House pits the remaining finalists against each other by gender; also, a patient with muscular atrophy needs treatment.
I’ll be watching!
Can’t wait to see him stick a knife in the electrical outlet!
5 minutes!!! Gotta crack a beer!!!
is house gettin’ religion ? I’m guessing he won’t see it so great when he zaps himself.
New episode in 2 weeks?!? FUCK THAT!!! What am I going to do?
The light socket stunt was completely out of character.
I don’t think so. He was willing to fake cancer to get an implant in his brain for better drugs. He cuts and crushes his own body to distract himself from his pain. This is in the same vein.
Ha! “Vein,” I get it! No, this is different. Nobody dies from fake cancer or cutting; people often die from electrocution.
Unless he was lying to the corpse of Unlucky Dead Guy, he didn’t see anything, so he’s not getting religion.
I really enjoyed this episode, perhaps because I can’t stand Cameron and Chase anymore. The scene has been set for Foreman to come crawling back, which is kinda good because he’s my fave, but now we know people can actually get fired at PPTH. I was starting to wonder what the hell it took.
Good acting all around–I love the numbered people and also can’t be assed to remember their real names. Only nitpick–I think the dog would have shown a few more symptoms before he died.
Edit: Hmmm–why wasn’t he jumping on the bed to comfort his master in distress, though, or at least trying to? Maybe his listlessness WAS a symptom.
I loved the episode. Bawled hard.
(I’m a sucker for dogs).
They’re keeping the show interesting. Great dialogue.
My guess is my hottie Kal Penn, the pretty girl that won’t answer House’s questions and was right but not careful, and the conniving bitch, and the old non doc and the black Mormon are in the the finals of picking. I like the plastic surgeon too. They’re throwing a lot of characters in the mix.
The line “Yes you? Fat Twin?” cracked me up.
He paged the blond and knew she’d come running. He knew they’d resuscitate him without much problem. It was a controlled experiment. Agree to disagree, I guess.
I found this ep to be out of character for House. His insistance on keeping the PotW alive even though he was ready to die didn’t make sense. Remember the ep “Autopsy” with the little cancer girl who suffered hallucinations? They could do a surgery that would give an 8 year old another year. Wilson didn’t discuss the procedure with the cancer kid, but House sat down with her and offered to let the cancer run it’s course show she wouldn’t have to keep suffering. He has curiosity, but no special reverence for life.
I wonder if the PotW deliberately tossed the pills away so he wouldn’t have to go on? It would kill me if I knew I’d killed my dog through my own selfishness.
StG
When the PotW expressed the desire to die, wasn’t House already injured and out of commission? I think, once the patient’s decision to give up was communicated to House, they let it go. Also, the premise of the case seemed to be to give the teams a challenge, and that means solving the case regardless of the patient’s wishes. In fact, the patient’s wishes have never been House’s #1 priority. Solving the case always is.
I thought Foreman was working at, and got fired from, some other hospital. That’s why the person who fired him wasn’t Cuddy.
Rubystreak - I don’t think so. Remember House railing against the patient’s idea that there was a better place and not to do cancer treatment? House definitely knew before his own near-death experience that the PotW was ready for it to be over. That’s why he tried his experiment - to prove there was no afterlife.
StG
Yes, you’re right, he said he wanted to get out of his body and House said there isn’t anywhere else. But then he starting thinking about the knife in the socket guy and had some doubt, wanted to try it. He has tried crazy shit before, though, you have to admit, usually in the name of pain management. Is it the questioning that seems to be out of character to you? Certainly not prolonging the patient’s life? He does that all the time beyond what the patient thinks is reasonable (I’m thinking of Joel Grey’s character, though I’m sure there are more examples) in the name of solving the case.
Foreman was working at New York Mercy running the diagnostic department.
I agree that the knife in the socket thing for House was out of character. I kept hoping the previews had been misleading because I thought it was a stupid idea. What if the chick he paged was in the middle of something and couldn’t come running? What if she was all the way on the other side of the hospital and got stuck in an elevator and it took her over 5 minutes to get there? It seems to me that House would consider those possibilities. Didn’t like that bit at all.
When the dog died I caught on to what had happened, however, yes there should have been symptoms. Neurological symptoms like ataxia, drooling and blindness, then eventually respiratory distress, coma and death.
I really don’t want to see Foreman come back. I also find it hard to believe that someone who had basically just finished a fellowship in diagnostics would be put in charge of the department in another hospital. Did he even technically finish since he quit?
Eosinophilic pneumonia. He had worms. Weird.
The preview for the next episode looks stupid. I wonder if they’re going to push the “let’s see how spiritual we can get” envelope for a while in order to put the screws to House’s character. If so, I may have to find something else to watch.