HMD Tuesdays #2 - Hurting and Healing
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hmd_tuesdays, of course.
Some relatively "standard" answers, some non:
1. What character do you resemble most, personality-wise?
I guess I will dorkily have to repeat what 90% of people answering this question have said and say House, minus the witand the genius. (Is that why we're all watching this show?) It frightens me sometimes how much House and I share the same brain.
...With a healthy smattering of Chase's daddy issues and [learned] doormat tendencies in offline life. (Although that is in no way my natural-born personality; probably just a reaction to various aspects of my upbringing.)
2. Which character upsets you the most?
(Leaving out the villains, because that's too easy. And they're only temporary characters, anyway.)
Wilson.
Cameron is often irritating to me - she's just the sort of person that would set my teeth on edge in my own life - but I have no deep personal investment in her. As long as she's occupying her hands with Chase, she's actually sort of amusing. Trying to figure her out is amusing, too.
Foreman is somewhat similar. I don't really believe he's much like House, and I think he needs to dig deeper on his real reasons for quitting. That is also vaguely amusing and interesting. He's an arrogant ass sometimes, but what impact does that have on House really, as long as he does his job? (And if he won't do his job, well, it's better to have him go away for a while and sort it out. Or just get lost.)
Chase, I just love right now. Even when he's being an annoying kiss-ass.
I continue to love interactions with Cuddy. I differ with much of the rest of the fandom in the opinion that she is pretty consistently characterized; we just hadn't seen as much of her personality in earlier episodes. I certainly have less issues with her than I do with Cameron.
And House, well... House I can be frustrated and upset with, but it's hard to genuinely hate a mirror. What would it say about me if I DID have huge issues with House?
But Wilson. Oh, Wilson. Wilson is the only one with the true power to HURT House, and that gives his actions much more gravity to me. The ending of "Half-Wit" was painful in a raw way. (I continue to wonder just how much Wilson will continue to put his vision of a pill-free House over House's actual well-being? It enrages me that he shoots down all of House's wacky solutions to the Vicodin, but offers nothing more constructive than criticism of House's dosing and supposedly high-minded lectures.)
Wilson's occasional blindness REALLY HURTS.
I can't quite hate him - I love his character and find him endlessly fascinating - but boy, I can be really, really mad at him.
3. What's your favorite song used in a House episode?
Ouch, tough. If not Elvis Costello's version of "Beautiful," then I love the Rickie Lee Jones track, "On Saturday Afternoons in 1963" from the episode "Paternity" - that's one of very few times I've teared up over a House episode.
Honorable mentions go to Bird York's, "In the Deep" ("Autopsy"), The Who's, "Baba O'Riley" ("Control"), AC/DC's, "Highway to Hell" ("Family"), any Louis Armstrong, anything Hugh Laurie plays on the piano (especially when he plays "Hymn to Freedom" at the end of "All In"), and at least a half-dozen others. Including the theme.
I know, I know. UNFAIR question, I say.
4. If you could tell the producers one thing regarding the show, what would it be?
Again, ouch. Just one? If I were the only one saying something, then I would have to go with the sappy but honest, "Thanks," response others have said.
If I could count on someone else to have said that though, I think I'd just ask them to cut the crap with the random female love interests.
5. Which episode would you pick to showcase House to someone who has never even heard of the show before. Why?
"Autopsy." Seems like an obvious choice to me. It doesn't require the character background that might make "Three Stories" a better experience, and it's far enough along in the series that it doesn't look a bit out of place (as the Pilot does). It doesn't reveal anything big that a new viewer might not want to be spoiled for. And it's just classic House.
(I also considered "All In," another of my faves, but that one differs slightly from the usual House formula in that you get to see a glimpse of House when he fails - that's something that should be saved, I think.)
Plus, it's won at least two awards that I'm aware of.
hmd_tuesdays, of course.Some relatively "standard" answers, some non:
1. What character do you resemble most, personality-wise?
I guess I will dorkily have to repeat what 90% of people answering this question have said and say House, minus the wit
...With a healthy smattering of Chase's daddy issues and [learned] doormat tendencies in offline life. (Although that is in no way my natural-born personality; probably just a reaction to various aspects of my upbringing.)
2. Which character upsets you the most?
(Leaving out the villains, because that's too easy. And they're only temporary characters, anyway.)
Wilson.
Cameron is often irritating to me - she's just the sort of person that would set my teeth on edge in my own life - but I have no deep personal investment in her. As long as she's occupying her hands with Chase, she's actually sort of amusing. Trying to figure her out is amusing, too.
Foreman is somewhat similar. I don't really believe he's much like House, and I think he needs to dig deeper on his real reasons for quitting. That is also vaguely amusing and interesting. He's an arrogant ass sometimes, but what impact does that have on House really, as long as he does his job? (And if he won't do his job, well, it's better to have him go away for a while and sort it out. Or just get lost.)
Chase, I just love right now. Even when he's being an annoying kiss-ass.
I continue to love interactions with Cuddy. I differ with much of the rest of the fandom in the opinion that she is pretty consistently characterized; we just hadn't seen as much of her personality in earlier episodes. I certainly have less issues with her than I do with Cameron.
And House, well... House I can be frustrated and upset with, but it's hard to genuinely hate a mirror. What would it say about me if I DID have huge issues with House?
But Wilson. Oh, Wilson. Wilson is the only one with the true power to HURT House, and that gives his actions much more gravity to me. The ending of "Half-Wit" was painful in a raw way. (I continue to wonder just how much Wilson will continue to put his vision of a pill-free House over House's actual well-being? It enrages me that he shoots down all of House's wacky solutions to the Vicodin, but offers nothing more constructive than criticism of House's dosing and supposedly high-minded lectures.)
Wilson's occasional blindness REALLY HURTS.
I can't quite hate him - I love his character and find him endlessly fascinating - but boy, I can be really, really mad at him.
3. What's your favorite song used in a House episode?
Ouch, tough. If not Elvis Costello's version of "Beautiful," then I love the Rickie Lee Jones track, "On Saturday Afternoons in 1963" from the episode "Paternity" - that's one of very few times I've teared up over a House episode.
Honorable mentions go to Bird York's, "In the Deep" ("Autopsy"), The Who's, "Baba O'Riley" ("Control"), AC/DC's, "Highway to Hell" ("Family"), any Louis Armstrong, anything Hugh Laurie plays on the piano (especially when he plays "Hymn to Freedom" at the end of "All In"), and at least a half-dozen others. Including the theme.
I know, I know. UNFAIR question, I say.
4. If you could tell the producers one thing regarding the show, what would it be?
Again, ouch. Just one? If I were the only one saying something, then I would have to go with the sappy but honest, "Thanks," response others have said.
If I could count on someone else to have said that though, I think I'd just ask them to cut the crap with the random female love interests.
5. Which episode would you pick to showcase House to someone who has never even heard of the show before. Why?
"Autopsy." Seems like an obvious choice to me. It doesn't require the character background that might make "Three Stories" a better experience, and it's far enough along in the series that it doesn't look a bit out of place (as the Pilot does). It doesn't reveal anything big that a new viewer might not want to be spoiled for. And it's just classic House.
(I also considered "All In," another of my faves, but that one differs slightly from the usual House formula in that you get to see a glimpse of House when he fails - that's something that should be saved, I think.)
Plus, it's won at least two awards that I'm aware of.
