Announcing A New Project: "The House Dialogues"
As many of you know, from 2011-2012, my friend Carle and I had a daily email conversation about "House". He watched each episode from Season 1 to Season 5. That was my suggested cut-off point.
Hating to see that much work go to waste, I've set up a blog, The House Dialogues, where we critique each episode. The formatting is kind of a bitch, but I'm going to try to put a "new" entry every few days. Folks are encouraged to respond!
A sample: (Maternity)
C: Maternity. you know, when i think about the Paternity episode, i think it really ought to have been called, Parenting, because it didn't have anything to do with a paternity suit and the fact that the kid was adopted makes it more about a 'family matter' than anything having to do with who was the sire and who was the dam...and who is the parasite. which may have been the major point of this ep, as house gets to show his contempt for children as well. as for the treatment? no way. never in 1000yrs. this is the stuff that trial lawyers' dreams are made of. sorry, uh-uh. violates credibility
E:
House will do ANYTHING to keep from being bored. Everything is a substitute for his basic addiction: medicine. Without medicine he is nothing. Well, he's a drug addict, too. Pills, video games, television...as for the latter, House watches it all over the hospital as long as he can be left alone. Mostly in the wing where the coma patients are. For the medical, etc., you should check a great site, "Polite Dissent," in which a doctor analyzes the medicine in each episode. There are several doctors on the staff, but still, the show plays fast and loose. This show in some ways is as formulaic as "Law And Order"; patient shows up, the staff nearly kills him a few times before finding the disease--although sometimes they die.
no way. never in 1000yrs. this is the stuff that trial lawyers' dreams are made of. sorry, uh-uh. violates credibility
As I wrote earlier, in real life House would never sustain employment. But this is a tv show called "House, MD," so...
right. answers the above. understood. this is "medical lite" like law&order is "legal lite". so the idea is to ignore the contrivances [after all, this is listed as a mystery] and concentrate on adapting the acerbic comments to any public discourse i might engage in, yes?
Hating to see that much work go to waste, I've set up a blog, The House Dialogues, where we critique each episode. The formatting is kind of a bitch, but I'm going to try to put a "new" entry every few days. Folks are encouraged to respond!
A sample: (Maternity)
C: Maternity. you know, when i think about the Paternity episode, i think it really ought to have been called, Parenting, because it didn't have anything to do with a paternity suit and the fact that the kid was adopted makes it more about a 'family matter' than anything having to do with who was the sire and who was the dam...and who is the parasite. which may have been the major point of this ep, as house gets to show his contempt for children as well. as for the treatment? no way. never in 1000yrs. this is the stuff that trial lawyers' dreams are made of. sorry, uh-uh. violates credibility
E:
House will do ANYTHING to keep from being bored. Everything is a substitute for his basic addiction: medicine. Without medicine he is nothing. Well, he's a drug addict, too. Pills, video games, television...as for the latter, House watches it all over the hospital as long as he can be left alone. Mostly in the wing where the coma patients are. For the medical, etc., you should check a great site, "Polite Dissent," in which a doctor analyzes the medicine in each episode. There are several doctors on the staff, but still, the show plays fast and loose. This show in some ways is as formulaic as "Law And Order"; patient shows up, the staff nearly kills him a few times before finding the disease--although sometimes they die.
no way. never in 1000yrs. this is the stuff that trial lawyers' dreams are made of. sorry, uh-uh. violates credibility
As I wrote earlier, in real life House would never sustain employment. But this is a tv show called "House, MD," so...
right. answers the above. understood. this is "medical lite" like law&order is "legal lite". so the idea is to ignore the contrivances [after all, this is listed as a mystery] and concentrate on adapting the acerbic comments to any public discourse i might engage in, yes?