"House" season-ender

[semperfiona]

Tuesday nights on Fox at 8pm are becoming as "must-see" as SciFi Friday around our place. That's when "House" is on.

We watched the season-ender the other night. I commented afterward that I generally hate the "It was all a dream" schtick, but in this case I had to approve of it. The writers gave us all kinds of clues throughout the show that everything was going on inside House's head.

• The show was far more gruesome than usual.
• No hospital is going to put a shooter in the same room with the shootee, no matter how crowded.
• Even when it appeared to be 'real life' we were watching, there were inexplicable jumps. For instance, House was handcuffed to the bed, and suddenly he's outside eating a taco, with no scene of him being freed. ohari said this gave an impression "like House was watching TV"--segues were cut for time or whatever.
• He was handcuffed to the bed. Hospitals don't restrain people with handcuffs.
• His team allowed him an inordinate amount of leeway. Surely someone would have pulled the plug on that robot surgeon before things got that messy. And really they would have stepped in far sooner than that. Cameron letting him unbutton her blouse? Sure she has a crush on him, but give me a break.

Doubtless there are other clues as well.

Point being, we were shown all along what was happening, if we had had the brains to notice. It was rather like "The Sixth Sense", come to think of it. I don't mind being led down the primrose path like that as long as I can look back and see all the guideposts along the way that I overlooked at the time. Matter of fact, I rather enjoy the looking back and dissecting the show/story. What I do hate is when you get to the end and look back but there aren't any guideposts to be seen.

I'll be watching the season reruns as they're broadcast, and I'm sure we'll be owners of season one before long. I know I've missed some episodes; unfortunately 8:00 to 9:00 Tuesday conflicts with Rosa's bedtime ritual.

Unrelated aside: I can't possibly be the the only one anal enough that I make sure that my lj-cuts and /lj-cuts line up so as to produce sensible paragraphs and line-breakage in both the cut and the full-length versions.

Comments

[ohari.livejournal.com]

Off Topic reply - XIII at Midnight?

[semperfiona]

You're the one who has to get up at oh-god-thirty tomorrow morning, so if you wanna...I'm in.

[klwalton.livejournal.com]

I copped to it pretty much right away. It was very reminiscent of some of the scenes in "All That Jazz".

I loved it, by the way. I know some fans hated it, but I thought it was brilliant.

[semperfiona]

reminiscent of some of the scenes in "All That Jazz".

I haven't seen that. Should I?

And I loved it too, in case that wasn't clear.

[klwalton.livejournal.com]

It's a sort of autobio-pic written and directed by Bob Fosse. Visually stunning, psychologically fascinating, with wonderfulwonderfulwonderful dance sequences. Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange, Leland Palmer (who is one of my favorite dancers, and she has the most amazing face :)), Ann Reinking (who is a pretty nifty hoofer herself), great music. Reality merging with fantasy. All I can say it, yes, see it!

And, yes, you made it clear that you loved the House season ender :).

[porcinea.livejournal.com]

Yes. You should.