More fannish thoughts and a couple Real Life ones

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A couple years ago, when I was working at Barnes and Noble, I ran into someone from high school. I didn't remember the gal too well, but said hi and then went about my way. About twenty minutes or so later, she was back. She explained that on her way home God had revealed to her who I was. Yes, that was how she phrased it. She said she had come back to apologize for the crap she had given me in high school and thatit was because she hadn't had God in her life then. Two years later, her words continue to bother me. What does it say about a person that they need God in their life to know something as simple as the fact that treating people like crap is worng? What are they lacking that such things aren't self-evident? Actually, it would explain a lot about such people if they were lacking something.

Also, for amazing comments on the pro-choice/pro-life issue, please read this entry by naamah_darling.

Ooo, snarkiness. I LOVE the snark. The world needs more snark.

I was amused by Wilson's caluclating assesment of how, if Stacy doesn't think she can trust House, House won't be able to get her to do things for him. Even more amusing is knowing that there are many fans out there who were shocked by such behavior out of Wilson. Sorry, but nice is a behavior, not a character trait. Think about it. House is rude, but we as fans don't assume that makes him a bad person. Wilson is nice. He's also kinda cute. It's hardly shocking that he uses these to his advantage. The man is a doctor. He's smart. He's friends with HOUSE. Why do people continue to be shocked?

The part I'm not looking forward to about the new season is the continued meta fights over things like the show's use of the word "addict". Is House an addict? Well, that really depends on what definition of the word you're using. But I continue to be amazed by the way people foam at the mouth at this issue as central to the show's realism, but no one ever comments on the fact that, given the hand Hugh Laurie is holding the cane in, House is putting the majority of his weight on his bad leg. Or the fact that the massive teaching hospital is apparently completely lacking in techs and nurses, because the doctors do every little thing. I mean, I get that it's all for dramatic purposes, but what makes on issue jump out for a whole fandom, while equally important issues seem to be using invisibility fields?

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Literally an angel....? See, this is the sort of stuff that scares me. Oh, and thanks for the explination on the cane thing. I hadn't heard that before. The only person I know who uses a cane long term would end up kicking it out of their own hand if they held it on the same side as their bad leg.

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Literally an angel....? See, this is the sort of stuff that scares me.

Literally an angel. It scares me, too; this mass perception of Wilson as some sort of Woobie of Woobies is one of my major peeves of the fandom. Back in the early days, the word woobie got thrown about so much I was giving out awards for it, but eventually (some) fans realized they were having problems calling House both a woobie and a junkie, and Chase did his little thing in the Vogler arc and lost his woobiehood, and thus the woobie-vision of the whole fandom focused upon Wilson. Considering one of Wilson's things is this projection of such a nice guy, they haven't had anything to trouble their contented sighs of woobie, being perfectly content to ignore or justify away anything not of a purely saintly nature (such as Detox). The concentration of woobie-belief has become so prevalent that it has distorted reality and allowed for paradoxes, such as the fact that these people can simultaneously, in their heads, perceive Wilson as the nicest, most wonderful guy ever, and have him casually sleeping with all of the hospital staff and then smirkingly telling House about it.

It makes my head hurt.