Tonight's Ep of House
Feb. 8th, 2010 11:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deelaundryTonight's episode was OK; enjoyable as a one-off. The working-mom-related subplots continue to not annoy the hell out of me. \o/ But why in the world doesn't Cuddy have an assistant? The employee in scrubs (nurse? clinic manager?) who helped Cuddy out ought to ask for extra pay because there is no way that kind of stuff is in her actual job description. Anyway, that's not the one thing.
The one thing is: In the beginning, when Lucas was a "two-minute man," what was up with Cuddy saying she was now going to have to go to work frustrated? Lucas has a tongue, doesn't he? I can see he's got fingers, at least. Intercourse might be her favorite way to orgasm, but there are other methods. No reason Lucas couldn't at least try to satisfy her with something besides the mighty penis. WTF, sexist show. WTF.
The one thing is: In the beginning, when Lucas was a "two-minute man," what was up with Cuddy saying she was now going to have to go to work frustrated? Lucas has a tongue, doesn't he? I can see he's got fingers, at least. Intercourse might be her favorite way to orgasm, but there are other methods. No reason Lucas couldn't at least try to satisfy her with something besides the mighty penis. WTF, sexist show. WTF.
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Date: 2010-02-09 04:17 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-02-09 04:28 am (UTC)But I can also see where other people might not see it the way I did.
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Date: 2010-02-09 04:32 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-02-09 04:36 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-02-09 04:41 am (UTC)I'm liking Lucas less all the time as he continues to raise all kinds of emotional manipulator/creepy possible abuser red flags to me. I get what you're saying, yet I'm way more disturbed that the show seems to accept him perpetrating serious property damage and doing stuff like the grab bar "prank" that could have killed House -- all because he has presumed to be fighting the woman's battles for her, without even asking how she actually felt about it. And now he steals the nanny's cell phone. And ... she's OKAY with all this? I'm certainly not.
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Date: 2010-02-09 05:48 pm (UTC)(haha, Lucas is a crummy lay)
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Date: 2010-02-09 04:18 am (UTC)And that's the only way in which I'll defend him in this episode, because his other behaviors (taking away her line of communication?!!) creeped me right the hell out.
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Date: 2010-02-09 04:33 am (UTC)The sex, well -- my displeasure is not so much with Lucas himself, but with the producers of the show. The scene, to me, reinforced the sexist stereotype of women's pleasure only coming from the man's penis - and of male orgasm being the endpoint of a hetereosexual sexual encounter. Dumb.
But, like I said, the portrayal of a working mother's life continues to ring fairly true to me, so that is something awesome they're doing.
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Date: 2010-02-09 04:48 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-02-09 05:03 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-02-09 04:23 am (UTC)Fail, crappy lover.
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Date: 2010-02-09 04:30 am (UTC)Lucas is pretty much oblivious to anything other than what he wants, and his attempts to endear himself come off to me as clumsy and self-serving, not actually considerate.
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Date: 2010-02-09 04:34 am (UTC)Not obvious to me. I thought she was reconsidering and was going to give Lucas another chance, and then when he was totally oblivious she left.
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Date: 2010-02-09 04:45 am (UTC)I just ... I thought he was reaching for her, to try and do something about the situation, but she got out of bed and wouldn't let him because she was stressed about the time. But I may not be remembering that correctly.
I'm way more bothered by other stuff he does, which is not to say that Dee isn't right too. It's just ... the blabbing to House, and the phones, and the dangerous and vandalous "pranks" -- there are many layers to the Fail Dip.
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Date: 2010-02-09 04:46 am (UTC)I like Lucas, and I think he's a lot like House. Maybe I'm giving him a pass on some of the creepy stuff because it seems like something House might do? I don't know.
It'll make me roll my eyes if he turns out to be evil, because this show really hates its happy characters, doesn't it?
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Date: 2010-02-09 05:14 am (UTC)House will go to considerable lengths (including hiring Lucas) to try to keep the people he loves in his life, but he won't go fighting someone else's battles; he considers that people are mature enough to take care of their problems themselves. Lucas didn't give that respect to Cuddy, and he destroyed House and Wilson's apartment, risked serious injury to House and then tripped him in public, all based on that presumption that it was somehow his place to exact vengeance on her behalf.
Maybe that's why he creeps me out and House doesn't. Or maybe it's his shifty little eyes. It's kind of fun to think about why I find him creepy and House not so much.
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Date: 2010-02-09 05:15 am (UTC)I also thought it was odd the way House went from being ready to whack Lucas with his cane for tripping him in the last episode, to hanging out with him on a stakeout.
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Date: 2010-02-09 05:18 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-02-09 04:27 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-02-09 04:42 am (UTC)She actually needs assistants in two different ways: She needs an Assistant Dean of Medicine who could help with the higher-level work, including keeping her department heads working together well (not that she can't do it; just that she shouldn't have to do it completely by herself) and she needs an administrative assistant to help with scheduling, correspondence, etc.
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Date: 2010-02-09 04:50 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-02-09 04:55 am (UTC)And legal fees, I guess. : )
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Date: 2010-02-09 04:56 am (UTC)Also: big glass windows and a balcony.
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Date: 2010-02-09 05:01 am (UTC)Heh.
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Date: 2010-02-09 05:02 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-02-09 05:16 am (UTC):-)
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Date: 2010-02-09 05:18 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-02-10 05:15 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-02-09 04:46 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-02-09 05:06 am (UTC)Leiascully points out that Cuddy used to have assistants. For work. Not sex. At least, not in canon.
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Date: 2010-02-10 01:41 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-02-09 06:02 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-02-09 01:43 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-02-09 01:36 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-02-09 07:05 pm (UTC)I recommend stopping now. Save yourself.
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Date: 2010-02-10 01:42 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-02-10 01:42 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-02-09 01:38 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-02-09 07:11 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-02-09 03:14 pm (UTC)although, he didn't exactly offer to pleasure her, did he?
Regardless, SHE DOESN'T OWN A VIBRATOR?
with House's face on itI don't believe that for a second!(no subject)
Date: 2010-02-09 05:51 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-02-09 03:57 pm (UTC)Season 6 really has been great so far. I'm pleased.
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Date: 2010-02-09 05:47 pm (UTC)Apart from that it was all a bit...meh.
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Date: 2010-02-09 09:26 pm (UTC)But LAME ENDING IS LAME! WTF was up with the "YEEEEEES!"? That's gotta be the cheesiest thing this show has ever seen. Too bad, it could have fallen in the 'good episode' category without that.
"The one thing is: In the beginning, when Lucas was a "two-minute man," what was up with Cuddy saying she was now going to have to go to work frustrated? Lucas has a tongue, doesn't he? I can see he's got fingers, at least. Intercourse might be her favorite way to orgasm, but there are other methods. No reason Lucas couldn't at least try to satisfy her with something besides the mighty penis. WTF, sexist show. WTF"
THIS. I LOVE YOU, THIS. Yes as much as it pains me to say it, sexist show alright :/
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Date: 2010-02-10 03:29 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-02-10 11:43 pm (UTC)