My first reaction to this was "Wow, you're still watching?"
I quit at, I think, "Two Stories" this season. I started watching early in S5, backed up to watch S1 and the first few eps of S4, then watched through S6 and the beginning of this one. And I finally hit the wall of, House is a brilliant doctor, but he's a goddamned waste of oxygen as a human being and I don't understand why either Wilson or Cuddy is willing to stand by him. His behavior is inexcusable, and they don't exactly excuse it, but they stay around and let it happen to them over and over and OVER again, and I don't see why. So I scanned ahead to summaries for the next few eps (I was way behind at that stage), saw what was in store, then said "to hell with that" and quit watching.
But the irony is -- given the topic of your post -- I think part of my problem is that I just don't buy the House/Cuddy romance. I seriously felt like S6 was building up toward actually making House/Wilson happen, and then when the plot went "Yay Cuddy!" I think I actually yelled at the TV. I'm not really into slash (in the sense of "subversive homoerotic re-interpretation"), but I honestly feel like the House/Wilson relationship is the real one, and the writers don't have the guts to actually let it happen. They'd rather keep baiting the slashers and having their heterosexual cake, too.
It's a moot point, though. I'm done with the show. House's redeeming qualities have been buried under his sociopathic bullshit, and the entertainment value of that has pretty much worn off for me.
I don't watch it regularly--if my roommates have it on, I watch. I did watch much earlier on, I think S2 and S3. I think S4 was when I was in Japan.
But I did catch a lot of S6, and yeah, I agree with you, House/Wilson makes so much more sense than House/Cuddy. Apparently there's a faction on the writing staff that feels that way too, and I would also vastly prefer that to actually, you know, happen. But, like you say, no guts.
House being a total misanthrope was entertaining and different in the first few seasons, and they used that pretty effectively at least through S5, but I'd also agree that it is starting to get rather wearing--which is one reason why I think it's actually good that I don't watch regularly, and also why they've played up the supporting cast way more than they used to. The thing I find, not fascinating per se, but one reason I think it'd work, about House/Wilson or House/Wilson/Cuddy (or even House/Cuddy) is that all three of them clearly have massive issues, and together they make about 1.75-2 functional people. In an unhealthy way, they all enable each other to keep not changing their behaviour.
Hmmm. I guess I haven't seen enough to entirely grok Wilson and Cuddy's massive issues; clearly they both have problems (like Wilson's relationship stuff), but they come across to me as pedestrian, everyday issues of an entirely fixable sort. (And I'm not convinced that 75% of their respective issues come from their association with House anyway.)
Hah, well, that is probably true. If that was their goal, the writers could be giving us a really nuanced portrait of dysfunctional, enabling relationships--they've certainly set it up well enough.
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Date: 2011-05-04 07:30 (UTC)I quit at, I think, "Two Stories" this season. I started watching early in S5, backed up to watch S1 and the first few eps of S4, then watched through S6 and the beginning of this one. And I finally hit the wall of, House is a brilliant doctor, but he's a goddamned waste of oxygen as a human being and I don't understand why either Wilson or Cuddy is willing to stand by him. His behavior is inexcusable, and they don't exactly excuse it, but they stay around and let it happen to them over and over and OVER again, and I don't see why. So I scanned ahead to summaries for the next few eps (I was way behind at that stage), saw what was in store, then said "to hell with that" and quit watching.
But the irony is -- given the topic of your post -- I think part of my problem is that I just don't buy the House/Cuddy romance. I seriously felt like S6 was building up toward actually making House/Wilson happen, and then when the plot went "Yay Cuddy!" I think I actually yelled at the TV. I'm not really into slash (in the sense of "subversive homoerotic re-interpretation"), but I honestly feel like the House/Wilson relationship is the real one, and the writers don't have the guts to actually let it happen. They'd rather keep baiting the slashers and having their heterosexual cake, too.
It's a moot point, though. I'm done with the show. House's redeeming qualities have been buried under his sociopathic bullshit, and the entertainment value of that has pretty much worn off for me.
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Date: 2011-05-04 16:37 (UTC)But I did catch a lot of S6, and yeah, I agree with you, House/Wilson makes so much more sense than House/Cuddy. Apparently there's a faction on the writing staff that feels that way too, and I would also vastly prefer that to actually, you know, happen. But, like you say, no guts.
House being a total misanthrope was entertaining and different in the first few seasons, and they used that pretty effectively at least through S5, but I'd also agree that it is starting to get rather wearing--which is one reason why I think it's actually good that I don't watch regularly, and also why they've played up the supporting cast way more than they used to. The thing I find, not fascinating per se, but one reason I think it'd work, about House/Wilson or House/Wilson/Cuddy (or even House/Cuddy) is that all three of them clearly have massive issues, and together they make about 1.75-2 functional people. In an unhealthy way, they all enable each other to keep not changing their behaviour.
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