New Season of House!

[AngelicSlayer]

Premiered today. 2hrs of full HOUSE. It was epic. It was amazing, and full of love. I in-fact loveeeeeeeeeeee Mr. House! :D xD

[Kepor]

It was amazing,

No argument there, but...

and full of love.

I... suppose there's... something like that, yes.

[AngelicSlayer]

Tbh.. that was probably my first episode in a long run! And I was impressed with House. I had no idea what happened in the last season, but clearly he had lost his liscense. But but.. the scene with Lidiya?

Wowo. O.o it was unexpected.

[Regulus Tera]

I'm still catching up with season five. :(

[Satan's Onion]

I'm still catching up with season five. :(

Don't worry, I'm sure that the premiere is already on the Internet somewhere. Take your time; it's well worth working your way through. In fact, it's downright hallucinatastic!

(I decided to watch House tonight as a way of keeping myself from being sucked into Heroes. I've been burned once too many by that show...)

At any rate, this wasn't too bad a start for the season. Although--maybe I'm a bad person for thinking this, but I was rooting for House a bit more throughout the first half than the second. But then, I have a real soft spot for the "shaking up stuff and defying authority" storyline.

[Solid Snake]

I've really always been of the personal belief that television shows sometimes follow their own formulaic scripts too much, and that many character-driven procedural shows would benefit immensely from taking risks. Too many shows use the same procedural formula as opposed to introducing the character to new people and new situations.

That's why I really liked this episode (and I wasn't a huge fan of the House in a mental asylum idea when it first floated around last season.) It was great to strip House away from the hospital and send him away from Chase and Cameron and Foreman and Huddy and the new interns and the medical mysteries with the same contrived plot twists. Here House (the show) introduced an entirely new cast of characters in a single stand-alone episode that featured none of the usual shenanigans and it felt fresh.

I just wish other procedural shows took more risks in following the concept. I'm probably one of the only guys who'd really enjoy, say, an episode of Law and Order that focused on the personal issues of one of the major characters and had absolutely nothing to do with a crime to solve or a case in court. It's not something that should happen too often, but it's effective to employ at least once or twice a season.

[Satan's Onion]

Submitted for your consideration: a review of this premiere from the A.V. Club (http://www.avclub.com/articles/broken,33163/).

[AngelicSlayer]

Wow. They're into Season Six!! Well.. I'll need to by buying myself all the other seasons just to watch! Phew~ Cool beans..

[ZAKtheGeek]

I can already taste the status quo flooding back in. By "status quo" I mean Vicodin. I don't really even mind, but, there it is. Right there.

Based on the preview it looks like there'll be a lot more Cameron and Chase in the future? Only preview I've seen is the quick one I saw air right after the premier...

[Megaman FTW]

I'm kind of dissapointed, actually. It's going to be hard to see House as the loveable, adorable teddy bear of a person that he once was if he actually is some lame nice guy now.

I mean, don't ge me wrong, I freaking loved the premier, I just don't know how much I'll enjoy the season to follow unless they pull some crazy kinda shit. House (the person) just won't be interesting anymore unless the writers play their cards just right.

[Satan's Onion]

I'm kind of dissapointed, actually. It's going to be hard to see House as the loveable, adorable teddy bear of a person that he once was if he actually is some lame nice guy now.

I mean, don't ge me wrong, I freaking loved the premier, I just don't know how much I'll enjoy the season to follow unless they pull some crazy kinda shit. House (the person) just won't be interesting anymore unless the writers play their cards just right.

Just a thought: "Becoming psychologically stable enough to safely rejoin society" and "becoming the cuddly-wuddliest teddy bear in the toybox at Gumdrop Junction" are two very different goals, and the latter would probably, I think, take a hell of a lot longer than even the several months he's actually spent in the asylum. (It's more the work of years, I expect, if not decades.) I think there's still a lot of bite left in House--he's just been given the tools that help keep him out of torturous, self-destructive Vicodin-fueled tailspins.

[AngelicSlayer]

Hahaha, yeah. I'm sure they'll play the cards right :P It's not hard to make someone's life miserable again and make them bittersweet!

I mean.. it's House anyways =).

*goes to play basketball*
"What, you can't see the sun? Oh oh!"
*steals ball*

"The gov't is watching you. It's cause you're wearing a green shirt!"
"AHH! *takes shirt off and runs away"

[Kepor]

Just a thought: "Becoming psychologically stable enough to safely rejoin society" and "becoming the cuddly-wuddliest teddy bear in the toybox at Gumdrop Junction" are two very different goals, and the latter would probably, I think, take a hell of a lot longer than even the several months he's actually spent in the asylum. (It's more the work of years, I expect, if not decades.) I think there's still a lot of bite left in House--he's just been given the tools that help keep him out of torturous, self-destructive Vicodin-fueled tailspins.

Very much agreed. I'm looking forward to seeing how House develops this season.

[BloodyMage]

I liked it. It was nice to see House out of his element a little more than usual and interacting with a new cast of characters, some of which I really liked and wouldn't mind seeing more of later in the series if they pop up. I don't think it'll make him soft and caring but it's interesting to see how he'll integrate back into the hospital routine.

[Regulus Tera]

I know I shouldn't laugh at House making fun of the suicidal patient but DAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN.