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

[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 :-).