First and foremost, please stop beating yourself up. You are allowed to like what you like and dislike what you dislike. It's not heresy, even if other people disagree. It's just a simple preference issue, and you should not treat it as cause to beat yourself up.
Secondly: while I do like the show House itself?
I do not like Gregory House, MD one little bit. I can't stand him. He is abrasive. He is mean. He is downright cruel. He is sarcastic. He is every form of unpleasant I could come up with.
Yes, he's a very good doctor.
And what's really telling is that he's capable of being nice and sweet when he wants to. He's generally not as obnoxiously tactless and nasty to children under the age of 16. Their parents are another matter.
The thing is, it's to some degree an act. And it's an act to disguise the fact that he cares far more than he lets on. He'll sneer and tell you he won't bother with what seems to be a perfectly common case of Plantar's Warts because it bores him, but he will also offer the way to resolve that simple issue as he's limping away with his nose in the air.
But I digress.
My feeling is people like it because it's a vicarious catharsis for them. There are people in the world who aggravate, annoy, distress, frustrate and enrage us so that "we" wish we could just casually cut them down with the careless ease House seems to.
In real life, almost nobody is as nasty and obnoxious as Greg House. Nobody gets away with being that horrible. In real life, somebody would have punched him in the face or smacked him in the head with all their might using a bedpan. So it's a twisted kind of wish fulfillment -- he gets away with saying and doing things people would like to say and do to the "stupid" people they encounter.
It's still your right to dislike it, of course. Just really wish you wouldn't beat yourself up while explaining why you don't.
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Date: 2009-10-18 01:58 pm (UTC)First and foremost, please stop beating yourself up. You are allowed to like what you like and dislike what you dislike. It's not heresy, even if other people disagree. It's just a simple preference issue, and you should not treat it as cause to beat yourself up.
Secondly: while I do like the show House itself?
I do not like Gregory House, MD one little bit. I can't stand him. He is abrasive. He is mean. He is downright cruel. He is sarcastic. He is every form of unpleasant I could come up with.
Yes, he's a very good doctor.
And what's really telling is that he's capable of being nice and sweet when he wants to. He's generally not as obnoxiously tactless and nasty to children under the age of 16. Their parents are another matter.
The thing is, it's to some degree an act. And it's an act to disguise the fact that he cares far more than he lets on. He'll sneer and tell you he won't bother with what seems to be a perfectly common case of Plantar's Warts because it bores him, but he will also offer the way to resolve that simple issue as he's limping away with his nose in the air.
But I digress.
My feeling is people like it because it's a vicarious catharsis for them. There are people in the world who aggravate, annoy, distress, frustrate and enrage us so that "we" wish we could just casually cut them down with the careless ease House seems to.
In real life, almost nobody is as nasty and obnoxious as Greg House. Nobody gets away with being that horrible. In real life, somebody would have punched him in the face or smacked him in the head with all their might using a bedpan. So it's a twisted kind of wish fulfillment -- he gets away with saying and doing things people would like to say and do to the "stupid" people they encounter.
It's still your right to dislike it, of course. Just really wish you wouldn't beat yourself up while explaining why you don't.