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.
You can blame that on Fox. Other than the pilot, they've been showing episodes out of order. I don't know how much the show knew about that going in, but either way it basically destroyed whatever chance they could have to tell a character-driven story over multiple eps, or even dribble out ongoing character details in multiple eps, because it was entirely possible that we'd be told D before we found out about A B and C.
It's not quite as bad for the minor characters, who can have their facts snuck in during the episodes that focus on them, but for the protagonist I have to imagine it's been frustrating as all Hell to want to unveil House's backstory and have their tools for doing that snatched away from them.
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Date: 2005-02-17 03:01 am (UTC)You can blame that on Fox. Other than the pilot, they've been showing episodes out of order. I don't know how much the show knew about that going in, but either way it basically destroyed whatever chance they could have to tell a character-driven story over multiple eps, or even dribble out ongoing character details in multiple eps, because it was entirely possible that we'd be told D before we found out about A B and C.
It's not quite as bad for the minor characters, who can have their facts snuck in during the episodes that focus on them, but for the protagonist I have to imagine it's been frustrating as all Hell to want to unveil House's backstory and have their tools for doing that snatched away from them.