House 4/23: Body and Soul

[vivalostwages]

Park is having dreams about her colleagues, while a young patient has dreams of being choked.

[Sigmagirl]

I don't care one bit about Park and her dreams, or whether she gets it on with Chase or whether he wants "some of this."

The preview of next week's episode was the most compelling part of this week's episode. We'll get to see some powerhouse acting from Robert Sean Leonard.

[salinqmind]

Park and Chase can just KNOCK IT OFF. It ain't happening and the coy factor makes me queasy. This particular show was 'meh' except for two developments.

Green Card Wife is gone.

And next week....jeez.

[Nunzio Tavulari]

Some of us do not watch the previews because we don't want any spoilers , premonitions or preconceptions about the episode. I would appreciate that the thread stick to the episode just aired.

[billfish678]

The elevator scene was pretty funny. I am still rooting for House to get Lupus at the end. That or he cuts of that irritating legs and becomes Santa Clause.

[Joey P]

Originally Posted by billfish678

The elevator scene was pretty funny. I am still rooting for House to get Lupus at the end. That or he cuts of that irritating legs and becomes Santa Clause.

Without skipping forward, I wouldn't think they would have enough time for that to do anything to him. Maybe Wilson won't make it and he'll kill himself. Maybe he'll just get hit by a bus or get into a motorcycle accident.
Personally, I'm just sort of hoping he just sort of wanders off into the sunset. I'd hate to see them try to pull some big stunt right at the end and fail. Overall it's been a good series and I'd like to see it leave on a good note rather then a sour one.

Also, I liked Chase's dream sequence..."Are you coming?"

[Nunzio Tavulari]

There aren't enough shows left for House to go on a maniacal campaign of radical cures for Wilson's cancer, but maybe he'll come up with a radical diagnosis that disproves the original and cures Wilson by giving him an aspirin.

Without Wilson House would be very despondent. He enjoys Wilson's company and needs his moderating influence. This would be especially true if Dominica is gone for good. There was that gun in House's closet that belonged to his father. The series could end with him contemplating the cigar box in which it's kept.

In the end, it's just a story so the outcome isn't important. I just think it's a badly written one if everything gets wrapped up in the last two chapters with minimal buildup to the conclusion. And it looks as though that's the case. There are four or less episodes to go.

[well he's back]

I'm disappointed at Green Card wife leaving. I'm a romantic sometimes, so sue me.
Chase was pretty before he cut his hair.

Ok - the upcoming cancer story line - cheap, lazy writing. easy way to wring drama. but, yes, opportunity for some fine acting, I guess.

[vivalostwages]

I wonder if there will be a twist where Wilson ends up being just fine and House is the one who dies.

[TruCelt]

Originally Posted by Sigmagirl

. . .

We'll get to see some powerhouse acting from Robert Sean Leonard.

Jeez, I hope so. A part of me still thinks of him as the waggle headed kid from Dead Poet's Society and Much ado About Nothing. (I mean seriously, in Much Ado he'll make you dizzy.)

[Infovore]

Originally Posted by vivalostwages

I wonder if there will be a twist where Wilson ends up being just fine and House is the one who dies.

That would be interesting. I looked up "thymoma" and assuming Wikipedia is accurate, Stage II thymoma is operable and the survival rate is good. I wonder if they're pulling a fast one on us, with the preview showing him looking so horrible on House's couch. I don't think there's any way it could progress that fast. Wilson wouldn't just let it go for a long time and not treat it.

Then again, the final episode is called

SPOILER:

Everybody Dies

so who can say for sure?

[Joey P]

Originally Posted by Infovore

That would be interesting. I looked up "thymoma" and assuming Wikipedia is accurate, Stage II thymoma is operable and the survival rate is good. I wonder if they're pulling a fast one on us, with the preview showing him looking so horrible on House's couch. I don't think there's any way it could progress that fast. Wilson wouldn't just let it go for a long time and not treat it.

Then again, the final episode is called

SPOILER:

Everybody Dies

so who can say for sure?

SPOILER:

I think the reason he looked so bad was that they were supposed to be try some super duper potent treatment that would either kill the cancer or kill Wilson and it's likely [the treatment] making him really sick in the process. It's probably also why they're doing it at House's place instead of the hospital. Wilson, IIRC from the previews, said he didn't want to spend the last months of his life dying in a hospital bed.

Of course, this could all be misleading and we might find out that the medical gear at the house was something totally unrelated and Wilson was just sick in the normal sense. But this show doesn't usually do the misleading preview thing.

[randwill]

I'm hoping for an "it was all a dream" ending. Dr. Gregory House wakes up from a coma he's been in since the series started. He recovers and goes back to work at a small town hospital where he is the most well-adjusted, kind and caring physician on the staff. All the other major characters are there in slightly altered versions of their dream selves. Dominica is his faithful wife and is about to give birth to their first child who they've decided to name Wilson.

[Shark Sandwich]

To save Wilson, House will need to find a donor for a brain stem bilirubin zygote marrow transplant that Wilson requires. Unfortunately the procedure carries a 100% mortality rate for the donor. House of course will meet the criteria and be a perfect match, which he will do to save his friend, sacrificing himself in the process.

Or maybe he'll just pop a few vicodin and bang some hookers.

[Renifer]

Main plot kind of echoed the last episode in Season 3, only this mystery seemed less resolved than the other regarding supernatural involvement.

I thought House went overboard on the supernatural tangent, going as far as to say he'd rather have the kid die than have the family say that the supernatural saved him. Fox was showing an ugly anti atheist bias there. I repeat, the issue was handled much better in Season 3, with House being more amused than furious about it. The Hmong family seemed portrayed much better

I've read Anne Fadiman's The Soul Catches You and You Fall Down, which also deals with discrepancies between Hmong and American medicine. Fascinating read, and likely an inspiration for this episode.

As for Park and Chase, at least they finally did something, even if it was only a dream. Couple is interesting but the episodes are really dragging it out.

[Tim R. Mortiss]

My favorite way to end a beloved series is.... nothing changes. Give us a crisis, a false dawn, a true dawn... and then everything goes back to normal. Series ends, and we (the audience) live happily ever after, knowing our favorite characters are still out there doing what they always did, just not on camera anymore.

Hey, there are worse ways to end a series.

[Gukumatz]

Eh, House VS God did it all and did it better.

[Stoid]

Originally Posted by well he's back

I'm disappointed at Green Card wife leaving. I'm a romantic sometimes, so sue me.

Bad. Didn't make sense. Not that big a deal. They are digging each other, what's the big deal with him not letting her know right away? What difference does it make? And the IMPORTANT part is WHY he did it! He wants to stay together, she should have been flattered at minimum and thrilled at max.

Just bad.

[Meltdown]

I was a little disappointed that they didn't make more of an effort to explain the levitation with some non-supernatural explanation. Sure, House said something about the grandfather being a magician, but there was nothing that we saw to indicate that was the case. There was nothing to indicate that the grandfather was being disingenuous about his beliefs, or had anything but his grandson's best interest at heart, so to hang everything on him trying to fool the doctors seems unsupported by the evidence we saw.

[Moonlitherial]

Originally Posted by Stoid

Bad. Didn't make sense. Not that big a deal. They are digging each other, what's the big deal with him not letting her know right away? What difference does it make? And the IMPORTANT part is WHY he did it! He wants to stay together, she should have been flattered at minimum and thrilled at max.

Just bad.

Really? You can't understand why she's upset? She was reading letters about her aunt being very ill and without the green card she can't visit and he still didn't tell her.

She's gone but there is always a chance she comes back. Particularly if she hears about Wilson.

[Kimstu]

Originally Posted by Moonlitherial

She's gone but there is always a chance she comes back.

My guess says, this. At the very end of the last episode, My Fair Lady-style.

Bonus points if House responds with something along the lines of "Eliza, where the devil are my slippers?"

[Dogzilla]

Originally Posted by Stoid

Bad. Didn't make sense. Not that big a deal. They are digging each other, what's the big deal with him not letting her know right away? What difference does it make? And the IMPORTANT part is WHY he did it! He wants to stay together, she should have been flattered at minimum and thrilled at max.

Just bad.

The difference it makes is he deliberately withheld important information from her for his own selfish motivations. That damages, if not destroys trust and shows her very little respect. House could have grown some balls, said, "Hey, your certificate came in, but I really care about you and don't want you to leave. Will you stay anyway?" I think she probably would have, but that would mean House would have to show vulnerability and being open to love and he just cannot bring himself to do that. I wouldn't stay with him after whopper lie like that, but. There is always the possibility, because they dig each other, that she returns to pick up something she left at House's place, they have a nice long talk about how much he misses her and cares about her, he apologizes for being deceptive, and she agrees to stay anyway. It's TV; anything could happen.