I've seen people trying to say it wasn't a big deal to drive a house into a car Yes, that was David Shore's first response. But even if no one was actually endangered, can any of the persons in that house ever rest easy when they hear a car revving at the end of the road? If nothing else, the whole manoeuvre was psychological terror of the worst sort.
I don't think the writers/producers realised exactly how severe a thing they were writing You're probably right about that, more's the pity. There seems to be a 'how can we top previous outrages' mentality that has made them lose all sense of perspective. IMO, the audience can accept it when House violates norms that we (subconsciously) identify as social ones. There are, however, a few norms that we consider universally valid, and when House violates those, the audience turns away from him. Had he actually done a spinal biopsy on that CIPA patient we would have been outraged too, which is why the writers of that season had Wilson stop him in time. This time, for some reason, the collective writer/producer conscience seems to have had a black-out.
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Date: 2011-05-27 08:13 pm (UTC)I've seen people trying to say it wasn't a big deal to drive a house into a car
Yes, that was David Shore's first response. But even if no one was actually endangered, can any of the persons in that house ever rest easy when they hear a car revving at the end of the road? If nothing else, the whole manoeuvre was psychological terror of the worst sort.
I don't think the writers/producers realised exactly how severe a thing they were writing
You're probably right about that, more's the pity. There seems to be a 'how can we top previous outrages' mentality that has made them lose all sense of perspective. IMO, the audience can accept it when House violates norms that we (subconsciously) identify as social ones. There are, however, a few norms that we consider universally valid, and when House violates those, the audience turns away from him. Had he actually done a spinal biopsy on that CIPA patient we would have been outraged too, which is why the writers of that season had Wilson stop him in time. This time, for some reason, the collective writer/producer conscience seems to have had a black-out.