I find The American TV Show or House M.D quite enjoyable for reasons that escape me. The eponymous House loves poking heaps of fun at other people, staff and overstuffed, from the episodic flow of different[ial] diagnoses, and I suppose I’m in a position to appreciate at least some of that poking process. Vicariously I could identify with him, and it was both elating and depressing at the same time. On one hand, he is a medical genius capable of solving unique and difficult cases; on the other hand, however, he is also an asshole. I believe most of you readers were somewhat a junior incarnation of him during some stages of compulsory education: aside, I think he was brilliant. However, he was also a mordant wit who often pushed people away. I don’t deny the fact that I was also an asshole during that period, although I do hope I have changed for the better (and I think I did). Plus my lack of anything approaching good taste in people (and the opposite sex) helped me tap my foot to Anime and the awesome mecha openings. But there are also odd hints in the show that it might turn out to be, like Code Geass, a fertile ground for the parlor game of crackpot theories.
House M.D is both innovative and exemplary. In its run it already has contributed to popular culture, most especially in memes such as ‘It’s never lupus.’ Aside from its memes, however, I believe it has posited a noteworthy concept: As a doctor, House doesn’t have a God complex. He doesn’t aim to save everyone from their destruction. At times, he doesn’t even aim to ease their pain. He has a different kind of complex that Wilson, his only friend, explicates upon: he has the Rubik’s complex. Most of us know what are Rubik’s cubes. (If you don't, slap yourself hard) These are puzzles that require inventive spatial thinking to solve. This was where Wilson derived the psychological obsession House possesses: House always wants to solve the problem, without fail. He doesn’t mind being mistaken (he oftentimes is, and the diagnostic procedure is a trial-and-error, hit-and-miss, bait-and-switch process), but he wants to solve the problem all the time, even when the patient is dead. He just desires to know the logical answer.
Most of us here want answers in our lives, but most of us aren’t as obsessed as House is. To him, every problem must have a solution. The wonderful thing about hard sciences is that they always have a single, correct answer that is derived from careful analysis, observation, and experimentation. Each physical problem has a numerical and definite answer. The same applies to medical diagnostics, which was why I put it down as my first choice but lost it, respectfully.
Notes don’t need a conclusion, but I enjoyed House M.D so much that I feel compelled to break one of my self-imposed rules and actually flat out recommend it to you. I haven’t finished it yet, however, so please don’t spoil it by harping the ending. By the way, I'm stuck on the ToLove Ru manga: it's just too ecchi to even put it down for a minute.