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Feb. 7th, 2006 09:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cblj_backupThat's right! It's time for Sam's Three or Maybe More Like Six Things About HOUSE MD.
Maybe it's just the hiatus and I was going through withdrawal, but this episode cracked me up.
(NCIS was also particularly good tonight. "So, Abby, white meat or dark? ...was that inappropriate?" "With a big side of CREEPY.")
1. Wilson's multiple high-voiced freakouts about House and Stacey is possibly the comedic high point of the character's existence except OMG NOT BECAUSE HIM ROLLING JOINTS IN HIS OFFICE WAS SO AWESOME. Almost as awesome as House stealing one. Alas, however, Wilson will never be as awesome as House. It is his lot in life to be second-awesomest. STILL. SO AWESOME. Writers of House, please ignore what I say in 3a.
2. "I'm not sad, I'm complicated. Chicks dig that." Why did I never think to add House to the "Chicks Dig Screwups" series of icons? IT SHALL HAPPEN FORTHWITH. (this was going to be about Stacey showing her true colours as the insecure freak she is, but she's less interesting than House bickering with an eight year old.)
3. What I think is so vital to why I love this show is that while it is formulaic and occasionally trite, House as a character is completely uncompromising. It's encapsulated perfectly in this episode in both positive and negative lights, but most of all by this quote: "The most important letter of my life and you're still an ass." "Comforting, isn't it?" House doesn't take the easy route and he doesn't let other people use him to take their own easy routes, because the easy route is not always the good route. And when Mark insisted on trying to make House part of his little emofest, House left him in a stairwell. While I don't think his actions in and of themselves are awesome, I think the complete fidelity to his character which the show unblinkingly maintains is fantastic, and I wish there were more of it in modern popular media.
3a. They did not just use the word snarky in the episode. Nor did they bluescreen in a "sunrise" that looks ridiculously like the sky right before the return of Zool in Ghostbusters for the big love scene. Writers of House, I shake my head at you.
Comment conservation:
[info]juniper200
I was disappointed with Wilson. Wilson doesn't think much beyond the moment when it comes to relationships, and House is always three moves ahead.
There was self-interest involved in his decision, and he was right that they wouldn't have lasted the second time around, either. But what he said about Mark is true as well -- he will do anything to keep Stacy. House is self-aware enough to know he's too self-involved to make the relationship work. It's unfortunate that the situation had to come down to a "Casablanca" moment and make Wilson think it was all part of House's Glorious Martyrdom, but there you go.
[info]ter369
...and I wish there were more of it in modern popular media.
...where it is not killed by 'shipping, in the long drawn out courtship sense, because then it's about pandering for ratings and not about character.
[info]copperbadge
What I find most depressing is that "pandering for ratings" and "about character" appear to be mutually exclusive.
[info]leopard_lady
House and Mark in the stairwell? All I could think was "DALEK FIGHT!"
[info]aegyptus
ahaha, I'm so glad I wasn't the only one.
[info]ativanian
It was a little hard to concentrate on the particulars of the House/Stacy interactions due to the COMPLETE lack of chemistry between them. House has better (i.e. more real) relationships with everyone else on the show. Loved it when he said "I love you" to Cameron! So bye to Stacy; now he can spend more time with Wilson.
[info]greyandgrey
Did anyone else think it was OOC yet terribly adorable when House took the little girl's hand? It was this is awkward slamming head on into this is adorable and it made me squee quite happily ^_^
Maybe it's just the hiatus and I was going through withdrawal, but this episode cracked me up.
(NCIS was also particularly good tonight. "So, Abby, white meat or dark? ...was that inappropriate?" "With a big side of CREEPY.")
1. Wilson's multiple high-voiced freakouts about House and Stacey is possibly the comedic high point of the character's existence except OMG NOT BECAUSE HIM ROLLING JOINTS IN HIS OFFICE WAS SO AWESOME. Almost as awesome as House stealing one. Alas, however, Wilson will never be as awesome as House. It is his lot in life to be second-awesomest. STILL. SO AWESOME. Writers of House, please ignore what I say in 3a.
2. "I'm not sad, I'm complicated. Chicks dig that." Why did I never think to add House to the "Chicks Dig Screwups" series of icons? IT SHALL HAPPEN FORTHWITH. (this was going to be about Stacey showing her true colours as the insecure freak she is, but she's less interesting than House bickering with an eight year old.)
3. What I think is so vital to why I love this show is that while it is formulaic and occasionally trite, House as a character is completely uncompromising. It's encapsulated perfectly in this episode in both positive and negative lights, but most of all by this quote: "The most important letter of my life and you're still an ass." "Comforting, isn't it?" House doesn't take the easy route and he doesn't let other people use him to take their own easy routes, because the easy route is not always the good route. And when Mark insisted on trying to make House part of his little emofest, House left him in a stairwell. While I don't think his actions in and of themselves are awesome, I think the complete fidelity to his character which the show unblinkingly maintains is fantastic, and I wish there were more of it in modern popular media.
3a. They did not just use the word snarky in the episode. Nor did they bluescreen in a "sunrise" that looks ridiculously like the sky right before the return of Zool in Ghostbusters for the big love scene. Writers of House, I shake my head at you.
Comment conservation:
[info]juniper200
I was disappointed with Wilson. Wilson doesn't think much beyond the moment when it comes to relationships, and House is always three moves ahead.
There was self-interest involved in his decision, and he was right that they wouldn't have lasted the second time around, either. But what he said about Mark is true as well -- he will do anything to keep Stacy. House is self-aware enough to know he's too self-involved to make the relationship work. It's unfortunate that the situation had to come down to a "Casablanca" moment and make Wilson think it was all part of House's Glorious Martyrdom, but there you go.
[info]ter369
...and I wish there were more of it in modern popular media.
...where it is not killed by 'shipping, in the long drawn out courtship sense, because then it's about pandering for ratings and not about character.
[info]copperbadge
What I find most depressing is that "pandering for ratings" and "about character" appear to be mutually exclusive.
[info]leopard_lady
House and Mark in the stairwell? All I could think was "DALEK FIGHT!"
[info]aegyptus
ahaha, I'm so glad I wasn't the only one.
[info]ativanian
It was a little hard to concentrate on the particulars of the House/Stacy interactions due to the COMPLETE lack of chemistry between them. House has better (i.e. more real) relationships with everyone else on the show. Loved it when he said "I love you" to Cameron! So bye to Stacy; now he can spend more time with Wilson.
[info]greyandgrey
Did anyone else think it was OOC yet terribly adorable when House took the little girl's hand? It was this is awkward slamming head on into this is adorable and it made me squee quite happily ^_^
