Liberal Arts Major
On the other hand, for once, Thirteen was not the character I hated most. Every time the fiancee opened her mouth I felt the urge to smack myself in the forehead. Her perpetual blank expression was an excellent complement to her stupidity. Her best quote: "You still love him." Ha-ha! What a pitiful excuse for cognition.
Of course, their marriage would have been doomed, so I guess even a blind mouse finds the cheese once in a while.
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"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
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I really, really want them to drop the whole "Taub is a cheating bastard no he isn't OH WAIT YES HE IS" subplot. It's not just Taub, either. The writers will develop one of the characters, then reverse it a bit later, then start building towards the exact same character development, as if the people watching the show are too dumb to remember plots that happened two weeks ago. >_>
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Liberal Arts Major
I agree: the repetition is my biggest issue with the show now. It's like I've seen every plot line already: Taub being a playa, House taking all sorts of drugs (which is only repetition because every season we get story arcs where he stops taking drugs and then woops time to hit up the pharmacy), Wilson having poor taste in women, Thirteen sleeping with everything, everyone else diddling around in the background doing nothing. The most unique plots, like Cuddy's relationship with Lucas or her baby or the Cameron-Chase thing, aren't well-explored; they end up getting drowned out by the repetition. I mean, seriously, outside of "9 to 5", does anybody even remember/care that Cuddy has a child? Just look at the magic of nannies. And isn't Taub's arc basically identical to the last time he decided to step out? Minus the new car.
The repetition might be fine and all if it weren't for its negative impact on the medical storylines. The patients have more and more contrived psychological disturbances (as all the easy ones were taken the first time they tried to do that aspect of character development!) which, by virtue of how weird they are, dominate their screentime, so the medicine becomes a series of irrelevant acronyms and things we know nothing about, followed by House randomly coming up with something at the end we don't understand and don't care about (and sometimes, like in Monday's episode, it's not so much "random" as "Hey guys, we forgot to finish the medical plot this week, where's the hat?"). I mean, granted, nobody would really know what's going on anyway, but in past seasons the search for a cure was far more engaging even if it was all gibberish - the plots were written in such a way as to make you care. Even episodes with a lot of Cameron in them.
Compare, say, "Kids" or "Acceptance" or "Insensitive" or "Whatever It Takes" or "Let Them Eat Cake" (all chosen arbitrarily) to "The Choice"'s medical plot and cry.
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~ Ogordemir ~
"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu