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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Smackpixi" data-source="post: 9853389" data-attributes="member: 7028579">Defending House certainly wasn’t on my EnWorld bingo card for today, but here goes anyway.First, yes, it was part of middle aged white guy is a jerk but right trope, but that was never part of the appeal to me, and it’s more than that.  This guy is a jerk, but charmingly amusing at it was the appeal, tacked on to a mystery.  the show did medical mystery well, I thought, because they were layman understandable puzzles about the person, not, we did some tests and you have…But yeah, if you’re not amused by House’s jerk shenanigans, you’re never gonna like the show.  much of his obnoxiousness is directed towards people not being honest with themselves or the situation.  And if you’re a medical professional seems like you can at least appreciate the show’s one recurring message, don’t lie to your doctor.Being a jerk to them, played for laughs, was the point.  He had no interest in helping them, the goal was to get out of doing clinic hours.  In those clinic hours he’s forced to interact with patients, something he finds near pointless in his practice, because everyone lies.  And the clowning of these patients is usually because they’re in denial of something obvious to him, that should be to them as well.He absolutely was not.  Never talking to them, or seeing them in person (at least while conscious) was his thing.100%.  The puzzle usually revolves around what are they not revealing, sometimes with their body, sometimes with their words.It was very clear everyone except a select few hated him.  His mail wasn’t just late, it was never delivered.  He was fine with this, admin staff that discarded his mail cause they find him repellant, he’d respect that.Yeah, because you’re a good person.  House would hate you, because you’re obviously lying about that, or in denial about how much you truely resent helping people that won’t help themselves.House clowns all the people around him for being idiots, dishonest with themselves and oblivious to reality.  It invites the viewer (me) who also feels that way about the people around them, to enjoy the mocking and showing up.  But, I don’t know it ever shied away from the fact who the most dishonest idiot in the room was.</blockquote>

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