A prosecutor has a cardiac arrest…and a house filled with weapons.
Fall finale.
I actually managed to spot two goofs in this episode.
The first one was glaringly obvious. So much so that I’m not sure how they missed it. When Wilson locked House in the bathroom the bolt was missing from the door. Without that, the door won’t latch. You’d think someone would have noticed that. Either the person who physically took the door apart “Ummm, hey boss, if I take this out he can’t get locked in, it doesn’t work that way” but that’s probably not his job. But you’d still think someone would have noticed it. I mean, they had to have opened and closed that door a bunch of times while they shot that scene, someone must have noticed that it didn’t latch. My first thought when the knob fell off was that surely House can find something to retract the latch with, it’s just a small square hole. A toothbrush handle would probably work, but then seeing the big empty hole…that bugged me.
Also, La Crosse, WI doesn’t have the world’s largest beer can, it has the world’s largest six pack. I’ve driven by it a handful of times.
ETA, come to think of it, I suppose it’s possible those could also be, individually, the largest beer cans as well…I just assume there are larger ones since I’ve always heard that brewery call those the largest six pack.
Oh, as for the actual episode. I thought the POTW was kind of boring. Seems like we’ve done this before. Kinda curious about the Park/Chase thing though. I wonder if anything will become of that.
The scene between Park and Chase in the elevator was the best thing in the show.
Boy, is House gonna’ have a field day with Foreman’s new illicit relationship.
The car commercial embedded in the show was almost as glaringly obvious as the Hyundai SUV one on The Walking Dead last week.
Yes, Park & Chase in the elevator. But when she brought up his marriage, he should have pointed out how that worked out. But she will get him into bed. Good for her.
PotW was very hot, but not enough plot to keep me interested.
The best part of the episode was House drawling in a southern accent about a “good ol’ fashioned CAT FIGHT!!”
I didn’t like they way they made Wilson look pretty much like a buffoon throughout the episode. The show’s dynamic is at its best when Wilson and House are evenly matched. He can bully his team, but Wilson has to be able to keep him in his place or House just becomes a boring super-villain.
And the Chase/Park thing? Ewwwww…
We used to it with our keys when it happened in college.
Really bizarre. I could see him turning down the women Taub was trying to hook him up with, but this seems out of character for him unless it’s exactly that he needs that rule breaking and danger that he doesn’t have not working for House.
That was good, but my favorite line was the dig on Yngwie Malmsteen, even if he did pronounce the name wrong. Yngwie is such a dick, even if most people don’t know who he is, he deserves getting called out like that. It made me happy.
I disagree. Sure, he didn’t see House boobytrapping the apartment the first time, but he correctly predicted he would see him getting him back with a similar device, used it to trap him in the bathroom, and used THAT as a ruse to make House believe he had given up searching so House would put the gun back and then he was able to find it.
Other than his initial mess up, Wilson played House perfectly. The thing is, House will not accept losing and was willing to risk getting shot and/or going back to prison with a ballsy bluff. It appeared to me that Wilson didn’t buy it, but the only way to call it was to actually shoot House or be shot by House and he realized he just had to give House the satisfaction of winning. So, really, I’d say Wilson won.
Also, with the Chase/Park thing, I was surprised too that he respond to her inquiry about having been married to a co-worker with something along the lines of “well, you see how that worked out?” Also, it looked like Adams was disappointed when he accepted. I got the impression they were chatting up a little in the elevator, and Park basically barged in and cock-blocked (or whatever the female equivalent is). Chase will sleep with her partly because she’ll be an easy lay, but probably as much out of pity and hoping to chill her out a bit too.
Actually, House never loaded the gun. He is seen dropping the bullet palmed in his hand.
He will, really? I sleep around, and I’m not as good looking as Chase, and I like asian girls, and I like her personality ok. But I wouldn’t sleep with her.
I wish he would’ve responded “sorry, it’ll never work. I’m a brooding loner with a checkered past, and you’re a horrible actress.”
Or the one where they were talking about how many cup-holders some SUV has on “Warehouse 13”* a couple of weeks ago. In some ways, it would be less jarring to just have the characters turn to the camera and say, “Buy a Ford SUV,” then get on with the show again.
*I think. It was definitely a tv show, and it was definitely a little while ago.
I had to practically hit Hubster over the head to get him to understand that the label “House” on the cigar box holding the gun didn’t mean “Greg House.” He also had to back up the recording to re-read the engraving on the sword, he thought at first glance it said, “John Smith.”
So, while I’m pounding on his head, I’m saying, “Don’t you remember, House’s father was a MARINE OFFICER?”
So when does House’s biological father show up as POTW?
~VOW
And before he said the drawling ‘cat fight’ line, the way hey did a faux spittoon-shot & ring!
More than the doorknob inaccuracy, House setting up that net trap in his apartment?! Come on! There’s no place outside of a Roadrunner cartoon that you could do that! Those things need trip releases, pulleys, counterweights, yards of rope etc.! Didn’t stretch credulity, it snapped it entirely!
And why’s everyone so down on Park? I really like her odd, non-actor-ish delivery. Makes her sound realistic. And she may not be Lucy Lui but she’s not unattractive.
But when she asked Chase, “Didn’t you marry someone in your department?”, I expected him to reply, “Yeah, and then I divorced someone in my department…”
For what it’s worth, my previous grievance with Park was only the fact that she was a horrible caricature of an overachieving young Asian with Tiger parents.
So, as far as that goes, I didn’t think the off-putting behavior was itself a bad thing, but I do think that the writers are basically just tossing things at the wall and hoping something sticks.
Taub and Chase have established characters.
Dr. Pretty Doctor is getting established as having a few issues and a semi-“mysterious” background (a la Thirteen), is easy on the eyes, and was shown from Day 1 as being able to at least keep up with House and effectively screw with Park.
Park herself hasn’t had a consistent thing, other than not being particularly likable. Basically, the writers have done a crappy job with the character. It’s not entirely Charlyne Li’s fault if the character is poorly drawn.
Regarding the missing door bolt, there’s lots of ways Wilson could booby trap the door to lock other than with the bolt. As the door was swinging closed, the door edge was visible and a normal face plate with latch was seen. When House was trapped the first thing he tried was to manually slide the bolt via the hole.
Wilson anticipated that, so he used another mechanism. Otherwise House would easily escape. Note: when Wilson entered the bathroom, he used the bedroom access door, which slides into the wall. It is a different door because it does not swing like the door that House used to enter from the hallway.
And as far as Park’s attractiveness goes, I have the opposite problem. I have a hard time visualizing House, Cuddy, Chase, Cameron, Foreman, Wilson, Thirteen, Masters or Adams as doctors. People that spectacularly pretty rarely have the motivation to undergo the intense study needed to become a top doctor. It’s far too tempting to rely on your looks if everyone wants to give you everything in life. So maybe one or two hotties, but it’s totally flipped if the only realistic-looking ones are Taub and Park.
When does Wilson’s brother return?
I was pleased and surprised by the Pokemon reference, but disappointed when it didn’t get a callback before the end of the episode.
It isn’t Charlyne Yi’s appearance so much as her delivery that strains credulity, for me. When she’s suggesting a diagnosis in “doctor-speak,” she just doesn’t sound at all like someone who understands the words coming out of her mouth (in part because she’s kind of mush-mouthed). The effect is a bit like a skit where they have someone like Mike Tyson talking about philosophy or astrophysics.
Not that the other actors necessarily understand the medical jargon either, of course, but they’re mostly convincing at sounding like they do.
There was a scene in which House threw out a term (it sounded like “arsonist,” but it couldn’t have been, based on the context) that was unfamiliar to me.
Anyone remember this? The exchange went something like this (I’m probably butchering the first line):
House: Arsonists created three forms of matter.
Taub: Arsoninsts?
House: Look it up.
Anyone remember this? I’d actually like to look it up, but I have no idea what he said.