Re: seizures– from my research as someone in the process of being diagnosed with epilepsy, it seems that complex can mean that you lose awareness. Not REALIZING you’re swallowing and tuning the world out for a minute might be considered complex… or if not I can understand why the writers would think it might be. Also, I have simple partial seizures (mainly in response to noise and loud music, ironically enough) and have been warned that if my seizure threshold is assaulted efficiently and often enough there is a chance my seizures might escalate into TC’s.

Obviously this might or might not be true for a case of the measles, but it seemed worth mentioning. And of course, I’m sure not a doctor, just a nursing student undergoing a lot of EEG’s.

Has anyone noticed a general deterioration in the depth of characterisation in this series? House’s eccentricities and quiddities somehow are now just dramatic tics, with no real motive, rather than being symptoms of his physical agony and his addiction. Cutty is no nothing more than a giggling, flirtatious dorm mother while Foreman doesn’t do much but alternately smoulder and sigh at House’s ‘outrageousness’. The only character who seems to have maintained any nuance is Wilson and that’s only because Robert Sean Leonard’s acting is so disingenuously naturalistic that he will undoubtely be fired for being ‘boring’ and replaced with, hmmm, that brimming-eyed nonce, Ethan Hawke.

I must admit, while I did like the reality show-elimination motif of the first nine episodes of Season 4 it suggested that alongside the purging of Foreman, Chase and Cameron, and the change in the show’s tenor, somewhere behind the scenes a major change has taken place and now someone new is calling the shots in the production staff. I wonder who it is and how they got the network to approve this radical retooling of the programmes structure and style?

On a general note, may I also add my voice to those applauding the variety, tone and breadth of your site?

Instead, I wonder if it might be the 1988 cover version by the British ‘one hit wonder’ group, Doctor and The Medics.

And for Heaven’s sake, if you don’t like what you’re reading, then don’t read it. Nobody is forcing you to.

Maybe audience likes it but still, I don’t think it is right

I watched “Games” this week. What a sorry episode.

I recently watched episode 1.12 which contained pretty much everything I like about _House_. House with his brilliant, sharp-edged wit, sarcastic and cynical; coping with pain, and ending up having fun with Cameron at monster truck rally! The scene in which House learns Wilson is going out for dinner with Stacy, renders House as near to jealous speechlessness as House can get. He’s ungracious even while he acknowledges that Wilson and Stacy are friends. The ambiguities of the scene are as good as the scene itself: Is House more jealous of Stacy or of Wilson? How much of this issue is heartache? Or heart break? House seems shaken: by the lack of knowledge? Or by the confrontation with the truth: House actually has much less control than he thinks, or wants to think.

Almost every scene is like that. That’s compelling television. Here in Hawaii, _House_ is on at the same time as _Nova_. I started out taping _House_ and watching _Nova_. But _House_ was so compelling, I started taping _Nova_ instead. For the next three episodes, I plan to watch _Nova_ and tape _House_.

“Games” was predictable. I liked the Wilson scenes as always. The scene at the end in which Cuddy realizes House has been playing was flat: it was not set up right, and Cuddy behaved out of character. And House “promises” (or is threatens?) more to come!

I have hope, though. I believe the Big Wigs at Fox know they’re losing their audience. If the ratings for this season of _House_ were good, Fox would have shown all nine season four episodes as a countdown to the three new episodes. Instead, they’ve run episodes from the seasons one through three. Fox does not want to lose their market share: they’ll attempt to do better in the future.