Comments | onlywordsnow: oh so you're a man that must mean you're better than me

onlywordsnow

oh so you're a man that must mean you're better than me

Jun 03, 2012 11:49

This is just a rant about all of the men in Shondaland (save for Mark Sloan and Jake Riley and even a bit of Sheldon Wallace).

( yeah, if that's what you think then okay )

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waltzmatildah June 4 2012, 00:56:35 UTC

He fell in love with Lexie and when he was just trying to do the right thing she walked away from him. I agree with just about everything you've written here about all the (GA) characters... EXCEPT for this sentence! You make it sound simplistic and as though Lexie were completely at fault for not sticking around when he was only trying to do what was right and oh, woe, poor Mark. Which is NOT how that storyline went down... At all. Yes there was an element of Mark wanting to do the right thing by Sloan, but there was also massive helpings of him being completely ridiculous in his relationship with Lexie and THAT is why she walked away. Not because he was helping Sloan, but because he was arbitrarily making HUGE decisions and assuming (literally, completely and utterly assuming) she was on board and not even contemplating that she might want/think/need something different ( ... )

onlywordsnow June 4 2012, 02:42:07 UTC

LOL. Well, first of all, good morning.

Second, oh my.

Mostly, we've had this conversation before. I see where you are coming from on all fronts, but I think that idea is less male and more Mark. He doesn't get it. He doesn't get a lot of things and the reasoning for that is that he just thinks that's how things are. My opinion on why I don't ship Slexie was basically summed up right there.

I like to say a lot Lexie walked away from Mark when he needed her, which she did, but she had every right to. I love Lexie. I don't hate her for walking away because she should have, she has her every right. My biggest problem is that the writers were clearly trying to throw them together when they just didn't work. They didn't work because they wanted different things and I think Lexie being with him would have meant sacrificing a lot ( ... )

waltzmatildah June 4 2012, 05:15:31 UTC

I like to say a lot Lexie walked away from Mark when he needed her, which she did, but she had every right to. I think this sentence is much more explanatory and less simplistic than your initial she walked away from him fullstop sentence, and if you'd put that in your first post, I'd have had less to disagree with! Haha!!

and she played along for a long time before actually saying it wasn't what she wanted. I don't know that I'd say 'she played along' because, for all we know (and now we never really will *sob*) this might have been EXACTLY what Lexie wanted... in the future. She may not have been stringing him along with not saying something immediately because I honestly don't think she understood (until she suddenly DID!!!) that Mark was meaning RIGHT NOW, THIS MONTH, TODAY IN FACT. If that makes sense? So I saw it less as Lexie 'playing along' and more as a total break-down in communication from both of them re. timelines.

(which, tbh, considering the timeline fuckery on this show in general, it's little wonder the freaking ( ... )

onlywordsnow June 4 2012, 05:42:48 UTC

For starters, I never should have included that in the first place, in retrospect. I mean, they broke up for many fantastic reasons and, in my opinion, I don't see why they would try again and again and again other than the fact that the challenge of moving on is increased 1000% when you see that person every day. There was no clean cut. In fact, the closest they got to it was the short time he spent in LA ( ... )

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