Networks like gays... as long as they are sexless. Look at what happened to Willow and Tara on Buffy: A whole year of flirting and coming out and will they or wont they and the episode that Amber Benson becomes a series regular, they kill her off.
Networks like gay like Will Truman. Sexless representations of a segment of the poplulation they don't think the rest of the country can understnd well enough to accept.
It's sad really, I liked Dr. Hahn

I really liked her character but thought the whole storyline could have been better. It could have been an interesting story to see. I am really upset they let her go. The show is not as good as it used to be!

I think this whole thing is alarmingly offensive. Between the gay storylines getting purged from my favorite show and the possibility that Prop 8 passes here in California, it's a bad time to be a gay person. Fuck ABC!

I think it's a shame they're firing Smith. I don't like the Hahn/Callie storyline (sorry, it's boring and a little creepy), but I really like Hahn the hardboiled bitch. If the lesbian storyline is an issue, couldn't they de-creepify it and keep Hahn around? She's a smart woman who spends less time than anyone else on the show dithering stupidly about her life, and she had so much potential. I'll be sorry to see her gone.

This is so obviously a homophobiac move on the network's part. The new Melissa character has been degayed, and the one true gay character on the show is gone. Fuck you Grey's!

They're just a group of bad writers. They didn't know what to do with Hanh. And since their kiss in last season's finale, they haven't had a hot moment, imo. The chemistry's not that great. I think the actress is terrific, but I never liked Hanh much. I hope they do another lesbian storyline for Callie soon enough, although I do like her with Sloane...

We thot the whole story line was very stupid and we're happy it's going away. Get back to more patient story lines and skip the very unbelievable bed-hopping. Didn't like Erica anyway. Now--Christina and the former "Journeyman" -- that's a whole different story....

I have absolutely no issues with this storyline ending or the character departing. I haven't liked Erica from the beginning, but I really took issue with the way this "couple" was written. We had zero inkling that Callie was interested in women, and it has reduced Callie to a character whose only purpose seems to be talking about "south of the border" and sex in general. What happened to Callie the surgeon, or Callie the intelligent woman? She was gone as soon as this started. "Brothers and Sisters" does gay storylines well- "Grey's" is not capable.

I really didn't like Callie/Hahn together...the writers did a terrible job putting the relationship together and have turned the relationship triangle that was Sloane/Callie/Hahn into this ridiculous mess. I will truly miss Smith on Grey's. I loved her character and love her acting. Perhaps they can put her on Brothers and Sisters...

It is a shame that they have seen fit to remove one of only two decent characters on the show (Bailey being the other). Hahn is a great character, Smith plays her well. The relationship wasn't well written, but a post-breakup arc would have been interesting. It would be better to kill off Meredith or Izzy, both are so annoying that I can't actually watch the show anymore. Thank heavens for recaps on TWoP!

the fact of the matter is, they wrote a character and going into it seemed to have no idea what to do with her, she was just supposed to be a plot bit in the denny/heart transplant episodes and then of course isaiah washington couldn't keep his mouth shut and they were short a cardio thorasic surgeon to round out their hierarchy of surgical avenues so they brought in second in her class, Erica Hahn and it was downhill from there. Personally, i was dismayed that this show brought on an intelligent, strong female character and screwed it up so badly, maybe because there can only be 1 dr. bailey, but also, how terrible that their message essentially was that any strong, independent, intelligent woman has to be a lesbian rather than just disinterested in jumping mark sloan's bones...i mean really? in addition, they made her un-likeable, she is horrible to meredith, bailey, and christina. there was so much potential but the fact of the matter was, this show was clueless how to write a new character that wasn't vulnerable like izzie or snarky like christina or damaged and complex like meredith or sophisticated like addison or awesome like bailey.

"perhaps George's character will no longer be bisexual": Ha, at first you were talking about T.A. Knight's character!

I like the storyline in principle, but in practice, they've repeated the same plot--"Hahn's really into it, Callie kinda isn't, Callie hurts Hahn's feelings, then they make up" for 3 or 4 episodes now. The writers don't know how to progress.

Even so, it would be ridiculous to get rid of Brooke Smith so entirely over that kind of impasse. What's going on?!?

I've heard outrage over the network's homophobia on other sites, but I'm not sure that's the reason for her firing. Had ABC just axed the lesbian thing, I'd be pissed. But they don't usually FIRE actresses because their on-screen relationship is ending. Sounds to me like she was fired for other reasons and is blaming the network. Brooke Smith also said in an interview that when she told Sara Ramirez the news, Ramirez was so shocked that it took her a few days to reply. Huh? That doesn't sound like shock to me.

That said...I'm not defending ABC's obvious squeamishness! Just that I don't think it's why she was let go.

What a stupid move on their part. They are dumping a great character, relationship, and plot opportunity. Those of us who are open to viewing TV that portrays real world situations (ie people figure out their orientation is different from what they thought) are so disappointed.....

Well I had hopes for this storyline but seems it was for naught.
I didn't like the wishy washy nature that they were making Callie have. It was just bad, bad writing.
But you know, they can't get the medical aspects of the show right half of the time, what makes me think they could get this right either. I think I'm done with this show.

I do agree with the point that it hasn't been written well.

However, I still think this sudden move is pathetic and cowardly. Sure, they're going to keep Callie, a terrific character in her own right, though she has also been written inconsistently. In keeping Callie, they can keep the appearance that it's not a homophobic move on ABC's part, but that only shows to me that they're more than happy to keep the character who can easily be written as bisexual (read: safe). That way, if they want, they can quickly put her back into a romantic or sexual relationship with a male character, and thus avoid offending anyone who doesn't want to see the 'icky' gay love. Meanwhile, they're getting rid of a strong female character, one of the few who has an actual spine on this program (a rare quality). Why not give the writers a little more time to develop and rework what they find isn't working with the character before dumping her? Brooke Smith is a talented actress. She's too good to just get rid of so quickly.

This is really stupid. Why did they start the story and THEN realize they couldn't hack it? It doesn't make sense. I didn't like Callie and Hahn as a couple and didn't really buy Callie as a woman who suddenly realized she might be a lesbian or bisexual and falling in love with a woman yet also seemingly repulsed by that woman. It would have made more sense story wise to just have Callie decide she wasn't gay after all but...whatever. There are too many characters on this show and none of them make any sense.

The more I think about it, the more it seems like there must be more to this story than just the gay angle. As I, and many others, have said, it would have been easy to end this relationship--how many other relationships on this show have fizzled out or blown up? Dozens, anyway.

The thing that bothers me, a heterosexual female, is that whenever a lesbian relationship is shown, there is an element of self-loathing to it. On this show, it was Callie who was turned off by it. Why wouldn't she know what feels good to a va-jay-jay--she's got one. And on House, it is evidence of 23 being self-destructive that she is using drugs, staying out all night, and...sleeping with women! Ooooo, she's hit rock bottom, all right. Wouldn't it be MORE self-destructive for her to sleep with dangerous men?

I'll watch Brooke Smith's last episode, pay attention to the companies sponsoring Gray's Anatomy, make note never to buy anything they sell, and then I'm done with that hot mess. I'm so sick of homophobia from what ought to be our friends. They want queers when they're dancing monkeys like Jack on Will and Grace, and they love to show up and pick up their GLAAD awards. Then they dump us like last week's trash. So, it's time to make them pay. Stop watching their shows. Don't support their sponsors. Let them fail. And gay actors? They ought to walk off that set.

I have a hard time believing that ABC has a problem with a gay/lesbian storyline. Isn't ABC the network that one group (GLBT, I think) said has the most homosexual characters on it and I can't think of one character that's portrayed in a negative light (I could be wrong). It's the network that has Ugly Betty and Brothers and Sisters on which have out characters and deal squarely with their sexuality. If we were talking about other networks, like CBS or Fox I might think there's some truth to the claim that she was axed because of the gay story. But, I think I have to uncharacteristically defend ABC in this case because the claim doesn't fit with the rest of their line up.

Also, I have to wonder what they're thinking by bringing Melissa George back to do anything TV related. She's a reason to stop watching any show.

The storyline seemed to be going in one place from episodes 5.01/02 and 5.03 and then took a sharp turn when all Callie did was freak out. If all they were going to write was scenes where Callie freaked out, how could the actors ever portray an interesting chemistry? Their hands were tied because it was scripted that they act uncomfortable.

It seems pretty obvious that the writers knew this was going down from episode 4 on and wrote it thusly so they could give this excuse and wrote Hahn being extra mean to pave the way.

I was never a fan of the lesbian storyline between Hahn and Callie because I never felt like Callie had any chemistry with Hahn. I always felt she was using Hahn as a way to get over the failure of her marriage to George.
However I love Brooke Smith and think it's a shame that her character is being written off. She was one of the few sane, mature characters. It would have been interesting to watch her character evolve now that she has discovered her sexuality. Stupid network.

I just think its fishy that the announcement of Brooke Smith being fired comes on the DAY that people are being asked to vote on Prop 8 and similar propositions across the country to ban gay marriage. If she was axed two months ago, why make the announcement today? That to me says that ABC are making their stand. As for the other gay or Bi characters they have, Rebecca Romijn was demoted on Ugly Betty from regular to reccuring. They seem to be just slinking back into the safe ground of "Who us? Groundbreaking? No! We are safe and don't like to rock any boats!"

Just so you know, they put Benson in the credits on purpose because one of Joss Whedon's "dreams" was to kill a character on the first episode in which they were in the main credits...that's why that went down that way.

I do agree with your point to a degree...sometimes the shows play too much off of the stereotypes.

I did like Erica Hahn, but I hated how much she changed when she was with Callie.. it seemed more like it was two separate characters rather than one.

But the Callie/Erica storyline has been a bit strange, at first I was all for it, but the chemistry wasn't really there for me. With the exception of that first kiss in the elevator, the rest just... didn't do it for me.

Did anyone see Patrick Dempsey's appearance on Ellen? He brought out the statement he was "told to use" regarding any Callie/Erica questions.

The networks can get away with one daytime lesbian storyline, they kiss, they're romantic, maybe get married, then Bianca goes away for a couple of years. Then they'll bring her back for a few episodes when ratings are down. Repeat, one lesbian dies, or has a affair. Repeat.

And House's 13 storyline, while incredibly hot in the first 15 secs. is crap. I'm dying so I'll go have sex with as many women as I can, do drugs and party all night. It was so forced it gave me a headache. And two episodes later she'll be saved by a man and women will never be mentioned again.

Callie going to Mark for tips, that was the end for me. I think Callie/Hahn had the potential to have chemistry, but it was just ruined with the writing. They could have saved Hahn by writing about the aftermath and her revelations. I didn't feel like they were trying to make her needy and whiny tho (that's Meredith's job, apparently her only job on the show). I felt like they might be trying to work toward Hahn's demons and the reason she was so mean and nasty. But the writers.......

How can Nip/Tuck network/writers get away with basically writing and showing softporn. Put lesbians in a liplock or fully clothed in bed together and people freak. Have Julian McMahon's bare ass pumping away on some woman with a bag over her head and no complaints? And I think they had a lesbian storyline, but I don't watch the show, so not sure how they handle their lesbian storylines. But I someone told me one of them was crazy.

Honestly showing the sex is less important to me than writing about a relationship, a realistic one. But with that there has to be some interaction, not hairbrushing, like South of Nowhere went for awhile. Yes, it is a teen show and no I wasn't expecting sex. But I was expecting them to touch, other than by hairbrush alone. To be realistic they have to actually be in the same room and they have to touch at some point.

The networks tend to use bisexual (which Callie is, but apparently they decided to call her a lesbian anyway, so no GA does not have a lesbian on their show Shonda). to play it safe. If things get too hot, or any group complains, they can "go straight" again. And never have to speak of the "slip up" again....until sweeps.

No lesbians, only unsure or dying bisexuals on network tv after South ends, if their storylines don't abruptly end in the next week or so. And when the LWord ends there will only be lesbian cartoon characters left.

As a lesbian, I can't say I had an epiphany at 35. I always knew, but I pushed it very far away, married a man (and no, just because I had sex and married a man, does NOT make me bisexual, it means I was trying to be someone I wasn't), had kids and had no close female friends for a very long time. It wasn't until I surrounded myself with several close and accepting female friends that I was finally able to be honest about myself and my teenage secret past life. It had been so long since I had let myself be open that when I finally was with a woman again, it was kinda like Hahn's tree speech.

Uggh, I hate when the curtian is stripped back and you see the network controlling the puppet strings. If it had been a creative decision from the writers, I would have been on board, but to see how the suits handed down this abrupt firing is disgusting. I hate being another set of eyeballs for those money hungry homophobic doucebags. My only option is to stop watching their crap.

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