Katas wrote:
Hugh Laurie is awesome.
Truer words were never typed!
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| Author: | Talya [ Sat Oct 02, 2010 12:35 pm ] |
| Post subject: | House - catching up |
I only started watching House about two years ago, so I started with intent to watch seasons 1-4. Normally i have no difficulty doing this. I watched Firefly the first time over a weekend. I did 10 seasons of stargate SG-1 over a couple months. Generally, any time I'm trying to watch an entire season of a TV show, I rocket through them, staying up late and grabbing an episode whenever i get a spare 40 minutes. I can't do that with House. I started season one about four weeks ago. I'm just done watching Episode 6 (The Socratic Method - one of the best written episodes of house I've seen yet.) They are too emotionally draining, I cannot watch them in rapid succession! The funny thing is I have generally viewed House as a comedy. My type of comedy -- not the ridiculous humor of a sitcom, but the black and sometimes subtle humor of series like X-files and Fringe. But the writing and characters are just too well thought out; this series really seems to touch every element of human emotion. Too much so, because when I'm done an episode of House, I'm not desperate to see the next one. I'm afraid of it. It's a good thing, I guess. I'm going to be watching these a long time. |
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| Author: | Katas [ Sat Oct 02, 2010 1:50 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: House - catching up |
Hugh Laurie is awesome. House is great. If you haven't seen it... |
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| Author: | Noggel [ Sat Oct 02, 2010 3:07 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: House - catching up |
IMO, the best/worst is yet to come. I bid you enjoyment/condolences! |
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| Author: | FarSky [ Sun Oct 03, 2010 12:34 am ] |
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"House's Head"/"Wilson's Heart." 'Nuff said. |
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| Author: | Jasmy [ Sun Oct 03, 2010 12:38 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: House - catching up |
Katas wrote: Hugh Laurie is awesome. Truer words were never typed!
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| Author: | Kaffis Mark V [ Sun Oct 03, 2010 8:51 pm ] |
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I can't explain why, but for me, House is like Law and Order (the original): I'll gladly sit and watch an episode if it's on and I've got time to kill, but I have no real drive to watch every episode, or explicitly fill in ones that I've missed, or record new seasons. And it's not because I don't like the show, or the characters. In fact, the opposite is true: I love House, I love Wilson, I love McCoy, and Briscoe, and the new EADA that replaced McCoy when he got bumped to DA. And I'm fond of several of the supporting characters, too... but there's very little growth, or dynamism, or development of characters. It's not completely stagnant, but that's only apparent when you don't miss episodes and view in order; but the pace of those developments is so glacial that it doesn't drive me to watch to see what happens with them. It remains, to me, an episodic show on the most fundamental level, where I can sit down and watch two episodes from seasons apart and rely on my understanding of the characters to be pretty firmly on track. And then, unlike a sitcom (which are similar in their level of staticity), individual episodes don't cause them to be must-watch things for me. They're entirely adequate to entertain me, but they're very routine. Sitcoms make me laugh (or at least, the ones that I self-select by continuing to watch them), whereas episodic drama simply entertains. There's nothing wrong with entertaining, but it's not, in itself, compelling. I have a lot of potential sources of entertainment in my life. When I'm sick and curled up half-asleep on the couch, though, and there's a marathon (or TNT in the case of Law and Order) as a reliable source for repeats, though, the last frame of this says it best... 
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