Fannish5: Fictional Doctors To the Rescue

[selenak]

List 5 fictional doctors you'd want treating you. (Or not.)

Want:

Dr. Martha Jones (DW): competent, smart, friendly, gorgeous. Great storyteller. There's no downside there!

Dr. Julian Bashir (ST: DS9): also competent, friendly and gorgeous, and interested in literature. It doesn't have to be all high brow conversation, though; we could discuss

Comments

[wal_lace]

Not being londonkds, this may be A) presumptuous and B) dead wrong, but the British example might be Old Etonian Call-Me-Dave Cameron claiming to love the Jam's song Eton Rifles.

(Oh, and, hi. I friended you a few days ago, but never have worked out the best way to say hello. Hope you don't mind)

[selenak]

I think that was the example KdS mentioned last time I was in London, yes. Thank you!

And also, hello there! I don't mind at all.

[londonkds]

Yes, that's the one.

[londonkds]

Although it is also possible that Cameron has an understanding of the less obvious subtext that comes out if you listen to the bridge rather than chorus lyrics, that the song is not just an attack on the upper class, but on middle-class revolutionaries who use the working class as canon fodder when their true objective is merely to depose and replace the upper class rather than to create an egalitarian society.

[lilacsigil]

Oh Dr House! He'll give you full body irradiation soon as look at you!

Martha would be good, but I would be worried that an alien would show up and inject me with slime and take over my body at any moment.

[selenak]

There is that possibility...

[pseudo_tsuga]

Glenn Beck is a living parody of himself. You can't make fun of him because he'll top you with the next news cycle!

[selenak]

Quite.

[ffutures]

Agree with most of this - with Owen, as well as the abrasive personality and the abysmal success record (can't easily think of a patient who lives with anything much more than routine cuts and bruises) you've got the whole "Hey, this is really a zombie treating me" vibe in later episodes.

House - Wouldn't want to be in the same state as him, let alone the same hospital or one of his patients. One of my doctors tried the "let's see if another antibiotic works" method on me years ago, without ever getting a diagnosis of the cause of the problem, turned out that my problem suddenly included a serious allergic response...

[selenak]

(can't easily think of a patient who lives with anything much more than routine cuts and bruises)

He operated a bullet out of Gwen in "Countrycide" and an alien out of Martha in Reset, and successfully talked down a suicidal woman from a rooftop, so there is that.:) Oh, and the genetic cocktail which saved Gwen's life (as she would otherwise have had to drag Captain John with her into the rift to prevent the explosion harming Cardiff") in "Kiss kiss, bang bang" was his doing as well. But, yes.

[ffutures]

OK, better than I thought.

[aadler]

> In other news, I woke up to discover Glenn Beck has finally listened to the lyrics of “Born In the USA”.

Whether or not you like Beck (or Reagan), let’s face it: you can’t simply listen to the song, you have to damn near do a computer analysis just to figure out what’s being said. I’m a solid Springsteen fan, but I never liked that song, primarily because of his rendering; his lyrics amaze me, but in that one he screeched the lyrics. It was all tone and volume, the underlying message - heck, the words themselves - almost totally obscured.

[selenak]

It's true he's not that easy to understand in this particular song, but as far as I know, the lyrics to each and every Springsteen song came with the record and now come with the CDs in leaflets. I don't know about you, but if I like a song, I'm curious enough to read its lyrics, especially if I can't understand much of the text via listening.

[likeadeuce]

You know, I've never thought it was his finest hour either, but it doesn't even sound like a cheerful song to me. It sounds angry, which is what it is.

On the plus side, it always makes me think of the John Candy political satire Canadian Bacon wherein a bunch of angry Americans try to start a war with Canada over something ridiculous, and they keep singing the chorus of Born in the USA while revealing they known none of the other lyrics.

Also, I don't ever recall hearing the song played on the Fourth of July, though maybe I'm going to the wrong celebrations. I do hear Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, which many Americans seem to think is related to the War of 1812 (b/t the US and Britain/Canada), and I don't even know where to start on that.