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Comparing the Downfalls of Grey’s Anatomy and Heroes

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The fall TV season is widely considered to be a failure, with a few new hit shows and troublesome ratings across the board. In fact, aside from Tina Fey, the biggest stories of the fall TV season is the dramatic downfall of two former hits. Once upon a time, Grey’s Anatomy was the hit drama on TV. Also, once upon a time, Heroes was the newest sci-fi smash. Now, in the span of a few years, both Grey’s Anatomy and Heroes are making the most negative TV headlines of the fall.

For Grey’s Anatomy, once again it can’t go more than a few months without backstage drama that makes it and ABC look bad. For Heroes, an unpopular second half-season has been topped by an even more nonsensical third season that is losing even more fans. Nowadays, it wouldn’t be a TV week without critics and fans ranting about the latest horrible twist on Grey’s Anatomy, Heroes, or both.

As individual shows, Grey’s Anatomy and Heroes have pretty much no reason to be linked together. But since both shows have taken the biggest nosedive with fans and critics this fall, Grey’s Anatomy and Heroes are paired together, if only to see who’s fallen the farthest this week. The two former hits do have a few things in common, both in their glory days and in their seemingly never ending free falls.

Here are some of the categories in which Grey’s Anatomy and Heroes share both fame and infamy- more often infamy these days.

Former status:

Grey’s Anatomy: Hit medical soap opera

Heroes: Hit super hero soap opera

Biggest heights reached in:

Grey’s Anatomy: 2’nd season

Heroes: 1’st season

Traditional genre powers that they overthrew:

Grey’s Anatomy: ER

Heroes: Lost

Tough but loving supporting characters:

Grey’s Anatomy: Dr. Bailey

Heroes: Noah Bennett

Comedic highlights

Grey’s Anatomy: George

Heroes: Hiro

Resident hot men

Grey’s Anatomy: Patrick Dempsey

Heroes: Zachary Quinto

Breakout movie star:

Grey’s Anatomy: Katherine Heigl

Heroes: Zachary Quinto, in about six months

Somewhat unpopular lead character:

Grey’s Anatomy: Meredith Grey

Heroes: Peter Petrelli

Narrators that won’t shut up:

Grey’s Anatomy: Meredith Grey

Heroes: Mohinder

Cracks began to show in:

Grey’s Anatomy: 3’rd season

Heroes: 1’st season finale

Behind the scenes troubles:

Grey’s Anatomy: Too many to recap

Heroes: Producers getting fired

Unnecessary departures:

Grey’s Anatomy: Dr. Haun

Heroes: Ellie Bishop

Necessary departures

Grey’s Anatomy: Dr. Burke

Heroes: None, since no one stays dead

Addictions that they can’t break away from:

Grey’s Anatomy: Sex

Heroes: Time travel

Formerly beloved characters who nosedived:

Grey’s Anatomy: Izzie Stevens

Heroes: Hiro

Number of regulars:

Grey’s Anatomy: Countless

Heroes: Countless

Homosexual controversies:

Grey’s Anatomy: Gay slurs and cancelled lesbian subplots

Heroes: Failing to add a gay hero in Season 1

Guest stars who couldn’t salvage this season:

Grey’s Anatomy: Kevin McKidd as “Major Hottie”

Heroes: Robert Forster as Arthur Petrelli

Creative nadir:

Grey’s Anatomy: Ghost sex

Heroes: Pick your outlandish plot twist

Level of current popularity

Grey’s Anatomy: More popular with TV gossip magazines

Heroes: Watched by people that are killing time until Lost comes back

Only reason they are still around:

Grey’s Anatomy: Shonda Rhimes owns the half of ABC not owned by Lost

Heroes: Owns the 20% of NBC not owned by Tina Fey

Sources

Entertainment Weekly- “Grey’s Anatomy fan backlash” www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20243272,00.html

SF Signal- “Can Heroes Be Saved?” www.sfsignal.com/archives/007387.html

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