I disagree that Cuddy's been rehabilitated. So do I. This will work for the casual viewer, but not for anyone who has been following the show seriously. I was talking more about the writers' intentions than whether it actually works, my point being that you should never get a character into a situation where you have to bend all the rules of logic afterwards to get them out of it again. That is simply sloppy writing or wrong priorities.
I don't think anything can redeem the season because the medicine has been too weak. I didn't like most of Season 5's background plot either - all that Cuddy baby stuff, House getting on Cuddy's nerves, Cuddy pranking House (if one can call it such) - but some of the medical cases were really good.
If I had to make a list of defining episodes, [...] I'm more inclined to put 'Bombshells' on the 'Defining Episodes' list, because that episode spells out that House has been 'using' a relationship as a substitute for dealing with his problems. (The writing on the wall starts in 'Two Stories' with House's confession that he 'needs' Cuddy, but its menetekel is only interpreted for the viewer in 'Bombshells'.) IMO, this episode is basically backlash.
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Date: 2011-03-16 08:40 am (UTC)I disagree that Cuddy's been rehabilitated.
So do I. This will work for the casual viewer, but not for anyone who has been following the show seriously. I was talking more about the writers' intentions than whether it actually works, my point being that you should never get a character into a situation where you have to bend all the rules of logic afterwards to get them out of it again. That is simply sloppy writing or wrong priorities.
I don't think anything can redeem the season because the medicine has been too weak. I didn't like most of Season 5's background plot either - all that Cuddy baby stuff, House getting on Cuddy's nerves, Cuddy pranking House (if one can call it such) - but some of the medical cases were really good.
If I had to make a list of defining episodes, [...]
I'm more inclined to put 'Bombshells' on the 'Defining Episodes' list, because that episode spells out that House has been 'using' a relationship as a substitute for dealing with his problems. (The writing on the wall starts in 'Two Stories' with House's confession that he 'needs' Cuddy, but its menetekel is only interpreted for the viewer in 'Bombshells'.) IMO, this episode is basically backlash.