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House is literally a version of Sherlock Holmes. Like explicitly meant to be a take on the character.
So that’s probably the trope you’re seeing.
This is basically the answer. I’d also add that in both cases, though the protags are portrayed to have great aptitude, if anyone watching either show thinks being like them is ‘cool’, they can’t have been paying attention. They both live lives of thorough self-torment and self-destruction.
Sherlock Holmes from the books is a gent. From what I remember more of a knowledgeable deliberative pulls-no-punches vibe than annoying jerk.
Yeah it was played as just a character quirk moreso than this overarching dramatic personality flaw that was ruining everyone’s lives
Watson mentions a few times that Holmes’ knowledge only extends so far and a lot of it isn’t practical or very structured. He has a complete obsession with investigating crime and knows basically nothing about anything else, except maybe playing the violin. I think a plot point in one book is that Holmes knows absolutely nothing about astronomy?
in the books he’s portrayed as a mess.
the fact he gets bored and injects cocaine and is very abrasive are both portrayed as flaws
House’s drug addiction and abrasiveness are also portrayed as flaws as well. The fact they try to make him seem a bit more likable at times is probably because execs feel that “happy endings” and “likable characters” is what keeps people tuning in.
Kind of, yeah. I’ve only read a couple of the stories, but it’s basically the same guy lol
Eccentric rude guy whose main redeeming quality is being really good at puzzles and lucking into incredibly forgiving friends.
I’ll say the TV shows give a different vibe. The character drama was not the main point of the Sherlock stories, at all, it was mostly just about solving the mystery
i’ts not just that they’re manipulating based upon mentality, it’s a power dynamic. house is their boss.
also, house was always pretty much a douchebag, the only cool part about that show was learning weird medical knowledge, that if you had any kind of medical knowledge beforehand it was puzzlesque, and the fact that hugh laurie is a decent actor.
house is literally a retelling of Sherlock
his name is House for fucks sake LOL
Is Rick and Morty kind of the same, the genius makes the asshole traits forgivable?
The Bojack series did the cool thing of making the character accountable for the horrible things he did. Although I’m sure you knew that.
I have always felt a lot of people who think this is cool are people who have dunning-kruger’d themselves into believing that they are surrounded by stupid people and they are the shining beacon of intelligence in a sea of stupidity.
I feel this way about Idiocracy
