House did, in fact, die in the series finale.

And the creative team gave us an excellent clue to it. Well, those of us who had been watching the show awhile, anyway.

Toward the end of Season 5, House was hallucinating Amber Volakis, a.k.a. Cut-throat Bitch, Wilson's dead girlfriend. In one of the hallucination's last appearances, at a bar, she sang the song, "Enjoy Yourself."

In the series finale, at House's funeral, Wilson gets a text drom House, who - had he been alive - would not have known when Wilson was talking (the text read, "Shut up, you idiot.")

The clue, though, was the song that played as the episode ended: "Enjoy Yourself." Wilson, dying of a brain tumor, hallucinated a deceased House, just as House had hallucinated a deceased Cut-throat Bitch.

No.

But the finale was still highly illogical.

I've never watched House. Way to spoil the series, bro.

Some cling to what the series creator David Shore insisted, that House didn't die. But what was the first thing he told us, in the words of the character? "Everybody lies." House died in a fire.

Next he'll go back even farther and explain how everyone died in the Sopranos finale!

I don't care about the Sopranos. And you're all taking the long way of saying, "you're right, Castle."

This is gonna turn into one of those "Han shot first" things, isn't it? Though on a much smaller scale...

You're wrong Visionrazor.

Terrible fucking show.


"Next week on House: Someone gets a totally random disease and only House and his unorthodox methods can save that person. Just like this past week."

Han shooting--not first, but only--happened onscreen. Debating about whether a change to what happened onscreen is for better or worse--clearly worse in the Han shooting case--is totally different than masturbating about whether some event that neither happened onscreen nor was referred to onscreen actually happened in some fictional television universe.

The Sopranos ended on a cliffhanger. Whether or not there was a shooting at the end is a matter of fanfic, not a matter of the television show. Sounds like the same for the House finale.

Notice how he and his team had to practically (or in some cases actually) kill the patient before they found the cause? ("Oh, golly gee, it was a germ on the clasp of her bra strap that punctured the skin and went directly into her spinal cord and then to the brain, killing her after we spent three days testing her for STDs and anything else we could think of!")

Someone created a site a while back where real MDs could weigh in and explain why House's methods were lousy medicine.

Then there was the question of "WTF kind of insurance do these people have that they can run hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of tests without some pencil pusher cutting them off?"

Absolute rubbish.

But I watched it. Mostly for Wilson. Guilty pleasure.

I like House. So sue me.

House wasn't about medicine. It was about watching Hugh Laurie pretend to be a sarcastic asshole with a God complex for 44 minutes. That's why I liked it.

I never made it past season 5 because it was Hugh Laurie plus God complex for 44 minutes. But for 5 seasons it was fun.

Yanno what's really funny? Watching Hugh Laurie in anything other than House, where he's using his natural accent. It sounds totally fake.

Same with Jamie Bamber.

same with Alex O'Loughlin of Hawaii Five-O. He does an American accent so well as Steve MacGarrett that his natural Aussie sounds fake!

and

Andrew Lincoln of The Walking Dead, too, now that I think of it (British for him, obviously...not Aussie)

Only for you shut-ins who had never heard of Jamie Bamber or Hugh Laurie before they played characters with American accents.

The one who totally blows me away is A.J. Buckley. He's as Irish as Colm Meany (who can't ever seem to shake the accent entirely), but you'd never know it.

The one that cracks me up is British actor, David Morrissey who plays the governor on The Walking Dead.

His "American accent"...makes him sound exactly like...Liam Neeson.

He plays Adam, the uber-geek lab rat in CSI: NY. His favorite expression is a falsetto "What up?!"

No, I'm right. Evidence: you're an idiot, and you think I'm wrong. Stronger evidence that I'm right cannot be had.

We're never shown anyone but House and one patient hallucinating, despite numerous people hallucinating through the course of the show. Unlikely.

Sure we are. Wilson hallucinated House after House's funeral. After all, what's more likely? That a co-dependent shmuck with a brain tumor hallucinated his dead best friend? Or that a gimp without his cane superheroically dodged burning, falling rafters and sprinted through a collapsing building before it exploded, without a single burn on him?

House died in that fire.

Red Room >> Media Central

It's there for a reason.

I'm a jerk. Consequently, the responses I get are commensurate. People are going to flame me in this thread. Therefore, as a favor to those people, it belongs in a flaming-tolerant forum.

See, I thought of that and you didn't. I am WF's House.

Yet they haven't. This is a Media Central topic.



Moved to Media Central

Apparently the world is full of furrin actors that do GREAT Amercian accents that I never know about. I just found out Anna Torv and Yvonne Strahovski are Aussies!

I am madly in lust with Yvonne Strahovski.

The Mentalist has two actors trying to sound "American" Simon Baker does a fine job yet you're aware that the Australian actor is doing a fine job. His co-star Owain Yeoman does a much better job, you'd never know he is Welsh.

Speaking of Robert Sean Leonard, a.k.a. Wilson, there's a film I'd recommend from earlier in his career:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108265/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Christian Bale, Nazis, a piece of music history few people know about, and damn those kids can dance!

Hard to find film, though. Netflix had it streaming for a while, but pulled it for some obscure reason. (Why do they do that? )