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1. Liked Thirteen; didn't like Amber. I liked Amber better once she was no longer competing for a job, but her competitiveness during the early episodes struck me as needlessly callous and calculating, and while I can deal with that coming from the title character, getting it from two characters at once was more than I wanted to deal with.
2. On that note, I really disliked the Survivor: Princeton-Plainsboro aspect of early Season 4. It dragged on too long, it detracted from the actual cases, it made everyone seem incompetent, and none of the people I really liked got hired. I stopped watching until it was over.
3. I don't hate Stacy Warner. She's not my Favoritest Character Ever, but I liked her, and I liked the glimpse we got of her and House, back when he might have been capable of a functional relationship with anyone.
4. I resented the writers' attempts to explain away House's antipathy with parental abuse. Not that I doubt that parental abuse could do such a thing to a person, but I liked him better when he was a cantankerous bastard just because he was a cantankerous bastard. Plus, so many characters on TV have backstories of child abuse or neglect that it was refreshing to have a main character without one.
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1) I like both as characters, and I agree about preferring Amber once she wasn't in the running for a job anymore. Because, well, I didn't feel she deserved the job. She kept trying to manipulate her way out of actually having to do the work, and I'm not into that. As much as House himself plays at being lazy, he does the work.
2) It made for some fun moments, but that arc just felt disposable as a whole. I can barely remember much about it, and the fourth season of House didn't get properly good until it came back from the strike, I thought.
3) I don't hate Stacy, either. Sometimes she's in fact rather awesome. I like the idea of her relationship with House as it was in the past. It's just that return arc. Oh god. Three times as long as it needed to be, kept retreading the same tired points that made me sick of the both of them even though I didn't actually dislike them, and ultimately exploded in an abrupt display of what I truly believe is massive out-of-character-ness on the part of House.
4) I always figure there's got to be a reason behind such attitudes, but it doesn't necessarily have to be an explanation so extreme, that much I agree with. But I like the father backstory because, in combination with the bit of the father we've seen, I think it's really interesting how similar the two are in a lot of ways. Probably House wouldn't be actively abusive though, I don't think.
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Good for you. I wasn't really in the fandom much at all - I floated on the periphery most of the time - but even there the bickering and backbiting and STUFF just got to me.
1) and 2) are absolutely signed. I think the reason the hiring arc makes me so angry is that Season 4 started off so well (I adored "Alone"), so I ended up really disappointed. And, um...I really can't remember much of the return arc (so it must not have been very memorable), so I can't comment on that.
4) I think my dislike of the father backstory stems from my tendency to watch too much TV - just about every crime or medical drama out there has at least one character with an abusive parent, usually more, and I'm sick of seeing it. If I saw it in isolation, I'd probably like it a lot better. And while I figure there had to be some explanation for House's behavior, I much preferred it when the explanation was implied rather than explicit.