Dr. Gregory House

[lauralh]

The basic House plot goes like this: patient comes in with non-obvious health problem, House and his team run some tests, make wild guesses which turn out to be wrong, then, in the last 10 minutes or so, House sees something or hears something that leads his brain in the direction of solving the case for real. And it works and they go home happy and healthy. When this is deviated from, the episode is weaker for it. In Season One, the Evil Administrator tries to Make House Conform. He fails, of course. The charm of House is that he's brilliant and cranky and will never change. You know that nothing is going to happen with him and a woman, his leg won't improve, and his Vicodin habit will never be overcome.

Unfortunately in Season Three the writers seemed to think "Well, this formula has worked for over 2 years. The audience MUST BE BORED." So all kinds of stupid dramatic shit goes on, instead of just House+team solving cases. And it's terribly frustrating. I JUST WANT HOUSE BEING SNARKY, NOT BEING FUCKED OVER. He is the cause of fucked-over-in-others, man. This is not supposed to be soap opera/Party of Five bullshit, it's supposed to be about The Case. And then one of the episodes is Very Special with House counseling a rape victim. Uhhhh what. That's not a case! That's just a stupid wannabe tearjerker.

Oh well. I'll probably still finish the season.

Comments

[tcinseattle.livejournal.com]

The most recent stuff is MUCH more interesting, going much farther into House's personal experience in a very psychedelic way. Have you hit the episode where he does lsd yet?

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that was in S3.

I also liked where he faked cancer.

[discogravy.livejournal.com]

they do get better about that, btw. and the season 4/5 shit is totally excellent. house in the strip club at the end of season 4 (or was it 3?) is fucking great.

i feel very similarly about burn notice: any moment michael westin is not monologuing about how to be a better spy is time wasted, imo.

[andr00.livejournal.com]

And then one of the episodes is Very Special with House counseling a rape victim.
Yeah! What the hell is it with Very Special episodes. That's got to be a TV trope by now, huh?
(yup)

[suxdonut.livejournal.com]

ive had 'last of the intl playboys' running thru my head all day after bussing past the neptune which is playing 'the intl playboys' which makes me want to see it...

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

i can't help quoting you
cos everything that you say rings true