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Nov. 15th, 2006 01:57 pmLast night's House needs to win an Emmy for everyone, even stupid Robert Sean Leonard and stupid Wilson. There are special awards we can give to just the episode, right? It was so good, probably one of the best I've seen. Hugh Laurie is always amazing, but last night he almost made ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
feiran and I cry (that's not hyperbole, that's truth). John Laroquette was the patient-of-the-week sorta, and he was FANTASTIC. Last time I saw him, it was on Night Court, so I was blown away with what he did here. Wow. Just wow, wow, wow.
As I catch up with shows I missed while I was in San Francisco, I'm going to post metas on them. Since I'd seen Battlestar Galactica before I left, I actually hand-wrote a meta treatise on my feelings about the episode. I don't have it with me, so I'll see if I can recreate it.
( Spoilers for 'A Measure of Salvation' (last Friday's ep) )
Whew. That was more than I'd written before. I'm just angry at this episode not-dealing with stuff or conflating certain points of view. There's a serious problem with the way Helo treats the Cylon--and, yes, because he's bias and blinded--and I hate it because it's so tragic. It's giving the enemy humanity, which is so impossible to do (look at how humans treat each other when they are enemies, and see how awful that is) under most circumstances, but he does without question. It's just that, as in all sci-fi set ups with an alien/robot/et al other, we're supposed to be allowed to see them as not like us and therefore not worthy of our consideration as people only they really are let's have a hippie love fest like Star Trek VI when we're through. In this case, though, the Cylon existence and view point are so different that treating them like people IS A HUGE FRAKKIN MISTAKE.
::seethes::
feiran and I cry (that's not hyperbole, that's truth). John Laroquette was the patient-of-the-week sorta, and he was FANTASTIC. Last time I saw him, it was on Night Court, so I was blown away with what he did here. Wow. Just wow, wow, wow.As I catch up with shows I missed while I was in San Francisco, I'm going to post metas on them. Since I'd seen Battlestar Galactica before I left, I actually hand-wrote a meta treatise on my feelings about the episode. I don't have it with me, so I'll see if I can recreate it.
( Spoilers for 'A Measure of Salvation' (last Friday's ep) )
Whew. That was more than I'd written before. I'm just angry at this episode not-dealing with stuff or conflating certain points of view. There's a serious problem with the way Helo treats the Cylon--and, yes, because he's bias and blinded--and I hate it because it's so tragic. It's giving the enemy humanity, which is so impossible to do (look at how humans treat each other when they are enemies, and see how awful that is) under most circumstances, but he does without question. It's just that, as in all sci-fi set ups with an alien/robot/et al other, we're supposed to be allowed to see them as not like us and therefore not worthy of our consideration as people only they really are let's have a hippie love fest like Star Trek VI when we're through. In this case, though, the Cylon existence and view point are so different that treating them like people IS A HUGE FRAKKIN MISTAKE.
::seethes::
