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selahgirl -> RE: House '08 (2/6/2008 10:47:47 AM)
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yeah, the new team really seems like unnecessary filler. They don't have the cohesion like the original one, which is giving the whole show a different feel imo. I miss the close quarter relationships of last season.
The people don't change quote reminded me of the movie 16 Blocks with Bruce Willis and Ford (he's the guys from Hitchhikers Guide and I can never remember his real name). Anyway, the mantra in that movie was "People can change." It was a great movie, cops and robbers thing. I guess there's arguments on both sides on that one.
House was interesting last night. Again, I think the writers do a good job of portraying human behavior. Any time someone changes for the good, everyone is suspicious. But let them turn off into a wild or addicted life style and it seems easier to believe, almost more acceptable. "Misery loves company" perhaps.
Cut throat B turns out nice in this episode... just be ready to get jerked around in the next one. Writers are getting skilled at that LOST technique of loving a character one episode, hating them the next, and so goes the roller coaster until you're afraid to like any one character at all.
But what about the bi-sexual reference to number 13... you knew it had to come in sooner or later. I love how the writers have slanted her as such a positive, insightful character... then suddenly they casually drop the bombshell. Makes you wonder if they are trying to show how human gays are in an attempt to plead their case as no different than anyone else... or if they stacked everything positive in her direction and then used the gay thing as something negative to balance the act.
They would probably claim the first, but subconsciously they seem to be suggesting the latter.
You see, everyone has their downside, something negative, a weakness in opposition to their strengths. If gays, like 13, are positive in every way as so often portrayed... and the sticking point, the bombshell, is their sexual orientation -- then secular writers seem to subtly be suggesting that that's their negative quality.
I know that's not their intent, and they would argue the point. But if they are going to portray the likeable, seemingly perfect characters, as gay or lesbian... they are actually making a case that such a life style isn't normal or average human behavior.
Maybe I'm just bummed, cuz I really liked her character, still do, just a little put out by the writers that they have pulled such a gay-rights-advocate cliche'
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