House episode, and randomly typing the new fellows/former candidates

[laene_lif]

You know what? I liked this episode. I like that Amber was given some depth (reminded me of someone I know, actually) and I was a little sad when she left, even though I was expecting it and was fine with it. And you know, I like Thirteen. Yes, she's a second version of Cameron, but she's so much less annoying because she's laidback and cool; she's idealistic and sentimental but not antagonistically preachy. (If Cameron had been played that way all along, I wouldn't have minded her. In fact, one thing that always frustrated me about Cameron was that she was a person I thought I should like, because my natural inclination is to take her stance and say, "Um, compassion is good? Let's give people chances and try to help them/not hurt them?" But something about the way she was written or Jennifer Morrison played her just... rubbed me wrong, I guess.) But I very much do not want any development between her and House though. Because that'd just be dumb.

But yeah. I liked the case, I liked the patient, I liked the lack of over-the-top obnoxiousness, and I giggled a few times. And I didn't mind the not-subtle thematic discussions on differing worldviews and lifestyles because it was an interesting enough (and somewhat relevant to discussions going on in the current college underworld I'm living in) discussion.

And piano!House returned for a moment. And Wilson and House had another repetitive fight but that's ok because friends do have repetitive fights when they have those kinds of differences, and they both made enough sense this time. (A lot of the time, I end up going "Wtf? Shut up!" to at least one of them when they do that.)

And at the end when House gave Cuddy that cute little impy grin, Maddie said, "They're so totally gonna fuck at some point." And Sam said, "They have, haven't they?" at the same time as I said, "Oh, pretty sure they've been there already. There have been lots of hints at it. In fact, they went to college together," and Maddie said, "Ok, then definitely." We all enjoyed the whole thing muchly -- Sam, Eppie, Maddie and I.


Hey, I decided to diagnose the personality types of some of the fellow-candidates:

Kutner (electric paddles guy): 7w6/6w7 ESFP
"Thirteen": 9w1 INFJ)
Taub (plastic surgeon): 6w5 ISTJ
Amber ("Cut-Throat Bitch): 3w4 ENTJ
Cole (single dad mormon): 6w7 ISFJ
Brennan (former doctor without borders): 1w2 INFJ?
Henry ("ridiculously old fraud"): 9w1 INTP (or 5w6? or 6w5?)

Comments

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Hooray for you not hating any of the candidates-now-fellows either. I have been feeling quite in the minority.

It took me several commercial breaks to start tolerating the patient, though. I was with Amber on having zero sympathy and interest in him. It wasn't until the scene in the pediatric ward (as intended, I'm sure) and the conversation with House that I grudgingly started caring.

and they both made enough sense this time.

Yes! Their fight was coherent and accurate for a change. I was starting to wonder whether it was too much to ask to be able to understand WTF they're fighting about sometimes without having to watch it two or three times.

[stephantom.livejournal.com]

Heh, yeah, there's a lot of hate for the new fellows. I guess because they're different (and change is difficult), but also kind of redundant. But I don't have any strong dislike of any of them. And this episode, I enjoyed all of them. (Last week's episode though, was just really kind of blah, for me and I didn't particularly like anyone, except maybe Kutner and Cole, a little bit.)

The patient this week, I dunno, I am somewhat sympathetic toward/attracted to his life philosophy, lol. It's why House is my OTC.

Random, but I have this bizarre urge to write Amber/Punk Rocker now. ... >> lol

[mollyawesome.livejournal.com]

i never hated the fellows! i like them a lot, especially because i was reeeally getting sick of the team last season. not that they should be gone forever. but... i just don't like foreman. i do and i don't. i don't know. i'm certainly never thinking "where's foreman??? he has been off the screen for too long." chase i'm neutral towards, and we all know how i feel about cameron. which is why i like thirteen, she's hotter and more tolerable than cameron. amber can go fuck herself, and i want them to keep kal penn on because he's the man. i also have no problem with taub (that's how you spell it? i thought they were saying tao, as in tao from beastmaster).

[stephantom.livejournal.com]

lololol Beastmaster. Towel. Yeah, apparently it's Taub -- that's how everyone's been spelling it, and I assume they're getting that from somewhere. And yeah, I'm the same about the old team. I'm kind of ambivalent about all of them. I never hated these new people either, although I was a little like, "Ahh, I don't know them and it's too much effort to become interested in them." Some people have been strongly disliking some of them in reviews. I think the thing is that people aren't so much sad that the old fellows aren't around as much, it's that adding a whole new batch and hanging onto the old ones means there will probably be less time for Wilson and Cuddy.

I'm happy with the people that are staying though. Although, I would have liked Cole or Henry as well. And of course they needed at least one girl to stay, but couldn't there have been... a normal girl in the running at some point? Who wasn't ridiculously hot, and wasn't either a bitch or a saint, or some bizarre combination of both (like Cameron), but just.. you know, a character? And there could have been two, not just the token girl -- now there are three girls on the show and six men. And on House's team, there are (including House) four men and one girl. Shrug.

[daasgrrl.livejournal.com]

I knew you'd posted something about the ep! (I've been a bit scattershot about lj lately - I wish there was a different way of viewing f-lists than 'latest first').

The personality types were interesting. You pick Amber as an ENTJ, eh? No wonder I like her XD