Doctor House

Since nobody from House M.D.'s production team pays me, i will not stress too much to point out the subtle reasons why House season 7 sucks ass; instead, i will just state the obvious.

Kill the show before it kills the characters.

House, MD had a great four seasons before it went tits up;

Doctor Gregory House - the character - is the head of the Department of Diagnostic Medicine at Princeton-Plainsboro Hospital (Diagnostics does not actually exist as a specialty, it was invented  for House, as diagnostics - testing - are done individually by your attending physician depending on who is treating you and what your illness appears to be), where he tackles extremely hard cases often reaching his solution trough combined insight and exceptional medical knowledge.

Let's assume you have never watched House, ever, and are about to watch the first episode just now, here is what you find out:

The show is fun because of the main character. Differently from ER, the supporting characters are all just satellites, they only exist to hmm... support..hmm.. well.. obviously.. the main character.

Greg House solves all his cases because he is soooo smart;

Being that he is soooo smart, and he gets engrossed in the case, he often passes off as rude, as he has little time for "boring stuff" like telling his patiens information about their health, or cheering them up, or being polite.
The drastic measures, risks he takes, subterfuge he uses, tricks, unethical practices and mindgames generally
end up saving his patient's lives. Great TV stuff.

Reviewers like to quote how similiar to the character of Sherlock Holmes he is. In a very superficial way, he is.

Anyway, Greg House is soo smart, he passes off as rude to people as a result.

A funny result, because You (the viewer) know that in fact his only concern is for his patient, and in fact Gregory House has a heart of gold.


That is the character and the story, as well. House was great because it was a "slash-comedy" medical drama, and could be quite touching at the end.
Then season one went, season two came, then three, and slowly the ideas begun to dry up - as they do.

By season four G.H. was addicted to Vicodin, and although we all know he was as an addict more responsible than most clean people, the writers decided to precipitate the situation; Hallucinations begun taking on whole episodes. House breaks down and completely loses character as "the man in control" becomes a shadow of his former self in season five.

But my biggest complaint - and the death of the series, in my view, was at the end of season five, the episode before the last.

The whole catalyst of the series, love between G.H and Lisa Cuddy - his boss and ex- love interest - finally arrives, symbolizing G.H.'s acceptance of his need of humanity, that he always felt would make him mediocre and less of a doctor.

That was it. That was the moment we all waited for and the one thing that would have blossomed the character into something new and better.

G.H.'s psychology is a man who has obtained brilliant insight and great ability with great effort at the expense of his human side - and he fears he might lose his "powers of deduction" if he were to ever step down from his pedestal and accept the help of "those who whine and make small talk"; But the love of Lisa Cuddy saves him from damnation and at the same time saves the great mind of Gregory House, MD, diagnostician extraordinaire.

But no.

The writers just had to go and mess it up.


All of the sudden, G.H.'s motives for being who he is are gone, and he is just an imbecile who does stupid things because they make him giggle. Gone are the subtle subterfuges and hints of genius that shaped his actions, replaced by pee-and-poo humour.

Cuddy's love ends up being an hallucination and we have to wait for a year for a love story that doesnt interest us anymore. G.H. now has to beg for love when he had it coming to him through sheer magnetism and his doctory-awesomeness. His brilliant mind led him to do things that looked weird, but had a reason behind them that shaped the series and made it great , while now he just does stuff randomly.

And to make it all worse, he doesn't do any more medicine! WTF??

Wilson's character just stares at stuff, Lisa acts like a cheap trick, the whole cast just stumbles about doing not much, just repeating a collection of their dullest lines from the past six seasons.

Hey, it's ok, shows do end, and mistakes do sometimes happen.
Even Vanilla Ice said "sorry" for his music.(btw, kudos on the awesome going by your own name, when you'r called Robert Matthew Van Winkle )
But House needs to end. Possibly, with the heads of the writers covered in ash, the symbol of shame.

On a lighter note, fortunately Doctor "big Nose" Taub saves the day with his top notch acting. Can't believe this guy still hast had any major hollywood role.

He'd look great as a detective.


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