[Dr. Gregory House M.D.] Thread

Lucascraft

Old thread got locked. Season finale is tonight, yo.

Lets talk about House.

emnmnme

Stumbled across this earlier.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfChpBtPK2Y

smeej

I hope half the episode isnt dedicated to saying goodbye to Cuddy because her contract is up!

Tox

I will not get to watch this until tomorrow at the earliest.

Also, I love spoilers, so...yeah, someone spoil that crap.

Bullio

Huh...

useless4

That was probably the second most satisfying season closer this year (the first being community, third being the mentalist) ... everything else has just been underwhelmingly blah. Funny how House and Mentalist had a "F IT" attitude going out.

Invisible

What he did to Cuddy was dumb even by House standards.

useless4

Oh yea but for a show that continuously is rumored to end with House killing himself it makes sense in-show context.

I go with this: it's a satisfying non-expected send off for Cuddy. It's one of the extreme few interesting things that has happened this May for season finales. It's game changing only because we know she won't be back next year so it's pretty easy to write around but could offer up some fun at the start of the season.

Tox

You people are killing me. If you're going to talk about it, toss up some sblocks and talk about it! I need spoilers.

useless4

Tox wrote: »

You people are killing me. If you're going to talk about it, toss up some sblocks and talk about it! I need spoilers.

Ok here you go you probably will doubt this is true.

Cuddy tries with house and fails to get through. She takes and has a male single friend of her sister's over to the house for a semi-double date thing we don't find out much about.

It's because upon seeing this - house and wilson drive over to return her comb she left at the house - house kicks wilson out of the car and then proceeds to drive it THROUGH the house.

Cut to him hiding out in a beachy type place looking pleased as shit. End season.

Oh and taub's wife is also pregnant

Tox

Okay, that last one? Awesome. The rest, uhm....guess I'll have to wait to see it to understand it.

RhalloTonny

Wilson: What are you mad about? Just let it out, you'll feel better.
House drives through a house.

On ways to write Cutty out of the show, that's certainly an unexpected one.

rndmhero

The way they played it out at the very end was funny and all, but...

For all House knew, weren't they all still sitting at the table when he gunned it? I mean, he played it off as "lol here's your comb," but did he just try and murder like 5 people?

I didn't get the feeling that the show wanted us to think of it that way, but I can't think of an explanation where House wasn't still thinking they were there as he drove into the wall.

Caveman Paws

rndmhero wrote: »

The way they played it out at the very end was funny and all, but...

For all House knew, weren't they all still sitting at the table when he gunned it? I mean, he played it off as "lol here's your comb," but did he just try and murder like 5 people?

I didn't get the feeling that the show wanted us to think of it that way, but I can't think of an explanation where House wasn't still thinking they were there as he drove into the wall.

I'm sure his physician senses allowed him to know where they were.

deowolf

Oh, fuck you, local Fox station. I dont need three of your fat weathermen telling me the weather is bad outside ten hours ago. I have a the Internet and work in a shelter in place. What I want from you is to see the first half of House, assholes.

Sigh. Is it like a week until Hulu? Or two?

The Dagon

deowolf wrote: »

Oh, fuck you, local Fox station. I dont need three of your fat weathermen telling me the weather is bad outside ten hours ago. I have a the Internet and work in a shelter in place. What I want from you is to see the first half of House, assholes.

Sigh. Is it like a week until Hulu? Or two?

House is on an 8 day delay. Unless you have Hulu Plus, then you can watch it right now.

So what's this thing about Cuddy's contract? She's leaving the show? Does she hate money?

evilthecat

pretty much the worse season ender ever.
where are they gonna take it from here?
House: Bahamas?

chamberlain

This thread should no longer be about House, it should be about how awesome Hugh Laurie is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1x7AeEogGM

So awesome.

...

Whose car was it that was driven through Cuddy's house? Either way, why would the head of oncology or a celebrated diagnostician have such a shitty ride?

a5ehren

chamberlain wrote: »

This thread should no longer be about House, it should be about how awesome Hugh Laurie is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1x7AeEogGM

So awesome.

...

Whose car was it that was driven through Cuddy's house? Either way, why would the head of oncology or a celebrated diagnostician have such a shitty ride?

Think House has a bike (so it's not his), but IIRC Wilson has been through a number of divorces, so he may just be broke.

matt has a problem

So next season on both House and The Mentalist we're going to have the title character undergoing criminal prosecution?

chamberlain

matthasaproblem wrote: »

So next season on both House and The Mentalist we're going to have the title character undergoing criminal prosecution?

Season premiere will be House walking up in the mental hospital. This whole season was a dream.

matt has a problem

chamberlain wrote: »

matthasaproblem wrote: »

So next season on both House and The Mentalist we're going to have the title character undergoing criminal prosecution?

Season premiere will be House walking up in the mental hospital. This whole season was a dream.

Didn't they already do that two or three seasons ago though?

Tox

chamberlain wrote: »

matthasaproblem wrote: »

So next season on both House and The Mentalist we're going to have the title character undergoing criminal prosecution?

Season premiere will be House walking up in the mental hospital. This whole season was a dream.

But, then...who shot JR?

Lucascraft

Seems to me like a lot of season finales I've watched this year really went for more of an under-played ending. Nothing too flashy or crazy.

I mean, sure, the car through the house thing was pretty insane, but it wasn't really season finale insane. The episode where he jumped off the balcony into the swimming pool was crazier than this was.

smeej

The Dagon wrote: »

deowolf wrote: »

Oh, fuck you, local Fox station. I dont need three of your fat weathermen telling me the weather is bad outside ten hours ago. I have a the Internet and work in a shelter in place. What I want from you is to see the first half of House, assholes.

Sigh. Is it like a week until Hulu? Or two?

House is on an 8 day delay. Unless you have Hulu Plus, then you can watch it right now.

So what's this thing about Cuddy's contract? She's leaving the show? Does she hate money?

http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/05/17/lisa-edelstein-leaving-house/

Speaking of lots of money, that's how they are keeping Wilson on the show.

Thirith

I have to say, with the kind of crap the seventh season is pulling, I'm surprised *anyone* is staying on. Here they've only shown the first 7-8 episodes, but the writing and especially the characterisation are so painfully and embarrassingly lazy that even Hugh Laurie is almost not enough of a reason to keep watching.

Mojo_Jojo

That was a super weak ending. It just made no sense. The case and the stuff with the flashbacks to the start was just nonsense. Booo.

Invisible

a5ehren wrote: »

chamberlain wrote: »

This thread should no longer be about House, it should be about how awesome Hugh Laurie is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1x7AeEogGM

So awesome.

...

Whose car was it that was driven through Cuddy's house? Either way, why would the head of oncology or a celebrated diagnostician have such a shitty ride?

Think House has a bike (so it's not his), but IIRC Wilson has been through a number of divorces, so he may just be broke.

It had a handicap plate so...

MushroomStick

Invisible wrote: »

a5ehren wrote: »

chamberlain wrote: »

This thread should no longer be about House, it should be about how awesome Hugh Laurie is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1x7AeEogGM

So awesome.

...

Whose car was it that was driven through Cuddy's house? Either way, why would the head of oncology or a celebrated diagnostician have such a shitty ride?

Think House has a bike (so it's not his), but IIRC Wilson has been through a number of divorces, so he may just be broke.

It had a handicap plate so...

That's been his car since pretty early on in the series. If you recall, its the car he had all the doctors wash when he was searching for a new team back in season 4.

useless4

The Mentalist ending was better I will give them that.

From day one Patrick Jane said what he would do when he found Red John.

I seriously think the series just should end there. It would be satisfying.

The one that really pisses me off is NCIS and I won't even spoiler tag this BS.
For a show that lives in endless repeats they simply turned on USA , took down plot lines and did a find and replace for their last two episodes.
1. The mentor guy dies, but that's ok he was going to die anyway. They did this with the previous director too!

2. OH NO A TRAITOR IN OUR MISTS AND IT's ONE OF US. WE CAN'T LET THE TEAM KNOW THOUGH!

We did this like two seasons ago too.

TeaSpoon

Mojo_Jojo wrote: »

That was a super weak ending. It just made no sense. The case and the stuff with the flashbacks to the start was just nonsense. Booo.

The way I understood it,

House wanted to put a definitive ending on the whole Cuddy thing. He fucked up their relationship. He's been miserable and slowly killing himself throughout the season, trying desperately to be happy. Now he just wanted it to be over, so he did something Cuddy wouldn't be able to forgive.

And then he fled the country.

He's trying to start over in a different place with different people and different things. Wilson predicted that House would be in the most dark depressing bar in town, drinking his misery away, because that's his usual pattern. House broke that pattern by going to a sunny beach. So what does that mean? Listen to the song playing in the background in the final scene.

And I got nothing to lose but darkness and shadows
Got nothing to lose but bitterness and patterns

House reached the point where he was better off leaving his whole life behind. The episode is called "moving on" and that's exactly what House did. Everyone wanted him to do so by his exploring his feelings in healthy, adult manner. Instead, House was House.

Someone posted that everyone thought the show would end with House committing suicide. In a sense, he did. He fled everything he knew and burned all the bridged behind him. The last scene is House starting a new life.

The question is, will it work?

Well, it better because it's all House has left. The episode ended on a hopeful note, but if House fucks this up too, then suicide really is his only option. The problem is that the writers cannot continue the show in the Bahamas. They'll need some clever excuse to continue this story back in New Jersey.

The flashbacks were there to create suspense.

TeaSpoon

useless4 wrote: »

The Mentalist ending was better I will give them that.
From day one Patrick Jane said what he would do when he found Red John.
I seriously think the series just should end there. It would be satisfying.

The one that really pisses me off is NCIS and I won't even spoiler tag this BS.
For a show that lives in endless repeats they simply turned on USA , took down plot lines and did a find and replace for their last two episodes.
1. The mentor guy dies, but that's ok he was going to die anyway. They did this with the previous director too!
2. OH NO A TRAITOR IN OUR MISTS AND IT's ONE OF US. WE CAN'T LET THE TEAM KNOW THOUGH! We did this like two seasons ago too.

You should spoiler this BS. Spoiler it right now.

This is a thread for House M.D. and you just spoiled two other shows for me.

Lucascraft

Man, that would rock if the season premiere for next season starts with House in the Big House.

Jokerman

Why the fuck did the bring masters in, just to kick her off?

fuck this season.

Sagroth

Not happy with this season. I would've been far happier if they'd just ended things last season with House in therapy and with Cuddy. Not saying that they would live happily ever after or anything, but that there was hope. Just end the show there on a hopeful note. But, "money lulz."

This...well...

I think they hurt the character of House far more in doing what he did than if they'd let us think that perhaps the relationship could have worked. I'd rather a somewhat-hard-to-believe slow character change to a better person than oh hey attempted murder, especially when one of them is a child who reached out to me while I was in a hospital bed.

Anyway, I'm done with the show, I think. If I can drop Bones mid-season when that harlot started dating Booth and I realized they'd always keep Bones and Booth not a couple, I can do this, too. And Fox canceled Lie to Me this past week, too. I've run out of shows of theirs to give a crap about, now.

Bullio

Jokerman wrote: »

Why the fuck did the bring masters in, just to kick her off?

fuck this season.

My guess is that it had something to do with Olivia Wilde's press tour for Tron: Legacy. After that was over? Aside from maybe having other projects to work on, I really don't know.

Invisible

Sagroth wrote: »

Not happy with this season. I would've been far happier if they'd just ended things last season with House in therapy and with Cuddy. Not saying that they would live happily ever after or anything, but that there was hope. Just end the show there on a hopeful note. But, "money lulz."

This...well...

I think they hurt the character of House far more in doing what he did than if they'd let us think that perhaps the relationship could have worked. I'd rather a somewhat-hard-to-believe slow character change to a better person than oh hey attempted murder, especially when one of them is a child who reached out to me while I was in a hospital bed.

Anyway, I'm done with the show, I think. If I can drop Bones mid-season when that harlot started dating Booth and I realized they'd always keep Bones and Booth not a couple, I can do this, too. And Fox canceled Lie to Me this past week, too. I've run out of shows of theirs to give a crap about, now.

Bones spoiler

Booth has impregnated Bones the oldfashioned way, so it's likely they'll at least be more of a couple next season.

Berkshire

I liked this episode, personally. House represents a notion that the dark little part of me that is House-like is okay. He's the anathema to a lot of things our society values- counterculture in one crippled asshole.

When they started to make him happy by putting him in a relationship with Cuddy, I felt like it was a cop out, a paean to the "OMG HAPPY ENDINGS!!1" crowd that keeps the romantic comedy genre alive. It looks like some people here felt that way too, but liked it. I get that- real life is depressing, and fiction means we can make anything we want happen. But life ain't perfect, and neither is our leading man. You want perfect characters who end up happy, again there's a ton of romantic comedies that turn out magically, or most other shows on TV fit the bill.

So refreshing to see the happy ending ruined for once. I hope House never changes.

Invisible

I'm fine with them not being together, but

attempted murder/suicide was a little much. House just tried to murder 5 people, even if he somehow knew they weren't in that room, he had no idea where the debris would end up, if it would cause parts of the house to collapse, etc.

I thought House was supposed to be a jerk not a monster.

Nova_C

Bullio wrote: »

Jokerman wrote: »

Why the fuck did the bring masters in, just to kick her off?

fuck this season.

My guess is that it had something to do with Olivia Wilde's press tour for Tron: Legacy. After that was over? Aside from maybe having other projects to work on, I really don't know.

Yeah, they needed a female to fill in for Wilde temporarily. I was sad when she left, though, because the dynamic created between her idealism and House's misanthropy was so much fun to watch.

I've only been watching House for a little while now, finally caught up a few weeks ago, and I guess being a short time fan changes my perspective. I enjoyed this season as much as the rest. In fact, no other TV series I've watched that has been on for nearly this long has kept my attention like House.

And I second the sadness over Lie To Me being cancelled. That show was incredible.

Kirbith

I am just... really disappointed.

Pretty much since they got rid of Kutner by having him, ya know, kill himself when the actor wanted off the show, the show has been in a downward spiral for me.

And the season finale was just the epitome of dumb.

Sorry lulz I'm mad, gotta fuck up your house now.

Oh and then I'm on a tropical island! Woooo!

So my bet is on either House somehow escaping the punishment he deserves or mental hospital again.

Just a bad way to end the whole thing with Cuddy.