House season finales have traditionally been very strong, but this one comes in as a weakling. The episode before it, "After Hours", is a far better episode. Maybe that one could have been tweaked to make it the one to end on, by making it a double episode. In any case "Moving on" is the way the writers chose to tie the season up. First up the patient-mystery with the performance artist is pretty boring. Second, House's behavior is out of character in the way that he endangers the life of Cuddy's child with his stunt with the car. House never balks at endangering himself physically and he doesn't care a whit about harming other people emotionally. He will easily risk other people's lives in order to save them, but he doesn't stoop to risking children's lives for the sake of getting even with an adult - even House doesn't cross that line. So the thing he does at the end just appears stupid. Third, the sight of him walking off along a beautiful beach into the sunset is really a bit much. It was just kind of a lame ending overall. Extending the "After Hours" episode into a double episode and having a different way for House to bale out without bottoming out at the end of the season would have been better I think. But hey, you can't always get what you want.
Review of Moving On
