Not Without My Zach
When NBC began advertising the new medical comedy Scrubs eight years ago, I saw the commercials and thought, “Wow, that looks funny. I can’t wait to watch it.”
And eight years later it’s still on the air, the star and creator are slated to leave at the end of the season, and the producers have threatened on more than one occasion to turn my beloved Scrubs and years of wonderful memories into a joke.
I’m pretty sure I literally read that they were contemplating making it into “the next ER.” I’ll pass, thanks. ER should’ve been taken off the air about ten years ago.
Season 9 and beyond of Scrubs is the worst idea ever. People don’t even watch it. Plus, the show is IN ZACH’S HEAD. If you take away ZACH BRAFF, you take away the SHOW. No one will care about Turk anymore, especially since Judy Reyes (Carla) has announced her departure as well. Plus, Elliot is apparently completely dependent on J.D. to get through her days, so she’d shrivel up and die in the season premiere. Not that that would be a bad thing.
Did I just say that?
The plan would be to build up the interns and make them more important characters. That would be fine and dandy if it weren’t such a bad idea. I don’t care about the interns. They’re not interesting. Plus, we’re getting back to the fact that ZACH BRAFF IS THE CENTER OF THE SHOW. Love him or hate him, you can’t forget that HE DOES THE VOICEOVERS.
ABC’s been trying the whole “Let’s develop the interns as characters!!!” thing with the “Interns” webisodes. They’re alright, definitely not amazing, but it’s proof that if you can barely sit through a 2-minute webisode, a 22-minute episode x an 18-22-episode season = boring.
We’ve known and loved the same characters for eight years. To try to keep going after losing them would lose the show’s charm and replace it with awkwardness as we’re forced into bed with people we hardly know. And I don’t want to sleep with any of those interns.
