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House, MD (1 Viewer)
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mad sweeney
Footballguy
First of all, Lisa is a complete look at me diva. Second, knowing the production management structure as I do from my one season on it, she shouldn't take a pay cut. They are notorious for being some of the most two faced, shark, everything bad you've ever heard about producers producers that I've ever encountered in 15 years in the game. I guarantee you that none of the 12-20 producers on the show took pay cuts. I dunno if Hugh became a Richard in later seasons, but other than Christain Slater, he was the coolest #1 I ever worked with , would come talk to me at the gym before work when we were both there. I'm glad people enjoyed the show, but most of the people raking in the money don't even deserve the gum off the bottom of my shoe.
E Street Brat
Footballguy
I loved the Warren Zevon at the end.
Trey
Footballguy
Loved the Cameron interaction as well.. but the Sela Ward bit was so painfully meant for Cuddy it was hard to ignore.
Fensalk
Footballguy
Well it was probably a fitting conclusion to a network show. The moral of the story was "enjoy yourself, its later than you think!" Basically, programming the audience to be good little consumers and spend their money. Saving money and building a future is bad. That's the message they always send. They want everyone up to their butt in debt, depending on government to bail them out.
3C's
Footballguy
Odette (adams) looked REALLY nice in that dress at the House event in the 1st hour.
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Nice writeup/review of the final episode. http://wegotthiscovered.com/tv/house-md-series-finale-review-everybody-dies/
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Nice writeup/review of the final episode. http://wegotthiscovered.com/tv/house-md-series-finale-review-everybody-dies/
Yankee23Fan
Fair Tax!
You really need to get outside more.
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
It was a fitting conclusion, because it was more of the self-indulgent crap that caused so many to stop watching the show. The Office is the only show i liked better but ended up quitting, but at least that was in large part the effect of the star leaving the show.
Listen, I have spent 60 yrs outsmarting the world, so i know a little of what i speak. The fly in the ointment of the Sherlock Holmes model for the flawed sociopathic puzzler series is that there always comes a tipping point where the hero's failure to coordinate his difference & differences with the rest of the world becomes a failure that cancels his validity as an intellect. Functioning sociopaths (and intellectuals) need make as much room within themselves to freely continue as they do in society. Dr House did neither.
Series authors must recognize the spot in such a character's development which recognizes that the biggest puzzle is finding the inner & outer constructs which allow their obsessions to flourish. Greg House's creator did so, giving the show opportunities, with the season-ending cliffhangers of rehab & killing his pal's gf, to have the lead diagnose & treat the unhappiness within himself and that which he caused others, but lacked either the courage, skill or opportunity (one cannot consider TV without remembering how big a voice the suits have) to follow up. It's unfortunate because, just as House's selfishness began to overwhelm his value as a life-saver, the character's inability to evolve caused viewers to stop forgiving the lame three-mistakes-one-revelation device of the doctors' diagnostic process. Shame.
Listen, I have spent 60 yrs outsmarting the world, so i know a little of what i speak. The fly in the ointment of the Sherlock Holmes model for the flawed sociopathic puzzler series is that there always comes a tipping point where the hero's failure to coordinate his difference & differences with the rest of the world becomes a failure that cancels his validity as an intellect. Functioning sociopaths (and intellectuals) need make as much room within themselves to freely continue as they do in society. Dr House did neither.
Series authors must recognize the spot in such a character's development which recognizes that the biggest puzzle is finding the inner & outer constructs which allow their obsessions to flourish. Greg House's creator did so, giving the show opportunities, with the season-ending cliffhangers of rehab & killing his pal's gf, to have the lead diagnose & treat the unhappiness within himself and that which he caused others, but lacked either the courage, skill or opportunity (one cannot consider TV without remembering how big a voice the suits have) to follow up. It's unfortunate because, just as House's selfishness began to overwhelm his value as a life-saver, the character's inability to evolve caused viewers to stop forgiving the lame three-mistakes-one-revelation device of the doctors' diagnostic process. Shame.
Mystery Achiever
Footballguy
I enjoyed the finale. I thought the show went down hill when he started dating Cuddy and it was nice to be reminded of the stronger seasons.
Foreman finding his badge was a rip off of Mel Gibson finding Julia Roberts pin in Conspiracy Theory..but I still thought it was a nice touch.
Foreman finding his badge was a rip off of Mel Gibson finding Julia Roberts pin in Conspiracy Theory..but I still thought it was a nice touch.
I thought it was a fantastic end to a great series 
Yankee23Fan
Fair Tax!
Reading back through this thread, I remember how much I liked this show. I was fine with the formula. House just worked. What lost me I think was changing his team. For whatever reason I just didn't like the team after the original three got broken up. That's when the show lost me. So this was the first episode I've seen in a long time. I was really annoyed by the funeral. Right until Wilson realized he needed to slam him. That's what they all should have done. But the ending was great. I'm happy I caught it. One of the best shows on TV ever at its peak.
Billy Bats
Footballguy
So did House leave his badge for Foreman to find to let him know he was alive?
Wyld Stallyns
Footballguy
When I heard it was coming to an end I started daydreaming possible endings and thought they might close it out with House curing cancer before they killed him off somehow. I liked how that would've given the series, as a whole, a different kind of weight – like, the entire series was the biography of the man who actually cured cancer.
Then, when Wilson got cancer I thought FOR SURE that was how it was going to end. To the point where I said to the wife right before the finale, "Well, let's watch House finally cure cancer" ...and then was bummed when it didn't happen.
Now that it's over though, and I've had some time to digest it, I really think they should've had him cure Lupus somewhere in there – just to put a ribbon on the ongoing joke.
Then, when Wilson got cancer I thought FOR SURE that was how it was going to end. To the point where I said to the wife right before the finale, "Well, let's watch House finally cure cancer" ...and then was bummed when it didn't happen.
Now that it's over though, and I've had some time to digest it, I really think they should've had him cure Lupus somewhere in there – just to put a ribbon on the ongoing joke.
'by_the_sea_wannabe said:I thought it was a fantastic end to a great series
I've been disappointed by so many finales in recent years I'm not sure how to react to one I liked.
I really liked the original characters. They had started to get a little stale around season 3 or so, but in retrospect there was probably a better way to shake things up than throwing them all out. Olivia Wilde was great, and Charlene Yi brought something to the table in the last season, but I could have taken or left everyone else they brought in over the years.'Yankee23Fan said:
Didn't think of that way at the time but now that I'm reading this thread, it fits.'Billy Bats said:
a lot of successful shows have done things like this. go back to mash when trapper john was replaced by hunnicut. who thought that would work? it lasted like 8 more years. they killed off henry and we got potter.'Yankee23Fan said:
law and order replaced detectives regularly. i never though i'd like it after the first change; then after the second.
but i agree with you that the first team was the best. perhaps the second group can never live up to the first in any show.
i only wish i had watched this show from the very start. maybe when i get time, i will watch every episode from the first via netflix or something.
Dragons
Delusions of Grandeur
Who says he'll stop self-destructing? Wilson's on a short timeline, what makes you think House has plans to last longer than that?
chauncey
Footballguy
I don't know how I missed this show for the past decade but glad I stumbled across a rerun at 5am on USA during a bout of insomnia last month. I watched season 8 first for some reason then started at the beginning. Just finished season four, what a final two episodes. House has to be one of the most charismatic a-holes in the history of television.
It is crazy how many of the patients and family of patients from the early seasons went on to become stars.
It is crazy how many of the patients and family of patients from the early seasons went on to become stars.
mr fancypants
Footballguy
Get off of my lawn! 
