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I'm slowly working my way through the meme post and giving answers. Y'alll are awesome. :-)
So...I finished the SW story last night. I'm posting the last of it tonight, I think. I am so excited. I'm very, very happy to have finished it. I loved the whole process of twisting the canon to suit the setting on Earth.
Honestly, it was written over too long a period of time, and it's a little disjointed. But for all that, I think it stands up pretty well.
I'll post a link to it here, too, once it's all done.
So...thoughts on Lost last night. I'm not a huge shipper on Lost anymore, but I have been a slight Jack/Kate shipper since day one. They're DOOMED. Absolutely. Also, Jack is an asshole. Doesn't mean I don't still think he's hot. And the island is mysterious. That is all.
I also told Jenn that I'd talk a little about my thoughts about House.
There are a few things I've come to realize: One is that when the show lives up to its name, it's awesome. As long as it's about House, about how he deals with things, about how he interacts with the people around him. And the truth is, he's a complete asshole who is entirely too good at manipulating people for his own good. And that's fascinating to me, although, as I rant about later, I wish the rest of the character development was as good.
I'm gonna admit that I think early seasons House and Cameron is a Very Bad Idea. Mostly because there is that initial attachment on Cameron's part that I don't think is necessarily a brilliant idea. I think she does have some sort of unhealthy attraction to House, although I think that later on that attraction isn't for the same reasons, and that she has a better balance about her own life and what she wants to do.
Oh, but I love the interaction between them. There's something really awesome about the way that Cameron puzzles House sometimes, and there's a really nice stubborn streak I see in Cameron that wants to figure House out, wants to understand him--because she thinks he's worth understanding, and not because she thinks he's always wrong.
Of course, I'm only in season three, and I guess from what other people have said that we don't get a whole lot of insight into the way Cameron's mind works. Which is too bad--how can you understand how House relates to someone without understanding how they relate to everyone else? That's why the scenes where it's Cuddy/Wilson/Cameron/Foreman/Chase/Patient are so interesting to me. I want more of that, so that when House comes up against a sticking point for Foreman, then we understand why it's there.
Otherwise it feels sort of sloppy.
Anyway, I'm totally on board House/Cameron as an angsty pairing of DOOM, and I'm totally on board Cameron/Wilson as a "Well, if we tag-team him, we can maybe keep him from self-destructing." (This also translates well into OT3, in my book).
I don't get Cameron/Chase. Really. Maybe there's something there I'm missing or haven't gotten to yet, but it seems sort of random.
I'm really never about the medical dramas, so House is unusual for me, as it is for Jenn. However, I think calling House a medical drama is a little odd, too. Just because the focus really isn't on the medical problems.
So that's what I see so far.
So...I finished the SW story last night. I'm posting the last of it tonight, I think. I am so excited. I'm very, very happy to have finished it. I loved the whole process of twisting the canon to suit the setting on Earth.
Honestly, it was written over too long a period of time, and it's a little disjointed. But for all that, I think it stands up pretty well.
I'll post a link to it here, too, once it's all done.
So...thoughts on Lost last night. I'm not a huge shipper on Lost anymore, but I have been a slight Jack/Kate shipper since day one. They're DOOMED. Absolutely. Also, Jack is an asshole. Doesn't mean I don't still think he's hot. And the island is mysterious. That is all.
I also told Jenn that I'd talk a little about my thoughts about House.
There are a few things I've come to realize: One is that when the show lives up to its name, it's awesome. As long as it's about House, about how he deals with things, about how he interacts with the people around him. And the truth is, he's a complete asshole who is entirely too good at manipulating people for his own good. And that's fascinating to me, although, as I rant about later, I wish the rest of the character development was as good.
I'm gonna admit that I think early seasons House and Cameron is a Very Bad Idea. Mostly because there is that initial attachment on Cameron's part that I don't think is necessarily a brilliant idea. I think she does have some sort of unhealthy attraction to House, although I think that later on that attraction isn't for the same reasons, and that she has a better balance about her own life and what she wants to do.
Oh, but I love the interaction between them. There's something really awesome about the way that Cameron puzzles House sometimes, and there's a really nice stubborn streak I see in Cameron that wants to figure House out, wants to understand him--because she thinks he's worth understanding, and not because she thinks he's always wrong.
Of course, I'm only in season three, and I guess from what other people have said that we don't get a whole lot of insight into the way Cameron's mind works. Which is too bad--how can you understand how House relates to someone without understanding how they relate to everyone else? That's why the scenes where it's Cuddy/Wilson/Cameron/Foreman/Chase/Patient are so interesting to me. I want more of that, so that when House comes up against a sticking point for Foreman, then we understand why it's there.
Otherwise it feels sort of sloppy.
Anyway, I'm totally on board House/Cameron as an angsty pairing of DOOM, and I'm totally on board Cameron/Wilson as a "Well, if we tag-team him, we can maybe keep him from self-destructing." (This also translates well into OT3, in my book).
I don't get Cameron/Chase. Really. Maybe there's something there I'm missing or haven't gotten to yet, but it seems sort of random.
I'm really never about the medical dramas, so House is unusual for me, as it is for Jenn. However, I think calling House a medical drama is a little odd, too. Just because the focus really isn't on the medical problems.
So that's what I see so far.
