Did anyone else find this episode way too predictable? We knew Cuddy would really want House there, but he’d be an ass. After all, House’s character is built around the idea of dangling a small potential for humanity to the viewer then yanking it away at the last moment. Faking a breakup was the very obvious tactic right from the beginning. I’m surprised it took them that long to try it. Obviously there needed to be a twist with the priest, and making the relationship consensual and the potential disease transfer the other way around was the most obvious.
I did not see the hallucination as not a symptom, but I probably should have, what with religion being so central to the episode.
My girlfriend watches TV with closed captioning (an old habit she has). The first one was something like “Cuddy’s Requiem”, performed by Hugh Lawrie. The next song was the Jewish music, followed by “You Can’t Always Get What You Want”, and then back to “Cuddy’s Requiem”.
Edited to add: D’oh! I see you beat me to it, Eleanor.
Not only that, but the Catholic church is very hierarchical in nature. Maybe tomndeb will confirm this (I haven’t seen any posts from him in a while, is he still around here?) but I could see a priest getting bounced around his diocese, but I thought some of the places he said were definitely in different diocese.
Also, did anyone else think Taub was a major league asshole? Was the underlying message between the kid and the priest that the kid was sorry he accused the priest of something that wasn’t true, thereby acknowledging that he screwed up the priest’s life?
Is anyone else put off by the heavy-handed moralising? Sure it’s pretty intermittent, but it doesn’t really seem to fit with having House as the main character. Because the show is so great with its rationalism when House is onscreen, it almost feels as if half the time it’s being *House M.D. *and the other half it’s trying to be *Scrubs *without the slapstick.
But that wasn’t the twist - surely the kid’s apology meant that there had been no inappropriate relationship at all (and even a consensual relationship would have been inappropriate in this case); the kid had lied for whatever reason.
