Don't read this if you're not into House

Jumping the shark is an idiom used to describe the moment of downturn for a previously successful enterprise. The phrase was originally used to denote the point in a television program's history where the plot spins off into absurd storylines or unlikely characterizations. These changes were often the result of efforts to revive interest in a show whose audience had begun to decline, usually through the employment of different actors, writers or producers (from wikipedia)

Say it ain't sooooooo!!!

The new premier of House has thoroughly pissed me off. It has totally jumped the shark. Excuse the frequent profane interjections. Let's examine:

1. Chase, once again, is a man-whore :( I love all of the jokes House makes because Chase is such a "pretty" guy, but seriously, you're going to try and fuck Thirteen who is not only dying from Huntington's Disease but also had a long relationship with Foreman?!? Party foul supreme. That's not my Chase. There's no way he'd be that much of a douchebag even if there's been some sexual tension between him and Thirteen. It's only because they're two pretty people, not because either cares about the other. Dammit!!

2. House/Cuddy has been brewing since the first season. I'm glad that something finally happened, but I think the manner in which it happened is ridiculous:

• House is 50-something. He has just gone through a terrible ordeal in the last episode...his patient dying among other things. He's even injured and really, really longing for Vicodin. You're not going to have sex 4 times in less than 48 hours. He didn't take Viagra. Logistics, people!!

• Two, House is not that "cute." No. He can have his moments, the key word here being "moments." He doesn't get to be all lovey for almost the entire episode. That is not the House we've been with for 6 seasons. He doesn't get to change just because he got laid.
  

• Three, WTF nakedness?! That Mac scene, where House is naked with just the Mac over his junk....I couldn't even handle that. I'm all for humor in nakedness, but it could have stopped with the neurosurgeon. And WTF was with that?! It was over as soon as it started. It was all about Huddy and not the case. And Cuddy, naked the whole damn episode. I felt like I was watching soft-core porn. It just wasn't necessary. Sex and nakedness for the sake of sex and nakedness is what you pull out when there's just nowhere else to go.
  

• Four, the whole "you're screwed up but I love you"....WHAT?! We just went through 6 seasons of you two not getting together because House is a fuck-up, and now it's just OKAY?! No. No. It doesn't work that way. I'm not buying it. If you loved him even though he's screwed up, you wouldn't have been with Lucas and everyone else. You would've just been with House from the beginning. House and Cuddy deciding that it was all just a mistake, or if Cuddy had actually been an illusion, would've worked better. The show chose what the fans wanted to see, "Huddy," over what would've made sense for the show. I am not impressed.

3. Cuddy....she's not my favorite character but she was definitely a presence in the show. She was yin to House's yang (no pun intended). She didn't take too much of his shit and definitely knew how to put the boys in their places, but now she just...gives up. She's a smart woman, no doubt, yet she's going to throw away everything, even the thing she holds most high (her job) to be with House. She wouldn't do that. She knows sleeping with the enemy is going to screw everything up, and she does it anyway. So, so not consistent with her character.

4. Screw this episode. House, I love you but you've let me down. I want the snarky, sarcastic and mean doctor who thinks religion is the enemy and that "everybody lies." Where did he go? I get that the show has to evolve, but the writers have just thrown away everything that makes House, House.