House 1x16, 33 minutes in

[timepiececlock]

This is getting a bit soap operatic.

Damned if I don't like it.

You know, I managed to go an entire lifetime not watching more than 10-15 minutes of any day time soap opera. Ever.

Now I'm going to be addicted to a nighttime one. After 21 years of successful soap opera avoidance.

'Ts fucking up my record! My pristine record! Pristine!


EDIT #1 w/ episode 17: Aww fucking hell, I've got a crush. I've got a TVcrush on Dr. House. You know, before I started watching this show, I didn't even think he was that attractive. Okay looking: not bad, but not that great. Now the snappy dialogue and barbed crotchety niceness and well-lit blue eyes have hit and I've got another TVcrush.

Oh well. The joy of TVcrushes is that I can relish in the unreality of them. Cause if I met a guy like him in real life I'd be really attracted to his wit and not so much attracted to him physically (too old for me.) But it's a TVcrush, so reality need not knock on my door.

The piano. Dead give away for woobiness.


Edit #2: Really well-lit blue eyes.

Edit #3: "You can't be around that much niceness and not get any on you." Oh I :heart: Wilson.

Edit#4, end of episode 17: *headdesk* Dammit, come on man! Even your deep inner pain isn't worth this much punishment! Why must you insist on being miserable when someone who totally could do better than you is completely in love with you! Wake up! Smell the daisies!

Comments

[zebeckras.livejournal.com]

Want amusement to fan the TVcrush? Seen any "Blackadder"? Hugh Laurie is in, I think, three of the four seasons. Rent a volume to see very young Hugh Laurie acting like a ninny - entirely different from House - just for kicks. I recommend that over the easiest role of his to find: Stuart Little. Because who wants to sit through Stuart Little just to see Goofy!Hugh Laurie? Nah, get either Blackadder II, III, or Goes Forth. ^_~

(haven't watched "House" but I can't let that stop me from going jaw-dropped over Hugh Laurie's performance)

[octopedingenue]

'Ts fucking up my record! My pristine record! Pristine!

You follow "Fruits Basket", woman!

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

You have a backwards sort of point, but it's a manga, not a daily or even weekly soap. I wish it were! And if we're jumping genres then by that definition Buffy was a soap opera too. And Farscape, in a way. Neither of which I'm going to agree with.

Besides, Furuba totally started as a sitcom. It metamorphosed into this semi-soapy thing that... well, Paradise Kiss is a better example of a straight manga/anime soap, anyway. Go with that argument.

Still, my record with daytime dramas is pristine. Does it matter if I'm watching the House episodes in the day if they were aired at night?

fic rec

[mswyrr]

A fic set directly after Episode 17, wherein House wakes up, and smells the daisies:

author: EnchantedApril
title: Saints and Saviors
url: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2371900/1/
Summary: 30 chapters + epilogue. Awesome. Might even be tempted to call it definitive. A psychologically insightful story with an arc that brings House & Cameron together without bending or twisting either of them out of character. It has plot that, outside its obvious use as a wedge to get House in gear, is nicely handled.

Other kickass fics that I'm pretty sure won't spoil you beyond ep 17:

author: mossley
title: Rash Decisions
url: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2478022/1/
Summary: Multi-chapter. Mysterious illnesses, pitch perfect characterization, and good 'ship.

author: _vicodin
title: Interrogation
url: http://www.livejournal.com/users/_vicodin/13780.html
Summery: One-shot. How Cameron got the job.

[mswyrr]

Wait! No, back away from Rash Decisions until you've seen episode 1x20!

I was just re-reading it, and there's a big ole' spoiler I'd forgotten about. Interrogration is perfectly safe, though.

[mswyrr]

*covers face* I kept reading, and found even more spoilers, now up to the final episode of season 1.

Sorry.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Don't worry! I just finished season 1, and haven't read the fics yet. I'm going to start season 2! And probably finish tonight or tomorrow at the latest. So throw 'em at me! ::opens arms widely::

I really appreciate the helping hand with fic-finding, btw.

[mswyrr]

I really appreciate the helping hand with fic-finding, btw.

No prob. Now that I don't have to worry about spoiling you, mind if I just sort of throw them at you all at once, in no particular order? Or I could be really lazy, and just copy/paste my House!fic file. These range from really good, to just good, with one or two that are only OK:

adrift -
Reluctance (H in first class, following C to Seattle) (WiP)
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2376059/10/

Amos Whirly -

Broken (Monster Trucks & limosines - GOOD) WiP
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2349517/9/

EnchantedApril - http://www.fanfiction.net/u/793778/

Saints and Saviors (FIN)
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2371900/8/
http://home.comcast.net/%7Ehouse_cameron/saints_and_saviors.htm

Cohabitation
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2473835/1/

Second Date
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2580801/5/

Third Date
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2647599/4/

Three Dates Later
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2678889/1/

The Sitter (Steve McQueen, the rat) (WiP)*
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2682163/2/

euchrid eucrow -

Objects at Rest (WiP)
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2425533/4/

Objects in Motion (Cam's Three First Names boyfriend)
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2482565/3/

Gatekeeper -
Coming Home
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2253010/2/

houseonfire -
Moment of Truth (C's wrong diagnosis) (WiP)
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2335477/1/

Kethria - http://www.fanfiction.net/u/851400/

A Reasonable Facsimile (v true to characters. pretty girl w/mind of a 3yrold case)
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2481923/12/

Trick or Treat (Cam plays little Susie Homemaker over Halloween)
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2638376/4/

Laura Smith -

Disclaimer
http://www.squidge.org/housefanfiction/archive/2/disclaimer.html

What I Like About You
http://www.squidge.org/housefanfiction/archive/1/whati.html

Open Air
http://www.squidge.org/housefanfiction/archive/2/openair.html

Slide
http://www.squidge.org/housefanfiction/archive/2/slide.html

Terms and Conditions
http://www.squidge.org/housefanfiction/archive/1/termsand.html

lone astronomer - http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2347560/3/

Crush (1)
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2340922/1/

Bad Ideas (2)
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2340956/1/

House of Cards (3)
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2347560/1/

Spin (4)
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2367453/1/

Week of Mondays (5) (WiP)
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2381748/3/

MegTDJ -
Vacation Time (Dennis-the-Menace, Jazz Festival)
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2317662/6/

mossley -
Victims of Circumstance (Gen. Adam the diabetic)
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2552879/1/

Rash Decisions
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2478022/1/

Muskie -
Tenacity (nice, slow build. Wilson's third divorce, House's complete lack of support) WiP
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2690710/2/

On Common Ground (Randy & Stacy, sitting on a desk, f-u-c-k-i-n-g)
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2554324/8/

Revenge of the Prom Queen
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2529855/5/

Rain -

Lost
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2364202/1/

Rapunzzle - http://www.fanfiction.net/u/790042/

Darkness (WELL DONE Cam robbed in parking lot) (WiP)
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2352463/6/

The Stranger (Cam's friend Mark) WiP)
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2369784/7/

ScullyAsTrinity -
The Snow Globe Effect
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2485080/1/

selfavoidingwalk -
Worth (Dr. Wolfe the oncologist.)
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2627068/3/

starrynight265 -
Go Away (conversations at the Lacrosse field)
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2335042/1/

teenwitch - http://www.fanfiction.net/u/375678/

Succumb (WiP)
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2598339/1/

Unscathed (car accident!toblame!Cameron)
http://www.livejournal.com/~teenwitch77


temet nosce -
Spellbound and Swallowed (WiP)
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2285187/9/

_vicodin -

Interrogation (one shot. Cam's interview.)
http://www.livejournal.com/users/_vicodin/13780.html

Figure of Speech (post-date, or date expandid)
http://www.livejournal.com/users/house_cameron/338556.html

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I've been making my way through these, slowly, and others from the house_cameron community. Much love. The only thing I don't like is that Foreman's fanfiction dialogue never sounds in-character to me. I haven't read any Foreman-centric fic so it's not a big deal, but is has sort of bugged me tangentially.