House

[Sheepherder]

So, Foreman and Wilson were on Heroin as well?

Assuming otherwise: the room below House is fully engulfed, and it appeared surrounding rooms were as well.  Which means he'd been hotboxing burning polyurethane foam cushions and matresses in an 800 - 1200˚ C environment (remember: heat rises) for between five and ten minutes using Jeff's numbers.

[Samwise]

I thought it was fine.  The critical plot points were all plausible enough (cmon, House is a genius and has been working in hospitals and pranking people for a long time, I think he's up to the challenge of faking some records so he can pull a Tom Sawyer) and made sense for the characters, and that matters more to me than whether the TV dramatic depiction of a burning building was visually accurate to what it would look like in real life.

Liked that a big theme of the episode was House trying to wriggle out of paying the price for his own dumbassery, and at the end he finally did make a personal sacrifice so he could spend time with Wilson, albeit in a sophomoric dumbass kind of way.  Just the right amount of character growth.

[Sheepherder]

I thought it was fine.  The critical plot points were all plausible enough (cmon, House is a genius and has been working in hospitals and pranking people for a long time, I think he's up to the challenge of faking some records so he can pull a Tom Sawyer) and made sense for the characters, and that matters more to me than whether the TV dramatic depiction of a burning building was visually accurate to what it would look like in real life.

It's not so much the Tom Sawyer, it's that it's another goddamn Deus Ex Machina.  How the fuck does a dead guy manage to con his way into the morgue to swap dental records without anyone the wiser?  We don't know!

House normally has excellent attention to detail.  You could teach a class of volunteers how and when to call in a Mayday with a clip from the Season 6 finale.  The burning building is just fucking bad.

[Samwise]

It's not so much the Tom Sawyer, it's that it's another goddamn Deus Ex Machina.  How the fuck does a dead guy manage to con his way into the morgue to swap dental records without anyone the wiser?  We don't know!

Like I said, he's a genius with inside knowledge of the place, keys, plenty of experience doing this exact type of thing to prank people, and a decent amount of time while everyone who knew that he was "dead" was sitting around watching the rescue efforts.  I don't need them to show an hour-long flashback of him doing an Ocean's Eleven routine for me to accept that part of the plot.

[Xanthippe]

I'm just glad the show is done. I liked it, then didn't but kept watching it because I like Hugh Laurie.

[Sheepherder]

I don't need them to show an hour-long flashback of him doing an Ocean's Eleven routine for me to accept that part of the plot.

You don't need to, though you did laugh when he attended his Dad's funeral to get a DNA sample.  I know you did.

[Samwise]

 

[Sheepherder]

Funnily, The Joker was the other comparison I would have made.  They just had way too much fun with that character.

[luckton]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Zu5XVIQylE

[Ratman_tf]

It's not so much the Tom Sawyer, it's that it's another goddamn Deus Ex Machina.  How the fuck does a dead guy manage to con his way into the morgue to swap dental records without anyone the wiser?  We don't know!

Like I said, he's a genius with inside knowledge of the place, keys, plenty of experience doing this exact type of thing to prank people, and a decent amount of time while everyone who knew that he was "dead" was sitting around watching the rescue efforts.  I don't need them to show an hour-long flashback of him doing an Ocean's Eleven routine for me to accept that part of the plot.

House only has a "friends with benefits" relationship with realisim anyway. I'm a bit diappointed that they never did an episode where a space shuttle pilot gets sick, and House has to diagnose him before the shuttle crashes into Princeton Plainsboro.