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There also needs to be this episode about a Brazilian linguist, who catches a horrible infection from licking big Japanese titties, which makes his tongue rot in his mouth.
That would be epic!
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| Originally posted by An_Alt I'm not kidding here, the best moment in this episode was Wilson stuck in the window. |
Shit, S7 is starting already?!?!?! I just bought the S6 DVD set, ffs!
"You wanna have sex with me?" Hahahaha classic 
I really hope Taub dies. That cancer of his series, he and that dull, expressionless face of his.
He looks like a fuckin peacock.
Last season was bad. Hopefully they can do better this time, but the first episode was not particularly encouraging.
The core problem is that in the show's earlier, more successful seasons the drama was primarily driven by itinerant characters--usually patients--and the primary characters' dramatic arcs were developed slowly and incrementally in a way that felt real and natural. In contrast, more recent episodes have seen the patients (when they bother having any) more frequently take a background or B-plot role, while extensive screen time is spent developing the primary characters' dramatic stories. The problem with the latter approach is that there's a sort of drama inflation, where dramatic events affecting the main characters feel less real and less meaningful because of their excessive pacing and numerosity. As a result, they lose their dramatic impact and the result is a sort of hollow melodrama.
I also think they've mismanaged a lot of the key characters. House himself, for instance, has been overdeveloped. In earlier seasons, he was more mysterious and unpredictable, which contributed both to dramatic tension and to effective comedy. However, because they've overdeveloped his character, he's now transparent and predictable; consequently, the drama has less impact and the comedy is too predictable. At the same time, Wilson has become too much of a caricature of his earlier self. His character has lost all its dynamism, and he is leaned on too heavily for comic relief.
Overall, I think the show could easily be salvaged and continue to progress in a successful and effective way, but I have little confidence in the writers, who appear to be under the mistaken impression that the solution is to exaggerate the drama of a small number of primary character story arcs even further in a vain attempt at a week-by-week ratings grab, rather than creating the kind of sustainable dramatic pacing that characterized earlier seasons.
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| Originally posted by Arbiter Last season was bad. Hopefully they can do better this time, but the first episode was not particularly encouraging. The core problem is that in the show's earlier, more successful seasons the drama was primarily driven by itinerant characters--usually patients--and the primary characters' dramatic arcs were developed slowly and incrementally in a way that felt real and natural. In contrast, more recent episodes have seen the patients (when they bother having any) more frequently take a background or B-plot role, while extensive screen time is spent developing the primary characters' dramatic stories. The problem with the latter approach is that there's a sort of drama inflation, where dramatic events affecting the main characters feel less real and less meaningful because of their excessive pacing and numerosity. As a result, they lose their dramatic impact and the result is a sort of hollow melodrama. I also think they've mismanaged a lot of the key characters. House himself, for instance, has been overdeveloped. In earlier seasons, he was more mysterious and unpredictable, which contributed both to dramatic tension and to effective comedy. However, because they've overdeveloped his character, he's now transparent and predictable; consequently, the drama has less impact and the comedy is too predictable. At the same time, Wilson has become too much of a caricature of his earlier self. His character has lost all its dynamism, and he is leaned on too heavily for comic relief. Overall, I think the show could easily be salvaged and continue to progress in a successful and effective way, but I have little confidence in the writers, who appear to be under the mistaken impression that the solution is to exaggerate the drama of a small number of primary character story arcs even further in a vain attempt at a week-by-week ratings grab, rather than creating the kind of sustainable dramatic pacing that characterized earlier seasons. |
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