Question

[damelola]

For those of you who will continue to watch House next season:

WHY?

This is not intended as an attack, I swear.  You know I don't pick fights with my friends (random trolls and evil people on the other hand...).  But how are you justifying it to yourselves?  Is it just a case of 'I've started so I have to finish'?  I mean, I know some of y'all would

Comments

[lesaubergines]

I don't get it either. I mean, at least earlier this season there were some cute and sweet moments with House and Cuddy, but now there's none of that, and no interesting cases. And the way people like Yaitanes treat the fans is incredibly disrespectful and awful. I know we're not "owed" anything, but at least don't turn the show into more of a piece of shit than it already has become.
I gave up watching when Cuddy broke up with House, though I actually missed that episode and when I found out what had happened, I decided, "Nope. I quit. There are awesome shows out there, and this is sadly not one of them anymore." I mean, shit, at least The Office is still a little funny, even without Steve Carell.

[spoggly]

i'm still surprised i stopped watching, in some ways, because i hate giving up halfway through stuff

but the endless feelings of "ugh" and "UGH," depending on whether it was actual t.v. quality (which i can waver quite a lot for, lol) and how angry it made me (which is less forgiving)...ughhhh

and tbh, i stopped watching at all, not just casually, when house went to inpatient treatment, and ~became happy~ because that's not what i wanted to see, idk

[ohbilliejean]

Like Zulu said below, I really stopped watching properly after the whole 'white privileged boy saves an African nation and then has angst issues over whether his precious white skin will be flanked or not for the murder he committed (meanwhile, a whole nation of African people are still starving and facing no end of prejudice BUT THAT'S OKAY BECAUSE WHITE PRIVILEGE BOY FIXED THEIR NATION THROUGH KILLING THEIR DICTATOR, CHASE SOLVED RACIAL HATE CRIMES AND GENOCIDE WITH A SIMPLE FLICK OF HIS PRIVILEGE)'.

[spoggly]

ugh which episode was this? b/c racist to the max.

[ohbilliejean]

It was in season six and arced over a number of episodes. It was Chase's ~main storyline~ for that season.

[ohbilliejean]

OMG THAT WAS JUST... THERE ARE NO WORDS.

That could have been a fucking BRILLIANT storyline. But no. White privileged boy saves an African nation through murder and then has angst issues. WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT.

[katie087]

I was going to start watching House in the offseason... now I don't want to. I don't even know the show that well and I'm outraged.

[ohbilliejean]

While I am forever going to be gutted that Lisa is gone, I am also incredibly glad she left of her own volition and left before any chauvinist executive had the pleasure of firing her. She stood up against whatever was really going on behind the curtain (which we'll never really fully know what WAS going on behind the curtain) and was the bigger person by leaving and refusing to be dealt any more devaluing, misogynist blows, which I'll bet my bottom dollar she was dealt plenty of over her time on that show.

I'd explain myself further about why I won't be watching the show but lol, I think I covered that pretty extensively in my conversation with spoggly, ahahahaha.

♥

[spoggly]

hehehe, but yeah, I agree about being horrified, as a former fan, by the fact that LE felt she had to leave, but I will always hold that against the executives forcing her hand, and I'm so proud that such an outspoken, activist actress took a stand against the misogyny in her own negotiations.