The House, M.D. Thread

I don't "get" the Lydia angle. I understand what they were trying to do, but where's the plausability? She becomes enamored with him after two brief meetings? She lets this strange man she barely knows from an institution take her car? Double-you-tee-eff? Totally took me out of it. They needed for him to drive off to the fair to move their story forward, I suppose, but that doesn't mean any old way to get there is fine. They could have at least had him swipe the thing, and merely have her forgive him when he brings it back in one piece. That would've been remotely believable, at least.

Kept wondering if Lydia was a hallucination, though I assumed they wouldn't resort to that again, and the car thing more or less sealed it. Up until that point it had a lot of the hallmarks of such a shift, however.

Still think they've written themselves into a bit of a corner, and that the series must inevitably lose a lot of its steam over the next season or two, but I think I see how they're handling this. They're not making House especially "nice," they're just removing Vicodin from the equation. His addiction has always been interesting, but I think they realized that for it to be even remotely believable it had to either get better or worse at some point. He couldn't just down them through five straight seasons without serious ramifications. He got worse, and eventually it got so bad it had to get better, and here we are.

Now, the drama's going to be all about the medical license, I suppose, and the miscellaneous interpersonal relationships, the threats of quitting and firing and the like. I think that can only take them so far, but I suppose they can still get a lot of mileage out of Thirteen's still technically secret relationship with Foreman, and her disease, as well.

Should be a decent season, but I'll be very surprised if this isn't a substantial turning point that turns the show from great to merely good for the next year or two. I also think it was probably inevitable. Characters like House have to either burn out or fade away, and the latter keeps the show on the air longer.

I don't "get" the Lydia angle. I understand what they were trying to do, but where's the plausability? She becomes enamored with him after two brief meetings? She lets this strange man she barely knows from an institution take her car? Double-you-tee-eff? Totally took me out of it. They needed for him to drive off to the fair to move their story forward, I suppose, but that doesn't mean any old way to get there is fine. They could have at least had him swipe the thing, and merely have her forgive him when he brings it back in one piece. That would've been remotely believable, at least.

Kept wondering if Lydia was a hallucination, though I assumed they wouldn't resort to that again, and the car thing more or less sealed it. Up until that point it had a lot of the hallmarks of such a shift, however.

Still think they've written themselves into a bit of a corner, and that the series must inevitably lose a lot of its steam over the next season or two, but I think I see how they're handling this. They're not making House especially "nice," they're just removing Vicodin from the equation. His addiction has always been interesting, but I think they realized that for it to be even remotely believable it had to either get better or worse at some point. He couldn't just down them through five straight seasons without serious ramifications. He got worse, and eventually it got so bad it had to get better, and here we are.

Now, the drama's going to be all about the medical license, I suppose, and the miscellaneous interpersonal relationships, the threats of quitting and firing and the like. I think that can only take them so far, but I suppose they can still get a lot of mileage out of Thirteen's still technically secret relationship with Foreman, and her disease, as well.

Should be a decent season, but I'll be very surprised if this isn't a substantial turning point that turns the show from great to merely good for the next year or two. I also think it was probably inevitable. Characters like House have to either burn out or fade away, and the latter keeps the show on the air longer.