• Soulg@sh.itjust.works
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      11 days ago

      I think it’s aged fine. He’s an edgy asshole and everyone hates him because he’s an asshole.

      • commander@lemmings.worldEnglish
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        10 days ago

        I think this generation made a wrong turn when it started hating guys like House but praising guys like Ron Swanson.

      • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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        10 days ago

        Almost everyone. Most of his team doesn’t actively hate him, except for Foreman and sometimes Chase. But yeah, broadly everyone hates him for being an asshole but he’s also a profoundly capable asshole which means they also want to keep him around despite being an asshole. His entire department essentially exists because of Cuddy’s guilt over giving him the limp.

        Three Stories was probably my favorite episode. House is forced to teach a class, he sets up three hypotheticals of patients reporting leg pain at the same time. One of the cases is his own story of how he ended up with the limp. He also managed to diagnose what’s wrong with the normal teacher of the class while teaching it (lead poisoning).

  • rustyricotta@lemmy.ml
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    11 days ago

    I just watched one where House extracted fluid from a leg growth, then from across the room he 360 no scope squirted it into patient’s daughter’s mouth.

  • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
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    11 days ago

    They applied a cop show routine (which is heavily subsidised propaganda) and applied it to a doctor drama.

    Basically iconic superheroes reckless vigilantes 99% of the time with a success rate in compete fantasy numbers and sponsored one-liners.

    • the_q@lemm.eeEnglish
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      11 days ago

      I guess you missed the parts where House had to contend with his own mental health issues and the moments of warmth and care the guy displayed.

      • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
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        11 days ago

        I missed all but maybe like 5 or max 10 episodes of the entire show.

        But cops in cop shows have struggles too.

        (If I’m understanding you correctly they’ve shown some light on mental issues, which is prob a good thing if actually done correctly & not just for bs character credibility/growth.)

        • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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          10 days ago

          (If I’m understanding you correctly they’ve shown some light on mental issues, which is prob a good thing if actually done correctly & not just for bs character credibility/growth.)

          Specifically he starts season 6 in a psychiatric hospital and season 8 in prison. As always he tries to cheat his way out of the system, but ends up being humbled in season 6 and committing to treatment. He fakes his death at the end of season 8, because he’s going to go back to prison (damage caused by a prank gone wrong), Wilson has cancer and House would be in prison well past Wilson’s estimated remaining time.

      • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        10 days ago

        Something I really didn’t catch during my first watch through, House cares, House cares a LOT. He acts like an asshole but from his point of view he’s taking the most pragmatic and efficient route possible to save his patients, willing to risk firing, jailtime and even death to do so; the few times he loses a patient (or friend) he’s devastated.

        • Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          9 days ago

          My interpretation was that he cares about solving the riddle in time, kinda like competing with the diseases to show he’s better. I don’t remember anything about him caring about the people specifically, except for a few specific patients that he liked.

    • Dasus@lemmy.world
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      10 days ago

      And breaking the rules is pretty much always justified.

      Well, for cops shows and in the format.

      Spoilers for House. The later seasons actually came out during the time when shoes were moving from episodic to serialised. And as the show had always recognises House as being very reckless, it was easy to write an overarching plot to the later seasons where he actually faces consequences for his behaviour and personal problems.

      So unlike in cop shows, House actually does face the issue of his drug abuse and his abusive behaviour. Even going to prison at one point, albeit not for any medical shit he pulled.

      The show definitely has a strong anti-authoritarian taste compared to cop shows. House is a philosopher and always improving and questioning morals whereas cops just “follow orders” and break the law to achieve “justice” (which they have a perverted view which they got through shitty propaganda and don’t question.)

  • lobut@lemmy.ca
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    11 days ago

    Not gonna lie, I hate the show House. I’ve watched the entire series multiple times but there’s a lot do like about it, but the reason I have to hate it because the show creators said that they never wanted House to solve a case by the normal means. They wanted him to like run into their ex-gfs dog’s brother that ate something through a story while he was berating her cheating because they stepped on his cane the wrong way. For me, it would be nice to solve a case through competency … it always rubbed me the wrong way.

    To be clear, this is subjective. Many people watched the shows and it made them wanna be nurses and doctors and it was their inspiration. So I’m definitely an outlier but it just gets me.

    • Soleos@lemmy.world
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      11 days ago

      It sounds like it’s just not the show you’re expecting. It’s not trying to be ER or Scrubs. It’s Sherlock Holmes. It’s like watching Mindhunter and criticizing it for not being more like Cops where they solve the case because they catch the suspect in the act of trying to shove the evidence up their butt.

      • lobut@lemmy.ca
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        11 days ago

        I have absolutely no idea. I think it was one of the few shows on Amazon Prime. I think I enjoyed some of the interplay between the characters? The medicine stuff just made me hate it.

    • TomasEkeli@programming.dev
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      11 days ago

      I just have to ask: you hate the series, but have watched the entire series multiple times?

      Are you a sailor stuck at sea for months or something?

      • lobut@lemmy.ca
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        11 days ago

        lol, I gave up on the series after the fourth episode on television. First watch was because I thought I was missing something. Second watch was because my brother was around and that’s what he watched.

        The other rewatches was because I needed some background stuff and I had Amazon Prime.

        I like some of the characters but the show itself bugs me and I’m an idiot.

        If they had Scrubs on Prime Canada I would have just watched that for the umpteenth time instead.

    • DannyBoy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      11 days ago

      Wasn’t his whole job to solve a case that the other doctors couldn’t solve? When the average doctor’s competency couldn’t solve the case they’d turn it to House to use unconventional methods.

      • lobut@lemmy.ca
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        11 days ago

        Agreed but the way it’s solved isn’t through a way that seems to make sense. It always feels contrived to me.

        I’ve seen doctors react on YouTube and they were like, “why would you run this test, this other test would have shown that”

        Let me be clear, I know my opinion isn’t popular and it’s all make-believe. I’m not saying my dislike for the show is rational.

      • Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        9 days ago

        The in-universe explanation was that the hospital created his department for PR reasons so that they could say they are the best at diagnosing stuff and so attract more patients even though most patients would just go to regular departments. The PR worked and so House’s department would often get transferred patients from other hospitals too, when they couldn’t figure out what was happening to them. Regular people would also seek out House specifically when they felt like they weren’t getting the right treatment.

        But my interpretation of it was that the whole PR thing was just an excuse Cuddy came up with to help House. She knew what he was capable of but also knew he would never fit in on any regular job so she created something specific for him. She’s the friend every ADHDer or autistic dreams of having.

    • trashboat@midwest.socialEnglish
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      11 days ago

      I agree with you on that, as a whole the plot structure gets awful formulaic after a while. I’ve watched it a few times now and it’s become a comfort show for me- watched it the first time for the character arcs, the second time for the philosophical themes, and subsequent times for filthy House zingers

  • pyre@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    house was super entertaining to watch except it became too tiring to see someone have a seizure every. fucking. episode.

    I think I quit a couple episodes into season 2 just because of that. I’m someone who feels uncomfortable seeing other people in pain (including most “funny” videos about people falling, getting hit in the crotch, or whatever) so seeing someone get convulsions every time was just sucking all the fun out of it.

    • frezik@midwest.social
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      10 days ago

      FWIW, an actual seizure doesn’t look anything like a Hollywood seizure. It’s both more subtle and somehow more disturbing.

      • pyre@lemmy.world
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        10 days ago

        yeah I don’t know I guess it’s believable enough. it’s funny, I enjoy completely over the top violence, like mortal kombat / doom levels, and most action movies. but seeing someone just trip and fall brings a visceral reaction.

        it just doesn’t register as entertainment in my brain the way the over the top stuff do. house falls into the realistic category so it’s harder for me to watch.

  • Rose Thorne(She/Her)@lemm.ee
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    11 days ago

    Don’t forget, all of this while popping Vicodin from the moment he wakes up.

    Dudes doing this while on a constant hydro wave.

    Then drives into a living room.

  • genuineparts@infosec.pub
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    11 days ago

    Hey that’s really reductionist and untrue. First they have to nearly kill him with the wrong diagnosis before landing on the right one.

    • 474D@lemmy.world
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      11 days ago

      He was generally an asshole to everyone, I think this actually makes him inclusive

      • chuckleslord@lemmy.world
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        11 days ago

        She wasn’t trans, she was intersex.

        There’s another episode where a young boy is also intersex.

        House treats both really shitty

            • Azzu@lemm.ee
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              10 days ago

              That’s because this topic is in special focus today, for you and many others. But it’s really not different to treating someone shitty for any other reason they can’t do anything about, like being bald or small or whatever.

              It’s just always shitty to treat people shitty, it’s not a contest who least deserves to be treated shittily.

        • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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          10 days ago

          she was intersex.

          Specifically 46,XY with CAIS, causing a total lack of response to androgens, and since those are what tell a fetus to develop male bits instead of defaulting to female bits…

    • normanwall@lemmy.world
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      11 days ago

      I think the point of him is that he’s in pain and also a giant asshole to almost everyone.

      That episode would never fly today though.

        • YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          9 days ago

          Uh kind of but not in the way that I think you mean. The actual censorship crowd is very much in power in the USA and many other places. Hence executive orders trying to “censor” trans people from existence and take control of any and all institutions that go against the party, in part in order to control their speech.

  • danc4498@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 days ago

    I’ve only seen a couple episodes. Including the one where he discovered a patient has HIV because he couldn’t get rid of the hiccups. Thanks for the new fear!

  • MTK@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    It bothers me that her far-fetched idea is butthole worms, when that is one of the most common parasites in the world.