Grey's Anatomy: Dr. Erica Hahn's Alternate Ending
We don't really cover Grey's Anatomy here, so we totally ignored the still-growing brouhaha over Brooke Smith, who played hard-nosed Dr. Erica Hahn until she was abruptly fired without a real explanation from the show. Lots of people think it's because ABC suits were uncomfortable with her lesbian relationship with Callie (known to now-outraged fans as "Callica.") Whatever the reasons, it was an odd decision to do it so abruptly. ANYWAY, this weekend I watched Dr. Hahn's final show and final scene, and found it to be really lazy and anticlimactic. This is a ridiculous soap opera! A main character's departure should be more dramatic! So, using my rapier-like video editing skills, I recut the final scene according to what I think the viewers wanted to see: more melodrama! More belabored metaphor!:
(Sorry.)
Posted by Lindsay at 2:00 PM in Alternate Endings, Feuds, Soap Operas
Tags: Brooke Smith | Erica Hahn | Grey's Anatomy
I think she had to leave the show because while the other doctors of Seattle Grace are obnoxious, self-centered, arrogant assholes who have imaginary problems that they can't stop obsessing about, to the detriment of their patients' lives, they are at least superficially pretty to look at. I know it's wrong to rag on someone's looks, but seriously - she's like Lady Mask. I'd feel worse, if her character wasn't also obnoxious, self-centered and assholey. Or if I had a human heart and an ounce of manners.
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My thing with her (Disclaimer: not that I ever watched the show...) was trying to understand why someone so seemingly intelligent ever became an actor in the first place, especially a soap opera actor. I actually believe her more as a doctor than as an actor.
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I think that the next episode will explain Hahn's absence by cutting to footage of Silence of the Lambs. Except instead of escaping the well, Hahn is killed by Buffalo Bill while Clarice watches on because Clarice thinks lesbians are "icky".
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this is actually the exact version of the ending that played out in my mindgrapes while watching/suffering through this episode. amazing.
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Hysterical, although I was sure that you were going to edit in Elisabeth Rohm, from her final scene on "Law & Order", asking, "Is it because I'm a lesbian?"
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