Would you ever get involved watching another show developed by Shore? That's hard to say, but probably no. I was VERY upset with DS right up until the last 5 minutes of the finale of House ... then I was just so grateful that he didn't completely destroy my love for the show by killing House or Wilson on screen that I let a lot of the anger slip away. In retrospect I still don't like the whole cancer thing and the doom and gloom direction he pointed the show toward - so I simply refuse to acknowledge that - and I dislike a lot of his comments along the way. I really did only start watching the show because of HL and RSL, and I don't think I would have ever been anything other than a most casual occasional viewer if it had different actors in it. I came to the fandom rather late - around 2008 I think, after I discovered the show on a marathon viewing session on a cable channel. I had seen parts of an episode or two at friends' homes, but never really paid that much attention until I saw a whole block of it at once. I saw the chemistry and subtext between HL and RSL immediately - and thought to myself "I bet there are some great stories about these guys online somewhere" ... and so I googled them, and I got hooked. I was only vaguely aware of fanfiction (didn't know what it was called and didn't know the term "slash" even) because I had stumbled upon some slash fanfiction for a show called "The Sentinel" in the late 1990's. Anyway I quickly got up to speed on fanfiction and slash and all the good stuff (started out on fanfiction.net then eventually found LJ and these H/W communities). I think one of the first fanfics I read was "How Not to be Boring" ... along with several other long epic multi-chapter H/W fics by the same writer (who then completely abandoned ALL of them on cliffhangers, completely stopped responding to any inquiries, and started writing for a different fandom ... GRRRRR). That's why these days I rarely read WIPs until completed - unless I personally know and trust the author to continue the story to its completion. So as for watching another DS production - well, I wouldn't watch it BECAUSE of his involvement ... it would probably all depend upon the characters and the actors playing them much more than upon his writing.
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That's hard to say, but probably no. I was VERY upset with DS right up until the last 5 minutes of the finale of House ... then I was just so grateful that he didn't completely destroy my love for the show by killing House or Wilson on screen that I let a lot of the anger slip away. In retrospect I still don't like the whole cancer thing and the doom and gloom direction he pointed the show toward - so I simply refuse to acknowledge that - and I dislike a lot of his comments along the way. I really did only start watching the show because of HL and RSL, and I don't think I would have ever been anything other than a most casual occasional viewer if it had different actors in it. I came to the fandom rather late - around 2008 I think, after I discovered the show on a marathon viewing session on a cable channel. I had seen parts of an episode or two at friends' homes, but never really paid that much attention until I saw a whole block of it at once. I saw the chemistry and subtext between HL and RSL immediately - and thought to myself "I bet there are some great stories about these guys online somewhere" ... and so I googled them, and I got hooked. I was only vaguely aware of fanfiction (didn't know what it was called and didn't know the term "slash" even) because I had stumbled upon some slash fanfiction for a show called "The Sentinel" in the late 1990's. Anyway I quickly got up to speed on fanfiction and slash and all the good stuff (started out on fanfiction.net then eventually found LJ and these H/W communities). I think one of the first fanfics I read was "How Not to be Boring" ... along with several other long epic multi-chapter H/W fics by the same writer (who then completely abandoned ALL of them on cliffhangers, completely stopped responding to any inquiries, and started writing for a different fandom ... GRRRRR). That's why these days I rarely read WIPs until completed - unless I personally know and trust the author to continue the story to its completion. So as for watching another DS production - well, I wouldn't watch it BECAUSE of his involvement ... it would probably all depend upon the characters and the actors playing them much more than upon his writing.