How did House, M.D. fare in 2011? Have a peek at the Great, the Good, and the not so much.
It’s been a rocky, roller-coaster of a year for Dr. Gregory House (Hugh Laurie), and indeed, for the House, M.D. series. For Dr. House, 2011 saw his relationship with Dr. Lisa Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein) crash and burn, just before he did the same. The series itself has varied from excellent fare like season seven’s “After Hours” to episodes that had the doctor go so far off the rails that he ventured on the other side of that fine line between “yeah, he’s a jerk, but I get why he’s doing that” to “he’s just a plain old jerk.” It’s on that side of the line where House becomes so unlikeable, it’s easy to stop caring about his fate, his pain or anything else about him.…
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— go to most recent comments26 - lobentti
@the other Barnett - What if the 'sick' one that needs House´s help is Rachel? Uhh??
Kind of what moved Stacy to look for his help;and considering Rachel´s birth, something should be wrong with her, as House always suspected ... but it´s just an idea.
And House has already said what he thinks about his biological father and his relationship with his 'married mother' , so ...
27 - BrokenLeg
26@lobentti
I'm on your ship.
I'm sure now, due all this well orchestred rumors, that LE will be back soon than late, and that there are strong signals that will be a last 9th [H] season (if this 8th one were the last one, people on charge and writers must know it from time ago to properly write the final arch, so there will be no reason to avoid that knowledge to fandom, on the contrary, marketing reasons induce to use that knowledge as a shaker of the fandom and a reason to rise current ratings).
Said that, I’d be glad if LE-Cuddy returns (I strongly miss the GH-LE banter), and I would prefer that if so, she returns as an equal to GH, not as his boss, because that equal level must be necessary to try to amend things as much as possible.( And “try to amend things” must not be understood as justifying any kind of past domestic violence…).
And yes, if the 'sick' one that needs House´s help is Rachel, must be the only reason that can move Cuddy to beg GH’s help, move GH to give it and ask forgiveness, and possibly the only one that make both of them put some hard things apart for a while.
And I think, as you, that GH has said all about his parenthood, biological father vs the father who raised him. But maybe there is a loose end about Blythe explanations to the son.
And 25@BB in answer to @spitza and notices of HL’s death in a NZ web: one thing is a joke, even a sick joke, and other the fruit of someone’s mental illness!It's beyond satyrical!!!
Good 2012 to everybody out there!!
28 - Martha Lee
I guess that I am in the minority. The only episode in season 8 that I have enjoyed thus far has been “Dead and Buried”. I am still waiting for a WOW episode from David Shore and Co. I do not care for the new female doctors (they are just retreads of 13, Cameron and Masters) and the actresses are just not memorable or Foreman as the Dean of Medicine (really, they are just giving him Cuddy‘s lines and having just as much success as she did dealing with him). I also just do not see him running an entire hospital. Even Wilson has had little to do. Don’t even get me started on the whole Taub baby daddy soap opera. The show was so much better when it was just about House and patients with odd diseases. Now each and every patient is tied to House and it has gotten very old. In the past 2 seasons, we have seen other outside characters added to that have had nothing to do with House or his family and repeated diseases. The first 3 seasons, the show did not give any backstories to the Ducklings and now we have had 4 years of added characters that have brought down the drama of the show making it borderline a comedy. The whole arc with House being on parole and having an ankle monitor is just getting dumber as the plot goes along. A Chase centric episode just bores me to think about. I have low expectations on the rest of the season. I do not think the writers (none of them impress me much) have a clue on what to do with characters (they have ruined all of them and have a real problem with continuity, and I hope this season will be the last. I know David Shore wants a season 9 but where can House go now. They have hit all the low points thru each of the past seasons (Looney bin, OD’s, jail, being shot. lost loves, anger issues). David Shore does not do happy so where does the show go from here? Too little too late on the whole "father" issues of House.
29 - The Other Barnett
lobenti @ #26
I like that story-line, but House has an affection for Rachel and (while it may be easy to say byue to Cuddy, I think Rachel would be more difficult. He admires her and I think Rachel makes him think about fatherhood....It would be cleaner to kill off Cuddy's mom and only have Cuddy there...but Rachel would pose a real dramatic challenge...good idea!
30 - The Other Barnett
BrokeLeg#27 -
Cuddy is broken, why wouldn't she ask for help for her mom of House? Who knows, maybe the mom asks for his help and will only take him as her Dr.
The conversation between Cuddy and House never seemed great on both sides, she put up the ally-oop pass and he dunked it. I watched the whole 1st season of House yesterday and Saturday and saw nothing from Cuddy to intrigue me. Its one think to be an Edelstein fan, but I don't see the chemistry....
31 - The Other Barnett
Martha #28
Why are you still watching?
32 - 20V
@Martha Lee
Taub's kids have literally been the focus of one episode and haven't been mentioned since. Faulting the show forcwhat you think will happen seems rather silly to me.
33 - Sun
#31 The Other Barnett Your comment to #28 Martha was rude and a conversation stopper. This is a place to discuss House in 2011 and I haven't seen The Real Barnett limit the dialogue to only people who are enjoying the show in Season 8. When you are confrontational to another poster, it spoils the discussion for everyone. I think it's better to just ignore an all negative post than to start judging who should or shouldn't watch the show. You might wonder why I'm saying this? I and others hate coming here to find confrontational and judgmental posts to people who are expressing their opinions in response to Barbara's blog.
34 - Susan (from Brooklyn)
Today's New York Times had an article about most talked about subjects on social media for 2011. Facebook made Top Ten lists for various subjects discussed on the platform and "House was No. 1 on the list for television shows"!!!
#12 Tahina - agree with you
#27 Broken Leg - Besides many comments on Facebook asking for Cuddy back, where are you all seeing rumors of her return?
35 - lobentti
27@BrokenLeg, 29@the Other barnett
Thanks for your support, may be one day I move to be tv show writer :) My point is that Rachel is now the only common love, significant one for both Cuddy and House; Arlene should be good too, but she already tried and failled, so ... and yes, House and Cuddy being equals seems a good solution, from my poit of view the 7th season started to crash when Cuddy (IMO) startd fearing to be out of controling the realtionship and assumed all that 'boss-ite' position even in their personal relation; treating Arlene against her and House´s wish is one exemple.
But let´s the writers do their job, ok?
36 - lobentti
30@the Other Barnett - Cuddy and House didnt show a deep relation from the beggining, sure; piece by piece we learn that they had a night together and he left her without a word; than he met Stacy and lived together until the infarction in his leg, and re-find Cuddy now as Dean of Medicine, a well-succeeded woman, while he has another woman, is crippled, and as far as is seems, unemployed. A difficult situation, about what they never talk; he makes some comments, she avoids confrontations, she is the boss (Why did she hire him?)but when Stace leaves for the first time ... a door is open, but is dark inside there ... so, only when he finaly lets Stacy go, after all this time with Cuddy, and mainly after their kiss in season 5, their personal relation gains another significance ... what do you think?
37 - Susan (from Brooklyn)
#36- Lobentti - you're exactly right about the blossoming of their relationship. And to me they always had "chemistry".
38 - BrokenLeg
31 @ The Other Barnett
Well, my friend, I'm not specially a LE fan ( I do not see TGW, for ex.or previous roles of her), but I think that Cuddy ( please, distinguish actress and character) was part of the "triunvirate" in the series developement.
And yes, I miss their banter a lot
39 - BrokenLeg
34@Susan (from Brooklyn)
Ask Ausiello!!!
40 - BrokenLeg
36@lobentti &37@ Susan(from Brooklyn)
Agreed!!..And Susan, "bloosoming" sounds poetic!!!
41 - The Other Barnett
Sun #33 - I understand why you may thin I was being a conversation stopper, but I was honestly curious how Martha could continue watching when it seems she is almost in psychic/artistic pain when viewing the show....I'd like reasons...thats all. And the kind of question I asked would be asked by Greg House should he be in the chatline. :)
42 - The Other Barnett
Lobentti#36 -
Some good points on the dynamic between House and Cuddy.
The first season -Cuddy explains that she hired House because he is "the best". Later she even mentions to House that she is aware he may get sued so she has money set aside for legal defense. Throughout the first season we see how Cuddy feels some guilt over what House has become. And yet we also see her (probably hardened by the rough and tumble with House) challenging and verbally knifing him as often as she can to get back at his remarks and actions all the way up to season 5.
Cuddy knows Stacy's love for House, but she never really gets an idea of House's love for Stacy. Otherwise, she would not have been so half-hearted in checking with House about hiring Stacy on to PPTH. We see in Cuddy's relationship with her mother (in both episodes) that Cuddy is screwed up by her mom. She does not know love, even in the way House may know it. Even House has made references to that in past seasons, that Cuddy is longing for someone to say that she is loved "one grunted syllable at a time".
Rachel's sickness is a great choice for a medical emergency if the show is closing out and we need to see some warm and fuzzy closure with a relationship potential. Cuddy's mom dying is a great opportunity to either close the season out with Huddy closure, too or to close out the show in an even-natured Huddy closure along with showing House is not the man he was when we first tuned in eight years ago.
Broken Leg #38
I see the logic of putting Cuddy back in as a part of some kind of low-grade renovation of this House series. Cuddy is the counter-balance (more than Wilson) to House. The banter carries so much weight between them because of the sexual tension - which is probably gone after the motor-home incident. Foreman has been using Cuddy's lines from season 6, but he seems to be carrying it off well - even though he does not look great in a tight red cleavage-baring dress. Shows like MASH, Law and Order, and Dallas seemed to role along as their core cast changed. Why not House? I see where you are coming from, but from a purely personal perspective, Cuddy is more damaging to House than she is a help.
43 - The Other Barnett
20V #32....thanks for the comment, the Taub story-line needed to be addressed and I think it was handled well. Its not enough to say it has runined the show or demonstrates a declining show.
Martha Lee #28 -
Just in case the Sun was right, that I was rude, I apologize. But everything you are pointing out about House I can relate to. Still, you are wanting a House that will never come back. The House of seasons 1,2, and 3 is gone. While Shore tries to demonstrate that people do not change, situations and scenarios do. Life goes on and people adapt (even if they do not fundamentally change), thus shows will alter, too.
C.S. Lewis once talked about courtly love as a love that combines humility, courtesy, sexual and the religion of love as something meeting at a perfect moment....every show has its perfect moment. House had its perfect moment, but it is still a show to set aside time for (in my opinion). Anthony Hopkins have SIlence of the Lambs, but it does not mean I still won't admire him and watch a movie he is doing just because he did lesser roles in Remains of the Day and Shadowlands.
The question you have to ask (since you have apparently suffered through the last 4 seasons) is if the love is completely gone for you with this show. Has this love turned into resentment? If it has, you cannot continue watching it. You must wait til it is out on DVD or Hulu and enjoy it at your own convenience...do not punish yourself. Check out this blog, see if it sounds like a watchable show and then wait for hulu (or xfinity) to have the episode available - surely you could have 7pm free on a Monday for other things if you think this show is going to dissapoint you.
I know how you feel, a bit. Last year I was opening a vein on this blog about how much the writers were messing with this show and how horribly it was being handled. The shows were haphazardly constructed; storylines during the first half of the year were arranged in a manner that suggested that shows were written for Emmy's not for the show's healthy progression. In my opinion, the first 8 episodes of this year has cleaned up the mess that was left at the end of Season 7 better than I could have expected....so far. This is why I am still with the show.
If I have offended your sensitivities or Suns' I apologize. I was not trying to kill off conversation, at all.
44 - BrokenLeg
43 @ The Other Barnett
"....Still, you are wanting a House that will never come back. The House of seasons 1,2, and 3 is gone. While Shore tries to demonstrate that people do not change, situations and scenarios do. Life goes on and people adapt (even if they do not fundamentally change), thus shows will alter, too." How true and wise your words are!! I share your oppinion, as I wrote more or less the same in my last years posts.
And don't apologize yourself. Your comments had been always, from the very first days I'd been on this chat, polite and correct. If a message is misunderstood, many times is a problem of the receiver of it, altough I do not see #28 Martha Lee offended.
And your post #43 is more than an explanation, is a message of confort to a deceived fan.
45 - ann uk
Like some other bloggers,I think Rachel in danger would be a fascinating plot line. House was obviously fond of her and she responded to him.I think he was experiencing a kind of love that was new to him and which might make him reflect on the lack of it in his own childhood and to seek answers from his mother and his real father.
Having her life in his hands would put him under enormous stress.Much worse than Cuddy's mother or even Amber. How would he react to failure ? If he saved her he might reconcile himself to his failure with Cuddy, but I think ( and hope ) not to the resumption to their affair which was always unstable.
46 - lobentti
OH,my... if I see this storyline in the show, I´ll ... at least... faint!!! Are you sure the writers, or whoever, never read these lines ?? But thank you anyway for reading and considering the idea :)
47 - The Other Barnett
Thank You Borken Leg, I appreciate the assurance. I mus say that I have been on the verge of being discourteous about the show when it has upset me, but hopefully never to others.
Ann UK #45
First of all, good call on Rachel possibly causing House to consider his childhood and parents. But, I am wondering, if Rachel is sick, would Shore try the "child dies, House and Cuddy all forgiven and back together" storyline to close the show? I say with great trepidation because I'd have to buy a cheapo tv to watch that episode on - since I'd then throw it through my window. :)
EVERYONE IN THIS BLOG.....What if we all got a free ticket to Hollywood to have a townhall meeting with David Shore...what would we say to him - would he come out alive? :)
48 - lobentti
Just to clear up my point, I think Arlene failled because she tried a 'common enemy' to put House and Cuddy together; but sometimes a 'beloved one' in common is much better!
49 - Susan (from Brooklyn)
#47 the Other Barnett - I know I'm a hopeless romantic but I would love to have Rachel sick (not dying),saved by House and then "House and Cuddy all forgiven and back together".
That would make up for all the misery during and after the break-up.
50 - MeMe
Barbara:
I'm sorry that I'm late to the party, but is there any merit to the rumors that House's biological father is going to pop up in some form or another (POTW?) this season? If so, does that also mean that Diane Baker will make her (very) long-due return as Blythe House? Thanks.
51 - BrokenLeg
49@Susan(from Brooklyn)
Yes, you are a really unrepentant romantic!!...But I also want the return of little Rachel,and due to her origin maybe sick of an odd rare illnes only House can diagnose, and at least, I hope it can induce forgiveness...from both parts,( and, sure,I'm also an unrepentant romantic too!)
52 - lobentti
Again, you all got my point! I have this incurable 'romantic disease' too... We can also rationalize and say that a relationship built during 6 years doesn´t deserve to end in 15 episodes! I also think that they need to say everything they didn´t all these years, to be able 'to rest in peace' when the show comes to an end.
53 - Susan (from Brooklyn)
Thumbs up to Broken Leg and Lobentti!
54 - lola
wilson best in a situation of danger is a friend of both
55 - spitza
Brocken Leg, Lobentti, and Susan (from Brooklyn) - I am in the same boat. I just can see them, Cuddy and her usual "You owe me" and Rachel "House, why did you break our house?"
56 - BrokenLeg
Wow, things seems to go other way ( or not and means readdressings wrong ways, beginning to tie loose ends?)because in episode 12 or 13 someone is back:Dominika,the green card wife ( and with that, again is back this strange, or better said, unrespectful way to treat women and immigrant people that DS has...)
57 - lobentti
@ 42 The Other Barnett : yes, hiring 'the best' and cheap Doc was Lisa Cuddy version; House has another one:(to Cuddy): You hired me and gave me everything I asked, because one night I gave you everything you wanted!"(Top Secret ep season 3).So ...
And yes,, we should write a book on Cuddy x House interaction; some of my favorites are in "Hupty Dumpy", "Who is your father?" and "Top Secret", but there are many others, of course.
58 - ann uk
47 The Other Barnett
These blogs have become a sort of unofficial script conference and I am fascinated by the differing view points. I don't think DS could survive because we all feel so strongly about House.
For instance, unlike some of my fellow bloggers, I think it would be too obvious for House and Cuddy to get together again.On the other hand, if he failed to save Rachel I think it might destroy him and cause the tragic ending some of us envisage.
PS. I still rather fancy Lydia as his true lover. She met him at his lowest and she LIKED him, which I don't think Cuddy ever did.And he responded to her trustingly and without his usual doubts.
What do the rest of you think ?
59 - Barbara Barnett
Ann UK--Interesting point about Lydia. I think, though, she liked House (maybe it was his vulnerability that got to her), she wasn't willing to leave her husband for him. In a way, she also stomped on House's heart. Dont' get me wrong. I loved Lydia and their relationship (see my review of Broken for more on that).
60 - BrokenLeg
58@ Ann uk
I never thought Lydia's love to GH were really true , altough then, in the lowest moments GH's was, as you say,he responded as trustingly as he could... while in phsychiatric treatment.
She used him more as some entertainment in a "parallel life", while visiting her sister-in-law, and did it in a very safe place to her, without other possibly family "disruptions"(aka husband, children, etc..).Maybe was his vulneralbility that got her then, as 59@Barbara Barnett say, but she hurt him as many other women had done: finally she wasn't willing to leave her husband, and her safe life with him, to engage a new one with a broken genius. IMHO, GH was only an adventure to her, but he responded in a more giving way than she'd expected. And despite that,it was good to GH in some rude way, because, as Dr.Nolan said, was his awakeness to begin giving without expecting something in return.
And he upgraded this at his best level while being in his relationship with Cuddy.
About GH and LC being togheter again, is not exactly my point. It's finding mutual forgiveness and let an open way to their possible relationship, maybe in some future to come.
And I do not expect now a tragic ending (as I did it last year after the season finale),because there are no more possible levels of tragedy in GH life yet, after being shooted, in a pschyatric hospital,in jail,etc.. but more a Housian worthy ending( more like a "final curtain" full of loose ends to be understood in as many ways as fans remains that day)
61 - Jules
58 - ann uk
I liked Lydia too but she was really just a prop to serve the purpose of making him aware that if he tried he could connect emotionally.
The show portrayed House giving his brain a bit of a rest in "Broken" and focused on him as a "man" outside of the pressure of his puzzle and outside the environment that contains his puzzle.
Once he returned to his old life him and Lydia would never have stood a chance IMO anyway?
62 - lobentti
@ ann uk and others
Lidia was nice at that point, but as Stacy,she didn´t want to change her life. I agree that it was a good way to make a change in his relationship with Cuddy, and make different moves, but Cuddy had her issues too, and it didn´t work. So, true love? I don´t see any; but I see Cuddy more plausible, because of their long term story. Maybe she married that young man (so alike to Lucas...), maybe she changed too , let´s wait and see!
63 - lobentti
Barbara, have you seen this?
:(
64 - ann uk
Perhaps her children , rather than her husband ? Looking back at Broken, I think Lydia's feeling s were genuine.
House is a powerfully attractive character and is capable of profound love - don't forget that Stacy chose him , not Mark.It was House who ended it , not because he did not love her, but for fear that if he yielded to his feelings he might be hurt again.This fear always inhibited his relationship with Cuddy ( and her's with him) and that's why his trust of Lydia is so. significant.
65 - andreec
Barbara,
Like you, I felt the show's executives hurt the show immensely with the stupid decisions made that caused Lisa Edelstein to depart the show before season 8. You are absolutely right in that it was a terrible loss for the season. After all she did on the show, promoting it like a trooper and even on-cam nudity, there really should have been a more respectful negotiations process especially now that she had become the female star with a significant following on this show.
I respectfully disagree that the show is surviving without her. The ratings have seriously dropped and are the lowest they've had in years throughout a season. I suspect if the show is canceled its because its lost so much of the dramatic energy that was there when "Lisa Cuddy" was part of the cast.
I can only hope someone at FOX grows a brain and gets Lisa Edelstein back. There are so many dramatic opportunities should she return. My understanding was that Foreman was the acting Dean of Medicine initially. Has that changed? Foreman's track record of screw ups seems to defy logic that he would gain the DOM position. Sorry but it didn't make sense then and it still doesn't.
Cuddy returning from a sabbatical of some sort especially if her mother Arlene's health were to be an issue might be sufficient cause for her return to the New Jersey area. Personally, I'd like to see House and Cuddy run into each other at a medical conference and see what has changed or not changed between them.
However, as a woman, I would hardly expect Cuddy to allow House back in her private life. That is unless we find out he had a chemical imbalance or brain tumor to cause him to snap and drive through her house. How could she ever trust him not to do something worse without a medical reason as its cause. Lets hope Wilson finds this to be the case and it brings back the best trio on TV once more.
As for House finding his biological father and all that, I no longer really care. I've come to dislike him too much now to care. As for Wilson falling back into their old bromance so quickly, I was really disappointed in him. THere was so much more dramatic opportunities for House to learn from had this stretched out longer. Now its just more about mean guy doctor's antics sporadically interrupted by rather dull medical cases.
I appreciate your loyalty the show and love of the characters and I wish I felt like you still do but honestly this show is not going to see a season 9 at this rate. The only chance this changes is if the ratings improve and right now nothing seems to guarantee that ...except for maybe the return of Lisa Cuddy -- the "heart of the show" according to critics.
66 - bigHousefan
I'm so glad I decided to check in. As always, I enjoy all of your thoughtful insight.
I am haunted by David Shore's comments that House MD is at it's core a Greek tragedy and the hero's failings ultimately bring about his demise.
However TPTB decide to end this story, I'm grateful that we'll have Barbara and her blog to gather and console one another. It's going to be a busy place...
67 - The Other Barnett
Ann UK #58:
Bless your heart, Ann, I agree it would be nice to see some scenario that brings Lydia back into House' life. And I agree, Lydia may provide a certain positive energy to House that re-uniting with Cuddy would not do.
Cuddy's love (to everyone but Rachel) is so much like her mother's toward her - conditional and guarded - and kinda twisted. House re-uniting with her, even if he saves Rachel's life (which does seem to be increasingly lame once pondered), any re-igniting of the flame with Cuddy does not ensure happiness ever-after.
Lydia seemed less inclined to see all the flaws of House. She seemed to see in him this incredible soul that is both hoisted into greatness by his intellect and plunged into destruction by his inner demons. She impressed me as someone who could accept the good with the bad.
And that (HOUSE BLOGGERS ALL) is the great negative with Lisa Cuddy. She cannot accept the good with the bad. She cannot accept the fact that love carries pain. She is so deeply damaged (maybe more so than House) that she could never accept a love that is going to require effort. Lucas was perfect for her. She could be mentally challenged by him, but never emotionally tried by him.
#65 - Andreec
What dramatic energy does Lisa Cuddy provide to the show now, outside of the "ex-girlfriend returning to the hospital of her greatest bureacratic triumphs and her greatest pain in the rear? I share in the interest of seeing how they'd interact the first time they meet after her "delivered her brush"; but then what?
Cuddy, the "heart of the show"? Obviously you never had much interest in Chase, then. The character of Chase showed a real growth in the arc of the show. In him, outside of House, we have seen the most emotionally effective scenes (reciting a prayer over a patient, unloading his guilt to a priest over Dibala, opening his heart to Cameron, showing his vulnerability (and possibly how easy he can be manipulated) to a cancer-stricken tween girl. Cuddy is a selective bleeding heart, but she is far from the "the heart" of the show. In fact, I'd rank her after Chase, Wilson, and House.
68 - lobentti
Ohhh, come on, people, let´s face reality! This is a TVshow, created by David Shore and it has some statements that will never change: 1 - Nobody changes; 2 - Everybody lies; 3- Happiness is impossible, we allways make wrong choices. It´s supposed to be a drama, not a love story! There's not even a dialetic movement, only statements! So, it worked for some time, all this "Sherlock" method for diagnosis were great, but now ... it is what it is, no Fox, no Universal , not even Hugh Laurie´s intervention wil change it because it´s a David Shore story!
We can play 'writers', we can show our 'likes and dislikes', but that´s all we can do. IMO, the show took a dark path, lost perspective, broke the main stream of the relationships that gathered everything, I´m sad for this, but...is is what it is. I like very much all these considerations, they show how deep this story touched us, and I hope we go on doing this, changing our poits of view, enlightning some significant moments, so we keep this show alive for a long long time!
69 - BrokenLeg
68 @lobentti
You're sadly right.The only touching certainty is your last paragraph: "....they show how deep this story touched us, and I hope we go on doing this, changing our points of view, enlightning some significant moments, so we keep this show alive for a long long time!"
70 - lobentti
@ 69Broken leg
Thanks, and... by the way ... I hope your leg is already healed :)
71 - BrokenLeg
70@lobentti
Yes!!!! I can work again and ride my motorcycle as used before my accident,and lead a normal life, with the only exception of hard sports like my beloved downhill skiing,which I may not practice until next winter. Maybe now I do not have much time for blogging, but it's great being "fully functional". Thanks, my friend.
The one that is with her knee broken again is our fellow blogger @Maria-eleni. By the way, if you read us: How are you doing? Best recovering wishes!!!
72 - ann uk
67 The Other Barnett
Well said.
I would like to see Nolan again.Itwas an inspired thought that he should seek House's company when his father died. He recognised that well hidden empathy in House and had he not been his shrink might have become his friend.
73 - The Other Barnett
ann uk #72
I agree on Nolan. I have been a huge fan of Andre Braugher since his days in Homicide:Life on the Street.
The way that Nolan approaches House is both direct and forceful, as well as unconventional. Nolan wanted House with him for selfish reasons (what child would not ignore all ethics to help family), but he had a decent undercurrent of professional reason behind this action that it really only served to help House.
I've thought for a while that, if this Cuddy thing is going to be handled or if House is going to be fully "renovated", Nolan has to be present. Though I think he'd probably have an issue with Lydia coming back into House' life....something just tells me he'd say its not a healthy way to return to the "affairs" of the heart.
But I am with you, I want Nolan back.
74 - Susan
I could never get into the House/Lydia thing because she was only on for one episode. And in that episode, I forget, how long was their relationship supposed to be - was it once a week for a few months or did she visit her sister-in-law more than that, or less?
Lydia only knew House in the limbo world of the psych hospital, not real life; how would their relationship have fared on the outside?
75 - BrokenLeg
74 @ Susan
I fully agree. My #60 post went that way too.To me Lydia didn't never fit well to GH out of the protected enviroment of Myfield.