It seems to be a good time for "Rasputin" videos--that same week, I also reblogged the recent "Doctor Who" clip featuring this song, for similar reasons.
OMG a zombie apocalypse episode would have been so much fun!!! [It could have been a weird dream sequence/bottle episode thing!] Now I have to go to A03 to see if someone wrote it, lol.
I think it's the show's self-awareness that House is not a person to emulate is what made it watchable for me at the time. Otherwise, you just have a man relentlessly bullying people, and that's not comfortable to watch, no matter how clever they are about it.
BBC Sherlock is another show featuring the same "asshole genius" trope that I loved at the time, and now wonder if I would be as responsive to. It's not a coincidence that both are based on Sherlock Holmes (though the ACD version is not nearly as much of an asshole as his media successors), whom I also love and they both play with the "this is not appropriate behavior but boy is it fun to watch" tropes. Ironically, I watched the first episode of Elementary and couldn't get into it precisely because Sherlock wasn't enough of an asshole! I wonder if that means I would like it better now...
Imagine if they'd just leaned further into the monster truck rally style Odd Friendship instead.
Okay, I also want fic of this now, too. MONSTER TRUCKS MONSTER TRUCKS MONSTER TRUCKS. I'm surprised House didn't end up driving a monster truck by the end of the series, but I guess he was always more of a motorcycle guy.
I know a doctor who refuses to watch House because she gets frustrated by the medical inaccuracies and/or figures it out in the first scene and then is annoyed when it takes the rest of the episode to get there, but I love the medical plots so much. This is a weird comparison, I know, but it actually reminds me of Wishbone with how the medical mystery mirrors whatever interpersonal shit is going on with House and the team. In a very real sense, the medical stuff is just window dressing for what the show is really interested in, but it's fun and I enjoy immensely.
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OMG a zombie apocalypse episode would have been so much fun!!! [It could have been a weird dream sequence/bottle episode thing!] Now I have to go to A03 to see if someone wrote it, lol.
I think it's the show's self-awareness that House is not a person to emulate is what made it watchable for me at the time. Otherwise, you just have a man relentlessly bullying people, and that's not comfortable to watch, no matter how clever they are about it.
BBC Sherlock is another show featuring the same "asshole genius" trope that I loved at the time, and now wonder if I would be as responsive to. It's not a coincidence that both are based on Sherlock Holmes (though the ACD version is not nearly as much of an asshole as his media successors), whom I also love and they both play with the "this is not appropriate behavior but boy is it fun to watch" tropes. Ironically, I watched the first episode of Elementary and couldn't get into it precisely because Sherlock wasn't enough of an asshole! I wonder if that means I would like it better now...
Imagine if they'd just leaned further into the monster truck rally style Odd Friendship instead.
Okay, I also want fic of this now, too. MONSTER TRUCKS MONSTER TRUCKS MONSTER TRUCKS. I'm surprised House didn't end up driving a monster truck by the end of the series, but I guess he was always more of a motorcycle guy.
I know a doctor who refuses to watch House because she gets frustrated by the medical inaccuracies and/or figures it out in the first scene and then is annoyed when it takes the rest of the episode to get there, but I love the medical plots so much. This is a weird comparison, I know, but it actually reminds me of Wishbone with how the medical mystery mirrors whatever interpersonal shit is going on with House and the team. In a very real sense, the medical stuff is just window dressing for what the show is really interested in, but it's fun and I enjoy immensely.