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Mar. 7th, 2005 05:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
It took me until today to find out that House is a medical show. And it was only last week that I learned that House is, apparently, the name of the main character.
So, it's a show about someone called Doctor House. For some reason, this really amuses me.
Mental image: A building holding a scalpel and leaning over to cut open this tiny person in front of it.
So, it's a show about someone called Doctor House. For some reason, this really amuses me.
Mental image: A building holding a scalpel and leaning over to cut open this tiny person in front of it.
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Date: 2005-03-08 01:28 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-03-08 03:25 am (UTC)*casts a suspicious glance*
You're all having me on. It's really a comedy about historical houses. With musical numbers.
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Date: 2005-03-08 06:07 pm (UTC)*is torn between hysterical laughter and horrified whimpering because she is now sort of picturing a cross between this and the actual show*
And it's not the bit with the houses that gets me. It's the musical numbers. Because now I'm picturing an episode analogous to Once More, With Feeling. Perhaps Once More, With Seizures or Once More, With a Jaded and Bitter View of Humanity.
Oh god, what have you done to me? This is the kind of image that lurks in wait and ambushes you at terrible times, like in the shower or at the grocery store or while trying to sleep.
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Date: 2005-03-08 09:17 pm (UTC)That does sound interesting, actually.
So, are the people in your icon House related? They look vaguely medical. It's the red tie.
And, as always, glad to be of service.
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Date: 2005-03-10 09:16 am (UTC)That does sound interesting, actually.
No, really. Ambushing me while I make breakfast. It's not even a plotbunny, so I can't even shove it in the file and partially incapacitate it thus. It's... it's... a brain worm.
So, are the people in your icon House related? They look vaguely medical. It's the red tie.
The one in the red tie is Dr. James Wilson, Head of Oncology, House's best friend and that guy everybody goes, "Do they want us to think they're dating?!" about. Dr. Gregory House (Department of Diagnostic Medicine and General Bastardry) is the unshaven one attempting to stare a hole in the corner of the icon. This is not an atypical look. He does not believe in lab coats or ties, and the stubble fairy has blessed him muchly, but not as muchly as the snark fairy.
If you're interested, I'd say the show is worth it, but might take a while to grow on you. I actually wouldn't advise jumping in on the pilot, because he seems to be a bit more of a bastard there than I'm used to him being. And there's another episode everyone's reccing you to start with that I'd also nix, but I'll explain that below.
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Date: 2005-03-10 02:49 pm (UTC)Are they doing any airings of reruns right now or should I just try watching next week's episode? It's on Tuesdays?
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Date: 2005-03-10 09:00 pm (UTC)And yes--Tuesdays at 9 EST (convert timezone as necessary), FOX.
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Date: 2005-03-08 01:32 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-03-08 09:18 pm (UTC)And yeah, I've got Sci-Fi Friday (very easy to remember) and TDS (also easy to remember). Another show would take work to watch.
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Date: 2005-03-08 01:35 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-03-08 09:19 pm (UTC)*is vaguely interested, despite herself*
Does House do drugs? Or play violin?
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Date: 2005-03-08 09:28 pm (UTC)There is some kind of musical instrument thing, I think, but it's not played up as much as the pills. I could send you Eps 1 & 2 on VCD?
Wilson/Watson is played by Robert Sean Leonard, who I like, but he doesn't get as much screentime as you might think.
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Date: 2005-03-09 08:44 pm (UTC)Do you still have my address?
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Date: 2005-03-09 08:09 pm (UTC)House and Wilson have such great eye contact: http://www.livejournal.com/community/house_slash/2344.html#cutid1
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Date: 2005-03-09 08:47 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2005-03-08 09:20 pm (UTC)re the squicky medical stuff--yep, it's there
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Date: 2005-03-08 09:34 pm (UTC)Also, I don't think I've ever seen him do his "natural" accent, so there is less cognitive dissonance for me.
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Date: 2005-03-09 05:45 pm (UTC)sorry I don't have the link...
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Date: 2005-03-10 09:18 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-03-09 04:36 am (UTC)For the most part it's okay. I think if I didn't know he was English I could still guess it was fake...he hits the "r's" a little hard. But it doesn't take me out of the show. You don't think of it as the way he talks but as the way House himself talks, so it works.
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Date: 2005-03-09 05:46 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-03-08 03:00 am (UTC)BTW, did you ever finish your essay on SG1 team dynamics season 4?
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Date: 2005-03-08 09:21 pm (UTC)You know, I think that I got distracted. And now that you've mentioned, I want to finish it. Hmm. I'll have to go look it up again.
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Date: 2005-03-08 03:15 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-03-08 09:23 pm (UTC)But I don't know if I'd be comfortable. Whoring is all thigh-high boots and no kissing. I mean, if we believe Julia Roberts, and who doesn't?
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Date: 2005-03-09 01:36 am (UTC)Other moments I can think of, well, in "Sports Medicine", there's the almost-date to see Monster Truck, there's the "are we breaking up?". Most recently in "Cursed", there's the jealousy tinted snark over Wilson chatting up a pretty accountant. As many have said, this show is really like an alternative universe version of the Holmes and Watson show, and just as slashy.
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Date: 2005-03-09 05:41 pm (UTC)That comment in I forget-which-episode that House is taking a case only becaus Wilson wants him to. The many glances of complicity between House and Wilson. The way that House is crabby with Wilson but seriously mean to everyone else. The way they are such little boys looking at girls together. *loves* The way they watch that medical soap opera together.
The snide remark about Wilson and his propensity for infidelity reeks of jealousy to me.
The obvious trust between them in "Detox," and the way House accepts Wilson sitting in on a work meeting just to keep an eye on House's physical condition. The trust Wilson has in House's judgment, no matter how impaired it might be. Detox's ending is so, so "Wilson taking care of House without him knowing it".
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Date: 2005-03-10 09:31 am (UTC)It was less of a, "Wow, that's slashy," and more like a direct revelation of slash from God. I almost fell out of my chair.
Damned If You Do isn't actually a horrible place to jump in. You'd be a bit lost, but the episode actually does open with the main characters rather than the patient of the week as is typical, and it does a lot of nice balancing of fun and serious, but it's not as much in to the characters as some of the later episodes. Which is one of the reasons I'd really advise against watching Detox--it's going to lose a lot of impact if you haven't had time to get acquainted with these characters. (The other reasons are my pack of issues I have with the episode; I am and remain one of the apparent few people in the fandom who didn't really like it--hell, most people seem to have loved it--for a variety of causes ranging from technical to intensely personal. On the other hand, having gotten this icon out of the deal, I can't hate it.)
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Date: 2005-03-10 02:51 pm (UTC)That is pretty sweet. Very cool, in fact. Also -- musical montage! Ah-ha, I was right all along.
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