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90% of House MD plots ruined
by jonplackett 2y ago
90% of House MD plots ruined
- at_a_remove 2y agoLupus is kind of lousy for the punchy scientific format because it has as a nickname "The Great Imitator." (Note that the porphyrias are known as the "little imitator.") Because of this somewhat Protean nature, lupus can masquerade as quite a lot of things, leading it to be a casual element one would have to bring up and then eliminate in episode after episode. Thus, for screenwriting reasons, it needs a kind of general dismissal which would stick in the mind of viewers ...
- ramon156 2y agoI don't even need to read the article, the answer is more mouse bites
- h4l0 2y ago[flagged]
- m463 2y agobut it was never lupus anyway. mostly.
- Tagbert 2y agoIt was Agatha, all along.
- orbat 2y agoMaybe if one more painfully unfunny person repeats this tired joke that we see every time lupus is mentioned, it'll finally be funny. Let's find out!
- johnnyanmac 2y agoTo each their own. was a funny and nostalgic throwback. I haven't watched House in 15 years and haven't even seen it referenced since pre-pandemic.
- AdmiralAsshat 2y agoTo be fair, House's plots usually reiterated, "It's never Lupus." (And the one time it actually was had a rather disappointing reveal, IMO)
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- fragmede 2y agoTime to bring it back for an special episode where House say's it's not lupus, but it turns out it is and they find out thanks to an intern, and then they cure it using this new therapy.