A Short Rant on Morals in Ep 21

[damigella]

I'll have of course a long commentary once I finish ep 22, but I can only watch it in small installments if I want to preserve the integrity of my laptop screen. 
So I'll start with a few warm-up sentences on ep 21, which I finally managed to watch two days ago.

Fox morality 1: building bombs for a living is healthy and fun - just like fireworks! On the other hand, slutty women (having sex with three, count them three, male coworkers) risk their lives. I suspect the implied solution is: had she married and stayed at home as God intended she wouldn't have gotten these problems. I didn't know what I did in college was so dangerous.

Fox morality 2: your mom always has your interests at heart. Even if she sues your hospital for 30 grand, threatens your and your best doctor's medical license, and finally has the entire hospital evacuated. Because you're such a pathetic loser that you should stick to any man who may possibly be willing to have you, even if he's a pathetic loser himself. 

I screamed when I saw Cuddy hugging her, instead of killing her as she amply deserved. I was all in favor of restoring the previous hip replacement and let her die in pain. 

Comments

[menolly-au.livejournal.com]

Sex on [H]ouse is inherently dangerous - causing all sorts of medical problems, up to and including death...

I put the mother thing down to the fact that everyone on this show is very strange. If House had drugged my mother at the dinner table I would have kicked him out, if not killed him, but on House it's just all good fun...I wonder if she got to keep the $30,000....

[damigella-314.livejournal.com]

"causing all sorts of medical problems, up to and including death..."

Indeed. I'm still not over the girl with a tick in her vagina.

"If House had drugged my mother"
If your mother had been Arlene you would have been grateful it was just sleeping pills and not rat poison, LOL. I think the issue of the 30K will go in that blessed heaven corner where all the dangling plot lines in House end up.

[rincewindy13.livejournal.com]

I didn't know what I did in college was so dangerous.

Hehe... ;)

Also: I agree with both of your statements.

Go watch the end of ep 22!! ♥

[damigella-314.livejournal.com]

I did watch it now. I'm currently writing a really massive rant.
Thanks for the support!

[petitecuriosity.livejournal.com]

Can't really say much that hasn't already been said in the comments, other than that I really, really agree with your "Fox morality 2" point. But menolly_au makes a good point in saying that the characters on this show are indeed very strange.

[damigella-314.livejournal.com]

Strange is one thing, suing your own daughter that saved your life in the misguided hope that she starts again dating her addict boyfriend seems a tad beyond that.

ETA Thank you for commenting. No matter how hard srsly_yes tries, teaching manners to me is hard work.

[selkie3.livejournal.com]

God, I agree with both of your points sooo much!

Many people now have sex with no repercussions because it makes them happy. DEAL WITH IT weird writers.

And the family thing really bugs me. Why can they just now show someone estranged from their family. Because sometimes there us no solution, a freaking hug will not fix things, and NOT seeing each other is for the best.

[damigella-314.livejournal.com]

"NOT seeing each other is for the best"
Indeed. I shudder at the thought of Arlene in the season finale.

And "sex with no repercussions" seems precisely what they're afraid of. That's why they don't want to teach school kids about contraceptives, or have them vaccinated against HPV.

[leakey-lover.livejournal.com]

How about middle-aged MDs having unprotected sex? Meaning Taub. Arrgh.

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How about middle-aged MDs having unprotected sex? Meaning Taub. Arrgh.

<<If your mother had been Arlene you would have been grateful it was just sleeping pills and not rat poison, LOL.>>

TY. I was badly in need of a good laugh.

[damigella-314.livejournal.com]

My opinion on the whole Taub issue is part of the long, rambling rant on ep 22. Currently being edited to reduce the uses of the word "fuck" to at most one per line, for stylistic reasons.

[pgrabia.livejournal.com]

Fox morality 3: Being homosexual or bisexual is icky and strange and something to make jokes about and stereotype. It's only okay if you're Thirteen and you have hot, sweaty lesbian sex.

[damigella-314.livejournal.com]

Yes, of course. I had forgotten that. It unfortunately goes well with basically any episode of House. Or at least very, very many.

And let's not forget that the hot, sweaty lesbian sex better be pointless one night stands. The one stereotype they missed, a guess - possibly because it's more of a stereotype within the LGBT community (as a gay friend of mine explained to me, how does a lesbian go to the second date? With the U-Haul).

[pgrabia.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes, the one-night stands! Good thing you pointed it out! TPTB, and in particular I'm thinking DS right now, need to get their heads out of their butt-holes and stop being to narrow-minded and stubborn. Denial is bad place to be in when you're supposed to be writing an innovative show that used to ask questions, present an ethical or moral dilemma, and then allow the viewers to decide what they thought about it and form their own opinions instead of having their morals and beliefs shoved down our throats.

[damigella-314.livejournal.com]

"an innovative show that used to ask questions"
That's what made me so hooked on House.
I'm not much of a TV person, or rather I'm like an ex-alcoholic who can't even have a beer for fear or relapse: but House was a very special show. Now it seems that whatever made it so special is gone. Luckily there's still fanfic, and the occasional moments we treasure like a bouquet of flowers collected in a rubbish dump.

[pgrabia.livejournal.com]

*sigh* Too true.

[flywoman.livejournal.com]

*smile* One of my lesbian friends told me that joke.
Did your friend also tell the first part of the joke, which is "What does a gay man bring to the second date? Answer: What second date?"

[damigella-314.livejournal.com]

I think he told me that joke first :-).

[flywoman.livejournal.com]

Yeah, there are always brutal consequences for sex, especially for women (although covert male homosexual affairs are also guaranteed to be punished). It used to really piss me off when Buffy pulled this shit too.

[damigella-314.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's not like we saw all this gay male happiness either (I can't forget the HIV+ guy, and the way he viewed House and Wilson as a couple so that the writers could reassure us that this was definitely not the case).
Bisexual males are unheard of, while Thirteen's bisexuality looks like directly out of a straight man's fantasy.

[pgrabia.livejournal.com]

TPTB are not only homophobic, they're also a bunch of cowards.

[damigella-314.livejournal.com]

So true. [expletive omitted, I'm saving them for the rant on Ep 22]

[coconut-ice22.livejournal.com]

This and all of this *sigh*.

Thirteen is only good for dating women when she's dying, after all.

The one I never got was in "Broken" when House says I'm gay then Lydia laughs "No you're not". The number of times he's said he's gay and they laugh it off as being a big joke, because how could someone like House be gay? One of their not funny "jokes".

[damigella-314.livejournal.com]

Yes, I had forgotten that. Because being gay is a "joke". Idiots.
[That icon still makes me speechless every time. Wherever I am on the Kinsey scale, 6 it is not.]