6x21 (Season finale) (Page 2 of 2)

hah, that's exactly what i wanted to say, thx : P

Great ending, and i'm looking forward to some serious changes in the show, because the basic idea of House character was getting kinda boring already. And it's time they move on with the show in some new direction.

YEEAAAAAAH!!!!!i think i'd like it better if they took it in this direction rather than that huntington thingy  wich i don't even understand.but lesbians,gangbang,sexy roadtrip are things that would bring me(and every sane person on the face of this planet) back for next season also guns,explosions,expensive cars exploding,giant structures exploding,underwater explosions,space battles...explosions

in Rand McNally, people wear hats on their feet and hamburgers eat people
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is it christmas already?

in Rand McNally, people wear hats on their feet and hamburgers eat people
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It was a great finale, but like many I very much disliked the last two minutes. Don't get me wrong, I love the idea of Huddy, I think they should have gotten together much sooner and I agree completely that House needs to evolve as a character or the show will become old and stale. And they tried doing it this season with the psychological breakdown and his psychologist ... and they succeeded nicely, I think.

However, the episode felt very schizophrenic - I loved the scene where Cuddy ripped House's heart out with some cruel honesty and it looked like that was the direction the episode was going, culminating with House going back to drugs. I would have much preferred him showing some resilience and strength of character (that he was building over the past 20 episodes) and not take the drugs instead of Cuddy's intervention.

Her showing up felt extremely forced and unrealistic, completely out of character for her. And no, it's not a hallucination, David Shore confirmed that (and the fact that Huddy will be together for much of the next season, since the writers are "really trying to make it work"). The problem I have with the ending, other than it being out of character for Cuddy and generally being highly unlikely for somebody to give up "steadfastness" of a marriage with a guy she's been living with for a narcissistic pill-popping lunatic, is that it tries to be a (very illogical) beacon of hope in a desperately bleak episode. As I mentioned, the episode was working very hard at some dark shit and while I am all for a ray of hope at the end, it needed to come for a logical and likely point (House's inner strength for example), not a misconstrued random change of feelings.

I mean if nothing else, the "feel good" ending (Cuddy's change of feelings) seems to be based on Cuddy;s guilt about what she's said to House and the "greatness" of his character when he cut the girls leg off while telling her about his own leg and how it influences his life, rather than a real, solid foundation of love necessary for a relationship. I am not saying that people look to House for hope if their lives are going tits up, but what kind of a message is this sending? That in the hour of your darkest need you will be saved by somebody who didn't seem to share your feelings for them?

I understand the desire to have a twist ending (especially after last season's hallucination twist), but they pushed it too far. They should either not have had a happy ending (or at least not one including Cuddy) or they should have put some breadcrumbs and foreshadowing into at least the finale itself. You can have either Cuddy ripping out House's heart, or their happy ending, but not both. And definitely not in the same 45 minutes.

"We're on the side of the demons, Chief. We're evil men in the gardens of paradise, sent by the forces of death to spread devastation and destruction wherever we go."
-- Colonel Tigh