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[everybodyliesmd]

For anyone that's interested, I changed the name of my Livejournal from trustnoone1018 to everybodyliesmd. If you look for trustnoone1018, you'll be redirected. (All my interests, friends, links, etc. has been transferred, so I haven't lost anything.)

I still love my X Files, especially M/K, but House, MD and Hugh Laurie are my new obsessions now. Can you tell?

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[seagray.livejournal.com]

I'm curious, what do you like most about Dr. House, if I may ask? (I really like Huge Laurie but House is such a curmudgeon, lol!)

[(Anonymous)]

I love him because he says all the things the rest of us WISH we could say. (I admit that sometimes I cringe at some of the things he says, but I think the writers do a good job of not being completely and utterly offensive.)

I realize that if he were a real person he'd have been fired and likely put in jail a long time ago, but it's just great fun (IMHO) to see something different on TV. Usually the eccentric and/or cranky characters are not the main character, but with House we get to OD on his curmudgeon-ness. (The writing on that show is just great; I can't go 5 minutes without cracking up over something.)

And Hugh Laurie just oozes sex, dontcha think? He is just so incredibly talented yet he is modest and humble (if not self-deprecating). That makes him even more sexy to me.

I just can't get enough of him.

[seagray.livejournal.com]

I think he's super talented, that's for sure! I still gasp when I recall him in "Jeeves & Wooster".
A very talented man.

Brilliant folks like House can get away with a lot more than the rest of us. At least, on TV.:D

[everybodyliesmd.livejournal.com]

I read my reply to your question again, and I wanted to give you a better, less superficial answer.

I've always liked House but now I absolutely love him. Thanks to the writers who have given him such depth and complexity - and Hugh Laurie's *amazing* ability to convey that depth and complexity - House has become, for me, a very sympathetic and ultimately lovable character.

As a child, House was abused by the man he called "Dad". His mother was either stupid, deliberately ignorant, or terrified of her husband because she allowed it to happen. She was also unhappy enough in her marriage ("even my mother hated him") to have an affair and end up pregnant with Greg (who was smart enough to figure out that his "Dad" was not his "father" at the age of 12).

It's clear that this abuse, along with his mother's seeming indifference to it, has had a lasting, negative effect on House's self-worth. This is compounded by the fact that he is now disabled because his wishes were not carried out following his infarction. One has to wonder whether he would've been right, as he usually is, to allow his body to attempt to heal itself while in a chemically-induced coma to get through the worst of the pain. Instead, the woman he loves defies and betrays him by authorizing a surgery he doesn't want. This betrayal has a huge impact on their relationship and, ultimately, his quality of life.

Despite the fact that he is sometimes seen as egotistical and having a God complex, causing his colleagues and friends to frequently attempt to teach him humility, the truth is he is/has neither of those things ("God doesn't limp"). He has no self-worth and values his own life less than others, even complete strangers. The only thing he feels he has, the only thing he does value about himself, is his brilliant mind. (He was almost indifferent about being shot, but he was absolutely terrified that he was losing his mind.) The reason he doesn't like to visit his patients is because he is afraid they will not trust him ("no one wants a sick doctor"). A brilliant mind is not visibly apparent, but a limp is.

Beneath the gruff and seemingly uncaring exterior is a man who always tries to do the right thing. He's a man that will stop at nothing to heal his patients. We're made to think that it's all about solving a puzzle for House, but a closer look tells us that isn't the whole story. House has far more humanity and is far more compassionate than he is given credit for (and because he doesn't really want to be seen that way anyways). His outwardly nasty disposition is nothing more than a suit of armor that's protecting him from getting hurt, because he's suffered enough hurt in his life. He pushes people away to save himself.

Wilson frequently tells him that House actually enjoys being miserable, but one look in those expressive (and beautiful) blue eyes says that isn't true. House doesn't *want* to be miserable, but he feels he'll be less miserable if things stay the way they are than he will be if he opens himself up to people. He's choosing the lesser of two evils; that's not the same as choosing to be miserable.

Sometimes watching House stoically tolerating his pain (both physical and emotional) and battling his many demons brings me to tears. (If I knew a real person like him I’m sure I’d want to kick his ass on a daily basis, but I’d like to think that I’d see beyond the superficial exterior to the hurting soul inside.) He is blunt, completely un-PC, and sometimes outright cruel. However, as Wilson points out, he is “a positive force in the universe.” His ability to do good far outweighs his tendency to piss people off.

It’s ultimately Hugh Laurie’s brilliant portrayal of House that has made me care about the character. (HL just blows me away on so many levels, but that’s another lengthy story.) I truly believe that if House lost his voice, Hugh would be able to tell an entire story with just his facial expressions and his eyes. (It’s his eyes that make me cry. If everyone were able to convey their emotions in their eyes like he does and were able to read emotions in others’ eyes, there would surely be a lot less misunderstanding in the world.)

Anyways, that’s my very long answer to a short question.