I have a short qubble about the AV house review, and the Glee one just posted.
Did they see the same show? Over the last three episodes? Because quite frankly, the grade for house is way too low and Glee's way too high.
Yes, House aged a bit weaker than the others of its ilk. This is because the writers have tried to do long range story arcs to no avail. There not good at it like Glee is. There not Soap/Long Con writers like Glee's are. There more from the ABC/CBS side of writing a show but much much better at it than a majority of those two network series.
I dont understand that you can fuck up a whole season up (Glee) until the last five or so and have the ending be anywhere near as weak. House was totally a symbolic ending in a good way. People said he was im Purgtory etc - i saw it as finally a Gnostic type of rebirth with a bit of Shopenhour(sp) tretise. He had to let go of everything that was false - everything that kept him from the puzzle that was his life. He realised everything he thought about - doing the right thing, having kids etc - were not for him. Can he have feelings, yes. But hes screwed for most if not the rest of his life. His gift - to those that can feel - was the gift of not conforming to anyone else's desires. Even Cuddy and her adopted kid were a desire - not a right.
When he realized that all he ever had was himself, when he finally realized it - he woke up and solved the puzzle that was his own life. He realized he has done enough - given enough and just wants to live his life his own way under his own rules. I think thats the biggest point everybody misses - man can change when HE wants to - not a state - not for a woman, not even a kid. And this maybe the most life-affirming message he has ever given. He cured his issues, his androgny - he is master of his fate.
Glee is the same typical Shojo/Bishiohen etc bs many in Hollywood has become to be enamored with - while that episode had many of the same elements of House's ending - a letting go process trying to be ones self - it was the same tropes (which is Newish to the Hollywood game but not to me or others) set pieces we have seen for years. They grew up in little ways and some in larger but there isnt a larger point to it. I felt that last weeks episode was the way better ending than this. It was 42 mins too long while Houses was 52 mins too short.
