Yeah, when the episode ended, it suddenly dawned on me that he was back to his old ways.
House: 6x08 "Teamwork" - Discussion and Spoilers.
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I personally bought into House's reversal. One step forward, two steps back as the saying goes. People who have a lifetime of bad behavior don't change overnight.
Good episode.
Good episode.
I'm just not sure yet how to rate this episode. On the one hand, that was some good acting from Jennifer Morrison in the last scene, I thought. On the other, I didn't really want to see her leave. I also felt, as has been mentioned, that this episode found House in a mindset that is completely at odds with his "reformation" and I didn't like the sudden regression back to nastiness--and of course that was Cameron's whole reason for leaving, so it sort of puts a hole in that as well. I hope this is something the writers address in future episodes.
And this nearly constant juggling of the team that's been happening for the last two years is really beginning to annoy me. I wish they'd just settle down and pick some people to actually be regulars on the show. But that's just my opinion.
And this nearly constant juggling of the team that's been happening for the last two years is really beginning to annoy me. I wish they'd just settle down and pick some people to actually be regulars on the show. But that's just my opinion.
Huh? "Nearly constant juggling?" The first team left decisively, then we spent half a season whittling down the new team, then we had nearly a full season and a half with that team, then we lost one member of the team, and then this season we had two of the remaining team members leave and the old team reassemble for a few weeks, and now we're back to a hybrid of the old and new teams. That's hardly constant, since there was a long period of stability between the shakeups.
And the original cast members were still regulars in the official sense of the word, in that they got main-credits billing. As long as they stayed on the show, they couldn't get demoted below newer cast members, because they had seniority. Whereas the new team members were regulars in the de facto sense for nearly two seasons, despite a Galactica-style billing that had much of the regular cast listed as "also starring" in the Act 1 credits.
But for now, Jennifer Morrison is officially gone from the show, though it's possible she could return later in at least a guest-starring capacity. So maybe they'll finally rework the credits.
Yeah, I think House and the porn-star thing would've provided more "fun." But, somehow, I suspect House isn't a huge porn watcher. I mean, sure, he hires high-dollar call-girls and watches "The L Word" with the sound off but he may have standards.
Taub, Thirteen and Kutner not being in the opening credits has always bugged me since for the last season and a half they've been the defacto "a-team" while Cameron and Chase were glorified secondary cast members. It didn't make a whole lot of sense for Olivia Wilde to have post-opening credits billing as a guest-star when entire plot arcs were built around her and Jennifer Morrison -with top opening credits sans medicine-related shot billing- appeared only if someone happened to be in the ER.
So it'd be nice if, yeah, the opening credits are finally reworked to include Wilde and Peter Jacobson.
Of course... we may be due for another team in a season or two since these fellowships are likely to end and Foreman has to move on sooner or later.
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Strange episode.
I'm currently in the process of watching House season 1 through 4 and am quite astonished how much they all got older.
Does anyone know why Jennifer Morrison left?
All I could find that tit was a decision of the writers and producers, but nothing more.
I'm currently in the process of watching House season 1 through 4 and am quite astonished how much they all got older.
Does anyone know why Jennifer Morrison left?
All I could find that tit was a decision of the writers and producers, but nothing more.
I highly reccomend you stop watching the new episodes now and get through the earlier seasons to "catch up." It's been a recurring plot point here-and-there that could potentialy ruin a big shocker-ending in one of the earlier season finales. (It may already be too late.)
Like I said, the original cast had seniority. Credits aren't about how many lines you have, they're about how much you get paid. And as a rule, newer cast members always get paid less than veterans and therefore get billed lower, even if they get more screen time. (The exception is if a new actor takes over the lead role, like Ben Browder on Stargate, Bruce Boxleitner on Babylon 5, and various Law & Order cast members.)
Of course, that explains why Jacobson, Wilde, and Penn were billed below Morrison and Spencer, but it doesn't explain why they were stuck in "Also Starring" slots. Maybe there were budgetary limitations on how many main-credits regulars the show could afford to carry (which is probably why only six or so of Galactica's many cast members were billed in the main titles).
Apparently that's all it was. Sometimes characters are written out purely for story reasons and there's no deep, dark secret behind it.
It's funny.... but I'm having the opposite reaction to the Chase/Cameron storyline to what most people seem to be having. I've grown to enjoy her character the past couple of seasons, but after this one ... I'm not at all sorry to see her go. She is being somewhat manipulative of Chase, not unlike what House is apparently doing. First she convinced Chase that he needed to make a change of scenery and leave Princeton Plainsboro, which he seemed to agree with. Then Lucas brought up what I consider to be a good point: Chase was running away from the problem. When he decides to man up and stay... then that's when she begins to lose faith in him. And now she decides to end their marriage? Who's the one being manipulative? 
I do agree with those who were disappointed that there wasn't more "fun" banter between House and Mr/Mrs PornStar. The trailer last week gave me hopes that we had some excellent potential for vintage House barbs this week ... yet in the episode it was far less than that.
Christopher/Steven, while I wouldn't say the doclings changeover has been "constant", it has been frequent enough that I do find it annoying. Okay, real life issues may dictate such changes, but it's still gotten under my skin that so-and-so has left... oh wait now they're back. While that is merely my perception of the changes, I'd rather see less fluctuation and more development. i guess with a cast this size it makes sense to have some come and go.
I do agree with those who were disappointed that there wasn't more "fun" banter between House and Mr/Mrs PornStar. The trailer last week gave me hopes that we had some excellent potential for vintage House barbs this week ... yet in the episode it was far less than that.
Christopher/Steven, while I wouldn't say the doclings changeover has been "constant", it has been frequent enough that I do find it annoying. Okay, real life issues may dictate such changes, but it's still gotten under my skin that so-and-so has left... oh wait now they're back. While that is merely my perception of the changes, I'd rather see less fluctuation and more development. i guess with a cast this size it makes sense to have some come and go.
Well, I've enjoyed the cast changes. I think a lot of shows keep the same people around to an unrealistic degree. In real life, people change jobs a lot. In a realistic version of Star Trek, the Enterprise would've replaced its captain and crew maybe once every year or two. In a realistic version of Stargate, the original members of SG-1 would've been rotated off the front lines after a year or two and a totally new team would've taken their place. And so on.
Actually my favorite part of the whole series was the "reality show" period where House held a competition for his new team members. Actually I hate reality shows, but since this was purely fictional, it was a lot of fun.
Actually my favorite part of the whole series was the "reality show" period where House held a competition for his new team members. Actually I hate reality shows, but since this was purely fictional, it was a lot of fun.
House's "reality show" picking his new fellows was awesome. I loved the one where he started off his DDx by parodying Charlie's Angels.
"Constant" was poor diction on my part, but the fact that the main cast left without leaving gave it this strange flavour that I didn't find all that appetizing, and it only served to underscore the perception of the new team as just that: the new team. I kept waiting and waiting for Cameron, Chase, and Foreman (okay, he at least was around) to come back, which I knew perfectly well they were going to do because they were standing in the wings, so to speak, with the occasional walk-on but ready to resume full-time main cast responsibilities. So even though the actual changings of the guard weren't quite as numerous, it always seemed to me that they were. And now that Taub and Thirteen want to come back, it really does feel a little like a juggling act, with everything up in the air and going around in circles. Maybe House should install a revolving door in the office.
Of course, having this cloud of characters circling around the central protagonist (watching Hugh Laurie is always the highlight, of course, as it's meant to be) would probably work a lot better for me if more the characters were actually interesting. But others obviously feel differently.
After having the old team back I was disappointed by the return of Taub and Thirteen. I don't find the characters all that interesting, one with wife problems, the other pining over Foreman. House too has taken a turn for the worse by returning to his old self. The episode felt a little forced to me as if Taub and Thirteen were being pushed on us and Cameron and Chase didn't know shit and House just in the middle playing with strings, it seemed a little out of character for him after everything he has been through. Best moment was Jennifer Morrison's speech to House at the end although you'd think it have more impact on him these days, but it's water off his back and more joke time. Why such a caricature.
You know, it's episodes like this that make me wish the series ended with the Season 5 finale or Broken because those episodes had a kind of magic or energy to them which later episodes are increasingly lacking of. But what really comes down to it is that I'm sick of it. I'm growing tired of the constant psycho-analyzing that not only House do but almost everyone on the show are doing towards other people and each other. I'm tired of the characters' romantic relationships inevitably ending in miserable failure. I'm no longer interested in the medical cases of the week which have lost their appeal over the last few seasons. I'm no longer interested in the characters themselves who have become in some ways unlikeable, unsympathetic, or possessing a bit of an ego problem. And I'm tired of House regressing almost every time he's close to sticking to a certain change in his life or personality. But, on the bright side, at least he isn't a drug addict anymore though it may be a matter of time before the creators of the show decide to bring him back to that vice.
I already watched season 5 during the last year's run, so I know about Cut Throat Bitch. I only have 8 episodes left of season 4, then I watched all.
I seriously hope TPTB decided to do some change with House as a character. He can still be mean and such, but he can still grow and get less mean. Whatever.
It's entertaining at least.
As I suggested above, House's "relapse" is most likely due to Lucas and Cuddy.
Same for me, I think Cameron was right. House was back to his old tricks, he really was a jackass in this episode. Cameron is right, Chase has been desensitized by House. I'm on Cameron's side actually on this one, cause House was so incredibly selfish, he just wanted people on his team, and he was willing to break up someone's relationship just so he could get his way.
I thought that women looked familiar! hah!
Just watched the episode and voted "good". I had already read a spoiler that Jennifer Morrison was leaving, which ruined the whole thing a bit for me. The surprise was gone and on top of that I would have prefered Cameron on the team, so I wasn't in such a good mood while watching. Anyway, I think the last scene between House and Cameron was great and I think she was right. He, once again, went too far. I really wonder if her little speech affects him in any way. I bet he didn't see her reaction coming. Also I wonder, if he wanted to screw Chase's and Cameron's marriage up or if he really believed that their relationsship was doomed anyway.
Besides that I was, like some other posters, dissapointed that there wasn't more banter between House and the porn-star.
As for Chase staying, I don't think he is proving anything. If he would really try to face what he did - the noble his motifs were, he still killed a patient on purpose - he would go to Cuddy and admit it and then deal with the consequences. Taking his old job back doesn't proof to me, that he is standing up for what he did or for himself.
Besides that I was, like some other posters, dissapointed that there wasn't more banter between House and the porn-star.
As for Chase staying, I don't think he is proving anything. If he would really try to face what he did - the noble his motifs were, he still killed a patient on purpose - he would go to Cuddy and admit it and then deal with the consequences. Taking his old job back doesn't proof to me, that he is standing up for what he did or for himself.
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