Please let someone on my FList be a closet House fan

[seventhe]

So I think I'm totally and completely hooked on House. Which makes no sense, because the recent shows have been kind of annoying with the EBIL!COP subplot (and by "subplot" I actually mean "main plot"), but the show is absolutely hilarious, and it's got a lot of potential. Has anyone else been watching this season? Because, well, I mean...


I'm trying to figure out how they'll get out of this "asshole cop gets revenge by sending House to jail" plotline. I mean, House can't go to jail, and he can't lose his license - this is a big DUH, because the show is called "House" and not "Some Doctors". So. I'm wondering whether the case will go to court and be thrown out (or, in a laaaarge stretch, House takes it to court and wins). Two reasons: (1) I'm pretty sure the cop is way over his head on due process - impounding cars, freezing bank accounts? Offering plea deals on his own? Can you really do that? and (2) It would mean that House was right, and the show seems to go to pretty far lengths to show that House is almost always right.

Then House can go check himself into rehab as we all saw in the preview for January (JANUARY? I HATE YOU FOX), because he's doing it on his own time, and that's a much more House-y thing to do.

Anyway. I don't like this asshole-cop plotline at all. You started out feeling some sympathy for the cop, which was good! House is an ass! He finds an adversary who is also an ass! But they are both partially in the right, so the viewer is torn! Excellent! Aaaaaand ...and then Tritter just turned into a manipulative bitch and lost everything even remotely sympathetic about his character. And then we all hated him and started rooting for House again.

I mean, I'm no doctor, so that part of the show to me is much like CSI: watching people solve a mystery. But it's like there hasn't been enough medical stuff ON the show because this OMG HOUSE MEDS EVIL COP WITHDRAWAL PILLS PILLS PILLS WTF WILSON thing is taking over the entire freaking hospital.

Also, someone rec me a good House comm?



In other news, watch brokenprism for some high-quality crack lately. I've been mugged by plotbunnies. Coming your way: an FFIV/FFX crossover experiment, a series of Seifer/Zell drabbles also starring Edea, a very crackalicious Shadow/Terra for this month's ff_smutathon, and although I don't want to admit it out loud, the Irvine/Seifer ficlet. Also, possibly some work on those Christmas requests, and hopefully I will get back to stabbing at my claims.

Comments

[rosencrantz.livejournal.com]

I'm a house fan, no closet about it. I'm on German airtime, though, which means I think we're only halfway through season 2 right now. Or,... heck, I don't know what season. The latest episode I just saw was the one where House was demoted and Foreman was the chief in charge for 2 weeks. This is right after the episode where Chase's daddy died.

In summary from what I seen so far:

1. House = cynical snark = much love
2. Wilson = snark back = much love
3. Foreman = not so cynical snark = much love
4. Cameron = cute = WTF is wrong with House. Okay, so she's a little whiney at times but she's cute.
5. Cuddy = reminds me of my sister = well, ok, but not my fav character
6. Chase = prissy little blonde catholic boy. I hear he has australian accent in english. He doesn't have any accent in german. He annoys the everloving stuffing out of me and needs to get beat up by Foreman. And House. And Cameron. And Cuddy. Repeatedly.

Did I miss anyone? Oh yeah, Stacey. Bleh, don't like her either.

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

Chase is a whiney bitch. And he's an Aussie in the American version. I am not a big fan of him, but I'm trying, because I think the writers are deliberately making him unlikeable and I want to rebel against it. But House/Wilson/Foreman = SO MUCH LOVE, honestly.

I'm sorry if I've spoiled you for any of the upcoming season! There's a long plot with a cop that was originally intriguing but now kind of bothers me.

[rosencrantz.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Everybody loves House, obviously, but I think my favourite after him is Foreman.

Foreman needs some serious lovin' in that show. He's got such a great character but he seems to be always relegated to a foil role for the others. Give the black man some love, scriptwriters. Hell, give him CAMERON. I would totally dig that. :)

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

SO WOULD I. Cameron could get over her pseudocrush on House, and Foreman is just total love. He needs way more development. And he should be right sometimes. XD

House/Wilson! DON'T JUDGE

[heyheyrenay.livejournal.com]

Really, I've been hesitant to watch this season because of the cop guy. Kind of like the first season where they gave House an ADVERSARY! and I just ended up being bored.

I think the show should be called House, Wilson, and the Ducklings. And feature medical mysteries. AND NO ADVERSARIES.

Oh, no, House/Wilson is OK in my book!!

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

I AGREE. A little plot to weave a season together? Fine! This much asshole-cop plot? Boo. Get back to the Foreman/Cameron/Chase threesomes, plz.

I have been labeling them the Houseketeers in my head, btw.

Re: Oh, no, House/Wilson is OK in my book!!

[rosencrantz.livejournal.com]

No! Chase gets no love from us! Or! Or or or! Chase ends up with that other guy who left the hopsital. Vogler or something.

Alright, I'm probably playing completely into the scriptwriters' whims, but please. He's just too preppy right now for my sympathies.

Re: Oh, no, House/Wilson is OK in my book!!

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

CHASE/EVIL!COP.

..Oh, wait, you haven't seen it yet.

Chase/Vogler (sp?) is acceptable, then.

[rosencrantz.livejournal.com]

BTW, I hate CSI with an everloving passion. The way they massacre science and lab practices makes my TEETH bleed. Every single permutation of that show does it to me. That, and the basic premise that you need science to solve a mystery bugs me. I'll take Kojak and Columbo over the CSI detectives anyday.

EXAMPLE CSI PLOT:

*person with unbound hair, high heels and inappropriate business suit squats over completely unsecured scene of crime holding a q-tip.*

*person swabs delicately at inner casing of metal razor chip on ground*

*disco music plays while person drops q tip into plastic baggie and then show artists procede to display EXACTLY HOW LITTLE they know about computers, scanners, and photoshop to the even half-trained eye*

*person turns to other person and holds up q-tip triumphantly.*

PSEUDO SCIENCE PERSON: "See this spectrum-technobabble-fingerprint report? This proves that Suspect A was at the scene of the crime."

OTHER PSEUDO SCIENCE PERSON: "Great. That, and the fact that we found him at the scene of the crime standing over the body holding a bloody knife and slabbering at the mouth will really get him in the bag now. Good work. Oh, but next time find his spit, so we have an even more air-tight case."

AAAAH TEETH BLEEDING!

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

See, I like CSI, even with all the non-science. (I mean, c'mon, I USE a GC/MS and GPC at my job! It don't work like that, and it don't work in 30 seconds!!) There's a ton of shit that's totally flawed and yet ...I dunno, the show still intrigues me. Maybe it's the characters? Although, yes, Catherine needs to wear less low-cut shirts to work, kthx.

I think it's mostly because I have a huge geekcrush on William Peterson.

[rosencrantz.livejournal.com]

Oh, I love Gary Sinese (sp?) to death as an actor, but I actually don't like the show enough to learn the names of most of the cops. I just know there's "the one in Miami with that redhead with the unbelievable name. I mean, Horatio? Come on, try to be JUST A LITTLE more obvious, folks." And then there's "the one with Gary in it (squee!)" And finally, there's "that other one with nobody I know in it."

I kind of end up having to watch CSI Miami all the time as a precursor to seeing House, and I stomach it because I like the music they pick for the 'this is how a lab doesn't really work' scenes. In fact I think the music cuts are a little better in the Miami show than they are in the Gary show. (Gary show... I think they're in NY, right? )

But, (and I think this is worse in 'Miami' than the other), the thing that gets me the most of all in the show is the deductive reasoning, which is what keeps me from connecting with the characters. I mean, literally, it's so many times I've seen them do some stupid shit, like analysing the rubber on the sole of a boot or something, and then completely and casually mention on the side that the fucking BOOT PRINT matches the crime scene. Because it's 'cooler' to analyse boot rubber than to state the obvious.

It sort of implies that all these criminals they catch would get away if it wasn't for the miracle of science. Which sort of implies that the detectives are, in their own way, kinda stupid. They need to get some lessons from Columbo, seriously. ;)

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

CSI Miami is horrible at that, though - the reasoning bit. I've noticed it as well. The thing I don't like about the Miami one is that the main guy (with the sunglasses) is always making these ridiculous statements about how this "definitely" happened or this "proves" that -- and it soooo obviously doesn't. The other shows are a little better at processing the evidence and waiting to see where it leads (not experts, I agree, but still). Miami just jumps to conclusions. Plus, the sunglasses guy is just annoying (shit, what's that actor's name) because he takes everything so personally and has to be such a badass. That's why I like Grissom. He's not such a badass. He's a geek.

I like the NY one although I am constantly yelling "LIEUTENANT DAN! YOU GOT NEW LEGS!" when I watch it.

[rosencrantz.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's a subconscious dig at Floridians for continuing to live in the hurricane state.


Well, if we're gonna talk fan squeeing, I have to say Law & Order: Special Victims (I think that's what it's called in English) is my favourite to squee over. I know the main Law & Order is several seasons behind, because they JUST got rid of Abbey as the assistant DA, and she was assistant DA when I was watching it in the US. Ah, but in the SV show, there's the cuddly-slobbery Munch, and the crackling sexual tension between Very Married Elliot and I am So Never Going To Be A Housewife Olivia.

Plus, you get to laugh at Ice T from time to time. That show's gold.

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

I don't regularly watch that one, but I've seen a ton while visiting my gramma (she is a L&O addict) and I agree, they're pretty darn good. I never really watched a lot of TV until I landed this four ten-hour-day schedule I'm on, which leaves you no time to do anything useful in teh evenings besides watch the tube. :)

[icca.livejournal.com]

I rather like that there's an overarching plot. (Speaking of which, what ever happened to Cuddy getting pregnant? Did she just give up?)

On the other hand, the show's getting kind of lame over the plot: at first, when House wrongs Tritter, he is way too much of an ass, even for him. Now it's the other way around.

I really don't think Tritter's tactics are legal, no. Especially not over this, since he has no evidence that House's problem causes him to accidentally kill patients, and House does sort of NEED pills for pain.

I really love Wilson.

...and not JUST because he's a traitor who's been switching sides more often than you do when every one else is only going 50 and the other lane is completely open for your 80-mph self.

[venefica-aura.livejournal.com]

Wilson sounds like CHARACTER INSERTION FOR ICCA'S BENEFIT.

I've only been keeping up with people posting about House. I don't have cable. So this amuses me when I should be studying.

~Cendri

[icca.livejournal.com]

Yes. Yes he is. He has also gone through many wives, losing the vast majority of them by cheating on them.

Now if only he'd wear an orange tie...

[darknitedestiny.livejournal.com]

Oh, man. I love House. Snarky docs are awesome. Of course, I also love Dr. Cox on Scrubs.

House is the only show I will actually watch the clock and turn the TV on for. I don't watch anything else on a regular basis. I was kind of disappointed I missed the last week, though. I wanted to see him punch Chase in the face. Not because I dislike him or anything. I just wanted to see it.

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

I think Chase is rather annoying, so it was pretty nice watching him get slugged. :P

[clarify.livejournal.com]

House punched Chase? Really? Really?! Oh awesome.

Chase totally bothered me to no end when I still followed the show.

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

House was detoxing, and Chase was trying to tell him something, and BAM he just got slugged in the face. It was BEAUTIFUL.

[clarify.livejournal.com]

I am so totally a House fan. I've just...neglected to watch it since the first season. :D;

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

Whereas I have just started with this season! Alas!

[jennyclarinet.livejournal.com]

Last weekend, Kurt's roommate was watching House, and it was maybe the 2nd or 3rd time I'd ever seen it. It was, however, the first time that I figured out that "House" is the annoying drug-addict know-it-all guy with the cane who I would love to punch in the face.

Also, it made me think, wow, there are so many shows about doctors on TV. There should be shows about classical musicians. We're more interesting.

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

The problem is you'd have to add a lot more drama. It would have to be "Survivor: Cleveland Orchestra Edition" or something.