House! OMG.
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bagheera_sanWow. The House finale was... wow. I love it, even though it's gut-punchy and dark.
Madness, dreams and hallucination are a major story kink for me. I love madness as a fictional theme - see my love for characters like Lex Luthor*, Gaius Baltar**, Sam Tyler***, the Master, and supervillains in general. I never pegged House as that kind of character. Sherlock Holmes, maybe. That guy definitely tread the line (depending on the version). But House's crazy is too playful, and we never got many signs of internalisation. He acts it out, everyone knows it, nobody really takes it seriously. Which makes Both Sides Now even more of a punch in the gut.
The montage where House's delusion unravels, and the lipstick turns into the vicodine is quietly breathtaking, as is the short scene with Amber (who makes a fine head!Amber indeed) and Kutner. But I also liked the musical montage, especially as it kept switching back and forth between Cameron and Chase exchanging rings and Wilson taking House's stuff. I may have liked House's Head/Wilson's Heart a tiny little bit better, but this episode feels like a third part to those two, considering that this is where House first sees Amber (and also where he and Wilson mess with his brain...).
This means that House has now managed to hit ALL my character kinks: he's smart, snarky, a drug-addict, likeably evil, somewhat socially inept and, apparently, less than mentally stable.
*I could never bring myself to rewatch "Asylum", but that's because of the ECT scene. As much as I like fictional mental illness, cruel therapy methods and bad mental institutions are pure horror for me.
**Sure, the finale made the head!people real, but I still prefer a reading of Gaius as delusional. But in the end it doesn't really matter whether head!Six is real or not, for much of the story Gaius acted and probably felt like schizophrenic.
***When I watched the LOM finale, my interpretation tended more towards "afterlife", but in general I tend to view Sam as a severely mentally ill person and a tragic character, no matter what the "truth" is.
Madness, dreams and hallucination are a major story kink for me. I love madness as a fictional theme - see my love for characters like Lex Luthor*, Gaius Baltar**, Sam Tyler***, the Master, and supervillains in general. I never pegged House as that kind of character. Sherlock Holmes, maybe. That guy definitely tread the line (depending on the version). But House's crazy is too playful, and we never got many signs of internalisation. He acts it out, everyone knows it, nobody really takes it seriously. Which makes Both Sides Now even more of a punch in the gut.
The montage where House's delusion unravels, and the lipstick turns into the vicodine is quietly breathtaking, as is the short scene with Amber (who makes a fine head!Amber indeed) and Kutner. But I also liked the musical montage, especially as it kept switching back and forth between Cameron and Chase exchanging rings and Wilson taking House's stuff. I may have liked House's Head/Wilson's Heart a tiny little bit better, but this episode feels like a third part to those two, considering that this is where House first sees Amber (and also where he and Wilson mess with his brain...).
This means that House has now managed to hit ALL my character kinks: he's smart, snarky, a drug-addict, likeably evil, somewhat socially inept and, apparently, less than mentally stable.
*I could never bring myself to rewatch "Asylum", but that's because of the ECT scene. As much as I like fictional mental illness, cruel therapy methods and bad mental institutions are pure horror for me.
**Sure, the finale made the head!people real, but I still prefer a reading of Gaius as delusional. But in the end it doesn't really matter whether head!Six is real or not, for much of the story Gaius acted and probably felt like schizophrenic.
***When I watched the LOM finale, my interpretation tended more towards "afterlife", but in general I tend to view Sam as a severely mentally ill person and a tragic character, no matter what the "truth" is.
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Date: 2009-05-15 10:47 am (UTC)