You think that since you broke my heart, I'm gonna break his?
Yes I know I haven't been here for an extremely long time (kinda feels like it's been a year or a bit less but I may be wrong but then again we're not here to debate about that, are we?) So let me just begin by saying that I never intended to come here but having watched Ep 16 of House, I suddenly realised that I have far too much to say about the episode that ranting in spunky sound bites on twitter doesn't quite cut it because I'll just end up tweeting endlessly and bore all those non-House watching tweeters (which is a huge shame, because House imho is still one of my life long addictions.)
Going back to the start of Season 7, I remember being insanely hyped up by all the Promos and the amazing Huddy scenes + potential for it all to develop and be brill. 'Now What' didn't disappoint, I still wanna go back to it all the time just so I can see the look in both House & Cuddy's faces when they're together; a smile that shines so true that you KNOW they're happy. You just know that they're right for one another ; and for lack of a less cheesy term, soul mates. I do wonder why all that happiness never compelled me to come here to just rant/flail and attempt a semi-decent cataloguing of my fave moments/little insights. Perhaps I was caught up with rl, but it just hit me that it's been a while where I actually felt the urgency to come here and post the moment an episode ended. I liked the Huddy interactions for the first few episodes, but I sorely missed the fire/passion that is an ever present element in Huddy. House was giving in too many times, Cuddy was being demanding and over-riding whatever she told him:
"I don't want you to change. "
Idek if i'm right about this, but the writers did a shit job of making Huddy relationship decent. The first few episodes gave me hope, but fast forward to a few more episodes and all the conflict/quarrels between the both of them became so out of place that it shocked me. The way the whole "House lied to me and he doesn't want to apologize therefore I am ignoring him" dragged out over the span of several episodes got tiresome; the whole hugeass quarrel about toothbrush/garbage/toilet seat -- I get that the writers wanted to portray them as a normal, non-dysfunctional couple with normal couple-y issues to deal with but I think that somewhere along the line, they forgot that House + Cuddy are far from your average couple. I would rather they deal with deeper issues that almost all the fans (well maybe we are biased, but I think we hold water) can almost see playing out but never saw itself be actualised in the show.
After a while, watching House + Cuddy got a little mundane and I missed the spunk and fire. Don't get me wrong, I STILL couldn't stop watching it week in, week out but I didn't look forward to it as much. Until after Bombshells where *BAM* the big break up happened which had me tearing and my little heart broke into a million little pieces. I could whine and go on forever about this but lemme move on.
Is it surprising that I actually enjoyed 'Out of the Chute'?
The snark is back, the whole misanthropic bastard House is being an ass and Huddy tension kinda reminds me of what made me fall in love with them in the first place. Yes I know plot-wise it kinda sucks and makes me go WTH are they doing with this but on the whole, this episode feels so much more like S1-S4 writing :) The writing is good and for once, I actually feel like the patient is not an irrelevant prop and everything made so much sense. The whole episode was tied together nicely (or at least that's what struck me) and they didn't rly gloss over anything.
I hated that house was going on his hooker/vicodin/booze binge but I missed his House-ian ness throughout season 7, especially after episode 3. He made me feel all sorts of funny + annoyance + irritation + general shake my head because I don't know how anyone can deal with his sheenanigans. I could go on, but bottomline is this : THIS EPISODE FEELS RIGHT.
#1. Moment 1: House + Cuddy sort of confrontation about him wanting to blow the dude's heart up made my heart ache. They were restrained and not so much screaming, but you could feel so much tension and that they're both in denial, in very different ways. It's interesting how House is in denial and going to extremes/being the asshole he is whilst Cuddy is very much resigned. IDEK HOW TO EXPLAIN ANYMORE AMAGAD, JUST WATCH IT AND FEEL.
#2. Moment 2: What the patient said - when House told him that he probably couldn't go back to bull riding. And he said something along the lines of "then I'll just find something else to love." It felt like a v powerful moment for House, and in retrospect, kinda hints at the whole marriage with hooker nonsense. for me, what was said seemed fitting, cause House is in denial and trying to tell himself that Cuddy doesn't matter so he should just "find someone else to love" in the words of his patient; even if deep down he knows that Cuddy is his ONLY one. Felt like a foreshadowing to the marriage thing.
#3. Moment 3 + 4: Cuddy + Wilson encounters first in her office, then at her door. I had to replay those moments once it was over, cause they were just brill.
#4. Moment 5: House + Wilson encounter in pub. Somehow, behind all that not wanting to talk mask House has put on, it suggests that he's so hurt that it's not something he can analyse to death and compartmentalise. That he doesn't react typically when he's hurt suddenly means a lot more.
NOW I WANNA DO DIALOGUE + SCREEN CAP OF ALL THESE MOMENTS MIGHT JUST GET ON TO IT RIGHT NAO.
EXCITED FOR NEXT WEEK'S EPISODE (Y)
Going back to the start of Season 7, I remember being insanely hyped up by all the Promos and the amazing Huddy scenes + potential for it all to develop and be brill. 'Now What' didn't disappoint, I still wanna go back to it all the time just so I can see the look in both House & Cuddy's faces when they're together; a smile that shines so true that you KNOW they're happy. You just know that they're right for one another ; and for lack of a less cheesy term, soul mates. I do wonder why all that happiness never compelled me to come here to just rant/flail and attempt a semi-decent cataloguing of my fave moments/little insights. Perhaps I was caught up with rl, but it just hit me that it's been a while where I actually felt the urgency to come here and post the moment an episode ended. I liked the Huddy interactions for the first few episodes, but I sorely missed the fire/passion that is an ever present element in Huddy. House was giving in too many times, Cuddy was being demanding and over-riding whatever she told him:
"I don't want you to change. "
Idek if i'm right about this, but the writers did a shit job of making Huddy relationship decent. The first few episodes gave me hope, but fast forward to a few more episodes and all the conflict/quarrels between the both of them became so out of place that it shocked me. The way the whole "House lied to me and he doesn't want to apologize therefore I am ignoring him" dragged out over the span of several episodes got tiresome; the whole hugeass quarrel about toothbrush/garbage/toilet seat -- I get that the writers wanted to portray them as a normal, non-dysfunctional couple with normal couple-y issues to deal with but I think that somewhere along the line, they forgot that House + Cuddy are far from your average couple. I would rather they deal with deeper issues that almost all the fans (well maybe we are biased, but I think we hold water) can almost see playing out but never saw itself be actualised in the show.
After a while, watching House + Cuddy got a little mundane and I missed the spunk and fire. Don't get me wrong, I STILL couldn't stop watching it week in, week out but I didn't look forward to it as much. Until after Bombshells where *BAM* the big break up happened which had me tearing and my little heart broke into a million little pieces. I could whine and go on forever about this but lemme move on.
Is it surprising that I actually enjoyed 'Out of the Chute'?
The snark is back, the whole misanthropic bastard House is being an ass and Huddy tension kinda reminds me of what made me fall in love with them in the first place. Yes I know plot-wise it kinda sucks and makes me go WTH are they doing with this but on the whole, this episode feels so much more like S1-S4 writing :) The writing is good and for once, I actually feel like the patient is not an irrelevant prop and everything made so much sense. The whole episode was tied together nicely (or at least that's what struck me) and they didn't rly gloss over anything.
I hated that house was going on his hooker/vicodin/booze binge but I missed his House-ian ness throughout season 7, especially after episode 3. He made me feel all sorts of funny + annoyance + irritation + general shake my head because I don't know how anyone can deal with his sheenanigans. I could go on, but bottomline is this : THIS EPISODE FEELS RIGHT.
#1. Moment 1: House + Cuddy sort of confrontation about him wanting to blow the dude's heart up made my heart ache. They were restrained and not so much screaming, but you could feel so much tension and that they're both in denial, in very different ways. It's interesting how House is in denial and going to extremes/being the asshole he is whilst Cuddy is very much resigned. IDEK HOW TO EXPLAIN ANYMORE AMAGAD, JUST WATCH IT AND FEEL.
#2. Moment 2: What the patient said - when House told him that he probably couldn't go back to bull riding. And he said something along the lines of "then I'll just find something else to love." It felt like a v powerful moment for House, and in retrospect, kinda hints at the whole marriage with hooker nonsense. for me, what was said seemed fitting, cause House is in denial and trying to tell himself that Cuddy doesn't matter so he should just "find someone else to love" in the words of his patient; even if deep down he knows that Cuddy is his ONLY one. Felt like a foreshadowing to the marriage thing.
#3. Moment 3 + 4: Cuddy + Wilson encounters first in her office, then at her door. I had to replay those moments once it was over, cause they were just brill.
#4. Moment 5: House + Wilson encounter in pub. Somehow, behind all that not wanting to talk mask House has put on, it suggests that he's so hurt that it's not something he can analyse to death and compartmentalise. That he doesn't react typically when he's hurt suddenly means a lot more.
NOW I WANNA DO DIALOGUE + SCREEN CAP OF ALL THESE MOMENTS MIGHT JUST GET ON TO IT RIGHT NAO.
EXCITED FOR NEXT WEEK'S EPISODE (Y)