Wow. What a send-off.
"Swan Song" was a beautiful, touching and funny look at the people who brought the characters and show to life. The last scene of the hour-long pre-finale feature was Hugh Laurie and Robert Sean Leonard ("House" and "Wilson") stalking each other through the Princeton Plainsboro Teaching Hospital sets, James Bond style, dressed in tuxedos and armed with paintball guns.
After the game, paint splattered and drinking champaign, the pair shoot up the set, paint pellets defacing the carefully crafted walls. Very funny, and so in character.
I especially liked the acknowledgement that "House" was inspired by Arthur Conon Doyle's "Sherlock Holmes" stories. It was obvious to any Holmes fan (House/Holmes, Wilson/Watson), a brilliant, yet socially flawed, opiate addicted (Holmes was hooked on laudanum, a liquid opium mixture) musician. Both House and Holmes' address was 221 B.
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