{"id":2039,"date":"2008-09-16T20:34:06","date_gmt":"2008-09-17T01:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=2039"},"modified":"2008-09-16T20:34:06","modified_gmt":"2008-09-17T01:34:06","slug":"on-the-return-of-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2039","title":{"rendered":"On the Return of House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>House<\/i> is back.  Oh, how I&#8217;ve missed it. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I read in this morning&#8217;s paper that Hugh Laurie is signed with the series through the 2010-2011 season.  So, two more years, through the seventh season.<\/p>\n<p>And now that <i>House<\/i> is back&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I thought the episode was&#8230; <i>okay<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no reason, that I can discern, for keeping Chase and Cameron around.  There isn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>The plot was a little meandering.  But I don&#8217;t think anyone watches <i>House<\/i> for the plot.<\/p>\n<p>The character interpersonals were generally good.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not entirely sure that I buy <i>everything<\/i> between House and Wilson.  Mostly because the final conversation isn&#8217;t any great revelation &mdash; Wilson has said the exact same thing over the years (particularly the Tritter story arc from the third season).<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t care for House&#8217;s new haircut.<\/p>\n<p>Something I noticed, about the way some scenes are shot.  Hugh Laurie isn&#8217;t <i>always<\/i> limping.  He&#8217;s shot to <i>look<\/i> like he&#8217;s limping, but the shot composition is cheated so that Laurie doesn&#8217;t <i>have<\/i> to fake the limp.  There were two obvious cheat shots early in the episode.  One that&#8217;s done with the camera at an angle, and one done from the floor.  The end result is that House <i>appears<\/i> to limp, but it&#8217;s an optical illusion.  That&#8217;s some genius composition. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I guess the fall season is here again.<\/p>\n<p>Does anyone know when <i>Pushing Daisies<\/i> comes back?  Anyone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House is back. Oh, how I&#8217;ve missed it. \ud83d\ude42 I read in this morning&#8217;s paper that Hugh Laurie is signed with the series through the 2010-2011 season. So, two more years, through the seventh season. And now that House is back&#8230; I thought the episode was&#8230; okay. There&#8217;s no reason, that I can discern, for<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2039\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On the Return of House&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[4119,4112],"class_list":["post-2039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television","tag-house","tag-television","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039","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=2039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}