I think the shine's off the love apple.

[katernater]

My thoughts on last night's episode aside (if I wanted to see two middle-aged people argue over buying a mattress, I'd follow my parents to Sears on a Saturday) I have to point out that it was nothing in comparison to the bus train wreck of a promo for next week's episode.

For reference.

What happened to the gender roles on this show? And when did House's character jump the rift from "forgivable old bastard" to "creepy old man"?:





And I'm not even one of those radical feminists out there spelling things with a "y" and shivving guys with scraps of underwire. But there are no female role models left on this show. Cameron has gone from being brunette and mostly uninteresting, to blonde and uninteresting and ineffective. Thirteen is bisexual and...I guess that's the only reason she's still around. Amber is House without the Adam's apple. And Cuddy -- Cuddy! -- who was to be my last bastion of XX-chromosome sticktoitiveness, has degenerated into nothing more than a pair of talking breasts. At this point, Wilson is the only girl around there who comes close to matching my cycle.

I know it's a ratings game. I know they've had a hard time of it since the writers strike. But those same writers were around for season one, when the show actually relied on intelligent details and plausible character arcs. House has become a parody of himself. House has become a parody of itself.

And, god love him, you know that Hugh Laurie is trying. He's still in there with the day-to-day, doing brilliant work, but you can tell he's souring on the whole thing. Hugh? I have a bit of advice: Jump out of the plane already. I'm putting on my parachute.



In other news: primary day! Hooray! I get to leave work early to vote!

Comments

[another-myself.livejournal.com]

I want to go back and re-watch season one from start to finish to remind myself what it was pulled me into this show in the first place. But, my fingers are crossed that maybe we'll get something back in season five. I can hope.

Can't go wrong with leaving work early!

[chemina42.livejournal.com]

I couldn't put it in better words than you, but I totally agree here. Cuddy is not the same Cuddy from the early days and House is more of a bastard for the sake of being a bastard than he used to be. He used to have a reason for doing the things he does.

Didn't Hugh say if the main character changes, there is no show? He better have a get out of jail free card. GET OUT WHILE YOU STILL CAN HUGH!

[affablestranger.livejournal.com]

Yeah. The show's on the outs. If it makes it another two seasons I'll be stunned. If it makes it past this one...?

[highlander_ii]

You know - I wonder if it has to do with them trying to 'rush' part of what they'd planned for the season before with the 'shippy shit. If they'd just fucking DROP the relationship crap and run the damned show, we'd be much better off, I think.

What they're doing is taking the show they had, tossing the working forumla out the window and doing what all the other shit shows do and play up the relationships.

Hey - House writer monkeys - take a page from Dick Wolf's book - write a STORY and screw the interpersonal character developments except when they move the story along, dammit!