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

[bell]

Along those same lines, I realized that most of the regular/temporary female characters were lot go after consummating a relationship.

Stacy - Sleeps with House and is willing to get back with him; she is then turned by him, ending her arc on the show.

Thirteen - The exception; even after breaking up with Foreman she's still around and having new storylines.

Amber - Returned expressly to become Wilson's girlfriend and die so that he could be heart broken.

Cameron - Shortly after marrying Chase, she leaves.

Masters - Don't know how her arc ended and I doubt there she had any romantic flings during her brief arc on the show, but she was brought in to be a temporary/disposable female character so that they'd still have the minimum of two while OW was away.

Cuddy - She's broken up with House, so I guess she's expendable now that the UST has been realized/carried out.

Coincides? Maybe, but I doubt it.

[spoggly.livejournal.com]

i might be cynical, but to me it strongly recalls the "woman in the refrigerator" syndrome common in comics - the majority of the women, and the vast majority of their "reasons" to be in the show or plotlines, revolved around giving motivation to the male characters, mainly house

quite a lot of it has to do with house being the main character, and that alone is just because, hey, title character vs. other characters. but when it's basically every single character, and every single motivation?

[ohbilliejean.livejournal.com]

have i told you lately that i love you

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