House, MD

You may’ve guessed I really don’t know what I’m doing as of yet. Since I forgot House, MD in my list of what I’m going to review. Since he’s the most popular disabled character on television ever, and I think a great uninspiring role model I of course am going to review the hell out of it…just so you know. There is so much to say about it, it’s overwhelming. From the show constantly putting the painstaking things people do to be “normal” when in disability/illness to House’s flawed character who is constant conflict about whether he wants connection or superiority. The character flaws he has have nothing to do with his disability, yet they are enhanced and affected by his disability. Wow it’s like the show is like real life or something! (Okay, maybe not so many people are coming down with rare parasites and hysterical illnesses in New Jersey, but you know what I am saying.)

That being said they do have totally ham-fisted episodes that are designed to get people upset and clacking around the water cooler such as the one where the mom forces her deaf teenage son to get a cochlear implant. I felt like the writer read an article about the debate and quickly wrote the episode and said: “This’ll get ‘em talking.” No, it won’t. I’m not going to talk about it. At least not right now.

One of my favorite episodes for regarding disability was Needle in a Haystack way back in 2007 where House battles a fellow doctor, Dr. Wendy Mekkena, for the best handicapped parking space. Of course charming dickishness and hilarity ensue as well as an actual honest conversation about having a disability. But, that’s not my favorite part of the episode. This is:

Foreman: House is harassing the new doctor in a wheelchair for the best handicapped spot.

Chase: There’s a new doctor? Is she hot?

Cameron: She’s in a wheelchair.

Chase: Who cares?

This is just a throw away exchange to most people. It doesn’t make any quotes for the episode, but to me it was very awesome and important…because it has to do with sex, and you will soon find out I am a huge horn-dog! (Also, I think the politics of sex are very important. What is happening with a minority groups sexuality and how it is being treated/controlled says everything about how that group is doing with the rest of the world. Also, who wouldn’t want to bang Chase at least once!)

Chase (who maybe bland inside but is sure hot outside) wants to know if the new doctor is hot after he has heard she is a wheelchair. Cameron (the bleeding heart) reminds him the new doctor in question is in a wheelchair, because Cameron may care so very much about everyone but she can’t imagine why the hot piece of ass she has had casual relations with (at this point) would find a woman in a wheelchair hot. Chase then points out that a woman’s hotness has nothing to do with her being in a wheelchair.

The only flaw is that we do never see Dr. Wendy Mekkena again. Maybe she’s the only one emotionally healthy enough to know that you should stay away from House. You are a stronger hot redheaded disabled woman that I, Wendy.

I’m still really into House, but I think the show isn’t what it used to be. To be fair it is in its 7^th season. I love the brilliant, sexy, Hugh Laurie. I totally don’t want it to go down hill, but I’ve learned not to be in denial about these things. The power struggles have become forced.

Does anyone really care if Taulbe is cheating on his wife? And is it me or has Foreman just become a complete jerk. The only thing that House really had going for it was the Cuddy centered episode. I cried the whole time because I knew I didn’t have the physical or mental energy to do anything she was doing as a woman with a disability and if that is what it takes I can see why I so miserably fail at being a professional woman every time I try it. On that sorry note I will end this post. Expect my post on latest House soon as well as my brief exchange with the writer of Spartucus.