House and I have a troubled history. I've blogged about it previously, saying how it had jumped the shark. Before I kept this blog, I thought this had happened once before, as well, after the Tritter subplot where it turned out House had faked his detoxing.
What has always pissed me off about house is this: Nothing good ever happens. Or, if it does, it never stays good. Or if it does, it's completely forgotten about. Take Cuddy's baby. Yes, it's technically a shallow ploy to add drama to a tired character but it's presented as a 100% positive event. It is then never really touched on. It gets mentioned occasionally but usually as a comparison to how awful life is.
Anyway, I watched series 5 - I hated the bit in the middle, and everything revolving around the relationship between Foreman and 13, which is definitely the most unrealistic relationship I've come across in a TV show. Those two personality types aren't opposites but they are about as unlikely to hook up as me and Jeb Bush.
But whatever, series 6 started off incredibly well, maybe the show is going to change.
Series 6 started with an epic two parter where House is institutionalised. A shrink essentially cures him over an hour and a half of screen time in a series of alternately touching and heart breaking bits of television.
Things started to go slightly wrong in the third episode. There, House is desperate to keep his mind occupied so his leg ceases to hurt. He tries various things out over the course of the series but eventually, he cheats and solves a diagnostic problem over the internets. His shrink then tells him to go back to diagnostic medicine as this is the only thing that will cure him.
There are too many things that annoy me about that to chronicle so I'll pick just one: House is now a rational human being who cares more about happiness than anything else, right? So he should cut his fucking leg off. It's very, very simple. This option has been floated to him several times before, it's well established that this would instantly end his pain. Ignoring this option shows that the writers really don't want to move the series on, they just want to keep doing the same old shit.
So whatever, the new team leave (which was probably a good thing, given how Taub was a remarkably boring character and the 13/foreman thing was only getting less believable as time went on) and in episode 5... Well, House just reverts. He's back to his old pointless games of hacking into someones email to cancel a plane flight so they'll reconsider whether to stay in the country or not.
No other show would have characters do something that fucking stupid. It's ridiculous, but in House, that's the only way to communicate effectively because people who share their feelings (like Wilson) are considered weak, ineffective and more flawed than the people they're trying to fix.
Episode 5 ends with a montage of broken hearts, long poignant shots of character either lying to cover up a mistake or missing their spouse/partner. The show where nothing good ever happens ever is back. And I'm out.
Again.
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