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House 6.whatever - the one after hiatus
1. Tee hee.
2. I have said it before about this show (and Boston Legal) and will doubtless say it again, but: making gay jokes about two guys on a show only tends to make them look more straight than before. I'd rather see them be friends, be close to each other, than have jokes made. They'd look a lot more like a couple if they could be shown having, I don't know, intimate conversations on the couch at night while the TV's on in the background—or something like when they were on opposite sides of the wall talking to dead people. Or, no—really what I mean is that it would be nice to see two straight guys do things like that and not have it necessarily be about being gay.*
2a. I mean, wow. There was way more subtext to drug guy/cop at the end there than there was with House and Wilson.
3. Regardless, it was kind of awesome to see Wilson declare his big gay love for another man in the middle of a public place near where he lives and works. Sure, it was probably easier for him than it would have been had he actually been gay—less to lose this way—but still an interesting departure from his usual self-consciousness about the way he's seen. Also, always fun to see him out-prank House.
3a. Speaking of out-pranking, since that seemed to be the theme of the night (Foreman pwns threesome, cop tricks dealers), I was waiting for 3B to be a lesbian who had at first been happy to bond with GLBT neighbors and then in it for the laughs once she figured out what was going on. Oh well.
4. Chase with that hair looks like Alexander Skarsgard. Hm. Or maybe that's because I was watching some True Blood reruns today and then also came upon wee!gard in Zoolander.
5. Ah ha ha, look—a heartfelt conversation on the couch at night while the TV's on.
6. That may have been the funniest part of the whole episode right there in the last ten seconds. Even with the whole "Characterization? Why bother when RSL can just be himself?"
ETA in the light of day: I was actually not as entertained by the episode as this reaction makes it sound. As others have since said, there was a lot of unhappy stereotyping that went unchallenged by other characters, and no one stopped to examine what H&W have and where it falls along the ol' homosocial continuum. Just overall handled with little sophistication. But -- not to be a whiner or anything -- it's been a while since this show handled anything with the sophistication I've hoped for. I didn't mention it because I don't expect the show to deliver it anymore. Alas.
*ETA 2: And by the same token, in case some of you weren't reading here in earlier seasons to hear me say it then, it will be nice when we're finally living in the time where two guys can do that on TV and be gay, whether they started out that way or not. Just -- looking for some diversity here, and for genuine relationships instead of all the joking.
...I still don't think what I want to say is coming across at all clearly. Should not post or try to ETA when sick.
ETA 3: http://bookshop.livejournal.com/1017712.html
2. I have said it before about this show (and Boston Legal) and will doubtless say it again, but: making gay jokes about two guys on a show only tends to make them look more straight than before. I'd rather see them be friends, be close to each other, than have jokes made. They'd look a lot more like a couple if they could be shown having, I don't know, intimate conversations on the couch at night while the TV's on in the background—or something like when they were on opposite sides of the wall talking to dead people. Or, no—really what I mean is that it would be nice to see two straight guys do things like that and not have it necessarily be about being gay.*
2a. I mean, wow. There was way more subtext to drug guy/cop at the end there than there was with House and Wilson.
3. Regardless, it was kind of awesome to see Wilson declare his big gay love for another man in the middle of a public place near where he lives and works. Sure, it was probably easier for him than it would have been had he actually been gay—less to lose this way—but still an interesting departure from his usual self-consciousness about the way he's seen. Also, always fun to see him out-prank House.
3a. Speaking of out-pranking, since that seemed to be the theme of the night (Foreman pwns threesome, cop tricks dealers), I was waiting for 3B to be a lesbian who had at first been happy to bond with GLBT neighbors and then in it for the laughs once she figured out what was going on. Oh well.
4. Chase with that hair looks like Alexander Skarsgard. Hm. Or maybe that's because I was watching some True Blood reruns today and then also came upon wee!gard in Zoolander.
5. Ah ha ha, look—a heartfelt conversation on the couch at night while the TV's on.
6. That may have been the funniest part of the whole episode right there in the last ten seconds. Even with the whole "Characterization? Why bother when RSL can just be himself?"
ETA in the light of day: I was actually not as entertained by the episode as this reaction makes it sound. As others have since said, there was a lot of unhappy stereotyping that went unchallenged by other characters, and no one stopped to examine what H&W have and where it falls along the ol' homosocial continuum. Just overall handled with little sophistication. But -- not to be a whiner or anything -- it's been a while since this show handled anything with the sophistication I've hoped for. I didn't mention it because I don't expect the show to deliver it anymore. Alas.
*ETA 2: And by the same token, in case some of you weren't reading here in earlier seasons to hear me say it then, it will be nice when we're finally living in the time where two guys can do that on TV and be gay, whether they started out that way or not. Just -- looking for some diversity here, and for genuine relationships instead of all the joking.
...I still don't think what I want to say is coming across at all clearly. Should not post or try to ETA when sick.
ETA 3: http://bookshop.livejournal.com/1017712.html