Well. That explains quite a lot of the misogynistic subtext-that-is-now-text. (Then again, considering this is the show that had Cuddy tripwire House's office and later blamed her behavior on her period, I'm really not surprised.)
In his 1967 essay "The Death of the Author", Roland Barthes said, "To give a text an Author is to impose a limit on that text, to furnish it with a final signified, to close the writing." And that's the antithesis of what fan writers are out to do: I'm particularly annoyed by this interview because it comes with the arrogant assumption that the creator's interpretation is the only valid one; that none of the (far more logical) interpretations out there mean anything, because Shore has revealed House's Murderous, Sociopathic Unconscious; that House isn't an antihero, but has secretly been a villain all this time.
And to this, I say that authorial intent is out of its mind. David Shore's House is not the House I've watched, loved and written extensively about, and most of fandom would say the same.
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Seriously, the man's blind arrogance knows no bounds.
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In his 1967 essay "The Death of the Author", Roland Barthes said, "To give a text an Author is to impose a limit on that text, to furnish it with a final signified, to close the writing." And that's the antithesis of what fan writers are out to do: I'm particularly annoyed by this interview because it comes with the arrogant assumption that the creator's interpretation is the only valid one; that none of the (far more logical) interpretations out there mean anything, because Shore has revealed House's Murderous, Sociopathic Unconscious; that House isn't an antihero, but has secretly been a villain all this time.
And to this, I say that authorial intent is out of its mind. David Shore's House is not the House I've watched, loved and written extensively about, and most of fandom would say the same.
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