<p>I like the show House… but what is going on?</p>
<p>House trying to get better is good.
Breaking up Cameron and Chase is bad.
Chase killing the dictator is good.
The ramifications…bad.
Foreman and 13 breaking up is bad.
Taub repeating the same story line…plastic surgery or working for House is bad.</p>
<p>And now the worst develpoments.</p>
<p>Cuddy…
House finally tries to get better and she treats House like crap. What a great message the show is sending… try to make yourself better and get beaten up for it.</p>
<p>And her shacking up with the private i. Awful. I can’t stand the private i character. Never liked him. What is he doing on the show? I want him off. If Cuddy has to fall for somebody…why does the guy have to be a nebish?</p>
<p>And the biggest problem with the show…the medical problems of patients is now an after thought on the show. The show is a soap opera now.</p>
<p>I’m a more recent convert to House, and have watched it religiously the past two years. I’m also not happy with the show recently, but my take is different than yours.</p>
<p>House has always been a jerk, but he used to be a jerk that seems like he had something else going on, too.</p>
<p>Now, he’s just a jerk. His “love” for Cuddy seems totally narcissistic, no real conception of her as a human being (possibly just as well, as her character is so intensely annoying.) He’s become more manipulative as ever, and mean, too.</p>
<p>The Chase thing–I thought what he did was immensely interesting, but it got trivialized by the way it played out. I’m also not a big Cameron fan either, but I found it beyond belief that Chase really is okay about her leaving him, and only hit House to get others off his back. House really needed to get hit.</p>
<p>Foreman and 13 are definitely the most interesting pair, and I’m sorry to see them broken up. Taub is boring and always will be.</p>
<p>Wilson’s been shoved to the background, and I’d like to see more of him.</p>
<p>I’m disappointed in general with the way women are portrayed on the show. couldn’t at least one not be there as a sex object first and foremost?</p>
<p>Wow–you’d think I didn’t adore the show after all that complaining. It’s actually the only TV I watch, so I want it to be as good as I think it should be. The opening show at the mental hospital was outstanding; it’s been a bit disappointing since.</p>
<p>I agree also it’s gotten very soap opera-ish, and the medical stuff is an afterthought. My H was fascinated by the medical mysteries in early episodes we’ve seen in re-run, and would work through the diagnostics, (often got it before they did!:)). Now, he can’t even listen because he says they often get the medicine wrong.</p>
<p>On network tv…just House, Lost and occasionally …The Big Bang Theory.</p>
<p>That’s about it.</p>
<p>So I am disappointed with House this year.</p>
<p>I’m still watching… I do like the show… but I hope they can raise the show up.</p>
<p>I agree about Wilson…</p>
<p>“My H was fascinated by the medical mysteries in early episodes we’ve seen in re-run, and would work through the diagnostics, (often got it before they did!).”</p>
<p>Very cool.</p>
<p>"Now, he can’t even listen because he says they often get the medicine wrong. "</p>
<p>I know the show is fiction… but that’s not good either.</p>
<p>I have been watching since season one, episode one until this season due to not wanting to pay for cable while in temporary housing (next I will post on the downsizing thread) – The soap opera-nish of it is probably what appeals to me.</p>
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<p>Do the writers even like women??? In my opinion the (only?) strong female characters: Amber = killed; 13 = dying. </p>
<p>Husband and I are always wondering when we will meet a woman in a similar high-level administrative position who dresses like Cuddy. Do you know any?</p>
<p>I still love House. I don’t think it’s going down in quality at all. I don’t like how women are all sex objects, but that’s more because House is the main character and that is his personality. I do wish that Cameron hadn’t left; it happened kind of suddenly and I’m wondering what caused the writers to make Cameron leave so quickly. I am kind of mad that Wilson is now in the background. He is House’s best friend and he hardly even makes an appearance any more.</p>
<p>About Cuddy’s clothes–I don’t know which is more ludicrous: that a woman in her position would dress like that for work, or that she seems to have no awareness that she is dressing like that.</p>
<p>Does anyone else remember Cuddy playing a transgender on Ally McBeal? One of my old shows…
I am a House regular…also one of the few shows I watch. It HAS gotten more soap-opera like. I used to like it more in previous years but still keep tuning in. H can’t handle it…won’t watch.<br>
I really like Wilson…glad to see he’ll get some air time next week.
Agree that Taub is boring.
Chase is a cutey…but I’m confused about where that story line is going.
So I watched Lie to Me (right after House) last week and thought it was pretty cool…tried again and didn’t like it this week. That’s OK…2 hours is too much tv time anyway.</p>
<p>I used to watch House every week – loved the medicine stuff. I agree that it’s now a soap opera, and I just don’t watch it anymore. I also got soooo sick of House behaving like such an @$$hole all the time – yet, because he’s so “brilliant,” it’s excused. Give me a break. Someone behaving like that would never have made it into medical school.</p>
<p>I do know, the actors playing Chase and Cameron broke up. So perhaps they just couldn’t work together anymore.</p>
<p>The way they dress Cuddy, well, I have the same problem with the women on the CSI shows. Really, spike heels, really. And I’m pretty sure there isn’t a coroner out there that wears dry clean clothes, much less designer dry clean clothes.</p>
<p>I personally like Taub. He can pull off the funny. One of the cottages has to be funny. I really liked the guy they killed off, but apparently he felt he needed to work for Obama.</p>
<p>The actress who plays Cuddy was also on the very first episode of the West Wing. She was a call girl that Rob Lowe accidentally switched pagers with.</p>
<p>momof2inca, good eye, I missed that one (the WW and House comment). I don’t watch much TV but WW and House are must sees. I don’t care for the soap opera drama this season either, they will loose me pretty soon, I’ve giving it another week or two.</p>
<p>Just fyi, toneranger, transgender is an adjective, not a noun. There’s no such thing as “a transgender.”</p>
<p>I’ve watched a few episodes of House, but not recently. I just thought House was a jerk, period. And every episode I saw seemed to have essentially the identical plot – only the disease was different.</p>
<p>Sorry Donna! The actress who plays Cuddy was a transgender woman (does that work OK?). It’s been so long that I don’t even remember if they did a sensitive treatment or not…I just remember that it was Cuddy!<br>
Yeah House is a jerk. I’ve known a few in my lifetime, and those who do allright in the workplace tend to be REALLY smart and therefore get away with it. Usually don’t have much in the way of friends though. That said, I think the House character is a bit extreme.<br>
Waiting for HOUSEguests to come…tired of cooking. What a dreary day here and more to come.</p>
<p>I watch VERY little television too. I enjoy HOUSE though, except the storyline is clearly becoming more soap-opera-ish. I know that because I have to help my 92 yo mother understand what’s happening. She likes to figure out the medicine parts, but needs help with all those subtle-ties. She finally gave up.</p>
<p>The intro 2 hour for this season was tremendous, some of the best TV I’ve ever seen. Perhaps that altered my expectations, but the whole manipulation to get the team back stuff feels stale. I appreciate they need to move House beyond Cuddy, which they finally did this past week, but the way he played games was contrary to the treatment he accepted for his mental illness. I thought the Cameron / Chase stuff was kind of ham-handed. I could see the point, that she wouldn’t accept he believed in what he did, but for a marriage without problems to fall apart like that was too much and reeked of the need to write her off the show. </p>
<p>But then CSI is also having issues. Fishburne’s character is more of a lone wolf detective and that fits uncomfortably in the traditional CSI team finding evidence style.</p>