Yes, I have memorized many episodes of House and know the plot and characters extremely well but the same is true of the entire Terminator series, the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, and many others. It's just a habit. Ironic that I memorized movies but completely fail to memorize school material, not that any of that matters now, though.
After just a few minutes with people, most will either accuse me of trying to act like House or simply being very similar to House. Truth is I only started watching House until maybe the 6,000th person pointed this out and I decided to see what everyone was talking about rather just dispense bile the way I usually do. This was in 2010 I believe, since I remembered that House had been airing its sixth season.
I always hate having to watch things right in the middle of the action so instead of watching it on TV like most I decided to go out and buy the season one DVD and watch it all at my own schedule. Yes, I loved it, for reasons I might get into later. After watching season one I bought the rest, seasons two through five for the bargain price of five dollars and also bought season six once the DVD came out. I watched season seven like everyone else on TV but have not seen anything of season eight, for reasons I have already explained.
Now, some of the later seasons, mainly season seven but I noticed this shift as early as season three, lost what originally made House so great and is what I primarily point out as what makes me different from House. In the first two seasons of House, my favorite by far, was all about House getting to the truth no matter what, no matter how illegal, unethical, or seemingly impossible. However the comedy of House soon started to take over until there was hardly any truth-seeking left, House stopped being about 'solving medical mysteries' and 'crusading for the truth' and turned into 'what crazy, funny thing will House do next?'. In the first seasons, House would often abandon the funny side when things got serious and this happened less and less often as time went on. The only reason I liked House was for the original concept best seen in the earliest seasons of House, actually I often think the jokes sometimes got in the way of that.
The second biggest difference between myself and Dr. House is the fundamental belief in the credo that started the whole show and is hammered home several times. We see it in many different forms.
- Everybody Lies
- Humanity Is Overrated
- People Never Change
Yes, I have an equally cynical view of people and I agree wholeheartedly with the first two points House makes, but I do disagree with the last point. In fact, this theme that people don't change is my primary suspect for why House drove itself into the ground with season seven and eight. David Shore was involved less and less with the actual writing process of the episodes but he would always keep the writers of House in line if he felt they had an idea that clashed too much with House's character. One of his biggest additions to the concept of House was how he doesn't change, and with this law he sort of wrote himself and the rest of the writers into a corner, since no matter what influential people he meets like his ex Stacey and her new husband, his best friend Wilson, the smart therapist Dr. Nolan, his brief love interest Lydia, or even his soulmate Lisa Cuddy, House never changed. He relapsed with his addiction after the two consecutive episodes (season six premiere, Broken, one of my favorite episodes of House) were spent kicking that thing to the curb.
I believe that people can change, only on very, very rare occasions, but I have seen it happen.
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