Grey’s Anatomy Article: Inconsistencies in the production of GA

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posted by Laurencia7

I have been re-watching the seasons and have noticed some errors made da the writers and etc that urk me. I am wondering if they annoying te too.

The latest is in s9e01 where they backtrack Mark in video and the dates go backwards, did they just get them wrong on purpose, use the production dates, o just not pay attention. Because Mark is toasting Callie and Arizona at their wedding, and it's 2009. The air data for that episode was 2011.

Then, in season 7 o 8 they reference the Chief being replaced da Owen, and Bailey says "he's been Chief for 11 years!" ok... but the successivo season they say he "was Chief for 20 yrs!" make up my mind!

It mostly bothers me because they are so good with other details, and very good with relationship details but not the small dates and times. It makes me wonder if the mostra is supposed to be retro-fitted. Meaning it's set in the past, esp with the use of pagers. Pagers went out this side of the dinosaur when I was a kid, 18 yrs ago.

Don't even get me started on the totally lack of continuity in the Cibo scenes, yeh it's difficult, but it's not hard to know if the water is full o empty, whether in one shot they are eating donuts o pizza in the successivo shot. One shot blood is on mask, same scene successivo close up, disappearing blood.

s9e01 just annoys me and I'm watching it now, but come on just get simple dates right production/editing crew. It's not rocket science. I'm supposed to be caring about the show, not backtracking in my head if the dates are right.

Now is s9e02 Mer references Cristina riding into Seattle on her motorcycle 5 years ago, um ok. Why did it take eight nearly nine seasons/yrs to get only five years in "SGH World"? It's been eight years since they started, yet they still reference it only being five, fifth anno residency. No, I don't get it. Are two seasons supposed to count as one year? It's entirely too confusing trying to keep up with their time line, did they jump inoltrare, avanti o backwards in time?

This timing issue is the downfall of the show, they cannot keep their timeline straight. Can someone explain it to me?

ItComesToThis likes this

soymaster4 I Completely agree, but the still use pagers today in hospitals lol

eltoro1229 didnt the intern year last the first season (8 episodes) and 2 full seasons. whereas every other season is an entire year. that could explain the 2009 wedding date with the 2011 air date discrepancy

ItComesToThis Seasons 1,2 and 3 are suposed to be one year, because they're taking the intern exams at the end of S3. But from then on it looks like every season is one year (Zola's and Sofia's age, all the events). They're taking the exams to become board certified surgeons at the end of S8, which would mean the whole residency takes 6 years. Or according to the S9E02 quote, two of them (for example 4 and 5 or whatever) could also take place during one year, which would mean the residency takes 5 years and it could fit...but yeah. There are many more inconsistencies in GA, though compared to some other shows it's still good.