House T minus 1, "House's Head."

[bironic]

1. Written by five people. Oh, boy. I know writers/producers must have needed to glom on to episodes together when there were so few eps left after the strike, but honestly. Too many cooks.

2. Faceless people playing pool = cool.

3. Ivana Milicevic also = cool. (Ilsa from Chuck! Erika from that really, really, really bad TV version of Frankenstein with Thomas Kretschmann!)

4. So, Chase… is a hypnotist too.

4a. Ugh, I wish they would hold the camera still.

5. WTF Fred Durst.

6. I will not complain about how they are stealing stuff I didn't like from "No Reason." I will not complain about how they are stealing stuff I didn't like from "No Reason." I will not complain about …

7. Not sure what to make of Cuddy's striptease: Lisa Edelstein has an amazing body and presence, and excellent chemistry with HL, and yet I'm still bothered by the unequal focus on female bodies on this show.

8. Ivana in House's chair with a tourniquet: Oh, look, a necklace made of AMBER. That would explain everything why she came up semi-randomly in the bar before and again in the MRI scene, and why next week's episode is called "Wilson's Heart." Except if she were the victim Wilson would have noticed she was missing.

9. OMG. OMG, this episode is so painful.

9a. At least we have a name for Thirteen. Well, half a name. Well, half a name that House threw into doubt when he said Cuddy didn't even know her name. (Meaning Cuddy didn't know her first name, or got her last name wrong?)

10. Huh. Scary flashback to the crash, FINALLY. Now why couldn't we have gotten that at the beginning, so we could've watched the whole episode knowing Amber was dying and had some actual dramatic tension as House struggled to remember? Also: Amber becomes even more like House, with a devastating injury to the right thigh. Also also: Cheap reveal, only letting us know now that Wilson hasn't spoken with Amber since the day before.

10a. Wilson and Cuddy performing CPR on House = just the way it should be. They've spent all these years supporting his craziness and trying to keep him alive, just like the bus reenactment. Tears in Wilson's eyes and desperation in Cuddy's kiss: perfect.


Not going to wade into all the other WTF tonight. Nope.

Blahhhhhhh. Best thing about tonight, other than the crash scene and faceless people? Next week's preview! Wilson crying! Wilson crying on Cuddy's shoulder! Wilson crying and holding his dying loved one! Wilson telling House he should put his life on the line for her (for him? I don't remember; it was so quick). House then doing it. Etc. That kind of melodrama I can get behind. House/Amber, on the other hand... Interesting in and of itself, interesting in an even stronger love triangle kind of way, but sheesh, can't Wilson have anything in his life that isn't entirely about House?

ETA: Other reviews: recrudescence

Comments

[jdr1184.livejournal.com]

Are you sure House was talking with Wilson about risking his life or are they promo monkies screwing with us? I'm glad I'm not the only one happy to see Wilson cry.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Not sure at all. Could've misheard, could be a misrepresentative ad... Who knows? But it wouldn't be the first time House risked his life for a patient (see also: Euphoria) -- even for a patient he doesn't care about (see also: Games). *shrug*

Wilson crying is long overdue, 'f you ask me. Sucks that they might kill off his girlfriend to do it, though.

[elynittria.livejournal.com]

Wilson crying is long overdue

Hee! daasgrrl will be in seventh heaven.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

I think we should hold a YAY WILSON IS CRYING party.

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

Hee! While I am still disappointed that "Wilson's Heart" isn't going to be about ... y'know, Wilson having an actual heart attack, if I get Crying!Wilson I'll be happy.

Damn it, yes I'm awful. I'm Nightdog.

[topaz-eyes.livejournal.com]

Hear hear for Wilson crying!

Er...

[daasgrrl.livejournal.com]

Hee! How well you know me ;)

I was tossing up on whether to watch next week's preview, and then I came over here and... I had to. THIS IS ENTRAPMENT, I TELL YOU!

(BTW, I'm not complaining - I don't consider previews spoilers, it's just that I don't usually get them automatically, so I have to make an actual effort to see them *g*)

AS IF I COULDN'T GET MORE OVEREXCITED ABOUT NEXT WEEK'S EP.

[purridot.livejournal.com]

Weird episode! The weirdly cool things: Chase the hypnotist, Cuddy the stripper, and the House/Wilson/Amber innuendo at the beginning. But mostly WTF stuff otherwise -- like a dream, but in a good way if you don't think too much about it.

I am pretty sure I read that 13's name is Remy Hadley. Nice of them to finally mention it... (sort of)

[bironic.livejournal.com]

I was trying not to think much about it. Trouble was, it was also hard to just watch and enjoy, because of all the WTF. Oh well. I liked parts, and the ending.

You know, a bunch of us have been saying for a while that whatever name they come up with for Thirteen is going to be disappointing. But Remy Hadley? If it's true? Is awesome. Very sexy, and a suitably gender-neutral first name.

[recrudescence.livejournal.com]

God. #7 = my sentiments exactly. On one hand, yes, Lisa E is the sex and we know House has the mind of a fifteen-year-old boy; on the other, it gets under my skin how all the main female characters on this show are young and hot and inexplicably attracted to House.

I can't wait to see RSL emote next week.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

The stripper at the beginning wasn't enough skin; they had to repeat it with Cuddy at the pole and Ivana stretching out on the chair and the bus girl's breasts and recall to mind "No Reason"'s Cameron/robot scene.

[elynittria.livejournal.com]

Just curious—At what point in the episode did you write comment 9?

Loved the CPR and the previews.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

55 minutes of varying pain for all that. I broke down and wrote 9 when Ivana was saying, "WHAT IS MY NECKLACE MADE OF? WHAT IS MY NECKLACE MADE OF?" and House was staring blankly. I get that he doesn't want to remember something so traumatic, but JEEZ.

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

Oh, Christ, that was painful.

Mr. Nightdog kept going "It's AMBER!" I mean, once would've been okay, when House said it was a mosquito, but sheesh, guys. Way to whack us over the head with it.

[jdr1184.livejournal.com]

Am such a dork that I kept yelling it's dinosaur blood!

[bironic.livejournal.com]

House... wants to clone dinosaurs to extract an extinct protein chain to save Amber next week?

Hey, it's not much more farfetched than usual around here. :)

[topaz-eyes.livejournal.com]

House... wants to clone dinosaurs to extract an extinct protein chain to save Amber next week?

Amber as a lizard?

Or maybe he wants to recreate Jurassic Park.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

I'm going to keep telling myself that House knew what it was, and the writers expected that the viewers would eventually know what it was, and so we were supposed to watch it going, "It's AMBER, House," and then realize that he's blocking himself from remembering because, as Wilson said in the MRI room earlier, House does care about her -- whether that's because he likes her or because he cares about Wilson and Wilson cares about her --, and it hurts to remember that she was critically injured. *nods*

[elynittria.livejournal.com]

Ah! Makes perfect sense. I was about ready to throw something at the TV at that point.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Ditto. *shakes fist*

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

How many other people can get injured in the right thigh? That's what happened to the dude in Frozen, too.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Hm. If everyone on the show is supposed to mirror or contrast with House in some way... *tries to continue sentence with some clever quip about the hospital investing in ... stuff that has to do with treating injuries to the right thigh, but clearly has to stop since it isn't working, then posts this long asterisked sentence anyway*

[ahab99.livejournal.com]

Huh. I really liked it! I like the going in and out of the visions, and even if we could all figure out the Amber bit before House I still liked the way the pay-off played out at the end. Hmm.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

What did you think of "No Reason"? I hypothesize that our reactions to tonight's episode are similar to our reactions to that one.

[ahab99.livejournal.com]

I....apparently used the exact same LJ mood afterward, if that counts for something. I think I did enjoy it, and if I had to list the top thing that bothered me about the episode it was all the ridiculously gross things that happened to the patient. The fake patient. Or, y'know, whatever, in House's mind. The point was: eyeballs popping and testicles exploding really didn't do it for me.

But no, I didn't have problems with the inside-House's-mind device then, either. I like the flashback nature of the recovered memories and trying to piece together what happened. Of course, even liking this episode it's still up to next week to connect up several of the threads that weren't tied up tonight.

[jdr1184.livejournal.com]

Man I feel so slow. Do you think Amber really was in the bar with House? They were there together and then on the bus together. That conversation being a memory.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think there's more to the bar scene than we got to see tonight. Why did House get so drunk? What set him off? What else could get him so riled up as the Amber/Wilson thing that's going on? Would also echo House having gotten Wilson drunk a few weeks ago, and the bit of conversation tonight where House talks about wanting to drink to get away from Wilson -- ergo, drinking is about Wilson.

One other clue would be that they cast a recognizable person (Fred Durst) as the bartender and then only gave him a few seconds and what, one line? He may be back next week.

Or not, and the casting was just weird.

[elynittria.livejournal.com]

Psst! The episode title is "House's Head" (to parallel next week's "Wilson's Heart").

Edited because ending parens is good.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Did I mistype it? *checks* Oh, Lord. Fixing.

[poorfrances.livejournal.com]

Cheap reveal, only letting us know now that Wilson hasn't spoken with Amber since the day before.

I think the opposite. I only got that the necklace was made out of amber because of Jurassic Park and the mosquito being preserved in amber in that movie - there are people on the boards who didn't know Jurassic Park and didn't know the necklace was made of amber until House said it. So I can't see how that can have been too obvious, yet Wilson randomly announcing, "Hey I called my girlfriend she didn't call me back that's weird" wouldn't be hugely obvious?

[topaz-eyes.livejournal.com]

I find it's much better to watch when I have no expectations. Medicine? We don't need no stinkin' medicine!

That said, Cuddy's kiss = awesome.

1. Written by five people. Oh, boy.

Doris Egan wrote the story. Should not have let the rest of 'em near it.

4. So, Chase… is a hypnotist too.

Chase is Wonderboy!

5. WTF Fred Durst.

All I can think of is Eminem's "Slim Shady." *facepalm*

Next week's preview! Wilson crying! Wilson crying on Cuddy's shoulder! Wilson crying and holding his dying loved one! Wilson telling House he should put his life on the line for her

Methinks we are far too obsessed with Wilson crying, y/y? That said: BRING IT ON.

[nicocoer.livejournal.com]

. . . I can't wait until this goes up on the site.