House: FUCKING CHEAP (media, rant)
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
Although, it was a bit sloppy. I guess you can drive a series so far for a reason anyway.
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.
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.
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.
Just a thought.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.