scarfman | Tuesday's new House

When Tritter told House, "Good luck. ~~Prove me wrong~~ I hope you prove me wrong," I said to qtrhorserider, "He's wondering whether he was as good a friend to the addict in his life as House's friends are to him." Notwithstanding that, with a day under its belt it seems to me rather like the story arc died with a whimper (and an out of character whimper at that, for the more I think about it the more I don't believe that what I said is a turn of mind Tritter could have come to so suddenly).

The judge's observation that Tritter was reacting out of proportion to the situation echoed much of what qtrhorserider has been saying about Tritter's (or Tritter's writers') grasp of criminal law, but I think it would have been a little more satisfying if the judge had seen for herself something of House's value to the world at large instead of merely being forced to infer it from what Cuddy did, if such inferrence even occurred at all which we didn't see. Maybe Cuddy's testimony and evidence was sufficient legal cause to dismiss the charges, but after months' buildup it wasn't sufficient dramatic cause.

On the one hand, it would have been trite on a level that this show generally successfully avoids if the judge had dismissed the case purely on House's merits outside the courtroom. But, on the other hand, despite Cuddy's perjury I've a sense that when the problem went away it was in consequence of none of the actions the main protagonist took in aid of solving the problem or took in aid of anything, and that's unsatisfying storytelling.

However the last exchange between House and Wilson was wholly in character for both of them, yet went as far as it needed - but only as far as it needed - to in order to repair the damage done their friendship during the Tritter affair.