(It goes without saying, but I'm so happy that you're someone who gets the whole "we can disagree about a show I love" without it becoming "you hate my show! BITCH!!! Diediediedie!!!!11!!)
I do wish (as I said to danielleleigh above) that House's own experiences at the hands of the medical establishment had been woven more meaningfully, or propulsively, or something, into how he in turn deals with patients, from the get-go. It may just be that the sequencing in exposition within the episodes could have been done better.
And your point about the vengeful wish-fulfillment nature of the show is taken; god knows, I have at times (in my helping-professional role) muttered awful things about the hapless vulnerable students I'm supposed to be dealing with empathically and caringly. For people in such roles, there's always a tension between the "Wow, are *you* stupid" inwardness, and the outward maintenance of compassion. I know that's a reality for people in medicine, and I think what futzes the show for me is that the surface presentation is fairly straightforward-realistic, and (as Nuland says in the Slate article cited somewhere up- or down-thread) House's behavior would *never* fly in a real medical setting. There's a certain shock of refreshingness in House manifesting so blatantly all the hostility that lurks within the maintenance of compassionate-medical-facade; and yet there's a real reason for the maintenance of that facade that has to do with the actual wellbeing of suffering people.
And yeah, it may just be that me and the show are incompatible. *g* As I say, I dig it that others are enjoying it, and I actually am digging a lot of the good fiction in the fandom, which manages to dig beneath some of the binds the show has (by my judgement) gotten itself into.
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Date: 2005-02-17 02:48 am (UTC)I do wish (as I said to danielleleigh above) that House's own experiences at the hands of the medical establishment had been woven more meaningfully, or propulsively, or something, into how he in turn deals with patients, from the get-go. It may just be that the sequencing in exposition within the episodes could have been done better.
And your point about the vengeful wish-fulfillment nature of the show is taken; god knows, I have at times (in my helping-professional role) muttered awful things about the hapless vulnerable students I'm supposed to be dealing with empathically and caringly. For people in such roles, there's always a tension between the "Wow, are *you* stupid" inwardness, and the outward maintenance of compassion. I know that's a reality for people in medicine, and I think what futzes the show for me is that the surface presentation is fairly straightforward-realistic, and (as Nuland says in the Slate article cited somewhere up- or down-thread) House's behavior would *never* fly in a real medical setting. There's a certain shock of refreshingness in House manifesting so blatantly all the hostility that lurks within the maintenance of compassionate-medical-facade; and yet there's a real reason for the maintenance of that facade that has to do with the actual wellbeing of suffering people.
And yeah, it may just be that me and the show are incompatible. *g* As I say, I dig it that others are enjoying it, and I actually am digging a lot of the good fiction in the fandom, which manages to dig beneath some of the binds the show has (by my judgement) gotten itself into.