When I watched the season premier of House

[NJmaverick]

I couldn't help but think they were hitting the do over button. It's like they were thinking, "crap, we really got carried away with House's antics. How can we explain away his crazy antics and get him back to where he started?". That was the impression I got, what do other fans think?

[gmoney]

1. in a way

plus, I think the vicoden addiction thing had gone about as far as it could go, so it was time for a personality tweak as well...

[Rosie1223]

2. I was afraid they were going to pull a "Pam Ewing"

and all the previous seasons were just House's hallucinations.

[BOSSHOG]

3. I thought the producers had watched One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest

recently and decided to do a cheap rip off for TV.

[NJmaverick]

4. No question that movie was in the minds of the writers

[Paladin]

5. I'm Afraid I Gave Up On "House" A Couple Of Seasons Ago.

You can only film the same episode so many times (A. bizarre affliction; B. interns spend days floundering around diagnosing it wrong and being abused by wretched, drug-addled genius; who C. takes a break from the drugs and grab-ass games with the sexy hospital administrator and D. comes in at the very end of the show and solves the mystery)before it gets old.....