House season 5 (1 Viewer)

[Quentin]

Oh no! Another 'cure' to be thrown away - this time in only one episode.

This one though was a 'shark jumper' for me. Come on...you're telling me he can't do the methodone because his amazing powers of observation and analysis are lost when he's 'happy'? But, he's sharp as a tack pumping a dozen plus vicodin a day?? That's beyond implausible.

At the very least, he should have thought that his immediate euphoria over the non-pain was a distraction and he needs to re-train his focus and discipline in a pain-free world. But, NOOOOOO, he has to go back to his miserable, vicodin pumping self.

Worst reset button plot point EVER.

 

[Mark_B]

Maybe your right. Did you notice in the opening scene on last nights show House actually "jumped the shark" with his little Hot Wheels car?

 

[Patrick Sun]

I thought House jumping the shark with the matchbox car was cute.

 

[Joe_H]

Okay, the idea of watching the episode through the patient's eyes was neat.... but the going in and out of focus effect was way too annoying to make it worth it.

 

[NeilO]

I didn't mind the in and out of focus effect. I thought the episode worked quite well seeing things from the patient's point of view for most of the episode.

 

[James Pfann]

I don't post much, but had to tonight.

Wow, just wow. :frowning:

 

[Joe_H]

Agreed, I can't believe they did that, but at the same time Kal Penn has already been on the show longer than I expected he'd be.

 

[Inspector Hammer!]

What a horribly unexpected episode. :frowning: I really don't know what else to say about it.

 

[mattCR]

Rarely would a show like House shock me. Color me dumbfounded. I did not see that coming at all. Just wow.

 

[Patrick Sun]

WTF?

 

[Scott-S]

They did a great job of keeping this quiet. I had not heard a thing about him leaving.

 

[mylan]

My wife actually nailed it last week during the promos using her superior intellect (that and by process of elimination of who appeared in the scene) which I guess is one reason some here don't watch them, but even still that was out of the blue. I wonder if the actor wanted out for some reason?

 

[TravisR]

I've never seen an entire episode of House and I caught maybe the last 15 seconds of the episode (I was tuning in for 24) and just based on that, it looked like the saddest thing ever.

 

[NeilO]

Completely out of the blue - just like it was to the characters. I can't find any rumors about why it was done or why he left or anything. Quite a shock.

 

[Patrick Sun]

Kudos to the whole production team because I was genuinely surprised as well, which is very hard to do in this day and age of internet scoop.

 

[Mikah Cerucco]

It looks like I'm the fly in the ointment this week because although it was definitely completely surprising to me, I wasn't emotionally affected by it much. Nothing like, say for instance, Philadelphia. But it's tough to do a resonating death well, so it doesn't bother me that it wasn't top tier. The trailer from last week made this out to be a really significant House episode, but it didn't play that way for me. I wonder if the actors had the chops to do it justice. I was just as touched by resolving the woman's case, but resolving it when it's too late.

 

[Spero D]

Wow. Didn't see that coming. Here is a link on how it came about and why he wanted to leave the show to-

'House' exclusive: The shocking story behind last night's big death | House | Ausiello Files | EW.com

Best of luck to him in the future.

 

[Mikah Cerucco]

I just gained a whole lot more respect for Kal Penn. Maybe I need to watch those Harold & Kumar movies after all.

 

[mattCR]

Catch him in "The Namesake" really a pretty surprising under-promoted film. Penn has done some good work; when I read through why he left, that was almost as surprising as anything, but kudos to him for deciding that's what he needed to do.. a better decision then many make.

 

[todd stone]

wow.....