Family practice, comments
Feb. 9th, 2011 11:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
damigellaThis is my belated commentary on S7E11.
It's not a positive one.
I don't know how everybody felt, but I basically puked while watching this episode and am still sick 30 minutes later. What House, the victim of parental abuse, can't see is that Cuddy is also a victim of the same abuse. Except it's not physical abuse, but verbal and psychological: Cuddy's lifetime worth of it. And of course Cuddy does like every other last victim of such abuse on earth does: she feels guilty and tries very, very hard to protect her abuser. And finally makes peace with her, in the sickening sunny final scenes, although she never apologized and it is clear the abuse will continue as long as they're both alive.
All I can say about Arlene is that when she smilingly says to Lisa that she always liked her sister better, she deserves to die. Not for what she says, I have favorites among my children, too. But because she smiles while she says it, because to her this is ok. It doesn't tear her heart apart. She doesn't try to protect Lisa at all. She never did.
Sorry, this one hit a bit too close to home for comfort.
I also found extremely uncomfortable the pressure House put on M3. She's like Cassandra, condemned to being right while nobody listens.
How about Taub? Does he really need another job? So much as to work with this excuse for a human being that is his ex brother in law? No, I'm not impressed he's a hero. I think he's an idiot, which should get used to living cheaper.
And finally, Wilson. Lack thereof. Fit very well with the complete lack of light during the whole episode. In fact, darkness reigns and the sun in the end was in my opinion a mockery. I'm sure they will have invented some other outrageous and ooc event or behaviour explaining his absence.
It's not a positive one.
I don't know how everybody felt, but I basically puked while watching this episode and am still sick 30 minutes later. What House, the victim of parental abuse, can't see is that Cuddy is also a victim of the same abuse. Except it's not physical abuse, but verbal and psychological: Cuddy's lifetime worth of it. And of course Cuddy does like every other last victim of such abuse on earth does: she feels guilty and tries very, very hard to protect her abuser. And finally makes peace with her, in the sickening sunny final scenes, although she never apologized and it is clear the abuse will continue as long as they're both alive.
All I can say about Arlene is that when she smilingly says to Lisa that she always liked her sister better, she deserves to die. Not for what she says, I have favorites among my children, too. But because she smiles while she says it, because to her this is ok. It doesn't tear her heart apart. She doesn't try to protect Lisa at all. She never did.
Sorry, this one hit a bit too close to home for comfort.
I also found extremely uncomfortable the pressure House put on M3. She's like Cassandra, condemned to being right while nobody listens.
How about Taub? Does he really need another job? So much as to work with this excuse for a human being that is his ex brother in law? No, I'm not impressed he's a hero. I think he's an idiot, which should get used to living cheaper.
And finally, Wilson. Lack thereof. Fit very well with the complete lack of light during the whole episode. In fact, darkness reigns and the sun in the end was in my opinion a mockery. I'm sure they will have invented some other outrageous and ooc event or behaviour explaining his absence.
