My Views on Season One

Okay, the story of how I got the season one DVD was that I found it in Barnes & Noble a few weeks ago, but my dad (I'm eighteen and in my senior year of high school) wouldn't go for it even then. Eventually, he did get it. And I started watching it. My first response to it was, in a word, a headache. (I know, that's two words, but you try coming up with a good one.)
Let me explain: The actors frequently swallow their words and don't slow down to let the complex nature of what they're saying sink in. All the same, though, by the time it was over, I had a desire for more.
One of the things I've heard frequently from people (read: critics) about the show is that it places a large amount of emphasis on the interns’ and doctors’ personal stories, but, so far, forty-five minutes out of each hour-long episode is devoted to episode-long PROFESSIONAL stories. I'm not complaining or anything (as a matter of fact, there's a particular one you'll hopefully hear about later that I REALLY enjoyed), but it was a bit of a bummer that that happened. Apparently, stories became more ongoing and soap-opera-ish as it went on, but I'm waiting to see when that happens.
For those who aren't familiar, the show's main character is Meredith Grey, an intern (and, later, tenured doctor) at a fictitious hospital called Seattle Grace, who deals with her bosses and fellow interns (and other tenured doctors, as it went on), with her and their competitive professional lives and ongoing personal ones.
At the start of this season, there is, like I said, a large amount of emphasis on the professional lives of the doctors and interns at Seattle Grace rather than the emphasis on the personal ones that developed over time, but several of these stories, while confined to one episode, are very memorable (a couple, admittedly, for the wrong reasons), like a rape victim coming to the hospital with her rapist's bitten-off... er... PACKAGE and Meredith being forced to carry it around in a biohazard case, which leads to some truly side-splitting one-liners, like “The police won't come in till dawn, so I've gotta bunk with the penis.” It's incredibly absurdist, but I don't remember laughing as hard as I did then. I'll probably remember that particular story for the rest of my life, and with fond memories to boot.
Aside from that, the characters, even eight episodes seen by me so far in, are multi-layered and likable and the stories definitely rope you in, whether you like it or not.