Last ever House this week! - No spoilers please...

[DoingItForMyself]

... just join me in lamenting the last episode

Can't believe I will no longer be able to watch House and his team getting it soooo spectacularly wrong so many times and still being hailed as medical geniuses!

Thank goodness you posted. I thought the finale was on the 31st. My Sky+ planner had picked up the Special retrospective at 8 pm this Thursday but not the finale at 10 pm. I've now rectified that! I could have missed the finale entirely.

I'll be sad to see the show ending. I think Hugh Laurie played the part to perfection.

huggly your planner would have picked up the finale once the retrospective started recording if you use series link

are we speculating on what we think might happen?

I expect that whoever is ill they will have to disregard lupus and and lymes disease within the first 30 minutes.

I love House but have started playing House bingo with the illnesses, I do think it's run its course, but I will be sad to see it go. Hugh Laurie as Greg House I so would, Hugh Laurie as Hugh Laurie, not a chance.

I was going to say it will be lupus for a change!!

Alicia, me too! Wouldn't touch Hugh Laurie with an English accent, but give him half an inch of stubble and a limp and I'm there!

I'll miss em all, but on the plus side, they are re-running the old ones all over the place too, so we get to see Cameron & Chase again instead of the new quite annoying team.

Half of me wants to speculate about possible endings but I also want it to be a surprise. Give me some ideas and I'll shut my eyes while reading them
Must be pretty dramatic given Wilson's condition and House's imminent return to jail.

i am going to have withdrawals....

I have to say the last series has not been up to scratch but I still love it- am hoping to aviod finding out what happens in advance as the Americans as they get to see it tomorrow.

So sad not to be seeing Hugh Laurie as House any more-he plays the part to perfection. I saw him in an interview a few days ago on the Jay Leno show and he just doesn't look the same with short hair and no stubble.

Mt prediction is that it will be lupus. (finally)

Thanks for the tutorial Glaikit - I'll try and remember that next time I panic and think that Sky+ has screwed up.

I also hadn't realised that the finale is being shown in the USA tomorrow - it'll be a bit difficult for me to avoid spoilers after tomorrow evening. But some speculation I've already seen is that House and Wilson will drive off together towards the horizon, but there won't be bluebirds and rainbows.

I'm only half-way through "Post Mortem", and then I've got "Holding On" to watch before the finale. But I think I can see some foreshadowing of the end already.

Oh gawd Huggly, I'm thinking suicide pact - its going to be Thelma and Louise isn't it?!

there had better be no suicides or i will be massively and deeply pissed off.

i think the last season has not been up to scratch because i think the actors sniffed that the end was nigh and moved on before their time (cuddy is now in the good wife and Cameron is in Once Upon a Time...) it felt like the last season got abandoned by the actors.

if House dies i will be so pissed off., seriously. seriously.

Ha ha doingitformyself that is exactly what I thought- House and Wilson driving over a cliff!

But Vicar, can he survive without Wilson?

Maybe the threat of him going to jail will make Wilson accept more treatment, House will cure him from within his prison walls and they'll go off to Vegas and get married? That would be my final episode

I agree about the other actors. Its good that some of them popped back for a bit (especially Chase!) as I find Parke and the other bland girl so annoying.

I do have a strange Taub fetish though

Suicide would be such a cop out I'd be really annoyed.

has everyone written Wilson off then? i was rather hoping for a happy ending....i didnt want houses fake wife to leave either - she seemed to be getting rather fond of him until she found out he had lied about the green card....

Yes, I imagined a happy ever after with her too, shame.

Obviously miracles do happen, but I presumed that as Wilson's 'kill or cure' super-dose of chemo hadn't cured him it was pretty hopeless. But if anyone can help it will be House!

Sorry Huggly just noticed that you hadn't seen the previous two episodes yet. Seems my 'no spoilers' title is being ignored, by myself - oops.

That's ok, Doing - I've just watched the eps I'd recorded so I'm as up-to-speed as any of us can be! (And, anyway, it's my fault for not watching them sooner.)

But now I'm even more confused. Obviously the last episode focussed mostly on the House/Wilson relationship (and Robert Sean Leonard deserves an award for his acting), but House's stupid stunt that ended up with him breaking his parole seemed over-the-top even for House. But I suppose that the writers wanted a crisis, and that's the best way to achieve that.

The finale is a normal-length episode, but I can't see how they can resolve the situation in just an hour. It would be good if they followed Doing's idea but that would mean House being more expert in Wilson's own specialty than Wilson. Alternatively, I don't think they can fit 5 or 6 months into a one-hour episode for House to be released in time to be with Wilson at the end.

I've never watched "Thelma and Louise" or even read a synopsis, so I can't reference that, but now I'm thinking that House and Wilson will take off before House is due to return to prison, with some angsting about that, and we'll see them driving off together, fugitives on the run, leaving us never knowing the outcome. That would be a sucky ending, but probably better than the joint suicide option (though I think the scene where House set up a shared infusion of morphine might have been a bit of foreshadowing).

It's just as well I'm not a writer/producer - I've managed to confuse myself with my ramblings, so goodness only know what I'd do to an audience.

Has anybody seen it yet? I was a bit disappointed in it as a final episode tbh.

Where are you fondle?? Last ep not on in uk til Thursday

Fondle shh! I've been actively avoiding spoilers today, bloody daily mail are determined to tell us all how it ended.

Well that wasn't what I expected!

I'm always a bit annoyed by those dream/hallucination episodes and this just seemed like a chance to get everyone who'd ever been on the programme to pop back and show their face. I'd forgotten half of them, especially the more recent ones.

For me it was about as good an ending as it could be in terms of tying up loose ends, but you do wonder what the hell he'd do if he couldn't be a doctor anymore?!

I thought Cameron was brilliant when she appeared to him in the burning building. That was exactly how I felt - maybe he deserved to die so that he wasn't in pain any more. But actually a few months of fun with his best friend and then... well who knows, but it must be better than death.

I'll miss him! Couldn't believe how differently I felt about him even between scene changes in the Swan Song prog - as Hugh I find him mildly irritating and then 2 seconds later as House, "bam" sexual attraction kicks in. Very strange and a testament to him as an actor!

Like the last post - you sum up very well. Maybe not everybody does watch house - thought a lot more people would join in.

I liked them driving off into the pastoral paradise - know it's American, but did not want him to die. Friendship bit was heart warming.

Strange _ I added a message yesterday and I can't have logged on ?

I've been watching House for years, guilty pleasure, thought it was just me then realised he was a huge star and a smash hit.

Last series was enjoyable but his behaviour became outlandish and unbelievable but as Drama it was entertaining. I liked the scenes with his new wife and wished he could have gained a bit more domestic bliss.

Grew to like the character more as time went by as did Hugh Lawrie apparently - couldn't help but see the generous sides to this egomaniac.

Will miss House - end of an era - what next? More Scandi Drama ?

Yes, I wished he'd found happiness with his 'wife' too. She was perfect for him! Feisty and gorgeous and just nutty enough to want to stay with him, or so I thought until she left

I've started watching Awake (on Sky Atlantic I think) which has a similar feel to it - if you haven't seen it, the main character is a guy whose family were involved in a car crash and either his son or his wife died. He doesn't know which is reality and which is a dream, as when he closes his eyes he wakes up in a world where his wife survived, then he goes to bed and wakes up and his son is alive, but both versions seem to be real.

There are some really good cross-overs between the two lives that make you question which is real. Quite cleverly done.

I loved House until the last couple of seasons, when I thought it went downhill fast. He's amazing, but once Cuddy left, they should have stopped it. It was interesting she wasn't in the finale, wasn't it? That will they/won't they storyline was fantastic.

Did anyone else have a girl crush on Thirteen? She was gorgeous. I thought she and Foreman were a physically perfect couple, but still would rather have House. God, he's gorgeous.

I don't understand how Foreman and Wilson saw House being blown up in the fire yet he escaped through the back door without a burn mark on him. If he was seeing significant people in there, why wouldn't he see Cuddy?