A student has many hallucinations.
I enjoyed it, a pretty low key sort of episode.
Theme was relationships, and Cuddy was just background, Taub got to have some attention, which was nice, he’s a good background actor, but this helped flesh him out a bit. I’m kinda confused about the last scene, where he’s getting the attention of a nurse, and House archly notices at the end…
So, the relationship between the patient and her boyfriend, the opening being a wow universal galaxy intro, with them sitting in a planetarium setting, not really paying attention to the professor who’s teaching about what’s going on there, drinking in the back.
This comes up later in the gal patient hallucinating in the MRI scan with the black hole sucking her down, pretty good effects for TV.
So, she’s under duress, evidenced by her hallucination.
I really liked where House was going with it after the loss of absolute diagnosis. Since he got back assward shocked trying to understand a patient’s out of body experience, by frying himself; it’s obvious that something happened that has tweaked his mind with what happened to him in that experience. Not illuminaton, but questions.
Then, going to House’s mind scanny stuff. Anyone know how real that is in today’s technology? Is an inkling of what was shown there possible? I’m all for it, wow, great if we can get that intimate a scope. House and Foreman were more at odds with using that experimental technique. It shows a broach of where House is going beyond his old method, and Foreman is taking the place of House in old guard thought, which is still intellectually beyond most anyguard thought.
Man, I’ve yammered here, but, perhaps best for House fans to truly suss the meaning of Wilson getting House a magnificent organ right in the living room.
Organ recital from Dr. House! Cape optional!
This was a very QUIET episode, for some reason - lack of background music, histrionics, everyone sitting quietly talking, not much humour or angst. Except the minute I saw the boyfriend’s father, I knew! (because usually it’s the mothers who are showing support, and the skeevy boyfriend’s father just looked out of place, i.e, suspicious). And I really find Dr. Potatohead, his bored trophy wife, and his romantic affairs pretty useless, I don’t really care about the little troll much at all.
Right about the boyfriend’s father…there wasn’t really any good buildup of what was to happen there. One scene with him talking to the patient du jour would have been a good knitter here.
I disagree about the boyfriend’s father. As soon as I saw his face, I knew that I knew him from somewhere (still can’t place where, though). That told me he would turn out to be more important than they were at first letting on. When he turned out to be key, I shouted, “I *knew *it!”
I’m still trying to figure out where I know him from, though.
Loved House sexting to Taub’s wife!!
Apparently this is about as realistic as a Vulcan mind meld. It’s where I turned the show off – at this point it had turned into a science fiction program.
Dennis Boutsikaris AKA “That Guy Who Looks Like Ron Silver.”
(As soon as I saw him in the back of the elevator, I knew he’d end up having an important part to play in the plot.)
Thanks for the name! Looking at his list of credits, I’ve probably seen him about a thousand times, but nothing really sticks out. Just one of those guys that creeps into your subconscious through sheer repetition, I suppose.
First time I ever stopped watching a House episode right in the middle of it. Nothing was really happening, and I couldn’t believe House seriously suggested mind-reading or whatever it was.
I liked the science fiction aspect, but since it was just a dead end (i.e., Foreman was right about it), it didn’t matter (and it wouldn’t have mattered to me even if it had solved the case – realism is overrated).
I did find the end had House being more of an asshole that usual. Why did he not take the father aside and talk privately? Why did he keep pushing for the answer when the son was there?
Must be something wrong with my cable. I was getting “That Guy Who Looks Like Tom Skerritt.”
House played the first three notes from "The Phantom of the Opera’s title song (Beneath the…) Hence “You have to provide the cape.”
I’m all embarrassed, because ater the first couple of organ chords my wife asked, “What tune is that?” and I answered, “Many Rivers to Cross.” Quickly corrcted myself, but the horror - it burns!
Gotta give em both a good listen to see how off I was.
So, is Taub doing the nasty, or just a flirt?
I thought he did the first few notes of Bach’s Toccata & Fugue, and then when he sat down it was A Whiter Shade of Pale.
That was my thought, exactly. I think House did play Bach, and then the soundtrack switched to Procul Harem.
The scan showed a brief picture of her with a man whom they assumed to be her father but turned out to be the boyfriend’s father, so in that sense Foreman was wrong; it did work.
And for the record, in the brief glimpse I got it did look like the boyfriend’s father.
Agreed. Tracy would have flipped if I turned it off then, but I stopped caring about that time.
Perhaps it’s time to stop watching House now.
That’s funny; in our house it was, “That Guy Who Looks Like Chris Sarandon.” 
I loved the science fiction episode - why not? They don’t feel the need to play every episode dead straight on this drama, and I appreciate that. I really liked the moment when House came into the scanning room and asked if anyone had told Foreman he’s a buzzkill; the whole gang says, “YES!”
I thought it was Foreman who asked if people thought he was a buzzkill. And everybody, including Foreman, answered “yes.”
It’s farfetched, but supposedly not entirely out of the realm of possibility. The show took it too far for the sake of drama, but getting images out of the brain has been possible since 2008.
I’m trying to hunt down another link where a similar experiment was successfully done on a cat.