Very well done episode. I liked it a lot.
Brilliant! I was almost convinced, too, that House’s antics had finally gotten him into a really deep pile of shit when that bullet fell out of the dead PoTW’s hand.
So is the first episode of next season going to be about the real Tongue Guy?
They didn’t show it, although I thought for a minute there that they would. Instead, you got a nice picture of the doctor (can’t remember which one) getting a face full of ball blood as it exploded. My stomach is churning as I type! :eek:
The second they said that house’s leg was cured by some brain operation or other such mumbo jumbo I knew the thing was a put on.
There was no way that removed muscle could be magically repaired like that. Remember is Season one in that excelllent episode where House talks about the three patients? I believe it was stated that the only way to save him was to remove the affected muscle.
Still really disgusting. The eye thing got me. The testicle thing was gross but not as bad, thank God they didn’t show it.
Some interesting scenes. I actually thought that House would have woken up when he said sorry. Nice try to double psyche at the end with the POTW.
Ack! EYEBALL! Thank goodness I looked away before the actually popping. I still think I’m scarred for life though.
Hubby and I were arguing over which was worse. I said eyeball, he said testicle. My argument is: a.) They showed the eyeball; b.) I actually *have * eyeballs, but not ball balls. So I guess I can understand if the gents find the later poppage worse.
Anyway, I’m no fan of the reset button, but I don’t think this really was that. As noted above, if you watch (or remember) the ep with the knowledge that it’s all in his head, it becomes incredibly illuminating. I’m assuming House had heard about the study on Ketamine, and this was all part of him working through whether he should try it, what the risks were, worst case scenario. Oh, and working out some feelings about Cameron, and Wilson. It’s interesting stuff, and Hugh Laurie is a god!
Great episode. What a terrific show this is! They held the hallucination at the end for just long enough – both my daughter and I were gap-jawed and staring at the screen thinking it was true when the scene finally reset.
After it was over and revealed that the whole ep had been a hallucination, I thought of something that should have tipped me off. House’s pain was gone, and he wasn’t popping his Vicodin. Vicodin is addictive, right? Next season, assuming this Ketamine thing actually works, House won’t be dealing with chronic pain, but he will be dealing with addiction, surely. How hard is Vicodin to kick?
And I was eating pudding when the eye popped! Ew!
LOVE this show.
I didn’t care for it. The moral/metaphysical crap was too heavyhanded and went on waaaay too long, the entire medical mystery was just a McGuffin, and the “he woke up and discovered it was all a dream” ending was the very definition of lame.
A misfire on all levels.
One inconsistency kind of tipped me off. When the guy with the gun came in, he needed to have House pointed out to him. Later, when they were in adjacent ICU beds (yeah, right), he told House the whole story about confessing his infidelity to House, who passed it on to the guy’s wife. If this was true, he surely would have known House on sight at the beginning, right?
Anyway, even though I suspected the gimmick through most of the episode, I enjoyed it. This was one of those episodes that was saved almost entirely by Hugh Laurie’s performance.
And they better explain next season why that guy really shot House.
I knew they wouldn’t cut to the testicles. They still can’t show Naughty Bits on broadcast TV – not even really gross ones.
That’s RIGHT! The guy didn’t know House by sight, he couldn’t have told him about infidelity, and been screwed over. Since that whole conversation was a dream, I think we have to assume it’s not real.
I also suspect the POTW had just a simple issue in real life, all the problems were in House’s head. I figured the end of it was a hallucination, 3 young healthy doctors couldn’t stop one older, injured doctor from moving some joysticks around? I didn’t figure the whole thing was a hallucination though. Cool episode, can’t wait for the conclusion.
I missed it, can someone give a nice tidy recap to we poor laundry doing pobes?
But none of that happened, right? House was never actually in the ICU. Wasn’t the whole entire episode a hallucination he had in the moments after being shot? At least I think it was…
I think House recognized the guy who shot him, knew perfectly well what had happened to the man’s wife, and regretted what he had done. That’s why it was worked into his hallucination.
Why was the medical stuff so gross? I assume the swollen-tounge case was real in the beginning, but why would House work popping eyeballs and exploding testicles into his fantasy?
So in the end, he decided he would risk losing some of his intellect to get rid of his pain. Why doesn’t he get the damn leg cut off? They make really good artificial legs these days. Wouldn’t that be better than risking his mind?
I thought in the end, when the doctors were wheeling him down the hallway, he mumbled something like “Tell Cuddy no more ketamine”–meaning that he chose to retain his intellect at the expense of his painful injury, a typically House decision.
Third me in as one of the people who thought House had finally crossed the line when he ‘killed’ the patient. The look on Hugh Laurie’s face at that moment should win him another Emmy alone.
I thought he said “Tell Cuddy I want ketamine”. I guess we’ll have to wait till next season to find out for sure.
That’s what I heard…
That’s what I heard too, although I half-heard it as “Tell Cuddy I want to be the father.”
Shout out to Elias Koteas…so good to see him again.
Well said. Koteas made this episode. A perfect foil for Laurie. One of the actors who puts way more into a minor role than is needed. Talk about facial expressions and looks: he had several that put the lid on the scene in question.
My personal theory: we will see many more episodes that cash in on Memento and Sixth Sense plotlines. I wonder if the fact that Princeton is not too far from M. Night Shyamalan’s stomping grounds (and settings) plays into the themes that have been developing in later episodes.
Count me among the House addicts!