I totally totally agree about their legitimate negative qualities (and I am ALWAYS making that argument about faux negative qualities that are actually just cute sympathetic quirks). The drugs are of course key to me, and the wild self-loathing (House maintains it better than Josh) AND the point that Josh is still basically a good guy while House is really not such a good guy and sort of a villain. And you are SO RIGHT, Sam and Donna ARE SO MUCH less interesting than Cuddy and Wilson, I had not thought of that.

This is a good argument too, Georgina H. /percolates