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commotiocordisRe: the House season 4 finale.
If ever I begin to question why I watch this show (as with most of the Tritter arc, large bits of season 4, etc.), this is the answer.
I can't begin to describe how much I loved it. I mean, "3 Patients" may have just been replaced as the best episode. (Excuse to rewatch 3P to find out, LOL.) The acting was great, the complexity of the relationship issues was dealt with understatedly enough that it didn't annoy you, the parallels to old school House episodes were funny, RSL just. . . *is floored*, the Huddy, the House/Wilson, the Thirteen, the Kutner!fail at being anything that makes me like him at all.
Too many points to pick out the good stuff, really, so we'll just look at some of the odd moments. And bits towards the end, because that's what I remember.
Kutner and the cereal at the end. Wow, I didn't think I could dislike him more. There was the sympathy play with the dead parents thing, but I'm just not connecting at all.
Taub going back to (presumably) his wife in the same sequence. Umm, what would your response be if some man came in to your bedroom in the middle of the night and started spooning all over you when you were sleeping? I assumed that he and wife were separated, is this not the case? Because that would make it slightly less freaky, if they had been sharing a bed all this time, but if not? I'd be screaming.
Remy. That evoked groans of the sympathetic/OHNOES variety. Well, shit. There's now that whole bill through Congress about not discriminating based on genetic profiles, and now I almost wish there wasn't, because I'd love to see that issue explored--it's the direction I thought they were going to go earlier in the season when they first introduced it, but foiled by the government and their silly passing of decent laws (I mean, WTF is this?). This isn't a degenerative neurological disease like Parkinson's, where there's not (much) danger to those around you. Huntington's screws with cognition, which you can't have going on and still be a competent medical practitioner.
I wish to cuddle the Wilson for obvious reasons (meaning RSL's acting godhood, the existence of which was already known to me but had never really been shown on House). TPTB's treatment of the whole Wilson/Amber thing has been pretty darn good all along when you measure it like I do: it doesn't make me gag with the squishy het (see House/Cameron, Cameron/Chase, etc.); the characters managed to be romantically involved and stay seeming like adults, not adolescent boyfriend/girlfriend types. Ditto with the latest bits of House/Cuddy in the past episode or two. They're not forcing it on you--it could totally be interpreted as just friendship, and I'm not sure where I stand on it yet. (I mean, for obvious reasons of fitting in with my shippage, I'm leaning towards the friendship, but you know.)
The weird, slow, manly version of the song "Teardrop" (the House theme, but the actual song with words) that played at one point freaked me out a bit. Mostly because I spent so long trying to place the song because it was so different from the actual version. I've realized I don't have a copy of that anymore, though, so now I must find one.
I'm probably going to watch it again later (as the family hasn't seen it yet), so more thoughts perhaps to come.
On a completely unrelated side note. Bit of brownie + smidge of peanut butter (for sticking) + slice of banana = delicious.
If ever I begin to question why I watch this show (as with most of the Tritter arc, large bits of season 4, etc.), this is the answer.
I can't begin to describe how much I loved it. I mean, "3 Patients" may have just been replaced as the best episode. (Excuse to rewatch 3P to find out, LOL.) The acting was great, the complexity of the relationship issues was dealt with understatedly enough that it didn't annoy you, the parallels to old school House episodes were funny, RSL just. . . *is floored*, the Huddy, the House/Wilson, the Thirteen, the Kutner!fail at being anything that makes me like him at all.
Too many points to pick out the good stuff, really, so we'll just look at some of the odd moments. And bits towards the end, because that's what I remember.
Kutner and the cereal at the end. Wow, I didn't think I could dislike him more. There was the sympathy play with the dead parents thing, but I'm just not connecting at all.
Taub going back to (presumably) his wife in the same sequence. Umm, what would your response be if some man came in to your bedroom in the middle of the night and started spooning all over you when you were sleeping? I assumed that he and wife were separated, is this not the case? Because that would make it slightly less freaky, if they had been sharing a bed all this time, but if not? I'd be screaming.
Remy. That evoked groans of the sympathetic/OHNOES variety. Well, shit. There's now that whole bill through Congress about not discriminating based on genetic profiles, and now I almost wish there wasn't, because I'd love to see that issue explored--it's the direction I thought they were going to go earlier in the season when they first introduced it, but foiled by the government and their silly passing of decent laws (I mean, WTF is this?). This isn't a degenerative neurological disease like Parkinson's, where there's not (much) danger to those around you. Huntington's screws with cognition, which you can't have going on and still be a competent medical practitioner.
I wish to cuddle the Wilson for obvious reasons (meaning RSL's acting godhood, the existence of which was already known to me but had never really been shown on House). TPTB's treatment of the whole Wilson/Amber thing has been pretty darn good all along when you measure it like I do: it doesn't make me gag with the squishy het (see House/Cameron, Cameron/Chase, etc.); the characters managed to be romantically involved and stay seeming like adults, not adolescent boyfriend/girlfriend types. Ditto with the latest bits of House/Cuddy in the past episode or two. They're not forcing it on you--it could totally be interpreted as just friendship, and I'm not sure where I stand on it yet. (I mean, for obvious reasons of fitting in with my shippage, I'm leaning towards the friendship, but you know.)
The weird, slow, manly version of the song "Teardrop" (the House theme, but the actual song with words) that played at one point freaked me out a bit. Mostly because I spent so long trying to place the song because it was so different from the actual version. I've realized I don't have a copy of that anymore, though, so now I must find one.
I'm probably going to watch it again later (as the family hasn't seen it yet), so more thoughts perhaps to come.
On a completely unrelated side note. Bit of brownie + smidge of peanut butter (for sticking) + slice of banana = delicious.
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Date: 2008-05-20 04:35 pm (UTC)I cannot BELIEVE Thirteen has Huntington's. ~shock~
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Date: 2008-05-20 06:27 pm (UTC)And indeed! I like her, especially after they made her a bit more complex than just Huntington's/not Huntington's in this episode with the whole Amber thing, so to then hit us with this was mean.
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Date: 2008-05-20 08:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-20 08:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-21 01:43 pm (UTC)