House

[Tarami]

I thought the (first? I'm a week behind) episode with Amber was really awesome. I liked the concept that House knew he was really talking to his subconsious. The twist was way stretched, but it atleast had an interesting consequence.

[NowhereMan]

Last episode (Season finale?) took a leap into bizarre territory but was cool. I think at the very least I liked the pay off at the end.

[schild]

Season finale is next week.

[tazelbain]

They have really have gotten a ton of mileage out of Cut-throat Bitch.

[NowhereMan]

Season finale is next week.

In that case I'm curious to go with the set up of House kicking the meds (4realz), getting it on with Cuddy and the team actually pulling something together themselves for once. It seems like they're tying up a lot of plot ends.

[schild]

Season finale is next week.

In that case I'm curious to go with the set up of House kicking the meds (4realz), getting it on with Cuddy and the team actually pulling something together themselves for once. It seems like they're tying up a lot of plot ends.

To be fair, these plots have been around since season 1, really. So, theoretically, they want to go another direction. Like actually deal with House having a lovelife instead of flirting with it and him actually having a team that's not anything more than a sounding chamber.

[Samwise]

I was actually pretty sure until the end of the last episode that the season finale would be House in a coma or something (having conversations in his head, like the Mos Def character earlier this season) and his team having to diagnose him.

[schild]

I was actually pretty sure until the end of the last episode that the season finale would be House in a coma or something (having conversations in his head, like the Mos Def character earlier this season) and his team having to diagnose him.

They last two seasons ended with crappy trauma, they don't need to do it again.

But they probably will.

[ashrik]

I'm hoping for a kid with a handicap who doesn't want a cure to whatever the handicap is

[ashrik]

ahhh hahahaha

But they probably will

[Demetra]

Should have guessed it I suppose.  Damned if I wasn't surprised though.

[schild]

I'm glad it was Wilson in the end.

I'm hoping the first half of next season skips past all of this shit though. Maybe devoting ONE episode to it.

[Samwise]

I felt very slightly gypped by the big twist, but it was executed so well I don't think I care.

[NowhereMan]

Yeah they did it really well. Which is sort of what I've come to expect from the show, it doesn't always do great things but it does whatever weird plot idea they decide on really, really well.

[Demetra]

To me the best parts were that:

[Ookii]

If they played up Foreman a little more as taking over the reigns this could of easily been a Series Finale.  I'm in the schild camp of wanting one or less episodes devoted to his 'condition'.

[ashrik]

If this was the final episode of the season, it could have easily been the season finale.

[Ookii]

If this was the final episode of the season, it could have easily been the season finale.

I was more going for the final episode of the whole shebang.

[ashrik]

I got this idea from someone else but I'd like it if instead of the final moments interspersed with the wedding footage, we got to see House being taken away from the Hospital by Wilson. On the way to the front door we got to see all the other cast members but not as doctors; instead they're menial workers, custodians, or patients that a long delusional House used to help himself in what was actually a solo diagnosticians practice.

The most epic It Was All A Dream ever 

It doesn't really make sense but I chalk that up to the lupus

[NowhereMan]

I did monetarily think that it was going to turn out that Wilson was actually dead, that it was him who died in the bus crash instead of cut throat bitch and House had been hallucinating him this whole time rather than face up to the fact. That would thus explain his powerful insights into House's personality. Of course then I realised that that was ridiculously stretching things.

[Samwise]

It doesn't really make sense but I chalk that up to the lupus

[Samwise]

RISE FROM YOUR GRAVE!

The teaser for next season made me go  .

[fuser]

I'm so addicted to this show, I might be one of the few but I hope they keep house locked up for more then the premiere. 

[Samwise]

Really good season opener.

[tazelbain]

So are we going to have real character development for House?

[Signe]

Don't go back to Princeton, House!  Especially after last season!  The One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest-esque atmosphere suits him.

[Ratman_tf]

So are we going to have real character development for House?

It kinda feels more like a character reset. I feel like over the past 5 seasons House has gone from Jerk with Heart of Gold to Suicidal Whiner. Too soon to tell (It could all still be a halucination  ) but I hope this is their chance to bring House back from orbit.

[Tarami]

It wasn't really House as we know it, but Alvi's last lines just had me

[Samwise]

Even though it would be a very cheesy thing to do, I'm kind of hoping Alvie shows up at the hospital at some point down the road.

[Ookii]

Great season opener, now let's just hope it doesn't go back to the same old thing.

[Samwise]

I suspect to a large extent it will (the same old thing is still pretty entertaining), but with some variance in the side plots.  Major themes for this season will likely be:

 - House freaking people out by being less of an asshole (but still enjoying that he's freaking people out)
 - More of Cuddy's baby (soon to be toddler)
 - Neurotic newlywed hijinks with Chase and Cameron
 - 13's Huntington's taking a turn for the worse
 - Taub continuing to be an annoying sad sack

[schild]

That episode was fantastic.

I don't see too much coming out of the Chase/Cameron scenario unless the writers think Cameron feels she can really fix House now. I don't see 13 getting much worse either, no one wants someone like that on a show.

[Tarami]

I don't and never have liked Thirteen, regardless of shape. Yes, poor you, you have Huntingtons. Yes, you're bisexual. We got it already.

Anything that gives more screentime to Chase is a good thing though. I love his hair.

[Slyfeind]

I always thought that if House ever got "fixed" -- even if it was realistically portrayed complete with relapses -- it would make him much less interesting. Zoinks, glad to be proven wrong. I lost track of the series since CutThroatBitch died, but I'm looking forward to this season.

[Ratman_tf]

I don't and never have liked Thirteen, regardless of shape. Yes, poor you, you have Huntingtons. Yes, you're bisexual. We got it already.

She really is a one (two?) trick pony. The only thing that made her palatable to me is hooking up with Foreman. I still wouldn't miss her if she got the boot.