Comments on: Hugh Laurie, übermensch

By: Ian Mathers

Ian Mathers — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 13:28:24 +0000

I did like that line.

By: voyou

voyou — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 06:44:48 +0000

Well, she doesn’t come right out and say she’s a Spinozist, but there is that bit whereshe says “if there is a God, why would it be interested in people?” or something like that, which seems close enough for me.

By: Ian Mathers

Ian Mathers — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 19:35:14 +0000

I remember the faith-healer episode, but not the part where Cameron is a Spinozist, which intrigues the hell out of me. Care to provide details? I quite liked this week’s episode (particularly the 0-to-60 start), and I love that the descriptor “loveable asshole” applies more and more to Wilson than to House – your and Adam’s points about the essential rightness (or right to exist-ness) of the House character as opposed to, err, pretty much everyone else on the show (except for Foreman and maybe Cuddy?) are very well taken. Also, this is a fantastic blog. This and the “Aufhebung” post are some of the best I’ve read all year (and are summarily getting linked), and I’d think that even if I didn’t love “With Every Heartbeat” (but I do, and oh what a song – if her 2005 album ever gets much-deserved North American release I’d kill for this to be included as a bonus).

By: John Emerson

John Emerson — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 03:05:12 +0000

She’s got the steely-eyed Nicole Kidman look. I used to think that Kidman was a Scientologist, but no. She rejected that and used her inborn steely-eyedness to beat the scientologists at their own game.

By: Adam Kotsko

Adam Kotsko — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 17:03:42 +0000

There seems to be a consistent pattern whereby the only time House seems to have a “problem” is when Cuddy and/or Wilson are somehow fucking with him — compare early this season when they concealed from him the fact that he had been right about the catatonic patient, sending him into a depression that apparently caused him to have to go back on the drugs in the first place. Then Cuddy nickle and dimes him on the pills, and non-coincidentally he’s a total asshole (for real this time). I’m more and more convinced that there really is nothing wrong with House and that, more broadly, it is the right of every person not to “get better.”

By: Alistair

Alistair — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 10:01:42 +0000

This is your best post of 2006. Well done.