Instead of starting with my ranting I'm going to start with one of my favorites quotes from one of the best philosophers (at least in my humble opinion) François Marie Arouet aka Voltaire: “Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing”.
I was watching House yesterday, mid episode I realized that the show was getting predictable. The structure of every episode goes like this:
-Patient with a strange illnes arrives at House's service, mostly of the time House is forced to take the patient by Dr. Cuddy (or he take is the patient because some dark secret agenda, or just to spite someone).
-House's minions do a preliminar diagnostic. He disagrees but lets them treat the patient (maybe because he has no f**** idea what's wrong).
-The patient start to gets better, so while the doctors are in the room with him congratulating themselves for a job well done the patient starts to crash (this always happen, always).
-The doctors can't figure out what's wrong with the patient until House has some kind of epiphany, this happens 90% of the time while he's debating one of his stupid schemes with Dr. Wilson.
-He goes to the patient's room and in a very unpolite way he tells him, that he's a liar and that he's going to get better.
-Here you can find a slight deviation when in the first epiphany he really doesn't figure out what's wrong so he has a second one.
The writers rarely stray from this script, the show lacks more personal interrelations between the doctors, and when there's something interesting happenig not related to the brilliant and inteligent (and ass doctor) House they cut it off, heck they even cut it off when it's House related (this Huddy thing it's starting to get really old). So after six seasons everything is the same, last season it already happened to me to think that it was the last season that I watched that show but then like clockwork you have the excellent and shocking finale so you just can't avoid watching the upcoming season to see how it resolves, then 2 or 3 nice episodes and then mediocrity again.
At first it was fun seeing a doctor so irreverent and without any prejudice against saying what he was thinking, now it just seem to me that House is just a poor old man who, because of his own idiocy (I don't think we can call brilliant a man whose sole purpose in life is making his peers miserable), is alone and is bound to die alone. I'm beggining to hate show characters that are that rude, it gives people leverage to say what they want without thinking about the consequences. I defend sincerity but sometimes you just got to now when to shut your mouth.
And remember, it's never Lupus.
P.S.- Today's title song was provided by the faboulous The White Stripes
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