I was really prepared to hate it and I had my snark muscle properly flexed
Me too! (Nice phrasing.) And then I grudgingly had to admit that I actually enjoyed it. :-P
I think with the ending - because I felt it too - we had House coming down off his 8 seconds...coming off the high, as it were. It seemed like awareness was creeping back in. And then instead of feeling it, learning something, admitting that just like the patient thought everything was fine, and that he could sing smoothly, yet everyone around him could clearly see that it 'wasn't even close' - House is also not even close to fine, and his seams are showing (I think this is what freaked him out around Martha there, not that the diagnosis didn't give him a thrill).
So instead of letting that all sink in, he threw it off and gunned the thrill ride again. It feels off because we have a House who has apparently learned *nothing*. (I thought Freedom Master was enough to scare the complete shit out of him, but perhaps not.)
I'm starting to think that I'm actually gonna be okay with whatever they throw at us for the coming weeks.
Yeah, I suppose. I'm still not convinced that they're writing Cuddy (or many things) as thoroughly as they ought to be, and their outside meddling is pissing me off. I thought about just watching the rest of the season without outside input, but that means I wouldn't get to chat with all of you, and that's not acceptable to me.
But yeah - the storylines should be mostly okay. I hope. Fingers crossed.
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Me too! (Nice phrasing.) And then I grudgingly had to admit that I actually enjoyed it. :-P
I think with the ending - because I felt it too - we had House coming down off his 8 seconds...coming off the high, as it were. It seemed like awareness was creeping back in. And then instead of feeling it, learning something, admitting that just like the patient thought everything was fine, and that he could sing smoothly, yet everyone around him could clearly see that it 'wasn't even close' - House is also not even close to fine, and his seams are showing (I think this is what freaked him out around Martha there, not that the diagnosis didn't give him a thrill).
So instead of letting that all sink in, he threw it off and gunned the thrill ride again. It feels off because we have a House who has apparently learned *nothing*. (I thought Freedom Master was enough to scare the complete shit out of him, but perhaps not.)
I'm starting to think that I'm actually gonna be okay with whatever they throw at us for the coming weeks.
Yeah, I suppose. I'm still not convinced that they're writing Cuddy (or many things) as thoroughly as they ought to be, and their outside meddling is pissing me off. I thought about just watching the rest of the season without outside input, but that means I wouldn't get to chat with all of you, and that's not acceptable to me.
But yeah - the storylines should be mostly okay. I hope. Fingers crossed.