I'm a little worried about where they're going, actually - in House 1.0, along with the focus on medical mysteries, House was presented as not particularly likeable, but his diagnostic methods worked (eventually), and his approach to life worked for him (after a fashion). He was a jerk, but he was also a fundamentally decent, if damaged, guy. There isn't much of that sort of characterisation on TV, and it was refreshing. I loved it as much as I love Hugh Laurie. In House 3.0 (or is it 2.5?), the writers seem much less tolerant - they have him doing assholish things that would have been over the top in season 1, and a lot of the character development seems aimed at forcing House to change and learn to be more immediately likeable in the mould of Wilson or Cameron, which, for me, would make him far less lovable. I liked that he was unconventional and unprepossessing, and that in season 1 it was OK. In season 3, I'm worried that they've decided it's not.
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Date: 2007-03-31 03:15 am (UTC)