Human Error - sigh...
Well,
I wrote a review, and then I deleted it and decided not to bother. Then I thought again. So, fwiw...
I didn't enjoy tonight's episode. I'm only really interested in the H/W and W, and I was hoping there was going to be some fun, at least, to sustain that interest during the summer. Istm that there wasn't, though. It's not that I was hoping for some deeply slashy moment--I'd not read any spoilers so I wasn't expecting a hint, and tbh I don't actually *want* H & W to get together on the show because the ambiguity is what makes their relationship magical for me--but I can't read H and W just being in the same space as creating ambiguity, and there wasn't any laughter, and so for me it was a damp squib. At any other time that would just have been mildly disappointing, but since this was the season finale my disappointment is more profound.
I don't care whether Foreman leaves or not: he's such an arrogant, humourless and deeply boring individual most of the time that I just can't get worked up about him. Tbh, I'm not really interested in whether Cameron stays either. I'd be sorry to see Chase leave. But do I think it's likely that they're all actually going to be missing from the show next season? Well, no actually... that doesn't seem likely at all. So even if I was inclined to be interested it's not as though I'd be on tenterhooks waiting to see whether they'll return, because it seems obvious to me that they will. Are we meant to be biting our nails now?
Also (getting into true rant mode (*g*)), I'm very disappointed with the way in which it seems to me that the writers aren't interested in developing Wilson at all.
I know this isn't the H/W show, but even so... right at the start of the episode it became clear that one of the themes was going to be about whether House cares, and/or is willing to show he cares. So, all the way through I kept wondering whether this was finally going to be the episode where they deal with that issue in the context of H/W. I kept looking at the clock and thinking there was still time for them to do it, but--of course--they didn't. And as for that parcel in House's hallway... for half a second I wondered whether it was something to do with Wilson, but then I realised it was going to be a guitar.
Anyway.... sigh.... that's that, really. It's just that after 9 months, the Tritter arc and all those hideous gaps between episodes, I watched tonight's show and felt that S3 had all been a complete waste of time. If there was some sort of character development then I think I must have missed it.
*goes to bed at last*
I wrote a review, and then I deleted it and decided not to bother. Then I thought again. So, fwiw...
I didn't enjoy tonight's episode. I'm only really interested in the H/W and W, and I was hoping there was going to be some fun, at least, to sustain that interest during the summer. Istm that there wasn't, though. It's not that I was hoping for some deeply slashy moment--I'd not read any spoilers so I wasn't expecting a hint, and tbh I don't actually *want* H & W to get together on the show because the ambiguity is what makes their relationship magical for me--but I can't read H and W just being in the same space as creating ambiguity, and there wasn't any laughter, and so for me it was a damp squib. At any other time that would just have been mildly disappointing, but since this was the season finale my disappointment is more profound.
I don't care whether Foreman leaves or not: he's such an arrogant, humourless and deeply boring individual most of the time that I just can't get worked up about him. Tbh, I'm not really interested in whether Cameron stays either. I'd be sorry to see Chase leave. But do I think it's likely that they're all actually going to be missing from the show next season? Well, no actually... that doesn't seem likely at all. So even if I was inclined to be interested it's not as though I'd be on tenterhooks waiting to see whether they'll return, because it seems obvious to me that they will. Are we meant to be biting our nails now?
Also (getting into true rant mode (*g*)), I'm very disappointed with the way in which it seems to me that the writers aren't interested in developing Wilson at all.
- The thing with his brother was mentioned once and never again.
- Two episodes ago it turned out that he was on ADs, but it seems that's been dropped too.
- His "It's... personal" remark was clearly supposed to mean something, so why on *earth* have they just dropped that too? Or maybe it *wasn't* supposed to mean something - maybe the writers just needed a few words to fill up some time and so chose them at random! They might as well have done, if they're just going to leave it like that and never take it any further. Was there a point to it at all? (uh-oh... sorry for ranting, but it just gets me down!)
- Anyway... Robin could have been interesting, but that wasn't taken any further.
- Neither was Bonnie. What was she there for? It seemed at the time that possibly she was there to show us that House is interested in Wilson after all, but the series is over now, and they didn't go back to it, so I can't see a purpose to having brought her in in the first place.
- Same with the Wilson/Cuddy. It's not that I'm keen to see Wilson and Cuddy get together, btw, but it just seems increasingly to me that there's no intention to ever actually *do* anything with Wilson other than have him pop up from time to time to look nice, and have him around as a foil for House from time to time.
- A year after he moved out of House's apartment he's still living in a hotel. Well, that clearly says something about his state of mind. It seems to me that he doesn't know where his life is going. Are they not going to explore that? If they don't want to explore it then why not have him just move to an apartment? At least then it wouldn't be an issue. This way it just looks (to me) as though they can't be bothered to spend the couple of minutes' screen time it would take to say he's moving out! While the series has continued I've felt that maybe they were waiting to deal with it, but the series has ended now and they haven't, so it seems most likely to me that they're just not interested enough in developing Wilson to do anything about it.
I know this isn't the H/W show, but even so... right at the start of the episode it became clear that one of the themes was going to be about whether House cares, and/or is willing to show he cares. So, all the way through I kept wondering whether this was finally going to be the episode where they deal with that issue in the context of H/W. I kept looking at the clock and thinking there was still time for them to do it, but--of course--they didn't. And as for that parcel in House's hallway... for half a second I wondered whether it was something to do with Wilson, but then I realised it was going to be a guitar.
Anyway.... sigh.... that's that, really. It's just that after 9 months, the Tritter arc and all those hideous gaps between episodes, I watched tonight's show and felt that S3 had all been a complete waste of time. If there was some sort of character development then I think I must have missed it.
*goes to bed at last*