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Even though it's formulaic i kinda like it
My favorite episode of House is the one where he turns to the camera and says "I'm House" then dances on the roof of a house while blasting 90s house music from a boombox
When he says IT'S HOUSING TIME and nationalizes the banks :left-unity-3:
"Misanthropic edgy genius is better than the normies around him" wore out its welcome for me around the time House became popular.
THEN Rick and Morty happened. :disgost:
eh he's shown to be human and putting up an act time and time again, which is more depth than most of those characters have.
But I get what you mean.
he’s shown to be human
He's shown to be an almost superhuman genius while also normalizing the idea of being an asshole.
which is more depth than most of those characters have
Compared to what characters? House types are kind of standard now in fiction.
He's also shown to care about and be protective of his friends and coworkers. He lies for patients all the time. He often let's the misanthrope mask slip and does good things for the people around him as opposed to a lot of the other edgelord characters.
I do get the burnout on this type of character, quippy writing and so on though.
That's a fair take. I gave up on the House show before I saw much of that.
“Misanthropic edgy genius is better than the normies around him” Is why I don’t enjoy watching anime because 1 out of 5 MCs are like that
Must be a new anime thing because that wasn't a common thing in the 20th century anime, at least. Don't remember it being that popular in the 2000s either.
Agreed. And the "slowly they start to tolerate the presence of the lesser ones around him especially if they're hot" thing in a lot of anime is horrid. :pathetic:
And somehow the the hot popular girl falls for him despite him having almost 0 charisma during his first impression
He's the winningest winner at (meta)gaming the game world of the isekai game! :so-true:
Oh it’s not even isekai. They have that guy in normal school dramas. Which make sense because every high schooler thinks he’s too smart for everything
In a way the seemingly eternal focus on high schools and waifus in high schools is a sort of temporal isekai for aging otaku and weebs. :kombucha-disgust:
I think it's because working life for the average Japanese person fucking sucks so bad that for a worrying number of Japanese folks high school was the last time they really felt happy and free and unalienated from their fellow man.
Of course this isn't Japan-specific anymore. From my times visiting family in Korea, I've started picking up the same shit over there from among my family and strangers I've talked to.
Which also explains why quite a few Korean manwha is also tends to be escapist power-fantasies as well.
Returning to that tiny sliver of a human lifetime in "what if" fantasy scenarios over and over again seems like a maladaptive coping mechanism, but a profitable one.
It's part of why I couldn't get into the Persona series: at one point it's a direct synthesis of high school escapist power fantasy and isekai power fantasy where your character can have all of the sex from all of the sex trophies and rule the school in every class and win at basically everything with sufficient sigma grindset. :so-true: :brainworms: :pathetic:
Well in p5 you roflstomp a sexual predator, a celebrity plagiarizer, a gangster extortionist, the CEO of Japanese McDonald's, the president, and the demiurge. And I think that's pretty neat.
Also I really enjoy playing tycoon in p5r. Really fun and quick cardgame. Oh yeah and you get to be friends with Japanese Bernie Sanders.
you should try persona 2. nobody is happy in those games. clearly the superior persona.
It's not about happiness vs unhappiness or euphoric power fantasy vs misery porn to me. It's a false dichotomy. Both happy and unhappy stories can be less pandering and lazy.
To be fair I kind of enjoyed Digital Devil Saga for at least trying to be something different.
don't get me wrong. persona 2 is definitely not misery porn. its just that, well, without spoiling too much you don't get to sigma grindset your way out of a world where the history channel exists.
I might actually check that out. I only heard about the series first from some weeby bazinga that told me how epic Persona was because you can have all of the sex if you play perfectly. :cringe:
well, what do i know i think the social link thing started with persona 3. which i also didn't play :edgeworth-shrug:
i won't judge people for indulging themselves with 'east asian isekai/time travel success at life porn' since i'd be lying if i pretended to be above that sort of thing. but my impression is that persona 2 is old enough where the people you play as just have the informed trait of being cool. its not a game built from its foundations as a way of saying, look at this person, he's you, he's so cool and here's all the things you can do / people you can be friends with if only you were cool and stuff. the latter is more depressing when you think about it.
Have you exclusively watched isekais? Anime has a lot of flaws, but this is not the most common one. The average male MC is either really stupid or cries a lot, sometimes both and often horny.
scandal acknowledged for joss whedon but this was basically me with buffy way back when
they're the vampire cops and thats way cooler than the cops
I've been watching through house for the last few months, and yeah I love the show. So formulaic but it means I don't have to pay 100% attention. Me and my SO both love it, highly recommend
Essentially why police procedurals are sp popular. And honestly a lot of episodic tv is similar. One of the weaknesses of streaming giants is its all 8-12 hour plots you need to actively pay attention to. They need some tightly written stuff that is still good when you're only half paying attention!!
in the Hugh Laurie with an M.D. universe, Dr. Chance > Dr. House
Ima let you finish but "Three Stories" is one of the greatest hours of television of all time
Seriously, even if you have no interest in going through the series go watch that
The one where he ends up getting super drunk with the guy who tried to kill himself with methanol and is like "I just cured you lmao have a nice life" is pretty great too
I watched a few clips on YT and it was so good I signed up for "Peacock" one month free trial. I watched and enjoyed most every episode and then my free trial expired.
I'm not paying money to watch old TV repeats, fuck you.
I guess I identify with Wilson most of all. ❤️
Wilson seems like a good friend to have. I really liked 13 as a character.
She wasn't someone I felt affection for per se, or identified so much but she was remarkable interesting. Whenever her character was in a scene there was always something interesting dropping. The fact she inherited that Huntington (?) disease was so heartbreakingly tragic.
Yeah, that's a good point. She can really ruffle his feathers which is always fun.
