I am a huge t.v. show fanatic, I mainly love comedies (like F.R.I.E.N.D.S.), dramas (like One Tree Hill), and crime related dramas (like Bones). This past week t.v. fans said goodbye to one of there favorite television characters for the past decade, Christina Yang from Grey's Anatomy. Personally, Grey's Anatomy is my favorite show because it can make me laugh, cry, and be in suspense; it provides a little bit of everything.
In the episode Fear (of the Unknown), Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital said goodbye to their beloved surgeon Christina Yang. Yang was finally pursuing another job given to her by her ex-fiance, Preston Burke, in Switzerland where she will run her own surgical unit. Meredith and Christina have been each others "person" throughout the shows entirety and Meredith finally had to send off her best friend. As we watched their final scene it was as if all of the fans of the show were losing one of their best friends too. The dialogue was perfect and the emotion, well as they danced it out it was as if the whole ten years of there friendship was wrapped up in two minutes. (Watch the scene here) It was absolutely perfect. Do you think that people can become so invested in a show/movie that they can feel what the characters are feeling and feel as if they are connected the characters in some way? This really seemed to be the case when I was reading reviews on this particular episode because people have been so invested in the show for ten years.
Fans have grown with the show over the years and have grown with the friendship between Yang and Grey and now that Yang is gone many fans do not know if they will continue watching the show. This tends to be the case in many shows, when one of the lead/supporting characters is no longer in the show, fans stop watching. Can you think of why this would be? People love watching the show for the show typically, not for one particular character. Can one character really change the dynamic of a show that drastically?
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