I hated the hug, but I liked that she was up in House's face about the patient. I wish she'd stop being so passive-aggressive.
I loved the end. I loved that nothing changes.
I didn't want anything to change, but I feel like the show dicked me around for a stretch of episodes, possibly because I thought the whole storyline was DUMB, because OF COURSE House needs the Vicodin, and I don't understand why Cuddy and Wilson have a problem with that. So it was kind of a waste of an arc to me.
I get the sense that Wilson feels like he SHOULD have a problem with it.
*nod*
But it's just weird for him as an oncologist - I mean, doesn't he prescribe pain medication for his patients who live with excruciating pain? Or is that so many of those patients don't make it, so he can feel like he's just making them comfortable, and not making them addicts? Either way, it's kind of a huge hypocrisy on his part.
I actually watched this episode of House (and the previous new episode from before Christmas) because I'd been hearing about this arc and wanted to see how it turned out.
Well, basically it made me glad I don't watch the show anymore. The waffling on whether House is or is not a drug addict (as opposed to someone with CHRONIC PAIN who needs drugs to FUNCTION, DAMMIT) was super annoying. (Pardon the asscaps, but it makes me feel all frustrated and asscappy.) The last minute attempt at redeeming that dickhead Tritter was even more super annoying. And the fall of the House/Wilson friendship into cliche and predictability, when it used to be so fascinating (at least waaaay back in the early episodes of the first season) was a double order of Extra Super Annoying with Special Annoying Sauce on the side.
Well, yes, I have a huge problem with all this "House is a JUNKIE" nonsense, because it's such bullshit and I hate that they keep pulling it out instead of just resolving that, no, House is IN PAIN and the drugs are pain management. Jesus.
That's what always amazes me, like these are supposedly medical professionals. One, in fact, is a cancer specialist, which just screams "deal with pain management" and they... don't get the concept of chronic pain? Not that House isn't a dick or doesn't rely too much on self-medication and isolating sarcasm, but there's this huge middle ground that the writers either can't or won't see.
Love love love the show, but that whole area just makes me wanna throw things.
Not that House isn't a dick or doesn't rely too much on self-medication and isolating sarcasm, but there's this huge middle ground that the writers either can't or won't see.
Love love love the show, but that whole area just makes me wanna throw things.
Exactly.
I mean, I understand that in real life, some doctors *do* have trouble with chronic narcotic use for pain management, because of the addictiveness, but even so! Wilson's an oncologist! He should be more knowledgeable and less judgemental about pain management than he appears to be. Gah!
It just smacks of the writers wanting to ratchet up the drama but without providing any real change or resolution to the so-called problem.
Okay, what I want to know is how exactly Cuddy owns House now. Yes, she fabricated the evidence that got him off, but if she contradicts that, she's perjured herself. Is there something I'm missing (besides the last episode, when I didn't have cable *glares at Time Warner*? Because I love the idea of Cuddy controlling him for once, I just don't quite get how it works when House is the shifty bastard he is.
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they need to stop this "won five Golden Globe NOMINATIONS" bullshit.
I had the exact same thought! I think it's some stupid PR thing to confuse people into thinking that's how many it actually WON.
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I think that's true of a certain type of show, of which "House" is one, but I don't agree it's true across the board.
I think it's some stupid PR thing to confuse people into thinking that's how many it actually WON.
*nod*
And at first it was working, but now it just pisses me off.
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I loved the end. I loved that nothing changes.
I didn't want anything to change, but I feel like the show dicked me around for a stretch of episodes, possibly because I thought the whole storyline was DUMB, because OF COURSE House needs the Vicodin, and I don't understand why Cuddy and Wilson have a problem with that. So it was kind of a waste of an arc to me.
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*nod*
But it's just weird for him as an oncologist - I mean, doesn't he prescribe pain medication for his patients who live with excruciating pain? Or is that so many of those patients don't make it, so he can feel like he's just making them comfortable, and not making them addicts? Either way, it's kind of a huge hypocrisy on his part.
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Well, basically it made me glad I don't watch the show anymore. The waffling on whether House is or is not a drug addict (as opposed to someone with CHRONIC PAIN who needs drugs to FUNCTION, DAMMIT) was super annoying. (Pardon the asscaps, but it makes me feel all frustrated and asscappy.) The last minute attempt at redeeming that dickhead Tritter was even more super annoying. And the fall of the House/Wilson friendship into cliche and predictability, when it used to be so fascinating (at least waaaay back in the early episodes of the first season) was a double order of Extra Super Annoying with Special Annoying Sauce on the side.
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Love love love the show, but that whole area just makes me wanna throw things.
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Love love love the show, but that whole area just makes me wanna throw things.
Exactly.
I mean, I understand that in real life, some doctors *do* have trouble with chronic narcotic use for pain management, because of the addictiveness, but even so! Wilson's an oncologist! He should be more knowledgeable and less judgemental about pain management than he appears to be. Gah!
It just smacks of the writers wanting to ratchet up the drama but without providing any real change or resolution to the so-called problem.
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Seriously? Wow, I did not recognize him at all.
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