You know - I wonder if it has to do with them trying to 'rush' part of what they'd planned for the season before with the 'shippy shit. If they'd just fucking DROP the relationship crap and run the damned show, we'd be much better off, I think.

What they're doing is taking the show they had, tossing the working forumla out the window and doing what all the other shit shows do and play up the relationships.

Hey - House writer monkeys - take a page from Dick Wolf's book - write a STORY and screw the interpersonal character developments except when they move the story along, dammit!