House and Standoff First Impressions *SPOILERS*
To be honest, we’d gotten a little bored with House, with it falling into something of a good but not compelling status. However, it was mandatory to watch the first episode Tuesday, to see the outcome of the freaky season finale.
It was a better segue than I’d expected, flashing forward a couple months, past the surgery and to the end of the convalescence period instigated by the shooting. As rumored to be needed because Hugh Laurie was in pain from all the fake limping, the side-effect of the surgery was elimination of the character’s leg pain.
This eliminated his reason for being cross, and his need for a steady stream of vicodin. Yet people aren’t sure what to do with a nice Greg House, and he ends up questioning his own competence, made worse by his boss cruelly vetoing a hunch. From him a hunch is as good as someone else’s factually deduced certainty. I diagnose computers by hunch as often as not, so I can relate.
The next episode ought to be a great followup, given that his boss second guessed herself, applied his recommendation to the patient as he left, naturally with miraculous results, and insisted on keeping it secret on the theory that House needs to know he can be wrong sometimes. It was wrong, unexpected, and darn well should blow up in her face. So now episode two is must-see, and we’re on track to keep watching after all. Despite the insane decision to switch the show from 9:00 to 8:00, mandating that we tape it.
At least they put something good in that 9:00 slot. The new show, Standoff, looked so amusing and well cast, we decided to watch it too, hitting record at the last minute.
We enjoyed it and will keep trying to catch it. The absolute best touch, which folks who never saw the original MASH movie might not appreciate, was when a cell phone rang with the MASH theme. A young guy had taken hostage everyone in a coffee shop and had taken away their cell phones. He was posing as an Islamic suicide bomber to spite his parents. So, yeah, “suicide is painless...” Heh. We both burst out laughing. The resolution of the situation was impressive, too. Well written stuff.
Oh, and next time I do a Google-baiting nude, naked, topless, without clothes, photos, free, fake, whatever keywords post with celebrity names, I shall have to make sure I add Rosemarie DeWitt and Raquel Alessi to the list. Oh wait, I kind of just did…
Fortunately for me I was happy about the time change to 8 pm from 9. Bedtime always made me miss the last half requiring Chan to fill me in on what happened. I kind of thought the show was going over the top..there’s obscure medical conditions, and then there’s obscure.I like the show enough to keep watching, especially now since they took the trouble of moving it for me!
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