A very insightful post - as always. I agree with nearly everything you said, only feeling perhaps stronger or less strong on certain issues you touched on, but I feel you really captured the underlying disquiet of the fan base regardless of shipping. There are serious issues with consistency and that comes from varying writers viewpoints being inconsistent with one another. That seems almost like an insurmountable flaw in a series like this one.
A few thoughts on parts of your post and a few added thoughts of my own:
leaving someone who has OD'd lying in his own vomit is somewhere between 'failure to render assistance' and 'homicide'.
The bluntness of this made me laugh. Of course you are correct, but this actually is the type of thing that bothers me least. The entire world of House is totally exaggerated. Outside of Houseland that level or sexism and racism would get you sued, the medical ethics violations would cost your license, the break ins and soap star kidnapping would get you jailed, and the pranks that involve cane sawing, trip wires and exploding toilets would leave you friendless. So I give Wilson and Cuddy a pass for homicide. What I think gets me the most is that what both did - besides being homicidal - was cruel. Wilson sometimes is cruel to be fair, but I hadn't ever seen that before with Cuddy, and it felt wrong.
I don't care whether Wilson's time line defies the theory of relativity or whether Cuddy's sister has an everyday name and another one for special occasions,
See, this drive me bonkers. It is laziness at best, and at worst it is telling fans, "Hey, you know those characters YOU love? Well, we don't really care if our timeline suggests that Wilson attended med school alongside preschool." A sleepy, drive by fan can point out that sort of error, so why can't anyone on staff? Anyone? Maybe the actors, the writers, the directors, or producers, or the lighting guy? Come on people - hire a fan and pay them in autographs for goodness sake. And then one of the producers has the audacity to make a DVD extra piece to talk about how they are so careful about setting each camera angle perfectly and every chess piece reflects the window glare correctly and then this is the SAME show that has House going to possibly three med schools, Wilson married to two women simultaneously, Cuddy's sister having two names, and a main character who in one episode can't lean weight on his leg and in another steps off a chair directly onto the leg. Sheesh!
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Date: 2011-03-13 04:42 am (UTC)A few thoughts on parts of your post and a few added thoughts of my own:
leaving someone who has OD'd lying in his own vomit is somewhere between 'failure to render assistance' and 'homicide'.
The bluntness of this made me laugh. Of course you are correct, but this actually is the type of thing that bothers me least. The entire world of House is totally exaggerated. Outside of Houseland that level or sexism and racism would get you sued, the medical ethics violations would cost your license, the break ins and soap star kidnapping would get you jailed, and the pranks that involve cane sawing, trip wires and exploding toilets would leave you friendless. So I give Wilson and Cuddy a pass for homicide. What I think gets me the most is that what both did - besides being homicidal - was cruel. Wilson sometimes is cruel to be fair, but I hadn't ever seen that before with Cuddy, and it felt wrong.
I don't care whether Wilson's time line defies the theory of relativity or whether Cuddy's sister has an everyday name and another one for special occasions,
See, this drive me bonkers. It is laziness at best, and at worst it is telling fans, "Hey, you know those characters YOU love? Well, we don't really care if our timeline suggests that Wilson attended med school alongside preschool." A sleepy, drive by fan can point out that sort of error, so why can't anyone on staff? Anyone? Maybe the actors, the writers, the directors, or producers, or the lighting guy? Come on people - hire a fan and pay them in autographs for goodness sake. And then one of the producers has the audacity to make a DVD extra piece to talk about how they are so careful about setting each camera angle perfectly and every chess piece reflects the window glare correctly and then this is the SAME show that has House going to possibly three med schools, Wilson married to two women simultaneously, Cuddy's sister having two names, and a main character who in one episode can't lean weight on his leg and in another steps off a chair directly onto the leg. Sheesh!
(to be continued - sorry for the length of this!)