House Season 8

Yeah that was a solid start.

Sunuva .... I got the last fifty minutes of what I guess is Terra Nova and the first 10 minutes of House on the PVR!

But, yeah, I enjoyed the first episode as well -- especially seeing what kind of compromises House made for practical (i.e., saving his skin) reasons.

I thought their solution to the whole "House rammed his car into Cuddy's house and could have killed her and her kid" dilema was a little weak. But ultimately they got me back and watching again and House alone is enough to keep me interested, so I guess it doesn't matter so much.

Also: they finally hired Velma so the entire Scooby gang has been in Diagnostics!

I don't know if I love or hate that every season House has to have a team shake up.

Yup, really strong episode last night. Really crazy place to take Chase.

It's over, bar the screaming.
House cancelled after eight seasons

My guess for the finale is House drives his car into the cancer ward of the hospital.

I'm pretty sure the last episode will be House and Wilson taking a road trip to Vegas to see a motorcycle race where they'll spend a couple of days tripping on drugs, booze, etc. Cars, hotel rooms and miscellaneous small animals will get wrecked while they try and diagnose a dying hooker.

At the end of it all, House will strap a dozen M-80s to his bum leg, kiss Wilson goodbye, and blast into the sun to the strains of Rocket Man.

Finally, it will be revealed: it WAS lupus!

For about 5 minutes in the last episode, I actually did think Chase had been killed off.

.... aaaaaand the PVR has NASCAR across two different time slots.

Should've pointed at Global HD.

House aired last night?

Did it? my DVR gave me NASCAR.

Im thinking no but the post before mine got me wondering....

It aired in Canada.

Well then im sure there are ways.......anyway I checked and according to tv.com it didn't air. It won't be back until the 19th.

Anyone still watching. There is only one episode left and because it's house they aren't going out like pussies. Wilson is going to die and House is going back to prison for 6 months and is going to miss the whole thing. 

I think I'm looking forward to the one-hour special next week more than the finale that follows it.

Same. I was going to bail after last year's truly "Jump the Shark" finale... but then I relented when I realized this was likely the last year. The actors do their best, but this show caved under the weight of its own tired formula years ago. I can't remember the last case-o-the-week that engaged me on any level. Part of that is a function of knowing that nothing about the case matters until the last 10 minutes where the real diagnosis is waiting, and part is due to increasingly poor writing and characterization.

 

Still, the show had its moments and helped make the public aware of Hugh Laurie and Olivia Wilde. And Lupus. That's not a bad legacy.

I hated last year's finale, but that was only because of the curb jump and this season's premiere was kind of an underwhelming attempt to copy the "asylum" premiere, so after that I checked out of this season( I might've caught a couple of other episodes)...Until they announced that this was the last season.

 

I wish they'd known this was the final season from the start. The last couple of episodes have felt like, "Oh shit, we need to wrap this up and haven't laid any groundwork...CANCER!  PRISON!" They've been okay episodes, but compared to the ramp up at the end of previous seasons, this has been a little weak.

 

On the other hand, 3-4 episodes is the most I would've wanted them to spend on a cancer arc, so I'm not saying I would've liked to see that story dragged out through a season. But killing Wilson midway through the season, then showing us how House handled it might've been more satisfying and given the rest of the cast a little more to do.

 

I don't know what they can do in 1 hour to provide some sense of closure to a character that's backslid every time he's fought his inner demons. But I hope they pull it off.

I think I stopped watching when they randomly suicided Kal Penn's character when he left to get a job at the White House. 

Sticking it through to The End -- still scheduled on the PVR and, like everybody here, so far, it's been mostly momentum driving me to watch.

There've been a couple of moments which perked me up, but the slide after the season opener has been almost Three's Company pronounced.

For whatever reasons, House didn't really push Foreman like he did Cuddy until this penultimate episode. The sharp antagonism centered around House's hyper-rational world view has been reduced to "he's an arrogant, narcissistic ass", e.g., "See, Homer's stupid!"

The Scooby Gang lost Foreman's anchor to stand up to House and became more focussed on itself exclusive of House -- while interesting at times, I don't particularly care about any/all of them to nearly the same extent.

The role of medicine (and even more rarely, Actual Medicine) has been reduced to, "Mr Granuloma!" "And I would've gotten away with it except for you meddling kids!"

Still, I'll be watching and probably buy a boxed set, if it's offered.

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Great finale. I didn't really know how they were gonna give a good since of finality to the show, but they pulled it off pretty well.  I especially liked that Sela Ward was back. I started to complain about the lack of final season Sela Ward last week, so that made me happy. Would've been nice to have more of her in this post-Cuddy season.

 

Glad we didn't have to watch Wilson die and that it ended on a relatively optimistic note. The montage at the end almost broke me.

 

They kinda cheated with the explosion that House miraculously survived. I'm sure they'll be a lot of, "He obviously died and the funeral/ending was the culmination of his near death hallucinations" theories from people trying to sound smart.

 

Its funny that yet another Fox series ends with a character basically on the run from the law. I think Fox is secretly trying to revamp the A-Team a'la The Avengers with Jack Bauer, Gregory House, Fox Mulder, Dana Scully, Michael and George Michael Bluth teaming up to stop an elaborate biochemical terrorist conspiracy headed up by a Sadaam Hussein impersonator with a prop nuke.

I'm glad somebody enjoyed it -- overall I gave it a big "Meh".

Big points for No Miracle, I'll grant that.

But it was too much of a cast retrospective in too short of a time -- I would've preferred they dropped the (admittedly interesting) pre-show and used the entire two hours for the finale.

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I really enjoyed the finale. But I do kind of think the actual series finale should have been two hours, with the pre-show look back on the series being a separate 1 hour show.