Season 7 Finale- "Moving On"

jordainius

Episode has just ended.

Terrible terrible ending. They really have blown it big time. That was one of the stupidest things I've ever seen on tv. And by the standards of this show it is just totally unbelievable.

Won't spoil as it has just airred in the States, but man that was hands down the stupidest thing they've ever done on this show.

mawk

yeeeeahh... not feeling it

Richard Dower

"(And part of that is likely because the creators didn’t know she wouldn’t be returning until after they filmed the finale.)"

See!...i was right!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SimpleLogic

wow really dont know what to make of that, so disappointing. The episode was all over the place. It nearly felt like they filmed an episode with a proper ending but then had to cut and edit scenes.

There were two scenes that looked like they were just put in afterwards, so Cuddy leaving thing made some sort of sense. The scene at the beginning where Cuddy says she wants to file charges (why was it in the dark?, they were having breakfast when he crashed, no? Also Wilson was injured?). The other scene at the end with House on the beach was cringe-worthy, I hope he was actually hallucinating in a ****ty bar.

lol at Taub being a double daddy so bizarre, he never hear of protection?

The actual case was annoying too. It took up too much of the episode.

I thought the episodes leading up to the finale were pretty good. But my expectations for the last season are rock bottom now. Was looking at the US viewers for season 4 peaked at 29 mil, current season peaked at 12 mil.

NeoSlicerZ

Wtf did I just watch, and not in the good way either. I just did not care about the potw and the whole house cuddy thing, bah.

The Black Oil

Just watched it. First thoughts, he's a wanker now, that's what they have reduced him to. I could not give a damn about him.

Richard Dower

House was always an ass, but after that ep. (yes i watched it + every ep. this seaon) he's a dangerous psycho!

Lads you have to read the BS coming from David Shore:

http://www.tvline.com/2011/05/house-finale-post-mortem-season-7-spoilers/

TVLINE | Fans are upset because they feel that this changes the very fabric of the show. Now instead of being a drama that revolves around a tortured doctor, it’s a show about someone capable of killing those close to him. Do you understand where they’re coming from?
I’ve always thought House was capable of killing people close to him. [Laughs] That’s not to say he was ever going to do it, and I don’t think he would. And even in that moment, I don’t think he wanted to kill anybody. But who knows? Probably part of his mind did. It was a lashing out — a very extreme lashing out. I don’t think it was a murderous lashing out.

TVLINE | But he could not have known that the dining room had cleared out.
He saw them stepping out, didn’t he?

TVLINE | I think they were mostly still around the table.
They were standing up and she put his hand on [the new boyfriend's] arm, which was part of the whole thing that set him off. The car was aimed at the house, not at the individuals inside.


^ horseshiite!....House did NOT know they weren't in the living room!...no matter what, he plowed the damn car into a house with had a CHILD inside!!!!!!!!!!

F8ck House, he's a psycho criminal.....this show NEEDS to end after this fiasco!!!!!!!!!!!

Mark Hamill

The Black Oil wrote:

Just watched it. First thoughts, he's a wanker now, that's what they have reduced him to. I could not give a damn about him.

He was always a wanker.

Richard Dower wrote: »

^ horseshiite!....House did NOT know they weren't in the living room!...no matter what, he plowed the damn car into a house with had a CHILD inside!!!!!!!!!!

F8ck House, he's a psycho criminal.....this show NEEDS to end after this fiasco!!!!!!!!!!!

I guess you are forgetting season 3 episode 9, where House was so distracted by insufficient vicodin that he ordered the amputation of a 6 year old girls arm and leg based on no evidence, and when Chase tried to stop him with an alternative diagnosis, House punches him. House has always been extreme, with poor judgement and reacts badly when either taking too little or too much vicodin (remember that earlier in the episode, Wilson points out that he had taken half a months supply in 3 days).
The episode was an awful mess, but because of how they tried to join the opening scene with the ones leading up to it, not because of Houses actions at the end (which make a little more sense if you see it as House thinking that Cuddy lied to him when she said she hadn't been with anyone since they broke up).

The Black Oil

By no means was I expecting a repeat of anything like the s6 finale. No need for any big drama or something like 'who got shot/bombed, etc'. We know he's a bit of an arsehole, but this is just ridiculous. The writers have done a fine job of sucking the lives out of the characters. What, in the last while, have they done to develop House's character beyond hopeless misanthrope? Cuddy lost her backbone, Wilson's use has been reduced to nothing productive. No way is the Wilson we have now the same guy who was in House's Head/Wilson's Heart. They're not growing the characters, at all.

silja

Not impressed with the season finale either. Ok, so it was better than the hallucination stuff from previous series, but it all seemed very forced. Maybe Cuddy leaving will revive the series, make it get back to medical mysteries and away from soap opera stuff- I hope so.

jordainius

Almost as if the writers have stopped caring.

Season 8- Prison Break with Gregory House the new Michael Scofield. I think not...

I'd imagine we're going to get some sort of a kop out such as the series jumping forward 5 years during which House spent a stint in jail. Because that's where he's headed, and a season of House in jail would just be stupidity.

Can Wilson possibly still be Houses friend after this? Unless he is a complete doormat I don't think he can. He could have killed him. And if so, can the show go a season without the House Wilson friendship? especially considering the Cuddy House relationship (pre season 7) is definitely out.

Is it feasible for House to work in Princeton Plainsboro again? And would his team still be willing to work for him after what he has just done? And considering Cuddy was supposed to be the only person in the country willing to hire him; is it even possible for him to even be a doctor anymore?

And if House isn't about Greg House leading a diagnostic team solving medical mysteries with a bit of Wilson thrown in for light relief, then what's the point anymore??

They have gone too far with this ending, way too many loose ends to tie up. Its not feasible for House to be back in the hospital next season solving medical conundrums as normal; but if they do anything else then the show will probably no longer be worth watching. I wonder how they'll weasel their way out of this...

civis_liberalis

Wasn't impressed with finale. Will be even less impressed with whatever they do at the start of next season, more than likely.

silja

jordainius wrote: »

I'd imagine we're going to get some sort of a kop out such as the series jumping forward 5 years during which House spent a stint in jail. Because that's where he's headed, and a season of House in jail would just be stupidity.

I don't think that is what they are doing, but I could actually see it- House volunteering in the prison hospital wing and seeing cases there, working without all the high tech equipment. Not sure how they could work his team in other than in phone calls and occasional visits though.

I think a "Desperate Housewive jump" is a likely possibility, or a good lawyer who argues there was something wrong with the car when House drove it and gets him off or something far fetched like that.

Richard Dower

"it was all a [vicodin] dream!"

Sudden Valley

I have to say I thought this would be one of the better finales up until the last few scenes. They had two great scenes: House confronting Cuddy after the meal in the canteen and House confronting the patient after she agreed to take the treatment.

You can see how this is not an ensemble show, only House and Taub had any storyline in this episode. Chase, foreman, and 13 had nothing to say or nothing to do- they should lurk in the background.

I wonder they'll reset the show at the beginning the next (and I guess the last) season.

Posy

Yeah, I'm looking forward to seeing how they start the next series now...

In retrospect, Lisa Edelstein not being in it could be a good thing- she stated clearly that she wanted nothing more to do with House, and told the police not to let him near her. It would be pretty unrealistic if they were back working together as normal next series.
Besides, he's a happily married man now! :pac:

hatful

Ah no... now lads.. are the script writers on vicodin and whiskey?