Obligatory televisual aside couched in non-spoilery generalizations

[sigma7]

I want to give the writers of House credit for planning this season's arc out from the very beginning, because if so, it's a fantastic piece of misdirection. But I can't. I'm willing to believe they stumbled into the shape the season took (influenced, I'm sure, by the writers' strike), sort of how Lost only acquired a sense of direction when its end-date became firm, or Preacher's final issues, for that matter. I can't believe Ennis intended the Alamo showdown to be between...the characters it featured, though there's a poetry in God being conspicuous by His absence yet again. And I found Cassidy's final letter to Jesse too metatextual to be taken otherwise: "Isn't it funny when you think your story's going one way, and it turns out it was going another way all along?"

That's how I felt after watching the House finalé tonight. Because if they drew this arc out from the very beginning, with this ending in mind -- that's bloody brilliant, that is. Even if it's unintentional, in the right light, it still looks good.

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Comments

[foenix.livejournal.com]

Yeah, since we knew from the start that they didn't know WHO would be sticking around on House's new team, I find it hard to believe they had this planned when they didn't know where Amber would be after 10 episodes.

Of course, I'm guessing, since I've yet to watch the episode. Gimmie two hours. ;)