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Post by Admiral Lithp on May 24, 2009 23:38:54 GMT -5
I'm making a lot of threads today. I wonder if it's the massive sugar boost from all of this cream soda?
In any case, I just watched House for a project and, quite frankly, I hated it. It seemed to focus on poorly written drama, with a lot of medobabble thrown around.
I wanted to watch Scrubs, but my teacher shot that down for being comedy. Despite this, I still feel that it would be much more suited, as whatever medical information they include is actually important to the plot, and covered pretty well, unlike House, which seemed to just spout off shit for atmosphere.
My recourse was Dr. G Medical Examiner, but I couldn't find that online (my satellite is out because of a fuckin' tree bein' in the way). I like that show as well, although I don't watch it anywhere near as regularly as I do Scrubs.
As a general rule, I really don't like medical shows. House, in particular, earned my disdain for being a pretentious soap opera disguised as a medical show/drama.
Or maybe I'm just basing way too much off of my first impression.
But, considering circumstances forced me to sit through an hour of quite possibly the most boring thing I've ever seen, House is unlikely to be forgiven, any time soon, no matter how much of that is its own fault.
(Knowing my luck, probably everyone else here loves House.)
Speaking of, what about the rest of you? Do you have any medical-based shows that you hate/love?
As to what exactly I'm covering? Well, this paper here had; "Discovery Channel Human Body Series," "Dr. G Medical Examiner," "ER," "House," "CSI," "Grey's Anatomy," & "Bones" approved for the project.
Not that you want to hear any more ranting from me, but I'm guessing Grey's Anatomy is probably the best fiction show for this project, seeing as damn near every one of Wiki's anatomy articles has at least one diagram from it. And CSI, I don't really like (also not really fond of forensic shows), but it didn't earn any disdain from me, like House did.
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Post by Art Vandelay on May 24, 2009 23:45:27 GMT -5
Medical shows eh? Well I do like docos on the subject, and scrubs is awesome. I wholeheatedly agree with you though that house sucks ass, to me it just tries to do a drama version of Becker (which was awesome, said awesomeness didn't find its way to house though). Grey's anatomy is also a load of steaming horse shit, as is CSI. I don't mind Bones so much as the plot can be interesting at times. The rest I haven't read.
Well this has been a good way to kill a few minutes.
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Post by Admiral Lithp on May 25, 2009 0:10:12 GMT -5
The weird thing is that Scrubs seems to draw some things from House & Grey's.
Just try to tell me that Dr. Cox isn't a toned-down version of House. You can't do it, can you?
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Post by MaybeNever on May 25, 2009 0:16:11 GMT -5
Considering that Scrubs predates House by more than three years, it seems more likely that House is a played-up version of Dr. Cox. One Scrubs episode did acknowledge the similarities, however.
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Post by Admiral Lithp on May 25, 2009 0:51:38 GMT -5
Considering that Scrubs predates House by more than three years, it seems more likely that House is a played-up version of Dr. Cox. One Scrubs episode did acknowledge the similarities, however. I've heard this, before. Really, I don't have a clue what happened.
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Post by Mantorok on May 25, 2009 1:20:20 GMT -5
House is really just a crime drama with the criminal replaced by a disease.
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Post by HarleyThomas1002 on May 25, 2009 2:11:15 GMT -5
House is fucking amazing and I'm pretty sure there are a few people who can agree with me.
Bones is all right. I'm sure I'd probably like it more if I paid more attention.
CSI I just kinda fell out of. Possibly because rather than one of two episodes on a day it'd be like 6 on 8 different channels, 3 of which are in a row all showing different episodes with a new episode smack dab in the middle.
The rest I've never heard of or took interest in.
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Post by Admiral Lithp on May 25, 2009 2:27:25 GMT -5
Harley, you've never seen Scrubs? Dear God, this is an emergency! Get this man some links!
House fucking pissed me off. The episode I watched had a plot so convoluted that I had to keep bringing up details out-of-order to summarize it properly. And, since I doubt I'll have enough time to revise before handing this in, I think I'm gonna get a shitty grade on this project.
In my defense, I didn't want to deal with any of this bullshit. I voted for taking an in-class exam. Fucking majority rule....
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Post by Roy 'Mad Dog' Earle on May 25, 2009 7:50:54 GMT -5
The root of all evil is Grey's B-Actor Anatomy. Watch that show enough times and your brain become gelatin.
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Post by skyfire on May 25, 2009 8:24:20 GMT -5
If you can track it down, try looking for "Diagnosis: Murder." As the name implies, it's a combination medical drama / crime show.
The show has Dick Van Dyke playing a surgeon; his son Barry plays a police officer.
The usual formula is that the son alerts the father to a murder or other mysterious death, at which point the father uses his medical knowledge to examine the corpse and the circumstances of the death. The two, coupled with some of the other doctors at the hospital (including a female pathologist), then proceed to put the pieces together until they find the cause of death and the murderer.
There are, however, odd comedic touches to the series. For example, an early episode has a sub-plot based entirely around Dick Van Dyke demonstrating that he's still a skilled dancer despite aging and his substance abuse problems during the 1980s.
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Post by trike on May 25, 2009 9:00:52 GMT -5
I find myself liking House, although it might be an acquired taste since I didn't care for it the first few times I was forced to watch it...I just love cynical bastard characters, I guess. I also like CSI Las Vegas, but I'm not sure if that exactly qualifies as a medical show.
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Post by erictheblue on May 25, 2009 10:39:06 GMT -5
I'm a huge fan of "Bones." I liked "House" at first, but I stopped watching TV for about a year, and when I went back, "House" had become more about character drama than medical drama.
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Post by katz on May 25, 2009 14:34:04 GMT -5
Doctorology is a great mini series by Discovery Channel staring Leslie Neilson and someone else. It's a documentary on the various medical specialties with humour in between.
As you can tell by my icon, I quite enjoy House (as I do 99.9% of things with Hugh Laurie in them), and from what I've heard from actual doctors/med students who are also fans, as unrealistically quickly symptoms develop and tests are performed (not to mention performed by the doctors themselves), the diseases and treatments are for the most part accurate.
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Post by Sigmaleph on May 25, 2009 14:57:57 GMT -5
I love both Scrubs and House, and hate every other medical show. Except maybe CSI*, but that's not exactly medical. Which episode was it you hated, Lithp?
*Las Vegas, none of that Miami or New York crap.
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Post by Jebediah on May 25, 2009 16:00:27 GMT -5
I used to watch House, but I kept missing episodes and I eventually just stopped watching.
I do watch Grey's, because I think it's a good show, but I'll be the first to admit it's not really a medical show. More like a soap opera with a few medical conditions thrown in. Even when the show is focused on the patient it's more about the patient's drama than the patient's condition.
ER is a good show and I'm sad it's over. That show focused a lot on the patients and the medical part of the show, which is great.
I don't watch any other fictional medical shows. I love Discovery Health Channel, though. I could sit and watch it all day long. Half the time I don't even know what show I'm watching. I just know that it features some medical anomaly and I have to find out what happens next.
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