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House = whiner/fav character meme
Apr. 5th, 2005 10:42 pmThe first time I saw House I thought, wow, what an impressively whiny bitch. I saw this brilliant man who couldn't stop talking about his disability - he took every opportunity to make a crack about it that came his way. Hell, he'd work a cripple joke into a conversation if he had to turn it inside out and sideways to fit it in. I was entertained certainly but also deeply repulsed. (This is the reaction I first had to Snape, for what it's worth.)
But then I thought, wait, this is tv and there's always a Reason on tv. I kept DLing eps and pretty soon I ran across Paternity, where we learn that many moons ago, House played lacrosse. It's implied that he was competitive - at least, that's how I read his trip to the lacrosse field/memory lane - and that it was important to him.
So, ok - he misses playing sports, which is a (yawnishly) ordinary reaction to reduced mobility. He has constant pain, walks with a limp, doesn't do stairs and has a serious problem with Vicodin. He's bitter. And he misses sports. But it's interesting that he liked to play sports at all, considering how rarely tv geniuses can pour themselves a cup of coffee without burning their skin right off, let alone throw or catch a frickin' ball.
Are we supposed to infer that House was once had everything? Like some strange Bondian combination of brains, muscles and deadly wit? Or just that soap operas and gossip now do what sports once did for him - that is, turn off his brain? Column A + Column B = answer?
Your thoughts sil vous plait.
I still, btw, think that House is an impressively whiny bitch and am convinced that the show couldn't work without Cuddy and Wilson.
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MEME ALERT!
Gacked from everyone, with a twist of lime.
a. Post a list of 10 fandoms.
b. Have your friends list guess your favourite two characters from each one.
c. When guessed, bold the line, include the character name, and write a sentence about why you like that character.
Harry Potter
Smallville
Pirates of the Caribbean
X-Men (uh... everyverse?)
Buffy/Angel
Batman (see X-Men)
Star Trek (see Batman and X-Men
House
Desperate Housewives
And randomly... Pern, because there needs to be some kind of challenge in this thing
But then I thought, wait, this is tv and there's always a Reason on tv. I kept DLing eps and pretty soon I ran across Paternity, where we learn that many moons ago, House played lacrosse. It's implied that he was competitive - at least, that's how I read his trip to the lacrosse field/memory lane - and that it was important to him.
So, ok - he misses playing sports, which is a (yawnishly) ordinary reaction to reduced mobility. He has constant pain, walks with a limp, doesn't do stairs and has a serious problem with Vicodin. He's bitter. And he misses sports. But it's interesting that he liked to play sports at all, considering how rarely tv geniuses can pour themselves a cup of coffee without burning their skin right off, let alone throw or catch a frickin' ball.
Are we supposed to infer that House was once had everything? Like some strange Bondian combination of brains, muscles and deadly wit? Or just that soap operas and gossip now do what sports once did for him - that is, turn off his brain? Column A + Column B = answer?
Your thoughts sil vous plait.
I still, btw, think that House is an impressively whiny bitch and am convinced that the show couldn't work without Cuddy and Wilson.
***
MEME ALERT!
Gacked from everyone, with a twist of lime.
a. Post a list of 10 fandoms.
b. Have your friends list guess your favourite two characters from each one.
c. When guessed, bold the line, include the character name, and write a sentence about why you like that character.
Harry Potter
Smallville
Pirates of the Caribbean
X-Men (uh... everyverse?)
Buffy/Angel
Batman (see X-Men)
Star Trek (see Batman and X-Men
House
Desperate Housewives
And randomly... Pern, because there needs to be some kind of challenge in this thing