BLUE MAG

You know, I think there probably should be more spinoffs. What is the last good spinoff you can think of. And I’m going to declare right now that CSI: Miami doesn’t count. It has to be a character from one show “gettting her own show.”

Like the planned ABC spinoff of ”Grey’s Anatomy” starring Kate Walsh’s Dr. Addison Montgomery-Sheppard. Wait a minute, was I just advocating on behalf of that? I was the very first “Grey’s” fan, but about the 10th time I heard the name “McDreamy” I realized that I had created a monster.

Anyways, word today is that Chris Lowell, Piz on “Veronica Mars,” has been cast on that spinoff. So I guess we know what LoVe / Piz = … (You had to be there.)

All in all, the special three-part “Grey’s Anatomy” event, which ended tonight, was very good. But my wife brought up a good point about Izzie’s insistence that George’s and Cally’s marriage is a sham. How can Izzie, who married Denny, whom she met in the hospital and never knew outside the hospital, accuse George of marrying hastily? (That ended up sounding like one of those logical puzzles–George, who married the woman with the green dress, and Sally, whose husband prefers Gitanes…)

I don’t think the writers have thought about it, because it would be a good point on which to give Izzie depth. She could be projecting her leftover angst about getting so invested in that doomed relationship. But the way Denny was written back into this three-parter made it clear that he will always be remembered in gauzy, teary eyed flashbacks, rather than forgotten as an unfortunate mistake.

I think they missed a trick there, or they are asleep at the wheel.