House Finale: Bait and Switch That Leaves Fans Disappointed
Posted by tvjunkywright on May 12, 2009
Have you ever wanted a special toy for Christmas when you were young? Every year you ask your mom, you ask your dad, you even ask Santa for it. But year after year, it never comes. Until one year, under the Christmas tree you see big red box. You know you finally got what you wanted. Santa came through after all these years of asking.
Now image taking that present, and Santa Clause setting on fire, stomping on it, and destroying it in front of your eyes! That’s how I can best describe last night’s House season finale.
The season finale this year was the aftermath of an event fans of the show been waiting for since the series began. After five seasons of flirting and teasing and sexual tension, House and Lisa Cuddy FINALLY had sex during the second-last episode of the season.
Or did they?
During the whole season finale, House struggles to see how Cuddy feels after their night together. But during the final five minutes… the bombshell was dropped. Their night together never happened. It was actually a Vicodin-induced hallucination. All the events were a figment of House’s imagination.
No detox, no House and Cuddy sleeping together, and a whole lot shocked people watching.
The episode ends with Wilson driving House to a mental institution, leaving the viewers still on shock over the latest developments.
Now because I go on a rant here, I want to give the writers credit for giving us a huge twist. However, this might cost a lot of viewers.
This season has been mediocre, to say the least. It might be that the viewers aren’t connecting with the new characters. It might be the lack of Wilson, or the rest of the crew.
But one thing viewers could rely on is the chemistry between House and Cuddy. We knew something was bound to happen between the two sooner or later. When we think it FINALLY happened, we learned it really didn’t.
What the writers need to realize is that if they tease something for too long, the audience will lose interest, and will turn on them. Will a House/Cuddy relationship have the same affect in Season 6? I doubt it. It seems too little too late by now.
Just like the toy we always wanted for Christmas, eventually we grew up, and that toy didn’t seem that important anymore.
Bubbles said
I thought it was a great end to a mediocre season. This season has been waay too soapy for me. I am not a certified shipper and I think H/Cuddy works best as employer/employee with a tangy twist and nice power plays. That’s it. No romance. No babies. Thats not what the show is about.
I agree. The H/Cuddy is old and it needs to be swept under the rug.
Here’s to hoping S6 will be better.
cfl said
well, I also enjoyed it. I think that it is a climax possibly to his issues.
I don’t think that it was all about him falling for Cuddy, I think it was meant more as House finally realizing that he truly has issues and they need to be taken care of. his drugs have totally screwed his life up and until that moment he refused to believe it.
I am very excited for Season 6, I hope that he’ll finally realize something and things will take a turn for the better.
Danie said
Argh! I couldn’t watch it because I was working but now I’m happy I didn’t. It’s so cliche to make events into a craaaazy dream and just dissapoint fans. I don’t even think fans expected House and Cuddy to finally settle down together but I for one expected Cuddy to tell House it was a mistake and they move on. I loved this show but you’re absolutely right that the fans are fed up of being strung along.
ada22 said
the Huddies should be happy about this ! What happened was the most meaningful thing between them. House hallucinated the sex but that gave it more meaning,it wasn’t just a one night stand and she didn’t take advantage of him,she wasn’t pathetic which is a first this season. I hate the Huddy but this was the clearest Huddy thing all season,why would you be upset ! After all,you got to see them actually get it on and it had meaning.Come on,no ship involving House can actually lead to a relationship ,not until the end of the show so this is great for Huddies.
They killed my ship,that was killing and disappointment . They never gave us anything and then forgot all about it after almost 3 seasons of it being canon from the beginning . The Huddies have no right to be upset
But anyway,this show is not what it used to be,they seem like they ran out of ideas and try to pretend they didn’t,it’s stupid,worse than The Young and the Restless
catldy99 said
In my youth I was a theatre peep. So I don’t get all that critical of writing, acting etc. I know how difficult it is to create a believable character, write good dialogue (which definitely exists in “House”). I think we are in for a couple of good shows at least, that show the Dr. House humor dealing with a psychiatrist. That I’m anxious for. I really love the humor in the show. Since I was a theatre major in college I can deal with far out plots. This isn’t real life people, this is entertainment. And I for one have been entertained.
Jack said
“House Finale: Bait and Switch That Leaves Fans Disappointed”
As a fan I am not disappointed. It was a season finale, did anyone really expect it to end happily? This isn’t “Life”, which was canceled and thus received a cheerful ending. It’s “House”, it had to end the way it did. People may be disappointed, but the writing was good as evidence by everyone questioning the last few minutes. To make fans happy we at least got a wedding, which was an interesting way of showing the contrast between House’s situation in the darkness of the moment and the sunshine of the wedding.
The fact that there even was a wedding happening show’s that only Cuddy may have known where House was going. This leaves the opening for season 6 to start with everyone finding out. If people think this season wasn’t great then House being away from the hospital should change the dynamic. This finale marked 110 episodes, they can’t all be gem’s-just look at “The Simpsons”. Wait for next season to begin before you start complaining about the show’s direction.
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/04/tv_show_house_to_film_at_greys.html
jmd said
Unfortunately, you and it seems many others have missed the point of this transitional season altogether. It is way too late to waste time on showing you the error of your ways. Needless to say, there are as many of us who appreciated how House was handled this season as those who do not: such is TV. I give the season a relative thumbs up, particularly the final 3 episodes… they are way too many questions left up in the air – great way to bring this season to an end and set up for all sort of possibilities for the fall.
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