Banner-Day Nineteen

Okay. I meant to do this banner theme awhile ago. I had told Banana I would, but then I went and forgot. Well, I remembered, so, as the last banner before my birthday, I am doing one for House! My favorite fictional character, well, since Sherlock Holmes. XD House is the best show on TV right now. And what makes it so good, is it’s suspense, and part for me, is how much of an ass House is. It makes it interesting. You never know what he’s going to say next. And, I found something else out today.

Taken from Wiki.

Sherlock Holmes serves as an inspiration for the series.

Similarities between Gregory House and the famous fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, appear throughout the series. Shore explained that he was always a Holmes fan, and found the character’s indifference to his clients unique. The resemblance is evident in House’s reliance on psychology, even where it might not seem obviously applicable, inductive reasoning, and his reluctance to accept cases he finds uninteresting. His investigatory method is to logically eliminate diagnoses as they are proved impossible; Holmes used a similar method. Both characters play instruments (House plays the piano, the guitar, and the harmonica; Holmes, the violin) and take drugs (House is addicted to Vicodin; Holmes uses cocaine recreationally). House’s relationship with Dr. James Wilson echoes that between Holmes and his confidant, Dr. John Watson. Robert Sean Leonard, who portrays Wilson, said that House and his character—whose name is very similar to Watson’s—were originally intended to work together much as Holmes and Watson do; in his view, House’s diagnostic team has assumed that aspect of the Watson role. Shore said that House’s name itself is meant as “a subtle homage” to Holmes. The number of House’s apartment, 221B, is a reference to Holmes’s street address.

Individual episodes of the series contain additional references to the Sherlock Holmes tales. The main patient in the pilot episode is named Rebecca Adler, after Irene Adler, a character in the first Holmes short story. In the season 2 finale, House is shot by a crazed gunman credited as “Moriarty”, the name of Holmes’s nemesis. In the season 4 episode “It’s a Wonderful Lie”, House receives a “second edition Conan Doyle” as a Christmas gift. In the season 5 episode “Joy to the World”, House, in an attempt to fool his team, uses a book by Joseph Bell, Conan Doyle’s inspiration for Sherlock Holmes. The volume had been given to him the previous Christmas by Wilson, who included the message “Greg, made me think of you”. Before acknowledging that he gave the book to House, Wilson tells two of the team members that its source was a patient, Irene Adler.

I was amazed! I didn’t even know that! It’s so funny that my favorite fictional character now, is the inspiration for House! That’s so cool! I guess Sherlock is still my first favorite, House just reminds me of him. XD

Here are the banners. (I made six, five are the colors of the each of the five seasons (six’s cover hasn’t been made yet, so I don’t know the color for it), and the last one is just an extra I made from the logo they show when the episodes theme music plays)

The first banner I made;