Season Finales, TAKE 2!
Ok. Most of you have probably gotten all this out of your system already, but I haven't. Not entirely. So this is my season finale response post. Basically, my reactions and thoughts regarding the various season finales I watched this week. Let me know what your thoughts were as well!
Yeah, this post obviously contains spoilers.
1. House.
Oh. My. Goodness.
A hallucination? Are you kidding me? AGAIN? I didn't think they would pull this card again, I honestly didn't think they would. I didn't think they COULD (and get away with it). But they did. Damn. And they did it well. I should have seen it coming--the whole "12 hour detox" thing was extremely fishy. And the "Do you want to kiss me? / I always want to kiss you" exchange was way cheesy and sort of OOC. But, alas, I was blinded by my eagerness for House and Cuddy to finally get it on. Which they did... in House's head. Someone pointed out over at the House/Cuddy community that if you rewatch the episode where House is detoxing, the first thing he says when the hallucination starts is "I'm hallucinating". That's when Cuddy turns around and says she'll call the babysitter. Damn you sneaky writers!
I thought the end of the episode was extremely well done. The whole flashback sequence had some very cool editing, and House walking into Wilson's office with Cuddy was just so poignant. The looks on both of their faces was just pure horror. God. Next season is going to be so good. I'm hoping we get so see Cuddy and Wilson doing damage control, and House trying to diagnosis his fellow loony-bin patients. I could totally see him going "Bob here isn't insane. He simply has a tumor on the inside of his left big toe pushing against a nerve and causing him to hear voices. Duh."
Anyway. The writers on this show don't cease to amaze me. It's one of the better written tv shows out there right now, I think. I wonder what else will be in store next season? Will House totally retreat from Cuddy since he let himself get so emotional toward her over a hallucination, or will they sort of grow closer together because he actually let his heart show for once? I have a feeling if anything does develop here, it won't be until much later down the road. House has a lot of shit to resolve first. Um, like the whole "I see dead people" thing.
2. Fringe
Holy shit. I knew there would be something good, but definitely not this good. The whole twist with Peter not REALLY being Peter... but an alternate-universe Peter? Shit sooonnnnn. I figured it out about halfway through the episode, once Walter said he'd gone into an alternate world to fetch something he'd loved and lost. I remembered the gravestone, and the fact that Walter was always vague when referring to Peter's childhood illness and recovery. And then I totally flipped out. It makes so much sense though: why Peter has always felt out-of-place in society (cause it's not HIS society!), why he and Walter have a weird, disjointed relationship, and why when Walter will refer to Peter's childhood, Peter's always like "um, no. I didn't like that/that never happened/I really don't remember that". This raises SO many questions though!
1. Will we get to see alter-Walter at all? Did our Walter have to kill the other Walter and his family to get alter-Peter?
2. Was Walter able to find a universe in which both he and his wife were dead, so he could bring Peter to this world without seriously screwing some people?
3. We all know Walter was involved in some bad stuff back in the day, but is he really at murder/kidnapping status?
4. Is William Bell working with alter-Walter in that other world? Why is William Bell even THERE? (Dude! Leonard Nimoy! ahahaha, so boss!!!)
5. When will Peter and Olivia find out about all this crazy shit?
Man. I am SO looking forward to next season. Thank you FOX for letting Fringe get a season 2!
3. Grey's Anatomy
Man, this made me cry. I mean, I knew Izzy was going to kick the bucket, and I read somewhere that George was leaving, but... but... -blubbers- They did a really fantastic job with the "twist". I was wondering how they would get rid of George, and making it out like he was leaving the army was brilliant. It made perfect sense--George has felt out of place in the hospital for a while now, and has begun to really look up to Hunt and enjoy trauma. I was in the "but George will get himself killed!!" camp, and really loved the intervention they were going to stage. Bailey and Calli planning and intervention felt very much like a moment out of Season 1 or 2, and I loved it. Bailey was a little too emotion this finale for me, and I loved getting a glimpse of hardass!Bailey again.
And then... and then... and then John Doe kept squeezing Meredith's hand, and trying to write something on it, and then you realize he's writing "007" and that's it GEORGE and... and... oh my gosh. I died. I watched the episode at my friend's house and we both screamed and jumped up around the same time Meredith let out that terrified, mangled scream. We had to rewind and rewatch, and were in denial/disbelief the entire rest of the episode. And then they had to go and KILL HIM. DDDDDDD: I don't care about Izzy; she was doomed, but GEORGE! POOR, INNOCENT GEORGE! He didn't even get a chance to go to Iraq before he was saving innocents from doom. Oh god. The thought that he almost died in anonymity is terrifying. That's what probably gets me the most about the whole thing. He got so close to just dying without any of his loved ones knowing it. They would have just thought he'd left early and hated him for it.
Fweh. Man. Give me a second to calm down. This was a good conclusion to the season, even if it was sort of a very mediocre season. I don't know how much longer I'll stick with this show--especially with two of its primary characters gone now and the Derek/Meredith drama resolved. We'll see.
Some fun stuff I found relating to those shows, because I am avoiding work, once again, and like to search Youtube for random crap:
Fringe as dictated by the Spongebob Squarepants "F.U.N." song:
A cute compilation of House's antics set and edited nicely to "Trouble" by Pink (haha. It fits, trust me). This made me laugh a lot:
EDIT; I strongly recommend this House/Cuddy video if you liked the House video I posted above. Normally I'm not a huge fan of these fan-video things, because I think they're cheesy and lame, but I found this one particularly hilarious and cute. Did I mention it's set to an Aqua song? As in, a song made by the same people who sang "Barbie Girl"? Lol. Watch here. I've had the damn song stuck in my head all day.
Yeah, this post obviously contains spoilers.
1. House.
Oh. My. Goodness.
A hallucination? Are you kidding me? AGAIN? I didn't think they would pull this card again, I honestly didn't think they would. I didn't think they COULD (and get away with it). But they did. Damn. And they did it well. I should have seen it coming--the whole "12 hour detox" thing was extremely fishy. And the "Do you want to kiss me? / I always want to kiss you" exchange was way cheesy and sort of OOC. But, alas, I was blinded by my eagerness for House and Cuddy to finally get it on. Which they did... in House's head. Someone pointed out over at the House/Cuddy community that if you rewatch the episode where House is detoxing, the first thing he says when the hallucination starts is "I'm hallucinating". That's when Cuddy turns around and says she'll call the babysitter. Damn you sneaky writers!
I thought the end of the episode was extremely well done. The whole flashback sequence had some very cool editing, and House walking into Wilson's office with Cuddy was just so poignant. The looks on both of their faces was just pure horror. God. Next season is going to be so good. I'm hoping we get so see Cuddy and Wilson doing damage control, and House trying to diagnosis his fellow loony-bin patients. I could totally see him going "Bob here isn't insane. He simply has a tumor on the inside of his left big toe pushing against a nerve and causing him to hear voices. Duh."
Anyway. The writers on this show don't cease to amaze me. It's one of the better written tv shows out there right now, I think. I wonder what else will be in store next season? Will House totally retreat from Cuddy since he let himself get so emotional toward her over a hallucination, or will they sort of grow closer together because he actually let his heart show for once? I have a feeling if anything does develop here, it won't be until much later down the road. House has a lot of shit to resolve first. Um, like the whole "I see dead people" thing.
2. Fringe
Holy shit. I knew there would be something good, but definitely not this good. The whole twist with Peter not REALLY being Peter... but an alternate-universe Peter? Shit sooonnnnn. I figured it out about halfway through the episode, once Walter said he'd gone into an alternate world to fetch something he'd loved and lost. I remembered the gravestone, and the fact that Walter was always vague when referring to Peter's childhood illness and recovery. And then I totally flipped out. It makes so much sense though: why Peter has always felt out-of-place in society (cause it's not HIS society!), why he and Walter have a weird, disjointed relationship, and why when Walter will refer to Peter's childhood, Peter's always like "um, no. I didn't like that/that never happened/I really don't remember that". This raises SO many questions though!
1. Will we get to see alter-Walter at all? Did our Walter have to kill the other Walter and his family to get alter-Peter?
2. Was Walter able to find a universe in which both he and his wife were dead, so he could bring Peter to this world without seriously screwing some people?
3. We all know Walter was involved in some bad stuff back in the day, but is he really at murder/kidnapping status?
4. Is William Bell working with alter-Walter in that other world? Why is William Bell even THERE? (Dude! Leonard Nimoy! ahahaha, so boss!!!)
5. When will Peter and Olivia find out about all this crazy shit?
Man. I am SO looking forward to next season. Thank you FOX for letting Fringe get a season 2!
3. Grey's Anatomy
Man, this made me cry. I mean, I knew Izzy was going to kick the bucket, and I read somewhere that George was leaving, but... but... -blubbers- They did a really fantastic job with the "twist". I was wondering how they would get rid of George, and making it out like he was leaving the army was brilliant. It made perfect sense--George has felt out of place in the hospital for a while now, and has begun to really look up to Hunt and enjoy trauma. I was in the "but George will get himself killed!!" camp, and really loved the intervention they were going to stage. Bailey and Calli planning and intervention felt very much like a moment out of Season 1 or 2, and I loved it. Bailey was a little too emotion this finale for me, and I loved getting a glimpse of hardass!Bailey again.
And then... and then... and then John Doe kept squeezing Meredith's hand, and trying to write something on it, and then you realize he's writing "007" and that's it GEORGE and... and... oh my gosh. I died. I watched the episode at my friend's house and we both screamed and jumped up around the same time Meredith let out that terrified, mangled scream. We had to rewind and rewatch, and were in denial/disbelief the entire rest of the episode. And then they had to go and KILL HIM. DDDDDDD: I don't care about Izzy; she was doomed, but GEORGE! POOR, INNOCENT GEORGE! He didn't even get a chance to go to Iraq before he was saving innocents from doom. Oh god. The thought that he almost died in anonymity is terrifying. That's what probably gets me the most about the whole thing. He got so close to just dying without any of his loved ones knowing it. They would have just thought he'd left early and hated him for it.
Fweh. Man. Give me a second to calm down. This was a good conclusion to the season, even if it was sort of a very mediocre season. I don't know how much longer I'll stick with this show--especially with two of its primary characters gone now and the Derek/Meredith drama resolved. We'll see.
Some fun stuff I found relating to those shows, because I am avoiding work, once again, and like to search Youtube for random crap:
Fringe as dictated by the Spongebob Squarepants "F.U.N." song:
Click to viewA cute compilation of House's antics set and edited nicely to "Trouble" by Pink (haha. It fits, trust me). This made me laugh a lot:
EDIT; I strongly recommend this House/Cuddy video if you liked the House video I posted above. Normally I'm not a huge fan of these fan-video things, because I think they're cheesy and lame, but I found this one particularly hilarious and cute. Did I mention it's set to an Aqua song? As in, a song made by the same people who sang "Barbie Girl"? Lol. Watch here. I've had the damn song stuck in my head all day.