House

[Samwise]

I'm really curious to see what the fuck they do with the next season.  Agree with Merusk that the show could easily have ended there.

[Merusk]

Season 8: The team Skypes House every 5 minutes because he can't come back to the US. 

[Hawkbit]

Finally got around to watching our DVRs of the end of this season. 

Oddly,


Good stuff all around. 

[Surlyboi]

It's Lupus!

[luckton]

Will catch up tonight watching the season premiere.  I somehow doubt that, even moving the setting to a prison, they'll escape the typical "patient has something wrong/spend 45 minutes doing invasive procedures to determine cause/blow last few minutes discovering it's something either stupidly simple/incredibly rare/interpersonal drama spread throughout" routine.

[Samwise]

Loved House doing the Sherlock thing with the hot doctor.   

[Nevermore]

He'll probably end up hiring her for his new team, since she's now blacklisted.

[Ratman_tf]

Adequate episode of House. I have to wonder about that prison's poor security over their vicodin though. 

Anywho, yeah. I haven't paid attention to the spoilers, but that female doctor has "New team member" written on her forehead.

[Xanthippe]

It recaptured my interest after losing it last season, but only tentatively.

[luckton]

Aye, I caught up with the episode last night.  They were pretty spot on the portrayal of Jailhouse gangs, logistics and economics.  Even the hardened murderer having a soft spot for the cricket isn't far from reality.

As for the story, they sure are getting innovative at re-telling the same one over and over.  Still, the change of scenery was nice.  Back to the hospital for next week's episode!

[Ratman_tf]

Princeton Plainsboro should wise up and sell tickets to watch House insult people and cure patients with unconventional methods!

[Merusk]

I'm baffled as to why Cuddie would let him back in the hospital at all.  It makes less than zero sense.

[Samwise]

My understanding is that Cuddy's off the show (the actress quit).  So that removes the obvious "why the fuck would Cuddy let him anywhere near her" obstacle.

[Surlyboi]

Yup, Cuddy's gone.

[Merusk]

She was the only one with any reasonable reason to even let him work as fucked up as he was before t his. Now I'm just even more puzzled.

Not to mention the whys and wherefores of not losing his damn license.

Honestly, last season should have been the end.  This one is just going to make me angry, I can feel it.

[Samwise]

Fucked up or not, he's the most brilliant diagnostician in the world, and there's always going to be some rich guy with a mysterious ailment who will pay any amount of money to get Greg House to look at his case.  There's your motivation to let him work.

[HaemishM]

So... hmm. 4 episodes into the new status quo and I like it but don't love it. It's most definitely time for the last season, as you can tell they really stretched to try to make another season in that hospital make any sort of sense and it really doesn't. But I like the new team members, especially the hotness on a stick that is Dr. Adams. Much hotter than Olivia Wilde and that's saying something. How it'll work with Taub and Chase back I'm not entirely sure, especially with Foreman playing the role of Cuddy.

[Surlyboi]

Odette Anable (formerly Yustman) is indeed teh hotness. Hotter than Olivia? Out for debate. I still see the Mexican girl on Kindergarten cop and cry a little 'cause she died in Cloverfield.

[HaemishM]

Welp, that's it then. Show's over.

I can't say I LOVED IT, but I definitely thought it ended well with enough of an unexpected twist to fit the character perfectly.

[Merusk]

So did anyone watch last night's finale?  I'm almost done digesting it and really enjoyed it. One hell of a roller-coaster for me.  

Fake ed: Damnit Haemish you posted as I was pulled away for a phone call.

[Ratman_tf]

An adequete finale, unfortunatley I don't think it was a very strong one. They've had much better season finales. Very nice to see Stacey (Sela Ward) make it for the last ep.
I feel that all the crap episodes are worth it for the first 3 seasons and the decent eps between then and the end.

[Ironwood]

Not convinced.  Bad Ending.

[Sheepherder]

They needed some serious fucking Deus Ex Machina to make that ending work.  Unless you want to assume that House offed the addict and lit the crack den on fire himself.

[Ironwood]

I think we're meant to assume that he went there to get the guy to go with his promise to bail him out and found him dead.  Setting the fire himself isn't that big a leap once you've believed that bit of horseshit.

The whole thing smelled of Moffat.

[Sheepherder]

Wasn't he initially lying there high?  Hence the long discourse with figments of his imagination?  Did he set the fire and stop for a heroin break?

The part where he breaks through the floor into a fully involved room was just painful to watch.

[Ironwood]

That certainly seemed like the setup at the start, yes, but it gave you absolutely no context as the episode went on as to why or how that would ever come about.

Indeed, it was all A PLAN.   

[Sheepherder]

So he had a plan all along, just his heroin hallucinations weren't aware of it even though he had discoursed with them, at length, on that very topic (the inability of House to deceive figments of his own imagination)?

I'm also having troubles accepting that morgues apparently allow strung-out dudes who reek of burnt meat to just walk in and swap dental records.

EDIT: Also, the pretext for him going back to jail is fucking weak.  I mean, really?  Ladies better be careful they don't get caught flushing tampons.

EDIT2: Though in that case God wasn't so much in the machine as he was perched on the ceiling tiles above it.

[Ironwood]

You know I was agreeing, right ?

 

[Sheepherder]

Yes, it's just too atrocious to not mock at length.

[Ironwood]

In fairness, I would imagine since it was PLANNED (DAN DAN DAN DUUUUHH) that he swapped the dental records before the hobo killing fire.

[Sheepherder]

See, that's not even the worst (though it's still atrocious.)

The absolute worst bit is him being able to deceive his hallucinations, solely for the purposes of fucking with the audience.  I just want to walk up to the cockmunch who wrote that, throw every ounce of weight I can muster into a backhand, point to the script, and say "See that?  There's supposed to be a fourth wall there, you motherfucking hack!"

Also, like every single moment he is anywhere in the same building as a fire, for purely technical reasons.  You cannot fucking survive above a fire unless there is an intact separation between you and it; hot gasses rise, witches burn.  You cannot fucking survive in a fully involved room like that unless the vast majority of your body is covered by flame resistant material; in maybe a quarter of a minute the UV and infrared light cast by the fire is going to cause your skin to slough off.  You especially cannot survive breaking through a floor into a fully involved room; fucking firefighters usually don't survive that.

[Jeff Kelly]

If you light a curtain on fire then it generally takes about 5 minutes until the whole room is on fire, less than ten until the whole apartment is ablaze and if there are no fire walls and other systems in place that try to slow the fire down the whole building will be burning in about 20 minutes. Temperatures anywhere from 400 to 1200 degrees celcius. That's for the brick and mortar or concrete reinforced buildings that we generally build over here.

Anybody who isn't out by the 10 minute mark faces the risk of serious injuries or death from smoke inhalation, breathing in of the scorching hot air or, you now, burning. It will also be completely filled with smoke so that you have visibility in the range of inches.

[HaemishM]

Or, the very act of falling and being in the building at all could have been a hallucination, complete with time compression, etc. I didn't take the whole "Go through the burning building" as a literal sequence of events.

[Ironwood]

 

[tazelbain]

I was hoping that it was an extended episode of Doctor Who.