i have to admit i fell for it. they outfoxed me this time. i didn't see this coming at all. i thought they were going the easy way, the "happy" ending way, the romance w/cutty that michael dreaded. they'd actually set us up for this the WHOLE season. like i said, i fell for it.
i'd been outraged during the penultimate episode of this season. detoxing in 12 hours? give me a break. detoxing & solving the case & winning the girl? wtf? who were they trying to sell this bs to?
having lived through one professionally supervised detox & several unsupervised ones, i was just writing this series off. bad season. they'd done it before. the silly one(that COULD have been great)w/david morse. they had a track record of not going all the way w/what they started. i supposed amber's death should have clued me in. these writing guys are on the tight-rope of writing weird interesting stuff for a hugely popular show. usually killing characters off just doesn't work in these kinds of shows. bottom-line, there's the contract thing. beyond that, there's the audience that flips every time someone they've gotten comfortable w/leaves, dies, is killed, etc.
i have no problem w/this ending. as it reflects back on the season & you see & think about house's drug problem impacting his relationships long before the outright hallucinations began, you can accept the problematic house/cutty relationship(told mostly from HIS pov), his advice to & badgering of taub, & the final straw for which he blames himself: kutner's suicide.
they did good, those writers.
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