I was a skeptic about Grey’s Anatomy.

I never did like watching television series too much. It’s impractical for me to hurry home and wait on the telly for the show to come on. Plus, drama can suck the life out of you. I was afraid that such a series would be like the Days of Our Lives or The Bold and the Beautiful which stuck to traditional, stereotype soap-drama plots.

It’s a love and hate thing. I’d watch certain episodes of television series faithfully – both those I love and not so much love. But if I miss one and another one consecutively, I’d lose all interest.

Thanks to DVD, I could let the season pass me by and I’d watch the whole thing in one go. It’s like bulk printing , get it all done and be over with. Well, that’s what I did with Grey’s Anatomy and the comedy show Scrubs.

Now while the format for each series may be different, they’re really more similar than you think. I haven’t done any research or reviews about Grey’s Anatomy or Scrubs, because frankly, I don’t want to accidentally read anything about some person drooling all over McDreamy or McSteamy.

Anyway, I tried studying how Scrubs suddenly propelled all of these series that involves doctors and hospitals, including the series House. And so, I began to ponder and think about the relationship of all these soaps to the successful sitcom Scrubs.

However, I’ll be concentrating on Grey’s Anatomy where evidently, drama has made it all the more seemingly different from Scrubs. So, what one has to do is take all of Scrubs characters and try to dissect and analyze them comparatively against Grey’s Anatomy, and here what I’ve noticed:

Eliot Reid – Dr. Eliot Reid is quite simple and complex at the same time. (Women are all complex anyway) She has a lot of personality that Scrubs tried to translate on-screen. Grey’s Anatomy did this by splitting her character up. There has to be a sensitive woman who believes in real love – Dr. Izzie Stevens. There has to be a woman who guys go after or the other way around – Dr. Meredith Grey. And of course, there has to be the neurotic, bossy and overachiever side – Dr. Yang. And if it were up to me, Eliot Reid has another persona taking in the form of Dr. Allison Shepard – probably an alter ego of what Eliot Reid wouldn’t want to end up like.

Now, they take all these women who of course, need men to be partnered up with. Hence, the number of eligible men on the set of Grey’s Anatomy. The friendship of JD and Tuck are not up played in Grey’s Anatomy since romance revolves around couples and not best friends. And so, you take Dr. Shepard as JD who had a fell in and out of love with Eliot. Hence, Dr. Allison Shepard and Dr. Meredith Grey.

Take Turk and split his personality as a cool and promising surgeon, who also, might be a player. Hence, you have Dr. Burke – the interest of Dr. Yang and Dr. Sloan or McSteamy for Dr. Allison Shepard. Why would Grey’s Anatomy do this? Probably to keep it tight and convenient so everyone’s lives revolves one another in the hospital. Besides, the two characters turn up to be Dr. Shepard’s friends, one way or the other.

Dr. Cox – another central character takes in the form of Nazi or Dr. Bailey. She who hustles and bustles the main interns.

Bob Kelso – takes the form of the chief who is more reserved except for his love life.

As for the other characters, there’s still a long way to go and this is taking too long. And so, to be continued.