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Christopher

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« on: August 15, 2006, 08:11:30 PM »
Does anyone watch this show?  This show is probably the one thing I'll constantly try to catch on television now a days.  It's just a great written show, with some things that really amke you think.  I use to hate television, but I find myself recording this and Psych to watch constantly now.

Anyone else watch this? Think it's stupid?

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Re: House
« Reply #2 on: August 15, 2006, 08:43:58 PM »
House fucking rocks so much. My favorite show on television last season.
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« Reply #3 on: August 15, 2006, 09:08:36 PM »
House is the greatest fictional character on television.
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« Reply #4 on: August 15, 2006, 10:00:11 PM »
It's stupid.  Never got what it was about.

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« Reply #5 on: August 15, 2006, 10:15:06 PM »
It's stupid.  Never got what it was about.
There are so many things wrong with you.
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« Reply #6 on: August 15, 2006, 10:22:42 PM »
There are so many things wrong with you.
I can't get into the story.  The characters seem to fake.  "I'm a doctor with an attitude."

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« Reply #7 on: August 15, 2006, 10:34:34 PM »
There are so many things wrong with you.
I can't get into the story.  The characters seem to fake.  "I'm a doctor with an attitude."

..what?  Are you kidding me?  The storys and characters are rather complex, yet simple...there should be no difficult for anyone over the age of 12 to get into it dude.

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« Reply #8 on: August 15, 2006, 10:37:10 PM »
Except the basic premise is so fucking stupid I can't stand it.  It's just overproduced.  Law & Order or Miami Vice actually have good settings and don't have bullshitty wannabe high-class characters.

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« Reply #9 on: August 15, 2006, 11:03:16 PM »
House is also my favorite show right now.  It's just really well written with excellent characters.  And Hugh Laurie is fantastic.  I never in a million years thought he could or would play a character like this when I saw him in Black Adder. 

There was an great article in the NYT on the show a few months ago, but I can't seem to find it.  I did find this one, though, which was written right before season two:

http://www.hughlauriefaq.com/Britishisms.html

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A 46-year-old native of Oxford and graduate of Cambridge, he has impressed the creators of "House," who quickly geared the show further in the direction of Mr. Laurie's irascible portrayal. David Shore created the character as an exemplar of rationality, unafraid of putting fellow doctors through hell to reach a diagnosis.

House snipes at one resident: "You know what's worse than useless? Useless and oblivious." When a colleague dares to snipe at him for being "cold, uncaring, distant," House raises an eyebrow dismissively. "Don't put me on a pedestal," he says.

The Socratic method was more a part of Mr. Shore's law-school training than might exist in medical education. "It's certainly a very effective tool to tear people apart, to rip them down, to build them up," Mr. Shore said. "That's what House is all about."

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« Reply #10 on: August 16, 2006, 10:05:08 AM »
YES A HOUSE TOPIC! I love this show, I never never watch TV, I only catch it when i'm at a friends house and they are watching it. But yes, House is hot, this show is hot, story is hot


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« Reply #11 on: August 17, 2006, 02:27:25 AM »
YES A HOUSE TOPIC! I love this show, I never never watch TV, I only catch it when i'm at a friends house and they are watching it. But yes, House is hot, this show is hot, story is hot


HOT

So I guess we can agree on something...

I didn't get to catch the whole season as I just recently started watching, but house is crazy...the episodes I did see with the girl and the tick, and the miracle healer were just very well written.  It's also interesting to see his chemistry with the fellow doctor as well...there has to be something in the works with them besides just this odd tension buddy relationship. 

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« Reply #12 on: August 17, 2006, 03:18:16 AM »
YES A HOUSE TOPIC! I love this show, I never never watch TV, I only catch it when i'm at a friends house and they are watching it. But yes, House is hot, this show is hot, story is hot


HOT

So I guess we can agree on something...

I didn't get to catch the whole season as I just recently started watching, but house is crazy...the episodes I did see with the girl and the tick, and the miracle healer were just very well written.  It's also interesting to see his chemistry with the fellow doctor as well...there has to be something in the works with them besides just this odd tension buddy relationship. 
Just pick up Season 1 on DVD. Do it.
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« Reply #13 on: August 17, 2006, 08:03:25 AM »
YES A HOUSE TOPIC! I love this show, I never never watch TV, I only catch it when i'm at a friends house and they are watching it. But yes, House is hot, this show is hot, story is hot


HOT

So I guess we can agree on something...

I didn't get to catch the whole season as I just recently started watching, but house is crazy...the episodes I did see with the girl and the tick, and the miracle healer were just very well written.  It's also interesting to see his chemistry with the fellow doctor as well...there has to be something in the works with them besides just this odd tension buddy relationship. 
Just pick up Season 1 on DVD. Do it.

Yes.  Just buy or rent Season 1, and it'll shed a lot of light on that relationship.  Here's the NYT article that I was looking for, which coincidentally is about that very thing, and shows how House parallels Jane Eyre. 

Spoilers below if you haven't seen season one, so don't read this if you plan to watch it!

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"She Has a Thing for Older Doctors. Especially Jerks."
by Joyce Millman
The New York Times, Sunday, March 26, 2006


"House" might have been conceived as a medical show, but it quickly evolved into a delicious gothic romance, topped by a swirl of chick-lit froth. The acerbic, quirkily handsome doc (Hugh Laurie) with a bad leg is the sort of haunted Byronic figure who stirs in women the urge to nurture and redeem. To quote doctor house, in an example of the show's self-referential sarcasm: "I'm not sad, I'm complicated. Chicks dig that."

It is Dr. Allison Cameron's painful, yet kind of pleasurable, duty to play Jane Eyre to House's Edward Rochester. The only woman on house's staff, Cameron (Jennifer Morrison) is 20-something, brilliant and lovely in a shy-mouse way. While in college, Cameron married a man dying of cancer; she is still atoning for her failure to save him. She wears man-tailored vests over girlish puff-sleeved blouses, like body armor over fragile feelings.

Unlike the misanthropic house, Camerone believes in the goodness of humanity. She is empathetic to a fault, the campion of the weak and helpless. She can be humorless and judgmental. SHe's a bit of a drip. But even if she's hardly a strong female role model, Cameron is appealingly flawed and awkward. She's Bridget Jones with a brain. She tries hard, yet falls short.

In an episode last season, Cameron haltingly told house: "People dismiss me, because I'm a woman, because I'm pretty, because I'm not aggressive. My opinions shouldn't be rejected just because people don't like me." It was a disarming moment. And House fell for it, clumsily reassuring her that "people" do like her. Camerone pounced. "Do you? I have to know," she asked. Cameron was in love with her boss! Why didn't you see it coming? In the pause that followed, House, the authority figure, leaned on his cane, blue eyes blazing. Cameron faced him with bright hopefulness. The sexual tension was exquisite. "No," he finally replied."

Cameron pursued House anyway, with a tenacity that veered close to sexual harassment. Near the end of last season, she quit her job because he wouldn't admit that he loved her, then agreed to return if he'd go on a date with her. On their date (the pivotal episode "Love Hurts"), Cameron wore her heart on her sleeve, confident that emotional honesty could penetrate House's defenses. She prodded him to express his feelings about her. Bad idea.

House: "You live under the delusion that you can fix everything that isn't perfect. That's why you married a man who was dying of cancer. You don't love, you need. And now that your husband is dead, you're looking for another charity case."

"I'm twice your age," he continued. "I'm not great looking. I'm not charming. I'm not even nice. "What I am is what you need. I'm damaged."

House's words cut to the core of Cameron's motivation and personality. They also acknowledge the hold his walking-wounded allure has over the show's female fans. It still isn't clear whether House is really uninterested in Cameron, or if he rejected her to protect her from his cynicism. But the ambiguity only enhances his mystique.

This season, Cameron has pulled back from House. Trying to shed her goody-goody image, she took crystal meth, became a wild-haired minx, and had a one-night stand with a fellow resident, Robert Chase. As any reader of chick-lit (or Gothic romances) can see, Cameron is now at the point of the story where the heroine is determined to get over the unattainable object of her longing. And just as she does...

On a side note, I love how House is always playing Metroid on his SP.  But he also has a PSP, so don't call him a Ntard! 
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