[tVtRoPEs] Let's talk about shows which follow this particular trajectory

**Satan's Onion** · 11-02-2010, 01:23 AM

House is, by now, pretty firmly in the "Show is shitty! But still fun to watch, mostly for the enjoyment of bitching about its many failings" category at this point for me. I initially started tuning in because hanging out around here and reading 8-Bit Theater has given me something of a taste for lead characters who are not simply flawed but fundamentally and fascinatingly broken, and House used to provide that marvelously. Now he's going to a therapist and he has his one twu wub in Cuddy and they're trying to give the other characters relationship dramaz and Chase's So I Murdered A Genocidal African Warlord thing from last season or so and---well, I just don't want any of that. I want less Huddy and more of that sweet, sweet WilHouse ~~action~~ dialogue. (I still kind of like Taub, though. He has some relationship dramaz, but not quite as much, so at his best he kind of sits on the metaphorical sidelines and assholes it up the way House used to. Y'know, back when he was awesome.)

But enough of that. You know a show that's still at the awesome end of the spectrum? Community. Community's the bee's knees, you guys. It's practially the only thing NBC has done right in years.

11-02-2010, 01:23 AM	#21
Satan's Onion Swing You Sinners! Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: 4th Street Posts: 2,666	House is, by now, pretty firmly in the "Show is shitty! But still fun to watch, mostly for the enjoyment of bitching about its many failings" category at this point for me. I initially started tuning in because hanging out around here and reading 8-Bit Theater has given me something of a taste for lead characters who are not simply flawed but fundamentally and fascinatingly broken, and House used to provide that marvelously. Now he's going to a therapist and he has his one twu wub in Cuddy and they're trying to give the other characters relationship dramaz and Chase's So I Murdered A Genocidal African Warlord thing from last season or so and---well, I just don't want any of that. I want less Huddy and more of that sweet, sweet WilHouse ~~action~~ dialogue. (I still kind of like Taub, though. He has some relationship dramaz, but not quite as much, so at his best he kind of sits on the metaphorical sidelines and assholes it up the way House used to. Y'know, back when he was awesome.) But enough of that. You know a show that's still at the awesome end of the spectrum? Community. Community's the bee's knees, you guys. It's practially the only thing NBC has done right in years. __________________ Good evening, ladies. Please enter and be tained .