the voice of the people has spoken... :D
so, what's so cool about house? i simply don't know where to start. i mean, alright, so the series has its duds, like... y'know that old musician who everyone thinks has als only he doesn't? anyone remember house taking the initiative and bringing him out for... i think it was an mri himself? weiiiirrrrdddd... so there's a guy who's addicted to painkillers because of his disability, has precious little use of his right leg and uses a mobility aid - yet suddenly he is perfectly able to pull a big fat bed including patient out of the ward without any help walking backwards? YEAH, RIGHT! :rolleyes: outside that, though... fucking hell! i love the respect the scripts have for english comedy (hugh laurie's background so), there are tons of douglas adams in them for instance - my sig quote is pure douglas, or his lucky number being 42. then him obviously being into the who - ever listened to the lyrics of behind blue eyes? it's his song. and yes, he is also insanely sexy... :D so... drool to your hearts content. favourite moments anyone?
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Started by OneArpeggioPete, Dec 12 2006 10:47 AM
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Posted 12 December 2006 - 10:47 AM
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Posted 12 December 2006 - 10:55 AM
thanks Astrid, we absolutely needed that here! :D
I love it because of the mix of humor and medicine stuff. dont know how much of the humor is still in our german version comparing to the orginal, but for my taste its quite funny. and i guess i dont have to say about that guy, just look at those eyes :D
I love it because of the mix of humor and medicine stuff. dont know how much of the humor is still in our german version comparing to the orginal, but for my taste its quite funny. and i guess i dont have to say about that guy, just look at those eyes :D
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Posted 12 December 2006 - 11:01 AM
i'm just amazed at the way he has developed. i mean, ok, so no one could possibly be sexy playing king george iv:
but still, from that or this (bertie wooster):
to this:
is pretty mind-boggling. it really came as a shock to me, cos i've been a fan of hugh laurie for as long as i can remember, but had only ever seen him in the clear-cut, english parts he seemed have a subscription to in the eighties and nineties.
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but still, from that or this (bertie wooster):
to this:
is pretty mind-boggling. it really came as a shock to me, cos i've been a fan of hugh laurie for as long as i can remember, but had only ever seen him in the clear-cut, english parts he seemed have a subscription to in the eighties and nineties.
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Posted 12 December 2006 - 11:21 AM
House is amazing! I love that show! I have friends who are absolutely obsessed with it, and with Hugh Laurie. I haven't gone that far, but it is on my have to watch it every week list.
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Posted 12 December 2006 - 11:23 AM
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to this:
is pretty mind-boggling. it really came as a shock to me, cos i've been a fan of hugh laurie for as long as i can remember, but had only ever seen him in the clear-cut, english parts he seemed have a subscription to in the eighties and nineties.
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is pretty mind-boggling. it really came as a shock to me, cos i've been a fan of hugh laurie for as long as i can remember, but had only ever seen him in the clear-cut, english parts he seemed have a subscription to in the eighties and nineties.
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**swoon**
There are a lot of moments I like, for instance in the beginning of Season 3 when the ketamine treatments worked, at least for a while, and he was jogging.
I also liked the episodes in Season 2 with the interaction between Stacy and House. When he's with her he seems more human and fallible, lets down some of those walls he has built up.
And this season also, the episode with John Larroquet (sp?) as the coma guy. I still wonder if House's story about why he became a doctor was true, or if he just told it to try to get more information out the other character.
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Posted 12 December 2006 - 04:30 PM
haven't seen any of those yet, but am definitely looking forward to them (even though i find it mildly unrealistic that someone who hasn't had full use of his leg for fuck knows how many years would suddenly be able to jog and skateboard). i think he has quite tender, human moments in most episodes, but you need to watch close to catch them - like in the episode with the kid who is taking care of his apparently schizophrenic mom, when he takes the blame for the boy being sent into care so he won't be disapppointed in his mom. mmmmm... he's amazing! *wistful* ;)
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Posted 12 December 2006 - 04:42 PM
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haven't seen any of those yet, but am definitely looking forward to them (even though i find it mildly unrealistic that someone who hasn't had full use of his leg for fuck knows how many years would suddenly be able to jog and skateboard). i think he has quite tender, human moments in most episodes, but you need to watch close to catch them - like in the episode with the kid who is taking care of his apparently schizophrenic mom, when he takes the blame for the boy being sent into care so he won't be disapppointed in his mom. mmmmm... he's amazing! *wistful* ;)
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I agree that him jogging was rather unrealistic but I liked it anyway - I'm willing to suspend belief temporarily for House :D
And yes, there are tender, human moments in most episodes. I don't suppose you've seen the one with the autistic boy, have you? Probably not, because it's from this season, but the scene at the end was very touching.
I know that his colleagues think he works so hard to save his patients because he hates to be wrong, well, that's part of it I'm sure, but I think it's also because he cares and he relates to the patients and/or their situations on a very personal level. And he's so gruff and crabby because he cares too much so if he acts like a jerk, it will cover for that.
I'd love to find out more about why he is the way he is. The leg thing is part of it but he had those aspects of his personality long before then too.
I spend waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much time thinking about this show and analyzing House's character.
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Posted 12 December 2006 - 04:53 PM
well, i always figure wanting to analyse a character that thoroughly is a sign of quality for the programme. ;) i've decided he's at least partly based on marvin the paranoid android, btw. i've gone off my high functioning autism hypothesis, btw, because he seems quite competent socially when he wants to be. hugh laurie says it's clinical depression and you'd think he'd know, so i think i'll probe that one for a bit. ;)
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Posted 12 December 2006 - 05:16 PM
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well, i always figure wanting to analyse a character that thoroughly is a sign of quality for the programme. ;) i've decided he's at least partly based on marvin the paranoid android, btw. i've gone off my high functioning autism hypothesis, btw, because he seems quite competent socially when he wants to be. hugh laurie says it's clinical depression and you'd think he'd know, so i think i'll probe that one for a bit. ;)
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Marvin the paranoid android? Interesting thought. From that link you posted in another thread that had the lovely article on Hugh where he talked about the depression, it gave some tremendous insights into the actor. And although I know better than to confuse the actor and the role, but I wonder how much of himself he puts into House? Perhaps the House character really is clinically depressed. And if House doesn't have a form of high functioning autism, perhaps he is bipolar? Some of his actions seem extremely manic, but then the character often comes across as really quite sad. Or obsessive compulsive? Been too long since I've taken any abnormal psych classes!
Or, instead of any sort of diagnosable psychological problem, perhaps he really is a self centered jerk? Maybe he grew up as a tremendously brilliant child who had parents who neglected him in that they weren't around and left him alone or with caretakers, and he never had to behave. Or perhaps he was an only child who was doted on and who could do no wrong? And in either case, as he got older, it was obvious that he was brilliant so his behavior didn't matter because he was going to be a fabulous doctor. But those explanations don't really work for me, House seems much more complex than a self-centered brat who grew up to be a brilliant diagnostician.
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Posted 12 December 2006 - 05:28 PM
that's exactly it, self-centered jerk just seems to simple to do him justice. i sometimes think he is trying to punish himself for something, his substance abuse certainly points to that. also as far as i can see it he must have been quite athletic before the thing with the leg happened., so there might be a connection between his old athletic self and whatever he is trying to punish himself for.
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Posted 12 December 2006 - 05:39 PM
Yes, something has happened in his life to make him feel as if he does not deserve good things. And perhaps if he works hard enough, is smart enough, saves enough people, and in the meantime abuse himself by being an addict, by pushing people who love him away, then all of that will make up for something - perhaps a mistake he made when he was younger? Did someone die and it was obviously his fault? Does he have some sort of survivor's guilt?
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Posted 12 December 2006 - 05:44 PM
yeah, that's about the lines i'm thinking along. maimed or killed someone in a car accident in his jock days or something. i'd be disappointed if that was the reason though, cos it would be so cliched. hmmmmm...
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Posted 12 December 2006 - 05:51 PM
It's probably something along those lines but with as complicated/complex as the storylines seem to be, I think it might be something either much more drastic, or else it's something that no one else took notice of but House.
I read a short story back in high school where a lady who was obsessed with being wealthy but was only on the fringes of "society" borrowed a necklace from a friend for an occasion, lost the necklace, didn't tell the lady she borrowed it from that she'd lost it, then ended up working as a charwoman or something like that to make enough money to replace the necklace. When she went back, years later I think, to give the lady the replacement, she finds out that the necklace she had borrowed was faux.
Anyway, my point is, it would be very interesting if whatever caused House's behavior was something that no one else would hold against him but for whatever reason, it stuck with him and he can't get past it.
I read a short story back in high school where a lady who was obsessed with being wealthy but was only on the fringes of "society" borrowed a necklace from a friend for an occasion, lost the necklace, didn't tell the lady she borrowed it from that she'd lost it, then ended up working as a charwoman or something like that to make enough money to replace the necklace. When she went back, years later I think, to give the lady the replacement, she finds out that the necklace she had borrowed was faux.
Anyway, my point is, it would be very interesting if whatever caused House's behavior was something that no one else would hold against him but for whatever reason, it stuck with him and he can't get past it.
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Posted 12 December 2006 - 05:55 PM
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Anyway, my point is, it would be very interesting if whatever caused House's behavior was something that no one else would hold against him but for whatever reason, it stuck with him and he can't get past it.
hm yeah, interesting! he certainly seems sensitive enough for it to be something like that. yeah... like that idea, will be on tenterhooks about it for a while. ;)
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Posted 12 December 2006 - 06:53 PM
Time for my Hugh Laurie anecdote!
When I was about 15, my friend and I travelled down to London to see him in a play (play was crap, but hey, we were young and lusty for him). Somehow we managed to get the best seats in the house, really close to the stage. At one point Hugh was stripped down to his boxer shorts, right next to where we were sitting - oh yesss. That stirred some teeny hormones, I can tell you!
Best theatre trip ever. ;)
When I was about 15, my friend and I travelled down to London to see him in a play (play was crap, but hey, we were young and lusty for him). Somehow we managed to get the best seats in the house, really close to the stage. At one point Hugh was stripped down to his boxer shorts, right next to where we were sitting - oh yesss. That stirred some teeny hormones, I can tell you!
Best theatre trip ever. ;)
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Posted 13 December 2006 - 01:02 AM
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Time for my Hugh Laurie anecdote!
When I was about 15, my friend and I travelled down to London to see him in a play (play was crap, but hey, we were young and lusty for him). Somehow we managed to get the best seats in the house, really close to the stage. At one point Hugh was stripped down to his boxer shorts, right next to where we were sitting - oh yesss. That stirred some teeny hormones, I can tell you!
Best theatre trip ever. ;)
When I was about 15, my friend and I travelled down to London to see him in a play (play was crap, but hey, we were young and lusty for him). Somehow we managed to get the best seats in the house, really close to the stage. At one point Hugh was stripped down to his boxer shorts, right next to where we were sitting - oh yesss. That stirred some teeny hormones, I can tell you!
Best theatre trip ever. ;)
*So envyous*
I can believe it was your best theatre trip ever!!!!:D
I'm completely addicted with House and with that sexy, cool, beautiful man who is Hugh Laurie.
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I love the stories, it is not the usual medical drama.
And House.... what can I say about HOUSE.... it is the strange man..
Probably, as you were saying, something happend in his past, something that hurted a lot and signed his life. I don't think it is something work related, I think it was something in his personal life.
Btw.... his behaviour... makes him more than sexy!!:p :D
And the eyes... what can I say about the eyes........
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Posted 13 December 2006 - 04:23 AM
wow, i cannot miss in this thread...i think House for me is like cocaine and Simpsons...a drug!! i have to have my house moment everyday...
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cocaine and Simpsons.....
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Posted 13 December 2006 - 06:27 AM
TidgeyPud said:
Time for my Hugh Laurie anecdote!
When I was about 15, my friend and I travelled down to London to see him in a play (play was crap, but hey, we were young and lusty for him). Somehow we managed to get the best seats in the house, really close to the stage. At one point Hugh was stripped down to his boxer shorts, right next to where we were sitting - oh yesss. That stirred some teeny hormones, I can tell you!
Best theatre trip ever. ;)
When I was about 15, my friend and I travelled down to London to see him in a play (play was crap, but hey, we were young and lusty for him). Somehow we managed to get the best seats in the house, really close to the stage. At one point Hugh was stripped down to his boxer shorts, right next to where we were sitting - oh yesss. That stirred some teeny hormones, I can tell you!
Best theatre trip ever. ;)
shit yeah! want! :D
chiara - gotta love the juxtaposition. simpsons - cocaine. *LOL*
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Posted 13 December 2006 - 06:42 AM
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shit yeah! want! :D
chiara - gotta love the juxtaposition. simpsons - cocaine. *LOL*
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chiara - gotta love the juxtaposition. simpsons - cocaine. *LOL*
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So I'm a bit behind and have only just discovered this lusciousness which is House. I'm catching up as quickly as possible - 2 hours worth of old eps on Monday and the new one last night. I think I love this show. Last night was really really good.
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