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House this week was great. I think. :P Am I crashing the love train?
I loved the pants off of the acting, because LE and HL were fantastic this episode, and I actually liked Thirteen this episode, too, which is a big deal. The kiss was hot; I adored the way he kind of stammered "I don't know", looking miserable and lost. I wanted to kill the baby mama at the end, woohoo. But I couldn't really get into the episode because I really did close my eyes for most of the House/Cuddy scenes because everything seemed to be setting off a disaster -
- and I think I wanted to close my eyes for most of the rest because who the hell shot this episode?! I like this kind of camerawork in small amounts - actually I love it -and I love any shot that brings us up close to Hugh Laurie's blue blue eyes, but the camera kept moving and moving and I hated, hated, hated the excessive close shots. I like this kind of camerawork when it's used right. I like watching the movement of the entire scene in general, in any scene, in any show, which may be why this bugged me so much, but really, they zoomed in on the faces so much. Not even the faces, just the eyebrow-to-chin. And I hated it. It threw me off practically the entire episode. In fact, it opened with ten billion head shots and I sighed and resigned myself to forty minutes of artsy-hopeful-shots. I really liked Taub and Thirteen in the first half of this episode, for some reason, except I also had to hate it at the same time because of the way the scenes in the car was shot. All those random extreme close-ups, ugh.
The colouring in the patients' house worked for me in the cold open, but I hated it when they went in later because I would've liked it so much better if the set was in those tones, not the way the camera was filtered - that way when Thirteen and Taub were exploring the place it would've looked neater and less obvious. I liked some of the long shots, I enjoy those; I liked the occasional (very infrequent) well-placed movement, but everything else I hated. Even the long shots bordered on "a bit much" by the time we reached the end.
I know I have absolutely no right to trash talk cinematography, but basically, the camerawork annoyed me to pieces. And I hated it. It may also be why I didn't really fall for a majority of the episode.
Do all of my friends hate me? :/ I'm sorry. I liked the episode, really I did...acting-wise, ship-wise (hell yeah), and a-couple-of-characters-wise. Otherwise...camerawork. D: Really, if you couldn't tell, the only real complaint I have is for the camerawork.
Someone mentioned somewhere that one thing that'll come out of this season is Wilson and Cuddy knowing for certain that House loves them. If that's the overarching theme this season, I'm all for it. If it works well, I will worship the ground this season airs on. Meanwhile, someone teach the director how to tone things down. Keep things at a minimum, guy. What I mean is: ENOUGH.
-- rachu
I loved the pants off of the acting, because LE and HL were fantastic this episode, and I actually liked Thirteen this episode, too, which is a big deal. The kiss was hot; I adored the way he kind of stammered "I don't know", looking miserable and lost. I wanted to kill the baby mama at the end, woohoo. But I couldn't really get into the episode because I really did close my eyes for most of the House/Cuddy scenes because everything seemed to be setting off a disaster -
- and I think I wanted to close my eyes for most of the rest because who the hell shot this episode?! I like this kind of camerawork in small amounts - actually I love it -and I love any shot that brings us up close to Hugh Laurie's blue blue eyes, but the camera kept moving and moving and I hated, hated, hated the excessive close shots. I like this kind of camerawork when it's used right. I like watching the movement of the entire scene in general, in any scene, in any show, which may be why this bugged me so much, but really, they zoomed in on the faces so much. Not even the faces, just the eyebrow-to-chin. And I hated it. It threw me off practically the entire episode. In fact, it opened with ten billion head shots and I sighed and resigned myself to forty minutes of artsy-hopeful-shots. I really liked Taub and Thirteen in the first half of this episode, for some reason, except I also had to hate it at the same time because of the way the scenes in the car was shot. All those random extreme close-ups, ugh.
The colouring in the patients' house worked for me in the cold open, but I hated it when they went in later because I would've liked it so much better if the set was in those tones, not the way the camera was filtered - that way when Thirteen and Taub were exploring the place it would've looked neater and less obvious. I liked some of the long shots, I enjoy those; I liked the occasional (very infrequent) well-placed movement, but everything else I hated. Even the long shots bordered on "a bit much" by the time we reached the end.
I know I have absolutely no right to trash talk cinematography, but basically, the camerawork annoyed me to pieces. And I hated it. It may also be why I didn't really fall for a majority of the episode.
Do all of my friends hate me? :/ I'm sorry. I liked the episode, really I did...acting-wise, ship-wise (hell yeah), and a-couple-of-characters-wise. Otherwise...camerawork. D: Really, if you couldn't tell, the only real complaint I have is for the camerawork.
Someone mentioned somewhere that one thing that'll come out of this season is Wilson and Cuddy knowing for certain that House loves them. If that's the overarching theme this season, I'm all for it. If it works well, I will worship the ground this season airs on. Meanwhile, someone teach the director how to tone things down. Keep things at a minimum, guy. What I mean is: ENOUGH.
-- rachu
