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Unfortunately, anyone who didn't catch it live had it spoiled even if they weren't actively seeking out a recap. Thanks to Fox's idiotic policy with "House" episodes going up on Hulu two weeks after they air, once I fell behind I was perpetually one episode behind. First it was spoiled by a prick in an online discussion on another website on a completely unrelated subject. Had I dodged that bullet, Google News would have spoiled me. Half the newspaper articles on it had "Kutner dies" or equivilant in the headline

That being said, the last run of episodes has been fresher than the show's been since House first lost the original team. The episode with the man who says everything he thinks may be my favorite of the entire series, and the Mos Def episode, the Kutner suicide episode and the hallucination at the end of the most recent episode all shook the status quo up quite a bit.

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Well, now that FOX gave it a week off, you are caught up. This coming Monday's should be quite a corker.

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For future reference you could watch on Fox.com, where they go up 8 days after they air.

Regards,

Joe

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Actually, I was thinking it was the best episode in the history of television.


What was the last thing she said to House?

It was the last line in the show.

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Her last line was "sleep well?"

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I don't know about that, but it was a great episode with House trusting and not trusting "himself". Having the bachelor party in Wilson's apartment was a twist I didn't see coming. How did House get that set up so quickly? Will House tell Wilson that he sees Amber next week?

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I wondered about that, too. Do you just check the Yellow Pages under "Stripper poles, same day service"?

Later,

Joe

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You guys are nubes. Getting stripper poles setup can be done in less then an hour. Any good company that works with bachelors parties has the gear, it's really straight forward and not very complex.

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The voice of experience ...

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Damn skippy *laugh* actually, I didn't know that until we threw a bachelor party for my former college roommate a few months ago. And it caught me off guard then

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Unfortunately, 8 days is just as bad as 2 weeks as far as that goes. It was only after the repeat that Neil mentioned that I was able to catch up.

Really liked this episode, from House embracing Cutthroat as a way of communicating with his subconscious to farming out his thinking a little too much. The transition from this fun and lighthearted episode to something much darker and creepier was handled very well. House is basically in "A Beautiful Mind" territory now.

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I thought it was 6 days better, but maybe that's just me. Since I can only record 2 shows at once, and have 3 shows I watch in the House timeslot, I either watch "live" or wait the 8 days.

Regards,

Joe

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It's interesting, quite a few shows go up on Hulu and elsewhere almost the same night.. guess it depends on the show/deal they have.

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I've always assumed it has to do with the whole USA syndication thing, because USA wants first access to reruns of new episodes.

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I mean from a catch up standpoint; eight days puts it online one day after the next episode airs, except when there's a repeat. I don't mind the delay itself, I just strongly prefer watching on a TV (even with full commercial breaks) to watching on my laptop. Fortunately, the repeat last week allowed me to catch up and now that "Chuck" is over I'll be watching live for the last few episodes.

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For those watching in HD - how did this episode 'look' for you? Our Chicago broadcast had a horrible picture quality. Very heavy edge enhancement. Even my wife, who doesn't care about such things, commented on how bad the picture looked.

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The tone of the episode definitely seemed different, but I chalked that up to wanting to sort of emphasize that House wasn't sleeping by turning up the contrast or whatever, sort of like how they did the in and out of focus effect I mentioned previously for another episode.

If you want to see something really strange, watch an episode which looks 'normal' to you, and then go back and watch the Pilot... talk about huge differences.

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It was an artistic decision to visualize his insomnia. The picture didn't contain edge enhancement, really, but high contrast unflattering foregrounds and soft diffused backgrounds. Characters with lab coats on seemed to have a halo behind them, for instance.

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Nah, i've tried that, there is no such listing.

Great episode, the wierd way it played with the lighting was both cool and off-putting.

It had that look like how you see when you first open your eyes in the morning, bleary and with a strange glow around objects.

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A couple if not allthe episodes since Kutner died seemed to have progressive become worse looking which I thought was intentional as House slowly worsened (the Mos Def episode was certainly intentionally out of focus during most of the 1st Person part). House in Wilson's kitchen looked hazy/foggy a week or 2 ago, lots of halos around people, the intentional loss of color of the entire screen except for House/Head Amber during one conversation this week, 13 and Cameron have looked really bad at times particularly during conversations with House.

I would have left it at that, but I'm told that Fringe, 24, and a couple other FOX shows have also looked really bad over the last 2 weeks -- I don't watch those, but there is some long threads over on AVS and other places where this has been discussed. For House I;m pretty convinced most of what they're showing is quite intentional, but maybe there is more than what was intended as well.

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And that has to be deliberate, because you really have to go out of your way to make either of them look less than gorgeous.

I agree that House has looked "off" for weeks, and that has been a visual clue to whatever is ailing House himself. As for other Fox shows looking bad - I really only watch Bones and Fringe and neither has seemed off to me.

Regards,

Joe

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I've been waiting along time for the scene between House and Cuddy in House's apartment. Everything from him asking for her help on was handled brilliantly. Judging by the promise of something "shocking" in Fox promos for next week, though, it looks like there may be a shot that he's not out of the woods yet.

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Yes, a surprise that he managed to save the day.

I have no real idea what to expect in next week's season finale.

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My guess--and I have no basis for it at all, other than I've been saying it for a few years--is that somehow the new team (what's left of it) will be out, and the old team will be back in.

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Absolutely ridiculous finale. Do they think they can just keep going to the House is hallucinating everything well every single finale?

I mean come on, the episode after he was shot, that hallucination was okay, but to do the same thing a second time in a finale, that's a cheat that bothers me quite a bit actually. Like, okay, we know he's been hallucinating a little, and that's toeing the line as it is after doing that once already, but then to have nothing from the last two episodes be real again, that's the lamest out I've ever seen.

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That's not at all what the episode revealed. Almost everything from the past two episodes has been real, save for the detoxing and sex with Cuddy thing, which were grossly-altered in House's mind to the point that false memories were created.

I thought it was a really good, albeit understated finale.

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Yeah, but the only things of substance were all in his head again. Sure, you could argue that the cases were real, but the cases don't have any real continuous story significance other than to tell that House is brilliant and saves almost everyone at the absolute last minute. The episode I'm referring to was the same way, actually. The case that he was obsessing over after he got shot was one that had really happened, just his hallucination made him think it was more complicated than it was so he continued to work on it.

I'd agree with you that it was a good finale if it was the first time they've done this. I mean, I'm not one to care about all the crap whether he hooks up with Cuddy or Cameron or any that, so it doesn't bother me that it didn't actually happen. But to have real character development and just say "oh no, that was just all in his head, again," well that's a cheat.

Edit : And I see I'm not the only one: http://www.nj.com/entertainment/tv/i...reviewing.html