Question

[damelola]

For those of you who will continue to watch House next season:

WHY?

This is not intended as an attack, I swear.  You know I don't pick fights with my friends (random trolls and evil people on the other hand...).  But how are you justifying it to yourselves?  Is it just a case of 'I've started so I have to finish'?  I mean, I know some of y'all would watch snuff for to Hugh Laurie if you had to, and I can't claim I'm any different when it comes to my women.

But I'm genuinely interested to hear what the defence is to the blatant misogyny (and/or casual racism), sharp decline in writing and all-round character assassination (including, most importantly, that of House himself)?  What is it that makes you say that's not how it is or it doesn't matter because.  Like I say, not picking a fight but I feel like I've only seen one side of this so far and I really don't know how the people not speaking up about this are rationalising the showrunners' decisions.

I'm putting this public and enabling anon so you don't have to feel awkward about it all.  Look forward to hearing any and all sides of the arguments outside of the general comm hysteria.

Comments

[damelola.livejournal.com]

That's a good point - and I'm conscious of not crossing that line myself. Like, I feel if something sells out or declines in quality, a fan is entitled to call it out as such. Slinking away in silence is accepting 'less than' and so yeah, to a point speak up and say this isn't good enough.

But personally, having reached this breaking point (having flirted with it throughout s7) I don't want to watch something just to be mean. If some people are still enjoying it fine, but I suppose my question here is how are people enjoying it in spite of certain issues - that's just pure curiosity on my part (and yes, a little sadness that I can't overlook some stuff and still enjoy it).

I hope that my criticism in recent days hasn't been taken personally by remaining fans though, amongst my friends at least. But I like to think I'm open to criticism of things I like without it ruining my own affection for it, so... :)

[chippers87.livejournal.com]

Totally. I do think that someone should say their piece (or is it peace? I'm never sure), and your criticisms definitely play a role in how I perceive an episode. At some point, though, you just have to move on. I remember I saw Yaitanes say once that he can tell how well an episode was taken by how much feedback he got on Twitter, as opposed to what was being exactly said to him. Even when fans say horrible things to TPTB, they know that people care enough to have a reaction. I wonder, purely out of curiosity, what would happen if it became obvious that we just didn't care anymore?

I guess I'm just personally at a point where I don't know yet. I want to see how they handle Cuddy's departure, and the reasoning they give for that may determine how ardently I seek out episodes in the future.

I think part of it is just wanting to stay part of the conversation. Most of my friends on Twitter, for example, are still active viewers, so not to know what they're talking about would drive me nuts, I guess.

It would be interesting if someone more powerful than us were to call out the show on their shit. That would be entertainment.