One of the best uses of the giant re-set button ever.
I normally dislike the “it never happened, it was all a dream, you’re going to wake up to in bed next to Suzanne Pleshette” device. Whether it’s Star Trek doing time travel, Bobby Ewing in the shower or the autistic kid at the end of St. Elsewhere, I think it’s weak.
But the way House’s delusions were woven into the reality of what really DID happen was very, very well done.
So, I’m hoping that Stephen Fry really is the therapist he has to see next season.
But mostly, I’m hoping that we get at least ONE episode of House in the loony bin, figuring out that some other patient isn’t really crazy, but instead has some physical ailment causing their abberant behaviour.
I think there’s huge potential next season for House to work through some issues with a therapist of some kind, whether it’s side effects of addiction or genuine mental illness. But it will have to be a monumentally strong character to put up with the epic amount of shit that House would fling at him. Maybe Stephen Fry even has the chops to pull it off; sometimes the best dramatic turns come from comedic actors. I’m not sure I’d take such an opportunity and put it at risk with a bit of stunt casting.
Weren’t the “three people” going in with House an intake person, Amber, and Kutner? Or did you mean some time before they’re walking in through the door into the hospital?
Okay, still confused. As far as we know this problem is because of his drug addiction still, right? So if you have a drug addiction, do they typically detox you in a psych hospital? Or is the fact that it’s a psych hospital a defacto ruling out of it’s “just” the pills causing his hallucinations?
Robotarm, do you watch Bones? Fry played a shrink on that show, so it’d make the perfect crossover if House used him as “Gordon Gordon” too Gordon said he was retiring, but maybe…
I forgot exactly but there is a decent synopsis on Wiki and here is what someone put in it:
House snaps back to reality, with a hallucination of Amber saying in his ear, “So this is the story you made up about who you are. It’s a nice one,” to which a hallucination of Kutner adds “Too bad it isn’t true.”
Someone correct me (and the entry for the ep, hah) if that is wrong.
For those of you annoyed with your DVR, the episode ran one minute long. This was listed on the House website, but I’m not sure it was mentioned anywhere else.
I have my DVR (not TiVo or the like, just a plain old DVR – like a VCR) set to record all shows 2 minutes early and two minutes late in order to catch some time shift stuff. Always did that with my VCR as well. I could never trust the time on either unit would compare to the network time. I tried using the old “VCR Plus” feature from long ago, and it was never right, so that’s when I decided to pad my record times.
I’ve noticed that the new thing on TV is to run the ending credits of the show before while showing the beginning of the next show. Quite often, I’ll be watching one show on one channel, it ends at what appears to be the right time, and then switch over to the next channel for the show I want to see there, only to find that it started already and I missed stuff!
I hope that was just end-of-the-episode montage music, and not actually their wedding music. Wasn’t it a chamber-orchestra cover of “As Tears Go By” by the Rolling Stones? Not exactly the perfect accompaniment to a joyous wedding occasion.
All I hear is the sound
Of rain falling on the ground
I sit and watch
As tears go by
Stephen Fry is a very accomplished actor, who has had much success in dramatic as well as comedic roles. The excellent U.K. series “Kingdom” is a good example. He was nominated for a Golden Globe for his performance as Wilde, and won as part of the Gosford Park ensemble.
I’m pretty sure they weren’t, but I’m not at home to check the DVR. IIRC, there were two men in lab coats and a woman with long blondish hair wearing a suit. At any rate, when the show was cutting between the wedding, and House approaching the hospital, they were on the steps in one shot, out of the next, and in the last one.
The Buffy episode “Normal Again” was a year and a half before the end of that series.
(For those of you who aren’t fans, “Normal Again” alternated between Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Buffy the Mental Patient Hallucinating about Slaying Vampires. The ending of the episode left it quite ambiguous about which reality was canon.)
I was behind a few weeks and just got caught up. The woman at the Psych hospital intake looked like Amber from behind, to an extent, but if it was her she was now wearing a pant suit and not what she was wearing in the rest of the episode.
The music at the wedding seemed to be just a string arrangement of the Stones song, but they add the lyrics when they show House and Wilson pulling up to the hospital.
I really liked how they handled the psychotic break, drug induced or otherwise, but what I found very strange was the Mayfield psych hospital (I think that’s what it was called) was filmed in an entirely different season of the year than the wedding. The wedding looks like spring going to summer. The psych hospital is show with no leaves on any of the trees, dark and gloomy. November or February/early March weather.
Is that another psych symptom, or just one part filmed in LA and one filmed in New Jersey?
I had that figured as artistic – the juxtaposition of House entering a serious mental hospital vs. the two lovebirds. Of course, bad continuity is another option.
No, once you see the three people on the steps of the psychiatric hospital they are there for the remaining shots. My first impression was that the woman on the steps was indeed Amber because the way she was leaning and had her arms folded gave an “I told you so” vibe. But it was a bit ambiguous. Great ending to the season.
Gordon said he was retiring, but maybe…
