7x17 Fall from Grace
Mar. 24th, 2011 10:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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readingrat's post Fine Young Cannibals (awesome title btw), especially the analysis on the question "Can people change?" to which all I can add is applause. Read the comments, too.
I will instead rant freely about an issue that readingrat wisely decided to avoid: marriage.
I supposedly view this from the same perspective as House, namely as someone with no religious belief and no need to respect manners or customs.
Everybody mentioned what Chase said, but what I heard even louder was House's description of his agreement with Dominika: he marries her, and she does things for him. The wife as full-time servant of the husband.
In many countries (mine isn't one) being married to a homemaker gives you a tax advantage.
I've pissed off a number of people by saying that the state is financing men to get paid cleaning help, cooks, whores and possibly babysitters. I used almost the same words as House.
Usually the pissed-off people had been raised by stay at home moms, something unheard of when (and where) I was a child - all mothers worked, most of them part-time. I've slowly come to moderate my language, but I still think the state has no business financing coupledom, especially when it's only straight coupledom.
State marriage, as Chase correctly remarks, should have nothing to do with love; it's a free contract between consenting adults. It should cost society zero, giving the couple extra rights and duties at the same time.
If someone is bothered because to them marriage is a sacrament (it is in the Catholic religion at least) I'd be happy to change the name to civil union, and reserve marriage to private ceremonies with no legal value.
To me, House should be free to marry Dominika for purely monetary reasons; it's his business if, some time later, she dumps his sorry ass for someone her age and tries to squeeze as much alimony as possible from him.
And as a subrant, I think that in love physical fidelity is absolutely overrated in comparison to trust. I'm much more upset by Cuddy dumping Lucas so soon after their engagement than by Wilson and/or Taub sleeping around while married. Again, remember this is my militant socialist atheist viewpoint.
While we're talking about sex, I don't get what the point of House not sleeping with Dominika is supposed to be. That he's still in love with Cuddy? Like that stopped him from having all the prostitutes last episode. That he might want a real relationship with his "wife" and so doesn't want to treat her like a whore? She's nice and everything, but she's not a doctor, and the idea of her being around until the end of the season (and possibly in S8) is annoying. Maybe he just finished the Viagra and is too full of Vicodin.
I was only mildly entertained by the toys (sedgway, helicopters, monster truck) and by the pedicure. I did like the tabletennis differential - still not a replacement for my beloved h/w foosball conversations. It was great, if not completely believable, to see Cuddy back to her usual role.
Wilson had a normal season 7 part - which would have been a very minor one in seasons past. This is a Huddy season, in the sense that H/C interaction is the focus even when (now that?) they are not together (anymore?). House may marry Dominika for a number of good reasons, but the only purpose of the wedding ceremony is to piss Cuddy off. Yes, all this has been said better by readingrat and in comments there, including that Cuddy shouldn't be present at all, but it bears repeating.
Some jokes were fine, some dialogs too but overall I'm so not impressed. Even the pill-popping seems more a (Masters-)annoying ritual than a need born from intense physical pain.
As for the POTW, all I can do is recommendcellista_in_c 's "darkish!wilson" hilarious fic Dinner At The Loft.
I think it's high time to roll up our sleeves :-) and contribute to the Kickin' It Old School Challenge. Let the DVDs roar!
PS: The userpic of House with reading glasses comes fromjulefontane. Many thanks!
readingrat's post Fine Young Cannibals (awesome title btw), especially the analysis on the question "Can people change?" to which all I can add is applause. Read the comments, too.I will instead rant freely about an issue that readingrat wisely decided to avoid: marriage.
I supposedly view this from the same perspective as House, namely as someone with no religious belief and no need to respect manners or customs.
Everybody mentioned what Chase said, but what I heard even louder was House's description of his agreement with Dominika: he marries her, and she does things for him. The wife as full-time servant of the husband.
In many countries (mine isn't one) being married to a homemaker gives you a tax advantage.
I've pissed off a number of people by saying that the state is financing men to get paid cleaning help, cooks, whores and possibly babysitters. I used almost the same words as House.
Usually the pissed-off people had been raised by stay at home moms, something unheard of when (and where) I was a child - all mothers worked, most of them part-time. I've slowly come to moderate my language, but I still think the state has no business financing coupledom, especially when it's only straight coupledom.
State marriage, as Chase correctly remarks, should have nothing to do with love; it's a free contract between consenting adults. It should cost society zero, giving the couple extra rights and duties at the same time.
If someone is bothered because to them marriage is a sacrament (it is in the Catholic religion at least) I'd be happy to change the name to civil union, and reserve marriage to private ceremonies with no legal value.
To me, House should be free to marry Dominika for purely monetary reasons; it's his business if, some time later, she dumps his sorry ass for someone her age and tries to squeeze as much alimony as possible from him.
And as a subrant, I think that in love physical fidelity is absolutely overrated in comparison to trust. I'm much more upset by Cuddy dumping Lucas so soon after their engagement than by Wilson and/or Taub sleeping around while married. Again, remember this is my militant socialist atheist viewpoint.
While we're talking about sex, I don't get what the point of House not sleeping with Dominika is supposed to be. That he's still in love with Cuddy? Like that stopped him from having all the prostitutes last episode. That he might want a real relationship with his "wife" and so doesn't want to treat her like a whore? She's nice and everything, but she's not a doctor, and the idea of her being around until the end of the season (and possibly in S8) is annoying. Maybe he just finished the Viagra and is too full of Vicodin.
I was only mildly entertained by the toys (sedgway, helicopters, monster truck) and by the pedicure. I did like the tabletennis differential - still not a replacement for my beloved h/w foosball conversations. It was great, if not completely believable, to see Cuddy back to her usual role.
Wilson had a normal season 7 part - which would have been a very minor one in seasons past. This is a Huddy season, in the sense that H/C interaction is the focus even when (now that?) they are not together (anymore?). House may marry Dominika for a number of good reasons, but the only purpose of the wedding ceremony is to piss Cuddy off. Yes, all this has been said better by readingrat and in comments there, including that Cuddy shouldn't be present at all, but it bears repeating.
Some jokes were fine, some dialogs too but overall I'm so not impressed. Even the pill-popping seems more a (Masters-)annoying ritual than a need born from intense physical pain.
As for the POTW, all I can do is recommend
cellista_in_c 's "darkish!wilson" hilarious fic Dinner At The Loft.I think it's high time to roll up our sleeves :-) and contribute to the Kickin' It Old School Challenge. Let the DVDs roar!
PS: The userpic of House with reading glasses comes from
julefontane. Many thanks!![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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Date: 2011-03-24 11:15 pm (UTC)While we're talking about sex, I don't get what the point of House not sleeping with Dominika is supposed to be. probably like House crying when he had sex with Lydia? They wanted it to be some beautiful statement about his character and instead, eh, no.
One of my favourite 13 scenes is the last one from "Lucky 13", after everything she went through in the episode it ends with her sitting on a bed, looking very uninterested as she starts again into another meaningless bout of sex. They should have tried for something more like that perhaps in this last episode. For someone like House who has the physical v emotional split down so well, it was weird he didn't want to sleep with her.
the idea of her being around until the end of the season (and possibly in S8) is annoying. I really don't think she will be though, they don't seem to want to invest too much time into her as an actual character. She's basically a prop, a concept in this last episode. She might as well be called "Mrs Plot Device" (which actually comes from a discussion I was having on twitter with some people over her).
If they're really going to keep her around, I bet she has a very background role. If nothing else, she's a good way of them writing House out of all the prostitutes without having to explain why he's suddenly stopped seeing her. This way they don't have the rest of the season with him sleeping with 100 different women (so they can hopefully get to him sleeping with Wilson? LOL I can hope!)
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Date: 2011-03-25 07:37 am (UTC)"One of my favourite 13 scenes." Mine, too. I think she looked especially alone.
"writing House out of all the prostitutes"
That certainly would already be a big improvement.
"the physical v emotional split down so well"
I must admit I'm intrigued by barefootpuddles's take on this below; that what stops him is the fear that this divide can't be kept anymore.
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