is from the TV show, you are ME. And your BF is my Bill. A matched set where one is the kettle and the other is the lid…
AWw 🙂 Thank you!
For the record… I have a girl crush on Sandra Oh.
I think she is a brilliant actress
I loved that scene and I loved the first few seasons of Grey's. Then it totally went downhill.
Oh the memories… I had forgotten that particular scene, but it is totally brilliant. I think in any healthy relationship each person feels like the "bad" one some of the time. That's my working theory anyway…no data…just a hunch.
I definitely feel like the bad one a lot of the time hahahaa!
I wonder if BF feels like that (as you said). Maybe…?
Hahahaha! Was that the same episode when they were dancing like crazy monkeys? So. freaking. awesome.
Christina has always been my favorite and I definitely remember that scene, way too funny.