Reply #21: Yes - I was totally pissed off

[ms liberty]

This storyline has some real problems. First of all, House is on pain meds for chronic pain. He successfully got off the meds when his pain was relieved before, so he's not addicted to the meds for the high. Chronic pain is a serious problem, and treatment of it has been abysmal because of our attitude in the country about drugs.

The cop part of the storyline angers me too. I've been saying for a few weeks that House needed to get a lawyer and get a restraining order on that cop. He's been harassing him, plain and simple. Where are the hospital's lawyers? That cop is on a personal mission to destroy House, it's not about House's use of pain meds. And a local cop is not going to be the one to run a major investigation on a successful doctor in a large teaching hospital in his city. And a legitimate investigation of that scale is not going to be run by one cop, using his vacation time, and attempting to extort other doctors in order to get them to cooperate. And those doctors should have lawyers to stop that rogue cop. What, we're expected to believe that those doctors are all so STUPID that they'd talk to this rogue cop WITHOUT THEIR LAWYERS PRESENT?

I don't know where the hell they're going with this storyline. I think it was NOT well thought out, and I have to wonder if they talked to ANY experts at all. All I can say is that I've felt betrayed by a show that was original and fresh, and told some hard truths without any sugar coating. Now it's like they've got some kind of PC disease, and they're making up for not following the 'correct' line of thought.