I’ve never really tried or wanted to be a TV critic. It’s weird but writing about a different medium is a totally different kettle of fish so I tend to stick to strictly gaming. But there is something that bugs me about House Season 5. I have soft spot towards the first three seasons and even a majority of season four was great but now it seems to be suffering from a recession of it’s own.

First off, there are too many characters. Bringing in a new team, while being a great story arc initially, was a mistake or at least still having House’s old team of lackeys hanging around is. Chase & Cameron’s relationship was obviously a big part of previous series but in this season we’ve had one episode where it was heavily featured. The truth is that we saw these characters more in this one episode than the rest of the season. The show is overpopulated.

Secondly the show seems to have lost direction. The climax of House and Cuddy peaked when they kissed but apart from a few post-snog episodes, this ongoing storyline barely gets a mention. Current story lines seem to be rushed and crammed into one episode just so each character gets their own development. For example the most recent episode featured Chris Taub meeting a CEO of a medical supplies company and becoming friends to the point where Taub quits his job so they can work together. Later on he soon finds out that the CEO wasn’t really a CEO but more of a con artist. Taub reluctantly returns to the team.

Now I understand that with these three new characters they want to flesh out a lot of their traits and quirks. But that story was rushed into one episode, so it appeared that Taub quit out of the blue. Combine this with the fact that every character on the show has walked out or been fired at least once or twice this season and the rest of the story becomes highly predictable. If the writers were to tone it down and plan out stories like this over at least three or four episodes then the character’s dismissal or quitting would have some weight to it. Instead it comes off as predictable tosh without any hindsight or forthright planning.

House as a character still has his one liners but he is becoming less and less believable every day. Despite pushing friends and colleges away they still adore him and House still disregards anything they say or do to show this. It’s becoming old and repetitive even when they tease him opening up because you’ve come to expect the inevitable ‘joke’. Forgivable nonetheless because there aren’t many over foreseeable directions to push the character.

If he didn’t figure out the answer to the case while doing something unrelated every week it might be interesting. If he wasn’t the only one working in at the hospital who could figure things out then it would be interesting. If he got things wrong occasionally then this would be an exciting twist and definitely be interesting.

Still the next episode is played from the perspective of the patient (played by Mos Def) and this could be a promising idea. Season five has had a few good concepts but they all seem to be on the patient side of things rather than the post-season one focus on the core characters.

Maybe the series has gone on a bit to long or this is just the production company’s hangover from the writer strike last year. Instead of moving on they seemingly have crammed all of their ideas for half of season four and five into one rushed season. House is definetly feeling some fatigue after all these years and is starting to go down the road from intriguing medical drama to a melodramatic american throwaway.

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Latest Uni project where we had to make a book based on a memory. I picked old fads and made a book dipicting the circle of seeing something, getting it, it gets banned and you seeing something else again.

I tried some new photography that turned out quite well and looks quite colourful.

The fine binding looked werid but content wise quite well.