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just because bad things happen."
That's not at all my experience. Quite the contrary. I daresay you either haven't known any people who had catastrophic and difficult things happen to them, or else you're just whistling past the graveyard. People are changed by these events, and that, in and of itself, it how their lives change, if only to start.
Your assertion that you like House because he's a "lot like" you.
You're imaginary?
Or you're a genius physician (or any other profession) with a drug habit, intractable pain, are disabled, have an attachment disorder, were raised by a man not your father, someone you hated, and don't know what to do with interpersonal relationships except to do your damnedest to destroy them?
If that's you, my sympathies. But I rather suspect you're romanticizing the loner aspect of House, when, in fact, a closer examination reveals a painfully lost and lonely man.
I think I see what's giving you trouble, and why you're not happy with House this season so far. You're sounding like you think these shows, the characters, just evolve, as people do in real life. That any sign of manipulation of the storyline is somehow bogus and interfering with the "genuineness" of the program.
Hey, it's a TV drama, and manipulation is how it's made. Everything is re-arranged and made to fit the storyline envisioned by the writers. One of the factors you seem to be skimming by is the losses - even Cuddy is a loss, her attention being taken up by her baby, with whom House was having a serious case of sibling rivalry (witness his cruel remark about her "suckling your bastard child." He's not wearing it on his sleeve, but they've all taken their toll on him. That was why he cracked up at the end.
It was cumulative, and, yes, it was all designed to do exactly that. That was the narrative arc for last season. House loses his mind. And it was all manipulation.
The definition of fiction, one of them, anyway, is "the willing suspension of disbelief." While you're identifying with the romanticism of House, you are overlooking the reality of his being a fictional character out there to entertain. That's all. When you start taking it seriously and resenting the way the writers are making things happen, you've lost your ability to enjoy it, and that's a damn shame.
"Everybody lies" has nothing to do with illogical and/or random; it's a statement of House's (and my) experience. He does not do well with things that do not fit the neat psychic spots he has for them, and all randomness of life culminated in his breakdown last season. In that, I think the writers came closest to real life than in any other aspect of the show.
If you can't see the losses of last year as being any worse than his being in constant, intractable pain, put yourself - after all, you said you're a lot like him - in his place: you were responsible for the death of your best friend's girlfriend; one of your charges committed suicide for reasons no one will ever know (no note); the man who raised you, even if you hated him, died (always a trauma, even for those whose fathers were abusers); the woman for whom you've always had a thing adopts a baby and that takes her away from you; everyone seems to have someone, and you have no one. On Christmas, you call and leave a message for your mother, and that's it.
If you don't think those things affect a character, then you're a harder specimen than most people, I think. House had plenty piled on him and folded. Now, he's proved to be human, and that makes the challenge of his other traits - the impatience, the intolerance, the brilliance, the cynicism, the cruelty - even more interesting. He's still House, only more so.
And, honestly, I do hope you've got a lot more going for you than House does. When you look at him, he's a very, very tragic character.........................
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