House, MD's medical cred goes down with every episode. for all the people who'd rather not turn a blind eye to House's medical foibles, or for those who already have but nonetheless feel the burning need to see the light, check out this site:
http://www.politedissent.com/house_pd.html
and there is, apparently, a book which explores the 'science' of the show:
http://www.houseisright.com/2006/12/01/house-diagnoses-are-real/
though i expect the book to focus more on the things the show 'does right' than politedissent.
Mabel continues to be exasperated by the show. she is, after all, a practicing physician, and can see right through House's obfuscating jargon-juggling. me, i've long ago taken to the grain-of-salt approach to appreciating 'TV knowledge' (i take it as no different from the delightfully meaningless technobabble that informs, say, Star Trek or Doctor Who), and continue to watch House because, let's face it, he's just an interesting, funny bastard, whether or not his on-show 'brilliance' would hold water in the real world. (oh yes, as a nod to my friend Johnny, i should also mention that 'Dr Cameron' is hot.)
the tube's 'on' button is my brain's 'off' button, the Discovery Channel and Mythbusters notwithstanding.
besides, i do so love grotesques, and Hugh Laurie's misanthrope is as grotesque as you can get on TV. barring, perhaps, Dexter Morgan...
meanwhile, i know am yet again late coming to this, but i've only recently begun to develop a taste for Franz Ferdinand. i dig their 'post-punk rock girls can dance to', and honestly believe they do a better Beatles-impression than Oasis.
so, on the spinner: Franz Ferdinand's You Could Have It So Much Better.
and, for purposes of this post, i dug up the following review from The Guardian:
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/filmandmusic/story/0,,1580837,00.html
yeah, i know. a music review from The Guardian. whatever.
still, M. John Harrison more-or-less regularly does reviews for them. so sue me.
2 comments:
Heh I think I saw that House book in National Bookstore. Big 'un too. And gotta agree, the medical babble is the same as the Star Trek stuff. Still, it's more believable than the stuff they spout in ST. (For me anyway but then again, I'm not a doctor.)
well, the medical babble isn't quite *the same*...you have to remember that Star Trek's technogibberish is based on mere postulates and 'possibilities', while House is based on medical fact...totally possible to make it more factually correct.
however, while i do wish the writers would take heed of people like Scott over on politedissent, i've long ago stopped expecting any sort of sensibleness from hollywood.
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