#dootnoot

the first thought that came to me: i'd change things so that wilson and cuddy weren't constantly trying to change house or tell him what to do re: his addiction when he so clearly wasn't ready to change.

this was a big issue for me throughout the show, because while i understand their frustration as people who love him and who don't want to see him suffer, they failed to see that the constant lecturing pushed house deeper into denial - as it often does to addicts when they're in the precontemplative stage.

what he really needed instead was support (not to be confused with enabling), acceptance and understanding of his choices - real understanding; the awareness that he is where he is right now and they can't change him. this doesn't mean they shouldn't speak up when he makes bad choices. frankly, they were fantastic friends - the only problem was that they didn't realize people don't come out of denial unless they realize it themselves.

but i can also see why wilson (if not cuddy - and only because i don't have as good a read on her as wilson) couldn't be this person for house - wilson's a fixer. he has to feel needed, so he gives people solutions to their problems - even problems they're not willing to admit to having.

house eventually did get out of precontemplative and into contemplative at the end of season 5 when he realized things were too far gone and he needed help - and good for him - but notice how he had to come to that realization himself. it really, really cannot work any other way. i speak from first hand experience.

i'm not sure if i can think of any Big Plot Things to change - the show's writing is far from perfect, but overall i'm satisfied with where they decided to go mostly. there are some things i'd change:

i wish cuddy respected house's disability more in earlier seasons;

i wish he wasn't referred to as an addict in earlier seasons when he was really just a guy in so much pain he developed a dependence (you can see how he might get defensive - and unwilling to recognize later on that he does have an addiction - when people were calling him an addict before he was even an addict);

the majority of season 8 felt like the equivalent of naruto filler episodes

while i do think house never got over the events of the season 7 finale i wish we'd seen him struggling with them at least a little while he was in prison. and i wish we'd seen cuddy at least once in season 8. at his funeral perhaps. feels wrong that she wasn't there

huddy in general. i don't know WHAT i'd change - maybe i wouldn't have teased the ship from, oh i don't know, SEASON 1 - i just know that it could've gone better. i'd have still broke them up, absolutely; but the way it ended (and even began, to an extent) in the show left me dissatisfied

lbr house escaping to some other country after running his car into huddy’s house was sort of ridiculous

house in actual band t-shirts

i'm not a fan of the whole selecting-my-employees-with-a-game-show format of season 4

more house wearing cozy-looking hoodies

my god they really ran out of plots for each episode around seasons 5/6/7. the medical stuff really dipped, too - i rewatched a few episodes from season 1 and the medicine was SO solid, leagues above the later seasons, not to mention other medical dramas: the nun with the copper T, the schizophrenic mom who wasn't schizophrenic at all, those were some of my favorite episodes, and they managed to simultaneously weave in those themes of human nature that's REALLY what this show's trying to get at. towards 5/6/7 i felt like these aspects got really messy.

more house chilling at home

ok i heard about the toxic part which was bad enough, not the “genuinely wants to hurt people” part and. wow.

people keep insisting pink diamond is like, a good morally gray character or whatever but. she’s just a villain who got away with it and refusing to admit it is just rebecca being a terrible fucking writer and person, and ppl keep pretending she’s not?

literally all of SU is the result of Pink Diamond’s selfishness except instead of pointing it out the writing just blames everyone else for being unable to cope with it (including the diamonds but honestly fuck the diamonds they dont matter)

the epitome of this is pearl’s entire character and arc. we spend the entire fucking series talking about how she needs to let go of rose only to learn she is literally magically, physically and psychologically linked to her to the point that rose could in fact enact a real mental restriction on what she could speak about.

and rebecca blamed it all on pearl. all of it. a l l  o f  i t

we spend all of pearl’s story thinking her trauma is the result of circumstance (losing a loved one) but no. pearl is like that literally because of the diamonds and because of pink. and rebecca’s writing pretends this is a blameless situation.

she does this over and over and over w every single character involved w pink diamond

its funny because although i only really got into this show in august, i feel like I've known the characters forever because i used to watch it here and there 10 years ago, when i was 13. so to me it doesn't feel like a 'new' interest as much as following through on something i enjoyed (but frankly didn't have the critical thinking skills for) a long time ago :')

right!! i finished watching the show recently, and i still dont get how hordak is sympathetic. he’s an evil dick pretty much all the time and even in his backstory, he gladly took part in his brother’s conquests. but we’re supposed to feel bad for him because his brother turned on him? really? i also dont get why entrapta even cares about him, their ‘relationship’ feels random and not well developed. no more “tragic” “morally grey” space tyrants please

writers rly think “got fucked over by another villain but didn’t rly change morally” is an actual redemption arc, huh