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House
Aug 29, 2009 21:20:17 GMT -5
Post by Spaced Out Looney on Aug 29, 2009 21:20:17 GMT -5
So I'm all caught up on House now, and I just have to say, "Stop it, Evil Hand! Stop it!" ;D
It certainly is easier to watch these episodes all at once than one at a time. House/Cuddy was interestingly done, but I'm far more interested in House possibly detoxing, though the show has flirted with that idea too, so I'm not getting invested.
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House
Sept 21, 2009 21:05:22 GMT -5
Post by Lola m on Sept 21, 2009 21:05:22 GMT -5
Very interesting season opener! That was actually a rather believable journey for him. And, of course, Andre B was awesome. One of the few actors I could see being able to actually play a shrink that truly connects with House.
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House
Sept 22, 2009 10:07:43 GMT -5
Post by S'ewing S'cubie on Sept 22, 2009 10:07:43 GMT -5
Very interesting season opener! That was actually a rather believable journey for him. And, of course, Andre B was awesome. One of the few actors I could see being able to actually play a shrink that truly connects with House. Doesn't just connect! Actually OUT THINKS! An unusual thing for someone to out think House, anticipate him and to change his mind so completely. This was a brilliant episode. Usually when someone is put up as a foil for House the character is a two dimensional baddie. Interestingly, except for that billionaire (what the heck was his name?) Most of House's antagonists have actually been in the right--but were presented as so obnoxious and so unpleasant that we ended up rooting for House to continue his antisocial behaviors. This time, though, Andre B was gentle, sympathetic, likable and very, very right. Say again, brilliant episode.
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House
Sept 22, 2009 11:17:44 GMT -5
Post by artemis on Sept 22, 2009 11:17:44 GMT -5
I agree completely with both of you. I thought it was brilliantly done.
I was happy to see an ad during the season finale of Leverage indicating that Andre B has a new show coming up over the winter. I hope it does well for him; he's yet another Homicide actor that seems to have not had enough good roles and success since those days...
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House
Sept 22, 2009 21:15:14 GMT -5
Post by Lola m on Sept 22, 2009 21:15:14 GMT -5
I agree completely with both of you. I thought it was brilliantly done. I was happy to see an ad during the season finale of Leverage indicating that Andre B has a new show coming up over the winter. I hope it does well for him; he's yet another Homicide actor that seems to have not had enough good roles and success since those days... I had the same thought! I just love his acting, he is so there in the character - always powerful, even in the quietest moments.
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House
Sept 23, 2009 7:49:50 GMT -5
Post by Anne, Old S'cubie Cat on Sept 23, 2009 7:49:50 GMT -5
I agree completely with both of you. I thought it was brilliantly done. I was happy to see an ad during the season finale of Leverage indicating that Andre B has a new show coming up over the winter. I hope it does well for him; he's yet another Homicide actor that seems to have not had enough good roles and success since those days... I had the same thought! I just love his acting, he is so there in the character - always powerful, even in the quietest moments. I will have to watch this episode again, because I really thought it was predictable and trite. Having read all the positive comments here, I think I missed something, and I need to give it another chance when I'm not exhausted and already in a bad moon. Mood. Although the moon may have had something to do with it...
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House
Sept 23, 2009 16:36:59 GMT -5
Post by Sue on Sept 23, 2009 16:36:59 GMT -5
I had the same thought! I just love his acting, he is so there in the character - always powerful, even in the quietest moments. I will have to watch this episode again, because I really thought it was predictable and trite. Having read all the positive comments here, I think I missed something, and I need to give it another chance when I'm not exhausted and already in a bad moon. Mood. Although the moon may have had something to do with it... Well, I'm divided. There were parts that were great -- mostly House's struggle with himself and anything with Andre B in it (he certainly does has "IT" -- just takes over and is totally believable no matter how unplayed.) But everything and everyone else was, IMO, extremely ..... unlikely. It's as if the writers said, well we know we need to get from "A" to "B," we have 90 minutes to do it, now what kind of (really totally unbelievable) plots do we need (House messes up so someone is really hurt, House has to learn to be truly sorry, House turns out to be right after all, House falls (sort of) in love, House depends on someone emotionally -- but just until they make love once and then she's conveniently out of the picture so he doesn't really have to deal with the emotional fallout of being the "other man" in an adulturous relationship where children are involved) to get from A to B? I really didn't think the other characters or storylines had much credibility. I mean, really? Woman doesn't talk for years, but at the end she takes the music box and is "cured" and plays her cello so that all the other crazies are moved. House's roomie is so inspired by House's "success" that he decides to take meds. Some random woman visits (I thought I heard her say every Tuesday, but later say every day???) her sister in law and she and House immediately hit it off. Except for Braugher we have young good looking chick who wants to save the world, but really is pretty clueless and then the male doc who is heartless. They all seemed extremely cardboard to me, as did most of the patients. I would have preferred they focus more on House's internal struggle and sessions with the doctor. Also, I think it's going to be must harder to maintain his "break-throughs" once he's back on his own territory interacting with people with whom he has a history. So I may be more with Anne on this one. Although, I assume this ep will be used to submit to next year's Emmy committee. My favorite part may have been House on stage, helping with the rap song.
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House
Sept 24, 2009 12:01:18 GMT -5
Post by Michelle on Sept 24, 2009 12:01:18 GMT -5
I liked it very much, though I did think there was a lot of clunkiness. The clunkiness didn't bother me so much though because I was captivated by seeing how House would deal with his incarceration and how Braugher's character would interact with him. It made me wish that Cuddy and the rest of the game would take some lessons from him! Switching his meds for sugar pills was brilliant. I think Sue is right, that it will be hard for House to stay on the right track, since it will be so easy for him to fall right back into his old patterns with his co-workers. Maybe Braugher should stay in contact with Wilson, advising him on how to say no to House!! That reminds me, I was surprised that House didn't call Wilson to pick him up when he was released, instead of taking the bus home. I'm not sure what that was supposed to mean--maybe that asking him for a ride would be taking advantage of him somehow? It was fun to see Booger from Revenge of the Nerds as the paranoid. He didn't have much to do on the show though, and he and the others were just used for color, for the most part. I thought it was interesting that House was so pissed by the doctor who was snarky with Freedom Master. I mean, HELLO?!? How many times has House been just as obnoxious and rude with a patient? He was seeing himself and that stuck in his craw, I guess. That must be why he decided to take Freedom Master under his wing and give him a boost of self-confidence. Well, that and he wanted to self-destruct a little bit more. House is the type of person who needs to hit bottom more than once before it really makes a difference. I liked the rap song too! I think that was a turning point for Alvie, when he knew that he needed help to get better. He knew he needed help, both with his rap lyrics, and his mental health. Things I didn't like: Freedom Master somehow knew that that the catatonic just needed her voice box? Whah? ? I didn't understand that at all. And yeah, the sister in law who had a fling with House (who really took her peck on his lips WAAAYYYY to seriously) was...hmmm, I don't know. I just didn't buy that story line very much. ETA: Another thing that threw me a little was that I wondered if House was going to have another hallucination while he was there. They already decided the Vicodin wasn't what caused them, right? So what did? So everytime something happened that was a little out there, like when he kidnapped Freedom Master, or when he sneaked into the room to have sex with Run Lola Run, I thought, "Is this real, or his head?"
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House
Sept 24, 2009 15:54:07 GMT -5
Post by S'ewing S'cubie on Sept 24, 2009 15:54:07 GMT -5
I agree completely with both of you. I thought it was brilliantly done. I was happy to see an ad during the season finale of Leverage indicating that Andre B has a new show coming up over the winter. I hope it does well for him; he's yet another Homicide actor that seems to have not had enough good roles and success since those days... I had the same thought! I just love his acting, he is so there in the character - always powerful, even in the quietest moments. Especially in the quietest moments.
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House
Sept 24, 2009 16:13:59 GMT -5
Post by SpringSummers on Sept 24, 2009 16:13:59 GMT -5
I liked it very much, though I did think there was a lot of clunkiness. The clunkiness didn't bother me so much though because I was captivated by seeing how House would deal with his incarceration and how Braugher's character would interact with him. It made me wish that Cuddy and the rest of the game would take some lessons from him! Switching his meds for sugar pills was brilliant. Love the sugar pill thing. (I missed the first half hour of the program, since I was driving across the state that night - got to the motel too late to see it all.) It will be hard for House not to get back into the old routines when he's in the old circumstances. No doubt, there will be backsliding . . . but if he's truly had an epiphany here, then he'll keep moving forward overall. I hadn't thought about it, but I suppose taking the bus - taking the bus - instead of calling Wilson to come get him is meant to suggest that he has changed. Of course, taking the bus has a special significance for House. Last time he took a bus, it was because he called Wilson, and Amber showed up, and Amber DIED - the kid hurting himself but trying to fly was not the first time House's self-indulgent, risky behavior hurt others. Interesting choice of words with the "hit bottom." Kind of literally what the kid did. The voice box thing I really didn't get . . . the SIL, I agree with Sue . . . they wanted House to make a love-connection, show House having sex that wasn't totally "clinical and meaningless," etc . . . but it had to have no long lasting consequences . . . enter married woman with children who is moving out of town. Of course, it was kind of hard not to notice the rabid selfishness and dishonesty involved in allowing yourself to have such an affair when you are a mom with small children, or being someone who has such an affair with a mom of young children, so . . . I dunno. House has not exactly moved that far from "self-indulgent." Maybe that was the point? Yes, I suppose the "should I trust this scene" effect will linger after what happened at the end of last season, but I assume we won't see that again.
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House
Sept 24, 2009 19:22:50 GMT -5
Post by Lola m on Sept 24, 2009 19:22:50 GMT -5
I had the same thought! I just love his acting, he is so there in the character - always powerful, even in the quietest moments. I will have to watch this episode again, because I really thought it was predictable and trite. Having read all the positive comments here, I think I missed something, and I need to give it another chance when I'm not exhausted and already in a bad moon. Mood. Although the moon may have had something to do with it... Oh I don't think all of the ep was excellent. I hate to say it, because I love Franka P, and she did a very good acting job, the storyline with her and House was a bit eye-roll-y. And of course there was a lot of implausibleness in some of the way things worked. But the emotional arc for House was really the only way they could have had him change, and that felt really really interesting for me. And, well, Andre B.
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House
Sept 24, 2009 19:31:05 GMT -5
Post by Lola m on Sept 24, 2009 19:31:05 GMT -5
I will have to watch this episode again, because I really thought it was predictable and trite. Having read all the positive comments here, I think I missed something, and I need to give it another chance when I'm not exhausted and already in a bad moon. Mood. Although the moon may have had something to do with it... Well, I'm divided. There were parts that were great -- mostly House's struggle with himself and anything with Andre B in it (he certainly does has "IT" -- just takes over and is totally believable no matter how unplayed.) **nods** **nods to a lot of this** **nods a lot to this** Now this I do disagree with, most of them did not seem cardboard to me. Oh I definitely think he will have trouble. I hope he continues his therapy. So I can see more Andre B. ;D
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House
Sept 24, 2009 19:40:51 GMT -5
Post by Lola m on Sept 24, 2009 19:40:51 GMT -5
I liked it very much, though I did think there was a lot of clunkiness. The clunkiness didn't bother me so much though because I was captivated by seeing how House would deal with his incarceration and how Braugher's character would interact with him. It made me wish that Cuddy and the rest of the game would take some lessons from him! Switching his meds for sugar pills was brilliant. The best thing about the therapist is how calm he was. Calmly strong and always pushing toward a goal of helping House improve. I don't think we've ever seen someone go up against House in that exact manner - not antagonistic, just steadily not giving way. Maybe the idea being that House needs to keep working on his own health, his own improvement? **nods a lot** House as powerless patient. Will he learn something from that beyond his own growth as a person? Heeee!! And, yes.
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House
Sept 24, 2009 19:41:23 GMT -5
Post by Lola m on Sept 24, 2009 19:41:23 GMT -5
I had the same thought! I just love his acting, he is so there in the character - always powerful, even in the quietest moments. Especially in the quietest moments. **nods a lot**
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House
Sept 24, 2009 19:42:27 GMT -5
Post by Lola m on Sept 24, 2009 19:42:27 GMT -5
I liked it very much, though I did think there was a lot of clunkiness. The clunkiness didn't bother me so much though because I was captivated by seeing how House would deal with his incarceration and how Braugher's character would interact with him. It made me wish that Cuddy and the rest of the game would take some lessons from him! Switching his meds for sugar pills was brilliant. Love the sugar pill thing. (I missed the first half hour of the program, since I was driving across the state that night - got to the motel too late to see it all.) It will be hard for House not to get back into the old routines when he's in the old circumstances. No doubt, there will be backsliding . . . but if he's truly had an epiphany here, then he'll keep moving forward overall. I hadn't thought about it, but I suppose taking the bus - taking the bus - instead of calling Wilson to come get him is meant to suggest that he has changed. Of course, taking the bus has a special significance for House. Last time he took a bus, it was because he called Wilson, and Amber showed up, and Amber DIED - the kid hurting himself but trying to fly was not the first time House's self-indulgent, risky behavior hurt others. Interesting choice of words with the "hit bottom." Kind of literally what the kid did. The voice box thing I really didn't get . . . the SIL, I agree with Sue . . . they wanted House to make a love-connection, show House having sex that wasn't totally "clinical and meaningless," etc . . . but it had to have no long lasting consequences . . . enter married woman with children who is moving out of town. Of course, it was kind of hard not to notice the rabid selfishness and dishonesty involved in allowing yourself to have such an affair when you are a mom with small children, or being someone who has such an affair with a mom of young children, so . . . I dunno. House has not exactly moved that far from "self-indulgent." Maybe that was the point? Yes, I suppose the "should I trust this scene" effect will linger after what happened at the end of last season, but I assume we won't see that again. Excellent thoughts about the bus!!
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