House
Posted: Mon 18 July, 2005 Filed under: Thoughts 5 Comments »While I’m really pleased to see that Hugh Laurie has been Emmy-nominated for the series House, I have to admit that I’m getting just a little bit jaded about the series.
The dialogue is still good, but I can’t deny, I want to see House fail to solve a case. I have trouble believing in the entire “always a happy ending” cliche that it seems to be becoming. Every week there’s a bizarre illness, the doctors are baffled, they try something, it makes the patient worse, they try something else, it nearly kills the patient (and man, that clean room gets some use!), then they come across some truly rare complaint that answers all the symptoms. Lo and behold, patient is cured- apparently overnight in some cases – and everyone goes away happy ’til next week.
Yeah, sure, it’s well scripted and so on, but jesus christ, even Casualty manages to get them doing fatal fuckups every so often. Is it too much to do, to make Mr Wonderful fallible, and thus just slightly more feasible?
There was that episode a couple of weeks ago [in Channel Five time] where there was an epidemic amongst newborn babies, and one of them died due to the treatment it was being given.
Trouble is, I was too distracted trying to figure out where I’d seen the actress playing the mother to be distressed by storyline. [I got it eventually. She played Rina, Toby’s firey new assistant, in season five of The West Wing.]
Indeed, there was one hellspawn that pegged it before they’d got close to finding even the first false cure, but even so, they found the problem in the end before any other little moppets kicked the bucket.
Yeah I’ll second that. A cockup would make it much better.
If they let someone die the extremely litigious yanks will sue the collective arses off both House and the hospital. Good series though.
PS – must have missed your original post about Geoff Thomas, my apologies.
And did you know that the rather nice aussie doctor is played by the guy who played Billy in neighbours, I actually got lyle to look that one up on the internet!!! Magic!