It was supposed to be either Wilson or Kutner. They would never break up the bromance (*hate* that word) and Kumar has a film career. Therefore it had to be Kutner.
So. This show is about House, and Hugh Laurie was brilliant as usual. I don't know how any one else missed it - this is how House grieves. He worries at things and tries to find out why he didn't know and he was hurting so very badly all the way through.
Everyone acted in character - I felt Taub's anger.
I don't know if I liked the muted colors or sounds or not - I'm leaning towards like.
On the other hand - wow. Meat Loaf can act. And I liked that he was misdiagnosed *because* he was fat. Just as House tried to in the first scene for her and was wrong.
ETA: I've been reading the TWoP thread. And I find the reactions interesting - some people are angry - a couple angry enough to stop watching the series - some are crying. Some are both. Some thought it was brilliant, and some thought it was a cheap trick. And all of a sudden, Kal Penn played their favorite character.
If I were the producers? I'd be thrilled. It means the viewers *cared*. Which, yeah. :)
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I know. It's just...I spend a lot of time is doctor's offices and hospitals. And I see a lot of Indian or Asian descent. And plenty of them have reached the top of their disciplines (so it would be reasonable to have them on a high-caliber diagnostic team). It would be nice to see that continue to be reflected. Not by US definition - in the US, "black" means all or in part of discernible African descent. Kal Penn IS a person of color, being of Asian Indian descent (which we do NOT call Asian), so that might well have been a reason for his killing off, but he's not black. And all of a sudden, Kal Penn played their favorite character. Wow, I had NO idea and it was actually pretty incredible to see an episode without knowing something intense was happening. They had to write him out, but that was a cheap way to do it. Kind of like when the actor who played Speed on CSI Miami wanted to leave, so they killed him off so that there was no chance of him ever coming back (other than the one episode where he was a ghost/hallucination). Thank you for not being one of the voices saying it was out of character for him to have killed himself. |