Exactly. It was a stupid chance to take with his life and House wouldn’t do it.
Besides which, while IANAD, I can’t believe anyone could pull a stunt like that and still be allowed to practice. I don’t care how famous or brilliant he is.
He’d probably at least have been forced to get psychiatric counseling.
Actually I thought it was very much in character for him to take the chance and trust medical science to bring him back to life.
However, I find it hard to accept that a hard-core atheist like him would even entertain the idea, unless he’s pushed much harder than he was in this episode.
He might trust medical science but I don’t think he’d trust random chance and would do something akin to what the other guy did and wait for a doctor to actually be in the room with him first, IF he was going to do something like that at all.
Your second statement was the other reason why that didn’t sit well with me. He hadn’t been shown doubting atheism enough to even consider testing the theory.
Not very likely, considering he had no use of his hands and arms.
He did when the episode started, at least. He petted his dog and manipulated the joystick on his wheelchair.
She put them on his tray - and then the men came in to do their battery of tests and moved the tray out of his way. I noticed that and thought “that was careless of the director, they didn’t show the PotW take the pills.”
Turns out, it was the plot point.
Plus, as Wilson pointed out, he’s *had *near-death experiences, several of them! He didn’t need to repeat the experiment.
Anyone here think of This Blog about how much money Dunder-Mifflin is liable for each episode’s worth of employee mistreatment on The Office? I wonder how much segregating the employees by gender, threatening to fire on as a block, and making up snarky nicknames which incorporate slurs against religion, gender, and race is worth.
Seems to me like he takes risks and makes logical leaps based on his confidence in his knowledge of human nature and the people who work for him. I’m not surprised he’d trust the blond to save him.
This I can agree with. Doubting his atheism in a new development and I’m wondering where they’re going with it. The preview suggested evidence of the supernatural, and I’m not sure I’m in favor of the show taking that direction.
I also didn’t like the reasoning for keeping the pretty dark haired Dr. Her team had the correct diagnosis but she was the one who did not follow through with the treatment, her team gets fired and she gets to stay. It seemed like she was only getting to stay because she’s the requisite pretty, compassionate one. Why did the other team get to stay? They were wrong on all counts, the only thing they did right was not kill the patient outright. Sure House has been random with the hirings and firings all along, I just didn’t get his reasoning for keeping that girl.
Because she will be more diligent in the future, and won’t make the mistake she did (not watching the patient take the meds) in the future.
The PT was conscious through most of it. He could’ve said “hey, I didn’t get my pills”. Still a real shame about the dog, though. Although, being an old dog, he might’ve wanted to go with his master. I wondered why the doc picked the dog up and set him on the bed, instead on just having th edog move on his own. I can easily imagine the dog being sick and no one noticing. They were concentrating on Spock and his green blood.
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It’s kind of the definition of electrocution isn’t it?
Unless I misread the sequence of events, it looked to me like CompetitiveChick saw a flash of light just as she arrived at House’s office. In other words, House didn’t page her, then zap himself; he paged her, waited until he saw her outside the room, then zapped himself. She was right outside and he knew it, so he DID consider those possibilities and accounted for them.
I don’t think he was doubting his beliefs at all. House wants nothing more than to be right and to prove it to everyone. This wasn’t “Gosh, these people believe in an afterlife. Maybe they are right.” it was “There is no afterlife and I am going to get solid proof for these sad morons”. I think it was totally in character.
Overall I didn’t think it was a bad episode. I’m semi-new to the series so I can’t really comment on House going OoC on us though. I did cry a lot when the man and his dog died. But honestly, I really really REALLY hate the blond girl. I have a feeling she’s going to stay though. Looks like they’re aiming for the girl you love to hate sort of thing, but are failing miserably.
Very disappointed in this episode. I’ve just rewatched many of the first two seasons on DVD and am finding I am missing Foreman, Cameron and Chase (not just because Chase is cute). While adding new folks is good, right now there are too many people - the interactions are too random. Don’t like the random actions by House (the knife in the socket stunt). Still hate the blond - actress is just too grating. As far as I’m concerned they can keep Kal Penn and dump all the other newbies. And dump the random spiritual stuff (ghosts?) Oh, well - the first two seasons were really good.
I think exploring the spirituality side of House could be interesting. I wouldn’t think it out of the ordinary for some doctors to question their own beliefs (no matter what they are) from time to time. Being around that kinda pain and joy on a regular basis has to make a person think!
I would only be disapointed if they truly “convert” House. But until that happens, it should make for some good shows!
I just hated this episode. I was already in a less-than-thrilled state after watching the second ep of “Reaper,” and “House” was the icing on the cake.
Hated the blond bitch, didn’t need Kumar, can’t figure out why the guy who’s not a doctor is there, don’t care about Foreman’s tsuris, and I’m bored with Cuddy’s boobs. Right now, the only good thing in this show is Wilson.
They’d best figure out where to take this show and goe with it, or Greg’ll be using that motorcycle to jump sharks.
Sheesh! You know this is just another story arc… All the newbies will be gone soon and the original three will be back.
Anyway I like the last statement by House. How many American network shows these days would have the guts to have a main character say " there is no afterlife" then die and come back and say “see Told ya.”