Yeah and it seems things aren't going anywhere. Plus Hugh Laurie is the only one signed on for an 8th season. They can't talk to the actors about another season until NBC and Fox work out their issues.
House: 7x15 "Bombshells" - Discussion and Spoilers
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Yeah and it seems things aren't going anywhere. Plus Hugh Laurie is the only one signed on for an 8th season. They can't talk to the actors about another season until NBC and Fox work out their issues.
Could NBC just air the last season?
Yes, they make the show. The whole thing is over licensing fees and contracts between Universal Studios who makes the show and Fox who airs it.
Without a doubt there will be an 8th (and most likely finale) season, as long as there are no insane legal BS that goes on between the two. However they have been talking for months and still nothing has come from it. There are only 2 months left to talk and they still need to talk to the actors after that.
If I were NBC I would tell Fox no and just air the thing.
NBC could use house to remind people they are still on air.
I thought this episode was very mediocre. As far as the contract dispute, NBC would be fools not to air it. It gets more viewers than most of their dramas put together.
I like how the ending paralleled the ending of season 6. Except this time House was hoping for Cuddy to show up and she never came.
Dream sequences didn't really seem to fit in with the tone of the rest of the episode. Whether they were linear or not didn't make a difference. They were just too off the wall for where this episode ultimately ended up going.
Dream sequences didn't really seem to fit in with the tone of the rest of the episode. Whether they were linear or not didn't make a difference. They were just too off the wall for where this episode ultimately ended up going.
The thing is, I'm not sure that, in this instance, House is selfish. I think that Cuddy interpreted House as being selfish in turning to the drugs, but if she could step back and actually listen to what House told her -- he took the drug because he needed to cope -- she would see that he wasn't being selfish, because if House were really being selfish he would have gone into his little box and never come out, not even when she went in for surgery.
People deal with crises in different ways, and people adopt different coping mechanisms. Some people shut down. Some people turn to altered states of mind, whether through alcohol or drugs. If House had shown up at her bedside drunk off his ass because he needed the liquid courage to get through it, he still would have been dealing with the situation, only in a more acceptable form insofar as Cuddy was concerned.
I don't see House taking one pill as a sign that House is a relapsed addict. I know former smokers who turn to a cigarette from time to time when the chips are really down.
Cuddy overreacted, in my opinion.
Or rather, the NBC television network and NBC Universal Studios are owned by the same umbrella corporation. But they're still separate companies with separate decision-making processes. Keep in mind that NBC (the network) has cancelled other NBC Universal productions such as various Law & Order shows. They don't have to air the studio's shows if they don't want to. And whether they want to air House would be contingent on whether they think it's profitable. Given how its ratings have fallen lately, that's not a sure thing.
Here's a write-up on the situation. And a tidbit on the plans for the eighth season.
House ratings have been on the up lately and most of the time it pulls in 9.5-11 million with a 3.5 to 3.8 demo. NBC has NO SHOW that even comes close to those numbers outside of NFL football. NBC would take House if FOX doesn't and it would also help them rebuild their monday nights.
However I expect FOX to air the 8th and most likely final season though it might be 18-20 episodes instead of 22 if money is still a issue somewhat.
I don't think she overreacted so much as that, as seen in previous episodes, she's realized that House is not a good partner, and she's been looking for a way to get out of the relationship. The relapse to pills was the best excuse she's had.
It's interesting that Cuddy dumped house because he relapsed, maybe, on Vicodin in order to "cope" with the emotional pain he was going through when Cuddy used Ambien to pretty much do the same thing.
I gotta disagree. A large percentage of my dreams are incredibly linear. I've dreamt entire complex stories, from beginning to end. I remember one that was so cinematic in nature that it ended with screen credits!
And, to top it off, I spent the beginning of 2008 in a 6-week long coma, where I dreamt pretty much one long continuous dream, that was so linear in structure and internally self-consistent that upon regaining consciousness, I had some difficulty accepting that the events of that dream hadn't actually happened, despite the fact that the overall "plot" of the dream had been pretty fantastic and other-worldly in nature.
It had simply been so utter realistic in tone and structure.
This dream was so realistic (and long) that I'd get tired within the dream, and dream of going to sleep, wherein I'd dreamt of having dreams (which were totally ordinary dream-like dreams, and not nearly as structured and linear as my primary dream was.). And then I'd dream of waking up, once more re-entering the main dream, just as one normally awakens to the real world.
To this day, my recollection of that dream is indistinguishable from any other memory, save that the bulk of the action took place on a world other than Earth. Unfortunately, there was no real story. Just day-in-the-life stuff. Sufficiently linear and structured to be believable, but no big or significant events that lend themselves to story-telling. I've got a great location to set a story in, which I know pretty intimately from my time there, but still haven't found a story that I can use to really show off this location.
Back on topic: I think the breakup of House and Cuddy will be a good thing. Many people in this thread have complained that the show has gotten a bit "soap-opera-ish" and I think that maybe TPTB realize this, and that scraping the Cuddy - House romance may be an attempt to move the show in a less soapy direction. Then again, they may be planning something far soapier: 13 is about to return at the same time that House is on the rebound. Hilarity ensues.
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Chard, you're going to need a totem.
Oh, I get it. It's a reference to the movie Inception.
It's from the movie Inception. In the movie they enter people's dreams to commit industrial espionage, the leader of the group says about a new hire that she'll need a totem in order to distinguish reality from the dream world.
A totem in the movie is a small object that only the user knows the properties of (weight, balance, etc.). Cobb, played by Leo DiCaprio, uses a tiny top which he spins. In the real world the top will eventually slow down and stop in the dream-world the top will spin endlessly.
So, yeah, my joke was around the movie Inception, a movie I highly recommend.