I'm not saying anything until the metaphor plays itself out.

[charloween]

Instead of doing any reading on 'reading week', I've been doing all sorts of other stuff. Today I've been catching up on House. I haven't seen any since sometime in early December. Any comments I may have really do boil down to just: I want a Wilson.

EDIT: Okay, maybe there's something pithy about how two current highly rated, critically accalimed dramas (Lost and House) have main characters who are masochists who go out of their way to make everyone hate them.

Comments

[firstgold.livejournal.com]

Can I have a Wilson too?

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

Yes.

*skips around with basket of Wilsons*

Wilsons for everyone!

[firstgold.livejournal.com]

Have you seen "Much Ado About Nothing" with Kenneth Branaugh and Robert Sean Leonard? So much pretty in that movie!

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes I have. It's a strange, scary movie. (Pretty, but scary. Keanu Reeves. *eeep*) Though, it's one of the only Kenneth Branaugh films I can actually sit through. The man gives me an ooky feeling.

Have you seen Swing Kids?

[firstgold.livejournal.com]

Not yet, but I really want to.

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

I'll ask thucyken if she'd mind lending you her copy of the movie that I'd forced her to buy...

[firstgold.livejournal.com]

LOL! No worries. I was planning on renting some stuff over reading week (Swing Kids and Y tu mamá también).

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

Cool! Enjoy Swing Kids, then, and keep in mind you don't have to feel bad about giggling at the ending. Or fast forwarding through most of the movie. Just as long as you know going into it that it takes itself far too seriously, you'll enjoy it. (BTW, did you know that Nazis are bad and that they severely limited personal expression?)

Swing Heil! (*dies*)

Y tu mamá también is a good choice, too. And a better film than Swing "Oh, my BFF is in the HJ, I must *dance* my emotions" Kids. [/babble]

[squonk.livejournal.com]

The thing about Wilson is that his purpose in life--particularly in these last two episodes--seems to be to enter the room, explain to the audience what House's motivations are, and then leave the room. Fortunately, he does this in an adorable, clever, slashy, funny, hot, all-around awesome way, and I am not suggesting for one minute that I have not enjoyed it immensely. Still, House has this unfortunate tendency to mar almost-perfect scripts with spots of over-explanation, like the writers lose confidence in the material to speak for itself. It's more fun to puzzle out a character's motivation using cumulative clues rather than to be told it directly. I'd like to see Wilson do something a bit more complex than playing Doctor Exposition myself.

The insanely obvious pining for House, OTOH, can remain exactly as is.

But that being said, I want a Wilson too.

[philthe25th.livejournal.com]

That's mostly dumbing down for the mass audience and don't tell me they don't need it. There are some goddamn idiots out there.

And you can have your Wilson, I'll take my Sawyer.

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

I think I want one of each. And a Sayid. And... zomgsomuchpretty.

There were some girls (~16 yrs old) on the subway today giggling about Sawyer and Sayid. It warmed my (cynical, cold) heart.

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

As I said earlier (http://naturelf.livejournal.com/140425.html) (waaaay at the bottom), House has some great talent in RSL and they're not close to tapping it.

On the other hand, it is kind of nice to have a character running around, waving his arms and telling Stacey and House how stupid they're being to each other. It's just nice when the writers acknowledge that their characters are behaving at odds to the mores of the world of the show.

Sure, Wilson and Cuddy don't have anything to do but roll their eyes at House and Stacey, but at least they're providing some sort of diagetic commentary on the situation. I like having Wilson there to point out House's flaws to himself, mostly because Wilson is the only person House will listen to, because they're both hot for each other.

Wilson's constant meddling also means that the Stacey plotline will hang around until May. Not sure how I feel about that.

The insanely obvious pining for House, OTOH, can remain exactly as is.

Indeed. *squee*

[tuftedpuffin.livejournal.com]

*sigh* reading week. I get to spend mine on my practicum. Huzzah! I would much rather have the week off.

Glad you're getting something accomplished on yours ;)

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

Maybe the four papers I'm supposed to be researching/writing will do themselves if I watch more TV. Yes, that's it. By the time I get through the first season of V.Mars, I'll just have to do a quick edit and it'll be super! *grr*

What are you doing for your practicum?

[tuftedpuffin.livejournal.com]

What are you doing for your practicum?

I'm at the hospital in the Surgical Processing department. I do a different area of the department every week. It's not what I want to do with my life, but is something to do in the meantime. Already I know what I'll go back to school for in a year-and-a-half.

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

That's... something I know nothing about. Interesting. What'll you do in school, if Surgical Processing isn't what you'll do with your life?

[tuftedpuffin.livejournal.com]

I want to be a cameraperson for TV shows :) There's a broadcasting course here at the college where you can learn to be one. I might look into taking it out in Vancouver though since that's where everything's filmed so practicum-wise for that it would be better.

You're in school too, right? What are you in for?

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

Cool! I did some of that on a co-op in high school. It was very fun. The camera operators I worked with were all really cool people.

What are you in for?

Heh. I'm in for Film Studies, which is all theoretical stuff and no actually touching cameras. I may go back to volunteering with the local community cable station because I do miss the hands-on stuff.