THIS POST CERTIFIED 100% FREE OF LAZY 'IS THIS BECAUSE I'M A LESBIAN' JOKES: After about 3/4 of a season's worth of building toward, and then paying off on, a Callie-Hahn relationship (with good work by both of the principal actors, and I say that as someone who's found the story a little dull), Grey's Anatomy is abruptly ending both the storyline and Hahn's tenure on the show this week. They are so forcefully ungaying Callie that the incoming Melissa George character, hired as a lesbian Sawyer to Hahn and Callie's Jack and Kate, got caught in the straightwash, went into a straightspin, and ended up taking a straightdive right into the straightway. She's so straight now that they're going to name her character Isaiah Washington.
Now I didn't like Hahn so much as I liked having her around -- after Addison left, the show needed a bad-ass female surgeon to prevent the Weber-Shepherd-Sloan group of attendings from getting too boys' clubby. Maybe they're moving Hahn aside to show Bailey moving up the ladder and into that role. But I do think it's a terrible idea to try to replace Hahn with Melissa George. Aside from the fact that the show doesn't need another Pretty Young Doctor (and frequently benefits from adult supervision), I associate Melissa George primarily with the comically disastrous third season of Alias (the inexplicable decision to make her an American born-and-raised spy but to not ask her to hide her natural Australian accent just encapsulates how horribly wrong that season went) and secondarily as the awful third lead (opposite Ryan Reynolds and Ryan Reynolds's abs) in the Amityville Horror remake, a movie I watched perhaps a dozen or more times for work reasons, as a result of which it is etched in my brain.
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