One, there is no such thing as an unending banquet
The year 2004 was an important point in the history of American drama. It was the year that the phenomenal evergreen drama "Old Friends" came to an end, and before fans could dry their sad tears of farewell, the eye-catching performances of several freshman episodes quickly took over again. As it turned out, that was also the last collective explosion of American drama to date, and among them was FOX's medical drama "House M.D.
House M.D.'s rapid popularity was fueled by strong ratings for FOX's then-prominent talent show American Idol, and House M.D. deservedly had high hopes for FOX, and in the years since, it has lived up to its title of "crown prince," both in terms of ratings and word-of-mouth. The ratings and word-of-mouth have all been a treasure for FOX. So that year became the year of House for many people.
This eccentric and arrogant uncle with his own way of doing things and our life in the vicissitudes of each other gazed at eight years, this companionship and watch may not have changed us what, but he has always been there, even if the song is over, he is still there, in our occasional look back at the end of the lights.
Two, angels and devils
House has a lot of negative labels on his body, mean, vicious, capricious, authoritarian ......, but the most valuable thing about this character is that he can make people love and hate him, and we'll accept and even enjoy a lot of his shortcomings because of our love for him. But if there is such a person around in real life, he will have poor relationships and even be marginalized, but that's okay, it doesn't stop us from leafing through our computers at all. His ego comes from the wisdom of his loneliness, his deviance is based on the integrity of his heart and loyalty to himself, he lives in his own "only paranoia can survive" in the realm of angels and devils are not his two masks, but in his soul deep sympathy.
Angel face
1, medical skill
If you don't know anything about the show, and you see someone watching "Dr. House", you might mistake him for watching a sci-fi movie, where there are too many awkward and out-of-the-ordinary medical terms, but you'll soon realize that these medical terms are just a floating cloud on the show, and that they're there to make House "solve" cases in his own way. "But I'm still impressed by the writers' ease of use of pathology, which must have been backed up by a strong team of consultants.
It can be said that Howarth takes on challenging and confusing cases, and the process of diagnosing and treating them is generally characterized by constant self-denial, a process that can sometimes be very thrilling, and can even lead to the illusion that a patient is being tortured to the point of death, but in the end, Howarth is always able to find the ultimate solution through the inspiration of a method that is often the trigger of an inspiration. The inspiration is often a trivial matter that has nothing to do with medicine or patients. In fact, this is a common formula in American dramas, especially in some detective dramas. In short, House's medical skill is not only reflected in professional knowledge and clinical experience, the key is that he has a focused imagination.
Sword to the side
What sets "Dr. House" apart from other medical dramas is the way it focuses on the cases, such as "ER Stories" and "Grey's Anatomy," which mainly show the treatment process, while here the emphasis is on the confirmation process, whose fun is in solving the mystery. In order to prevent this process from becoming tedious and creating a pattern of big meetings set in small ones, Dr. House combines the presentation of a crime thriller to become the CSI of medical dramas, and such a fusion of genres is one of the show's great innovations. With that setup in mind, House's various saber-rattling, anti-conventional initiatives are much easier to accept.
What's most surprising is that House often directs his men to go into patients' homes to conduct fieldwork on their living environments and to deduce the causes of their illnesses based on what they eat and drink, which is in fact the most common form of crime-scene investigation used in many crime dramas. Although this information can be obtained by communicating with the patient, House is most convinced that "everyone lies", no matter what the intention, people will instinctively hide some key information from others, he is good at debunking other people's lies, but also like to find out the truth, and he will do whatever it takes to do so. For example, if he suspects that the onset of the disease is due to over-exercise, he will not hesitate to send the weak patient on a treadmill and observe the onset of the process from the sidelines, which is clearly what the art of war says to lure snakes out of their holes ah.
3. Shameful asshole
From the outside, it seems that House is a debauched and uninhibited person, which doesn't mean that his life style is problematic, but rather his indulgence in himself and aggressiveness towards others, he won't let go of any opportunity to flaunt his own intellect and laugh at the stupidity of others, and people like this are usually considered to be assholes even if they're extremely smart in their lives, because his condescension will make you despair. But the endearing thing about this asshole is that he has his own bottom line.
A patient is in the hospital, physically and psychologically under extreme weakness and stress, and House doesn't seem to care too much about their feelings when confronted with a patient; he can be as flirtatious and sarcastic as ever, but he doesn't forget his duty as a doctor, and both sides of the coin are what makes him so much fun to be around. He does not allow an ounce of pretense to exist in him, and soothing his patients before healing and accepting their thanks afterward are not things he is passionate about. His healer's heart will show itself in the opposite way, as he watches his patients die in front of him, and he will be ashamed of his own helplessness, as in the case of the woman who dies at the scene of the accident in the season finale of season six. A gentlemanly asshole with ego and narcissism in his blood, a cold-blooded genius who relies only on his own expertise and intellect to make judgments and choices, always brings more emotion when he reveals the fragile, helpless side of his humanity, on which the best episodes of "Dr. House" essentially hinge.
House is mean to his men, and his ducklings seem to be used to his cynicism, but that doesn't mean they don't have a place in House's heart, and he'll even make compromises to protect their jobs, whether it's dealing with Volger on the board of trustees or Dean Cuddy, but of course there's a line of principle in that compromise, such as the way he'll intellectually resolve Volger's criticisms of his participation in a new drug trial. Volger's blackmail of his participation in the promotion of a new drug. In essence, House may not be a gentleman, but he is a knight.
4. True love
House is a loner, and it's this loneliness that makes moments of true love so rare, and whenever they come, they're mesmerizing. Aside from his sins with cuddy, two cases from season four are the most memorable. One is episode 11, in which House remotely consults with a female psychiatrist in Antarctica; the concern and attachment that House displays really goes beyond the usual doctor-patient relationship, and the video communication adds a layer of ambiguity to their delicate relationship. Then there's episode 16, the season finale. It's rare for House to miss a trick, but in this episode it's his best friend Wilson's girlfriend, Amber, who makes him powerless. An unanswered phone call, an ill-timed cold medicine, and a car accident that falls from the sky push AMBER and WILSON apart, and all of which House is responsible for. As a doctor, from the moment he woke up and saw the circuit system around him, amber knew that he was standing on the doorstep of the ghost to cast the last glimpse to his love, in such a few minutes, all they can do is to snuggle up to each other and feel each other's breath. How many people in this world can die peacefully in the arms of their loved ones? If you can design an ending for yourself, I think this kind of farewell is what many people wish to get. It became the saddest tear-jerking moment in the entire show, shaking not just the ever-cold Howarth, but everyone in the audience.
The Devil's Side
1, Drug Addiction
I don't know how many people know the name of the drug Vicodin through "Dr. House," a narcotic painkiller that can be addictive if taken often, which is one of the most fatal shortcomings in House's arrogant life. House, who has treated so many difficult cases, is unable to do anything about his necrotic leg and has to let himself become a Vicodin addict.
The ancient Greek myth has a Achilles, when he was born, his mother Thetis in order to let him practice "golden bell", he will be lifted upside down and dipped into the river Styx, so the whole body of Achilles invulnerable to knives and spears, only to be lifted by his mother in the hands of the heel to become the only soft underbelly, and he was finally shot by the enemy in the heel and died. He was finally shot by an enemy arrow in the heel and died, this is the famous "Achilles' heel" story. No matter how vivid the character is, House is still a virtual character created by the screenwriter, and all of his qualities are given by the creator, including this Achilles' heel, which is the only thing he is willing to give up his dignity in exchange for, and which even the apothecary's boy can use to blackmail him.
2. Quirks abound
Perhaps people with too much energy are looking for something to consume their energy, and from this point of view, House is more like an old codger. Though seemingly grungy, he's an avid viewer of daytime soap operas, and he'd be fine without anything in his office but a television set, and he'll even dabble in TV viewing in the botanical ward. This is a man in whom you wouldn't be surprised to find any quirks, whether it's eating lollipops in a meeting or tossing and catching a pickup ball around the office. And the most unbelievable thing about him is that, as a doctor, he refuses to wear a white coat, and also tries to avoid meeting with patients, about whom he prefers to get most of his information through his few assistants. But his quirks like this sometimes work wonders, such as when he discovers through watching television that the hero of one of his favorite soap operas has a brain tumor, and when persuasion fails, goes so far as to forcibly kidnap him to a hospital for examination and treatment.
3, sadistic
House called his assistants "ducklings", ducks are not equipped with thoughts, even if there is also can be ignored, but as a duck must make a sound. Haus does not search for the cause of the disease by himself, his usual practice is the method of exclusion, and what is excluded is often the ducks' views, that is to say, he approaches the truth by denying others, which, in our opinion, is too sadistic for these assistants who are not mediocre. But the Ducks don't seem to think it's so sad; they think the experience and knowledge they gain from it is a bit more important than the dignity they lose in front of House. Taub, for example, was a successful plastic surgeon, but he was able to give up his former lucrative income and social status to willingly become an "old duck" following House. House's wisdom and talent is the basis of his "obscene power", he is also happy to play his own bullying side to the extreme, to seize all the opportunities to tease others, his office philosophy is not thick black, but also not intentionally good with people, perhaps in his view, can accept and tolerate his vicious people are his real friends, so the more close people he instead the more underhanded he was.
4, do not love clinic
I think if there is a doctor like House in China, he will become a popular figure in the specialist clinic, and the patient's family will have to run over to line up in the middle of the night. But what Dr. House hates most about outpatient care has to do with his penchant for not wanting to have contact with patients, and cuddy is quick to threaten or punish him with outpatient care. But there should be a lot of people who enjoy watching House in the outpatient scenes, because then House is more Sherlock Holmes than a doctor. He had a poisonous eye for detail and reasoning, and could easily poke holes in his patients' lies and tricks. Another thing to say is that he's very kind to children and good at talking to them, which should have something to do with his crusty old man style.
Three, sadistic love
With House's lone-wolf character, he should not be ashamed to talk about what friendship and love, he is like a piece of ice that refuses to melt as rampant, he likes the long sword back to its sheath, looking around, the feeling of people falling over each other, this kind of aggressiveness derived from the instincts of the people around him will produce a feeling of silence. But House does not lack the respect of colleagues, the friendship of close friends and the favor of the opposite sex, which, in addition to his professional authority and charisma, the so-called true nature of his body is the most precious quality, and because of this, people can be half-heartedly accepted with his SM-style interaction.
1, Wilson
When watching the movie "Sherlock Holmes", my mind will often Holmes and Watson replaced by Howarth and Wilson, because their relationship, get along with the way has been the character of the contrast is too similar.
It's lucky for House to have a friend like Wilson, loyal, kind, classy, unfailingly devoted to him, able to accept his wickedness, able to lend a helping hand when it counts, and ****able to enjoy everything but his lover. In such a base-less age, two such superb men are the perfect objects of mirth for many a corrupt friend. House would never accept another man to replace him as the most important person in Wilson's life, and when he sees signs of Wilson and his female neighbor having an eyebrow-raising relationship, he immediately shows up as Wilson's gay friend to let the other man know what's going on.
Wilson's gentleness seems much more vulnerable and understated than House's aggressiveness. Someone who can tolerate a friend like House must have a broad mind, and I'm afraid Wilson's lack of resentment toward House can only be explained by karma from a past life. Howes could invade his office, trample on his apartment, and dictate his time as he pleased, all of which was nothing to an iron brother, but Howes' vices had directly led to the loss of his favorite woman, which became the greatest price Wilson had ever paid to preserve the friendship.
Maybe every man would like to have a best friend like Wilson, but that's something you can't get. Having seen too many romances end badly, if we could have a friend like that, let's wish them a gay life, just like House and Wilson.
2. Cuddy
Because there's a jerk in the hospital, so Dean Cuddy has to turn himself into a firefighter, whether it's House or someone close to him, and when it comes to Cuddy, it's all a load of aggravation. And it's more like House is pampering himself by getting into trouble, and between their advances and retreats, it seems like a never-ending adversarial game.Cuddy is a very professional professional manager, but also a graceful and sexy woman, and she combines both of them perfectly. But she's a failure in love, and House is her destiny.
To put it in cheesy terms, cuddy is kind of a golden leftover, but she yearns for family life so much that she adopts children and goes into serious relationships, but ultimately all the relationships are just proving that House is irreplaceable in her heart, and as much as she doesn't want to admit it, inside she's just as dependent on House as he's been on Vicodin since he was born. Watching Haus get jealous of her seemed to be the safest way for her to feel Haus's love. But House is not one to stop at mirth, he will take action, but in House's subconscious mind it should simply be a game of conquest. Regarding the reason for his intention to break up cuddy and her boyfriend, this is what he told Wilson: "There are only two outcomes for them, either they break up or they grow old together. If it's a breakup, it's better to split up later than earlier; if it's growing old together, it's useless for me to mess up any more."
House and cuddy's cohabitation was something so unbelievable to Wilson, who knew them both very well, that cuddy needed to put her hand on House's vitals in front of him to prove their relationship. It later proves to be a real lose-lose adventure, and of course if Lisa Edelstein, who plays cuddy, hadn't been so determined to go, it might have turned out differently, but House's reaction to it is justified; it's not as if he can't actually stay away from cuddy, he just can't accept a losing proposition. Friendship really is safer than love, for most people.
3. The Ducks
Cast members on American shows come and go in many cases not because of plot necessity, but because of casting contracts, especially for regulars. Over the course of eight seasons of Dr. House, we've been constantly ushered in and out of the show, and the ducks around House have changed three times a ****.
The first set was Cameron, Chase and Foreman, a team that felt the most in sync with the audience and the most likable, which should also have something to do with first impressions. In addition to the regular SM-style working relationship, the most interesting thing is the triangular relationship between Cameron and House and Chase, which extends over a long period of time, through the team's disintegration in Season 4, Cameron's marriage to Chase in Season 5, and up to Cameron's departure in Season 6.Cameron's love for House has both the admiration of a little girl and the mature Chase's admiration for House and his love for Cameron are both pure, so he is also the weakest party in this relationship pattern, and Cameron's marriage to him in the end is a compromise, which looks like the man and the woman, but in the shadow of House, it is also very difficult to repair the fruit.
The second group is 13, Taub and Kutner, who joined the show in season 4, as well as amber, who became Wilson's full-time love interest.
The most noteworthy is the mysterious 13, the most distinctive character in the show other than House. She has a jaded and dusty demeanor that no one else possesses, which complements House's yuppie demeanor the best, and that's why their rivalry scenes are the best. Euthanizing her brother without going to jail seems like something a female version of House would do anyways. If Olivia Wilde, who played 13, hadn't dropped out of the regular cast due to scheduling issues, the writers would have developed a sinister relationship between her and House.
The third set of additions were Chi Park and Jessica Adams in the final season, finally seeing the faces of Chinese-American regulars on "Dr. House," which was sadly nearing its end and fading before it could bloom.
A final note must be made about Foreman, the only Duck to follow House from start to finish, and the only black face in the regular cast. He has the most delicate relationship with House, a sort of enemy-friend scenario, with his teenage misadventures but also a black-and-white view of good and evil, and he respects House's medical skills but strongly disagrees with his practice of medicine and his way of being a human being. He briefly quits his job because he doesn't want to be like House. The most interesting reversal of form occurs in the final season, when Foreman replaces the departing Cuddy as the director of Princeton Teaching Hospital and becomes House's boss, but he is unable to do the same thing that House did to him; he facilitates House's release from prison and often volunteers to work "part-time" on House's medical team. Duck, he does not love House, but he loves the doctor as a profession that has given him a new life, for which he can even give up his status and dignity to a limited extent.
Four, the eight-year itch
"Dr. House" is the most common plot unit in the U.S. drama, each episode of the main plot is the case, but from the whole show, this is actually counted as the show's subplots, and the main plot is the fate of House and those around him to extend as well as the evolution of the character and psychology. But compared to Grey's Anatomy, a medical drama that aired around the same time, Dr. House doesn't have as strong an emotional mechanism. Borrowing from the sci-fi categorization of dramas, it's a hard medical drama that relies on the surprising diagnosis of cases and the audience's identification with and following of the characters, with some of the fateful and emotional entanglements not really unfolding until the second half of the episode. And because it was filmed in seasons, with a span of eight years, many of the plot settings were not entirely based on the needs of the show itself, but involved many external factors, such as the turnover of actors, cost adjustments, and the direction of the audience's interest, etc. So here we are limited to the details of the show. So what we've sorted out here is limited to the main plot.
Season 1: When a new series starts, the first thing to consider is not to get axed, so the core features of the show have to be maximized, and so for the first time in a TV series we see so many strange cases, which is a kind of panic that can even lead to everyone's own danger, because behind a little bit of insignificant symptoms there may be a hidden disease that can take away lives at any time. At the same time, we are also introduced to Dr. House, a misbehaving and arrogant Svengali bastard, and the various characters around him. It can be said that the main plot is basically static in the first season, just fleshing out the characters and relationship layouts, only to be recounted in the second half of the episode, where House fights with the chairman of the board of directors over layoffs and the publicity for the new drug.
Season 2: This is supposed to be the season that establishes the show's juggernaut status, as the writers begin to add strength to the main plotlines, and they're all nicely integrated with the spinoff cases. Stacy, House's ex-girlfriend who appeared in last season's finale, stays in the show, essentially spanning the first half of the season, and House's parents show up, which gives the audience and the Ducklings a clearer picture of House's past. And the main characters are constantly experiencing disasters, with Chase facing the revocation of his license to practice medicine after negligently causing the death of a patient; Foreman contracting a deadly virus in the course of his treatment, and House going to great lengths to artificially infect Cameron with the same virus to backstab him in a bid to save Foreman's life; and all the way up to the final episode, when one of House's former patients shoots him in revenge ......
Season 3: House's dependence on the drug leads to a serious consequence, his large amount of Vicodin in his home is discovered by police officer Tritter, who wants to prosecute him for drug trafficking; House tries every possible way to get rid of the pesky police officer, but ends up in the courtroom, and luckily cuddy does it for him! perjury and drilled a legal loophole to get him off the hook. But the worst thing happened at the end of the season, when his team faced disbandment.
Season 4: There were only 16 episodes in this season, and that's because of the Great American Writers' Strike that broke out that year, but it was quite a season, and I've always considered the show's second and fourth seasons to be the two best. House starts looking for a new duck for himself, and all he has to do is choose three assistants from 40 candidates, so a game of Survivor unfolds in the Princeton Teaching Hospital, which greatly adds to the fun and suspense of the episode, and FOX even opens up off-site interaction for this, allowing viewers to vote for the right person for the job they have in mind. And then there's the aforementioned death of AMBER, one of the show's most flamboyant passages, in which House is helpless in front of a patient he can least afford to lose, and watches his most beloved man and his most beloved woman spill their tears and say goodbye for eternity.
Season 5: House is still drowning in self-loathing over the painful loss of AMBER, which, combined with his long-term medication, leads to hallucinations that AMBER could be around him at any time, anywhere, whether in the hospital or at home, which makes it difficult for him to extricate himself from his own thoughts, and he ends up in a psychiatric hospital. Another thing that happened this season was that his newest recruit, Kutner the duckling, suddenly committed suicide, not because he deserved to die, but because Kal Penn, the actor who played Kutner, got a new job, but it wasn't with another crew, it was at the White House as Assistant Director of Public **** Engagement, working for Barack Obama. In the end, Cameron and Chase got married.
Season 6: The season begins in a mental hospital, where House goes from healer to healed, but he still has a way of making it his battleground; Chase's sense of human justice overcomes the doctor's sense of duty, and medically puts an African dictator who comes in for treatment to death, thus creating a moral dilemma that ultimately leads to Cameron and Chase's divorce, and House triumphs again.Cameron officially says goodbye to Dr. House for good. But House and cuddy's relationship progressed well and had a confessional moment in the season finale.
Season 7: I don't know how many people like me waited to see how season 7 would upend the season 6 finale, which is fine as a gimmick, but I still have trouble accepting actually having House be dead serious about a woman, even if that woman is cuddy, because that's so un-House. Still, the writers had House and cuddy living under the same roof, so we spent the rest of the season waiting for the writers to break them up, and in the end House put an end to a relationship that never should have happened in a grueling way, and sent himself to prison. It was also the most lackluster season, with Lisa Edelstein suspending her contract and cuddy leaving in disgrace.
Season 8: The premiere episode takes place in a prison, and we finally get to see House in his "man-under-a-shoulder" state, but House in this state is so funny that I wish he'd stayed in prison for a few more episodes. With an abused Foreman as his own boss and two new ducks on the way, there's always a bleakness that lingers around season 8, even if it shows a hint of a return to form. We're aging with House, and it's time to say goodbye.
Five: The Uncertainty of Going
As an actor who has been lucky to have a character like House in his career, Hugh Laurie seems to have spent the first half of his life waiting to be cast in this role. There's a saying in film and television that it's either the play that's the man or the man that's the play, and Hugh Laurie and House are each other's complements, and neither can live without the other. But at the Emmy Awards, the most professionally judged awards in American television, he has been nominated for Best Actor almost every year, but has never once actually stepped up to the podium. The Emmys do owe the Briton, who speaks fluent American English, absolute recognition for once, and this year is the last chance.
Back when the cast of "Dr. House" first let it slip last year that it was ending its eighth season, Hugh Laurie signaled his readiness to permanently retire from the screen and go behind the scenes. "I think I might be interested in writing or producing or directing or some other role. I think the whole area of the movie and television industry is very exciting." With Hugh Laurie's talent, I'm not surprised he's chosen writing and directing as a future direction for his career - in fact, he directed two episodes of Dr. House himself - and with his versatility having released music albums and novels, I have no doubt about his creative abilities. But as for giving up his acting career, I think Hugh Laurie may be feeling a sense of emptiness after House, and if he can find a role that moves him again, I'm sure he'll reappear in front of his favorite audience, because in the world of show business, the so-called retirement and comeback are just a play on words.
It must be a difficult decision for a network to make to end an evergreen series as opposed to axing a new series with poor ratings. The reason behind this is usually a difference of opinion on actor pay, since regular actors get varying increases with each contract renewal. For example, Hugh Laurie was paid a mere mid-five figures per episode when he took over Dr. House in 2004, and by 2006 that had risen to $250,000-$300,000 an episode, and he's currently paid over $400,000 per episode plus a cut, which is what he's signed up for through Season 8, and maybe $500,000 up and down if he continues. While Dr. House's ratings are currently okay, the overall trend is still low, and the network as an acquirer will inevitably consider the profit and loss risk of continuing to air. Previously, the cast of "Dr. House" also had lengthy negotiations with FOX executives over the renewal of the show, but ultimately could not reach an agreement.
"It's better to leave before the music stops, when there's still some promise and mystery in the air." Those are the words of a joint statement from the writers, directors and cast of "Dr. House," which is more of a footnote of hopelessness than a sprightly goodbye. But I believe that many people, like me, are genuinely grateful for the eight years of Dr. House's companionship, and that to fall in love with the character is, in effect, to embrace a life, a realm. Southern Metropolis Daily