House Was a fantastic show that managed to stay interesting despite its formulaic case-of-the-week structure, but it could have been even better with one small change. Hugh Laurie’s Gregory House is among the greatest characters in television history and could make any House Episode interesting on its own regardless of the case they are working on. House’s character is fun to watch for more than just one reason, including but not limited to how great he was at his job despite being very difficult to work with.
House ran a diagnosis department and usually only worked on one case each week, meaning that only the most difficult yet fascinating patients would get to him. HouseHis original premise was that when no one else could solve a case and find out what was wrong with the patient, Dr. House would come to the rescue with a diagnosis only he could come up with. The problem is that House Relied too much on the routine and made every other character look bad at their job compared to House.
House should have been wrong more often (and his team right)
House was always right in the end no matter what
House was a great character, but so were many of the other doctors on the show. Even when looking only at the first three seasons, House‘s cast was very fun to watch and complemented the titular character in the best ways. From both a personal and a professional standpoint, House was better than those around him. However, in almost every case on the show, The other doctors on House’s team would never crack the case on their own. With a few notable exceptions, the correct, definitive diagnosis always came from home.
House Never promised to be a realistic medical drama, and it didn’t need to be. However, Gregory House’s skills compared to those of his team sometimes asked for too much suspension of disbelief. No matter how good Cameron, Foreman and Chase were in their respective fields or what was wrong with the patient, House was the one to find the right answer in the end. It would have been more fun, and perhaps a bit more realistic, for Gregory House to be wrong more often, leaving more room for his team to shine.
House getting everything right made his team look pounts
House needs its team, but they rarely shine on their own
House needs a team to work properly. This became clear in Season 3, episode 18, “Airborne,” during which House has to diagnose a person during a flight. Away from his office and team, House asked three random strangers to play the roles of Chase, Foreman and Cameron. While he never mentions them by name or even explains what he’s doing, House asks for one of the strangers to agree with everything he says; The second should not agree with everything he says, and the third should go crazy with everything he says.
House’s diagnosis process can be described as a collaborative process, although not the most traditional. Still, reducing the team’s role in the show as replaceable “NPCs” for House to interact with as his brain comes up with theories may not have been the best approach. Seeing House’s disciples turn against him over a dispute was always interesting, but they were usually wrong anyway. It would have been nice to see the winning theory coming from other characters more often. This would not detract from the genius of the house But rather highlighted how great of a team he has.
The house team questions his theories which often never make sense
Who would even question House after witnessing some of his diagnosis?
Another issue that was the fact that House is always right is how pointless his team’s questioning attitude was. For example, Foreman would often accuse House of being too reckless and wanting a more traditional by-the-book strategy. Still, the approach of the house proved to be the right one in almost every case. However, regardless of how many diagnoses he got, both the house team and the caddies would often go against him and question his methods. answered, House was dangerous and needed to be watchedBut the constant questioning of his theories never did much.
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Cuddy and Wilson once even refused to tell House that he had correctly diagnosed a patient because his methods were so risky. Wilson’s point was that House was lucky in this particular case and should not be encouraged to do something similar again. However, not playing by the rules was the defining trait of Gregory House and what made him so good at what he did. House did a few things wrong throughout the show, but I would have loved to see him go wrong on questioning himself a few more times in House.