Happyninja42 said:
He lost lovers because of how he behaved
Most of which he didn't care about in the first place.
It's hard to say he has friends. Even Wilson is more an enabler.
almost lost his job because he pissed off the wrong person
Now, this is where I get a little dodgy, because I tuned out in the last season or two, so maybe he faced real consequences, but not in any meaningful sense. Hell, at the end of the Tritter arc, he revealed he had manipulated the entire situation to his advantage. Which is a shame, because I really liked that arc. The fact that Tritter was a strong parallel to House. Unfortunately, nobody can stand up to House for long. Not the legal system, not the police.0
and I'm pretty sure he almost died once or twice due to either his drug habit, or pissing off the wrong person who decided to shoot him or something.
Ironically, Sues frequently end up in danger. What separates them is that basically, the whole world revolves around them. Sort of like the way that even the "friends" House alienated would bend over backwards, even themselves breaking the law, their code of ethics, or other friendships to do it. House is the subject of speeches about how he's just misunderstood, or he's really a good person, or barring that, how he gets the job done and we must do everything we can to save him from himself.
Oh, and getting shot led to him getting the use of his leg back temporarily, with minimal lasting consequences.
So no, he wasn't a bullet proof Sue who could do whatever he wanted without consequences.
Just meaningful ones. Unless he got killed in the last season or something. Maybe he did finally get his comeuppance, but most of the time, he beat the odds and usually because he manipulated the situation.
The closest I can think of offhand is him opting to check himself into rehab. After manipulating the system like, three times. House is just so good he can outsmart the law, his friends, his employers, trained professionals...the only person he can't outsmart is himself. Sue characters tend to lose in ways that are still wins.
I'd even give the figure he was based on--Sherlock Holmes--more the benefit of the doubt because Holmes was written at a time where it wasn't exactly uncommon to have heroes who could do pretty much everything. Classic Holmes probably wouldn't be that big these days, which is why almost every version, official or guys like House, adds character flaws to make up for how awesome he is. They usually play up antisocial tendencies or drug use, kind of like House.
This is not a compelling argument against Ert's case. He looks to be willing to drop it because he lacks the information, but...I don't.
So. Moving on to something more related to the topic at hand.
Revelo said:
I think the film does need to stop assuming that everyone had read the tie-in material before watching it, as a few scenes fall flat when the film gives us no context.
I didn't read any tie-in material and never felt lost.
Also, Phasma, just what was her point in the movie, she's hyped as a mysterious badass and we see none of it, at least have her fight Han, Chewie and Finn, just so we can see her show off and establish her credentials.
Yeeeeeeeeah. I hear they wanted to establish her early, but the way they did it was...bloody awful. She looks weak and incompetent within the movie, so it doesn't exactly do anything to establish her in any way I'd want to establish a prominent character. t seems like there are more than a few ways to do it, even if you keep in the bit about her being captured by the heroes and forced to lower the shield. Which I wouldn't have done, personally, but if you're going to.
She doesn't have to beat the good guys to seem like a threat--see Vader and the original trench run--but to basically instantly submit doesn't make her seem like someone worth having around. She seems more like the kind of incompetent underling Vader would have forgiven with a Force Choke.
Unfortunately, Kylo Ren was busy destroying his room in a temper tantrum at the time.
