House and WoW
Oct. 10th, 2005 10:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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House S1
So, I'm loving the show. It's too bad I didn't finish it in time to watch S2 on network TV, but that's probably for the best. I just don't watch TV that way anymore -- when I have spare time I want to do whatever I want to do (usually play WoW), not let the TV dictate when I do things. DVDs are perfect because then I watch them when I want to watch them. Anyway, so currently my cable is only good for UCLA football games, as that's the only thing I'd want to watch on cable anyway.
Okay, that was a lot of rambling not about the topic at hand. So. I was all in a tizzy, if you'll remember, about what was going on with House and Cameron. Well, part of that was because they were so subtle and cryptic with it, I wasn't even sure if it was real or if I was making shit up in my head. Nothing was ever explicit that they were interested in one another romantically. Until, of course, the episode where Cameron demands a date as part of her package for coming back to work. And then Stacy, the ex, showed up, and it all just got more uninteresting.
The thing is, I am not Cameron's #1 fan. It's ridiculous to me how much they talk about her looks, when I don't even find her particularly attractive. She's like a poor man's Katie Holmes (but with a better voice). But I did like that she liked House in that way. Why? I don't know ... maybe it's because I like House, and I like that a young, attractive female would find him attractive, despite (or because?) of his abrasive personality. I don't normally go for the older man/younger woman thing, but I have to admit I was intrigued by this one. Not because of Cameron being interested in House, though -- because it seemed House was interested in Cameron. Well, of course it's not so unusual for an older man to be into a pretty young thing, and normally I'd even go "ewww." But because it's House -- and knowing him the way we do -- I was very, very captivated by the idea that someone like Cameron might have gotten to him. I love that moment where Wilson jokes about how he might have hit on her, and House just -- pauses. And that pause gives so much away (not to mention his outright telling her that he doesn't like her, which is clearly untrue).
There's also the fact that I knew Sela Ward was his ex, and that she was on the show (though I thought she was part of the regular cast of S1, or that she at least showed up mid-season -- wrong on both counts). Knowing she would make an appearance eventually, I was really interested to see how that whole dynamic would work. Here's House moving on with his life ... here's sweet, nice Cameron ... here's Stacy complicating things.
I'm still interested to see whether they're going to continue to do anything with the House/Cameron or if that was just a convenient jumping board to House/Stacy, but if it's the latter I say blah. First of all, I don't like her. There's nothing terribly horrible about her or anything, but I just don't like her. I don't like that she married someone else knowing that House was "the one." I don't like that she told him that stuff, now that she's married and when he's not attached. I don't like that she made decisions that were not hers to make -- regardless of the fact that they turned out to be "right" both times. I don't like that she's apparently perfect and has no faults (or if she has them, they're minor faults that actually contribute to how perfect she is). And most of all, I don't like that we're going to have to see ever more of her, now that she has joined the staff at the hospital.
Surprisingly, someone I like a lot is Cuddy. Initially I didn't like her at all, and now she and Foreman are probably my favorite characters after House.
And I still can't believe Chase was a low-down, sneaky mole. :(
WoW
Creating alts is irresistible. I have many of them, and it's probably time I took inventory and see what I've got. I should really delete some of these, but it's really hard to delete characters you've leveled at all, because you always think, "But what if I want to play them again and have to start all over?"
Also, just so I know: What's the definition of a "main"? Is it simply the character you're playing currently (and most often), or can you have multiple mains, such as a character who used to be a main, but whom you don't play very much anymore? Do they then become an "alt"? That doesn't seem right, and yet technically multiple mains make no sense. Well, I'm going with one main.
By server:
Kilrogg:
Elisabeth (main): (55 undead priest) Currently shadow-specced, though more and more I'm tempted to respec her (mostly, I think, for a change). But generally you don't respec to holy/disc until 60, so I'm trying to be patient. Plus, if I take away my shadow stuff, I'm going to be crap at PVP. Really, I should be playing as much PVP right now and rank up as much as I can before I hit 60, because after that it'll probably be much harder. Sigh. Now that I've played the priest to the 50s, I can honestly say that I have enjoyed it much more than playing my hunter. We'll have to see what happens when I hit 60 and if I start doing raids. Elisabeth also has the most money I've ever made with a char; she's sitting on about 520g right now. I'd really like to get my epic mount but man, 900g is a LOT. O.o Especially when I also want my armor set, and suspect I may end up having to buy some of the pieces (like my belt).
Amelya: (11 orc rogue) I like the rogue so far. Don't love it, but then, I didn't love the priest at first either. I'm not much of a melee girl, I don't think; hands-on combat just doesn't do it for me for some reason. However, I am looking forward to doing lockpicking and other roguish things. :D
Nicholle: (9 troll shaman) This was the first char I ever created on Kilrogg, and basically only played her when Silvermoon was down. I haven't even gotten her to the most interesting level of all. Theoretically, I should really enjoy the shaman, so I'm not sure what the hold up is. Maybe it's that I don't like trolls.
Silvermoon:
Sarea (ex-main): (60 night elf hunter) I LOVE my pet, Zach. And I actually really enjoyed playing her, right up until the end. Maybe it's because I started PVP'ing more in my 50s, and found that I was crap at it. Of course, I never did do any bgs with her, so maybe that would have been okay -- but one on one sucked. I see plenty of hunters in the bgs, and they seem to do okay. I really should play her again, take Zach out for a spin now that I've respecced to make him all powerful, and also lvl him to 60 (he's 59). I don't think I can raid with her, though.
Heiress: (34 human mage) Initially when I started playing her, I was completely in love with being a mage. I loved every single thing about it. After playing the priest, I think I like being a priest more. But I do still love the mage. I haven't touched her since before I moved, and really should get on it. Heiress is going to be my raiding char on the Alliance side, so that I can play with Essia and Vatrixsta. I was trying to power level her at one point, but it's so hard to get time in for all my alts!
Narida: (20 human paladin) Really liked the paladin when I started; I could take on three enemies at once. But then I started liking it less, and was basically only lvl'ing her so I could do enchants. But enchating is such a money suck, and it's not like I'm playing a bunch of chars on Silvermoon that I could hook up now, so that was probably not a wise choice. And after seeing them in the bgs, I'm quite unimpressed with paladins in general.
Lisette: (18 night elf priest) I wanted to be a NE priest because they're so pretty. :)) Also, Jade and I wanted to try being NEs again. The result is all very blah, to be honest. Whatever you look like you still play the same, and being a NE is a bit boring the second time around, to be honest.
Katey: (15 gnome warrior) I was really tickled by the idea of a little female gnome being a warrior. I like it okay, but it's probably my least favorite class to play.
Bridgitt: (14 dwarf priest) This was my first priest, and I found her incredibly difficult to play. I don't know if it's because I didn't know what I was doing or what, but I died constantly (unlike with Elisabeth, who rocked). Eventually I just lost interest in her.
Narcissa: (14 undead mage) Amelia, Jade, and I had all started Horde chars on Silvermoon but they didn't quite take. I did manage to get Narcissa up to 14 before I stopped playing her.
Llane:
Nandi: (6? tauren shaman) I wanted to give the shaman another try, but as a tauren instead, since I prefer them to trolls. Haven't played enough to tell how I like it, but this is another alt that's a victim of the limited amount of time I have to give love to all my alts. Plus I love her because she has a true Firefly name, and belongs in a guild called The Browncoats. :D
Aeryiss: (10? tauren druid) There are people who really love playing druids; I'm just not one of them. I don't hate it, but I don't really hate playing any of the classes. This is probably my second-least favorite to play, though. Of course, I'm not very high lvl at all, so it could definitely change if I were higher. Of course, getting higher whilst not liking it will be difficult...
Lanalaure: (9? undead priest) My first undead priest, but I never really took to her. The name was something the randomizer had suggested.
Uldum:
Malfoy: (15 human warlock) Heehee, this was me and Jade being totally geeky. It seemed most appropriate for Malfoy to be a warlock, don't you think? We played them sometimes to amuse ourselves, but we never got serious about it. I haven't played a warlock enough to know how much I actually enjoy it, but I definitely don't not like it. :))
Moonrunner:
Jillian: (10 human priest) This was a server Amelia started playing on, then promptly abandoned. :-l I was going to make Jillian a shadow priest, but then I respecced Elisabeth so it was all kind of moot.
I also have another couple of chars on Bronzebeard, because for a time I wanted to be part of a big guild, and these were LJ-related ones (DotH and DotA). But those went nowhere, too.
***
You know, I think I read somewhere that you can actually buy 100g for $30. Now, I could never seriously consider spending real money on game money, but damn that's cheap. I mean, do you know how many hours upon hours I've played for my measley 500g? That's how many hours of my life for 100g? Certainly worth more than $30! I don't know how these gold farmers do it. I mean, if I use that reasoning, I'd totally just buy the gold necessary for my mount, because life and my time is worth more than whatever I'd pay for the gold. But I can't get past the fact that it's really stupid and lame, and only losers would do such a thing. I mean, the point is to play the game, and earn these rewards.
***
I've played Alterac Valley a few times now, and I've never finished a game. It is so, so lame. They really ought to fix it so that you can start and finish a game in, say, 3 hours. Not play for 6 hours straight and still see no end in sight! Taurhorde, who plays a lot more than we do, has only ever seen a game end once. O.o However, I'm going to keep playing in this stupid bg because a) the honor's nice when you get some things accomplished; and b) once you're honored, you can buy some pretty sweet gear. I'm about halfway there.
So, I'm loving the show. It's too bad I didn't finish it in time to watch S2 on network TV, but that's probably for the best. I just don't watch TV that way anymore -- when I have spare time I want to do whatever I want to do (usually play WoW), not let the TV dictate when I do things. DVDs are perfect because then I watch them when I want to watch them. Anyway, so currently my cable is only good for UCLA football games, as that's the only thing I'd want to watch on cable anyway.
Okay, that was a lot of rambling not about the topic at hand. So. I was all in a tizzy, if you'll remember, about what was going on with House and Cameron. Well, part of that was because they were so subtle and cryptic with it, I wasn't even sure if it was real or if I was making shit up in my head. Nothing was ever explicit that they were interested in one another romantically. Until, of course, the episode where Cameron demands a date as part of her package for coming back to work. And then Stacy, the ex, showed up, and it all just got more uninteresting.
The thing is, I am not Cameron's #1 fan. It's ridiculous to me how much they talk about her looks, when I don't even find her particularly attractive. She's like a poor man's Katie Holmes (but with a better voice). But I did like that she liked House in that way. Why? I don't know ... maybe it's because I like House, and I like that a young, attractive female would find him attractive, despite (or because?) of his abrasive personality. I don't normally go for the older man/younger woman thing, but I have to admit I was intrigued by this one. Not because of Cameron being interested in House, though -- because it seemed House was interested in Cameron. Well, of course it's not so unusual for an older man to be into a pretty young thing, and normally I'd even go "ewww." But because it's House -- and knowing him the way we do -- I was very, very captivated by the idea that someone like Cameron might have gotten to him. I love that moment where Wilson jokes about how he might have hit on her, and House just -- pauses. And that pause gives so much away (not to mention his outright telling her that he doesn't like her, which is clearly untrue).
There's also the fact that I knew Sela Ward was his ex, and that she was on the show (though I thought she was part of the regular cast of S1, or that she at least showed up mid-season -- wrong on both counts). Knowing she would make an appearance eventually, I was really interested to see how that whole dynamic would work. Here's House moving on with his life ... here's sweet, nice Cameron ... here's Stacy complicating things.
I'm still interested to see whether they're going to continue to do anything with the House/Cameron or if that was just a convenient jumping board to House/Stacy, but if it's the latter I say blah. First of all, I don't like her. There's nothing terribly horrible about her or anything, but I just don't like her. I don't like that she married someone else knowing that House was "the one." I don't like that she told him that stuff, now that she's married and when he's not attached. I don't like that she made decisions that were not hers to make -- regardless of the fact that they turned out to be "right" both times. I don't like that she's apparently perfect and has no faults (or if she has them, they're minor faults that actually contribute to how perfect she is). And most of all, I don't like that we're going to have to see ever more of her, now that she has joined the staff at the hospital.
Surprisingly, someone I like a lot is Cuddy. Initially I didn't like her at all, and now she and Foreman are probably my favorite characters after House.
And I still can't believe Chase was a low-down, sneaky mole. :(
WoW
Creating alts is irresistible. I have many of them, and it's probably time I took inventory and see what I've got. I should really delete some of these, but it's really hard to delete characters you've leveled at all, because you always think, "But what if I want to play them again and have to start all over?"
Also, just so I know: What's the definition of a "main"? Is it simply the character you're playing currently (and most often), or can you have multiple mains, such as a character who used to be a main, but whom you don't play very much anymore? Do they then become an "alt"? That doesn't seem right, and yet technically multiple mains make no sense. Well, I'm going with one main.
By server:
Kilrogg:
Elisabeth (main): (55 undead priest) Currently shadow-specced, though more and more I'm tempted to respec her (mostly, I think, for a change). But generally you don't respec to holy/disc until 60, so I'm trying to be patient. Plus, if I take away my shadow stuff, I'm going to be crap at PVP. Really, I should be playing as much PVP right now and rank up as much as I can before I hit 60, because after that it'll probably be much harder. Sigh. Now that I've played the priest to the 50s, I can honestly say that I have enjoyed it much more than playing my hunter. We'll have to see what happens when I hit 60 and if I start doing raids. Elisabeth also has the most money I've ever made with a char; she's sitting on about 520g right now. I'd really like to get my epic mount but man, 900g is a LOT. O.o Especially when I also want my armor set, and suspect I may end up having to buy some of the pieces (like my belt).
Amelya: (11 orc rogue) I like the rogue so far. Don't love it, but then, I didn't love the priest at first either. I'm not much of a melee girl, I don't think; hands-on combat just doesn't do it for me for some reason. However, I am looking forward to doing lockpicking and other roguish things. :D
Nicholle: (9 troll shaman) This was the first char I ever created on Kilrogg, and basically only played her when Silvermoon was down. I haven't even gotten her to the most interesting level of all. Theoretically, I should really enjoy the shaman, so I'm not sure what the hold up is. Maybe it's that I don't like trolls.
Silvermoon:
Sarea (ex-main): (60 night elf hunter) I LOVE my pet, Zach. And I actually really enjoyed playing her, right up until the end. Maybe it's because I started PVP'ing more in my 50s, and found that I was crap at it. Of course, I never did do any bgs with her, so maybe that would have been okay -- but one on one sucked. I see plenty of hunters in the bgs, and they seem to do okay. I really should play her again, take Zach out for a spin now that I've respecced to make him all powerful, and also lvl him to 60 (he's 59). I don't think I can raid with her, though.
Heiress: (34 human mage) Initially when I started playing her, I was completely in love with being a mage. I loved every single thing about it. After playing the priest, I think I like being a priest more. But I do still love the mage. I haven't touched her since before I moved, and really should get on it. Heiress is going to be my raiding char on the Alliance side, so that I can play with Essia and Vatrixsta. I was trying to power level her at one point, but it's so hard to get time in for all my alts!
Narida: (20 human paladin) Really liked the paladin when I started; I could take on three enemies at once. But then I started liking it less, and was basically only lvl'ing her so I could do enchants. But enchating is such a money suck, and it's not like I'm playing a bunch of chars on Silvermoon that I could hook up now, so that was probably not a wise choice. And after seeing them in the bgs, I'm quite unimpressed with paladins in general.
Lisette: (18 night elf priest) I wanted to be a NE priest because they're so pretty. :)) Also, Jade and I wanted to try being NEs again. The result is all very blah, to be honest. Whatever you look like you still play the same, and being a NE is a bit boring the second time around, to be honest.
Katey: (15 gnome warrior) I was really tickled by the idea of a little female gnome being a warrior. I like it okay, but it's probably my least favorite class to play.
Bridgitt: (14 dwarf priest) This was my first priest, and I found her incredibly difficult to play. I don't know if it's because I didn't know what I was doing or what, but I died constantly (unlike with Elisabeth, who rocked). Eventually I just lost interest in her.
Narcissa: (14 undead mage) Amelia, Jade, and I had all started Horde chars on Silvermoon but they didn't quite take. I did manage to get Narcissa up to 14 before I stopped playing her.
Llane:
Nandi: (6? tauren shaman) I wanted to give the shaman another try, but as a tauren instead, since I prefer them to trolls. Haven't played enough to tell how I like it, but this is another alt that's a victim of the limited amount of time I have to give love to all my alts. Plus I love her because she has a true Firefly name, and belongs in a guild called The Browncoats. :D
Aeryiss: (10? tauren druid) There are people who really love playing druids; I'm just not one of them. I don't hate it, but I don't really hate playing any of the classes. This is probably my second-least favorite to play, though. Of course, I'm not very high lvl at all, so it could definitely change if I were higher. Of course, getting higher whilst not liking it will be difficult...
Lanalaure: (9? undead priest) My first undead priest, but I never really took to her. The name was something the randomizer had suggested.
Uldum:
Malfoy: (15 human warlock) Heehee, this was me and Jade being totally geeky. It seemed most appropriate for Malfoy to be a warlock, don't you think? We played them sometimes to amuse ourselves, but we never got serious about it. I haven't played a warlock enough to know how much I actually enjoy it, but I definitely don't not like it. :))
Moonrunner:
Jillian: (10 human priest) This was a server Amelia started playing on, then promptly abandoned. :-l I was going to make Jillian a shadow priest, but then I respecced Elisabeth so it was all kind of moot.
I also have another couple of chars on Bronzebeard, because for a time I wanted to be part of a big guild, and these were LJ-related ones (DotH and DotA). But those went nowhere, too.
***
You know, I think I read somewhere that you can actually buy 100g for $30. Now, I could never seriously consider spending real money on game money, but damn that's cheap. I mean, do you know how many hours upon hours I've played for my measley 500g? That's how many hours of my life for 100g? Certainly worth more than $30! I don't know how these gold farmers do it. I mean, if I use that reasoning, I'd totally just buy the gold necessary for my mount, because life and my time is worth more than whatever I'd pay for the gold. But I can't get past the fact that it's really stupid and lame, and only losers would do such a thing. I mean, the point is to play the game, and earn these rewards.
***
I've played Alterac Valley a few times now, and I've never finished a game. It is so, so lame. They really ought to fix it so that you can start and finish a game in, say, 3 hours. Not play for 6 hours straight and still see no end in sight! Taurhorde, who plays a lot more than we do, has only ever seen a game end once. O.o However, I'm going to keep playing in this stupid bg because a) the honor's nice when you get some things accomplished; and b) once you're honored, you can buy some pretty sweet gear. I'm about halfway there.
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Date: 2005-10-10 05:29 pm (UTC)And Foreman is both hot and cool, which makes him great. And I actually like that they gave Chase some depth by making him be a sneaky, low-down dirty rat. And they still have fun with that in Season two, which is like, continuity, which you know most shows aren't big on. Hee!
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Date: 2005-10-10 05:47 pm (UTC)That's true, because it was never going to work that way. Not to mention his likely accurate assessment of why she found him interesting in the first place. Now that's out in the open, so if there's anything after that, it won't be with that baggage (theoretically).
And you make a fair point about Chase. The reason I wasn't into any of the three fellows in the beginning was because they lacked depth. But I had actually gotten to really like and respect Chase in that one episode with his father -- and accept him being a regular nice guy, and then the very next episode, we see that turned on its head. And whether this is reasonable or not, I almost feel like they changed his characterization in order to make him more interesting -- which I didn't like. The only thing that stops me is that we didn't really know much about him, period, so just because I assume he was a regular nice guy doesn't mean he was. <g> But still, that's my story and I'm sticking to it.
Dude, do you want to have lunch/dinner sometime this week? Or whenever, I'm flexible.
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Date: 2005-10-10 06:41 pm (UTC)I think that Chase is a good guy, but I think that he feels that he's the most expendable to House (Foreman is just like House in a lot of ways and Cameron has boobies), so he had to figure out the best way to keep his hold. Also, I think it stemmed a little from guilt in fucking up that test, so he lashed back when House pointed it out so brutally in front of everyone else.
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Date: 2005-10-10 06:55 pm (UTC)I actually already have plans Friday night, but the weekend would work (or Thurs. if you really can). Lunch would also be good -- is that any day of the week, or Friday also? Lunch I can do any day, except Friday I have a meeting so it would just need to be later (like 1 or something).
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Date: 2005-10-10 07:02 pm (UTC)*whee!*
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Date: 2005-10-10 09:19 pm (UTC)As for Chase, I didn't like the sneaky mole thing either. He was also a REALLY big asshole to the obese girl in that episode. Chase is probably the best of them with kids except in that ep. They made him horribly two dimensional in that episode. Chase has always been the suck up among the cottages. That just means he is eager to please. Foreman is a lot like House, and Omar Epps is so wonderful in this role. I hated the Vogler arc. I don't want to ever speak of it again.
Okay, enough House. Have a good week!
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Date: 2005-10-10 09:35 pm (UTC)Yessss, he so was. And prior to that he'd been wonderful with people in general and kids in particular, which was why I kind of felt cheated, like they were making him be this evil guy, going against everything we've seen before, just to make him more "interesting." And so that House wouldn't have to feel bad about choosing to fire him. :p
However, I do stand by what I said to Laura, that I like the shades of gray (as long as they are actually going to play the shades of gray and not just make him 2D baddie). I mean, in real life people aren't perfect, and for all the reasons she stated I can see him making the choice he did. I'm not happy about it, but it happened. As long as they don't now try to turn it into this thing where he's Ultimate Evil, I'm okay with it -- he's a normal guy who made a bad decision.
I don't want to ever speak of it again.
LOL! I hated it too. I'm so relieved it didn't turn into this thing that dragged on to the next season. Although I might have preferred it to the Stacy thing. Guess we'll never know.
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Date: 2005-10-11 01:18 pm (UTC)Ruana is my main. All the rest of my characters are my alts. :)