Tuesday, December 27, 2005  That's Some Bad Hat, Harry  Hope
everyone had a wonderful, merry Christmas. Ours was nice:
alternately chaotic and still in appropriate places.  I'm long
overdue for a post about House. Darla Ecklund has been trying to
convert me since, oh, last Spring, I think. She finally made me
an offer I couldn't refuse by loaning me the first season DVD
last October. Diane and I have been nibbling away at it ever
since.  We liked it from the first episode, but it was shaky
going there for a minute about four or five episodes in. What we
liked was the medical mystery each episode presented and the
unique character of Dr. House. Most medical dramas are about
super-caring doctors who grow emotionally attached to their
patients. If there's an uncaring doctor, he or she is probably a
hospital adminstrator and acts as the show's villain against
whom our hero must endlessly struggle. Making the uncaring
doctor the hero of the show was a stroke of genius.  Of course,
that can't last forever, because