Well, I’m a very sarcastic person and I’m also extremely ironic. And honestly, in this blog I don’t even use half of my terrible sense of humour because it just doesn’t translate well into writing. But my humour is very dark. I constantly joke about death, illnesses, trauma, that kind of thing. So, well, it can be understood in that sense.
The truth is I’m not planning to talk about the show House, because it’s a show I watched when I was about nine or ten years old, since my dad watched it. My dad was a big fan and I basically watched it as it was airing. I didn’t watch it years later like a lot of people are doing now. Suddenly it’s on Netflix and a bunch of people from the younger generations are discovering it. But I watched it at the time, while it was being made and the episodes were actually coming out.
It’s a show I’ve mostly forgotten, especially because I remember being really obsessed with the first seasons. I really liked House as a character. But I think around the fourth season or so the show started becoming absolute fucking garbage. It felt like it lost a lot of what made the earlier seasons good, and they kept introducing new characters I genuinely could not care less about.
So I don’t think it’s a show I’m ever going to rewatch. And especially because it’s also very long. I kind of have this issue with a lot of 2000s shows that I liked a lot back then. For example, I also loved Bones, I loved Lost, and I loved Prison Break at the time. But I wouldn’t rewatch them now. Even though I liked them and even though there were characters I loved, they’re just extremely long. And also there was this thing with those shows where around the third or fourth season they would start going downhill. Like they would lose a lot of momentum. And that always bummed me out quite a bit.
So no, I don’t think I’ll ever rewatch House. And honestly I remember very little about it now. There are some things that really stuck with me though. I remember House himself very clearly, and his relationship with the original team — Foreman, Cameron, Chase — and also with Wilson and Cuddy, obviously. I also remember really liking his relationship with Thirteen, because it had this weird father–daughter dynamic in certain toxic and pretty dysfunctional ways. But beyond that I don’t remember many specific things, and no, honestly I’m not going to spend my time rewatching it at this stage of my life. I’m just not interested.
The only reason I talked about it at the time is because I find it incredibly hypocritical when people say they like a character like Gregory House, that they understand him, that they accept his flaws and can empathise with him, but then they’re completely incapable of empathising with Severus Snape. Because basically House is a massive asshole. You can like him — I like him a lot, actually, I always did — but he’s still a massive asshole.
It just makes no sense to have empathy for one but not for the other, unless you’re an extremely classist person. Which, to be fair, is usually the case.
