After I left the thread earlier, I continued to think about this episode and something occured to me. The Kiss, for good or ill, cured something in the show some of us complained about. Remember the several complaints that Andy was too goody-goody? Well, she was certainly brave and selfless, but she was also quite a manipulative little thing. She totally played the ‘dying little girl’ card in order to coax Chase into kissing her – something he very clearly didn’t want to do. And she encouraged him to keep it a secret. The little doctor molester!
The motorcycle sequence at the end didn’t really work for me. I bet noted motorcycle enthusiast Hugh Laurie lobbied for it.
WRITERS: OK, we need to do something that shows Dr. House can be a regular guy deep down inside.
HUGH LAURIE: Oooh, oooh, I know!
I was also distracted by the this-is-obviously-a-stunt-double way that they shot the scene.
the abused! sorry about that.
The Kiss didn’t bother me.
The Hug towards the end was great. They could have just ended it there and it would have been fine.
Just saw it (DVR), and I thought it was a very good episode. Whether the ‘kiss’ was right or not is not as important, IMO, as the discussion that it brings out. It was probably their intention to make people question what is proper behavior.
The other thing that is nice is that two episodes of the 2nd season have seen a moving away from the ‘formula’. Granted the first episode did so by including a second patient, but I think my speculation that the ‘formula’ was merely something safe to draw the viewers in, but they’d move away from as the series got popular, has panned out.
Even before “Three Stories” (I think that was the name of it) won an Emmy (and most deservedly so… possibly the best episode of a TV series I’ve ever seen), the writers had to know that they could do far more what the series than follow the formula ever week.
Count me in the “anti-kiss”/“eww, ick” crowd. We have laws governing age of consent for a reason. Children are really not capable of making such decisions. Consent is irrelevant. Think how many 9 year olds want to marry daddy and such.
Certain things were disappointing. E.g., that’s a lot of eyebrow/eyelash hair for a bald chemo patient. Once somesays “I got it”, you start pumping the blood back in. No “Are you sure?” discussion.
No Sela Ward. (In fact, I suspect the episode was written prior to Ward being added to the current story.)
I also think I have figured out a long term big story arc secret. But I dare not post it, even in a spoiler box. Everybody would still read it anyway and it would ruin the surprise.
Hey, at what time are they showing the episodes, and does anybody know when they rerun it? I didn’t know the series had started again this season…
Damn it!
My DVR decided to take a crap that night and I didn’t know until I tried to watch this episode!
I’ve since exchanged it with a new box from the cable company but I really wanted to see this one.
Oh well, I suppose I shall have to wait till next summer.
The thing I thought was off was that when they suspected neurosyphilis, House said to get a rape kit and the female doc was shown doing an exam. Huh? Doesn’t neurosyphilis take years to develop? What good was a rape kit and exam going to do? A blood test would have made more sense.
A blood test for STDs is part-and-parcel of a rape kit.
That being said, so is a pelvic exam – and I think they did that first, observed that her hymen was intact, and didn’t bother to put her through the rest of it.