I can buy Dr. Wilson as Dr. Watson, who puts up with the pricky H* for his own reasons, but at least Holmes wasn't so thoroughly and every-day indulged by as many people, and sought out on a case by case basis.

It's a bugaboo of mine, both in fiction and in real life. You really have to go some distance to convince me why the asshole is so required.

eta:

On its own, it's irreversal, and therefore if it happens spontaneously, it may look like the time is goind backwards (a broken mug gets whole). You have to invest energy for it to happen. [Edit: therefore many processes and equilibrium-points are found as a result of a balance between the desire to enlarge the entropy and to minimize the energy.]

I'm assuming it doesn't happen spontaneously where we can see it. So I want a machine.

Even in Special Relativity (which is way simpler than the General one), you have to define in which system of reference you speak when you say "simultaneously". When you have different systems, who move relative to one another, events that happen at the same time in one, happen in different point sin time in the other (since time moves differently in those systems, because of their reltive movement).

I think you can use the cosmic background radiation to give you a frame of reference for time, hence the ability to put an age to the universe. I'm not disagreeing with Nilly, I'm just trying to add on.

Is it just me, or does this look photoshopped?

OK, the second picture is a larger version of the first one. But the third and fourth pictures are from a slightly different perspective than the first/second picture. Which means they were taken seperatly, so if they were photoshopped, the photoshopee would have to have done the exact same effects on the two (or three) unique pictures. So by photoshopping more than one uniqe photo the photoshopee would have increased his/her work tremendously, as there'd be two or three times as much photoshopping, plus a lot of extra work to make sure that the effects for the different photos matched each other closely.

That makes me think of Frank Pembleton, ita. But of course, Frank proved himself in the Box most of the time.

Frank wasn't as prickish as House is, though. And he didn't balk at doing what he was hired to do.

I'm not saying people shouldn't be unpleasant (okay, they shouldn't, but they are, and I'm not allowed to hit them for it, I accept). But some characters transcend the boundaries of what I consider reasonable and are misanthropic prima donnas that demand different rules apply to them because they're so damned marvellous.

Makes me itch.

Whooo! Most people are predicting some form of minority government, so we could be doing this again next year.

Ahhh, the joys of a 4+ party system.

Sue, Hope you are feeling bettah!

I really appreciate that they aren't sweetening House up. I would slap a man into next week for reading my medical records, and I think his would-be sweetie just wrote him off her list forever. Wilson's appalled, the plan backfired, and he's left with a rat.

On the other hand, the rat subplot made NO sense. Who ever heard of a house with only one rat?

I think the sweet girl doctor whose name I'm blanking on has no chance with House ever. He likes people who don't cave when he pressures them. He wants a good fight. He thinks wossname is a marshmallow, and he has only contempt for people he can steamroller. (He has contempt for everybody, but he has more contempt for patsies.)

But some characters transcend the boundaries of what I consider reasonable and are misanthropic prima donnas that demand different rules apply to them because they're so damned marvellous.

But that's what I like about the show. Everybody thinks House is a prick, and he is paying for it. As Cuddy once said, she's the only hospital that will hire him because he's such a jerk.

But some characters transcend the boundaries of what I consider reasonable and are misanthropic prima donnas that demand different rules apply to them because they're so damned marvellous.

This is funny to me because, the roommate-who-couldn't-stand-me that I talked about yesterday? That's how I read her behavior to pretty much everybody (I'm saying "read her behavior" because I'm sure this wasn't what she meant to radiate, it's just how it looked to my seeing-a-different-wavelength eyes), and that was what mostly disturbed me about her. In a real-life sense, not of a fictional character, so it wasn't that pronounced, but still.

So I guess I'm agreeing with ita.

Betsy -- you need some whitefonting up there.

I haven't watched the last few episodes, but he was tolerated way more than I was comfortable with in the season+ that I watched. Recent development aside, working at the only hospital you seem to want to work at (which has the closest things which you can call friends (yeah, that's not English)) and finally having to do clinic hours (which you dance around and abuse people for anyway) doesn't seem the hugest loss.

Unemployed or forced to follow everyone else's rules -- that'd be a fun time for me to watch.