TPTB have backtracked on the justifications and rationalizations, and recently mentioned "consequences -- legal, professional, and emotional" for House's violence in season 8. That would be very satisfying, no doubt, if we, the audience, were the victims of House's crime. But we're not. We're the victims of the writers' lack of discrimination, so how does that help us? We've lost a character we admired and loved to their stupidity. 'Legal, professional and emotional' consequences for that character won't bring him back.
assure them that everything is just fine, it's really funny That's what totally gets at me - the assumption that attempted homicide in a show that is neither comedy nor cartoon is being passed off as humorous. Has our society lost all sense of moral perspective?
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Date: 2011-05-27 09:17 pm (UTC)TPTB have backtracked on the justifications and rationalizations, and recently mentioned "consequences -- legal, professional, and emotional" for House's violence in season 8.
That would be very satisfying, no doubt, if we, the audience, were the victims of House's crime. But we're not. We're the victims of the writers' lack of discrimination, so how does that help us? We've lost a character we admired and loved to their stupidity. 'Legal, professional and emotional' consequences for that character won't bring him back.
assure them that everything is just fine, it's really funny
That's what totally gets at me - the assumption that attempted homicide in a show that is neither comedy nor cartoon is being passed off as humorous. Has our society lost all sense of moral perspective?