House: Season 8 - Early Review

[augussta]

The eighth season and beyond is a difficult time for any TV show. You’ve lost a few beloved cast members, done the obvious plots more than once, and might consider drastic change to keep things fresh. And so it is for Hugh Laurie’s cranky pill-popping Doctor House. Or is it

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[lieueitak]

(Although is it me, or did Odette Annable’s prison doc have a personality transplant between episodes?) NEVER! This show is all about continuity and strong, perfectly constructed female characters. Oh wait...

If House still constitutes better than average, I weep for television as an art form. In order for the show to continue, it has had to throw out every bit of internal logic it has spent seven years crafting and pray that its viewers would either not notice that or be totally okay with it.

Cuddy wasn't just his boss or his love interest; she was the reason House's world could exist at all. She was the one who protected him at work, the one who gave him a job, who allowed him to run his department as he wanted. The character got a lot of shit for all of that, but without her, the House universe doesn't make any sense. It makes even less sense when you take into consideration why she left the hospital.

So yeah, if undermining your canon + offering no logical reason for things to continue with a side of "Domestic violence is good and noble!" still means a show is better than average, I have no faith in the industry whatsoever. Rather genital warts than this festering sore of dumb assery, tbh.

[januarynineteen]

ALL OF THIS. It pisses me off so much. Cuddy was the only one who tolerated him and allowed him to keep his job, either because she still felt guilty about his leg, she was in love with him, she appreciated his genius and figured the amount of lives he saves outweighs the money he costs the hospital, or some combination of the three. It was always their thing and nobody would get it because they didn't know the history and they didn't see House the way Cuddy did.

Just, ugh. And why did Cuddy have to leave her job? How the hell does the asshole who everybody hates already anyway get away with scaring the Dean of Medicine and head administrator to the point that she leaves her hospital, moves away and takes a new job somewhere else while he gets to continue working at the same hospital? How did Foreman of all people get to take over her job? Wasn't he put in charge of House twice before and was highly unsuccessful at it both times? Didn't he have a criminal record for burglarizing houses and stealing cars? Didn't he get fired at New York Mercy for going against regulations? Didn't he tamper with the Huntington's drug trial data and almost lose his medical license in the process? How does someone who was never more than an assistant department head suddenly jump up god knows how many positions and how is anyone at that hospital even okay with that? If I worked at PPTH I would be like, "Oh hell no, I am not working under one of House's lackeys."

God, this show. I would give everything to be nineteen and in love with it again. And be able to say, "God, this show," and mean it in a good way.