More House

[dreamer_easy]

*antenna goes up*

House is cynical enough, and like too many smart people arrogant enough, to be taken in by the "30% of fathers aren't" myth about paternity. You'd think his understanding of statistics - crucial for medicine - would be better, but I reckon he picked that up out of Soaps Digest rather than JAMA or something.

That's the guy from Dead Poets, isn't it? Is the other guy Australian?

ETA: Lots of great bits, especially the poor kid's night terrors. Obviously ran under a little, though. :-)

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[damned-colonial.livejournal.com]

"That other guy" is Australian, yes. I forget his name, I don't follow House, but I've heard it mentioned before.

[maruten.livejournal.com]

Assuming I'm thinking of the same Other Guy you are, yes -- he's Australian. Jesse Spencer of Neighbours... "fame".

[nostalgia-lj.livejournal.com]

It's Billy Kennedy from off of Neighbours! Child of Karl and Susan!

[antikythera.livejournal.com]

I think everyone who watches House goes through this... being attracted to the snark and wit and general screwed-up-ness, and simultaneously being repelled by the awful science. I was repelled more than attracted, sadly.

[jenavira.livejournal.com]

Turn off the science brain! Off! The improbabilities, propaganda, and outright lies in House are pretty off-putting (wait'll you get to Detox), but it's just so close to being believable in terms of characterization that it hasn't killed me yet. Yet.

Yes, and yes. :D (Though I prefer to think of him as Claudio...)

[ikonsbykate.livejournal.com]

Of course! That's where else I've seen him. (Haven't done an IMDB trawl on this one yet.)

The science brain I can switch on and off, but the feminist brain is always active. :-)

[jvowles.livejournal.com]

From what I've heard, the medicine is generally *okay*, but not perfect. It's always going to take a back seat to making an interesting story.

I suspect that House knows the figure is more complicated than that, but it's a convenient number to use in his "people suck, and mothers aren't perfect" mindset. It would be interested to see how the character would react if questioned. He'd probably make the case that women are *more* unfaithful than suggested, but that men are too stupid to notice most of the time. Then someone would tell him he's being too cynical, and he'd probably list any infidelities he knew about and make it about THEM.

House is unfailingly cynical about people and distrustful of their motivations. You'll see from time to time that he sometimes lets these things get in the way of his work.

But if nothing else, he is also cynical about himself and distrustful of his own motivations, and as the show progresses, some of the biting back-and-forth between him and Dr Wilson (yes, the boy from Dead Poets is all grown up) gets downright nasty. House doesn't expect to be treated any differently than he treats others.

[ikonsbykate.livejournal.com]

When you know it ain't so, it does become House characterisation - familiar to anyone whose dad or uncle or whomever has tried to wind them up with that sort of thing. :-)

[http://users.livejournal.com/doctor_k_/]

The medicine is shit.

I can't watch the show because their medicine is so appalling. Medicine has been made a central character, yet is jarringly unbelievable.

Imagine if one of the main human characters started acting like someone off Little Britain. It just wouldn't work, and would spoil the whole show.
Unfortunately, that's what the writers are doing with medicine.

And don't get me started on their ethics!

[cassiphone.livejournal.com]

I like the character and prefer to find the medical science "funny". For instance, the MRI machine of Dooooom. (just about everyone who goes into it has something bad happen).

And the early eps where House always got it wrong at least twice before getting it right...

I love this show.

[vindaloo-vixen.livejournal.com]

Especially considering how readily House will chuck out pretty much any other statistic he hears. This one probably just lets him tout his 'people are selfish, mean, naive or some combination thereof' position.