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September 25, 2007

House: FUCKING CHEAP (, )

by fluffy at 9:59 PM
God damnit what is with the writers? I was hoping this season would get better but the plots have gotten even cheaper and more full of holes.

ANGRY SPOILERS INSIDE

Okay so first of all it was getting pretty obvious that the scenes from the promo would be at the end, as House was getting more and more adamant (and more in Deep Shit) throughout the course of the episode.

Second, and bigger: the resolution was that the patient wasn't the patient they thought it was? OKAY and that solves the medical mystery HOW? It only solved the last symptom (the granulomas) and the ongoing lies, it did NOTHING to explain why the hell she was dying and how it was that she ostensibly recovered. You'd think the EMTs would go for some sort of identification, or when the patient was awake they'd at least ask her, HEY IS YOUR NAME MEGAN or whatever her name was supposed to be.

Third: I felt more sympathy for the goddamn guitar than for anyone in the episode. (I actually flinched when House grabbed the damaged pickup out of the box. At no point did I have any sympathy for any of the characters.) Okay so Cuddy is a manipulataive bitch and Wilson is trying to be all MWA HA HA and House is an obstinate asshole. WE GET IT. God damnit.

I... I think I'm over this show.

(I loved this show. It hurts to see it get so consistently terrible.)

Comments

#9865 Anonymous 09/26/2007 12:41 am
You're an idiot.
#9866 09/26/2007 01:26 am
And you're an onymous.
#9871 A guy. Really. (unregistered) 09/26/2007 08:53 am
Heh. It still stayed on the level expectable from it, and in view of the final solution, it all made sense. What was the girl's condition? Doesn't matter, as she is dead.

Although, it was a bit sloppy. I guess you can drive a series so far for a reason anyway.
#9875 j (unregistered) 09/26/2007 08:26 pm
The guitar seemes to be the central character now that I read your rant.
But it wasn't a pickup he pulled out of the box. It was the bridge with a piece of the guitar body and the whammy bar still attached to it.
That's like ripping out a lung and having the aorta still attached by the artery.
#9876 09/26/2007 08:36 pm
Ah, I didn't get a good look at it, what with my flinching. Also at the end he was still able to play it with a bandage over it, while that wouldn't be nearly enough to keep the bridge in, or keep it in tune or whatever, and it looked like it was just over a pickup.
#9881 Anonymous 09/27/2007 02:37 am
You're still an idiot. And I'm anonymous because I don't wanna join your crappy little blog site.

The episode rocked. It was the wrong patient - how is that cheap? That's clever, I think.

And you actually winced? What are you, a freaking collector of vintage instruments? Grow a pair.
#9883 09/27/2007 08:02 am
Well, you can still provide a name without registering. Also, for someone who doesn't want to join my "crappy little blog site" (OMG, a personal site?! on the Internet?!) you sure are interested in proving me wrong about my opinion.
#9884 09/27/2007 08:35 am
The resolution itself wasn't inherently bad. But it was badly-written. It was akin to if it had just boiled down to "it was just a bad dream!" and that was the end of it.

There was no diagnosis for the actual patient, and the actual patient was basically just a prop throughout the episode. Okay, it was more about the patient's mother and boyfriend, but the episode was so poorly-written that I didn't feel any sympathy for their plight (being tortured by this doctor saying things about Megan which they knew weren't true).

As far as the instrument gouging went, as an amateur musician (NOT a collector) I react that way when ANY instrument is butchered. It could have been a $75 Squier, or even a $10 ukulele, and I'd have still felt bad for it. I'm not sure what I'm supposed to grow a pair of and how that relates to not wanting to see musical instruments mistreated.

Also, lately, House being a spare-time musician is about the only thing I can relate to anymore. He used to have an actual deductive process but now he basically just throws darts at things without really thinking about them, and then eventually some random comment makes him throw the right dart. That's not medicine or science, it's sloppy, formulaic writing.
#9889 Big Fan of Anonymity (unregistered) 09/27/2007 11:46 pm
Have you ever stopped to consider the wee fact that House was supposed to throw darts around in the first episode, that his process of rationalization and logical thought relied heavily on those three pesky little doctors for the last three years that he was unable to function properly (he could still function) without them?

Just a thought.
#9891 Anonymous 09/28/2007 01:28 am
Wow, yeah, the guy/girl above me pretty much said it. Well done to him/her.

You're not some formidable genius of a screenwriter who could delve in to your own private little chest of superbly-crafted storylines (and don't retort with "I know I'm not...") and come off with an episode of House so entertaining that we would fall to our knees at your story-telling finesse.

You're a moron.

First of all, if it was a $10 ukulele you would NOT have reacted the same way and you know it. That was just...I don't even know WHY you said that. Ha. That was a freakin' lie.

And he throws darts, but go back to the very best of seasons 1 & 2 (when you apparently had a lot more time for the show...) - he's always been throwing darts, and as the person above me said, he throws a particularly large amount of very bad darts for a REASON in this episode.

Secondly, there WAS a final diagnosis - allergic reaction to cephalosporins. You were probably busy being amatuer at your instrument when they said that.

Thirdly, seriously, STOP saying it was badly-written. That's so freaking annoying, you idiot. "Sloppy"?! Pfft, not as sloppy as the shit you're coming up with.
#9892 09/28/2007 01:39 am
Anonymous:


You are vehemently arguing with a stranger on the internet in regards to that person's opinion about a fictional television show.

Just thought you might like to know. You might want to, y'know. Stop.
#9893 09/28/2007 06:56 am I think
You have attracted some K5 trolls. Sad, really.

Poor attempt at a troll, brother. Too strident. Too angry. You should have been able to needle him without sounding like a maniac.

Fluffy, why don't you just shitcan these comments when they come up?

Gedvondur
#9894 09/28/2007 10:54 am
Because I don't want to seem petty?

I'm pretty sure these folks all came over from politedissent.com, which I might mention is also just one person's personal blog.
#9895 09/28/2007 11:43 am
fluffy:
Because I don't want to seem petty?

I'm pretty sure these folks all came over from politedissent.com, which I might mention is also just one person's personal blog.

Oh, so you troll-baited.

You deserve what you get, then. Razz
#9896 Anonymous 09/28/2007 10:17 pm
It seemed that House's guitar was solid body, but the bridge appeared to be from a hollow body. But the episode was a good one. I think they must have cut some explanatory stuff to fit in the classroom scene.
#9899 09/29/2007 03:44 am
I see the Anonymous Coward Special Olympics is well underway.
#9903 kim (unregistered) 09/30/2007 12:27 pm
it wasnt the best ep but im glad its back, maybe better to come.
#9924 Anonymous 10/03/2007 09:07 am
They're right, blogger. You're an idiot. This was a powerful start to the season.
#9925 10/03/2007 09:14 am
Ooh, hurt me, hurt me. Yeah, like that. Oh, yeah.
#9926 10/03/2007 09:28 am
By the way, I guess I'd might as well say it here too, but last night's episode ("The Right Stuff") put the season premiere in enough context that I don't hate this episode anymore. I still feel like the ending was pretty cheap though.
#9927 Anonymous 10/03/2007 12:20 pm
It was a clever solution. As to your complaints about the wrong patient solution not explaining anything, it actually explains everything. From the MAO Inhibitors to the alcohol to the allergy, the misidentification caused all of her health issues.
#9929 10/03/2007 01:40 pm
Yeah, I came to realize that the explanation was more or less correct later on (though I don't feel the need to post every single update that passes through my mind, and I wanted to see how retarded most of the anonymous posters could get since it's kind of fun).

Doesn't make the character writing any less bad, though. Resolution aside, the only character who really acted like himself in that episode was Wilson.
#9948 Phil (unregistered) 10/08/2007 05:42 pm
fluffy:
Yeah, I came to realize that the explanation was more or less correct later on (though I don't feel the need to post every single update that passes through my mind, and I wanted to see how retarded most of the anonymous posters could get since it's kind of fun).


I think it was a very good episode, and one of the best ones at that. The side-plot with the guitar created the drama/comedy aspect, while the medical aspect kept up the mystery and suspense.

I also winced when I saw what he did to the bridge. However, on a personal note, although you are professing maturity here, you should realize that it is not mature to make ad hominem attacks in an argument, regardless of the reason. The mature response would have been to say, "I see your point. It has merits, but here are mine."

Also, my name is Phil. I am still annonymous, as are you, Fluffy. If you have some personal info posted somewhere, nobody cares enough to look you up. On the internet, EVERYONE is annonymous.
#9949 10/08/2007 06:58 pm
When did I make an ad hominem attack? I only pointed out that someone posted anonymously when the entirety of their message was to call me an idiot.

I am also not posting anonymously... this is my site, and everything I write is an expression of the person who put this site together. "fluffy" is a pseudonym, but it's also one that a lot of people happen to call me in real life. Plus, I have said plenty of stuff on here which makes it pretty easy for people to track me down (whereas in your case I only have a very common name and an IP address). People can easily find out all sorts of things about me (what I've worked on, where I live, my feelings about the most recent episodes of House, my real name, my phone number, and so on).

I fail to see what your point is in trying to call me on this, especially since I never even claimed to be mature.

I posted, to MY website, MY *opinion* of how I felt about the season premiere of a fictional TV show. Then about a dozen random strangers decided to tell me how I'm wrong, and when I could have just deleted the comments and locked the thread, I decided to let them continue to engage me in discussion, and merely pointed out that maybe anonymously insulting me wasn't the best way to make me change my mind about the quality of the episode which, incidentally, I still feel was pretty bad overall.
#10002 Anonymous 10/19/2007 09:33 pm
Well, when you linked to your website from PoliteDissent you probably should've guessed that you might get some adverse opinions from anonymous users.
#10003 10/20/2007 12:36 am
Sure, I knew there'd be some of that. I'm just surprised at how many anonymous jackasses came from there - I thought his audience was a bit more civil than that. Now I see why he moderates his comments.
#10105 _leukemia (unregistered) 11/14/2007 03:22 pm
Good Lord. You sound like a bunch of eight-year-olds. You both have your freaking points, okay? If you're both too stubborn to realize that the world isn't cookie-cutter black and white, then so be it. Just PLEASE don't have an argument about it when I, too, came from politedissent. I just wanted to read what you had to say about the episode.

Yeah, about that! I thought that this episode was pretty good. However, I came to see what another person had to say on the subject. That right there is an example of not being so big-headed that you can't see past your own ideas. Get with the program guys- we live in the world. SO DO OTHER PEOPLE. Wow. Amazing, no? And we all look different on the outside, doesn't it make sense that we would think differently as well? And I've typed much too much, but it pisses me off when people can't conduct a civil conversation and they're online. It's not even like it just spills out.

Also, people are more likely to forgive you online. Because if you compose your message correctly, you'll seem sincere. I promise, no one will point their fingers and laugh at you because you lost an argument over a fictional television show. They will nod and say, 'Thank God. Some maturity, at last.' Thanks for reading, for those who did. To the arguers, just realize that people have different opinions. Accept it. And to the first anonymous jerk- what the hell. You came here, you read. If you don't accept fluffy's opinion, deal with it. You didn't have to post, you didn't have to ruin her day, and you certainly didn't have to put a damper on every single person's who ever visits this page. Thank you and good night.