tv meme day 5

[marrow_sky]

Day 5 - A show you hate.

House. Enough said.

I'm sorry, I just bloody hate this show. I just find it really really boring and I don't find any of the characters as particularly memorable. There's a reason I don't tend to like forensics shows (including Bones... I only watched two episodes or so for Stephen Fry), and watching House is like watching a forensics show where everyone is a doctor. It's just so blrrrhg.

Which is surprising for me - anyone who knows me well enough knows me as a crazy Brit com nerd and A Bit of Fry and Laurie is absolutely one of my favourites - there was a time I liked it so much that I actually considered it better than Monty Python. I think that was mostly because by now Monty Python has become so very viral that hearing so many stuff quoted so many times has lost that innate spontaneity that Python was so rightfully proud of. I'm not one of those people who roll their eyes at people quoting Python, I actually don't mind it at all - I think people who do are being quite irritable and stroppy because I love that genuine delight you feel when someone goes "Hey, that's from Monty Python!" or says the next line from the quote because hey! someone enjoys this show that you also enjoyed! Let's go talk about how awesome it is!

But there is something as excess and yeah, Python did get to be that way. Nowadays though, I just love them both. I don't even know why I'm talking about Monty Python I was supposed to be talking about House and why I hate it.

I hate it. It's boring and dull and the episodes are woefully formulaic and I don't give a shit about anyone at anytime ever. The lines are sometimes funny but mostly I just feel like it's last year and I'm back reading a few Hetalia strips to see what the fuss was about and the fuss was about these personified countries being gay for each other. The jokes weren't funny, they were painful and I hated it because obviously this writer thought he was being very, very funny indeed. Which might make me a hypocrite but jesus christ I don't give a shit if it's lupus or not just shut the fuck up and do what you do every episode. Every single episode. Admittedly I only watched the first season but I don't even know how I survived so long - I don't even remember a lot of it, it was just that boring to me.

Formulas might not be faults, okay. I mean there's a lot of shows that do this - that present the episodes in a certain way and at certain times similarly. But I never felt it so strongly than with House, it was just so constantly obvious. Pushing Daisies might have had this habit of "coincidentally" having the mystery of the week tie very closely or parallel many of the more personal problems everyone was going through, but at least watching that didn't feel repetitive.

Patient walks in with symptom. House is an ass. Patient gets worse. House is an ass and prescribes something to get patient to exhibit some symptoms to make it more obvious to cure her. Patient seems to get better. House is an ass. Patient suddenly plummets in health to worse than ever before and House comes through with a solution while being an ass.

And in between all that is some personal crap that I never gave a crap about because I never even cared enough to remember who was who in that show. I kept mixing Chase up with Wilson. There was some girl and some other guy who was black and there was Cuddy - and look I'm bored already.

I guess I can see the appeal, but I don't know what it is about this show. There's nothing specific about it that rubs me the wrong way; it's like Hetalia - I can't say that it's bad art or that there's anything necessarily horrible about it, but a part of me hates it for the appeal which is a bit stupid but I can't help it. But even then, even compared to Hetalia, House is such a dull show that sometimes no, I really actually don't see the appeal.

But hey, this is just my opinion.