House rules

[bironic]

I wanted to post this afternoon about how much I was looking forward to tonight's episode of "House," having heard it was excellent, and because there was a mediocre feature article that nonetheless contained some choice Robert Sean Leonard quotes (RSL vies with Hagrid for king of "Whoops, shouldn't'er said tha'"), but I waited for the episode to air first. Turns out it didn't matter. The ep was good -- had some choice Wilson and House/Wilson moments (Wilson wants to sleep with Stacey! Wilson's sleeping with Stacey! Wilson's gonna smoke marijuana! What's up with Wilson really, really, really wanting to talk with House all the time? Please let Wilson be the one in bed behind him! even if none of those were true.), even if his little speech at the end didn't sit right, and who can say no to House imitating a California dopehead or going one-on-one with a little blonde kid? -- but argh! far too soap-operatic, and two scenes on the roof that were supposed to be dramatic but during which all I could think was OMGfakesunsetbluescreen! and then later, OMGfakenightskybluescreenagain! But really, worth it entirely for the Wilson goodness.

The thing that got me, really, was what seemed like a dose of misogyny. People have pointed out before that Jennifer Morrison's is the only name in the credits that isn't set against a medical image -- okay -- and that Cameron is whinier than the others -- okay -- and that article described Wilson by his job and position but Cameron by her looks and love interests -- not the screenwriters' fault -- but tonight what bothered me is that after Stacey spent months being strong-willed enough to (almost) rival and resist House, he's the one who got to leave her. She got left. And she should have been the one doing the leaving. Rargh..

...I'm not even going to get into what Alan is saying right now on "Boston Legal." *coughCaptainHandsome*cough*BeautifulBlondLocks*cough*.

Uh, so, in closing, what Sam said.

Comments

[maddy-harrigan.livejournal.com]

To be fair, the article also mentions Cameron/Morrison's "crisp efficiency" and reduces their description of Chase to "cute."

[bironic.livejournal.com]

True, but by the point I felt the damage had been done, mostly because the differing descriptions didn't seem malicious or even consciously made. Does that make sense?

[bironic.livejournal.com]

er, by *that* point.