Is there something about him that is so preciously adorable that WE can love the guy so much, but no one in the series can see for themselves?
Do we think we're special, and that's why we love him--because thinking he's pretty special makes us similarly special?
I remember watching "Blazing Saddles" once, and we got to the part where the cranky old racist white woman gives him a wink and a nudge and entreats him not to mind that she was so racist before. We're supposed to roll our eyes and think to ourselves, "O, God, I'm so glad I'm not that woman, so glad I'm not a stupid, un-self aware racist. Thank you Lord for making me a better person than her." And that's why we like that movie so much--it makes us feel superior.
Yet I don't see any of this conspiratorial "wink, wink, nudge, nudge" attitude underlying "House, M.D.". Yet I sometimes want to smack everyone in the show.
Why are they always trying to "cure" him? Am I the only person who objects to this? He is who he is, and I don't ask him to be what I want him to be. Sure, he'd cheer up his patients if he were kinder to them. So what? If they want bedside manner, they have the other doctors and a hospital full of nurses to cheer them up. Probably they even have family who come to see them.
So lay off the brilliant Dr. House. Let him see his patients as puzzles needing to be solved. He's fine the way he is.
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