• maria [she/her]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 months ago

    why is Gregory House a funi man now?

    isnt he like- an evil transphobic guy who says evil things?
    or is this a way toake fun of him?.. idunno…

    EDIT: i looooove the detail to put his walkin stick onto the bed-- thats soooo house– wowie.

    • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
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      2 months ago

      From what little I watched of the show, he’s not evil, he’s just an asshole about things. Classic anti-hero.

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        I have watched the entire show and i can confirm. He’s shown multiple times to actually be completely unempathetic and self centered, even with his only friend. He makes racist, mysogynistic, homofobic, etc, comments just because he wants to piss people off. I don’t remember him saying anything transfobic but that’s just because he never encounters a trans person he can insult (except maybe one time where he discovers a girl is actually physiologically a man and is completely unempathetic to her learning this information, despite knowing full well how much she identifies with her beauty as a woman)

        If you’re wondering how the show is appealing, he’s a very interesting character to observe. The audience is meant to empatize with everyone around him and sometimes with him. He has some redeemning qualities that people try to focus on and they tolerate him because he’s a net good. In the end people leave the hospital happy and healthy. He’s extremely pragmatic and calls other people out on their bullshit all the time. He often unearths social tensions people have which are hurting them. He will stand for his principles and against other evil people. He’s constantly a pain, but he’s not spiteful, does not hold any groudges. If someone fucks up he either throws them out on the spot or they are forgiven completely

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          Yeah folks seem to forget that he is also based off of Sherlock Holmes on his worst days. Holmes could be an asshole and has a pretty severe drug addiction as I understand it.

          • Holytimes@sh.itjust.worksBanned from community
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            Its much like robinhood as well. A lot of these classic anti heros, arnt good people. They are not ment to be role models.

            Watching an asshole break societal norms, the law or just rebel. For a good cause, is cathartic.

            Assholes doing good is fun and the over sterilization of media is such a fucking tragedy.

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              Also see Spartacus or John Brown, both were absolute bastards in their own rights but killing slavers and fucking with the powerful is always in vogue. Though I have nothing but respect for Auld John Brown.

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    2 months ago

    This time, even though your post contains Reggie, I will not make a fool of myself and simp for the rat. Instead, I’ll extend my best wishes to the patient and hope for a full and speedy recovery uwu

    • Holytimes@sh.itjust.worksBanned from community
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      2 months ago

      That is in fact the gay warlock shape shifting fem boy tentacle mouse creature known as Reggie. Yes.