Watching House

So Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix is out - (and I will be heading this weekend to see it). Now everyone’s talking about who will play the roles in Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.

J.K. Rowling has said that she’d like Bob Hoskins to play a role, and the director has confirmed that they are working on a deal with him. MTV has got a blog going about who they think would best play some of the roles. Check out this description in the book of Rufus Scrimgeour, the Minister of Magic:

“[He] looked rather like an old lion. There were streaks of grey in his mane of tawny hair and his bushy eyebrows; he had keen yellowish eyes behind a pair of wire-rimmed spectacles and a certain rangy, loping grace even though he walked with a slight limp.�

Hmmm - rangy, loping grace - wire-rimmed spectacles - slight limp…..

HUGH!

In fact, that’s what the MTV people are saying. They believe that Hugh would be the best person to play the Minister of Magic in the next movie. I think it’d work - not only is he an amazing actor, but he’s british, which is sure to warm the heart of J.K. Rowling. What do you think?

Harry Potter, Hugh Laurie, MTV

We got ourselves a little debate going on here people! Mary, who is a House fan, made a comment on the last post that she didn’t think House was in the same league as Friday Night Lights.

I would NEVER tell somebody that I thought a show that they loved was stupid - I can only give my opinion, just as you can give yours! Here’s Mary’s opinion:

House uses the same formula every week. I mean really, it does get old.

FNL doesn’t have a formula. It’s beautifully shot and has fantastic acting. It’s hard to explain if you’ve never watched it. The characters are so real and their problems are ones everyone can relate to. It celebrates the small moments in life that other shows ignore.

Now - objectively - I can see where Mary believes that House uses the “same formula” every week. In a nutshell, House has a patient with a medical problem that he has to diagnose. Usually the patient will die in a matter of hours/days if he doesn’t figure out what’s going on. The thing that a lot of critics do not get is that the undiagnosed patient is only 1/4 to 1/2 of the story. The rest centers on characters, character developments and real life situations that these esteemed professionals find themselves in. And comedy - lots of comedy.

I have not seen Friday Night Lights, so I can not comment on it. What I can do, though, is set my DVR to record it so that I can watch an episode and be objective. I never dismiss something out of hand before actually trying/seeing it. I can say now, though, that so far I have had no interest in watching Friday Night Lights and do not see how a story about a football obsessed town would be interesting to me - but then again, I didn’t give two hoots about House, either, until I was provoked into watching it.

Are there those that watch both House and Friday Night Lights here? What’s your take on this discussion?

House, Friday Night Lights