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Dr. House needs to take a round out of me, as I’ve been seriously slacking lately. I think that happens when I haven’t seen a new episode in a few weeks (or MONTHS dang it). I’ve been doing the quick search for news, but not much has popped up. There are a bunch of spoilers going around, which many readers don’t like so I’m avoiding for the moment, and there is the news that Cameron and Chase will NOT be going back to the regular team.
Say what?
That’s right. Creator David Shore said in an interview recently that while Chase and Cameron may get a bit more screen time than they had before, they will not be rejoining House’s regular team. In an interview with The Watcher, David Shore had a few interesting things to say - such as this little gem of wisdom:
I’m going to say something you’re readers aren’t going to like, but as someone running a television show, you have to be very careful – people think they want something and they do want something, but it’s not what they need, shall we say, and it’s not what the show needs. It’s great that they like those characters.
The most obvious [comment] is people saying, “I love the show, can’t you just make House a little nicer?� No. That’s sort of the most egregious example. No, you like him because he is who he is. And if he wasn’t who he is, you wouldn’t like him as much. He wouldn’t be the same person.
And the show as a whole falls into that. And so yes, I changed it. A little bit. And you have to be really careful with these things. It’s a real challenge. You want people to want more of things. You have to be careful on what you deliver.
He’s got a good point, but at the same time it still left me feeling like “Oh - you know what we want better than we do, huh?” But then again, he’s the one raking in the millions, not me!
He also was pretty quiet when the interviewer asked him if anyone was leaving from the show.
Something is happening at the end of this year which I think is pretty significant. I’d rather not say what it is.
Huh?! Oh now my interest is even more peaked! You can see the entire interview here. We’ve only got 10 more days until the new House episode!! Then we’ve only got four left until the end of the season. Here are a few pics from Mr. Nice Guy, the episode airing on the 28th of April, and under that you’ll find the synopsis for all of the rest of the episodes.
April 28, “No More Mister Nice Guy”: “House thinks an emergency room patient has a bigger problem than the E.R. initially diagnosed based on the fact that the patient is ‘too nice.’ Meanwhile, House and Amber (guest star Anne Dudek) are at odds vying for Wilson’s (Robert Sean Leonard) time and attention in an all-new episode.”
May 5, “Living the Dream”: “In an all-new episode, House is convinced that one of the actors (guest star Jason Lewis) on his favorite soap opera, ‘Prescription Passion,’ has a serious medical condition, but has to take matters into his own hands when both the actor and House’s own team dismiss his assessment, believing that nothing is wrong with the soap hunk.”
May 12, “House’s Head”: “In Part 1 of the two-part season finale, House is in a bus accident and loses four hours of his memory. He slowly pieces together that a fellow bus passenger was exhibiting signs of a deadly illness. But the details of who it is or how House got on the bus in the first place are locked inside his brain, and he’s desperate to add up the fleeting flashes in order to save someone who might not even know he or she could be dying.”
May 19, “Wilson’s Heart”: “In Part 2 of the two-part season finale, clues inside House’s head hold the key to a patient’s condition, and House’s friendship with Wilson is tested beyond limits as murky memories from the bus accident the night before threaten to change their lives forever.”
April 18th, 2008 at 8:36 am
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September 20th, 2008 at 10:40 pm
Re: David Shore interview……
I SURE HOPE IT’S 13 who may be leaving at the end of the season!!!!
May 31st, 2009 at 1:23 pm
I swear, as clever as the show House is, the relentless nastiness of the character has gotten old fast… i’m a relative newcomer to the series, having watched it less than a year, but I’ve caught all the reruns I can on USA. I sort of wonder what is going on in that head of David Shore’s… I was charmed by the show too, but it’s starting to depress me and I’m not sure I’m going to watch it next season… a shame, because I still see a lot of good points about the show and have come to love Hugh Laurie and the others… but the show and the character have become a little too over the top and depressing for me… a real shame.
Yeah, WHY can’t you make the character a little less mean? He doesn’t have to be nice, but if he were merely distracted and more consistently obsessive, it would be truer to what I got out of the early episodes, and a bit less offensive and depressing.
Sure, David Shore is raking in the millions, but when he gained me as a fan fairly recently… well, he’s losing me just as quickly. I have no idea if he’s a wise about what people need and want as he thinks he is.