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The whole review of my second round with this series

posted 7 years ago by sarizonana
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All right i finished this show for a second time and so glad I watched this again.

I realized i missed many stuff the first time around and i got to know the characters much better and some seasons improved this second time.

Season 5 the first time i watched it, i thought i hatted it and while it's still my least favorite it improved a little and there some very fun episodes like let them eat cake and the one about the guy who said everything he thought.

Season 6 was also pretty good but the first time i thought the relationship between House and Cuddy was fixed but it just lasted the first 3 episodes because since he knew Cuddy was with Lucas their relationship was ruined again and became really awkward to the point of House telling her he didn't want her as a friend.

The Tritter arc i forgot House didn't really loose it till the end when his case was going all wrong and Hurt Chase and told Cuddy she would be a horrible mom. but before that he still worked well on his cases and kept saving his patients. It was almost at the end of that arc when he lost it but got his cool back to save the dwarf before going to rehab.

House and Cuddy i did enjoy their episodes as a couple a lot almost as much as their early banter but if it was them as couple or keeping their early relationship i prefer their early relationship. I enjoyed it soooo much more this time since I wasn't feeling rushed to see them as a couple so this second time watching the earlier days of Huddy was much more fun.

Now i can see why there were so many Hammeron shipers. The early seasons did made everything look like they would become a couple after the way House looked at Cameron in All in. Its clearly it was Half wit the episode when they decided to better change House and Cameron for House and Cuddy.

Too bad, i still loved the House and Cuddy relationship till before Joy but i wished they would have never become a couple and keep their banter for the whole 8 seasons and Lisa Edelstein could still have had a more prominent role that way.

Wilson still annoyed me big time at some moments but i found him much more likable this time. Still what i disapproved from him it didn't change. Actually i was bothered this time a little more on how they handled the final arc with Wilson's cancer snd how everyone agreed with him not getting treatment.

And how Wilson ended up being right, i didn't like how they made House to looose control to almost kill a patient. The early seasons House wasn't that way it was a moment which went against his nature and didn't like House admitng Wilson was smarter than him.

I liked the final episode a little more this time because House was ready to change this time and it was interesting talk the obe he had with his last patient who was ready to take the blame for the MRI machine for him and House realize he was doing something good because he was dying just like him at the building when he getting ready to give up its when he thought he could change.

But that ending now left me with a big question how did his last patient really died ? If House latter saw he was gonna live and they got to that building?

[–] bookwormdreamer 7 years ago

It's been a while so I don't remember how the patient in the finale died but he was the only one that season that did. I think every other season had three patients die.

The problem with having that kind of build up with a romantic relationship and they spend years at is once they get together where do you go?
Some shows can do it but a short like House you really need most of the action about the cases, House and the team . I would say even in the early seasons it was mostly House and the team. Wilson and Cuddy often had spare episodes.They might have a brief scene or two.But while I could be so annoyed by Wilson I loved a lot of the House/ Wilson centered episodes like Alone, Games, Birthmarks, Private Lives and the Social Contract ( with the guy who said everything on his mind due to his illness)

House and Cameron did have good chemistry. I don't think Cuddy was intended to have a very big role those first couple of seasons.
They did however have a good banter when they were on a less personal level.

[–] sarizonana 7 years ago

So true season 8 had the least number of deaths after season 1 where every patient lived at the last moment where House had his epiphanies.

Maybe this series would have been better with way less romantic relationships and keep everything focused on the cases because in a show like House it was obvious no romance would last, season 6 had two major break ups Foreman and Thirteen and Chase and Cameron.

Thirteen and Foreman because they weren't able to work together with Foreman as a leader of Diagnosis, latter Cameron and Chase because Cameron wasn't able to handle that Chase didn't regret killing Dibala which is stupid but it's not a surprising reaction from Cameron.

We don't need romances to see the character's personalities we could see that through the cases with dilemmas like the ones in The Tyrant and Acceptance acceptance turned out to be a much more interesting episode this second time around and i think House romances were made to see had a soft side but it wasn't needed either maybe just the one with Stacy but we saw House was able to be nice with patients and understood them much better than his teammates.

[–] gabbyg77 7 years ago

I don't think Cuddy was intended to have a very big role those first couple of seasons.

Lisa Edelstein herself once said in an interview that towards the end of season 1/start of season 2 she went to David Shore with ideas to expand her role because with only being reduced to play Dean of Medicine related scenes she feared that one day they won't need her anymore.

House to Wilson about Cuddy: She is not some floozy in a bar. She is the floozy I work for.

[–] sarizonana 7 years ago

But was it was necessary to make her a love interest for House?, Couldn't they have expanded her role as just another important friend for House ?
and that's it maybe she could have been the one who helped him to fake his death at the end.

[–] gabbyg77 7 years ago

But was it was necessary to make her a love interest for House?

This was based on LE's input who played Cuddy as if she was in love with House respectively wasn't able or willing to keep her massive crush on HL out of her acting. Remember, it was LE who had the idea for House's and Cuddy's Michigan med school one-night-stand background story.

House to Wilson about Cuddy: She is not some floozy in a bar. She is the floozy I work for.

[–] bookwormdreamer 7 years ago

They could have shown her as a doctor more. Maybe in the clinic although that could have become repetitive. I know too depending on the episode what her skill level was varied.

On the personal side I would have preferred to see her as a foster mother if they were determined to go that route. There are so many kids in foster care.
Give her a girl with already developed personality and has her on issues. She could eventually adopt her.That would have given her more to do.

I think they would always need that go to person to give the go ahead on treatments and sometimes mediate various situations. Ironically she less effective as Dean when the personal stuff got in the way. Putting them together and breaking them up made everything too awkward . That could be why Edelstein left if her role was to be reduced again.

[–] mgreen9715 7 years ago

I loved when they finally out Huddy together although the episode bombshells and their break up arc was my least favorite part of the series. Their chemistry and flirtation was one of the biggest appeals of the show.

I never bought the Hameron stuff and thought it was always more of a father/daughter thing. Cameron liked to fix broken things and House was broken which was what attracted him to her.