House's ugly blue Dodge sitting in Cuddy's dining room is David Shore telling the fans 'Kwitcherbitchin'. Huddy's done and House is back to square one. Get it? Got it? Good. Now STFU.'
It takes a substantial amount of arrogance to talk to loyal fans of a popular show that way, but the House showrunners and writers don't lack in that department. Since the beginning of this season in particular characters have been twisted into pretzels to serve the storyline, which has become increasingly improbable, even outrageously ridiculous. Now we are instructed to believe House has become a jealous, vengeful ex with his cheese slipped completely off his cracker. The cogent observer who's been watching House for years can only tilt his or her head and say, HUH? House has been headed for a crash all season, but . . . THIS?
At first after the finale I thought of the car crash as a Vicodin-fueled fantasy. It didn't really happen; House simply hallucinated it as he sped away from Cuddy's place on the way to an unplanned sabbatical on a tropic isle. Yeah, it's dark, violent and mysogynistic, but it was all in his head, and House has had hallucinations similar to this before (remembering him clocking Wilson in the season 2 finale). Who hasn't dreamed of caving in someone's noggin with a baseball bat on occasion? Anyone? Anyone?
*crickets chirping*
Well, at least I'm honest. Anyway, to continue . . .
Then David Shore indicated in an interview that House did indeed actually do what was depicted, and that there would be 'personal, professional and legal ramifications' (unintentional pun there, I'm sure) for House in season 8. I suspect that statement is supposed to reassure us somehow, but in light of what's happened this past season I don't trust what I'm being told.
Like you, I was happy to see a few moments of genuine communication between House and Cuddy in this episode; it felt like we were finally seeing the real characters, not the cardboard cutouts we've been subjected to since shortly after 'Broken'. I've not been a fan of the Huddy storyline to say the least, but probably would have kicked against it less if it had been written as a romance between two flawed adults, rather than the juvenile, superficial free-for-all the writers gave us. Now, in order to get them out of the corner the writers painted themselves into, DS has ensured we all know Huddy's done, finished, gone, kaput, over.(And make no mistake, this order came down from on high--I'm certain of it. 'I don't care how you do it, just make sure the fans know Huddy's dead as a doornail.')
I was thrilled to think House was going to move on. I was happy that he'd escaped the horrors of 'After Hours' with just some nasty fantasies in his head and sutures in his leg as he went off to Cancun or the Bahamas to drink whiskey and cop feels off cabana girls and get some r&r. I was celebrating the chance to speculate about what would happen in season 8. And now, knowing this really happened (within the storyline--I know this is tv) . . .
*sigh*
This is way beyond bad writing. This is the the fans being b*tchslapped by the very people who ought to be thanking them for years of loyalty.
I really hope season 8 is it. My beloved House is being turned into a monster because inferior minds can conceive of no other use for him, can think of nothing better to do than tear him apart, and destroy everyone around him in the process.
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Date: 2011-05-26 10:57 pm (UTC)It takes a substantial amount of arrogance to talk to loyal fans of a popular show that way, but the House showrunners and writers don't lack in that department. Since the beginning of this season in particular characters have been twisted into pretzels to serve the storyline, which has become increasingly improbable, even outrageously ridiculous. Now we are instructed to believe House has become a jealous, vengeful ex with his cheese slipped completely off his cracker. The cogent observer who's been watching House for years can only tilt his or her head and say, HUH? House has been headed for a crash all season, but . . . THIS?
At first after the finale I thought of the car crash as a Vicodin-fueled fantasy. It didn't really happen; House simply hallucinated it as he sped away from Cuddy's place on the way to an unplanned sabbatical on a tropic isle. Yeah, it's dark, violent and mysogynistic, but it was all in his head, and House has had hallucinations similar to this before (remembering him clocking Wilson in the season 2 finale). Who hasn't dreamed of caving in someone's noggin with a baseball bat on occasion? Anyone? Anyone?
*crickets chirping*
Well, at least I'm honest. Anyway, to continue . . .
Then David Shore indicated in an interview that House did indeed actually do what was depicted, and that there would be 'personal, professional and legal ramifications' (unintentional pun there, I'm sure) for House in season 8. I suspect that statement is supposed to reassure us somehow, but in light of what's happened this past season I don't trust what I'm being told.
Like you, I was happy to see a few moments of genuine communication between House and Cuddy in this episode; it felt like we were finally seeing the real characters, not the cardboard cutouts we've been subjected to since shortly after 'Broken'. I've not been a fan of the Huddy storyline to say the least, but probably would have kicked against it less if it had been written as a romance between two flawed adults, rather than the juvenile, superficial free-for-all the writers gave us. Now, in order to get them out of the corner the writers painted themselves into, DS has ensured we all know Huddy's done, finished, gone, kaput, over.(And make no mistake, this order came down from on high--I'm certain of it. 'I don't care how you do it, just make sure the fans know Huddy's dead as a doornail.')
I was thrilled to think House was going to move on. I was happy that he'd escaped the horrors of 'After Hours' with just some nasty fantasies in his head and sutures in his leg as he went off to Cancun or the Bahamas to drink whiskey and cop feels off cabana girls and get some r&r. I was celebrating the chance to speculate about what would happen in season 8. And now, knowing this really happened (within the storyline--I know this is tv) . . .
*sigh*
This is way beyond bad writing. This is the the fans being b*tchslapped by the very people who ought to be thanking them for years of loyalty.
I really hope season 8 is it. My beloved House is being turned into a monster because inferior minds can conceive of no other use for him, can think of nothing better to do than tear him apart, and destroy everyone around him in the process.