{"id":1157,"date":"2007-05-29T07:44:55","date_gmt":"2007-05-29T11:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=1157"},"modified":"2007-05-29T07:44:55","modified_gmt":"2007-05-29T11:44:55","slug":"on-the-house-season-finale-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1157","title":{"rendered":"On the House Season Finale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s tonight people.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight, tonight, tonight.<\/p>\n<p>No, I don&#8217;t have spoilers.  No, I don&#8217;t know anything about it.<\/p>\n<p>Except that it&#8217;s tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Followed by the <i>Boston Legal<\/i> season finale.<\/p>\n<p>Score!<br \/>\n<!--more--><lj-cut><br \/>\nAnd now we&#8217;ve had the finales for both.<\/p>\n<p><i>House<\/i>&#8216;s season finale was weak, because it was so formulaic.  House acts like an ass.  House&#8217;s team disintegrates.  Wilson and Cuddy implore House to pull it together.  House&#8217;s patient&#8217;s condition worsens, new evidence emerges, and House makes a brilliant diagnosis that saves the day.<\/p>\n<p>Great.  What&#8217;s different this week?  Foreman resigns.  Chase is fired.  Cameron leaves.<\/p>\n<p>Let me say.  Good <i>riddance<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><i>House<\/i>&#8216;s third season has been, to be charitable, hella weak.  You heard me.  Maybe the full-scale cast shake-up that this finale will produce&#8211;with House needing to replace all three of the Ducklings&#8211;can inject some new angles into <i>House<\/i> next season.  New interpersonal dynamics, and perhaps even some use of the freakin&#8217; premise&#8211;that House&#8217;s staff are there to <i>learn<\/i>&#8211;but they&#8217;re doctors, too, and they should be able to <i>think<\/i> for themselves.<\/p>\n<p>So, the final <i>House<\/i> this season was a weak episode that capped a middling season.  No joy in Mudville here.<\/p>\n<p>Now, for <i>Boston Legal<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Jerry and Clarence make a fantastic pair.<\/p>\n<p>Denny was a monster in the courtroom.<\/p>\n<p>Alan got snookered.<\/p>\n<p>It was a decent episode, if a bit underwhelming.  I wasn&#8217;t really engaged by it at any point, perhaps because it was so <i>typical<\/i> of <i>Boston Legal<\/i>.  The one feature of interest was Alan and Denny&#8217;s case&#8211;two brothers accused of murdering their abusive father&#8211;as we got to see the two in court in a &#8220;normal&#8221; murder trial.<\/p>\n<p>So, the second underwhelming season finale of the night. :\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s tonight people. Tonight, tonight, tonight. No, I don&#8217;t have spoilers. No, I don&#8217;t know anything about it. Except that it&#8217;s tonight. Followed by the Boston Legal season finale. Score!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[366,4119],"class_list":["post-1157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television","tag-boston-legal","tag-house","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}