Really? Shit. I was hoping to go there one day with my strange terminal disease.
(why are you being an ass?)
I was just politely responding to someone seeming to miss the point of Plainsboro. It looks like patients of house’s team go through a hard time. So someone came to the conclusion that it was a bad place to go if you have a serious disease. This showed a lazy understanding of the point of the show, which is that you might have to endure house’s shitty attitude, but he damn well gets you better!
And yes I know it’s just a show. I happen to like it though
Yup, those are basically what I’ve heard (and all from this MB). But like I said, I’ve never read any Holmes books, or seen anything other then the most recent movie, so I was wondering how similar they were beyond those things.
I was just wondering if the new Sherlock Holmes would have come out the way it did if there was never a TV show called House MD. I’m sure all the items listed on that site would have been more or less in tact, but what about the way they spoke, the cadence of the dialogue, that kind of stuff. That’s they type of stuff that made me thing “This is like watching an episode of House”.
I’d think that most people that didn’t know Holmes/House thing and had no previous knowledge of Holmes other then knowing of him as a pop culture icon (more or less) might still be able to watch the new Sherlock Holmes movie and see the similarities to House. But, like me, I think most of that would be due, not to the subtleties listed on that site, but the way they spoke, the quick cantor and the witty back and forth they had.
I dont miss the point, it’s just poorly made. They risk the lives of patients because of the attitude of House, which rarely if ever has anything to do with the diagnosis of the patient. Real doctors don’t base their diagnosis on dramatic effect. When they don’t have answers, they run more tests. They don’t try radical unsafe procedures just because they don’t have anything else to do. A doctor like House would be considered a liablility.
But more to the point of your response to my initial one, why are you being an ass? There is nothing about this show that reflects on the actual practise of medicine. Your response seems to indicate you don’t realize this.
Laurie has said specifically that he plays House exactly the way he would have played Holmes if he had been cast to the role. Except for the accent, I assume.
I’ve read the complete Sherlock Holmes many times and if that’s Laurie’s idea of Holmes, then Laurie is an ass. Holmes was brusque but not rude or insulting.
The original Holmes is so much better than any knock-off.
It’s called an “interpretation”. After all, it’s not as if every actor who’s ever played Holmes - the most widely-filmed character ever, incidentally - has done it the exact same way.
I call it an abomination, not an interpretation. Holmes was an eccentric genius who could be brusque, self-absorbed, single-minded, and obsessive. But he did not insult people. He was an man of honor, patriotic, a reliable friend, a stoic. (Like Mr. Spock.)
House is a rude, boorish, whiny abuser. An arrogant show-off. He belittles his colleagues, insults them… hell, he abuses and insults his patients! He is a cynic, which Holmes was not.
And, no, not every actor who has played Holmes has played him the same way. Not the point. If this is an interpretation, it is a gross MIS-interpretation and a twisted distortion of Sherlock Holmes.
If you would read and get to know the character Sherlock Holmes, you would see what I mean. THEN see if you still want to make the same point.
Well the impression you got from my response was incorrect. It would be silly of me to even suspect that the show House has any basis in reality whatsoever. My defence of plainsboro is based just as much in fiction as the show. If there were a real place like plainsboro (which I assume not to be the case), it would have to have a real Greg House, whom you would have to put your trust in, and risk a bit of ‘shoddy’ outside-the-box medical practice on the basis that your strange disease or problem has a better chance of getting solved than if you go to one of the straight-laced hospitals with ‘normal’ doctors.
Am I correct to assume you’re not a fan of the show by the way?
If that’s the case, I’d love to see a Sherlock Holmes movie starring Hugh Laurie. I know he’s getting older (and definitely not as hip as RDJ post-Iron Man), but didn’t Holmes live to a ripe old age?
Hugh Laurie is definitely my premier man-crush.
I like the show, and agree with Laurie’s carrying most of the entertainment load <or at least the character, with him playing it>. I had a roommate who didn’t like House and finally told me why, and it was that he couldn’t stand the medical ickiness of open brains and intestines and various bloody grossness. I had House on at the time, and remember thinking, and saying, that there wasn’t much at all in it…and sure enough, within 10 seconds a big ol’ bloody brain shot came on. Apparantly that doesn’t bother me much, 'cause I love Bones as much or more than House and both shows have a fairly high squick factor.
So people are connecting the type of British humour and thinking it’s the same, then? Well…definite similarities, but that’s the genre, not the actors. IMO, of course.
Apparantly that doesn’t bother me much, 'cause I love Bones as much or more than House and both shows have a fairly high squick factor.