remember House M.D?

[CHARizard]

The episode about the guy with a radioactive keychain from an old car part is the one that still haunts me. Also the one about a stray tick in the vagina giving encephalitis to the chick, really makes you paranoid about ticks in places where you can't see them.

That was a great episode with a bleak ending.

I really like the autistic kid episode as well.

“Can somebody please shut that kid up!”

 

[blablabla]

series was good until lisa edelstein left. then it nosedived fast.

 

[JoseRaulChupacabra]

House (along with Mad Men) is one of those shows that I really enjoy no matter how many times I've seen it. I like to play/listen to some clips every now and then, in between Sektur drama and tranny DDOS attacks.

Also, I love Huddy.

 

[Seventh Star]

series was good until lisa edelstein left. then it nosedived fast.

Heh. Nosedived it did, there was only one jew left.

House (along with Mad Men) is one of those shows that I really enjoy no matter how many times I've seen it. I like to play/listen to some clips every now and then, in between Sektur drama and tranny DDOS attacks.

Also, I love Huddy.

I'm one of the few that liked her arc with House. House crashing his car through her house is perfectly consistent with the type of character he was imo. He always had fits of self destructive autism that he could somewhat repress or excuse, but he finally made one he couldn't ignore.

 

[Mary the Goldsmith]

I remember an episode about a kid who just graduated from a fancy college and his dad saying something like "I always knew you would graduate, what I didn't know was if I could afford it" Only for the episode to end with the kid dying, is that the one with the radioactive keychain?

 

[CryoRevival #SJ-112]

The concept was really more 'what if we put the police procedural into a hospital'.
People say sherlock holmes but as said earlier in the thread, its more likely an the creator was swapping channels between CSI and Scrubs and just combined them.

I do think that regular people have heard that Sherlock Holmes line and that is probably what precipitated the downslide of that character in the cultural consciousness into becoming more House-like + debilitating autism.
It would also explain why modern Sherlock Holmes tellings are all built like police dramas rather than mysteries, where the answer was never obvious, the smarty character worked it out from clues you never saw and it was done by a character you never met.

 

[WhiskeyJack]

Show was alright for the first three seasons or so, then got a bit too annoying with the side characters. And House suddenly running a dozen trainees vying for a job stretched credulity too far.

House also got more Reddit edgy fedora tipper as it went on, which feels like how all modern Sherlock adaptations end up since no one actually understands the character (except maybe Elementary, which I haven’t seen) or how to write an intelligent character without making him just an asshole. All modern Sherlocks are just edgy narcissistic nihilist drug addicts.

On the subject of cozy tv cop/detective-with-a-quirk shows, The Mentalist holds up pretty good for the first 3-4 seasons too. Very rewatchable. Just stop once Red John is caught.

 

[Bonesjones]

Like all media, you have to actually be smart to know how to write smart characters. So you get an endless parade of midwit writers writing the exact same thing over and over again trying to seem smart.

 

[CHARizard]

I remember an episode about a kid who just graduated from a fancy college and his dad saying something like "I always knew you would graduate, what I didn't know was if I could afford it" Only for the episode to end with the kid dying, is that the one with the radioactive keychain?

Yeah, classic episode. Lying parents, lying children, crazy diagnosis, and the ending is brutal because House doesnt save the day, he just diagnoses the kid with radiation sickness and he dies. B story was weak though, the stuff with Houses parents always felt weak.

Without getting into culture war BS, I think this episode is a good example of how diversity can be portrayed in TV without it being about color. You could change the skin color of the family and it still be the same story, just a poor family that puts a kid through college and lies.

 

[Sithis]

The first couple seasons of House were actually some good TV - a bit formulaic but for the times it was a good medical drama. They started getting a bit stupid as seasons went on though and the plotlines became more retarded and convoluted.

As for how it portrayed life in a medical setting though it managed to be less accurate than Scrubs which was hilarious since it was supposed to be the more "grown up" type show.

 

[Mary the Goldsmith]

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The show does feel like the latter paragraph in the later seasons.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

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The show does feel like the latter paragraph in the later seasons.

I don't think a lot of people argued the medical parts were anything more than crazy filler.

Also one episode I won't forget was the one with the autistic boy with worms in his eyes.

 

[Seventh Star]

Show was alright for the first three seasons or so, then got a bit too annoying with the side characters. And House suddenly running a dozen trainees vying for a job stretched credulity too far.

House also got more Reddit edgy fedora tipper as it went on, which feels like how all modern Sherlock adaptations end up since no one actually understands the character (except maybe Elementary, which I haven’t seen) or how to write an intelligent character without making him just an asshole. All modern Sherlocks are just edgy narcissistic nihilist drug addicts.

On the subject of cozy tv cop/detective-with-a-quirk shows, The Mentalist holds up pretty good for the first 3-4 seasons too. Very rewatchable. Just stop once Red John is caught.

I think we are assigning things to House ex post facto. Reddit wasn't a big thing until House was starting to end around 2010. I think it was a pretty natural and gradual regression of his character, it just so happened that his character foreshadowed some of the worst elements of redditors. House still drew Taub as Hitler in that bus stop on a late season episode. I can't see any modern redditor doing that.

Also I'm sorry but I can't take The Mentalist seriously, every character in that show is named like an elementary school mystery book.

B story was weak though, the stuff with Houses parents always felt weak.

I don't know. Just about everyone's parents in the show were portrayed in a way that makes sense and made for some good emotional scenes. Maybe its just because some elements of the show happen to mirror some personal TMI stuff, but having House's dad be a dismissive asshole while his mom comforts him will always be one of my favorite scenes in the show.

Anytime Cuddy's mom appears on screen is pure gold though, I'm 100% convinced she's the jewish version of Livia Soprano. Old women being horrible people is also so familiar to me that I can't help but enjoy it.

 

[Quarterback Rex Grossman]

Show was alright for the first three seasons or so, then got a bit too annoying with the side characters. And House suddenly running a dozen trainees vying for a job stretched credulity too far.

House also got more Reddit edgy fedora tipper as it went on, which feels like how all modern Sherlock adaptations end up since no one actually understands the character (except maybe Elementary, which I haven’t seen) or how to write an intelligent character without making him just an asshole. All modern Sherlocks are just edgy narcissistic nihilist drug addicts.

On the subject of cozy tv cop/detective-with-a-quirk shows, The Mentalist holds up pretty good for the first 3-4 seasons too. Very rewatchable. Just stop once Red John is caught.

Elementary is ass. It's literally CBS COP SHOW #1378 that just happens to have two characters named Holmes and Watson. Holmes is treated as a damaged weirdo who fucks hookers and can't along with anyone because he's a simmering raging drug-addict asshole barely keeping his civility in check, also his dad runs a shadowy organization at war with another shadowy organization so Holmes is the Chosen One or something. There's no action, every episode follows the exact same format you've ever seen in a modern cop show, and the only good thing the show did was have Natalie Dormer as Adler who was really Moriarty, but she only showed up in the finale of Season 1 and never got mentioned again. Also Mrs Hudson was a tranny.

 

[WhiskeyJack]

Elementary is ass. It's literally CBS COP SHOW #1378 that just happens to have two characters named Holmes and Watson. Holmes is treated as a damaged weirdo who fucks hookers and can't along with anyone because he's a simmering raging drug-addict asshole barely keeping his civility in check, also his dad runs a shadowy organization at war with another shadowy organization so Holmes is the Chosen One or something. There's no action, every episode follows the exact same format you've ever seen in a modern cop show, and the only good thing the show did was have Natalie Dormer as Adler who was really Moriarty, but she only showed up in the finale of Season 1 and never got mentioned again. Also Mrs Hudson was a tranny.

Figures, seems about the norm for modern Holmes adaptations then. I don't know why they always focus on making him a weird nutjob and drug addict; he uses cocaine in the stories, but it's hardly his primary character trait and he even gives it up in a later story. His personality quirks should be more standoffish and accidentally rude, almost absentmindedly focused on a mystery, not an utter sociopath like most modern versions depict him as.

Not sure why they always drag his parents in on these shows and always make him come from a broken or abusive family (House has his estranged relationship with his father he hates, Elementary is apparently the same, Cumberbatch's version has both his parents that he hates exactly the same way Frasier Crane hates his and then invents a new sister who is literally a mind controlling psychopathic goblin). Holmes didn't even have parents in the stories, the most he ever mentions of family is his grandmother being sister to some celebrity artist and of course his brother is a side character.

At least I still have the Jeremy Brett episodes; pity he died before they could finish all of the Holmes stories, though. Between Brett's Holmes and David Suchet's Poirot, the Brits did very well for quite a while there.

 

[capitalBBustard]

where the answer was never obvious, the smarty character worked it out from clues you never saw and it was done by a character you never met.

That's pretty much Sherlock Holmes as written by Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes stories literally predate the idea that murder mysteries should make sense and be solvable by the reader by like 20-30 years.

Also his deductive ability is basically an anime superpower. He also literally says his older brother has a (figuratively) higher powerlevel in deduction, only he's too lazy to use it.

 

[Vecr]

Also his deductive ability is basically an anime superpower. He also literally says his older brother has a (figuratively) higher powerlevel in deduction, only he's too lazy to use it.

It's not even how deduction works, to be that good even theoretically you'd need to be able to combine many low probability propositions together into one high probability theory, something you can only do with advanced induction.

 

[Seventh Star]

It's not even how deduction works, to be that good even theoretically you'd need to be able to combine many low probability propositions together into one high probability theory, something you can only do with advanced induction.

I'm pretty sure by that he means he can work through things faster, not that he's psychic tier or whatever. Or what the fuck do I know, last time I read anything Sherlock Holmes related was forever ago.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

That's pretty much Sherlock Holmes as written by Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes stories literally predate the idea that murder mysteries should make sense and be solvable by the reader by like 20-30 years.

Also his deductive ability is basically an anime superpower. He also literally says his older brother has a (figuratively) higher powerlevel in deduction, only he's too lazy to use it.

I binged them a year ago and they aren't that bad. The bigger issue was usually the differences in culture and technology in the 100+ years since they were written. Also enough some of the stories are much more of adventures than the expected straight up mysteries.

 

[Dick Mason]

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