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Thoughts re: last night's two-hour premiere of House.
-- Subtract everything that wasn't Cuckoo's Nest and that's not even one full episode.
-- If you believe Scott Morrison's review (and you should), Alvie's "more subdued than most manics [he's] encountered." Wuh.
-- I was dreaming/hoping/praying that the catatonic patient wouldn't be miraculously revived via House's actions by the end of his stay -- that'd just be ridiculous. About the only thing that redeems it is how badly it indirectly devastates him.
-- I liked Dr. Beasley a lot. Almost Elizabeth Mitchell without the ABC logo tattoo. Sad that she got to see asshole-in-full-bloom House as he almost incapacitates the entire population of the hospital inside two minutes of yard time which, while on one level a little fun to watch, was a bit sickening to see from someone who's taken the Hippocratic oath.
-- Couldn't buy Hal in the stall. Can't buy the oral Haldol scene under any circumstances. Forcibly medicating someone as clever as House? For being irrationally violent? Orally? Someone's been sampling the 100mg stupid pills.
-- Not sure I buy the Nolan's dad scene. What I did like was how it altered the dynamic between him and House -- not in terms of adversarial relationship (because aren't all of House's relationships adversarial?) but in terms of power: Nolan loses the power he has but retains the benevolence he's always had -- I was waiting for him to become another Vogler/Tritter scenery-chewing recurring antagonist, but I find this much more interesting. Hope it's not the last we've seen of him. Lydia I can do without, but pretty much anyone else I'd like to see again.
-- The only reason "House raps" doesn't equal "jumping the shark" is because I'm still a little baffled over that whole "House hires a PI" bit. I hoped someone taped it and sends a DVD to PPTH.
-- Are we sure House just had a psychotic break and started hallucinating dead people and isn't being tormented by The First Evil? Who says there can't be a Hellmouth under PPTH? If we have to lose the Massive Attack credits, can we at least replace them with this?
-- Subtract everything that wasn't Cuckoo's Nest and that's not even one full episode.
-- If you believe Scott Morrison's review (and you should), Alvie's "more subdued than most manics [he's] encountered." Wuh.
-- I was dreaming/hoping/praying that the catatonic patient wouldn't be miraculously revived via House's actions by the end of his stay -- that'd just be ridiculous. About the only thing that redeems it is how badly it indirectly devastates him.
-- I liked Dr. Beasley a lot. Almost Elizabeth Mitchell without the ABC logo tattoo. Sad that she got to see asshole-in-full-bloom House as he almost incapacitates the entire population of the hospital inside two minutes of yard time which, while on one level a little fun to watch, was a bit sickening to see from someone who's taken the Hippocratic oath.
-- Couldn't buy Hal in the stall. Can't buy the oral Haldol scene under any circumstances. Forcibly medicating someone as clever as House? For being irrationally violent? Orally? Someone's been sampling the 100mg stupid pills.
-- Not sure I buy the Nolan's dad scene. What I did like was how it altered the dynamic between him and House -- not in terms of adversarial relationship (because aren't all of House's relationships adversarial?) but in terms of power: Nolan loses the power he has but retains the benevolence he's always had -- I was waiting for him to become another Vogler/Tritter scenery-chewing recurring antagonist, but I find this much more interesting. Hope it's not the last we've seen of him. Lydia I can do without, but pretty much anyone else I'd like to see again.
-- The only reason "House raps" doesn't equal "jumping the shark" is because I'm still a little baffled over that whole "House hires a PI" bit. I hoped someone taped it and sends a DVD to PPTH.
-- Are we sure House just had a psychotic break and started hallucinating dead people and isn't being tormented by The First Evil? Who says there can't be a Hellmouth under PPTH? If we have to lose the Massive Attack credits, can we at least replace them with this?
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