Well, I guess there should be a spoiler alert here. Bring on the sirens. If you haven’t seen the latest House episode, don’t read this.
So the House/Cuddy (I refuse to say Huddy. It’s just…ugly) thing finally happened. No surprises there. I am very frustrated with it though. Having just watched almost all of the back story (most of the way through season 4, folks!) I find that often, the writers do a great job of building tension, and then completely wimp out on the wrap-up. The most frustrating one is still the Tritter story, which was awesome and wonderful and creepy until they had that one-episode deus ex machine nonsense. There’s more examples – Foreman’s almost death and possible brain damage completely disappears from view immediately after; Houses loses his team at the end of season 3, but then they sneak back in because the writers can’t live up to their threat of dramatic change. I mean really, I am glad we had the Amber hallucination because frankly, otherwise, everyone would doubtlessly have forgotten about her already; not to mention poor Kutner, about whom no one seems to give a damn after that first dramatic death episode. *sighs* And so back to the Hookup. Folks, it’s not that I object to it in principle. It was bound to happen sooner or later. But really, he is Sick and Lonely and she Looks After him? Oh ye gods, it is the most classical of all ploys. I find myself wishing for David Simon, he of The Wire. Or some British detective screenwriters. Something. An original thought. This half-detective half-soap writing doesn’t work for me at all. So much is good here – good characters, lovely cast, a compelling setup. Yet for something so supposedly risky and unapologetic it becomes trite and tame whenever there’s a real challenge. Perhaps this is the affliction of a mainstream tv show in the US. Yet it saddens me that here are some of the best actors around, and heaven knows I love Hugh Laurie in the most platonic sense anyway, and this is what they do? This is as provocative as they can be? Man, they better have some real follow-up on that whole detox story or I am finding something else to obsess about.
That said, the Amber interaction I am currently watching ("Don't Ever Change") is pretty awesome.
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I stopped watching the episode before this. Aside from the fact that I loathe this pairing (yes, I do prefer another), when I compare season 1, with medical puzzles I can sink my teeth into and answers that made SENSE, I mourn the loss of my show and the characters.
The episode that finally tipped the scale for me? Forcibly implanting a cochlear ear implant, as if the 14-year-old would then hear whether he wants to or not. I have a cochlear and the science and ethics were so wrong, there became no reason to watch anymore, even while I was choking at the Huddy.
I might check out Chuck that night.
I don't know that even the Huddy and the admittedly awful stuff about cochlear implants would put me off House. The medicine is patchy; but usually either the medicine or the soap is good. It's sad when neither is.
What's your pairing of choice?
My pairing of choice is House/Cameron, mainly because she's accepted who he is. Cuddy keeps trying to teach House "lessons." To each his/her own. ;)
You're right. I can see why House and Cuddy would be attracted, but it's hard to imagine it going anywhere but total destruction. Not necessarily interesting destruction, either. I doesn't seem like it would get anyone anywhere...
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