I liked the dream sequences excluding the musical number which the production values and dubbing I didn't like. (Didn't sound like Hugh Laurie to me, but it may very well have been him.)
The POTW story, again, was mostly secondary and could've easily have been lifted out. I did like the use of the CGI inside-the-body thing to show us what was going on in the kid's body. I thought that was a neat way of showing this off.
I didn't buy that Cuddy was dying either and expected House to come up with some solution to save the day.
I say again for a 40-something woman Lisa Edelstein has almost flawless beauty.
I really liked the zombie dream sequence namely House's gun that was a cleaver and a shot-gun. That was fairly inspired.
Now the big ones:
House back on Vicodin. Depending on what they do with it I'm okay with it. Really, I am. House is non-discreetly inspired, in part, by Sherlock Holmes who recreationally used cocaine, Vicodin is supposed to be House's cocaine. So as long as they go back to the early-series way of him using it with little to no consequence they I'll be fine with it.
The problem I see is that the show saw what a popular character House was becoming and how Hugh Laurie was becoming a sex symbol and, I presume, decided to "lighten" his character to make him more approachable/likable as a sex symbol. (So that a drug addict wouldn't be a sex symbol.)
So the show then decided to treat the Vicodin seriously and made House suffer the effects from it, go into rehab, go through withdrawal and finally remission. So I think here with his relapse they'll treat the Vicodin "seriously" and make it a story-point again and treat his relapse with a lot of drama and impact. That I'm not so comfortable with.
This show is vastly different than the one it was even six years ago and is treading into "ER" territory where it's becoming more of a soap opera than a medical drama. So we keep. Getting. This. Huddy nonsense.
Look, I've been all for these two hooking up, I'm just not liking that it's what it seems like the damn show is about now.
I suspect the Vicodin relapse won't be a big deal and he'll be able to give it up in order to be with Cuddy again who'll forgive House and then they'll be together again. But this relationship drama is just getting to be too damn much. The producers on this show need to go back and rewatch the first four seasons and learn what this show was when it was great. Now it's just "good" and I only tolerate it because it's my favorite show and House is still a bit of an interesting character (but no where nearly as interesting as he was in the first few seasons.)
I was afraid the "dream segments" were going to be much more of the musical stuff with Fox trying to appeal to the Glee audience but since the Sitcom, Zombie, and WW2 segments were interesting I was relieved. I just didn't like the musical segment. It was too corny, badly produced and the dubbing just wasn't very good.
I'd say the shark made a run for it but then like Grant driving a remote-controlled car on Mythbusters towards a ramp, it gave up at the last moment and is going in for another lap. The show is still flirting with jumping it but I don't think it quite has yet.
They need to get back to the medicine and the patients. It's focusing too much on Huddy and it's just making them both look like children that they can't make this work even when they've known each other
since med school and seem to not understand the other's needs and quirks.
Again, Cuddy is seemingly surprised that House is a selfish asshole who has trouble expressing emotion. That's what you had signed up for honey, and even said you didn't mind it.
Ugh, this thing is getting frustrating but otherwise I give it a Good.
