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ender-of-the-sender

YOU PEOPLE DONT UNDERSTAND-

HOUSE IS AUTISTIC.

They acknowledge it in S3 E4. Wilson heavily suggests to Cuddy that House has Asperger syndrome, but they decide that he can't possibly because he's just a jerk.

Let autistic people be jerks. Let autistic people be assholes WITHOUT USING AUTISM AS AN EXCUSE. IM AN ASSHOLE SOMETIMES. NOT BECAUSE IM AUTISTIC, IM JUST A PRICK. Yes I understand that one of the reasons for him being such a dickhead is because of his leg, he's in pain all the time. But thats even more of a reason to believe that it is a separate issue.

They say that he wants to relate to the kid because then he can get away with being a dick, but he does relate to the kid. He hates change, he thrives on consistency, he needs stimulation or he gets bored and frustrated, he isolates himself- and when he does have to interact, it's with the same people he sees everyday.

House can be autistic AND an asshole. Those two things do not cancel each other out.

(Edit: as a disabled autistic person, I see myself in House in ways that I never have in canonically autistic characters. I am aware it's never confirmed in the show. I am aware that not everyone agrees with this headcanon, and genuinely that is all it is, a headcanon. I'm not Hugh Laurie. This was just a rant about how House is treated while showing, what I and many other people, including characters inside the show, view as symptoms of ASD or other such disorders. I apologise if it came across as lying or spreading false information.)

sherlawliet

I completely agree with this. House feels so liberating to watch as an autistic person because he's so realistic and so free from being infantilised as someone so clearly autistic. We're human beings too, we can be total unbearable cunts, we can be blatantly bad people just like anyone else. Autistics aren't all uwu soft 'protecc' bbys for neurotypicals to fuss over.

msboutofcontext

spacefinch

This is honestly better advice than “if at first you don’t succeed, try try again.”

By all means try again. But do that after you figure out WHY you failed!

a-clockwork-justice

One of the things that strikes me the most about Wake Up Dead Man is the portrayal of Grace Wicks.

Normally when a character (usually a woman) who starts the story being villified and villainised, just as Grace was deemed "the harlot whore" for 60 years, their redemption in the eyes of the story comes from the revelation that they were a better person than people gave them credit for. Maybe they were a good mother, or did their best in the face of the deck being stacked against them.

With Grace, we don’t see that. I can’t recall any instance in the movie of her being a particularly good person, or a good mother to Jefferson Wicks, or a virtuous woman as befitting her name. A lot of her actions are recontextualised to be more understandable within the story, yes, but that’s not necessarily the same.

Grace is messy. Some would call her shallow with her focus on expensive brands. She’s unashamedly destructive. She probably wouldn’t have wanted her father’s church where she was pretty much held hostage for years to be named after her, even if the Wicks family weren’t in charge anymore.

And she STILL didn’t deserve what Prentice Wicks and her family did to her, whether she was a good person or not.

There are no perfect victims. Trauma, shocker, tends to mess with people’s mental state a lot, and they’re not always going to act the way people think they should. They can’t always be, well, graceful about it- I dare say they can’t be EXPECTED to be.

And people don’t have to be perfect or even particularly good people to be sympathised with as victims.

And it didn’t take anyone finding out about her secret better side or good deeds. All it took was one person - Vera - having a change in perspective, to consider things from Grace’s point of view and realise she never really had a chance to BE a better person, to plant that idea in the heads of the characters and the audience.

That poor girl.

absoluteocellibehavior

Honestly, I think my favorite thing that I picked up on while watching Knives Out: Wake Up Dead Man is the fact that Monsignor Wicks is 100% making up the fact that he’s a Monsignor.

If you don’t know, in the Catholic Church, “Monsignor” is an honorary title bestowed upon a priest by the pope (usually from a recommendation from their bishop) for above and beyond service and work to the church. So if that archbishop in the beginning warned Fr. Jud about Wicks there’s not a snowball’s chance in hell he recommended him to the Pope. And there’s no way the Pope would bestow that upon a guy like Wicks on his own.

This means that “Monsignor” Wicks absolutely 100% bold face lies about having that title to make himself look better. Also, fun fact, “monsignor” is generally understood to mean “my lord” and Wicks certainly acts like he’s their lord to worship rather than The Lord. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

judblanc

put that boy in a situation

lukeishope

I think one of my favorite things about the Knives Out movies, as so many have pointed out, is that Benoit Blanc isn’t really the protagonist. He’s the world-class detective, famous for solving unsolvable cases, yes, and he plays a majorly important role in each story we see him in, also true, but he’s not REALLY the person we’re following. So we don’t know much about him PERSONALLY, we just know what our actual protagonists (Marta, Helen/Andi, Jud) can garner about him in the time they know and work with him.

And all this to say, I’m truly OBSESSED with the little bits of information we DO get about Benoit as a person. He’s into fashion, he’s in a relationship with a man named Phillip, he’s terrible at mystery games, he isn’t religious (and we can safely assume that stems from childhood trauma around being a queer, southern man in the church…), and he likes musicals.

Like what a fun little collection of facts to know about him. He was listening to Cats in the car with Jud. He knows how to play Phantom of the Opera on the organ. He has seasonal wardrobes. He’s terrible at mystery themed games (i.e., Clue, Among Us).

What little treasure of information will we learn about him in the next one?? I’m excited to find out.

gayofthefae

I just wanna say also that, especially as an atheist, I love that Wake Up Dead Man was not Christian versus atheist. It was weaponizer of power Christian versus faith and kindness Christian.

Not to get on my soap box but I have a lot more in common with a Christian of my own values than a fellow atheist without. And a good-faith Christian has a lot more in common with a good-faith person of any other religion or lack-there-of than they ever could a manipulative, power-hungry, fear-mongering Christian.

I think the story often told doesn't draw those lines where they should be drawn, and it was something lovely to see. That Jud is in the same category as "proud heretic" Benoit. Wicks the same as Miles Bron.

dragongirlteeth

I am shocked at how many people don't have an actively hostile relationship with advertising

dragongirlteeth

I am skipping your ads as fast as I can. I'm skipping past your sponsor read. I'm muting the tv. I'm muting the tab. If they get too annoying I will simply stop trying to watch.

If advertisers can use every manipulative trick in the book to get me to buy their product, I am fully within my rights to do everything I can on my end to make their job impossible

spaceboytoy

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locklylemybeloved

when Jud said "God didn't hide me or fix me, He loves me when I'm guilty, and that's what I should be doing for these people, not this whodunnit game!" and "we are here to serve the world! Not beat it! That is what Christ did" and "by using me in your game, you're setting me against my real and only purpose in life, which is not to fight the wicked and bring them to justice, but to serve them and bring them to Christ. Otherwise I'm just as bad as Wicks, making it about me and not Jesus" and "this church is not medieval, we're in New York... it's Neo-Gothic 19th century... and the rites and rituals and costumes, all of it. It's storytelling... the question is, do these stories convince us of a lie, or do they resonate with something deep inside us that's profoundly true?"

ltkaidanalenko

you mean that you show that the church that we enter is devoid of faith by having the cross (the cross that grace destroyed) (the woman controlled by her father that still believed in her father's word) (because he was a man of faith) (and was betrayed in the end because dressing provocatively is a sin not as easily forgiven as is lying) (and so faith is long gone from that church because grace is gone) (that poor girl) be empty and the shadow of it clearly visible in the wall that has to bear it?

you mean that you show when a character is showing grace (like the name of the character that was wronged and why this all happens in the first place) (that not once is shone with that light because she was forgotten by the very god that her father worshipped) (that poor girl) light shines upon them like god themselves is guiding the shone-upon character?

and that this is the only moment that benoit doesn't solve a case, at least officially, because having grace (the sun dims every time benoit talks) (only shining when he realizes he's being selfish) (when he understand that this is bigger than himself) (that this is not a game) is more important than being right.

you mean to tell me that when father jud carves a new cross (bringing faith back into the church) he carves the figure on it in a way that can be understood both as jesus and as grace (a woman he has never met) (but a woman that looks so much like himself) (pointed at as a sinner just for being human) and that in the heart of the statue he puts eve's apple (returning it back to grace) (the rightful owner) (the only way he can) (righting a wrong he didn't cause) bringing grace finally into the church as a revered and not a hated figure (because his purpose is not to fight the wicked) (but to serve them and bring them to christ) (and where finally, finally, the light of the sun shines upon her)?

yeah i guess you could say i thoroughly enjoyed the imagery of wake up dead man. it was pretty neat.

kragehund-est

it actually is insane to me that it's a cultural norm for men to suck ass at getting their wives/gfs gifts. especially when they whine about how they have no idea what women like.

man, you're not getting a gift for Female Domestic Partner. you're getting a gift for Natalie, a person whom you have been married to for 7 years, whom has lived in the same home with you for a decade, whom speaks to you every day about her thoughts and interests, whom you presumably love, and whom you can directly or indirectly ask what she wants. it's not that you don't know what half the human population wants, that's irrelevant. you don't know what Natalie wants and that is inexcusable.

kazz-brekker

my actual favorite scene in wake up dead man is the one where jud is on the phone with the woman from the construction company and she asks him to pray for her, the sudden turn from humor to complete seriousness without it feeling like a tonal whiplash is really really good

shadeslayer

loved this scene, but i loved it even more too when i read some of the interviews rian johnson did about the writing (one, two)

The filmmaker turned to Catholic family members to facilitate a discussion with a few clergymen. "I'm very close to my aunt and uncle that live in Denver," he says. "They invited their priest and five other local Denver priests over. So I got to sit down with them and have an ask-me-anything dinner. It was pretty amazing, and a lot came out of that." Johnson recalls one particular takeaway from his sit-down with the priests. "It led to one of the most critical scenes in the movie, actually," he says. "I remember the priests telling me how when they go out during the day, they're always wearing the clerical collar, even when just getting groceries. And that means that when they're just trying to get their grapefruit at the store, a woman will come up to them and start sobbing that her husband is dying, or somebody will come up to them and start getting in their face and screaming at them." The filmmaker says that those revelations shaped a key scene in which Jud pauses his involvement in the investigation to attend to a parishioner in need. "The idea that they are on stage and of service to the world at all times as a priest, and there's no time off from that — that led directly to a pivotal scene halfway through the movie," Johnson says. "Jud is swept up in the gamified version of the murder mystery, and has kind of been led down Blanc's version of the us-against-them game. And he has a hard reset when something like that happens to him."

that the scenes only real whiplash feeling is one you would get in reality. that hes torn out of this chase hes got swept up into and been reminded of his position, his responsibility, and his own ethos. and that this is also grounded in the reality of living as a priest

as well one bit that struck me when watching it, which may not be fully true on a rewatch paying close attention, but it felt like the first time in the movie since he moved there that hes actually been able to act as a priest for someone. which is vital for him. not only is it bringing him back into the reality of reminding him of his position and his own morals and priorities but that hes reminded that the service he gives to others is actually wanted, needed. that even though the flock here hates him, theres still a world out there that appreciates and wants him and that he can serve in the way that aligns with what hes called to do. not only a wake up call but also a reminder and a promise of that, if he just hangs in there, he can be the priest hes worked to be. even if its just on the phone to strangers, he can still be of service and its worth sticking it out to be able to do that

liberalsarecool

Typical cult logic. Obey the abuser. Protect the strong man. Don't think for yourself.

hippynerdguy

I read an article about Costco back in 2008. The owner was approached by a business consultant with a plan that could make him $1 million a year, personally. The plan would’ve had the owner fire 20% of his work staff, cut benefits and start new employees at minimum wage. After reading the proposal, the owner said, “You’re fired. I make $350,000 a year. I have two houses two cars two kids in college, a boat and a RV. No one needs to make a million dollars a year at the expense of your employees.”

If there was a Costco near me, I’d be there weekly just support such an honest company.