[ SECRET POST #194 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #194 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 052 secrets from Secret Submission Post #027.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 ] broken links, [ 1 ] not!secrets, [ 1 2 3 ] not!fandom.
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Thursday, July 19th, 2007.
Current Secret Submission Post: here.
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Comments

[hughes]

15. So long as you're not bashing the people who like it, I can respect your opinion. :) As far as why I love it, however, I think that so long as viewers can suspend their disbelief about a lack of realism (I mean, if you're talking about faulty science, talk about CSI), and take all the medical mystery at face value, it's still very enjoyable for those of us who don't have more than a normal person's understanding of how diagnosing an illness works.

And as far as House? Yeah, he's a real asshole, but I think his appeal is that he's a brilliant asshole who tells off a lot of people and points out a lot of things that normal people wish they could bash, and he's funny about it, if sometimes (okay, a lot of the time) cruel. Of course, he isn't a hero because of that, and it's his obvious faults and secret vulnerability that make him forgivable, I think.

So there, your friendly explanation. XD;

[pretentioustfu.livejournal.com]

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Of course, he isn't a hero because of that, and it's his obvious faults and secret vulnerability that make him forgivable, I think.

I can like characters like House (and like Wolfwood and Ando too) because they're not real *and* because it's pretty obvious that the being a total asshole, while it may be part of their "charm" in some ways, it's not what makes them interesting. What makes them interesting is the "why" of their being assholes, and all of the other parts of their personality aside from that, and how they live with themselves.

Why does House treat everyone else like dirt? Since he was treated like dirt as a kid and he's in horrible pain and likely has a mental illness, it's pretty understandable he'd react in some way. Why does Ando call Nikki a bitch for not performing for him? He's lived his entire life in a cultural milieu where women are devalued and where this kind of behavior toward, especially, a gaijin woman is seen as absolutely OK, and as the series goes on, IMO the subtext makes it pretty clear he has issues with relationships with women due to either his cultural mores or his sexual preference, since he seems to be a lot more in love with Hiro than with any of the women he's seen.

[chelonianmobile.livejournal.com]

Wanna talk faulty science, talk about the Maximum Ride series and the El Goonish Shive webcomic. Few things are more depressing than taking a genetics course in biology class and realising that if it was possible to engineer a half-man half-wolf, they'd have the wolf features all the time, not be a shapeshifter ...
I still like both series, though.