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avevale_intelligencer) wrote2009-10-18 09:49 am
avevale_intelligencer) wrote2009-10-18 09:49 am
Heresy again
Having seen a couple of episodes of House last night, I find myself in awe at how brilliantly Hugh Laurie plays a character I would walk down a different street to avoid, and whom I would move to another town rather than let treat me for anything. The series shows perfectly that there is more to being a doctor than knowing how to cure every known disease.
Sorry, but I just don't care that he's got problems. I know people with problems, horrendous problems, and they manage to be bearable and even wonderful human beings in spite of it all. I find it amazing that a character who not only doesn't try to be nice, but makes an active effort to be horrible, garners so much love and admiration from the people around him. The horribleness is not in any way linked to the medical brilliance--he didn't have to give up his basic humanity to become a medical expert, unless there's something about American health care education that I haven't grasped.
I'm sure it's all very clever, and I'm probably very stupid for preferring shows with characters who at least try to get along, but I don't like it. I'll go to that nice Doctor Finlay instead. He may not recognise my epicacular philibompstering busticulitis, and I may die of it, but at least I'll die not wanting to.
(Also: medical mysteries. What's up with that? Where's the fun in waiting for the detective/doctor to pull some disease I've never heard of out of his hat and realise that the cure is--gasp--an injection of common tap water? I prefer my whodunnits with clues I can look back on and realise I should have seen.)
Grump.
Sorry, but I just don't care that he's got problems. I know people with problems, horrendous problems, and they manage to be bearable and even wonderful human beings in spite of it all. I find it amazing that a character who not only doesn't try to be nice, but makes an active effort to be horrible, garners so much love and admiration from the people around him. The horribleness is not in any way linked to the medical brilliance--he didn't have to give up his basic humanity to become a medical expert, unless there's something about American health care education that I haven't grasped.
I'm sure it's all very clever, and I'm probably very stupid for preferring shows with characters who at least try to get along, but I don't like it. I'll go to that nice Doctor Finlay instead. He may not recognise my epicacular philibompstering busticulitis, and I may die of it, but at least I'll die not wanting to.
(Also: medical mysteries. What's up with that? Where's the fun in waiting for the detective/doctor to pull some disease I've never heard of out of his hat and realise that the cure is--gasp--an injection of common tap water? I prefer my whodunnits with clues I can look back on and realise I should have seen.)
Grump.
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Why should you allow other people's enthusiasm for it to make you so defensive? You have a right to your likes and dislikes, just as anyone does!