Amber Tamblyn bids farewell as Martha Masters in House, M.D.'s "Last Temptation."
I really loved Monday night’s House, M.D. episode “Last Temptation.” That is, until the final moments when “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” played over the departure of newly minted doctor, Martha M. Masters (Amber Tamblyn). That’s House’s (Hugh Laurie) musical avatar, and even though he never hears it, we do, and it usually signals a moment of harsh realization in his life. He will (almost) never get what he wants(happiness, freedom from pain, lack of misery—take your pick)—but he usually gets what he needs. I believe that the song is such an important metaphor in House’s world, I devoted an entire section to it in Chasing Zebras. …
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— go to most recent comments26 - Sneaky Microbe
Back in the day when there was meaningful character development and House seemed to have a chance at love, contentment, and staying off Vicodin, I could more easily waive the unrealistic, medical nonsense. Now, every storyline seems to exist in a fog of immaturity and/or poor writing. Perhaps this is a sign that it is the end of the series.
27 - housemaniac
I find it ironic how many details the writers apparently got wrong or overlooked in this episode considering that over at Fox All Access Hugh Laurie and Lisa Edelstein can be heard telling fans that it is not the relationships or major plotlines that make or break the show, but rather, as HL puts it, "the details". By details, he explains that he means a particular look, or a word, or a double or triple meaning, etc. I can only think that Fox put them up to this interview after the wave of reaction to the end of the House-Cuddy romance. It is strange timing, though, to be told at this moment that what makes House special are the details. I think there is a lot of truth to this, and the show is at its best when the details are at their best. But it is precisely the details that have been off for much of this season (along with some bizarre creative decisions).
28 - Sneaky Microbe
And answer me this: Did House pop a Vicodin or doggy treat???
29 - Leesa
House is seen taking something at the very beginning of the episode. When the team members are greating 13.
30 - Lee
At various times in life, everyone feels an insufficiency of sorts (e.g., misplaced priorities, frustrated ambitions, squandered opportunities, etc.) and longs for something genuinely novel, though often that longing is not fully cognizant. What that something else might truly represent is generally unspecified and unconstrained, and what they find is by no means what they always assumed they were looking for. As can be expected, forward motion in life is not always linear; people cannot accurately understand themselves as completely or reductively as they sometimes claim. Though one may think of progress as occurring in incremental, cohesive patterns, movement in any individual’s existence is commonly characterized by long periods of stasis followed by what appear to be profound leaps, abrupt discontinuities, new beginnings, and eventual denouements that seem unconnected with anything that precedes them. So it is with the frequently unpredictable changes -â€" and sacrifices -â€" that accompany profound commitments and conversions that they consequently lay bare the uniqueness of personal evolution as much more than a systematic unfolding of mere faculties of association and affinity predetermined by those biological and/or contextual milestones in one’s history. Similarly, the gathering act of nostalgia often condenses one’s current emotional state in the living memory of a former present, and the pain which prevails from losing one's innocence is not necessarily the same as either the reproach of the conscience or the call for repentance. But it is in the search for hard truths amongst the banalities of conventional existence that one comes to realize a deeper and renewed meaning to the hidden (or at least partially obscured) complexities of life.
31 - Habitusa
I'm confused about House's motivations. I can't tell whether he was playing 11 dimensional chess and setting her up to make that specific decision or he was just pushing her to betray her principles just for the fun of it and see what happened. The added references to his own experience made me think they wanted us to believe that he did think it was the right decision and it was the one he was hoping she'd have to make. I suppose he could have wanted to put her in Cuddy's shoes during his infarction (he did see Cuddy's office in her future) to help her decide if she wanted to be a "real" doctor or if she knew herself well enough to know that she would "be better" at something else while still challenging her brilliant mind (he and apparently Arlene both like to "poke" Cuddy on that particular regret/weakness). So was he just being the benevolent puppet master or circus ringmaster and was glad that she chose to walk? According to him, did she "do the right thing" according to her and that was the lesson he wanted her to learn? Or did she do the right thing according to HIM and that's all that really mattered in the end?
He seemed to genuinely enjoy teaching Masters and wanted her on the team, possibly because he wanted to be around someone who could keep up with his brain, and definitely b/c he could benefit personally from her exceptionalism. She has after all, picked up the slack for him while he has been distracted from the medicine this season. While he's been like this for a while now (since the breakdown really), her genius helped him solve a lot of cases and it has afforded him certain perqs (vicodin, monster truck, chickens in the hospital, and pull with the medical board that recently re-certified him. I guess Cuddy didn't report his relapse--ever the enabler!). I hope they give us some idea in the next few episodes of the affect that Masters had on HIM since the focus here was primarily on House's effect on her. I think the fact that it was Cuddy who pushed him to give Masters a fair shake and that she ended up being right was also something they could have played off of in this episode to inch the two of them closer to having a real conversation. I just didn't feel like I learned anything new about House when I am just itching for them to throw me just a morsel.
32 - JoMad
My reaction to the use of the RS song was likely colored by the fact that another show that I like (Californication) used it for the last song of this season. Hank (main character) is similar to House in a number of ways and the song suits him well. Hearing it again a few weeks later when I was already inclined to want to hear it used for House alone (as opposed to for Masters and by extension, House), bummed me out a little bit. I also expected that when that song would be used again it would be to signify some milestone in House's journey but I haven't yet figured out what that milestone is.
Was he glad that she walked away because he didn't want her to have the same fate as him? Is that a sign of hope for his character? Was it that he met someone so much like him that he wanted to keep her around so he can feel more normal? So House wants to be normal? Or is the milestone that he's playing with chickens and dogs and doing ok working things out on his own after the break-up with the help of Wilson and his personal assistant green-card wife Dominica? Is it that House thought Masters did the right thing and that means that he has absolved Cuddy for her role in his surgery? (I thought they did that already in Help Me when he said he should have listened to the doctors that told him he to amputate, Cuddy being one of them or the only one.) Like I said, I'm still trying to figure this one out.
Was I the only one who was bothered by Foreman and Chase? They were especially dour and automaton like. It kind of pissed me off that they were blaming House for everything that has happened to them in their lives and that's just wrong. He's seriously screwed up, but they joined his team to learn and he taught them well. They all could have walked away like Masters did and they didn't. Someone mentioned somewhere that the chickens might have represented cowardice and I think they may be on to something. So is the message that House and everyone around him are cowards and that it's his fault that they are cowards? Or are they all on the cusp of growing up (just baby steps of course!), moving on, and trying to find some peace when nothing is simple anymore.
Also, House took something that looked like a few pills only once, right? So has House got his Vicodin use under control or is he even using? Is that the milestone?
33 - Celia
Usual survival rate where metastasis has already occurred to the lymph nodes depends on a number of mitigating factors not covered on the show, but usually 2 years.
I don't object to Masters urging the surgical option and the patient would most likely have determined pretty quickly that she was unable to man a boat by herself....I doubt she could have cast away from the dock... BUT she had a right to determine that for herself.
34 - barbara barnett
The expression on House's face at the end was profoundly sad. Perhaps (as someone said earlier) he was reacting to her rejection of joining him up there on the highwire of the outliers. Or the rejection of what he stands for.
35 - ripzu
Re the RS " You can't always get what you want"- I did feel it was a bit forced at first but also understood how it related to House losing Masters shortly after the Cuddy break-up. Seems like AT is a super star in the eyes of TPTB. I thought her acting was tight and lit up the episode.
36 - bigHousefan
HabitUSA 32 and JoMad 33
Wow, I really enjoyed your comments!
Regarding the chickens representing cowardice, I can see fears in Chase, 13, and Taub, but Master's courageously takes what she learned from House and what she learned about herself and forges her own path. I do not see House as a coward, he constantly challenges them and encourages them to take necessary (as he sees them) risks. It reminds me of the episode where House lectures Foreman on the difference between him and Foreman's old boss in DNR and applauding 13 in Dying Changes Everything for 'taking a shot'.
37 - bigHousefan
Barbara 35
...he was reacting to her rejection of joining him up there on the highwire of the outliers...
Exactly right. 3M's roommate noted that Master's was weird, and House liked her weirdness. He identifies with her and was sad to be rejected again for being himself.
38 - 60 plus
Barbara:
I do not post on Twitter, but I do like to see what others are saying about House. Today, one of your posts said this about this week's episode: "So much going on that calls us back to House and who he is and what he does."
I didn't find that concept stated as directly in your review (which was great, as usual) and I would enjoy having you give a few details about that observation.
Over the past seven seasons, there have been many times when I was uncomfortable with something on the show--anything from a major arc to a character to lines in a script. I have found that most of the time it helps tremendously to simply remind myself that the show is about one man's journey, the way people and events affect him, and the way he and his actions affect others. Although that is somewhat different from your Twitter post, I think they are definitely in the same ballpark!
One of the delights of the show is that the other characters are not puppets. The writers bring them to life in exquisite detail, and each of us reacts to them from our own perspective. I like some more than others, and I am drawn to some relationships more than others. But when push comes to shove, I firmly believe that I can only truly experience the show if I go back to bedrock--David Shore's vision that this is House's story. Not Masters'. Not Wilson's. Not Cuddy's. And not Huddy's :)
And so, for me, although the episode was centered on Masters' leaving, it was all about House as teacher, mentor and friend. Just as "5 to 9" showed Cuddy's dependence on House and his being supportive, even with Lucas in the picture. And "Wilson" gave us the memorable line: "Because then I'd be alone."
I can't say that getting into the mindset that asks "What does this say about House?" works 100 percent of the time. I still have some issues! But just asking the question prompts me to go deeper than just reacting to what appears on the surface.
39 - Borealis
@ JoMad: The difference is that Hank Moody is a LIKABLE douche bag; House is not.
@ BB: I think the expression on "House's" face was really that of Hugh Laurie, who's heart HAS to be breaking over this lousy season and the loss of 30% of his viewing audience.
Think "horses," not "zebras."
40 - Channel Surfer
Good God, people. If the writers spent as much time as you people do, writing back stories and assigning motivation, emotion and ideation every time Hugh Laurie pouts in the name of "art", they'd never get any work done and we'd be down to half a dozen episodes a year.
I think Borealis is correct: sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
41 - gg
the key point is house himself has become boring and unreliable as a character so does it really matter what story arcs is audience being served now or will be in the future?
42 - rbrown205
One thing about Masters' manipulation is that the parents do have the right to make decisions about the health care of their minor children. The patient's choice to go on a dangerous sailing trip when she has metastatic cancer in her bone is not very mature.
The parents knew that, and sincerely wanted to do what would keep her from choosing to die just because she wants to be in a boat race.
Nevertheless, the issue of self determination is pretty complicated, and patients should expect that their doctors will not fool them into doing a procedure that they don't want, especially if a medical procedure keeps a person from doing what they consider to be their "one true thing." Interestingly, the POTW in DNR, who first used that phrase, felt that trumpet playing was his one true thing, but he resolved himself to living without it, and living.
That was what this patient's father was no doubt expressing when she said "I hate you" and he said "Ok." and then kissed her.
As to whether this episode is a horrible and out of character one, I respectfully disagree. It is very Houseian, and the use of the song of the venerable Philosopher could just be seen as Masters leaving with a bit of House, in the form of what she learned from her experience as a member of his team.
43 - Jessica aka JLCH
In retrospect I actually liked the way the story played out for Masters. House is an excellent teacher even if his methods of teaching aren't always ethical or orthodox, he always manages to get his point across to his students. He's been trying to teach the moral Masters all along that medicine isn't about black and white, it's a wide, expansive, vast gray area. Since her arrival Masters has been playing by the book even going to so far as to sacrifice her career by outing House and Cuddy in Family Practice. But finally, when faced with a life or death decision on her last day on his team, she finally gets it...that sometimes you have to break the rules to do the right thing. For House it's about solving the puzzles (although we've seen in the past he does actually care for his patients--at least some of them) but for Masters it was always about "doing the right thing" and as she learned, sometimes you can't do both. I don't think House really wanted her to do an internship with him, I think he wanted her to learn the "lesson" and then spread her wings and move on, which now, thanks to him, she can do!
When Masters walked away from House at the very end she had this look of sadness on her face. But when she nearly tripped over the chicken, she got that sudden smile and you could tell everything was going to be ok. I think the chicken reminded her that not everything can be perfect, just the way you want it, sometimes there are obstacles in the way and you just have to overcome them. When she looked back and House was not there, I though it was symbolic of the fact that she'd finally gotten the lesson he'd been trying to teach her and they both knew she no longer needed him. She will forever be a changed doctor and person because of him.
It's been drilled into us over and over again that House is a destructive person and hurts everyone he comes into contact with. We know that's not true. We know that other people around him are in some ways as broken as he is maybe not to his extent. Masters is a strange person, she's an anomaly, and she's even kind of like House in some weird ways. But...he did not destroy her. He did not ruin her. In fact, House helped Masters become a better doctor, he helped her see things "as they really are" and in the end, it'll make her a better person.
TPTB have tried to imply that House doesn't care, but he does. He has a heart, we've seen it (too late to close the barn door now oh dear powers-that-be!) We might even say he's passed a little of himself on not just to Masters, but with ALL of his team both past and present. That's his gift to them, teaching them in these wild unusual unethical unorthodox ways, hoping that in some way they get the lesson and it makes them better doctors and yes, even better people too.
As to the House-Wilson interaction, I can only say to TPTB "THANK YOU!" because I have missed the antics between these two for so long. Every now and then I watch old eps on DVD to remember what it was like between these two. They crack me up, and we have desperately missed them this season and even last season.
The chicken thing was pure genius. Anytime we get a chance to see House and Wilson playing games, you know it's going to be a great episode. Not to mention I've sort of gotten used to Wilson having to climb out of windows. The scene of him locked in House's office was perfect. And towards the end when we find out that the bet is a measly $20 I was laughing hysterically. I mean, who else would go through so much over $20? Yep, that's our House and Wilson. Hell, the props they needed to carry out their crazy game probably cost way more than $20 but that doesn't matter, it's about the game and the distraction for these two. I'm with Barbara about Cuddy's approval of the "shenanigans" as on the outside she might let it show she disapproves but on the inside, it probably makes her laugh! I loved the part when Wilson said to House, "next week...ferrets?"
While it was nice seeing House and Wilson interact, I have to say I am still missing quality House and Cuddy. Twenty years or more of friendship and they got fifteen episodes of trying at a relationship---we were robbed. We never had the chance to watch these two REALLY work at a relationship and grow from it. And frankly I miss them--the way they used to banter, fight, and carry on.
Finally, I noticed last week House didn't take any Vicodin. Perhaps the distraction of looking for Thirteen combined with a desire to fight the addiction? This week, he took something in the beginning of the ep, but he put the bottle which we didn't see, back on his desk so really we don't know what it was. (If you are thinking he was taking something while training the dog, those were not pills, he was eating whatever he was giving the dog). Now normally the old House on Vicodin popped and popped frequently and he always kept his stash on him. So here's what I think is happening. I think after House's bad behavior after the breakup, and his realization that he made one stupid mistake in marrying that green card chick, he's trying to get himself together. So with the help of Wilson and distractions and perhaps his own desire to be stronger he and others thinks he is, he's actually NOT on the Vicodin, or at least he's not addicted to it like he used to be. I'd like to have faith that TPTB haven't ruined our favorite doctor completely, that maybe they have given him a chance to fight and fix himself and become stronger. Yeah he'll still be a pain in the ass, but we like him, we want to see him come out ok. I think given all the guy has been through in his life, he deserves it.
As always, the portrayal of our favorite main characters was flawless. They NEVER disappoint. I pray the writers don't let us down either as we move into the last four eps of the season.
44 - Morphine, a violin, a friend and a mystery
ChannelSurfer, have you never visited a tv show fanpage?
I thought the ep was excellent for what it was. And I loved masters the character and I will miss her.
Didn't like the use of "you can't" with masters, but was that the first time it had been used with a character other than house? I don't know.
Excited that well get back to the rest of the cast. But possibly no Wilson (or very little) next season? Somebody please close down broadway!!! It would be so disappointing to me for him not to stay with the show until the end. Aside from house he's the one character that has to be there IMO. But I think Watson took some time away from Holmes, or maybe he just moved out. He got married and started a medical practice I think. Maybe they will make a parallel. But seriously, Wilson is so important... This possibility of him leaving has really caught me off guard.
Btw, great article Barbara. This is a wonderful forum. Thank you so much for doing this!
45 - dvbfan
Dear Barbara,like always it is enjoyable reading your beautiful articles.
I have enjoyed watching this episode.But something was interesting for me that in the last 2 episodes of House MD , we have not seen House using vicodin.what does it mean ?
46 - barbara barnett
DVBfan--He used something at the episode's start, and there is suggestion from the May sweeps press release that whatever is going on may be significant.
47 - ruthinor
#44: The show RSL is currently in is ending at the end of July. It's a limited run. Of course, in the best of all possible worlds for RSL, he would prefer to stay on the east coast and perform in plays. The money he makes on House allows him to do that when the occasion arises.
48 - Lee
bigHousefan at 36:
Just wanted to let you know that those comments are mine from a different forum and someone (AGAIN) has copied and posted my words on this site without my permission and using screen names of members of that same other forum. The first post by Lee is not mine, however the posts using the screen names of Habitusa and JoMad are mine (Lee). This is highly disturbing and simply pathetic. Anyway, I'm glad you enjoyed my comments.
Borealis @39. Sorry, I think Hank and House are both likeable characters. I wouldn't have watched House for so long if I didn't love him. To each his/her own.
49 - Sneaky Microbe
The May sweeps press release has caused my heart to stop. This show is very bad for my health and well being.
50 - RedTulip_Ana
@49 - Sneaky Microbe
I am now in shock too. I wish I am wrong, but my feels now are very pesimistic, as I think...it will be not possible...I have to go to sleep and wake up again tomorrow when the sun shine in the sky.
51 - Michele1L
I liked elements of this episode, and, while I know it was a send-off for Masters, I agree with some of the other posters that it was too "Masters heavy". I'm the type who will go down with a sinking ship in the hopes that it can be righted in the eleventh hour, but I completely understand why some less devoted viewers are jumping ship. There just appears to be no real consistency with storylines, the actions of the characters, etc. I'm accustomed to the tight, consistent narratives of the past. You felt a flow, a progression from episode to episode. Currently, for me, the series just seems to be aimlessly and barely treading water. Characters acting out of character; significant subjects/situations raised and then dropped, as if never before mentioned/occured; characters appear out of nowhere, Cuddy's inability to sleep in "Bombshells" came out of nowhere. We saw her many times in bed with House without issues, so clearly the sleeping pills were used solely as a plot device to connect her use of pills with House's taking Vicodin in that episode -- nothing more. I guess this just stood out to me because I'm not accustomed to this.
I don't recall this series being this "sloppy" -- ever. Is it the new blood/producers?
I'm really disappointed. I don't know if the last four episodes will be able to save the show because it and the ratings are in decline. (I actually hate talking about ratings but the loss in viewership IS significant at this point). If it's the goal of those involved in the making of this show to allow it to fall into decline, it's sad because a show as great as "House" has been should bow on a high, not a low. There is still so much that can be eplored about this great character. I'm praying things will improve before it's too late or a decision is made to just end it this season. I'd rather have it just end now than to continue on its current path through an 8th season. At present, for me, it can't get much worse.
52 - Flo
We shouldn't forget that press realeases can be as misleading as the Fox promos.
Basically those press realeases don't give us anything that we can base any certainty on. It is not the role of a press realease. They just tease us.
The little infos we have can be interpreted in millions different ways. We still don't know what they meant.
It's just wait and see now. 4 episodes before the end of the ride.
53 - Flo
Housemaniac #27 and Michele1L #51 You both make very good points about the details. I didn't see this interview but yeah it is a strange timing to air it after this episode and it does seems that the writing this season have been sloppier than in the past.
Again it is not a rare occurence in Tv land after 7 seasons. A lot of other shows began to go gradually downhill past 6/7 seasons (The X-Files to name just one). That's why a lot of good tv shows are stopped at this point or even earlier (The West Wing).
54 - gg
i only hope the shocker is not house losin' his famous toupee during his regular visit to bagnio. methinks it would be too much burden to bear for regular viewers if that happens
55 - Jesuit Man
I want to bring to attention another incident of intellectual infringement on this site, a rather worrisome development that seems to be escalating with greater frequency as of late. It seems apparent that an unknown individual cannibalized one of my posts (which, incidentally, actually dealt with House's behavior in "The Dig") from the PPTH forum and posted their version here (message #30) under another member's stolen avatar ("Lee"). The real "Lee" already touched upon this situation in message #48 preceding this one.
Imitation may be considered the sincerest form of flattery, but there is little consolation to the individual whose original ideas are sold as another's. This puerile behavior is not amusing in the slightest.
56 - housemaniac
Barbara#46 and Sneaky Microbe: Where can one find this May sweeps press release? Thanks.
57 - Jesuit Man
"Where can one find this May sweeps press release?"
58 - bluehue
Thank you for the as always interesting, summary review.
Two..or three cents:
Philosophically speaking, "Last Temptation" playing the Stone's tune, only confirms the songs premise. Also, I didn't mind the overlap of the song onto Master's turf, bc House didn't get what he wanted either..his new intern. In a way, it was a nod of the head, or a special tribute for her surviving House.
My extremely biased favorite part of epi, the (yes gorgeous!) golden retriever. The "good boy" stole the show...at least from the chickens. Ha, that fake cooing chicken in the blanketed box really made me laugh out loud. Absurd! I've had to "suspend disbelief" often this season. In this case, I needed the distraction to handle the horrendous amputation part of the story, quite brutal really. The necessary themed Master's send off leaves me "happy" to think fondly of a matured, seasoned unique individual moving forward. Folding her origami birds, leaving House's brittle nest & flying away to her future. I don't see it as being ordinary at all.
59 - ruthinor
Barbara, I really enjoyed that thread you set up for "bitching, moaning and speculations" (or at least that's what it turned out to be!). Would it be possible to set up such a thread in which you post the synopses of the last 4 episodes and label it spoilers/speculations or something like that and folks could just speculate away about what it all might mean?
60 - hazel eyes
I really enjoyed the House and Wilson antics and if that is how they "play together"when they are both single, no wonder House gets jealous when Wilson is dating and doesn't have time to "play" any more.
Also Masters out and 13 in REALLY??? I am and never have been a fan of 13 and I doubt I ever will be but to replace Masters with 13 is not good IMO.
61 - barbara barnett
Ruthinor--I'm going to do a May sweeps preview as my next article. It should go live toward the end of the week.
62 - DM
Oh poor Masters...I was heartsick to see that character go! The show NEEDS a naive person to see what House is doing. It doesn't need 13 to come back - her character was played out and has nothing to add (like Foreman, Chase and Taub). Pretty much all the interesting stuff is being sucked out of the show.
63 - Dmckoy
Thx Barbara, great review! I'll keep my comments short. I thought this ep was pretty decent, even if it did feel a little Greys Anatomy at times (was it just me?)... I'll miss 3M, as she was a breath of fresh air. Was pleased to hear our favorite House anthem toward the end. A little more Cuddy was needed in my opinion, but so was a little more House for that matter.. Really looking forward to the final 4!
64 - Deep Throat
"This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes." | Morpheus ("The Matrix")
It's up to you whether or not you want to believe the following spoilers about this season's finale. All I can say is that they're from a very reliable source that has been right in the past. Either way, believe what you will and what works for you.
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All that I'm allowed to say about the Season 7 finale is that it has plot elements similar to those of the Season 2 and 4 finales as well as an emotional impact (in terms of audience reaction) far greater than what occurred in the Season 5 finale.
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SPOILERS
65 - Pieces
I agree with Deep throat...take the advice
From what I have heard more from a crew member, The season 7 finale will highlight the end of House and Cuddy's relationship permanently...it will be bittersweet.
Good luck with watching it everyone, because it will be a rollar coaster ride that I do not think you fans are ready for!
66 - barbara barnett
All I can say Pieces and Deep Throat--If what you've said is true...
Bring it on.
But I will also ask that you not spread spoilers here based on hearsay. If you are a source from the show (really) please at least reveal it to me privately. Speculation is one thing. Do not report what cannot be proven.
67 - Eileen
If in this season's finale, it is shown that House and Cuddy are over permanently, then David Shore et al have completely looked a gift horse in the mouth.
68 - Sneaky Microbe
The only way it's permanent is . . . someone dies. And that will be the last episode of House I ever watch. TPTB will have simply gone way too far. WAY TOO FAR.
69 - barbara barnett
See, this is the problem with trolls. They come in and drop little hints that can mean anything and nothing. The intention is to provoke and make people angry with dire warnings and speculations dressed up as authoritative information.
70 - Susan
I haven't seen this week's episode yet but I thought I'd scroll through the comments without reading. Of course the ones I read were Eileen and Sneaky Microbe saying that someone is going to die and if it's Cuddy...........
Who needs this? The writers are sadists for doing this to us and we're masochists for watching it. Give me some good news.
71 - barbara barnett
Susan--no one knows who (and if anyone) is going to die. On the other hand House has never been a happy show. Its main character is about as melancholy as they come.
72 - Susan
Barbara, he's melancholy but we've also seen him happy and tender.
Can you ban the spoiler people from this column? The whole "Roller Coaster Ride" of House is taking place directly in my stomach.
Barbara, on another note....if I write something on a blog from a few days ago do you see it?
73 - barbara barnett
Susan--absolutely we have. And there's no indication we won't see House's tenderness (we certainly did at the end of the The DIg). Unfortunately I can't ban people from the site. It's not really a forum so much as a comment thread to an article. Sometimes people have an axe to grind, and I can't ban them either.
I can read any comments from any date. I get a lot of comments, so I can't directly respond to them all, but are you referring to anything in particular?
74 - MHM
Have accepted that the show now is not the show I loved for six seasons. Still follow news on the finale because of sheer curiosity, as there is a possibility (however slight) that it will be a series finale. Have very low expectations, but want to see how it ends for House. The show already really ended for me a while ago, but it will be interesting to see a parallelism of sorts.
Deep Throat and Pieces, I'm beginning to wonder if the "info" you guys are spreading (if you are two different people) isn't some form of twisted PR for the show. By saying that it will be something the fans can't handle, injecting a sense of dread, of trepidation, trying to rile up the fans to watch so that they can either confirm or conquer their fears?
I understand that this is the internet and anonymity rules, but I get a sense of sincerity in most of the posts on this sight. Whether they be rants or calm reflections, I think that people are honest about their thoughts here. If you have something to say, then please say it honestly, sincerely, and to the point because the whole masquerading as a secret agent trying to warn of impending doom/something else is not convincing and childish. If, on the other hand, you really are in possession of secret information, then, why do you post about it when it's supposed to be secret and you seem to want to hold on to that secrecy?
75 - Susan
Barbara - gefilte fish.