This Old HOUSE

I am an embarrassed HOUSE fan. Embarrassed because the show stands for many of the things I hate. It is episodic in nature, no matter how many running threads there might be, none of the characters change. The show is extremely formulaic, to the point where I'm surprised why the doctors even try to diagnosis before the fifty minute mark, as everything prior will be pointless.
What I love is the main character, Dr. Gregory House (Hugh Laurie). Specifically, I love his snarky comments. Sure, it's predictable and riddled with too many pop culture references that don't really work, but I love it. He cuts so close to the bone, much like the amputation he performed in the finale. (Except he doesn't accidentally kill anyone with an insult, as opposed to his underground surgeries.)
The finale gave us a real romance between Cuddy (Lisa Eddlestein, probably spelled wrong) and House. We got a taste of it last season in a hallucination, so it seemed kind of obvious that the show would deliver the real thing this season. The actual payoff made no sense, as it stemmed from HOUSE insisting a patient let go. Apparently Cuddy had reserved feelings for him all along, but she was just waiting on him to show he was ready or something. Personally, I think it was all pretty ridiculous, and i guess it makes me hypocritical for accepting all the other ridiculousness.
Oh yeah, and 13 (Hottie Olivia Wilde) is leaving the show for a bit next season. I'm assuming she is either planning on making a movie or is pregnant.
My money is on a movie in the fall, as she seems poised to be entering Megan Fox hotness territory and she'll want to strike while the iron is hot (and she is too).
It's all pretty pointless, though, as the show itself and its characters won't change. Something always happens that reverts the characters back to their core principles, so that they never really change. We'll get maybe 10 episodes of HUDDY, but something will happen and he'll enter a dark spiral that sees him return to his old habits. While that's happening, Wilson will end up single, Foreman will be huffy, the short guy will cheat and 13 will get a citation for smoking indoors (because she's so hot!).
What i'd like to see is the next season be the last. Just blow everything up and let HUDDY work. Maybe let Wilson get cancer. Castration for short baldie. Kill off 13 after her and Chase begin dating. As for Foreman, well he makes LOVE AND BASKETBALL 2 and realizes he got really fat. In an attempt to lose the weight he dies of a heart attack that House saw coming, but felt compelled not to warn him about.