House 6.2, and dreamlets

[bironic]

I had a lovely dream last night that my favorite high school teacher (who in the dream had been a doctor and was considering returning to his training) leaned over my desk during class and in a fit of affection kissed me on the cheek. It was very sweet and made me wake up happy.

I blame mcsmooch.

The night before, I had a different dream that would've made for a good mcsmooch except I didn't feel like going to the trouble to write it. Sad face. John and Rodney and their son, Finn maybe (from "A Farm in Iowa"), were visiting an air show/museum or something or other, and John was looking forward to seeing this one plane, so after seeing something else in the exhibit in the morning they left to make sure they got to the plane exhibit on time, only it was a wreck reconstructed and not the real thing. John was disappointed, but soon enough Rodney handed him their son, who was just so young and innocent and happy that John couldn't help but be cheered. Which was also sweet.

For the kid, I blame endless promotions of Dexter.

Anyway,

Things that make me happy:

+ House feeding Wilson tomato sauce off the spoon. Wilson blurry and bedheaded. Seriously. Sexy and adorable and I don't even need to think up or read bedroom scenes to complement it.

+ Wilson in that green shirt with the sleeves rolled up, in an apron, at a cooking class.

+ Foreman and Thirteen looking fit and hot, lying in bed.

+ Taub flailing on the floor like a puppy.

+ Secret Mandarin.

+ Continued therapy sessions. House struggling but honestly trying. Having leg pain. Trying to channel his brainpower so it isn't destructive. Being candid to someone, even if it isn't Wilson or Cuddy. (Sad but not surprising, since Wilson doesn't trust him and Cuddy brings romantic complications.) Being candid about not knowing whether returning to his old life will be beneficial or harmful.


Things that don't make me happy:

- A patient who wants to be in control, who fears not being in control, who wants to trust his doctor but seizes on that doctor's wavering confidence, who wants to be informed by researching possibilities online. All sympathetic things. So why tip the guy over into crazy? Okay, for drama, yes. What happens when that goes too far. An object lesson. Still, it's sad. Could have been interesting to have the patient reach one conclusion and the team reach another, and have a slower, thinkier showdown. Possibly with more ambiguity, rather than having House step in and save the day.


Misc.:

~ Cuddy's right. House is a genius. Foreman is not a genius. It takes a genius – a genius with guts – to run a department like that. Foreman's tried this before, several times, and couldn't consistently pull it off. Don't know why this time would be different. He lacks the confidence and experience and lightning-quick unconventional intellectual connections.

~ So, what did the giant pterodactyl stand for?

ETA: ~ Cool background character-building, or whatever you'd call it, on Wilson being a godfather. Wonder who made him one?

Comments

[elynittria.livejournal.com]

So why tip the guy over into crazy?

Yes! It was bad enough that from the start the show was laughing at the patient for having the audacity to research his symptoms online and try to be an equal partner in his own treatment, but having him flip out really crossed the line for me. For obvious reasons, this episode pushed a lot of my buttons. I desperately wanted the patient to be right so that—just once—the patient could be more than a passive idiot who needs to be taken care of by the omnipotent doctors.

(Loved the cooking scenes, though!)

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Oh, and speaking of meatballs, WTF is up with all the gay jokes all of a sudden? We've had like five since last week.

To be fair, Foreman didn't exactly come across as omnipotent, but there were definitely shades of condescension when he led the guy out of the tub with the hand-holding. And yes, doctors have a lot more training and experience than the Internet can tell you, but like you say, why not have a patient who wants to know stuff about himself and contribute and be scared/information-controlling without being unbalanced about it?

[topaz-eyes.livejournal.com]

I think they were trying to show that *depending* on the net for correct medical information the way the PotW did is crazy. I didn't mind that, TBH. A lot of people who surf the net for medical information are college-educated, that is true; that does not mean they have the skills or background to evaluate the information appropriately. I'm not trying to sound condescending, but sometimes patients are just as condescending with their doctors the way the PotW was. The team was actually pretty sympathetic about accommodating the PotW by testing the internet diagnoses. OTOH it also made their job harder. There's a trade-off.

I really wish they'd let Foreman have his diagnosis. I know they couldn't for dramatic reasons--they needed the House ex machina. Still, I did feel some sympathy for Foreman. He has gotten the correct diagnosis on his own several times, he is capable of running a department, it's just that he's not the special snowflake House is.

[ahab99.livejournal.com]

+ House feeding Wilson tomato sauce off the spoon. Wilson blurry and bedheaded. Seriously. Sexy and adorable and I don't even need to think up or read bedroom scenes to complement it.

+ Wilson in that green shirt with the sleeves rolled up, in an apron, at a cooking class.

Oh, god, yes, those were some of the bestest parts ever! And such a relief after last week's almost complete lack of Wilson. <3

[blackmare.livejournal.com]

I was so happy when House told Wilson he'd been up all night cooking because his leg hurt so bad and it was either that or drugs. I can't figure out what changed, why House shut Wilson out later, unless it was that House was getting too afraid to talk about it because the pain had kept coming back.

And ... I think Wilson could use some therapy sessions of his own, and I say that with all the love in the world.

Him all mussed and half-awake was soooo adorable.

Bironic, I think this week's gay jokes are sort of an inevitable consequence of the living, and sleeping, situation. House said Wilson only has one bedroom, and it didn't look as if either of them was sleeping on the sofa, which means they are, in the literal sense of the word, sleeping together. :-)

[no-detective.livejournal.com]

You know, I was getting angry over the whole addiction thing - and the patient's portrayal pinged me a couple of times, especially since Foreman can be such an asshat - but then I realized that this ep was making it REALLY EASY for me to enjoy it on a shallow level... so I did. YAY COOKING CLASS! YAY COOKING WITH CHEMISTRY SKILLZ! YAY SEXY, SEXY WILSON! YAY DR. NOLAN! YAY THIRTEEN HOTNESS!!!

(See? Easy. *g*)

Wilson doesn't trust him and Cuddy brings romantic complications - very good point and nicely illustrated in House's dealings with both of them in this ep.

[recrudescence.livejournal.com]

Maybe the onslaught of gay jokes is because Hugh's a producer now and he hopes fans will get sick of gaying up House if he kills them with fan service?

Yay for House admitting when he's in pain. But it's only a matter of time before he realizes that looking for distractions and confessing their inefficiency isn't actually going to heal him.

[topaz-eyes.livejournal.com]

I thought HL was a producer last season, too. Is he listed as a producer on the credits now?

[recrudescence.livejournal.com]

Heh. I honestly haven't been following this show for such a long time that I'm not sure.

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

I was sort of expecting the big pterodactyl to start talking in House's voice.

[roga.livejournal.com]

+ Wilson in that green shirt with the sleeves rolled up, in an apron, at a cooking class.

Haha, yesssss. Also yes to everything else you said! I really enjoyed this episode. And wonder who his godson is -- if it were his nephew, he'd have said nephew, one assumes.

I thought the patient was really sympathetic, and I think it's too bad that they didn't focus a little more of the episode on the case -- I mean, I like character interactions and all, but I felt like this episode was 20% patient-and-case, 80% drama, which... grows a little tiring.

But most of all, why are none of the (very few!) reaction posts mentioning the most important thing that happened in this episode:

CHASE CUT HIS HAIR! \o/

THIS CALLS FOR CELEBRATION. I'M JUST SAYING.

[(Anonymous)]

Glad to know I'm not the only person utterly thrilled by Chase FINALLY cutting his hair.
P.S. Your icon just 100% made my day.

[(Anonymous)]

I'd just like to point out what a total and epic win the ending was, House with the check.
Thank you for noticing Wilson's a godfather! That made me smile as well. =) I actually though Cuddy should make him Rachel's godfather, but maybe this explains why not.

[bell]

Wilson blurry and bedheaded. Seriously. Sexy and adorable and I don't even need to think up or read bedroom scenes to complement it.

It's all the better when you put it that way. <3333

I wondered if you too would remember that the cancer!reseacher who quit her job turned to cooking. It made me wonder if Wilson wasn't copycatting her (and House, in turn, copycatted Wilson).

? While Foreman isn't the genius House is, he did save the case, in a way House often does himself-- taking a technically unrelated fact and connecting it back to the patient. But, yeah, I'm not sure why he thinks he could pull this trick off regularly, when he hasn't in the past.